Coach Morgan Hendrix
Word Finding + Thinking Together
Ghost writing is an honor. Whether a client is open about having a Wild + Brave writing team at their back, or my words go to live quietly under someone else’s name; helping someone express the wild ideas in their life is a privilege.
Maybe my nerd is showing… but I believe not having rich words for our experience means not richly living our experience. Finding the words helps us inhabit the present, savor the past, and engage the future. It changes what you are prepared to do with the days left in your life. Writing well, or communicating effectively is not just about advancing our careers or helping others past the gauntlets we’ve conquered. We need to find words in order to savor, metabolize, and embody our own lives.
For more than a decade as a full time thinking partner, I most often helped people find their words in coaching conversations. Working as a coach has taught me much about how we find our words. In recent years, I’ve begun to work as a wordfinder outside of coaching sessions, helping Wild + Brave humans write words that matter to them.
Sometimes I write funny email messages for clients; others I ask impertinent questions and take technicolor notes on my gang of white boards, pulling out the story of someone’s life until the lesson they have discovered emerges. Sometimes I help someone plan who they want to be on social media and sketch a way to live with authenticity in the digital platforms where anything goes and so little stands out. I work with non-fiction authors to help them organize their ideas and prepare them to reach the people who need (and are willing to pay for) them. I work with fiction writers to translate the creative product of their written world into a reader-oriented welcome that helps new fans find them.
In 2020 I experienced a sudden onset of a hearing disability called hyperacusis. The change has narrowed my brain’s bandwidth for normal sounds, giving me SUPER hearing. Learning how to live with chronic pain, heal the panic disorder my disability has caused, and build new friendships in a world that has become too loud for me has made me grateful I’ve spent my life wordfinding.
In 2023 I published Think Wild, a book built of twelve mental growth tactics I've used to engage life and navigate the challenges we all face to our ability to focus, enjoy life, and be fullfiled by what we do every day.
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Think Wild
Mental Growth Tactics for Brave Humans
We all experience life through the windows of our minds. Feeling connected, inspired, and satisfied with life depends on how well we can see and capture the world using our mental faculties. Professional success and creative productivity demand that we see the world around us clearly yet imagine new ways to engage reality every day. How we think in this moment can set off cascades of courage, confidence, and authentic energy for life—especially when we Think Wild.
Learn twelve mental growth tactics to use the brain's innate functions to overcome anxiety and distraction, leverage stress for health and success, enjoy life, improve memory and wisdom, and get more done with confidence and flow. Written by a professional life and business coach, this tactical guide is engineered for action. Play with the ideas in this book. They will strengthen your mental muscles for engaging life’s joys and challenges with your most present, resilient self.
Wild + Brave Ambassador
As a Wild + Brave Ambassador, I get to travel and try new things with people! Untraining experiences, Wild + Brave Meetups, and virtual connection experiences are a few of the ways that my team and I maximize our time and stay in touch with the Wild + Brave Community across the globe!
Over the last year, we have truly transitioned to a virtual model that lets us coach, train, and speak virtually, as well as given us the freedom to travel to different events and trainings so that we can be on-site.
Wherever I am in the world...
Stay Connected, Wherever I Am
Wherever in the world I am, I stay in touch with my Wild + Brave friends by email. Even camping in the remotest of campsites in extra wild National Parks I can always wrangle the 30 seconds of connectivity it takes to email out some inspiration and share the Wild Idea I'm chewing on.
Sometimes I'm digesting new research from the science of Positive Psychology and turning it into a simple Challenge we can do in just 5 minutes. If you're in my Wild + Brave Inner Circle, I'll share these easy-to-use snippits of science with you.
I use some simple tech to make this possible even when I'm on the road, so help me out by joining my email list in this form. That way I can get an inspiring thought out to you from anywhere. (If you're an adventurer and you want help doing this too, book a spot in my Free Coaching calendar and we can have a virtual cup of coffee and share secrets.)
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Blogs & Videos
Become Time Rich
I’ve been thinking about time wealth a lot lately. Some thinkers who talk about escaping time poverty seem to do so with an undeniable flavor of privilege. They leave us thinking we have to achieve a certain level of affluence and power so we can make choices that protect our time, often by trading part…
Make it Easier to Do Your Work
Make it Easier to Do Your Work (LIVE Replay) Join Coach @MorganHendrix LIVE to learn how to identify and escape the chaos that can arise when planning is interrupted by doing. We'll also leverage our brain’s "central executive" to help us prioritize and organize our workload. We'll use some practical techniques to make doing –…
May You Be Free to Focus on What matters
Happy October! I say we start out this new month — this final quarter of 2024 with a wild and brave wish: 💫 May You be Free to Focus on What Matters. Wherever we’re at, whatever is going on, we have things to do. Relationships, careers, passion projects — they all take…
Spotlight on Creativity
💡 Definition of the Character Strength of Creativity: ”Thinking of novel and productive ways to conceptualize and do things; includes artistic achievement but is not limited to it.” (From the VIA Institute on Character)
Spotlight on Love of Learning
💡 Definition of the Character Strength Love of Learning: ”Mastering new skills, topics, and bodies of knowledge, whether on one’s own or formally; related to the strength of curiosity but goes beyond it to describe the tendency to add systematically to what one knows.” (From the VIA Institute on Character)
Spotlight on Judgment
💡 Definition of the Character Strength of Judgment: ”Thinking things through and examining them from all sides; not jumping to conclusions; being able to change one’s mind in light of evidence; weighing all evidence fairly.” (From the VIA Institute on Character)
Spotlight on Curiosity
💡 Definition of the Character Strength of Curiosity: ”Taking an interest in ongoing experience for its own sake; finding subjects and topics fascinating; exploring and discovering.” (From the VIA Institute on Character) Intervention / Actions: Overuse & Balancing Strengths: Quotes that have to do with Curiosity:
Emotions are Temporary Messengers
Your emotions are like an iconic crime family. Full of colorful characters with quirks. They’re connected by gossip and often travel with a posse. How you deal with one of them impacts how all the rest of them treat you. Sadness visits and you leave them on the doorstep? Happiness will snub you after a…
4 Kinds of Hyperacusis
What is Hyperacusis? As someone living with hyperacusis, I’m vulnerable to seeing the condition through my own lens. So let’s start with the way The Hearing Health Foundation defines hyperacusis: 📖 Hyperacusis is a debilitating disorder of sound tolerance, where even ordinary, everyday sounds are perceived as abnormally loud and sometimes excruciatingly painful. In some…
Use Your Character Strengths to Feel Better
My head feels like a ball of raw meat, aching from a beating, oozing blood from my ears. You wouldn’t know it to look at me, but my brain feels like an open wound. Hyperacusis can be…unpleasant. I haven’t had a high sensory pain day like this for months. There is no convenient day to…
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