THE COACH
My life journey has been filled with epic highs and epic lows. I have extensive experience and background working in the corporate world. I have worked for fortune 500 and 100 corporations as well as privately-owned small companies. I am a graduate of Franciscan University, and my area of focus is mainly but not solely in business and accounting. I have worked in a wide variety of business sectors, such as the travel/airline industries, legal firms, communication, and internet companies, as well as construction and heavy equipment retail rental companies. Throughout my life, I developed a dedicated and strong well-grounded positive attitude and work ethic; which in turn opened doors to many different experiences, opportunities, and outcomes, thus obtaining invaluable knowledge and experiences.
The desire to become a certified Life Coach started during and after my sixteen years of discerning the priesthood and religious life. My foundational motivation for such discernment comes from the intrinsic desire to help people. During my time of priestly discernment, I went through intense personal self-reflection and ongoing in-person psychological evaluations; guided spiritual direction, and human-person formation. Four of the sixteen years I spent living a hermitic existence, completely off the grid and isolated. Following that, I entered a major seminary, where my focus was studying philosophy and theology extensively, along with continuing additional human and spiritual formation as well as what and how to serve as a priest. I served a pastoral year at a local parish, assisting the pastor firsthand at the parish, which included making twice-weekly sick calls to hospitals and nursing/personal care homes. It was during this pastoral year with intense, long, and deep self-reflection and discernment, I decided to leave the seminary and not continue with priestly formation. In the few short years since, I began my life again but in new directions; with a very new; different, and much deeper understanding of human nature, and myself, who, and what I am as a human being and a man. I have been able to open doors and opportunities that were not on my radar prior.
Life change is a step at a time process, regardless of the type and reasons why the desire for change. It is growing and learning, and to understand and become (more) self-aware, and as a person who and what you are, and most importantly why you are you. You can obtain and become anything you seek and desire if you want to envoke that change. The only limits are those that you put upon yourself. As a certified life coach, I will work with you and walk with you each step of the way to bring those changes to your life. I will reaffirm with positive support, ideas, and motivation; while always holding you accountable. My journey and experiences allow me the ability to hear and listen, with simplistic clarity and patient understanding of human nature, empathize, and understand you. I will help you gain important and deep insight for you to find and be you, to help you grow, learn and understand your needs, expectations, and assumptions, to find your untapped potential, which will bring about foundational positive and permanent changes to your life from the inside out.
