My Story
Forty years in locker rooms taught me how to read people before I had the words for it.
I started as a basketball coach. Twenty-something years old, standing in front of teenagers and telling them how to move. What I was really learning, though I couldn't name it then, was how to read a person, and not by their words but by their patterns. The way a player's confidence drained in the fourth quarter told me everything about what they said to themselves when they were alone.
Then came golf, and the game broke me open.
The golf course is unlike any other diagnostic tool I've ever found. There's nowhere to hide on a golf course. Your psychology writes itself in real time, in front of you, in every swing. How you respond to a bad shot tells me who you are inside your business.
How you grip a 7-iron under stress is how you grip a partnership decision. How you talk to yourself after a bad hole is how you talk to yourself after a hard quarter. The course doesn't lie.
Over 40 years of coaching I've worked with more than 1,500 athletes, and across 30 years of building my own businesses I've sat with better than 5,000 entrepreneurs. What I found, and this took me decades to understand, is that they all have the same problem underneath, no matter how different their circumstances look. There is something they are not saying out loud. Something they have been carrying. And the moment someone creates the space for them to say it, really say it, without being fixed or analyzed or redirected, something releases. And then everything moves.
I'm not a therapist, and I'm not a life coach in the Instagram sense. I've sat with a lot of people in the worst moment of their lives, and I have never once found the answer in a framework.
But none of that is why people stay. They stay because in one conversation, I name the thing they've been circling for years. Not because I'm smarter than them. Because I love them enough not to let them keep lying to themselves.
"I entered my session with Bob feeling stuck, a bit depressed and completely unmotivated. He then magically gave me a whole new way of unearthing deeper feelings and insights I hadn't considered. He restored my motivation and enthusiasm for moving towards the work I truly love."
Michael Hauge — Hollywood Story Expert, Best-Selling Author
"If you're looking for a coach who supports you with love, compassion, and integrity, and can be the Obi-Wan Kenobi to your next and greatest self, I highly recommend working with Bob."
Caitlin Doemner — Founder, VirtualCoachingSales.com and EcstaticWay.com