We all have the potential to be heroes, not just in grand acts, but in our everyday choices.
Whether it’s overcoming personal challenges, becoming a protector for those we love, or
stepping up in our communities
If you want to become your best self, you’re already on the path. Let's clarify your mission, guide you through your challenges, and help you write your heroic story.
Notice you have 2 parts? Who said a hero's path would be easy?
And it won't be, especially as you start to grow and your previous best becomes your new baseline.
Great concept huh?
You set the limit – I am the multiplier of results.
Your coach, your trainer, your guide!
Want to know how I do it?
It’s simple but not easy. I blend ancient wisdom with modern science and practical tools, and help you chart your course to deal with life’s inevitable ups & downs.
Bad news first – you will never be exonerated from pain, hard work, and challenges.
Good news – as you learn to be antifragile and forge antifragile confidence, your high points will be higher and sweeter.
Your lows will become learning labs that you will move through and gain from, and you will learn to bounce back more quickly and stronger than ever.
I believe that every one of us can choose to be a hero - in our own specific way. Polished according to what’s important to you and growing in strength through progressive and developmental challenges. Your own unique version of the optimal version to you!
Through a coaching approach, I will help you clarify AND find your purpose, develop and install evolutionary protocols, and help you forge your heroic courage, and consistency. We work together to become the best version of yourself – the hero you already are, but even more polished, more resilient.
This approach is all about one to one work. We meet on a frequent basis, once per week is recommended, for a pre-planned number of meetings.
"Open Arena" means we will work on what you need to and let the sessions carve a natural course. Let's work on helping you evolve.
This approach provides more of a structure and works through a series of lessons and exercises to prompt your growth and evolution. We use various tools, some that are mine and some from other sources, that help us identify the core areas to work on. There will be homework in preparation for these sessions and follow up exercises for many of them.
This type of Coaching can be an easier introduction to Coaching And a hell'uv a lotta fun! It uses group activities, camaraderie, fellowship and even sweat to help drive conversations and growth. We schedule a group "field trip" of sorts and blend in fun, challenges and coaching. Hiking, kayaking, fly fishing and shooting are examples of possible activities. We are constantly looking for new ideas so if you have one let's talk about it!
This is a group meeting. There are a lot of great books to pick from! Most any book can work but these discussions are driven by some hard hitting questions designed to get you out of your head and into your heart. it's about owning your views, your shit and keeping an open mind to 1) that your views may not be what you truly believe and 2) that it's OK that others may view things differently and 3) that having real conversations can help everyone grow and evolve.
"Iron Sharpens Iron"! Group meetings are every other week for 2 hours. There is a brief check in for each member followed by the group helping any member who needs support with an issue or area of life. When a guy needs something, it is their work to do and our job to hold them accountable to doing it - NOT DOING IT FOR THEM! We challenge them to find perspective, solutions and action steps to move through the issue. And where appropriate accountability and support. These groups also provide fellowshipand an opportunity to build friendships outside the meetings.
My name is Walter Bouchard and I am a Certified Life Coach, Certified Workshop Instructor, Accredited Financial Counselor, retired financial planner, entrepreneur and lifetime learner! That is a little bit about who I am now, but I'd like to share with you a little bit how I got here...
I grew up in a small town in New England, more cows than people, and I'm not joking! I always had big dreams but didn't have the support act on them or build them. Actually, many in my life discouraged me dreaming big or reaching too high. Comments like “who do you think you are to think you could do that” or “don't get too big for your britches” were common. And there were many more.
So, I took an easy job to get out of town and joined the Marine Corps! Yes, intended as humor. The Marine Corps helped me to grow up a lot (and I needed it), helped me pay for my education and gave me my first lessons in what I call “anti-fragile confidence”. However, as young man, I confused anti-fragile with invincible. And my early adult life was a series of extremes. Very high highs and often long drawn out very low lows. At times I thought I was cursed, or even that God hated me. And honestly, at times I hated myself. But I kept trying to learn and get better. A piece here, a tool there. I just didn't know how to put them together and gain traction. Maybe you can relate to that from parts of your life?
In some of the worst points in my life, I had near death experiences (I am honestly blessed to still be alive) I ended up tens of thousands of dollars in debt, I was overweight and out of shape (physically and mentally), and seemed to move from one failed relationship to the next including a bad marriage and bitter divorce.
What I didn't realize was that the things I thought for curses or disasters were really my training ground. Forging my iron will and my anti-fragile confidence as survived and I overcame one thing after another. And I didn't realize that God or the Universe was sending me messages and messengers. It just took me a while to have sense enough to see and hear them.
Then it started to come together. I started doing the work! No, a better way to say it is DTFW – Doing The F’ing Work! I add in the strong word because it wasn't easy and many times I wanted to quit. But I didn't. I kept doing the work and my life started getting better. And when I started doing the work every day and my life started gaining traction. I found that the more things I did right (and with consistency), my life got better. And the less I did things wrong or bad things, my life got better.
Through the crucible I will call my early life I was forged and honed into the man I am today and the man I have become. I turned my life around. I built an extremely successful business in financial planning that had a positive impact on thousands of lives. I retired early and comfortably. I learned how to serve others, without sacrificing myself as a martyr. And I learned how to help others with the things that I had learned in this refining fire and in all the coursework that I took to try to help myself and heal myself.
My mission is simple, to help everyone I meet become a better version of themselves. To live with arete. My message is simple, I want to help you become the hero you have always wanted to be and knew you could be. And I have built and am building a community, a tribe of people like you and me who are focused on being the best and optimal versions of ourselves.
I live in Virginia and travel throughout the country and the world. From the proud father of two wonderful, capable and growing young adults. And I look forward to doing the work every day and enjoying life to the fullest. For as many days as I'm blessed with...
