Heck to the yes! It's me LIVE 100% of the time for each and every session!

Great question! First off, Coach Will is a Certified Professional Life Coach, not a mental health professional, so the approach is quite different. Coaching is more about the future than the past. There’s no rehashing or dredging up difficult memories, unless a student initiates discussion of such situations with Will. Coaching is about meeting people exactly where they are right now, helping them develop a vision and goals for their future, and an action plan with a toolkit to get there! As a 25 year old, Coach Will is extremely relatable to young people and has an uncanny ability to quickly connect and build rapport with tweens and teens. Ultimately, Coach Will’s goal with all of his students is to equip them with a robust toolkit that will help them handle every situation life throws at them. Not just now, but for the rest of their lives. The foundational skills Will coaches on are (largely) not taught in schools, and yet are so necessary for living a successful life, however your child defines that. Coach Will’s students learn how to find their purpose, create a vision for their lives, reverse engineer the process of achieving that vision, and act boldly and confidently, even in the face of fear and uncertainty!

There will be between 20 and 35 students per session and office hours and they will not be grouped by age – content in all sessions will be accessible, relevant, and appropriate for ages 9-19. Students are 100% anonymous to one another and cannot see each other or interact with anyone except Coach Will on the calls via the Q&A function on Zoom Webinars, which creates a close knit environment between your child and Coach Will. The sessions do not feel crowded or exclusionary in any way. We have gone above and beyond what is required by United States privacy laws to protect your child’s identity and create a welcoming, judgment-free environment, where your child will feel safe, while still receiving truckloads of validation that they’re not alone in their struggles!

The group calls will primarily be Coach Will talking/teaching/coaching on the topic for each week. Again, students cannot see each other, but Coach Will is constantly reading out comments and questions submitted by students through the Zoom Webinars Q&A feature. The sessions are highly interactive and engaging, while protecting your child’s privacy and anonymity. Again, students can’t see other students at all. The first group coaching cohort has far exceeded our expectations in terms of cohesiveness of the group and participation from each student! As mentioned above, the average student submits a comment or question to Coach Will every 2 minutes of each session! We’ve found that most students are a better fit for group coaching because there’s safety in numbers and questions/comments will not be visible to other students. In a group setting with young people, no one wants to be the first to speak up, or even to ask a hard/potentially embarrassing question. But the anonymous structure of the group coaching program has eliminated this fear, as students don’t know and can’t see one another. They get to submit questions that Coach Will can read out loud to the group, without naming the student who submitted the question. This simple privacy measure has broken down communication barriers that in a traditional setting might take months to break through.

Students in the group sessions will be completely anonymous. They are not able to be on camera or display their names on the weekly Zoom calls. We go to great lengths to protect the identity of all program participants, as the vast majority of them are minors. We know that 95% of kids don't want their peers knowing that they're in the program. So, the group sessions will show Coach Will on camera, live, and students will be able to use the Q&A feature to send him questions, comments, concerns, etc.!

Every session (students and parents) will be recorded and available to you to download 24 hours after each session is held.

There are over 1,000 families on my 1 on 1 waitlist, and I am not currently taking any new students. However, signing up for group coaching catapults you to the top of the waitlist, so there's a much better chance I'd be able to coach your child 1 on 1 in the next 6-24 months! Group coaching is also significantly more affordable than my 1 on 1 coaching.

I have tons of experience coaching students younger than tween and teen years, specifically 8 and 9 year olds, and I've seen great success! The majority of them are ready for the coaching I give and the language I speak while about 20% of them are just not quite there with self awareness and maturity levels. Here are 3 big questions I encourage you to think about: Do they have awareness of their thoughts and feelings? Meaning, can they think about what they're thinking about? Do they have a desire to grow and become more confident? Can they pay attention for a 60 minute zoom call? If you answer yes to those questions, group coaching is going to be incredibly helpful for them and will plant amazing seeds for a growth mindset, positive self-talk, confidence, motivation and more!

You can actually have 2 student sessions and one parent session with zero risk, because I offer a money back guarantee for up to the first 15 days of the program.