Hello, brave soul.

Megan McCarthy, a woman with blond hair wearing a grean sweater, leans against a cream colored wall.
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I see you.

You’re a creative, entrepreneurial spirit—evolving and reinventing. Shaping big changes in your life and work.

You’re driven to make a difference during your time on this gorgeous rock. Boldly pursuing your purpose step by step, while keen not to take it all too seriously before time is up.

Me too.

I’m Megan, and at networking events I write “Design Partner & Career Coach” on my nametag. But people who know me call me the most daring, intuitive, and heart-centered person they know.

And intuition tells me you’re ready to stop being the world’s best-kept secret.

My purpose is making yours visible. Here’s how we do that together.

Branding & Web Design

1-Week Websites

You read that right. Up to 5 pages of sparkling, strategic, SEO & AI-optimized online beauty that reflects the heart of your solopreneur business, in just one week. This is my favorite thing to do, and yes, we can add on visual identity and marketing designs too.

Bespoke Design

If your business or nonprofit needs a heavier design lift, head over to my brand atelier Sage by Design. There I bring together talented creatives and trusted experts for full-service brand, web, and marketing endeavors so you don’t have to cobble together freelancers (or pull your hair out with DIY). 

Life + Career Coaching

Steer Your Career 1:1 coaching

Looking for a career coach who does more than rewrite your resume? I blend values- and strengths-based career coaching with brand consulting to help you land a role or build a business that gives you purpose and pays your worth. Okay, this is also my favorite thing to do because it makes me so happy to see you earn with ease.

What the Funk?! group program

Sometimes we get stuck and life feels funked up. That’s why my friend Kelly Villmer, MSW and I created this light-hearted yet deeply transformative small-group coaching program. Using cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and improv exercises, What the Funk?! is designed to help you understand your inner patterns, why they’re there, and how to change them. All so you can move forward freely as your truest, best self.

More about me

After a decade in corporate America designing in award-winning agencies, Fortune 500 companies, and a world-renowned art museum, in January 2017 I quit my job and sold all my stuff.

To be fair, I’d spent the last six months fighting acute viral meningitis & transverse myelitis, so following my heart felt less dramatic than going back to an office.

I took a chance on myself and followed a dream that terrified me: I bought a one-way ticket to Bangkok and asked my network to send me any freelance design projects they had. It paid off—my earnings kept me backpacking solo through Southeast Asia for nearly two years.

But the most profitable lesson of this journey between temples and tuk-tuks was learning that there are billions of ways to make a living and make a life.

I came to understand my own values for the first time as I built a working style that supported the way I want to live every day: with ease and delight, authenticity and intention.

So the next logical step was—you guessed it—not getting another office job. Instead, I took another chance on myself and, naturally, another one-way ticket (come on, they’re cheaper).

I flew to Spain, sight-unseen, and began focusing on my favorite kind of projects: creating dynamite websites and brand identities for other brave, heart-led solopreneurs and businesses around the world.

Now I also coach people seeking greater peace in life and more purpose in their work to pave their own paths as I did—but for their own reasons and in their very own ways. No visas or international flights required (though I’m always happy to talk about those).

So, like I said… I see you.

And I’m here to help you lay down some bricks in the right direction on your own path.

I’m still paving mine, too. My website is in “keep it simple” mode while I, like you, attend to the noble task of Shaping What’s Next—so you’re in good company.

In the meantime, I’m eager to hear your story and start co-creating what’s next for you.

Let’s Get Started

Let’s talk about you

Reach out to me today so we can start shaping your tomorrow with strategy and intention. I can’t click this button for you…

Schedule Your Free Consult →

More about me

After a decade in corporate America designing in award-winning agencies, Fortune 500 companies, and a world-renowned art museum, in January 2017 I quit my job and sold all my stuff.

To be fair, I’d spent the last six months fighting acute viral meningitis & transverse myelitis, so following my heart felt less dramatic than going back to an office.

I took a chance on myself and followed a dream that terrified me: I bought a one-way ticket to Bangkok and asked my network to send me any freelance design projects they had. It paid off—my earnings kept me backpacking solo through Southeast Asia for nearly two years.

The moment I felt my dream come true: on a call with a design client while at a coworking in Hoi An, Vietnam in June 2017.

But the most profitable lesson of this journey between temples and tuk-tuks was learning that there are billions of ways to make a living and make a life.

I came to understand my own values for the first time as I built a working style that supported the way I want to live every day: with ease and delight, authenticity and intention.

So the next logical step was—you guessed it—not getting another office job. Instead, I took another chance on myself and, naturally, another one-way ticket (come on, they’re cheaper).

I flew to Spain, sight-unseen, and began focusing on my favorite kind of projects: creating dynamite websites and brand identities for other brave, heart-led solopreneurs and businesses around the world.

Now I also coach people seeking greater peace in life and more purpose in their work to pave their own paths as I did—but for their own reasons and in their very own ways. No visas or international flights required (though I’m always happy to talk about those).

New dream, same glasses: coaching clients in 2025.

So, like I said… I see you.

And I’m here to help you lay down some bricks in the right direction on your own path.

I’m still paving mine, too. My website is in “keep it simple” mode while I, like you, attend to the noble task of Shaping What’s Next—so you’re in good company.

In the meantime, I’m very much here behind the screen, eager to hear your story and start co-creating what’s next for you.