I grew up in an affluent household in Northern Virginia. My father was a Super Bowl Champion for the Washington Commanders and my mother oscillated between being a stay at home mom and a top ranked real estate agent. I grew up thinking that because my immediate family had money, fame, and status that I was nurtured in a conscious environment. Don’t get me wrong, I was grateful for the financial abundance I experienced in my upbringing but realize it came at the cost of emotional connection, disassociation, and inconsistently modeling of integrity, responsibility, and truth. I lived life until my early 30’s believing that I was destined to be representative of the lifestyle I learned - accomplished on the outside while tormented internally. Upon graduation I had one singular mindset that shaped the next decade years of my life, “how do I make as much money as possible”. This culminated in me living in my dream location at the time, New York City, making my dream multi-six figure income, and having a dream lifestyle of adventure and thrills. However, I realized shortly after reaching this state, that I felt hollow and unfulfilled. I began to resent my career in technology advisory and sales while exploring deeper questions about how I was using my time. My curiosity led me to explore different career paths that would position me for a more meaningful existence. My search led me to a conversation with a life coach and it changed the arc of my life. I had never experienced a conversation like a coaching dialogue. I could recall countless instances in my life prior of coaches telling me what to do or how I should think. I hadn’t experienced a guiding figure who had the capacity to reflect how I was showing up and hone my awareness towards the areas where I wasn’t choosing in my own life. The experience was profound; it inspired me to explore coach training programs which culminated in taking a leap of faith to invest in a five-figure coach training program. That choice was the catalyst of my awakening and choosing what it meant to be Austin Walker. Coaching reframed my relationship to masculinity, intimacy, vulnerability, and my truth. I viewed myself as fixed prior to my life in coaching, I could tell you exactly how I’d respond if encountered virtually any situation. Coaching facilitated the realization that everything in life comes with a choice. Being empowered to choose who I want to be in the world while also taking responsibility for creating an experience reflective of my truth was extraordinarily liberating. Six months after completing Accomplishment Coaching’s Coach training program, I chose to embody the next threshold of my truth and dedicate myself full-time to my emerging coaching practice. Being a coach and creating a business that is reflective of my mission for personal responsibility and leadership has been one of the greatest adventures of my life.