In 2021, during one of the darkest days in my life, a fellow coach who saw me speaking on stage asked me if I’d be happy to help her with her dream of setting up a coach training program in her home country: Kenya.

She mentioned that there were many women that would need coaching skills to become more empowered in their villages – for them to be more entrepreneurial.

I saw this as an opportunity to engage more fully in life towards healing, and I said YES! BUT … I knew that without a solid budget, no one would come to train those women in Kenya.

And then I had an idea. I have a rich network of great people I met on my long journey of researching coaching. Why don’t I produce a documentary on coaching to source the budget needed for this project?

As my own journey is one of successes and failures, I wanted the documentary to not only show the light but also the shadow side of coaching.

And so, the coach practitioners and scholars I interviewed felt inspired to be part of what they said was a worthwhile and beautiful initiative to explore coaching more deeply and more transparently at the same time.

The result? We manage to produce a fundraiser that gives tons of value to those that watch it.

We’ve got 39 contributors addressing both the pain and pleasure sides of our coaching industry. All in one: The Light and Shadow of Coaching.