Why Fifth Element: the clarity, the love, the strategy
- Jodene Hager, LMT, MBA
- Nov 11
- 1 min read

Fifth Element Is Not Branding. It’s a Boundary.
It marks the line between extractive coaching and architecture for liberation.
The Philosophy
In classical systems, the four elements—earth, air, fire, water—represent the visible world. The fifth is what holds them together. Some call it ether, spirit, quintessence. I call it love.
Not sentimental love. Strategic love.
Love as integrity.
Love as refusal.
Love as the decision to build systems that protect energy, honor truth, and reject harm.
Fifth Element is where clarity and love converge.
It’s the part of you that sees the pattern even when you’re activated.
Knows what’s extractive even when you’re exhausted.
Can build even while exiting.
It’s not mystical. It’s tactical.
And it’s what I help clients access—whether they’re founders, professionals, couples, or organizations.
The Method
This is not coaching as performance. It’s coaching as reclamation.
I don’t separate trauma literacy from strategic design.
I don’t offer clarity as theory.
I operationalize it.
Clients come to Fifth Element to recalibrate.
To turn survival patterns into strategic assets.
To build resilient systems that endure—emotionally, structurally, relationally.
Why I Chose the Name
Fifth Element reflects the work:
• Moving beyond the visible elements of life—career, relationships, business
• Into the invisible architecture that holds it all together
• Coaching from the fifth element: pattern recognition, nervous system awareness, and tactical truth
Fifth Element is a method.
And if you’re done performing and ready to build—this is the work.



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