Gwendolyn Price
The Essentials of Coaching | 2025
"That's when I realized: this IS the ministry!"
For three decades, Gwendolyn Price lived a double life—not the scandalous kind, but the kind so many of us know too well. By day, she climbed the corporate IT ladder. By evening and weekend, she quietly coached people through life transitions, mostly pro bono. Then March 2025 brought a severance package that felt almost divine. This is the story of how surrendering her plans for God's revealed the calling that had been there all along.
Kim Faircloth
The Essentials of Coaching | 2025
"I learned to let God be the third person in the room"
Kim Faircloth didn't need PCCI to become a coach - she already was one, with ICF credentials, a PhD-level executive coaching background, and a bestselling book on conflict resolution to her name. What she didn't have was a way to bring God naturally into conversations with clients who wanted Him there. That gap became the beginning of a very different kind of training.
Shellie Kemp
The Essentials of Coaching | 2025
"I had head knowledge about coaching, but I didn't really know how to coach."
Shellie Kemp had already completed several coaching programs before she found PCCI. As Freedom & Care Pastor at a church serving 7,000 people weekly, she knew excellent training mattered. But despite all her certifications and credentials, something crucial was missing—until eight weeks in the Essentials cohort changed everything.
Liana Robson
The Essentials of Coaching | 2025
"I wanted to be on the other side of the screen asking the questions"
Liana was drowning in the good life - working from home, homeschooling two daughters, managing it all. But precious hours were slipping away in front of a computer when she wanted to be with the people she loved. The Lord kept speaking one word to her: freedom. Freedom for herself, and freedom to help others experience it too. What she didn't expect was how coach training would transform not just her career, but her marriage, her parenting, and the way she loves everyone around her.
Maria Gallagher
The Essentials of Coaching | 2024
"I was a novice. I needed to become a professional in a hurry."
Maria Gallagher stared at her new title: Executive Director. She loved her nonprofit's work but lacked confidence to lead. The gap between who she was and who she needed to be felt uncomfortably wide. When she enrolled in PCCI's Essentials program, she discovered something surprising: coaching wasn't about giving advice - it was about listening deeply and drawing out wisdom.
AnnMarie Preik
The Essentials of Coaching | 2024
"What does your life look like 10 years from now if you don't try?"
When her kids started launching into adulthood, AnnMarie Preik lost her footing. Twenty years as an Occupational Therapist, a home bakery, a lifetime of raising and caregiving - and suddenly, no clear answer to "what's next." It took one question from her husband, asked on the back porch, to move her from stuck to certain.
Daniela Kostova
The Essentials of Coaching | 2024
"I Knew in My Heart: This Is Home"
Daniela Kostova had built a respected HR career with a Dutch company in Lovech, Bulgaria - but her heart had always been set on something else: helping people discover who God made them to be. When a friend spoke one simple word over her prayer - coaching - it set off a search that ended the moment she heard about PCCI. What followed was a season of fear, breakthrough, and a calling that's now expanding across Eastern Europe.
Gail Roma
The Essentials of Coaching | 2024
"I am unique. This is my coaching journey and I don't have to compare myself to others."
For over fifty years, Gail showed up faithfully to her logistics job, all while carrying a quiet dream of helping people find purpose and meaning. When her department was outsourced in 2023, she faced a choice: play it safe or finally pursue what she'd been made for. Despite financial fears and doubts about starting over at her age, Gail stepped forward in faith - and discovered that her decades of life experience weren't detours at all. They were preparation.
Okike Offia
The Essentials of Coaching | 2023
"I should have done the training 10 years earlier"
Okike Offia had reached the top - a decade as Country Director for The Navigators in Nigeria, nearly three decades of faithful ministry leadership. But instead of coasting, he felt a pull toward something more. The question wasn't whether he'd been successful. It was whether he was done growing. His answer? A calculated risk at 1 AM that would unlock doors to global impact, transform how he listened, and position him exactly where he now knows he belongs.
Michelle DeMann
The Essentials of Coaching | 2023
"To say those words out loud - I am a Christian Life Coach - seems surreal."
Michelle DeMann spent two decades speaking to women's groups, sharing stories of hope and redemption. But she knew there was more she was meant to give. That "more" felt stuck inside her - a dream she'd examine when the yearning came, then tuck away as life took over. The confidence to step forward remained just out of reach - until two conversations led her back to a sticky note she'd almost forgotten.
Melissa Baker
The Essentials of Coaching | 2023
"The training created a safe space for me to truly grieve - and grow."
She'd checked every box. Clinician. Sales leader. Corporate executive. But Melissa Baker's successful healthcare career came with a cost—distance from her family, her faith community, and the life she truly wanted. When caregiving and profound loss interrupted her corporate climb, she faced a harder question: What if success isn't about returning to who we were, but realigning with who we're becoming? Her decision to pursue coach training was born from being tired of letting fear make her decisions.
Julia Williams
The Essentials of Coaching | 2023
"It seemed like they could read my mind."
Julia Williams spent over twenty years in politics and public policy, ending on Capitol Hill and then as Senior Director of Government Relations for a large nonprofit. When she retired early during COVID with no real plan, the quiet that followed was harder than the career had ever been. A friend's simple observation - that she had a lot to share - led her to PCCI, where a small practice group would give her one of the clearest moments of her life.
Linda Hannigan
The Essentials of Coaching | 2022
"Coaching felt like it FIT ME. It provided a place to serve the kingdom in a way that felt like who I was already - I just hadn't found it yet."
Linda Hannigan wasn't looking for coaching - she was looking for something. After pursuing a Bachelor of Theology, neither pastoral work nor counseling felt right. Then she noticed something in her own Enneagram coach - the way she held space, truly listened without fixing or explaining. That observation became a catalyst. Today, Linda coaches church staff and elders in Tacoma while teaching women Scripture through her ministry, Illuminate.
Cheryl Bridges
The Essentials of Coaching | 2020
"I kept feeling this nudge that there was something more."
After 31 years in corporate America and active ministry as a deaconess, Cheryl Bridges was already making a difference—mentoring others and serving in leadership. But beneath the accomplishments, there was a persistent whisper she couldn't ignore—a calling that required more than passion alone. Here's what happened when she finally said yes.
Edwin Soler
The Essentials of Coaching | 2019
"I was absolutely sure this was what I was called to do, what I was created for."
Edwin Soler spent his evenings dreaming from behind a law enforcement desk. Someday, he'd tell himself. Someday I'll do something more. He felt deeply called to serve people differently, to make a bigger impact. But he was stuck in a career going nowhere. He could see the what and why clearly—but the how stumped him. Until he discovered coaching.
Kelsey Hendrix
The Essentials of Coaching | 2019
"God told me to become a coach."
Kelsey Hendrix had always been the person others turned to for help. As a member care leader for missionaries, she watched dedicated servants struggle in isolation, knowing that "giving advice sometimes helped but frequently didn't." After experiencing coaching herself, everything changed when she heard God's unmistakable call to formal training. Today, she runs a Coaching and Counseling Center in Tbilisi, Georgia, passionate about partnering with others in transformation.
Mark Ross
The Essentials of Coaching | 2016
"I still had the desire to lead - I just didn't know how."
At 59, Mark Ross stepped away from a 30-year career in municipal leadership. He had a plan for this new season—but not a clear path forward. The unrest he felt kept growing stronger. He wanted to support leaders navigating transitions, but without formal training, he was operating in the dark. Then a conversation with the founder of PCCI changed everything. This is Mark's story of finding his Encore Profession.
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Gwendolyn Price
The Essentials of Coaching
2025"That's when I realized: this IS the ministry!"
For three decades, Gwendolyn Price lived a double life—not the scandalous kind, but the kind so many of us know too well. By day, she climbed the corporate IT ladder. By evening and weekend, she quietly coached people through life transitions, mostly pro bono. Then March 2025 brought a severance package that felt almost divine. This is the story of how surrendering her plans for God's revealed the calling that had been there all along.
-
Kim Faircloth
The Essentials of Coaching
2025"I learned to let God be the third person in the room"
Kim Faircloth didn't need PCCI to become a coach - she already was one, with ICF credentials, a PhD-level executive coaching background, and a bestselling book on conflict resolution to her name. What she didn't have was a way to bring God naturally into conversations with clients who wanted Him there. That gap became the beginning of a very different kind of training.
-
Shellie Kemp
The Essentials of Coaching
2025"I had head knowledge about coaching, but I didn't really know how to coach."
Shellie Kemp had already completed several coaching programs before she found PCCI. As Freedom & Care Pastor at a church serving 7,000 people weekly, she knew excellent training mattered. But despite all her certifications and credentials, something crucial was missing—until eight weeks in the Essentials cohort changed everything.
-
Liana Robson
The Essentials of Coaching
2025"I wanted to be on the other side of the screen asking the questions"
Liana was drowning in the good life - working from home, homeschooling two daughters, managing it all. But precious hours were slipping away in front of a computer when she wanted to be with the people she loved. The Lord kept speaking one word to her: freedom. Freedom for herself, and freedom to help others experience it too. What she didn't expect was how coach training would transform not just her career, but her marriage, her parenting, and the way she loves everyone around her.
-
Maria Gallagher
The Essentials of Coaching
2024"I was a novice. I needed to become a professional in a hurry."
Maria Gallagher stared at her new title: Executive Director. She loved her nonprofit's work but lacked confidence to lead. The gap between who she was and who she needed to be felt uncomfortably wide. When she enrolled in PCCI's Essentials program, she discovered something surprising: coaching wasn't about giving advice - it was about listening deeply and drawing out wisdom.
-
AnnMarie Preik
The Essentials of Coaching
2024"What does your life look like 10 years from now if you don't try?"
When her kids started launching into adulthood, AnnMarie Preik lost her footing. Twenty years as an Occupational Therapist, a home bakery, a lifetime of raising and caregiving - and suddenly, no clear answer to "what's next." It took one question from her husband, asked on the back porch, to move her from stuck to certain.
-
Daniela Kostova
The Essentials of Coaching
2024"I Knew in My Heart: This Is Home"
Daniela Kostova had built a respected HR career with a Dutch company in Lovech, Bulgaria - but her heart had always been set on something else: helping people discover who God made them to be. When a friend spoke one simple word over her prayer - coaching - it set off a search that ended the moment she heard about PCCI. What followed was a season of fear, breakthrough, and a calling that's now expanding across Eastern Europe.
-
Gail Roma
The Essentials of Coaching
2024"I am unique. This is my coaching journey and I don't have to compare myself to others."
For over fifty years, Gail showed up faithfully to her logistics job, all while carrying a quiet dream of helping people find purpose and meaning. When her department was outsourced in 2023, she faced a choice: play it safe or finally pursue what she'd been made for. Despite financial fears and doubts about starting over at her age, Gail stepped forward in faith - and discovered that her decades of life experience weren't detours at all. They were preparation.
-
Okike Offia
The Essentials of Coaching
2023"I should have done the training 10 years earlier"
Okike Offia had reached the top - a decade as Country Director for The Navigators in Nigeria, nearly three decades of faithful ministry leadership. But instead of coasting, he felt a pull toward something more. The question wasn't whether he'd been successful. It was whether he was done growing. His answer? A calculated risk at 1 AM that would unlock doors to global impact, transform how he listened, and position him exactly where he now knows he belongs.
-
Michelle DeMann
The Essentials of Coaching
2023"To say those words out loud - I am a Christian Life Coach - seems surreal."
Michelle DeMann spent two decades speaking to women's groups, sharing stories of hope and redemption. But she knew there was more she was meant to give. That "more" felt stuck inside her - a dream she'd examine when the yearning came, then tuck away as life took over. The confidence to step forward remained just out of reach - until two conversations led her back to a sticky note she'd almost forgotten.
-
Melissa Baker
The Essentials of Coaching
2023"The training created a safe space for me to truly grieve - and grow."
She'd checked every box. Clinician. Sales leader. Corporate executive. But Melissa Baker's successful healthcare career came with a cost—distance from her family, her faith community, and the life she truly wanted. When caregiving and profound loss interrupted her corporate climb, she faced a harder question: What if success isn't about returning to who we were, but realigning with who we're becoming? Her decision to pursue coach training was born from being tired of letting fear make her decisions.
-
Julia Williams
The Essentials of Coaching
2023"It seemed like they could read my mind."
Julia Williams spent over twenty years in politics and public policy, ending on Capitol Hill and then as Senior Director of Government Relations for a large nonprofit. When she retired early during COVID with no real plan, the quiet that followed was harder than the career had ever been. A friend's simple observation - that she had a lot to share - led her to PCCI, where a small practice group would give her one of the clearest moments of her life.
-
Linda Hannigan
The Essentials of Coaching
2022"Coaching felt like it FIT ME. It provided a place to serve the kingdom in a way that felt like who I was already - I just hadn't found it yet."
Linda Hannigan wasn't looking for coaching - she was looking for something. After pursuing a Bachelor of Theology, neither pastoral work nor counseling felt right. Then she noticed something in her own Enneagram coach - the way she held space, truly listened without fixing or explaining. That observation became a catalyst. Today, Linda coaches church staff and elders in Tacoma while teaching women Scripture through her ministry, Illuminate.
-
Cheryl Bridges
The Essentials of Coaching
2020"I kept feeling this nudge that there was something more."
After 31 years in corporate America and active ministry as a deaconess, Cheryl Bridges was already making a difference—mentoring others and serving in leadership. But beneath the accomplishments, there was a persistent whisper she couldn't ignore—a calling that required more than passion alone. Here's what happened when she finally said yes.
-
Edwin Soler
The Essentials of Coaching
2019"I was absolutely sure this was what I was called to do, what I was created for."
Edwin Soler spent his evenings dreaming from behind a law enforcement desk. Someday, he'd tell himself. Someday I'll do something more. He felt deeply called to serve people differently, to make a bigger impact. But he was stuck in a career going nowhere. He could see the what and why clearly—but the how stumped him. Until he discovered coaching.
-
Kelsey Hendrix
The Essentials of Coaching
2019"God told me to become a coach."
Kelsey Hendrix had always been the person others turned to for help. As a member care leader for missionaries, she watched dedicated servants struggle in isolation, knowing that "giving advice sometimes helped but frequently didn't." After experiencing coaching herself, everything changed when she heard God's unmistakable call to formal training. Today, she runs a Coaching and Counseling Center in Tbilisi, Georgia, passionate about partnering with others in transformation.
-
Mark Ross
The Essentials of Coaching
2016"I still had the desire to lead - I just didn't know how."
At 59, Mark Ross stepped away from a 30-year career in municipal leadership. He had a plan for this new season—but not a clear path forward. The unrest he felt kept growing stronger. He wanted to support leaders navigating transitions, but without formal training, he was operating in the dark. Then a conversation with the founder of PCCI changed everything. This is Mark's story of finding his Encore Profession.
Gwendolyn Price
The Essentials of Coaching | 2025
"That's when I realized: this IS the ministry!"
For three decades, Gwendolyn Price lived a double life—not the scandalous kind, but the kind so many of us know too well. By day, she climbed the corporate IT ladder. By evening and weekend, she quietly coached people through life transitions, mostly pro bono. Then March 2025 brought a severance package that felt almost divine. This is the story of how surrendering her plans for God's revealed the calling that had been there all along.
Kim Faircloth
The Essentials of Coaching | 2025
"I learned to let God be the third person in the room"
Kim Faircloth didn't need PCCI to become a coach - she already was one, with ICF credentials, a PhD-level executive coaching background, and a bestselling book on conflict resolution to her name. What she didn't have was a way to bring God naturally into conversations with clients who wanted Him there. That gap became the beginning of a very different kind of training.
Shellie Kemp
The Essentials of Coaching | 2025
"I had head knowledge about coaching, but I didn't really know how to coach."
Shellie Kemp had already completed several coaching programs before she found PCCI. As Freedom & Care Pastor at a church serving 7,000 people weekly, she knew excellent training mattered. But despite all her certifications and credentials, something crucial was missing—until eight weeks in the Essentials cohort changed everything.
Liana Robson
The Essentials of Coaching | 2025
"I wanted to be on the other side of the screen asking the questions"
Liana was drowning in the good life - working from home, homeschooling two daughters, managing it all. But precious hours were slipping away in front of a computer when she wanted to be with the people she loved. The Lord kept speaking one word to her: freedom. Freedom for herself, and freedom to help others experience it too. What she didn't expect was how coach training would transform not just her career, but her marriage, her parenting, and the way she loves everyone around her.
Maria Gallagher
The Essentials of Coaching | 2024
"I was a novice. I needed to become a professional in a hurry."
Maria Gallagher stared at her new title: Executive Director. She loved her nonprofit's work but lacked confidence to lead. The gap between who she was and who she needed to be felt uncomfortably wide. When she enrolled in PCCI's Essentials program, she discovered something surprising: coaching wasn't about giving advice - it was about listening deeply and drawing out wisdom.
AnnMarie Preik
The Essentials of Coaching | 2024
"What does your life look like 10 years from now if you don't try?"
When her kids started launching into adulthood, AnnMarie Preik lost her footing. Twenty years as an Occupational Therapist, a home bakery, a lifetime of raising and caregiving - and suddenly, no clear answer to "what's next." It took one question from her husband, asked on the back porch, to move her from stuck to certain.
Daniela Kostova
The Essentials of Coaching | 2024
"I Knew in My Heart: This Is Home"
Daniela Kostova had built a respected HR career with a Dutch company in Lovech, Bulgaria - but her heart had always been set on something else: helping people discover who God made them to be. When a friend spoke one simple word over her prayer - coaching - it set off a search that ended the moment she heard about PCCI. What followed was a season of fear, breakthrough, and a calling that's now expanding across Eastern Europe.
Gail Roma
The Essentials of Coaching | 2024
"I am unique. This is my coaching journey and I don't have to compare myself to others."
For over fifty years, Gail showed up faithfully to her logistics job, all while carrying a quiet dream of helping people find purpose and meaning. When her department was outsourced in 2023, she faced a choice: play it safe or finally pursue what she'd been made for. Despite financial fears and doubts about starting over at her age, Gail stepped forward in faith - and discovered that her decades of life experience weren't detours at all. They were preparation.
Okike Offia
The Essentials of Coaching | 2023
"I should have done the training 10 years earlier"
Okike Offia had reached the top - a decade as Country Director for The Navigators in Nigeria, nearly three decades of faithful ministry leadership. But instead of coasting, he felt a pull toward something more. The question wasn't whether he'd been successful. It was whether he was done growing. His answer? A calculated risk at 1 AM that would unlock doors to global impact, transform how he listened, and position him exactly where he now knows he belongs.
Michelle DeMann
The Essentials of Coaching | 2023
"To say those words out loud - I am a Christian Life Coach - seems surreal."
Michelle DeMann spent two decades speaking to women's groups, sharing stories of hope and redemption. But she knew there was more she was meant to give. That "more" felt stuck inside her - a dream she'd examine when the yearning came, then tuck away as life took over. The confidence to step forward remained just out of reach - until two conversations led her back to a sticky note she'd almost forgotten.
Melissa Baker
The Essentials of Coaching | 2023
"The training created a safe space for me to truly grieve - and grow."
She'd checked every box. Clinician. Sales leader. Corporate executive. But Melissa Baker's successful healthcare career came with a cost—distance from her family, her faith community, and the life she truly wanted. When caregiving and profound loss interrupted her corporate climb, she faced a harder question: What if success isn't about returning to who we were, but realigning with who we're becoming? Her decision to pursue coach training was born from being tired of letting fear make her decisions.
Julia Williams
The Essentials of Coaching | 2023
"It seemed like they could read my mind."
Julia Williams spent over twenty years in politics and public policy, ending on Capitol Hill and then as Senior Director of Government Relations for a large nonprofit. When she retired early during COVID with no real plan, the quiet that followed was harder than the career had ever been. A friend's simple observation - that she had a lot to share - led her to PCCI, where a small practice group would give her one of the clearest moments of her life.
Linda Hannigan
The Essentials of Coaching | 2022
"Coaching felt like it FIT ME. It provided a place to serve the kingdom in a way that felt like who I was already - I just hadn't found it yet."
Linda Hannigan wasn't looking for coaching - she was looking for something. After pursuing a Bachelor of Theology, neither pastoral work nor counseling felt right. Then she noticed something in her own Enneagram coach - the way she held space, truly listened without fixing or explaining. That observation became a catalyst. Today, Linda coaches church staff and elders in Tacoma while teaching women Scripture through her ministry, Illuminate.
Cheryl Bridges
The Essentials of Coaching | 2020
"I kept feeling this nudge that there was something more."
After 31 years in corporate America and active ministry as a deaconess, Cheryl Bridges was already making a difference—mentoring others and serving in leadership. But beneath the accomplishments, there was a persistent whisper she couldn't ignore—a calling that required more than passion alone. Here's what happened when she finally said yes.
Edwin Soler
The Essentials of Coaching | 2019
"I was absolutely sure this was what I was called to do, what I was created for."
Edwin Soler spent his evenings dreaming from behind a law enforcement desk. Someday, he'd tell himself. Someday I'll do something more. He felt deeply called to serve people differently, to make a bigger impact. But he was stuck in a career going nowhere. He could see the what and why clearly—but the how stumped him. Until he discovered coaching.
Kelsey Hendrix
The Essentials of Coaching | 2019
"God told me to become a coach."
Kelsey Hendrix had always been the person others turned to for help. As a member care leader for missionaries, she watched dedicated servants struggle in isolation, knowing that "giving advice sometimes helped but frequently didn't." After experiencing coaching herself, everything changed when she heard God's unmistakable call to formal training. Today, she runs a Coaching and Counseling Center in Tbilisi, Georgia, passionate about partnering with others in transformation.
Mark Ross
The Essentials of Coaching | 2016
"I still had the desire to lead - I just didn't know how."
At 59, Mark Ross stepped away from a 30-year career in municipal leadership. He had a plan for this new season—but not a clear path forward. The unrest he felt kept growing stronger. He wanted to support leaders navigating transitions, but without formal training, he was operating in the dark. Then a conversation with the founder of PCCI changed everything. This is Mark's story of finding his Encore Profession.
