What you can expect:
A dynamic coaching program customized to where you want to get to in your life
Real-life support and guidance to advance the journey
Attend to your faith, family, finance, fitness and fostering of good will
A Nurturing, Innovative, and Collaborative Approach Based on the Ontological Perspective
Making the changes you want—and need—to make.
Are you feeling stuck in your current life? Have you been holding onto a “secret” goal, surreptitiously nurturing it over months and even several years? Are you finally ready to move your life in a different direction to align with your sense of purpose, to restore meaning, to renew connection and to revive your experience of well-being?
Life can be challenging and it’s easy to find yourself in a seemingly inescapable rut.
Make a move.
Change that.
Take a moment to think about the life you really want to lead and that next section of your journey…the next chapter in your life…something extraordinary.
Do thoughts of taking the next steps by yourself instantly overwhelm you?
WELCOME TO THE CLUB.
Many people don’t really move forward with their life and make the all-important changes they need to make because they try to make these changes alone. Yes…they might confide in a friend, family member, or colleague. Talking with others can feel encouraging.
But here’s the truth…evidence shows if you’re serious about making major positive changes in your life, it is essential to have someone you trust to support transforming your dreams into reality.
As an experienced professional life coach, I’m here to help you find contentment, connection and joy by making the changes you want and need to make…changes that complement and augment your core values and beliefs.
Think deeply and mindfully about the life you want to lead. Imagine the greatness you want to achieve. Consider the legacy you want to leave. Let’s make this happen through the synergy that comes with life coaching.
Here’s Why So Many People Trust Life Coaching to Help Them Reach Their Goals
Life Coaching…Adept guidance, friendship, and expertise to help you make the changes you want and need to make to Love Your Life
Many people are perplexed when they hear the words, “Life Coaching” and “Life Coach.” Let me provide some clarity.
Life coaches…
A survey by the International Coaching Federation (ICF); concluded that 43% of people have experienced success connecting with a life coach at some point. Another 22% express intent to engage a life coach.
Coaching is vital if you’re serious about moving from where you are now…to the place where you deserve to be…
in Love with your Life!
Life Coaching: An Innovative Method Yielding Powerful Results
My approach to life coaching is distinctive. It’s based on the “ontological perspective,” a transformational learning approach that leads to desired outcomes.
Perhaps this perspective is new to you. Let me detail how this works.
By challenging our personal status quo, the ontological mindset removes obsolete beliefs that are keeping us from reaching our long-standing goals and aspirations. Once we air out the “misinterpreted” and “old” beliefs, we can confidently move toward owning the life we really want to lead.
Many people lead lives where there’s a disconnect between fact and opinion which colors their perception of reality, experience of well-being and opportunities for growth. This often keeps people in a “stuck” position where they can’t make the changes they want and need to make.
The ontological perspective starts by taking a look at perceptions and comparing them to reality. The transformational learning results in a renewed personal outlook that will generate actions effecting powerful changes. The perspective revolves around the following pillars…
The ontological perspective starts by taking a look at perceptions and comparing them to reality.
The transformational learning results in a renewed personal outlook that will generate actions effecting powerful changes. My method revolves around the following pillars…
Curiosity
How could life be different? Building on insight and inspiration that change can happen. Thoughts and feelings can materialize slowly or strike lightening-fast.
Ask + Find Answers
Asking and finding answers to questions like: “What is this restlessness I’m feeling?” “Where can I go to discover the answer?” “When is the “right” time to make a move?” “Why does it matter?” “Who can I trust with my question?” “How do I investigate the unknown?” While the questions and answers may be difficult to address they will lead to desired change.
Integrate
It’s more than organizing a plan. Integrating is coordinating your life in a way that everything exists together as part of a greater whole. Integration demands attention to possibility, and to what works.
Evolve
Evolve is revealing the ability to be present in the world in accordance with one’s unique vision while purposefully connecting to others.
The Journey
Journeying is putting oneself in motion. It takes self-discipline to stay the course and it’s crucial to be non-judgmental.
Manifest
The proof and the evidence that positive change is taking place.
Center
Finding balance in life experience. This works best as perpetual movement guided by calmness.
My approach takes place in a private and safe space for reflecting on personal growth including an investigation of both misinterpreted and accurate self-assessments. Your answers to the open-ended questions in this process yield actionable pathways to your goals.
A Coaching Program Built Around What You Want to Achieve In Order to Love Your Life
My coaching program is customized to you and what you are looking to achieve. It’s not a “one size-size-fits-all” approach.
We start with the complimentary 35-minute Discovery Call. We’ll talk about where you are now and your goals and aspirations for the life you want to lead and love.
Whatever is happening, we look at an engagement. I will provide a proposal based on our initial Discovery Call. Upon acceptance, the engagement moves forward.
Each engagement differs. However, we will start with the structure detailed above. Schedules are flexible and engagements can take place remotely. You gain access to my network of accomplished professionals, which accelerates the process and provides additional clarity.
How Coaching Can Be of Service to You
Life coaching can be especially impactful in the following situations
We start with the complimentary 35-minute Discovery Call.We’ll talk about where you are now and your goals and aspirations for the life you want to lead and love.
Connect here for a 35-minute complimentary Discovery Call to collaborate on moving your life in a different direction which aligns with your sense of purpose, restores meaning, renews connection and revives your experience of well-being. Love The Life You Live!
My Story
Maria Storms Armstrong — Helping You Find Transformation Guided By My Expertise and Life Experience
Coaching is my life’s calling, avocation and profession. Coaching is how I harness the drive to be of service.
The positive results I help my clients achieve stem from my training, my lived experience and commensurate empathy…which informs my ability to take a deep dive to reclaim the root of beliefs, seek solutions and action life changing plans.
I’m a successful woman professional, mother, and wife to a military Purple Heart combat veteran. I work in male-dominated industries requiring elite athletic performance and adept/evolved coaching skills.
I created an innovative coaching method that’s helping people achieve the results they want.
I believe and advocate for the human spirit. We are still here because of our essential goodness.
My lived experience, and the perspectives I’ve gained, can motivate and teach others how to thrive in the most complex and challenging circumstances.
Informing my life coaching is my experience coaching seven sports, beginning in 7th grade. Outdoors and indoors, I’m recognized as an accessible coach who inspires growth and transformation by providing a safe space for my clients to investigate their reality and to take ownership of implementing their dreams, ideas and goals.
A history major at Princeton University and graduate of Newfield Network Coaching program, I understand how each person can tap into their own rich history to inform the present. Understanding one’s own role, taking inventory of talents and identifying opportunities to use them, fosters the change you desire.
Service is particularly important to me. Being of service is mindful that intentionality generates results with impact. The more agilely one shifts mindset as a matter of being of service, the quicker one harnesses the power to manifest desired results.
Managing the inherent risk of being a lifelong athlete and coach– I’ve played, competed or participated in more than twenty sports – informs my entrepreneurial skill set. I have founded three LLC’s. I accomplished this while taking care of my aging parents and raising two daughters who now pursue their own careers after achieving advanced university degrees.
I’m a trainer and ski instructor with the Ski and Snowboard Schools of Aspen/Snowmass. I’m also a bike coach with the Snowmass Bike School and non-profit organization, Roaring Fork Cycling. My guests – young, old and eternally youthful – come from all walks of life and have the goal of doing extraordinary things. They are world leaders, international business magnates, military veterans, caregivers, women’s professional organizations, three-generation families, my colleagues, and including neurotypical and neurodiverse demographics.
I’m also a writer, musician and youth and professional mentor.
I’ve made significant personal and professional changes in my life and successfully recovered from major injuries. I’ve lived the same life as my clients…many times over.
what’s your story?
Client Testimonials
Don’t take our word for it – here’s what our clients say:
Evan Zsislis
Carbondale, Colorado
Clutter Free Revolution
“The dynamic combination of Maria’s professional training, life experience, and cross-industry applications of best-practice coaching standards makes her a well-rounded, skillful practitioner. Highly recommended.”
Heather Vesey
Aspen, Colorado
“Maria is an attentive listener who has a way of identifying key issues and giving very practical advice and suggestions.”
Let’s connect and forge the path to your new life.
It all starts with a conversation. Make the first step by calling or emailing me to schedule your complimentary 30-minute coaching session.
