Guiding founders to disrupt from the wisdom of their soul

somatics | breathwork | intuitive strategy

executive coach and breathwork teacher.

Grounded in her past life as an immigrant engineer, raised by a quantum physics teacher, and shaped by years of training in somatic healing modalities, Michelle Florez works at the intersection of technology, consciousness, and leadership.

She works with disruptive founders navigating identity transitions. Her clients come to her field when something deeper than achievement begins to stir—an intuitive calling to exit legacy roles, birth new paradigms, and step into soul-aligned leadership.

Michelle supports visionaries across venture capital, AI, and emerging technology in the zero-to-one phase. She guides them through the emotional, intuitive, and energetic clarity required to build paradigm-shifting companies from a place of deep alignment and joy.

Michelle is an ICF-accredited Mastery Method Coach and a certified 400-hour breathwork teacher with over five years of experience facilitating hundreds of breathwork sessions. Her signature methodology is body-centered and breath-focused.

Michelle lives in Costa Rica, where she hosts immersive retreats for founders and visionary leaders exploring a more conscious way of building companies and communities.

work with Michelle

For leaders who have already mastered the outer game and feel a deeper calling to create soul centered impact.

I partner with founders, investors, and visionaries who know that true mastery is not just about scaling companies, but expanding consciousness and leading from deeper alignment.

The leaders I work with are here to shift paradigms.

  • From 0 to 100 Million

    DAVE FONTENOT | CEO + FOUNDER OF HF0 RESIDENCY

    SUPPORTED DAVE IN GOING FROM 0 TO 1 TO LAUNCH HF0

    "When I started working with Michelle, I had just left my job at a big firm. Things were going well, but I felt there was something more out there for me. I took some time off to do inner work and figure out what was next. Since then, the transformation has been incredible.

    The dreams and highest hopes I had a year ago are now my reality. It's amazing to be living them. While Michelle didn’t do the work for me, her guidance was crucial in getting me here. She helped me tap into my emotional body to navigate this journey, and I wouldn't be where I am now without her support."

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  • From 10 Years as General Partner to Founder

    TYLER NORWOOD | GP @ ANTLER VC | FOUNDER OF STEALTH START-UP

    SUPPORTED TYLER TRANSITION OUT OF HIS 10-YEAR CAREER IN VC TO LAUNCH HIS COMPANY

    Working with Michelle Florez has been one of the most impactful and best decisions of my career.

    After only a couples of months working together I feel clearer and more aligned with everything I do at work. If you are considering getting to the next level in work and in life you need to talk to Michelle.

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  • From Academia to Building a Residency for Founders

    JEFF SORENSEN | CEO + FOUNDER OF V10 RESIDENCY | DIRECTOR OF THE CENTER OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP UNIVERSITY OF OREGON

    SUPPORTED JEFF IN LAUNCHING HIS RESIDENCY AND TRANSITION OUT OF HIS ROLE IN U OF O

    “Working with Michelle came at a pivotal moment of transition. I had built something successful, but my exit from it was emotionally complex and left me feeling stuck—unable to process the past and unclear how to move forward. Over six months, Michelle guided me through the internal work I couldn’t do alone—sometimes talking it through, sometimes breathing or crying through it, and sometimes planning through it. The process was holistic—intellectual, emotional, physical, and spiritual—and it helped me process the past, engage fully in the present, and plan for the future. Today I look back at my last venture with pride and gratitude instead of bitterness, and I’ve stepped into my new chapter with optimism, confidence, and strength. The momentum I now feel in my life and work wouldn’t have been possible without her support. Michelle has a rare gift for meeting you exactly where you are, and the constant of breathwork has become a tool I’ll carry with me forever.”

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  • From Imposter Syndrome to Product Market Fit

    ALI PANJWANI | CEO + FOUNDER OF MERIT MEDICINE

    SUPPORTED ALI GO FROM FIRST-TIME FOUNDER IMPOSTOR SYNDROME TO CONFIDENT LEADER

    I can't say enough about Michelle. She is an incredibly compassionate, brilliant, empathic, kind, introspective, superior being. Anyone would be lucky to get to work with Michelle because she will bring out your true, best self. I hope I'm lucky enough to work with her again, and she will be the person I recommend to those seeking an executive-level coach, committed to being authentic, and aspiring for greatness in their transformational leadership journey. It's been an absolute pleasure working with you, Michelle.

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  • Exploration of your inner landscape + emotional processing support. Together, we'll challenge outdated beliefs created from past pain, gently process unconsciously stored emotions, and pave the way for your emergence as a leader radiating with presence + clarity.

  • I weave in breathwork with all my sessions to shift your state to alpha/theta brainwave state and work directly with your subconscious. During these breathwork session, my clients experience intuitive guidance, emotional clearing and a surge of energy.

  • Develop a new relationship with your career, seeing entrepreneurship as a fast track to spiritual expansion, surrender, and trust.

  • Everyone is your mirror & teacher. In our time together we will explore your core relationships (caregivers, partner, ex-partners, co-founder etc.) to support you in connecting with an open-heart while honoring your boundaries and agreements.

  • I offer the option to track your HRV via Whoop/Oura to monitor your nervous system state, sleep performance and daily activities - creating the right conditions for your emotional state to flourish.

Dave Fontenot (Forbes 30 under 30)

Co-Founder of HF0 | Lead Singer Pink Roses

HF0 is a 3-month startup accelerator and residency program, where you live in a mansion at the heart of SF and focus solely on building your startup – surrounded by the world’s top CTO’s.

Roman Kautz

E-commerce Founder

German triathlete running a multiple 7-figure e-commerce business, in his free time he is a lecturer at a prestigious German university.

Jeff Sorensen

Director of The Center for Entrepreneurship @ University of Oregon

Co-founder of the world’s first accelerator for university founders. Project in progress.