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
Active Constructive Responding
I didn’t invent most of the communication techniques I have become “known” to my clients for helping them learn. ButResearch I’ve come to believe it’s a colossal waste of time to try to define things as “my process” or “my techniques.” In any thinking partnership, ownership of ideas is fuzzy at best, counterproductive at worst.…
Sharing Needles
Sharing Needles Today I’m laid back in a lazy boy, sharing needles with half a dozen other humans at my local community acupuncture clinic. Each of us in our butt palaces, drawn up around a circle, with a doctor of Chinese medicine floating counter clockwise to put needles into us. I will look like…
We Get Better at Asking for Help
Relationship Patterns Aren’t Fixed This week has taught me something that is quietly helpful; we get better at asking for help over time. I don’t know who my dad borrowed the wild idea from, but as a teenager I remember him telling me “Morgan, the quality of your life will be determined by the questions…
Living Gamefully
Living Gamefully One of my best allies lately in my own personal growth journey has been Dr. Jane McGonigal. I was 34 when I suddenly acquired a sensory disorder. Something changed in my brain, and I have battled crippling auditory issues for what seems like no reason. In the 18 months since, I’ve had my…
Hard to Help
I’ve been hard to help lately. Has that ever happened to you? You don’t mean to be a martyr and hog all the hard stuff. It’s not that you’re a perfectionist (maybe), or that you have energy to spare (who does). Maybe it starts because you’re a helper. You’re not against receiving help so much…
Tools We Use (and Recommend)
We’re Not Big Affiliates One thing you’ll learn quickly about Wild + Brave is that we don’t use Amazon affiliate marketing as a part of our business model. We don’t like the idea that our recommendations and examples could become self-serving. We don’t want to profit from purchases you make for everyday items. We…
Why I’m Not an Amazon Affiliate Anymore
Why I’m Not an Amazon Affiliate Anymore Lots of coaches and consultants support their revenue model by getting a tiny percentage of the sales they refer over to Amazon. In fact there was a time when we did it too. But then it felt weird. If you know me as a friend,…
Automations + Tech Hacks for Better Sleep
Automations + Tech Hacks for Sleeping + Waking: This week I reflected on how much better my physical energy, mental clarity, and emotional flexibility is when I’m sleeping and waking on a steady schedule, directed by light. When I’m camping, I can get away with letting the sun schedule my sleep and wake times.…
Living by Light
Living by Light Whenever I’m camping, I fall into the rhythm of sunset and sunrise. The natural bedtime grows in the space allowed by putting my phone to bed and listening to the chatter of the wild. As sleep settles in a rhythm, the waking follows with ease, carried on the glow of sunrise. …
Dead Tired, Avoiding Sleep (Tinnitus Journal)
Dead Tired, Avoiding Sleep (Tinnitus at Bedtime) From Coach Morgan’s Tinnitus Journal, Written November 10, 2021 I don’t talk about my tinnitus a lot in this blog. Mostly because I’m still trying not to think about it. As my audiologist says, “if you think about your tinnitus, you’ve already lost.” (No really, he…
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