"I'm vehement about it. I feel like it is the relationship with yourself: Being a grounded, centered human has to be your number one job."

— Maria Glenn

"I find myself really thinking about How do I show up as my whole self? — recognizing I tend to be pretty direct, and appreciating and enjoying the individual I'm with, and trying to lean into their style of what they need."

— Lisa Chenofsky Singer

"It's a very different experience to experience yourself when you're really present — and we could talk about what that means and how we get there, which takes a lot of practice — and how we just kind of go through life. And we can be more present to life and to our surroundings. And it's a really different thing to just be still and be present."

— Libby Graves

"It's so simple to just create trust and safety, to maintain a presence. And that is enough. The rest just unfolds after that."

— Aman Gohal

"We call it 'coaching.' That's such a small word for what actually happens, in my opinion. We're shifting timelines for people. We're creating new possibilities in life. We're supporting people in getting and going to the places they need to go to heal. To call that 'coaching' just seems kind of funny and silly."

— Bob Conlin

"Coaching has taught me that transformation is very rarely very loud. It's usually subtle, quiet, and very personal."

— Ghaya Barwani

"I'm coaching people to find their life force: Get it back going. The act of creation — I don't care if it's in the kitchen, in the garden, technologically, I mean all of it; it's not any one thing — that that puts money back into the brain bank and the body bank. And I intend to go indefinitely. When you're doing what you love, you don't need to retire. And if people are not doing what they love, it's time to get in conversation with a coach, because that will be a waste of a wonderful life."

— Ricci Victorio

"I call coaching a spiritual path. All along the way we're letting go of our ego attachments and learning to be more transformationally present — transformative presence at these higher nose bleed levels of MCC. It's a journey from feeding our egos to feeding our souls. That's how it's shaped me. I'm riding that bicycle while I'm building it. I'm learning as I mentor others toward their MCC."

— Fran Fisher