One that changes how they show up in every area of their life.
I help women go from self-abandonment and cycles that keep them small to a deeper relationship with themselves.
ABOUT ZAINUB
My Story
There was a point in my life where everything looked right on paper. The career was progressing. The credentials were stacking up. From the outside, I was doing exactly what I was supposed to do.
But on the inside, I knew I was built for something else. I wanted to feel passionate about what I was doing. I wanted purpose — the kind you feel in your bones, not just on your resume.
Everything looked right on paper
chapter one
The truth is, I have been drawn to understanding the human experience my entire life. The way people think, feel, process, and grow has always fascinated me.
I invested in my own therapy at 22 and it changed everything — it was through that work that I discovered myself, learned to show up differently, and began to understand the patterns that had quietly been running my life.
The work that changed me.
chapter two
That's when everything clicked. I didn't just want to help people understand their patterns — I wanted to help them actually change how they live with them.
I can sit with someone for hours, listen to everything they're carrying, and find my way to the core of it — asking the questions that crack something open, offering a perspective they couldn't see from where they were standing.
That's when everything clicked.
chapter three
Zainub
The self-abandonment, the people pleasing, the long road back to myself. I know what it costs to lose yourself. I know what it takes to come back. And I know that when you finally do, everything changes.
That's why I built Come As You Are Co. Not as a side project. As a calling.
It would be my life's honor to work with you.
But more than any of that — I've lived this.
What therapy gave me was awareness.
What coaching gave me was movement.
Years of leadership and professional experience
15+
Certified Life Coach
Accredited through Association for Coaching
Bachelor of Arts
University of Michigan
MBA
UCLA
training & experience
The way we relate to ourselves shapes the way we experience everything else. These beliefs guide the work I do and the space I create for every client.
What I Believe
The way you speak to yourself, trust yourself, and care for yourself influences every relationship, decision, and experience. Everything begins there.
The relationship you have with yourself shapes everything else.
Understanding your patterns is an important first step. Lasting transformation happens when that awareness begins to shape how you respond, choose, and show up in your everyday life.
Awareness is powerful, but action creates change.
You don't need to shame yourself into becoming better. Real growth begins when you learn to meet yourself with honesty, compassion, and curiosity.
Growth doesn't require self-rejection.
The desire for harmony, the love of people, and the inability to walk into a room quietly. It honestly explains a lot.
Libra Sun Leo Rising
My ideal Sunday involves the beach, family, and nowhere to be. That's my reset.
05.
Ocean-loving soul
Whether it's a wedding, a kitchen, or somewhere in between — if there's music, I'm moving.
Always on the Dance Floor
Writing is how I process the world. It's where I make sense of things — and probably why so much of my coaching work lives in reflection and language.
Writer at Heart
Nourishing the people I love through food is one of my love languages — and my South Asian cooking has never had a complaint.
Foodie & Home Cook
Known as the life of the party but also the one you call when life gets hard. I've always been both.
The friend everyone calls.
The work I do is deeply meaningful to me, but it's only one part of who I am. Outside of coaching, you'll usually find me gathered around a table with people I love, writing my way through life's questions, chasing sunsets by the ocean, or finding any excuse to dance. Here are a few things that make me, me.
