no time for self care?
How about a breakthrough.
The Breakthrough Hour ($127)
1-on-1 immersion in meditation
and scientific Behavior change,
customized for you as you speak.
You know what habits you need to build.
You just can't get yourself to do them.
It's because you've never had a space safe enough to be brutally honest with yourself about your inner struggle.
You haven't used your inner pattern "blind spots" when designing your habits.
One hour can't be a magical cure, but it can be your turning point.
what happens in the Zoom session
HOW IT WORKS
Your Needs, clarified
As you share what's going on, I capture the key details on your struggles and goals, and clarify the deeper needs we must meet in the session.
A Meditation, Built For You
You get a custom meditation, precision-crafted around what you brought into the session. I guide you through it. You gain new insights. You keep the recording.
Scientific behavior change
Choose from 5 breakthrough challenges, custom designed for you. You do one with me in real time, and leave with the momentum of a concrete achievement.
Blocked to Breakthrough. One Hour.
You click the Zoom link. We connect.
Within a few minutes, everything that's been swirling in your head is suddenly organized, named, and sitting right in front of you.
Then you immediately do something real with that clarity. Choose from 5 breakthrough challenges, created on the spot for you. Yes, on the spot. (Read the FAQs below to learn how).
Each challenge invites you to create a small artifact — anything from a letter or drawing, to an inner "committee meeting" or self-contract.
The challenges do 2 things:
They create a tangible artifact to take home with you and extend the effects of the session into your actual life.
They pull invisible patterns into the light, like yanking off tinted glasses you didn't know were coloring everything.
You complete 1 of the challenges in the session, with your coach supporting every step.
Then you close your eyes. The meditation begins.
A calm, warm voice guides you on a meditation, custom crafted on the spot to your specific situation.
You enter a place of peace most people never find on a workday.
Past the usual plans and to-do lists.
Underneath the noise of everyday life.
Into the part of you that actually knows what you need.
You open your eyes with something you haven't felt in a while.
Peaceful readiness.
Show up stuck. Leave with something real already achieved, and a clear mind for what's next.
One session stands alone. More are available depending on the issues you're going through.
What People are saying about Dave's coaching
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Reviews of Dave from LinkedIn
Working with Dave was one of the best coaching experiences I've ever had.
Dave is insightful, perceptive and highly engaging. I came out of our session with great insight and a solid action plan that was tailored to my needs.
Our work together started with job interviews and negotiations, but Dave's greatest impact was on my actual job performance and the effects that my work had on my overall mental health. If you are a perfectionist, if you procrastinate, if you have impostor syndrome — Dave is the guy for you.
Dave’s teachings extend beyond career guidance, transforming how I approach everyday mindfulness with appreciation and acceptance. Thanks to his support, I’ve become more confident in my personal value and brand. Dave’s insight and impact are invaluable for any walk of life.
Dave goes above and beyond in a way I haven't seen with others in the field. His takes his personal attention, interest, and care the extra mile to help clients achieve their goals and see real results. Dave has been a priceless asset to me and I would highly recommend him and his services to anyone considering to take the leap. Working with Dave is a game changer in more ways than I could have imagined.
Working with Dave was one of the best things I did for my career journey. We connected at the end of a job interview process after I received an offer. Despite receiving the high end of the listed range Dave helped to get more. He remained “on call” for a few days as the conversation carried over and was great with texts and phone calls. His approach to workshopping different solutions was super collaborative; he always made sure to ask for my thoughts and integrate my suggestions.
Working with Dave was phenomenal. He helped me channel my skills, experience, and best judgement into a workable and realistic plan for salary growth.
Dave provided exceptional service during my negotiation process. He demonstrated a profound understanding of negotiation strategies and effectively communicated a few options. I highly recommend Dave's services to anyone seeking expert guidance on favorable negotiations.
Dave helped me gain clarity in my hang-up around charging for my services. He has you stop and breathe to encourage the practice of the pause, so you can speak from a place of groundedness.
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Meet Your coach
Dave Wolovsky
Certified Applied Positive Psychology Coach
M.S. Neuroscience & Education
Me in 5 words: Nerd With Lots of Injuries.
For years, my weak points kept pulling me out of life — physically, mentally, emotionally.
I was smart enough to know I needed to change something, but also smart enough to see every reason it wouldn't work.
What finally helped wasn't more discipline. It was learning to see myself clearly — without judgment — then taking one small but impactful action. And then doing it again.
I've spent years building the tools to create that experience for other people, faster than it took me.
The Breakthrough Hour is the best version of that work I've ever built.
Dave's professional journey
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 (job interviews) and life coaching (habits). 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? The Breakthrough Hour is my answer — built around my greatest strengths, and enhanced by AI to do things like write a personalized meditation script and generate 5 tailored action challenges on the spot, based on detailed notes I take throughout our session.
Your Most impactful hour this year
everything included
60 minutes of 1:1 coaching — Positive Psychology Coach, Neuroscience background. No wasted time.
Personalized guided meditation — Written for your exact situation and spoken to you in real time.
5 custom momentum challenges — Precision-tailored to blow past your specific stuck point.
One challenge completed in the session — You leave with momentum, not "good ideas."
Real-time session clarity — Every key insight captured and organized as you speak.
Take home a copy of your personal meditation — Yours to keep.
$127
the fine print
Common Questions
Q: How many sessions do you need?
One session is complete on its own. A focused hour of significant inner and outer progress. Some clients come back for more when new challenges come up. There's no pressure at the end of the session. If continuing together feels right, that conversation is available.
Q: How do you customize a mediation and challenges instantly?
I have created a proprietary app (Self Science) that uses AI to generate 5 personal breakthrough challenges and a custom meditation script for you. It is all based on my session notes. So yes, it happens instantly during the session.
Q: Can't I use AI as a life coach instead of paying a human who uses AI?
You can do similar versions of everything done in the Breakthrough Hour session, using only AI. It's a smart computer, but at some point in the conversation, you will remember that it's not human.
Without a human to interpret and improvise around the AI, you're still working on your issues alone.
In the Breakthrough hour, the first part is purely human coaching. Clarifying your issues and needs. Uncovering your blind spots.
The 2nd part of the session uses AI to create 5 custom breakthrough challenges for you. You could get AI to create behavioral tasks or habits for you, and you may like them. Self Science has a proprietary set of prompts that creates research-based challenges to create behavior change as quickly as possible.
The 3rd part of the session is a custom meditation based on my notes from the session. Self Science AI writes a script for me, which I improvise around as a professional meditation teacher.
You could get AI to create your own meditation around any topic, and even have it read the meditation to you, but again, at some point in the experience, you will probably remember that it's not a human voice.
You should absolutely use AI for anything that helps you. If you don't care about having the support of a real human, then AI is a great and cheap alternative.
Q: What's Dave Wolovsky's CV?
Here's the guy's whole professional story. He majored in math at Wesleyan University. In 2010, went to Thailand for 2 years to teach English. Came back and taught math, meditation, and brain exercises to senior citizens. Started his Positive Psychology Coaching practice in 2014 while still teaching. In 2018, he graduated from Columbia University with a M.S. in Neuroscience & Education, and he started coaching full time. Both career coaching (job interviews) and life coaching (habits). Got trainings as a yoga teacher, Imago couples therapy coach, and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy coach. Since 2023, he's been focusing 100% on solving the problem of building habits, and researching how much momentum and transformation a client can achieve in a single hour coaching session. The Breakthrough Hour combines his greatest strengths, while using AI to enhance other aspects (like writing a meditation script and creating 5 action challenges for the client on the spot, based on Dave's detailed notes from the session).
Q: How is this different from therapy?
Therapy explores your deeper past to understand the present. It's extremely helpful, and I highly recommend it. My wife is a therapist.
The Breakthrough Hour falls under Positive Psychology Coaching. It is focused on using science to understand where you are right now and find what moves you forward quickly.
It's not clinical, and you will not get a diagnosis. It's just one focused hour of immediate insight and action.
Q: I've tried coaching before and it didn't work. How is this different?
Most coaching gives you insights and homework.
The Breakthrough Hour is different because you take action in the session, not after. You overcome a customized challenge with real time support from a professional coach, so you leave with something already done.
Deep insight plus precise action. That's the whole game of personal growth.
Q: What if I want to keep working with Dave after this?
At the end of the session, if continuing together feels right, that conversation is available.
There's no pressure and no pitch. Many choose to book more Breakthrough Hour sessions, but one is complete on its own.
Q: I've never meditated. Will this work on me?
You don't need any meditation experience. Dave guides you through every moment.
Q: Meditation hasn't worked for me. Why should I try this?
Most meditation involves listening to a generic, pre-recorded track. Maybe even an AI voice.
The Breakthrough Hour meditation is deeply personalized to you, and delivered by a professional coach and meditation teacher. I've had clients say that they have never experienced meditation like this, and they were shocked by how fast it went.
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