Coaching for high-pressure moments

Work is emotional. Everyone's hiding it.

  • Your mind goes blank in the interview.
  • Your hands shake before the investor pitch.
  • Your voice gets thin when you ask for the raise.

Nervousness doesn't make you look incompetent. Trying to hide it does.

Where's your pressure coming from?
Dave Wolovsky
100+
coaching clients
4.9★ on Google
M.S. Neuroscience & Education, Columbia University Certified Applied Positive Psychology Coach Coaching 1:1 since 2018 Author, Interview Like A Human

Why does trying to calm down make it worse?

You try to stop being nervous.

And what happens when you try to stop being nervous?

You get more nervous.

So we train your reaction to the feeling. Not the feeling.

  1. MoveIn the session

    Light movement until your heart rate is up. Now your body feels the way it does right before the big moment.

  2. MeditateIn the session

    I walk you through your moment, live, while you're still activated. You practice staying in the feeling instead of fighting it. You keep the recording.

  3. MakeIn your life

    One small experiment to run before the real thing. Then a short debrief on what happened.

What clients told me, in their own words

From real session transcripts. Names and identifying details removed.

"I'm not sure what my job actually is. I feel like I'm being left behind. I'm always the last one to hear."
Project manager, large tech company
"When my heart rate went up, it wasn't from the exercise. It was the panic around the whole thing. Then I relaxed into it, and the panic started to go away."
Client
"It changed what I believe about how I can function under pressure. I didn't collapse. I didn't cancel. I was present."
Client

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Clients often leave calmer, clearer, and finally able to move on something they've been stuck on for months.

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Dave Wolovsky

I'm not calm in high-stakes moments either.

I'm awkward. At 25 I shook through a talk to 50 parents, on a subject I knew cold.

Preparing more didn't fix it. Understanding it didn't fix it either.

What worked was letting the feeling come along instead of fighting it. So I studied why that works, and I built sessions around it.

I still get nervous. I help people show up to those moments better anyway.

  • M.S. Neuroscience & EducationColumbia University
  • Certified Applied Positive Psychology Coach
  • Coaching one-on-oneSince 2018 · 100+ clients
  • AuthorInterview Like A Human

I majored in math at Wesleyan University, then spent two years in Thailand teaching English before coming home to teach math, meditation, and brain exercises to senior citizens.

I started my Positive Psychology Coaching practice in 2014 while still in the classroom. In 2018, I graduated from Columbia University with an M.S. in Neuroscience & Education and moved into full-time coaching, both career coaching and life coaching. Along the way I picked up additional training as a yoga teacher, an Imago couples therapy coach, and a Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy coach.

Since 2023, I've been focused on one question: how much momentum and transformation can a single coaching hour actually produce? Everything I offer now is built around that answer.

Which one is yours?

© 2026 David Wolovsky · Certified Applied Positive Psychology Coach · M.S. Neuroscience & Education, Columbia University

Coaching is not a substitute for therapy or mental health treatment.