Helping Kids and Teens Grow the Courage to Venture Something
...and the Confidence to do Anything!

At the end of the day, we just want our kids to be
HAPPY (and so do they)

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If you're losing sleep about the following, you're not alone…

  • Your child’s lack of motivation
  • Your child’s anxiety and fears
  • Your child’s obsession with what their peers think
  • Your child’s lack of self esteem or self worth
  • Your strained relationship with your child or teen
  • Your child’s decision making process

If you're losing sleep about the following, you're not alone…

  • What others are saying and thinking about you
  • Feeling anxious, sad, lost or isolated
  • Your relationships with peers
  • Social comparisons
  • Feeling unmotivated and behind
  • School and college admissions

BOOK A CALL and Let’s GET Your Kid a Kickass Coach!

We shouldn’t have to wait until we are adults to learn personal development skills

and mindset tools that can make or break our levels of happiness, contentment, and confidence!

If you wish you had a non-judgemental psychologically safe place for your child to grow and develop...
You’ve landed in the PERFECT place.

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WHAT IS YOUTH RESILIENCE LIFE COACHING?

  • Coaching is a non-directive, person-centered, strength-based approach to achieving meaningful goals
  • Coaching emphasizes autonomy, voice and choice
  • Coaching allows for exploration of insight and direction in a non-judgemental environment
  • Coaching provides a non judgemental space to develop self confidence and create independence in
    problem solving, goal-setting and taking action

We Address:

  • Building confidence and courage
  • Feeling stuck and lacking motivation
  • Unlocking potential
  • Finding passions and purpose
  • Building a growth mindset
  • Decreasing fear, anxiety and angst
  • Comparison and lack of self worth from
    influences like social media

Evidence-based Tools We Use:

  • Personal discovery and assessments
  • Neuro Linguistic Programming/Visualization
  • Personal story-telling
  • Client-directed action-plans
  • Measurable goal-setting

Our Testimonials

Irene Chung

18 year old high school senior.

"Amy provided insightful feedback on business operations and targeted other issues such as branding and interpersonal concerns applicable to a wide range of real-life events. I'm grateful I got this opportunity to be mentored by a well-established business strategist and coach like Amy. This experience gave me MORE confidence with business operations, team management and how to approach problems."

Olivia jin

18 year old high school senior.

"I loved working with Amy! Her insight and experiences have taught us SO much about what to do moving forward. It has been amazing to be able to work with someone who has accomplished so much and who is willing to generously share as a mentor and coach. I feel like I have learned so much more about what it means to be a leader and stay on track for my goals."

Michelle Techel

Executive Director at Facebook

"After following Amy's journey working around the world for years, I found her messages around fear, courage and building resilience inspiring and asked her to share her story and strategies with my team at Facebook. She has had first hand experience with both survival fears and also daily fears that hold us back from our full potential. She has personally been through a terrorist attack, the total loss of a business, a near death experience with Cholera in Africa. She fuses her personal story and professional research into a toolkit which teaches us to honor our fears and use them, while productively seeking possibilities and forward momentum. She demystifies fear and gives steps for accessing courage in the midst of very hard moments."

Teresa Liljeberg

Education And Autism advocate

"Amy is a visionary/therapist/cheerleader! She has an amazing energy and her positivity is uplifting. Her confidence makes any entrepreneur jealous, because she just knows how to make it. She views individuals as a friend whom she'll nurse till they can get back to their feet, and never relent in trying to keep them on track. She's a vicious dreamer, mercilessly articulate, amazingly engaging, a muse to countless, carrying a "heart of a lion." -- I want to feel as passionate about my future as she is on mine. Thank you Amy! My baby steps have been a feat that I would gladly take again if you're cheering me on."

Executive Business Coach

Stephanie Chen

"I could have walked away a happy customer after just 3 sessions with Amy, today was our 4th. The amount of breakthroughs I had in just a few hours compared to almost an entire year's worth of agonizing self doubt and confusion was indescribable. And I hadn't been able to put myself out there entirely to "my people" because of my hesitation around my messaging. This will change everything. We did one exercise and after seeing her so expertly and thoughtfully reflect my ideas and passions into literally one sentence made me think, 'OMG, this is it. This is why I signed up with Amy'."

Natasha Sweeney

Award-Winning News Producer CBC

"These past four weeks have been the most transformative weeks I've ever had for my career. Amy's Incubator has seriously been the best positive change I've experienced in 10 years."

Cameron Kleimo

Therapist and Coach

"Prior to taking the workshop, I was spinning my wheels and feeling very frustrated. Within the first two weeks, I felt "unstuck" and had already made some forward movement, a truly transformative experience!"

Micah Logan

Founder Indigo School

I was surprised by the creativity, depth and women in the group and how people stepped up with vulnerability and passion to help one another. Now I know the spark is a small fire that will one day be released at the perfect timing."

Kimberly Valentine

Stay-at-home Mom in Transition

"The incubator was truly an amazing and eye opening experience. Amy is a wealth of knowledge and the exercises she creates are unique yet simple. She has the unique gift of creating a safe space for everyone to share and support one another. I would recommend this for EVERYONE, it was invaluable to me. The confidence and motivation I gained in just 4 weeks was incredible."

Wanda Cureri

International Security Advisor

"I cannot stress how fabulous this course is! In 4 weeks I went from a concept in my head to the courage to actually do it. I now have a business partner, setting up a company and looking for investors! Amy is inspirational and motivational and the support and help she invites from the other participants is invaluable"

Kimberly Brock

Podcast Host and Entrepreneur

'We have accomplished SO MUCH...From creating my messaging, to giving me actionable steps towards opening this business. She created all the foundational messaging, which I had such a hard time with, and I'm so grateful! I love how fast her brain comes up with stuff. I would never hesitate to recommend her."

Our Testimonials

"After following Amy’s journey working around the world for years, I found her messages around fear, courage and building resilience inspiring and asked her to share her story and strategies with my team at Facebook. She has had first hand experience with both survival fears and also daily fears that hold us back from our full potential. She has personally been through a terrorist attack, the total loss of a business, a near death experience with Cholera in Africa. She fuses her personal story and professional research into a toolkit which teaches us to honor our fears and use them, while productively seeking possibilities and forward momentum. She demystifies fear and gives steps for accessing courage in the midst of very hard moments.”

- Michelle Techel Executive Director at Facebook

"Amy is a visionary/therapist/cheerleader! She has an amazing energy and her positivity is uplifting. Her confidence makes any entrepreneur jealous, because she just knows how to make it. She views individuals as a friend whom she’ll nurse till they can get back to their feet, and never relent in trying to keep them on track. She’s a vicious dreamer, mercilessly articulate, amazingly engaging, a muse to countless, carrying a “heart of a lion.” – I want to feel as passionate about my future as she is on mine. Thank you Amy! My baby steps have been a feat that I would gladly take again if you’re cheering me on.”

- Teresa Liljeberg, education and autism advocate

"I could have walked away a happy customer after just 3 sessions with Amy, today was our 4th. The amount of breakthroughs I had in just a few hours compared to almost an entire year's worth of agonizing self doubt and confusion was indescribable. And I hadn't been able to put myself out there entirely to "my people" because of my hesitation around my messaging. This will change everything. We did one exercise and after seeing her so expertly and thoughtfully reflect my ideas and passions into literally one sentence made me think, 'OMG, this is it. This is why I signed up with Amy'."

- Stephanie Chen, Executive Business Coach

"These past four weeks have been the most transformative weeks I’ve ever had for my career. Amy’s Incubator has seriously been the best positive change I’ve experienced in 10 years.”

- Natasha Sweeney, Award-Winning News Producer CBC

"Prior to taking the workshop, I was spinning my wheels and feeling very frustrated. Within the first two weeks, I felt "unstuck" and had already made some forward movement, a truly transformative experience!”
-Cameron Kleimo, Therapist and Coach

"I was surprised by the creativity, depth and women in the group and how people stepped up with vulnerability and passion to help one another. Now I know the spark is a small fire that will one day be released at the perfect timing.”
-Micah Logan, Founder Indigo School

Our Testimonials

abhishekIrene Chung

18 year old high school senior.

"1Amy provided insightful feedback on business operations and targeted other issues such as branding and interpersonal concerns applicable to a wide range of real-life events. I'm grateful I got this opportunity to be mentored by a well-established business strategist and coach like Amy. This experience gave me MORE confidence with business operations, team management and how to approach problems."

Olivia jin

18 year old high school senior.

"Amy provided insightful feedback on business operations and targeted other issues such as branding and interpersonal concerns applicable to a wide range of real-life events. I'm grateful I got this opportunity to be mentored by a well-established business strategist and coach like Amy. This experience gave me MORE confidence with business operations, team management and how to approach problems."

Irene Chung

18 year old high school senior.

"Amy provided insightful feedback on business operations and targeted other issues such as branding and interpersonal concerns applicable to a wide range of real-life events. I'm grateful I got this opportunity to be mentored by a well-established business strategist and coach like Amy. This experience gave me MORE confidence with business operations, team management and how to approach problems."

Irene Chung

18 year old high school senior.

"Amy provided insightful feedback on business operations and targeted other issues such as branding and interpersonal concerns applicable to a wide range of real-life events. I'm grateful I got this opportunity to be mentored by a well-established business strategist and coach like Amy. This experience gave me MORE confidence with business operations, team management and how to approach problems."

Kimberly Brock

Podcast Host and Entrepreneur

"We have accomplished SO MUCH...From creating my messaging, to giving me actionable steps towards opening this business. She created all the foundational messaging, which I had such a hard time with, and I'm so grateful! I love how fast her brain comes up with stuff. I would never hesitate to recommend her."

A Bit of My Personal Story

Courage did NOT come naturally for me. But it did come. Some people have natural courage and confidence. Not me, I had to build it which is how I KNOW it can be done (and tons of scientific evidence confirms it).

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FACTS YOU SHOULD KNOW...

  • In a May 2021 Kaiser Family Foundation survey, more than a fifth of parents reported an overall worsening of their children’s mental health. Notably, children may not be experiencing diagnosable mental health conditions so much as just not doing well in a noticeable fashion.

  • CDC reports 40% of adults have had to manage their own increases in anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation, and substance abuse that is undoubtedly being passed along to kids.

  • Executive functions “predict academic outcomes more powerfully than IQ,” says Dr. Bruce Wexler, professor emeritus and senior research scientist in psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine and the founding scientist behind C8 Sciences.

  • Studies show that adolescents with high CONFIDENCE in their ability to succeed academically are found to have higher GPAs regardless of parental efficacy or income status.

  • Openness to experience matters more to the academic self efficacy at the junior high school level

  • Studies show that when we operate with a conscious awareness of our values we feel good and at peace and when we don’t we feel stressed and dissatisfaction

Get In Touch

Email: amy@amyselbach.com

DM me on Instagram at @amyselbach

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