About
The Story
Precipice didn’t start in an office. It started on a trail at Woolly Hollow State Park.
We were both worn out. We’d spent decades helping others carry hard things, so we made a deal: get outside together regularly and be real with one another. It was time on the trail with someone we didn’t have to help.
Out there, the conversations got honest (something you might expect between two therapists). We called each other out on where we felt stuck and lonely, and pushed each other toward what we actually wanted. Sometimes it stung, and that turned out to be the useful part. We also started to have hope again.
Matt had carried the idea for Precipice for years. Jon pushed him to act on it. What we do with clients is exactly what we did for each other.
The Name
On those hikes, we kept arriving at the same realization: we had both climbed to a high place in our lives, and it had stopped feeling like a victory. Year after year, switchback after switchback, we’d kept our heads down and pushed toward the top. But up there the wind was louder, the path narrower, and our footing less sure. Some days we couldn’t remember why we’d started climbing, or who we’d left at the trailhead.
That’s a precipice. We’ve stood there, and maybe you’re standing there now. On paper, you’ve arrived. Inside, it feels like standing at the edge with nothing to hold onto.
But an edge is also where the view opens up. For us, the fog lifted one honest conversation at a time. We could see where we’d been, where the trail could still lead, and what was worth climbing for in the first place.
That’s the view we help you find. Sometimes it means picking a new path toward somewhere you’d rather be. Sometimes it means standing right where you are and seeing it with new eyes. Either way, the edge can become a vista: clarity, rich relationships, and the freedom to choose.
The first step out of the fog is a Discovery Call. It’s simple. Choose your guide, schedule a time that works for you, and we’ll get you started on the path to a full and satisfied life.
We did it for each other, and we can do it for you.
Meet the Guides
Jon Priest
Guide
What we spend our lives on should be worth it. Is it worth it for you?
Before he was a coach, Jon was an owner. Since 2016, he has built and run a multi-site mental health group practice, so his understanding of leadership—and what it costs—didn’t come from a textbook. It came in real time from making the hard calls that keep an organization healthy year after year, and from the quieter question underneath them: is all this worth it?
That distinction matters. Plenty of coaches can talk about strategy and performance. Jon knows what it’s like to carry decisions that affect other people’s livelihoods, hold the line between what the work demands and what he actually believes, and be the one everyone looks to for the answer, with no one to ask himself.
He brings that, and his training in psychology, to leaders who’ve built something worth being proud of — a company, a career, a reputation — and can’t quite say why it costs them what it does. Nearly twenty years as a therapist taught him to hear what’s underneath what someone is saying, and to stay in a hard conversation past the point where most people change the subject. He isn’t your therapist, and this isn’t therapy. But he doesn’t unlearn what he knows about people, either.
Jon won’t hand you a system. He’ll ask better questions than you’ve been asking yourself, sit with you in the discomfort of the honest answers, and help you decide what’s actually worth your one life — and what you’re willing to put down to make room for it.
Not all of it is about what your current path has cost you. Jon can also help you plan for what’s ahead — and he’s just as glad to work with someone earlier on, talented but not yet able to see what they’re capable of, and stay with them while they think through it, and push them toward something real, without needing you to have it figured out first.
When he’s not helping people connect to their passion, Jon is living into his own — adventuring with his wife and three kids, exploring the backcountry on foot or canoe, and having deep conversations seasoned with ridiculousness.
Matt Spicer
Guide
If you've grown tired of your life on autopilot, consider this your invitation to wake up.
With nearly 15 years of leadership experience, including owning and operating his own business, Matt has played just about every role imaginable within an organization. Over time, his focus has shifted from the mechanics of work to a deeper exploration of personal values, what gives life meaning, and what it truly means to live well.
That shift has shaped his desire to help other leaders look beyond the traditional measures of success and discover what matters most to them. His goal is to help people make an impact not only through their work, but in their own lives and in the lives of everyone who works with and for them.
Outside of work, Matt pursues multi-day backpacking adventures, running, pickleball, and the ongoing adventure of parenting a preteen. Each offers its own reminder that a meaningful life is about more than what we accomplish.
If you've made it this far, Matt has one challenge for you:
If you've grown tired of your life on autopilot, consider this your invitation to wake up. Get honest about what matters to you. Choose deliberately. And start building a life you actually want to live.