You have a whole other LIFE to CREATE!

I help creative men navigate the challenges of midlife by transforming insight into meaningful momentum

 

Are you…

  • frustrated that on the outside everything is fine, but inside feel hollow?

  • feeling exhausted from working too hard that you can’t even create anymore?

  • convinced that you have to do it all on your own?

 

If you’re feeling some or all of these things, you may be clinging to your…

 

First-Half Script

  • An inherited storyline woven into our masculine identity that focuses on mastery over meaning.

  • A narrative that values productivity and achievement over meaning and introspection.

  • A plan that has worked well to get you here, but will not work well for your second half.

Meet Daniel

 

“This is just how life works.

This is what men do.”

 

He put his guitar in a box marked “someday.” Once in a while, he’ll open it — just enough to remember what it was like to feel the strings on his fingertips, to play songs he’d never forget, to play with bandmates, to write songs that were his own, to feel alive. He always meant to make the time, but he didn’t and he blamed himself.

Daniel acted the script life handed him. And he has a great life — a loving partner, three amazing kids, a secure job, friends, a house he’s proud of.

But underneath it all, there’s that quiet voice he doesn’t talk about: “Why am I not happy?”

Daniel followed the First-Half Script: succeed, provide, push through. There was no room for slowing down, no space for doubt, no language for sadness or emptiness. No life hacks to help him translate into words and actions how to solve this problem.

Now he’s tired, tired of living a story that no longer fits him. And deep down, he knows:

I can’t keep going like this. But what do I do?

But what if this isn’t the end of the story?

What if the discomfort you’re feeling isn’t a failure — but a turning point?

The First-Half Script got you here. It taught you how to build, push, endure.

But now it’s time to write something new.

The Second-Half Script is living—

  • in meaning, not performance.

  • in curiosity, not judgement.

  • in becoming, not just surviving.

This next chapter isn’t about doing more, it’s about coming home to the man you’ve always been underneath it all.

  • “The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”

    — Carl Jung

Rewrite your script!

I’m Dave Barnish

  • A Certified Coach from Coach Training Alliance.

  • A member of International Coaching Federation.

  • A published writer with more than 30 years experience.

  • A mid-40s man who’s living his second-half script.

 

My Services

Your next chapter begins here…

 

You've worked too hard on the first half of your life to not being your best self in the second half! 

 

 How It Works

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Click the button below to set up your FREE 30 minute Zoom session to see if we’re a good match.

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Begin the midlife quest for a more meaningful, fulfilling chapter of your life.

 
 

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