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As someone who has worked in restaurants full time since high school, I was getting burnt out with the industry and ready for a change. For 2 plus years, I researched opportunities in other industries, but to no avail. After much exasperation, my wife took it upon herself to research career coaches on my behalf and found Dr. Spitzer online. For years as an adolescent, I attended therapy for a myriad of reasons, but in looking back now as an adult, I realized I was not able to take advantage of those sessions as intended because I was young, stubborn and had a tendency to bottle my feelings. I was skeptical of therapy or coaching, but having exhausted all known channels for career change, I reached out to Bill to schedule a meeting. I am generally quite introverted, but when I first met Bill, I quickly felt at ease and able to open myself up to constructive conversation and introspective contemplation, despite him being a perfect stranger just minutes prior to our meeting. Bill's innate ability to ask the right questions and tell meaningful stories in order to get me thinking about myself and my aspirations was refreshing and enlightening, but it did not succeed without some work on my part. It took a lot of quiet time and deep thought to analyze where I came from, my past experiences, where I am now and where I want to go personally and professionally. Initially, I was disappointed to learn that Bill was not there to help me get into a new job, but over the course of a couple of sessions I saw the greater lesson to be learned was that by inspecting and learning about myself, he was acting as a catalyst to my own enablement, encouragement and empowerment. Bill's coaching emboldened me in my efforts to take stock of what I believe in, and to take calculated risks for the benefit of myself and my family as I continued toward a new career path, whatever it may be. Sometimes you just need to talk to a stranger, someone with no preconceived ideas of you, to ask questions and make observations without pretense in order to gain better perspective of your own life and your future potential. I am thankful for my relationship with Bill and his pushing me to work harder for a happier result, which I have achieved in embarking down a new educational and career path. I had hit a roadblock I could not overcome for years, but Bill helped me overcome adversity, not by figuratively helping me over or around it, but by helping me enable myself to push through it toward a more favorable outcome. My advice to anyone seeking life or career coaching is this: I highly recommend it, but you must be prepared to put in the hard work and open yourself up emotionally before you see meaningful results. As Teddy Roosevelt said, "Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty." If you are struggling with your life or career path, I believe that with the help of Dr. Spitzer, and your willingness to take time to focus on yourself, your aspirations, and your true needs in work and life, you will succeed in steering your life into the desired direction. You never know what you are missing in life if you keep going down the same path, so free yourself.