Featured Coach | Max Lee

Max Answers Top Questions

What vision do you have for your life and your coaching practice?

Designing and Living a wonder-filled Life

What are the top three things you love about coaching?

• Exploring the Impossible
• Unraveling hidden patterns
• Discovering and catalyzing latent potential

Before I started coaching I …

I THOUGHT I had it all figured out only to discover I had lots to uncover and learn about the real me.

What makes you laugh?

Life's many paradoxes and ironies.

The legacy I want to leave behind is ...

A life fully lived, appreciated and shared.

Who are your top three people you would want to coach and why?

• My son - he is so like me in many ways and resists that realization. I would like to create more ease and flow in his life.
• My daughter - she has limiting beliefs about herself that are getting in her way. I would like to see her find her next calling.
• My other selves - I believe a good coach is a good coach to themselves.

What were the greatest benefits you received from studying at the Hendricks Institute?

• Learning to see and deal with, "what is" vs. my illusions
• Learning to love myself - really loving myself
• Letting go of dysfunctional patterns
• Learning what feelings I am having in the moment and then expressing them in appropriate ways
• Learning to breathe
• Creating real connections with myself and others
• Tapping into my whole body intelligence
• Whole body creativity
• Laughter and fun
• What real intimacy is

The movie that inspired me most was _______. Why?

Star Wars - the struggle to aspire to be something greater than oneself begins with inner awareness of who one truly is.

The Book?

The Alchemist - a hero's journey of self discovery, meaning and purpose.

What brings you the most joy in your day to day life?

Walking Berry, my yellow lab. I learn so much from her in the moment curiosity and genuine affection.

Top 10 things I couldn't live without?

• Love
• Family
• Meaningful life purpose
• Health
• Curiosity
• Friendships
• Travel
• Amazing vistas of all kinds
• Mountains
• Oceans
• Forests
• Wholesome food
• My dog

A drippy late fall evening in Boulder, Co. was my introduction to Drs. Gay and Katie Hendricks. They were holding a special introductory workshop at Naropa University. The gym was packed with people some happily beaming and others like myself a bit offish reserved. Gay and Katie sat in front looking over the crowd, waving, smiling and SMILING. Something different was happening than the usual psycho babble BS I had come to expect when attending personal growth seminars and the like. These two had a presence and a way of being I had never witnessed before – no words yet communicating authentically in the moment. I was intrigued.

After witnessing some amazingly playful and powerfully improvised experiences with individuals that seemed to transcend time, I decided that I wanted to learn how they do what they do. I enrolled in their next Foundation training in Ann Arbor, Mi which began my apprenticeship with Gay and Katie. Since becoming a Transformational and Leadership Coach, I see and hear with my whole body, intuitive impulses arise to be followed and insights abound for my clients and myself. My life is an amazing adventure.