Conversation with Nate on the podcast was very meaningful and super entertaining. We had a lot of fun talking about being your true self. He is very passionate about helping people and trying to help them go in the right direction in their lives. Nathan Andres, M.A., is a coach, LGBTQ activist, business leader, and best-selling author. The drive for Nate is to authentically serve others, and he developed into a love of helping people, ultimately leading to a career in Human Resources where he spent over two decades. Nate knows his life purpose is to be a light, building authenticity and resilience in others. Nate lived and traveled around the world to explore his mission to show people the way through their struggles and teach them how to care for their whole person. Though he only started developing the REAL model in adulthood, his friends and family supported him and told him that he had been coaching his whole life.

A believer in life-long learning and specialist in career reinvention, Nate first earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Marquette University in 1995. He is a 2004 graduate of New York University’s Human Resource Management Graduate Diploma program. In 2015, Nate became a Certified Professional and Executive Coach through ICF and earned a Masters of Arts in Coaching, Learning & Development from Middlesex University, London in 2017. He is a member in good standing of the ICF - International Coaching Federation. Nate is a Columbus, Ohio (USA) native. Nate is truly a global citizen. He has traveled extensively around the world for business and pleasure. He is a popular public and online speaker, having engaged audiences across four continents. Currently residing between Washington D.C. and Singapore, Nathan has been based in Asia-Pacific for nearly 20 years; he lived twice in Tokyo, Japan, and holds a permanent residency card in Hong Kong. Nathan is a four-time marathon finisher and enjoys tennis, yoga, strength training, meditation, and movies. He is an avid well-being & LGBTQ activist contributing to causes around the world. When off duty, Nathan and his husband spend endless hours playing with their dogs, Vivi & Coco. He decided to write a book called "Your Real Life" Get Authentic, Be Resilient & Make It Count. This book is a Multi-Award winning book. Nate and his best-selling book have made it on many platforms. This book about - Your REAL Life introduces the REAL model, a practical framework for coaching yourself through adversity of any scale. Using the anchors of reality, energy, authenticity, and love, Nathan breaks down the key ingredient to beating anything life throws at you: authentic resilience. Grounded with psychology and basic neuroscience as well as best practices in the coaching field, Your Real Life teaches you everything you need to know to build authentic resilience. When you get REAL, you don’t just bounce back from hardship—you bounce beyond it.

If you want to purchase the book go to https://geni.us/yourreallife or if you want to know more about Nathan Andres go to his website at https://www.nathanandres.com/ you can also follow on social media at Instagram https://www.instagram.com/nathanandres_coach/ or LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/nyandres/ if you want an interview, please contact Zach Heitling at [email protected]

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