Executive Performance Coaching for Founders & Leaders
You’re ambitious. You know how to win. But lately, something isn’t clicking. You sense the way you’ve been operating won’t take you to the next level.
Why does "Winning" feel like "Surviving"?
Parts of the scorecard say you’re winning. The internal reality says you’re redlining.
You’re hitting targets, but it’s taking more out of you than it should.
You’re making decisions, but they feel heavier and less crisp.
You’re still performing, but something underneath isn’t calibrated.
And you can feel that your edge, the thing you built your success on, is slipping.
You’re winning from effort, not clarity.
Your internal system is running hot, even when your results look good.
You’re pushing, but not operating clean.
You’re ambitious, but the way you’re working doesn’t feel sustainable.
You can sense the gap between how you perform and how you could perform.
This isn’t burnout — it’s a performance ceiling.
It’s what happens when your external success outgrows your internal architecture.
Your next level requires a cleaner internal engine.
That’s what the Protocol is designed for.
Who we work with
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You are hitting your targets and leading your team, but the internal cost is becoming unsustainable. You are outwardly steady—perhaps even stoic—but inwardly you are white-knuckling through the days, fueled by anxiety and the fear of dropping the ball.
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You have conquered the First Mountain of society's success: money, status, and reputation. But standing at the summit, you feel the void rather than the victory. You are looking for the path to the Second Mountain—moving from a career of accumulation to a vocation of alignment and depth.
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You are ambitious and disciplined, but the playbook that got you here has stopped working. You don't need more "hustle"; you need a structural upgrade. You are looking to refine your internal operating system to handle the next level of complexity without burning out.
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You have played the role of Provider and Protector perfectly. You carry the weight for your family, your team, and your investors. But the armour has become a cage. You are looking for a space to drop the performance, speak the unvarnished truth, and explore a more integrated, grounded version of masculinity beyond just "strength."
What to Expect: The Internal Performance Protocol
The goal isn't to slow down. The goal is to stop burning out the machinery. The Protocol is a structured approach to recalibrating how you operate so your performance feels sharp, steady, and sustainable.
Phase 1: The Audit (Map the System)
We map the "Fear Loops" driving your current success. We identify where your identity has fused with your metrics and locate the specific friction points causing the drag.
Phase 2: The Severing (Flush the Fuel)
You learned to win using pressure and adrenaline. We dismantle those dependency loops. We separate Who You Are from What You Do, stabilizing the internal foundation.
Phase 3: The Reconstruction (Upgrade the OS)
We rebuild your performance architecture using Identity-Based Fuel. You return to the arena with the same ambition, but with a quiet, stabilized internal engine that doesn't redline.
There is no script. Only a disciplined way of seeing what actually needs to change. Each phase is customized to the client.
Built from my own Second Mountain.
I’ve spent most of my life climbing the first mountain: building businesses, hitting numbers, carrying responsibility, proving I could do it.
At some point, the external wins stopped matching the internal experience.
Something wasn’t clicking.
Success didn’t feel the way it was supposed to.
That pull led me toward deeper study in psychology and a more honest look at how high performers actually function on the inside.
Not to abandon ambition, but to pursue it differently.
Between Mountains grew out of that search. It’s the work I wish I had earlier: structured, grounded, and focused on helping people operate at a high level without the internal strain.
This isn’t therapy.
It isn’t generic coaching.
It’s work designed for people who are climbing their second mountain and want to do it with more clarity, steadiness, and alignment.
-Michael Montgomery
What makes us different?
The work is deep, but it is also practical.
Most coaching focuses on tactics.
Most therapy focuses on emotion.
Between Mountains sits in the middle.
It is performance work at the internal level.
You do not come here for motivation or accountability.
You come here to run a cleaner internal system so you can win in a way that feels aligned, steady, and sustainable.
No hype. No jargon. No productivity hacks.
Just grounded, structured internal work for people who want to perform at a high level without the internal strain.
Which Mountain Do You Want To Climb Next?
Structured 1:1 internal-performance work for high-functioning founders and leaders.
Weekly actionable ideas on performance psychology, ambition, and the second mountain.