From Human Rights to
Human Potential.
Navigating life’s most critical crossroads with a decade of United Nations humanitarian experience and bespoke psychological strategy.
The blueprint was met, but the inner alignment was waiting.
I was approaching my late 30's. I'd lived a wonderful life, working for almost a decade within the human rights field that reassured me of my life's purpose. I had loved, been married and had a son. I'd checked off many of the targets I'd set for myself in my mental blueprint. Milestones met.
In the early 2010's, my world changed, on a personal, professional and relationship level. I could no longer recognize who I'd become. I felt stuck. I lacked clarity. I missed the old version of myself — the lighthearted, positive and kind person I was. I mention kind as I was harshest on myself, which made me feel even more cemented in a life that wasn't me. Not even 10% of me.
Recognizing the key is within you.
I knew change needed to happen. I knew I deserved better: a better partner, a more fulfilling career, a much more passionate relationship as well as a calmer and kinder version of Michael to Michael. Change needed to happen. Change needed to happen. That thought took me over. And it was months before I came to the realization that I held the key within to substitute the reality I was begrudgingly living.
Well aware of what needed to be substituted to become closer to the version of Michael I knew was waiting for me. The best version of me. I refused to accept the prison I was living in, the one I'd put myself in. I recognized the need to let go of old versions of myself. I began brainstorming, rejecting to be a passenger in the direction my life was heading. I was the driver. I was the conductor. I was in a funk, it was my responsibility to improve my reality. And I did.
The most underrated act of kindness is simply letting people be. Let them mispronounce a word, talk too much about a show they love, or get excited about something you don't quite understand.
Everyone has something that lights them up, let them shine, even if it's not your thing.
@weltszzn / X
"Everything you're becoming is already within you — coaching simply lights the way."
Learning from the world’s top coaches.
I started my first life coaching training with Martha Beck. Nine months later, I had navigated back to myself — realigned with who I was, using resources and strategies from that training that I still pass down to my clients today. I'd learned a new language to speak with myself. But there was work still waiting for me on the relationship and professional fronts, and I scratched my head more and more until, as fate would have it, I fell into the laps of a man called Anthony Robbins.
That second training taught me how to move from Point A to Point B — how to push my own boundaries, challenge myself, and veto anything in my reality that I knew wasn't me anymore. I started delivering on the targets I set for myself. A few months later, I was selected for an Elite Training by the Anthony Robbins Institute — one of 70 candidates chosen from 8,000 coaching trainees — and I took it. My toolbox grew. I was becoming alive again. I felt plugged back in.
Today, my clients learn those same strategies, grounded in the standards and ethical framework of the International Coaching Federation (ICF), the world's leading professional body for coaching excellence.
Slowly, and without reacting against my old life, I chose to let it go — because I loved myself enough to know I deserved better, and I finally had the fundamental steps to become a closer vision of who I wanted to be. I refused to compromise on my destination or water down the new version of Michael. I replaced the thoughts, emotions, and self-imposed restrictions that were keeping the old me alive with ideas and actions that moved me forward. I set myself free.
“We are all works in progress;
we grow, we learn, we adapt — and we WIN!”
That's what I guide my clients toward now. Not compromise. Not staying stagnant. Just loving ourselves enough to shed what limits us, and learning to shine again — from the inside out.
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