About Mike

Life Coaching is a fourth career for me, and one worth waiting for. All my life I have wanted to deeply impact lives, and coaching has made that possible - beyond my wildest imagination. There is something about the coaching relationship that draws forth change in a person's life.
After working as an ordained pastor, I worked as a professional counselor. Both of those venues allowed me to be impactful in people's lives, but nothing like coaching. Life coaching combines the best of both, and adds even more, creating an environment where lives really change.
I made the transition to being a life coaching in 2002, and have loved every session since then. It is what God designed me to do.

In my free time I backpack compulsively, always upgrading and swapping gear. I also like puttering in the shop with the old Harley or some project woodworking. But most of all I love writing, and currently have two books in print.

I love living in the Colorado Rockies where I live with my family, at over 7,200 feet.

My favorite clients

The people I love working with the most are folks who are hungry to grow and who aren't afraid to be stretched and challenged. They are typically adventurers who will dare to walk the road less travelled. They are people who want to be alive more than they want to be secure.

My favorite clients are those who don't ask to be entertained or have their provlems soved, but ask to be stretched and challenged - they enter into life rather than ask for guarantees or easy steps to change. They are those people who leave the dead weight of judgment and narrow mindedness behind and who pick up a spirit of grace and humility - they are learning to travel light. I am deeply drawn to people who enter into all that life has to offer rather than stay safely disengaged. I work best with those who won't settle for the status quo.


What I bring to the coaching relationship

  • I promise to never judge and to point out when you are doing it to yourself.

  • I will always be honest, positive, and committed to you as a client.

  • I will push you to see the good in who you are and what you choose to do.

  • I will be there for our times together, pray for you when we aren't, and be your biggest cheerleader.




Coaching isn't for everyone - you have to want to grow and be changed for coaching to work. But if you have those desires, I can almost guarantee you will grow beyond your wildest imagination.

There is a reason we call the business Outside Edge - because you will be pushed there if I am doing my job. So if you aren't interested in being challenged, choose another coach. Some of the things we talk about and that we come up with in our coaching might feel a little "out there" sometimes. That is the whole point - if it were "in here" you wouldn't need a coach.

I do a free sample session with all my clients. It lets us both know whether the coaching relationship is a fit for both of us. I can almost guarantee that by the end of a sample session, you will know whether we should work together.

So the big question is simple; "Are you ready to grow?" If so, give me a call.


Mike's background....


I came to Christ in a college ministry in my early twenties and was off to Bible college within a year. I am an ordained pastor in the Disciples of Christ church, and was licensed, (though not currently,) in the Church of God, Anderson.

I have a Master's degree in Marital and Family Therapy from California Lutheran University, and a PhD in the school of hard knocks. (That means I have a lot of experience in a lot of areas.)

I have walked with Jesus for almost thirty years, some of those were even good years. He has had to do a lot of work in me- let's just put it that way. I am deeply thankful that He has never given up on me - never has and never will. I live in His grace - not because I choose to, but because I desperately need it.

I specialize in individual coaching, and am a certified life coach through Coach Training Alliance. I also take clients on wilderness trips into the mountains where we can do more intensive work - or just have fun.


To live on the Outside Edge means to not settle for the status quo, to dare to dream, and to allow God to take you where you have only imagined. The relationship with Him becomes a wild adventure of realtime faith that is anything but boring.

Inside all of us is a truth that we rarely face - that we are created for vertical and horizontal relationship. That hunger is what draws us closer to God. And that same hunger leads us to want to connect deeply with other journeyors.

At Outside Edge, we will challenge just about everything you believe, think, and live by. That is how people grow. It is also how we learn to depend on God.



Outside Edge Coaching will challenge you to go beyond the brink of what you've always known and ignite your journey of freedom, purpose, and adventure with Jesus.


We specialize in taking people who have been called to something more on a journey of freedom and adventure... beyond the box of what they've always known and done... back to the core of what is true and authentic and alive for them. 

So if the status quo in your faith and life isn't enough for you any longer, you've come to the right place. Imagine experiencing results like these:

  • You wake up each morning with a sense of excitement and purpose for the road ahead (that's what happens when you are clear about who you are and what God is calling you to)

  • You feel more alive than ever before (the expansiveness of the unknown grows you in new ways and vibrant aliveness is the essence of the adventure)

  • Your faith takes on new depths of meaning and substance as you get back in touch with your first love for God

  • You learn to play a bigger game as you step confidently into your God-directed calling and style of living

  • Overwhelm disappears with new tools and strategies to help you get unstuck and take action in the journey ahead

  • You have the expert support, encouragement, and guidance of a coach who has already walked the path you're on

  • You feel the weight of obligation lift as you learn to get back to the basics of what really matters and travel light through life

  • You clearly see the barriers that are holding you back and create strategies to get past them and into the freedom you hunger for

  • You will move forward boldly with support structures, beliefs, habits, and ways of doing life that really fit in this new season

  • You experience accelerated personal growth that impacts all areas of your life

  • You stand firmly rooted in new confidence as you stop letting others define your faith and you take control of your own spiritual journey

  • You become a contagious influence for change in the world around you

  • You revel in your new relationship with God that is more deeply satisfying than you dreamed it could be


Through our coaching programs (individual, seminars, and outdoor adventures), we will go on a journey together to the outside edge. We'll shake up the status quo to get to what's real. We'll help you break the barriers that are holding you back and step into new ways of living in freeom and adventure in Christ. That's the way of life on the outside edge of safety, comfort, and predictability... the way of aliveness... the way of following Jesus.



Let the adventure begin!

 








 

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Mike has two books published - The Steps Leaving the Church, and

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