My Story
Clients often tell me they choose to work with me because of my “unique” career background.
I believe what makes my story unique is the number and variety of careers I’ve had: I’m classically trained as a chef and I spent years in the kitchen, building and leading teams, driving operations, and making great food. I’m trained as a Wilderness Emergency Medical Technician and Swiftwater Rescue Instructor. I’ve served as a ski patroller and Class V raft guide. I’ve built and remodeled houses, ran my own small business, and worked in residential mental health and addictions treatment.
My diverse background helps me to connect with people from all walks of life and gives me the powerful wide-angle big-picture perspective that is so crucial in coaching.
In 2019, I was sitting at a pivot point in life. I had worked my way up to Head Chef and was leading a great team at an organization whose work I believed in. Things were good.
But inside, I felt a hazy pull towards something new … a fresh challenge … a greater way to serve.
It was a confusing time for me: Clarity was hard to come by. I knew I was after something, but I struggled to figure out what, or how to get there. I was curious about coaching as a career path, but unclear on what coaching looked like.
Frustrated with my own self-guided attempts to blaze a path forward, and curious to learn more about coaching, I talked with a few coaches and found one a coach that felt like a great fit for me.
Coaching powerfully focused and directed my inner work, turbocharging my process with tangible effects. I put in the work and found – or maybe created – clarity about my values, my path, and my purpose. I pivoted.
Coaching
With a foot still in the kitchen, I dove into coach training, learning and soaking in everything I could, coaching anyone who would let me, practicing relentlessly. It was messy, it was bumpy. It was wild, exciting, and sometimes scary. I kept going.
In 2020, I left my role in the kitchen to focus on coaching. Since making that pivot a little more than 5 years ago, with more than 3,500 sessions under my belt, I’ve helped over 500 clients find clarity, gain profound insight, build their skills, take action, increase confidence, improve their quality of life, and create lasting, profound change for themselves and their families.
From working with individuals, it’s been a natural progression to serving teams and organizations as well through powerful group coaching, facilitating and consulting.
Through my accumulated knowledge and experience, I have been able to develop both general excellence and specialization. I am equally comfortable and effective coaching on personal and professional topics. My clients see our conversations as effective and high-impact across all aspects of their lives.
While I specialize in Leadership and Communications Coaching (including presenting and public speaking), I am equally adept in coaching clients across the rich spectrum of Life and Professional Coaching, including personal habits, career change, parenting, skill development, balance and burnout, people-leading skills, professional growth, and more.
Beyond Coaching
Beyond my professional life, I keep pretty busy.
I strive to actively balance work with family time and time for myself. I find that balance to be the crucial foundation that allows me to bring my best to what’s important to me: bringing positivity to the people around me, maintaining resilience in the face of life’s challenges, and – as much as possible – enjoying the ride.
I have an amazing partner and am a step-dude to a rad kid.
I love learning, play, and practice.
I enjoy strength training, playing music, cooking, comedy, making art, building guitars and effects pedals, and making things with my hands. I usually have more hobbies and interests than I have time.
For me, time spent outside and in nature is an essential part of life. I’m an avid whitewater enthusiast, hiker, occasional rock-climber, and overly enthusiastic skier. Time in nature is what recharges me.
Contact Golder
Golder is exactly the coach I thought he would be based on his bio. There was no awkward trying to get to know him. I think we made an authentic connection and I am looking forward to working with him as I move through this process.
Thank you.