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
The Next 5 Strokes
To set October off on the right foot, I went exploring. Not big exploring for weeks on end, out in the middle of nowhere. But close exploring in a tiny patch of Wild Florida I hadn’t seen in my 33 years as a native. If you’re used to cities having more than 100 people in…
How to Use StrengthsFinders
Don’t let your Strengths languish on a list. Build your ability to “consistently provide near-perfect performance” with a simple Growth Formula. Watch this week’s Free Coaching Replay to learn from the StrengthsFinder 2.0 framework something you can use right where you are. What is StrengthsFinder?(aka CliftonStrengths) There are 34 Themes (what they call strengths).…
Demystifying Your Strengths
Strengths don’t come with a universal set of labels. You have unique strengths you can grow right where you are. For all the dozens of strengths tests available to us, it can still be tough to get started “living in your strengths.” But it’s amazing what happens when you stop investing time to shore up…
Cultivating Optimism to Become Resilient
Optimism isn’t being happy, or putting a positive spin on life. In fact, the scientific definition of Optimism borrowed from the field of positive psychology, has the power to transform our experience of life, and bring more resilience to every situation. The Scientific Definition of Optimism Here at Wild + Brave we keep company with…
Conquering Avoidance to Become Present
We may be able to avoid something for a while…but we can’t avoid the consequences of putting it off. Sometimes we underestimate how much energy we’re burning by avoiding stuff. The choice to “not think about it” takes energy, and we risk fallout when we leave things on the avoidance pile. This summer, since our…
Transforming Negative Environments (the easy way)
What if you could profoundly improve your environment by changing the way you handle some tiny things? Usually when an environment is toxic, negative, or stressful for any reason; we pull back. We may compartmentalize our personality, watch what we say, and try to sneak by under the radar. Or we may get on the…
Worry ≠ Love
Sometimes we hang on to destructive habits simply because we haven’t recognized that they’re hurting us. Surprisingly, worry is one of the things that we often hold onto. Even though we know it drains and distracts us, maybe even noticing that it adds to our stress and decreases our problem solving ability, we still hold…
Add Meaning to the Mundane
A Month of Being Present Kicking off the month of June, focused on being PRESENT has been a lot of fun. Since being present is a prerequisite to being able to enjoy our lives, it’s a great step toward having the summer you want. Whether peace at home, progress at work…or maybe some play on…
Why People Pay for Coaching
People Hire Coaches Every Day. But why? What can a professional coach do that a caring friend doesn’t already offer? And hiring a business coach – shouldn’t you be going to your boss for that kind of thing? We all have things happening in our lives. Some mixture of decisions that need making,…
Wild + Brave Summercast
A Forecast for the Summer We’re thrilled to announce a full calender of Wild + Brave this summer. For June, July, and August of this year, we have put together a fun lineup of free information, live coaching, and challenges to help you really embrace what summer has for you, your business, your family. Our…
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