Helping You Live Your Best Life
There’s usually something specific that brings someone to coaching. A career that no longer fits. A pattern that keeps repeating no matter how hard you try to break it. A quiet but persistent sense that you’re capable of more — or that somewhere along the way, you lost the thread of who you actually are.
Sometimes it’s all of the above.
Whatever brought you here, the work is the same: getting honest about what’s actually going on, understanding what’s been getting in the way, and building the clarity and confidence to move toward something better. Not someone else’s version of better. Yours.
I’m Guy Reichard — life and leadership coach, based in Toronto, working with clients across Canada and North America. I’ve been doing this work since 2009, with over 4,500 hours of coaching behind me. And I can tell you with confidence: the people who benefit most from coaching aren’t the ones who have it all figured out. They’re the ones who are finally ready to stop going it alone.
Who This Work Is For
People come to coaching for all kinds of reasons. What they tend to have in common is that they’re intelligent, self-aware, and working hard — and something still isn’t working the way they want it to.
Some are stuck and know it. Some are successful by every external measure and still feel empty or off-track. Some are in the middle of a transition — career, relationship, identity — and need a grounded partner to think it through with. Some have tried other approaches and found that strategy and willpower alone don’t reach the root of what’s going on.
If any of that sounds familiar, keep reading.
Why Get a Coach?
The table below maps some of the most common situations that bring people to coaching — and what the work actually makes possible. Find the ones that resonate for you.
Themes | Reasons to Get a Coach | How Coaches Help |
|---|---|---|
| Breakthroughs | You feel stuck, stifled or even imprisoned in your life right now | Break through the barriers to personal happiness and get in flow with life again |
| Confiding | You feel like you’re alone with your problems and can’t talk to anybody or that no one can help | Have someone actively listen to you with compassion but without judgment or attachment and help you create your own solutions |
| Self Discovery | You don’t have a goal right now or know what you really want but you know something must change | Help you discover who you really are and what changes will make the biggest impact on your life |
| Life Purpose | You feel like your life got away from you and has little purpose or meaning even though you may be successful in everyone else’s eyes | Discover your true purpose and learn ways to infuse your life with rich meaning and fulfillment |
| Becoming You | You feel like you lost yourself somewhere along the way | Find or reinvent yourself so you can become the person you always wanted to be (that is who you truly are) |
| Career Change | You don’t like or you may even hate your job or career but feel stuck and without any choices or new paths to pursue | Help you apply your true purpose and the unique strengths & gifts you have so you can build a plan to change career paths or simply enjoy the career you have a lot more |
| Life Balance | You find it hard to cope with life’s demands and obligations | Learn new and more effective ways to cope with stress and how to balance your priorities |
| Keeping Commitments | You know what you need to do but you struggle with making decisions &/or commitments | Help you make values-based decisions and powerful commitments that you keep |
| Emotional Resilience | You feel overwhelmed, burned out, confused, depleted or anxious but aren’t sure why | Understand your emotions and learn effective ways to restore your natural resilience, keep yourself feeling clear, confident and at peace |
| Relationships | Your relationships are not satisfying or are in severe turmoil | Take responsibility for your half of the relationship and bring your best self and new approaches to improving your relationships |
| Reconnecting with Your Spirit | You feel like you have no emotion left, empty or unfulfilled | Get in touch with your spirit and fully appreciate and enjoy the true gifts your that come from living from the heart |
| Inner Critic | Mental Monsters & other self-critical, painful patterns draining you | Teach you methods that work to manage your mind & do what matters |
What This Work Actually Does
Good coaching doesn’t motivate you or push you toward someone else’s idea of success. It helps you get clearer on what genuinely matters to you, understand what’s been getting in your way, and build the self-trust to act on that clarity — consistently, not just when conditions are perfect.
Your coaching path is completely personalized. We start with whatever brought you here — the goal you’re after, the pattern you want to break, the question you can’t stop asking. From there, the work goes wherever it needs to go. No cookie-cutter program. No predetermined destination. Just a rigorous, honest, heart-centered process designed entirely around you.
Sessions are typically held by phone or video — I work with clients across Canada and North America. In-person sessions are available in the Toronto area.
Where I Am Today
Over the years, my coaching work has deepened considerably — in its frameworks, its psychological grounding, and its understanding of what lasting change actually requires. That evolution lives at [HeartRich.ca] — my primary coaching practice, where I work with high-achieving individuals through Self Leadership Coaching, Executive Coaching, Resilience Coaching, and Values-Guided Life Coaching.
If what you’ve read here resonates and you want to explore the fuller depth of this work, I’d encourage you to visit HeartRich. The approach is more developed, the framework is richer, and the work goes deeper.
If you’re ready to have a conversation either way, I’d love to hear from you. Come visit me at HeartRich.ca/life-coaching/
Guy Reichard, MBA, ACPC, MCC-Candidate
This work has a new home
My coaching work has evolved considerably since this was written. The frameworks, tools, and books I now use with clients live at HeartRich.ca — a growing ecosystem for Self Leadership, resilience, values, and authentic living.
If you’re curious to learn what I’m up to these days, here’s where to go next:
- → HeartRich.ca — the full framework: Self Leadership, resilience, values, Inner Crews
- → HowToTalkAmongstYourSelves.com — a beginner’s guide to your inner world and the parts running the show
- → TheHeartOfValues.com — a guide to clarifying and living your authentic values
- → FindMyValues.com — a free in-depth values clarification resource, no sign-up required
— Guy Reichard · Self Leadership, Resilience & Executive Coach · HeartRich.ca
