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Coaching requires a particular kind of listening. Not just to what a client says, but to how he says it. The words he chooses. The ones he avoids. The slight change in posture when something resonates. The longer pause before an answer that tells you more than the answer itself. You're watching and listening at the same time and you're doing it continuously, because the most important moments in a coaching conversation rarely announce themselves. We live behind an alcohol mas

Outwardly smiling, inwardly churning.. He held the whiskey a long time before he drank it. It was a quiet night in a friend's lounge room, no occasion to speak of, and the friend had poured two glasses without asking. He wasn't thirsty. He just didn't want to be the one who said no. He told me about it weeks later, still turning it over. "Saying no felt like disrespect." That sentence piqued my curiosity, it felt like something he'd known for years and never said out loud. "S

Men come to this work from very different places. Different ages, different amounts, different circumstances. Some are drinking daily, some are bingeing on weekends, some are barely over the guidelines but something still feels off. Some have tried to stop before. Some are considering it for the first time. From the outside they look nothing alike. But in my experience there is always a moment. It doesn't announce itself. It's rarely dramatic. It's just the point where the co