Living true to ourselves
We are BIPOC coaches who will help you build the skill to navigate your personal challenges, while also showing how your issues tie into the bigger systemic injustices we see in the world. We do this through an equity framework, by exploring your roots, identifying your values and empowering you to be your authentic and beautiful self.
We offer a FREE 30 minute consult to better understand your unique needs
“A system that never addresses the why behind a harm never actually contains the harm itself.”
This quote from Miriam Kaba forms the essence of the coaching that we do here at A Better Force, and that is guiding you on your personal and professional development journey while being cognizant of systemic issues like racism, colonization, and capitalism that forms the root of most of our modern society’s dysfunction.
What that looks like in our sessions is while talking about issues like low-confidence, anxiety, or perfectionism, we also end up discussing intergenerational trauma or racial violence that has affected your families and communities. We move forward on your journey of personal growth, not just by discussing strategies, but also by exploring your histories, systems, and relationships to understand the roots of present day issues. Additionally, we have guided worksheets for you to preserve your reflections and insights and help you process past incidents.
Our individual sessions can be fully customized, including the length of engagement, topics and dates. We also have group sessions with fixed topics and dates, at a more affordable price point. Read on to learn more about individual and group coaching.
Individual coaching sessions
Our individual coaching sessions are 60 minute one-on-one sessions with Saamiya or Sarah. They can be fully customized, starting from the topics, length of engagement and frequency of meeting. Before we start, we offer a FREE 30 minute initial consultation to better understand what you need from our sessions and to see if we’re a good fit! Each 60 minute session is $150, with a 10% discount being given when 4 sessions are booked at the same time. Please read on to see some of our focus areas.
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For first-time clients, this personal development series is usually where we start our journey. Clients are encouraged to share their fears, and break each one down, exploring root causes and beliefs, and coming up with strategies to counter or manage the fears. From there we talk the values that matter to you, your unique strengths and give you the tools to build your confidence and start living true to yourself.
Suggested engagement: Four 60-min sessions ($540)
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If you’re specifically struggling with managing your time and boundaries, this series is the one for you. In these sessions, we teach that time management is often about sorting your priorities and focusing on the quality of time spent than the quantity of things that are done. In order to understand this fully, we also talk about values and why it’s important to have boundaries in place that work for you and your culture. We finish off this series by talking about procrastination and fear or failure, and how our desire for perfectionism keeps us from living our best lives.
Suggested time frame: Three to four 60-min sessions ($450 - $540)
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This series guides you in the exploration of your identity, which is a crucial step to finding your voice, especially if you are from a BIPOC, immigrant, queer or other historically marginalized communities. We explore topics like racial, colonial and intergenerational trauma, and how that has shaped your life and thinking. From there we guide you through a decolonial and equity framework to help you find and hone your unique voice.
Suggested engagement: Four 60-min sessions ($540)
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This series gets you thinking from a decolonial perspective and helps you understand where your definitions of success come from and whether they actually fit the life you want to lead. We talk about the misconceptions of success and how toxic environments and society cam plant the seeds of doubt and shame in our minds. We make a case for valuing everyday happiness over impossible to achieve goals and standards, and why we need to start valuing ourselves for who we are vs. what we do.
Suggested engagement: Two to four 60-min sessions depending on prior work ($300 - $540) -
All of us have experienced trauma in our lives from living under systems of oppression - racial, intergenerational, poverty, neglect, abuse, etc. This trauma often manifests in subtle coping patterns - perfectionism, peacekeeping, people pleasing, self reliance, and many others. In this series, we start to identify these patterns in our own leadership and work, explore root causes and start working towards healing.
Suggested engagement: Two to four 60-min sessions depending on prior work ($300 - $540)
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This series guides you in honing your leadership skills through an equity and decolonial framework. This means we focus on collaborative leadership, where we prioritize community over competition. We teach leaders how to draw from the diverse strength of their teams and networks rather than doing the work alone and getting burnt out. We also teach tools to focus on impact over intent, think about long term sustainability of initiatives and strategize how leaders can work together collective liberation.
Suggested engagement: Four 60-min sessions ($540)
Group Sessions and Workshops
Our group sessions are usually a three or four-part discussion series with a small group of people. The discussions revolve around a particular theme, and every session builds on the previous one. After a small introduction to the topic, these sessions will focus on discussions between the facilitator and participants to gain insights and start the healing process. Worksheets are also provided and worked on in the session to process and store your reflections. Occasionally, we also do single session workshops on standalone topics. The format is similar, but condense more material in the presentation section and have less time for discussion.
Visions for a new year: Holiday-special community workshop
Typically hosted in January, this workshop gives you the tools to cute the noise from societal messaging and get clear on your values and vision for the new year. Visions differ from goals in a subtle but important way, in that visions encompass the journey itself, while goals typically refer to the destination.
Main takeaway: How to live a values-aligned life, and make decisions from a place of love instead of fear
January 2026
Time: Jan 11, 2-4pm
Location: TBD
Healing the divide: Black History Month & Ramadan workshops
With Ramadan and Black History Month in February, we’re hosting two of our most requested workshops!
Feb 11: Countering Islamophobia and anti-Muslim sentiment
Feb 18: Countering anti-Blackness in Asian and other non-Black communities
February 2026
Virtual via Zoom
Cost: $35 per workshop, $50 for both sessions
Breaking up with productivity: Healing our relationship with time
** This is a 3-part group discussion series, with each session building from the previous one
Hamsters on wheels - Why our obsession with productivity leads us nowhere
“New rules” - Crafting values aligned expectations for our life
“Up, up, up” - managing energies, saying no and maintaining boundaries
March 2026
Virtual via Zoom
Cost: $45 total for all 3 sessions in series - cannot be bought separately!
Healing the chameleon inside: Special AAPI month workshop
** This is a 4-part group discussion series, with each session building from the previous one
My chameleon colors: Learning the different facets of my identity
The fears of the jungle: Why it’s easier to assimilate than to be authentic
My true colors: Embracing my intersectional identity and the values that matter the most
Belonging in the jungle: Taking my place in the collective community to push for change
May 2026
Virtual via Zoom
Cost: $60 total for all 4 sessions in series - cannot be bought separately!
The child within: Learning, playing, healing
** This is a 4-part group discussion series, with each session building from the previous one.
Our relationship with shame, guilt, sadness and anger
Dismantling the lies we’ve been told - racial, intergenerational
Remembering our joy, strengths and beauty
Connecting the past to the present
July 2026
Virtual via Zoom
Cost: $60 total for all 4 sessions in series - cannot be bought separately!
What people are saying:
“I have been doing weekly coaching sessions with Saamiya since 2021. I struggle with chronic illness, ADHD and other life problems that keep derailing me. Sessions have helped me navigate these issues more effectively by breaking down overwhelming situations into manageable pieces to sort out one at a time. I originally started sessions to create structure for ADHD and manageable goals around chronic illness. Medication therapies did not help long term. Coaching and counseling type therapies helped me immensely over time. She made personalized goal sheets and helped me sort my thoughts so I could be more concise with my feelings.
— Leslie N.
“Saamiya is very compassionate, a great listener, and very in tune with her clients. Her tailored approach cut straight through to what I needed, and she made it very easy to discuss the heart of my issues. Over the course of our sessions, I learned how to lift the wall of fear and make major strides towards what I truly wanted, not what others wanted for me.”
— Devonn P.
“It was a pleasure working with Saamiya and our sessions have helped me in ways I couldn’t even imagine. I very much look forward to working with her again in the future.”
- Alex M.
We offer a FREE 30 minute consult to better understand your unique needs
OUR STORY
And why we started coaching…
Hi there, we’re the team of sisters who created A Better Force to bring an equity focus into the leadership development industry. If you’ve landed on this page, chances are that you are on a journey for self-healing and growth. In our hyper productive society, it’s not easy to seek help, so we wanted to commend you for taking this very important first step.
A little bit about us, we’re first generation, Asian and Muslim immigrants to the US. We started this company because we wanted to bring our unique voices to the leadership and coaching industry, and tailor our programs to serve historically marginalized communities, who often have structural barriers that get unaddressed in traditional leadership training. We will be exploring themes like racism, imperialism and inter-generational trauma and how those affect your present life.
Both our backgrounds are in Civil Engineering, with Saamiya doing her PhD on Construction Materials, and Sarah switching to Social Psychology for her doctorate. We’re both anime and bubble tea fans, and are passionate about empowering individuals and communities to live their best lives by being true to themselves.
Connect with us: Saamiya’s LinkedIn — Sarah’s LinkedIn — Email
Ready to start with us?
Book a FREE initial consult and let’s talk about how we can help your team.