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Like most people, for as long as you can remember, you have likely worked very hard trying to find success and happiness for yourself and to avoid pain, loss, and suffering; but what do you have to show for all those efforts?  You still experience disappointment after disappointment.  You are still subject to the sway of your emotions and you are still under the influence of an unruly mind that is constantly thinking about things that destroy your sense of peace and happiness.  You are still suffering.
Hello.  ​My name is Michael Turner.
​I used to be like you.
​Finding stable happiness to be just out of reach.
​​I used to be a successful Fortune 200 Californian businessperson and Board member living in Manhattan; an angry one, an impatient one, and a frustrated one.  Despite my intelligence and hard work, and despite my professional achievements and financial success, I suffered greatly on the inside as a result of my unskilful ways and my self-defeating approaches to other people and to my problems.

I spent years working with therapists and professionals trying to overcome the behaviours, habits, and thoughts that got in the way of my happiness, but their methods and systems just didn't work for me.  So, I found a better way — a practical philosophical approach that actually works and one that offers genuine and measurable results.  I became calmer, kinder, and happier; and then I became a "formerly angry business person" who experienced unbridled professional success, emotional resilience, and unshakeable happiness despite living in an increasingly angrier and more intolerant and divided world; and now, I guide people in recognising and overcoming the personal obstacles that get in the way of their success and happiness.

These days I am a highly-respected and sought-after Buddhism teacher and trainer, yet I remain available as a powerfully transformative personal coach and professional development expert for those who don't specifically identify with Buddhism but find themselves keenly interested in mindful living and experiencing contentment, yet struggle in their efforts to genuinely cultivate a more peaceful, harmonious, and joyful co-existence with themselves and others.
The people I work with generally aren't looking for "life" coaching.
They know what they want to do with their lives.
But their goals continue to be just out of reach.
​Like those who seek out personal fitness trainers or professional golf pros to help them step up their game, the skills and benefit that I offer are in working with those who are looking to level-up by overcoming the negative thoughts, unwanted habits, and harmful behaviours that get in the way and have been holding them back from the level of success and happiness that they work so hard to experience.

Much of what I do can be considered cognitive behavioural coaching, which is a discussion-based coaching framework focused on leveraging the neuroplasticity of your brain; understanding and restructuring how your thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes affect your feelings and actions.  ​Together we will help you develop real skills and strengths to finally master and overcome your problems and frustrations.

In that capacity, we will work together to:
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  • Identify the often hidden root-cause of your stress, which fuels the steady and unshakeable undercurrent of discontentment or "wanting" that you feel;
  • Learn practical techniques to overcome the problems and challenges that keep you from the wellspring of happiness and general sense of safety which already exists within you;
  • Learn, leverage, and integrate a traditionally mindfulness-based approach to everyday stress-reduction, resilience, and problem-management;
  • Explore ways to more deeply integrate self-compassion into your day-to-day life and into your interactions with friends, family, and colleagues.​
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​What can you expect in your time with me?
​​Progress.  Real and measurable progress!
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Deeply insightful discussions with a focus on directing your thoughts toward cultivating the views, skills, and practices that lead toward actual progress in your desire for resilience, contentment, and inner-peace in face of life's stressors.

  • ​Insightful, shrewd, and logical decision-making support.
  • Working with (and through) your real-life problems and interactions with others as a platform for your recovery, growth, and mastery.

Practical mind training to develop your internal sources of happiness, flexibility, and a stable sense of well-being.

  • Recognising that "happiness" and "contentment" are not personality traits, but are skills that can be learned, cultivated, and even mastered.
  • ​Integrating the techniques, tools, and practices for day-to-day practical application of mindfulness in every day life.
  • Correctly reframing the internal narratives that cause you so much unhappiness and dissatisfaction.
  • ​Working your way past and beyond your negative, critical, and judgemental thinking patterns that cause you (and others around you) so much suffering.
  • Reducing, and then eliminating, your habitual self-limiting thoughts that narrow the perspective of your innate abilities to grow, succeed, and be happy.
  • ​Overcoming the stress of being a perfectionist or an over-committed caretaker.

Learning how to mindfully use technology in a technologically-saturated world.

  • ​Using technology to make progress toward physical ease and peace-of-mind rather than away from it.
  • Making room for greater work-life balance in an increasingly more achievement-oriented and burnout work culture.

An approach to learning how to be content and present in everyday life, regardless of your conditions, situations, environments, or interactions with others.

  • Recognising the habits that negatively affect your moods and create stress, worry, depression, frustration, and insecurity.
  • Taming anger, impatience, fear, conflict, anxiety, self-doubt, anguish, harsh self-talk, and physical pain; in addition to all other forms of day-to-day irritations, aggravations, and obstacles.
  • Learning how to work with and around difficult people who push your buttons and test your capacity to be patient, calm, and understanding.
  • Improving your relationships with others and setting boundaries that support mutual harmony, trust, and communication.
  • ​Working through quality-of-life altering personal issues such as isolation and end-of-life concerns.​

And finally, we will work on starting or leveraging a basic meditation practice; introducing the benefits of Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) into your daily life to reduce your stress and to increase your general sense of peace and safety.
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​What I offer is special, transformative, and difficult to find. 
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Additional Coaching Skills
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With me, you get access to a thoughtful and genuinely gifted INTP Expert Generalist who can provide you with life-improving and even life-changing advice and guidance in numerous areas of work, love, and life that can enhance the overall quality of your experience of living and being alive.
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Work and Career
  • ​Career and Success Coaching — In addition to everything else, I am also a former Boards member and Fortune 200 businessperson and I have been successfully advising people at all levels and walks-of-life for more than 20 years, helping them find and tap into the successful person hidden within themselves to level up their career paths, navigate the competitive web of workplace gamesmanship, and achieve greater heights and accomplishments than they ever imagined possible.
  • Digital Nomad and Expat Coaching — Over the course of my 30+ year business career, I have lived in over 35 cities, in more than a dozen countries in Europe and North America; I have guided and coached hundreds of people on the ins-and-outs of launching a successful expat life covering everything from managing logistics and finances, balancing life and work, getting ahead of social and psychological considerations, adjusting to new customs and cultures, and everything in-between.
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Relationships
  • Relationship Coaching — Reviewing difficult and unwanted situations and interactions that you find yourself in with others to help you fortify, improve, repair, or restore your relationship with your partner, spouse, family, friends, colleagues, managers, employees, neighbours, and loved ones.  This is about reframing unhelpful narratives, creating healthy boundaries, not over-committing yourself, and realising when you are sacrificing your happiness (or someone else's happiness) in ways that do more harm than good.  It's also about understanding when you may be wrong, or when to stop defending or "being right" when you could otherwise cultivate harmonious compromise, and how to do that without feeling a sense of loss, embarrassment, or shame.  This may also mean learning skilful ways to distance yourself, or even ending, toxic and unhealthy relationships and how to do that safely and compassionately.
  • Buddhist Counselling — I offer Buddhism-based guidance for individuals and couples who are specifically looking to better leverage their Buddhist or mindfulness practices and genuinely integrate and apply those lovingly-kind and compassionately-present techniques into their daily lives to address the many real-world problems and challenges that get in the way of their peace-of-mind, happiness, and sense of safety and contentment.
I have been providing deep, insightful, and course-corrective personal coaching and professional development to individuals and couples for more than 20 years, however, I am not a psychiatrist or clinical mental health worker.  ​If you need immediate support, please call the National Suicide Prevention Hotline at +1 800-273-8255.

​Personal Coaching and Professional Development Packages
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​In my capacity as a Buddhist, I am strictly donation-based, so those participating in life coaching and development sessions are encouraged to provide donations that fall into the range of what you would commonly pay a therapist.  The donations that I receive directly make it possible for me to dedicate the balance of my time as a pro bono teacher, mentor, and counsellor to people in genuine need of my compassion, care, and support.

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​Eight-week Package for $2250
  • ​an initial consultation call to discuss goals for our work together
  • ​includes 8 weekly sessions
  • One-on-one 60-minute sessions​
  • one session every week
  • highly personalised problem-solving, coaching, and training
  • Direct access to a highly-accomplished and intuitive advisor and coach​

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Twelve-week Package for $3000
  • an initial consultation call to discuss goals for our work together​
  • includes 12 weekly sessions​
  • One-on-one 60-minute sessions​
  • one session every week
  • highly personalised problem-solving, coaching, and training
  • ​Direct access to a highly-accomplished and intuitive advisor and coach​​

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​Eight-week Deluxe Package for $4000
  • ​an initial consultation call to discuss goals for our work together
  • ​includes 16 bi-weekly sessions
  • One-on-one 60-minute sessions​
  • two sessions every week
  • highly personalised problem-solving, coaching, and training
  • Direct access to a highly-accomplished and intuitive advisor and coach​ ​
  • In-between session support via email or Whatsapp upon request


Twelve-week Deluxe Package for $5600
  • an initial consultation call to discuss goals for our work together​
  • ​includes 24 bi-weekly sessions
  • One-on-one 60-minute sessions​
  • two sessions every week
  • highly personalised problem-solving, coaching, and training
  • ​Direct access to a highly-accomplished and intuitive advisor and coach​​
  • In-between session support via email or Whatsapp upon request
À La Carte 75-minute Personal Coaching Sessions Available for $300
​Give yourself the gift of clarity and direction with a professional coaching session.

​These are Problem-Solution focused single sessions intended to guide you through a specific issue, helping you gather information, perspective, and guidance to get you over the hurdle and back on the road to well-being.
Includes:
  • an initial staging call to establish the foundation for success
  • the help you need to overcome your specific problem now, not sometime in the future, but now with a targeted one-on-one 75-minute session
  • a 15-minute follow-up session to discuss/review results and additional next steps
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Client Testimonials
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"I have been working with Michael for a while now and I have to say that the experience has been absolutely amazing. He has been my anchor in tough times, and the source of the inspiration and clarity that I needed in order to move forward and excel."

— Steve Mantel, Software Developer

"I have been blessed to know Michael for over 20 years, and his guidance, teachings, and influence have had profound impacts on my life, my career, and my success. He is a true treasure, and I cannot recommend him highly enough."

— ​Chris Miller, Senior IT Leader
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"Michael's advice and guidance has affected my life in so many ways that it's impossible to list them all.  Recently his advice and guidance at work has resulted in me getting a promotion to Vice President and a $35,000 raise!  I can't recommend him enough!  He's worth every penny that I have ever given him and then some!"

​— Scott Smith, Corporate Sales Leader
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