“The contrast between my life today and my life when I started working with Maggie as my coach 18 months ago is so startling that I sometimes have to stop and pinch myself to make sure what's happening now is real and not a dream. Maggie was instrumental in getting me to focus on what I wanted my life to look like twelve months down the road and helping me to identify what concrete steps I needed to take to get there. Then, in our weekly conversations, she provided emotional support and continued to be a catalyst for change by nudging me to take at least one of those steps a week so that I was always making progress--progress which gave me even more incentive to keep going. Though I still make my living as a journalist, I'm now writing fiction regularly. On the basis of that work, I was accepted this summer in a competitive week-long fiction writing conference, where a literary agent I admired invited me to become his client for both my fiction and nonfiction writing. On a personal level, I have embarked on the kind of relationship I described in my original "wish list" for Maggie. So these days, when I find myself humming because I'm so joyful, I send grateful thoughts toward Santa Fe.”

- Andrea Rock (Croton-on-Hudson, NY)