You get 168 hours this week. Are you spending them or investing them?
The Man Behind the Lighthouse
I did not start out planning to become a life coach. But looking back, everything in my life was pointing me in this direction.
I grew up in church. Faith was not just something my family did on Sundays. It was the foundation of how we lived, how we treated people, and how we approached challenges. Those early years shaped my character more than anything else in my life.
After high school, I followed that foundation straight to Bible College. Studying there deepened my understanding of people, purpose, and what it means to serve others well. Those lessons still show up in every coaching session I lead today.
For years, I served in multiple volunteer roles in the church. Teaching, leading, mentoring, organizing. I wore a lot of hats and loved every one of them. What I discovered through that service was something I did not expect. I had a natural ability to help people get unstuck. To ask the right question at the right moment. To help someone see their situation more clearly and find a path forward they could not see on their own.
That gift kept showing up. In the church. In my career. In conversations with colleagues and friends who were struggling with the same things I had struggled with. Too busy. Too scattered. Working hard but not moving forward.
Then everything stopped.
I went in for triple bypass heart surgery. And in those long, quiet days of recovery, with machines beeping and the weight of my own mortality sitting heavy in the room, I had no choice but to slow down and listen.
What I heard changed my life.
My wife never left my side. Her encouragement was not just emotional support. It was a steady, daily reminder that my life had purpose and that the world needed what I had to offer. She believed in my calling even on the days I was too tired and too scared to believe in it myself.
The hospital chaplain visited regularly. We talked about faith, purpose, and what it means to use the time you are given. Those conversations cut straight to the heart of what I had been avoiding for years. The question was no longer whether I should pursue coaching full time. The question was why I had been waiting.
My physical therapist pushed me physically while asking me questions that pushed me mentally. What do you want your recovery to lead to? What does the next chapter of your life look like? She had a gift for connecting physical progress to personal vision, and she used it every single session.
And the nurses, those tireless, compassionate professionals who checked on me through the night, they kept saying the same thing in different ways. You have something to give. Do not waste this second chance.
I did not.
When I walked out of that hospital, I walked out with clarity I had never had before. I took everything I had learned about people, leadership, service, faith, and time management and built something with it. Lighthouse Coaching and Consulting became the place where hard-won life experience meets practical, proven strategy.
I am not here to preach at you. I am here to guide you. To help you see clearly, move purposefully, and lead effectively in every area of your life.
That surgery did not derail my purpose. It clarified it.
And I would love the chance to help you find that same clarity, without having to go through what I went through to get there.
