Early sparks
Hi, my name is Marco van Laerhoven.
I’ve been a seeker for as long as I can remember.
At nine I read Jonathan Livingston Seagull and felt a flutter of recognition - there had to be more than flying in circles, searching for food.
In my thirties Anthony Robbins introduced me to NLP and I leapt in: practitioner, then master-practitioner, then coach.
I loved modelling brilliant minds, fixing bottlenecks, optimising systems.
A start-up followed; our small team helped finance and automotive giants transform their processes.
On paper life looked great.
Yet somewhere inside the spreadsheets and success metrics, I noticed an odd emptiness:
I could describe our growth curve, but not how I felt about it.
My days revolved around preventing problems for everyone else, quietly hoping someone would solve the ones inside me.
That dissonance sent me inward.
With radical honesty I asked: Which challenges are truly mine to face, and which belong elsewhere?
Naming that line, "what’s mine, what’s not", re-lit the inner compass I had sensed back at nine.
Today, that compass guides my coaching.
I don’t hand out fixes; I hold steady space so you can hear your own signals, claim what’s yours, and let the rest go.
Because real freedom isn’t about perfect systems - it’s about coming home to yourself.
