Thought Partners is a Bay Area-based coaching and consulting firm founded by me, Josey Baker. i’m a bread baker, published author, teacher, public speaker, and business owner based in San Francisco, CA. i’m the founder of the bakery Josey Baker Bread, and co-owner of The Mill, a cafe/bakery in San Francisco that i run with Four Barrel Coffee, where i lead my small team of bread bakers & pizza makers who specialize in freshly milled whole grain sourdough.
photo: Michael A. Estrada
i was born in New York, raised in Vermont, and moved to San Francisco in 2005. from 2005 to 2010. i worked at The Lawrence Hall of Science at UC Berkeley, where i developed elementary and middle school science curriculum, and wrote a small collection of children’s science books. in the spring of 2010 i started baking, and founded Josey Baker Bread that fall. by the following summer i was baking full time, writing my first cookbook, and had begun work to open my bakery, The Mill. in 2014 i published my introductory bread baking cookbook Josey Baker Bread (Chronicle, 2014). i’ve taught baking workshops all over the world, and am very fortunate to have a loyal and passionate community that spans the globe. i take great pride in working to embody a balance of integrity, quality, compassion, and fun in everything I do. i currently live in Oakland, CA with my outrageously great wife and son.
how we work together
we’ll begin with a 30-minute conversation in which we can get a sense of each other to see if it feels like a good match. you’re free to ask me any questions you have, and i’ll explain a little bit more of how i like to work, and some of the things i’d envision us getting into together.
if it indeed feels like a good fit, there are a couple of ways we can work together:
thought partnership. during this 3-month commitment in which we meet every other week, i hope to help you gain a clear picture of your strengths and weaknesses, how you’ve landed where you currently are, and chart a course to get you where you want to be. my focus will be on helping you understand what it is exactly that you’re looking for more of in your life, and being your thought partner as you make it happen. i’ll do my best to assist you in making any changes in order to facilitate greater fulfillment in work and life.
single session. feeling like you just want a space to bounce some ideas around, but aren’t interested in committing to a long-term deep-dive? in this 50-minute session we can work together in whatever capacity feels most pressing and/or most supportive. whether you just need to vent about how you’ve been wanting to quit your job for months but haven’t been able to work up the courage, or if you’re really struggling to make sense of how anyone stays sane while running their own business, or if you just need a thought partner in working through some thorny issues at work/home, i’m here to help.