When You Know Something Needs to Shift
Maybe you’re here because something feels off—you’re tired, or stuck, or unsure what’s next. Perhaps you’re doing fine, but there’s more clarity or alignment available if you’d just stop and look. Or maybe you’re growing fast and want a better grip on your own story while you do.
Untangled Narrative is a place to pause, reflect, and begin tracing the deeper story underneath your choices, habits, and hopes.
You don’t have to know what’s wrong. You need to be willing to get curious.
What We Do
Untangled Narrative helps people untangle the internal mess that keeps them stuck. We do this through coaching, conversation, tools, and community. Not as a shortcut. Not as a fix. However, as a disciplined approach to understanding what’s happening beneath the surface and acting based on that understanding.
Narrative isn’t wallpaper. It’s wiring. When you trace the story, you find what’s driving you.
Why It Exists
This started as a one-person coaching practice run by Jim Karwisch. He spent years helping people reconcile the gap between their actions and what they claim to want. Eventually, it became a community. Then a membership. Then, a growing ecosystem of tools, conversations, and ways to learn.
Everything here is designed for individuals who want to move forward, but first want to understand why they’ve been spinning their wheels. People who want to stop white-knuckling change and start building it with both hands.
What You’ll Find
- Coaching that doesn’t sell transformation—it builds it.
- A Membership that’s not about passive content. It’s a practice space.
- Your Narrative Wayfinder is a database that doesn’t throw answers at you. It helps you ask better questions.
- Workshops and Events where people don’t posture—they show up real, curious, and ready to work.
How This Is Different
We don’t do hype. We don’t do one-size-fits-all. And we don’t pretend you’ll fix your life in a weekend.
We do friction, but not friction for its own sake. We do structure. We do stories. We help you work with what’s real.
This is for people who are tired of surface-level solutions and want to understand what’s really happening inside them—so they can finally move forward.
From Jim
I started Untangled Narrative because I needed it myself. I was trying to lead, connect, grow—but underneath it all was a story I hadn’t named, let alone examined. Once I started untangling that narrative, things didn’t get easier—they got clearer. And that made all the difference.
This work isn’t about finding your one true path. It’s about making sense of the path you’re already on, so you can choose your next step with intention.
I’ve coached individuals, teams, and leaders for over a decade, blending improv, systems thinking, and narrative design. But what matters most is that when we work together, I’m not a guru. I’m a guide. You set the direction. I help you trace the threads.
—Jim Karwisch
Founder, Untangled Narrative
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