Why HAND in HAND ThrivingSM

HAND in HAND Thriving℠ only leverages proven, research-based coaching, health, wellness, healing and longevity methodologies and is a disabled-owned & operated coaching organization

We’re skilled and experienced working with clients of all ages, types and their providers, especially people impacted by major life and medical traumas, including living with ongoing medical conditions and disabilities

Lean into HAND in HAND Thriving℠ at your life’s toughest moments and we’ll safely bridge, support, fill the gaps and guide you to where you immediately need and ultimately desire to be

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HAND in HAND Thriving℠ can help you navigate your life’s:
  • natural transitions and stages
  • holistic health, wellness, longevity
  • creating positive, mutual, interdependent relationships
  • partner selection, dating & marriage
  • first-time home buying
  • starting a family, creating your own family culture and positive family dynamics
  •  pregnancy and new parenting
  • child illness & education planning
  • return to work or school with disabilities, post life – medical trauma
  • divorce, co-parenting, single parenting
  • career – financial strategies
  • parental aging – illness – loss of loved ones
  • unexpected life challenges and trauma survival
  • PTSD healing

Your Needs. Your Goals. Your Dreams. Step by Step, HAND in HAND togetherSM

Your Needs. Your Goals. Your Dreams. Step by Step,
HAND in HAND togetherSM
Your Needs. Your Goals.
Your Dreams. Step by Step,
HAND in HAND togetherSM
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Marc's Background

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Marc was born and raised in Chicago, IL with a multi-generational, family business background and work ethic. Founded by his immigrant Grandfather, Marc’s Dad also followed in the family tradition and spent a 60+ year successful career running the family business. With Marc’s Grandfather and Dad at the helm, their family business successfully supported five generations, while intentionally using their business to help and support other immigrant and marginalized families to successfully manage their daily needs, start their own businesses, create their dream lives, for over 80 years

With entrepreneurship in his blood, Marc launched his first two entrepreneurial experiences at ages 10 – 12 years old, which led Marc to also request joining the family business at age 13 where Marc told his Dad, “I want to come and work with you”

This was Marc’s first life “watch what you wish for” learning moment, when his Dad chuckled and enthusiastically said, “Sure honey! I’ll pick you up at 5:45am on Monday morning. Be ready and outside waiting for me.”

This was the beginning of an incredible, unexpected life and career journey that neither Marc, nor his family ever could’ve imagined

After learning all aspects, operations, roles, how to develop relationships with and the varying needs of diverse people, backgrounds and personalities, step by step, Marc earned his way from the ground up within his family business over eight years

Unknowingly, Marc created what he still refers to as his “recipe for success”, which he’s employed throughout every aspect of his his personal life, relationships and career

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After graduating from The University of Illinois, Urbana – Champaign, with an Economics & Business Administration degree, Marc decided to pursue his own, independent career outside of the family business to “see what he could create for himself”

At only twenty two years old, Marc was quickly put in charge of creating & managing his company’s Fortune 500 partnerships for a national Industrial Compliance Solutions firm

Once Marc achieved many goals there, he decided to fulfill his next life dream of moving to San Francisco, CA. Without a job, nor a place to live, Marc packed up his car and with a friend’s driving help, a great big smile, excitement in his heart and the Grateful Dead playing on his stereo, Marc headed West.
San Francisco or bust!

Within one month of Marc’s arrival in San Francisco and over the next 18 years, Marc propelled himself forward into positive career experiences in the Environmental Printing, Fashion & Apparel, Technology, Luxury Custom Retail, Entrepreneurship, Transportation and Non-Profit industries, where he again held leadership roles in Strategy, Development, Partnerships and goal achievement responsibilities

In total, Marc has been a key contributor in creating hundreds of millions of dollars of organizational and life transformations for individuals, couples, families, teams and owners of small, private businesses – Global Fortune 500 companies on their personal, business and life goal achievement

As you can see, Marc’s been fortunate to enjoy a wide array of life and career experiences, which enables him to consistently create mutually beneficial, positive, trusting, lasting life, family and career relationships across diverse individuals, families and personality types

Then, by formalizing his education and professional accreditations in modern brain science, relationship psychology, numerous coaching, trauma survival, holistic health, wellness, healing and longevity modalities, Marc continues his consistent life and career resilience, transformation and what enables him to continually be a key contributor, leader, inspiration and as described by his coaches and managers, “Marc is the glue that holds our team together” 

Now in 2024, Marc’s realizing his life dream of founding HAND in HAND Thriving™, to help you more effectively navigate your life challenges and create what you need, whether you’re in acute crisis and/or your family’s journey forward thereafter

Marc intentionally created HAND in HAND Thriving™ as a fortuitous process, lifecycle and ecosystem where everyone who engages benefits from connecting together. We take a heart-first approach as our work comes from a deep place rooted in Marc’s insatiable desire to create as many bridges and drive as much positive human impact as possible

That’s why from moment one, Marc is integrating our “I see you and I care about you!” Approach©, (our “Get one, Give one” offering). Every time a client or partner purchases or financially engages us, we will provide our solutions to marginalized community members who often can’t afford, nor have accessibility to these life and family-saving resources and solutions

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Multiple Accreditations

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Coaching that empowers Your Authentic Self

At the core of our coaching work are: 

  • The Coaching Institute’s Activation Method™, Mark & Magali Peysha (Certified Life Coach)
  • The Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom’s, Positive Neuroplasticity, Dr. Rick Hanson (Certified Professional Level 2)
  • The Gottman Institute’s, Relationship Psychology, Drs. John & Julie Gottman (Certified Professional Level 2)
  • The Center for Credentialing & Education’s Board Certified Coach™
    (Additional 25 hours coaching coursework completed, certification to come)
  • BrainKanix’s Neurofeedback, Dr. Bill Scott’s BrainPaint® (100+ sessions completed)

These and many more powerful resources, tailored for your unique situation, will help you more effectively navigate your life challenges

Other mentors, training & studies:

  • Harvell Hendricks & Helen LaKelly Hunt’s, Imago Relationship Therapy
  • BKS Iyengar and Manouso Manos’ work on Yoga, Meditation, Pranayama, holistic health, wellness and longevity
  • Dr. Michael Lawton, Barrow Neurological Institute, and Dr. Lawton’s International leadership on Traumatic Brain Injury, Neurovascular and Neurosurgery
  • Pia Mellody’s work on Attachment Theory, Co-Dependence, creating mutual, interdependent relationships
  • Alice Miller’s work on healing from childhood traumas, idealizing our parents and resisting the truth about our childhood
  • Terry Real’s, Relational Life Therapy
  • Sonia Ricotti’s, Unthinkable Bounce Back program
  • Marshall B. Rosenberg’s, Non-Violent Communication
  • Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s, Art of Living Foundation, his Internationally renowned work on PTSD, trauma recovery, Yoga, Meditation, Pranayama, holistic health, wellness and longevity
  • Dr. Sean Sullivan’s, Be Your Purpose program
  • Stan Tatkin’s, Psychobiological Relationship Psychology
HAND in HAND Thriving™ can help you navigate various life, family, relationship and medical challenges like:

Unresolved Family Trauma
Narcissism
Codependence
Enmeshment
Major Medical & Life Trauma Survival
PTSD, Anxiety, Depression
Living with ongoing medical conditions and disabilities

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Proprietary Tools

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HAND in HAND Thriving™ provides you our caring, safe, flexible, supportive learning environment and hybrid individual – group coaching, personalized to your unique needs

Leveraging our:

  • Surviving to Thriving Assessments©
  • Surviving to Thriving Navigation Roadmaps© (your unique strategy)
  • Helping HAND©,  HAND in HAND’s ongoing, live (and recorded) Q&A calls and Support Group Meetings
  • Surviving – Surviving©, our dynamic, experienced, global, online support community of peers, family members, caregivers and leading providers
  • HAND in HAND Connect© can put you in contact with global leading organizations, providers, their best-in-class research and solutions
  • HAND in HAND JobDev©, HAND in HAND’s employee and employer job development solutions, connecting marginalized community members attempting to move forward in their careers with employers looking to hire super-talented professionals who are ready to drive positive impact, while honoring their needs
  • HAND in HAND Custom©, we welcome custom, private, group, destination, speaking and collaborative opportunities to drive positive human impact together (let’s discuss the possibilities available upon special request)
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HAND in HAND Thriving Solutions©

01. – 03. are a la carte
04. – 08. include all these HAND in HAND Proprietary Tools

Our Founder Marc & his Survival Story

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At the peak of Marc’s life as a young, healthy dad, husband, long-time athlete, yogi and successful business owner, Marc unexpectedly faced a random, Traumatic Brain Injury where he survived a massive, hemorrhagic stroke and life-saving brain surgery without a single prior warning sign nor symptom that left him with non-apparent, permanent disabilities

Despite this, Marc was miraculously released from the Neuro ICU five days post brain surgery with over 100 staples, mesh and titanium rods holding his head together, while he and his young family’s lives were completely blown apart and each family member was in concurrent crisis. During this critical time, they received zero rehabilitation, resources, guidance, nor support of any kind

This unexpected medical trauma forced Marc to close his treasured and growing business and instantly brought forth unexpected, holistic life challenges for he and his family

What Marc quickly learned is, just because your head blows up and you lose your career, ability to earn a living, take care of yourself, your family stability and everything as it was prior, life doesn’t slow down or cut you a break

Instead, Marc’s child then faced severe illnesses, bullying, medical and education navigation

The intensity & overwhelm of these concurrent traumas severed the final threads of his marriage and Marc found himself also navigating divorce, child custody, single and co-parenting a child with illnesses and without any co-parenting experience, skill, nor support

Throw on top, navigating multi-year under – unemployment, financial struggles, repeated medically harmful and disability related challenges in the workplace, while just trying to survive, heal, recover, take care of and keep his family whole

As Marc navigated forward, life’s natural transitions and stages brought forth parental aging, illness, and in the case of Marc’s Dad, navigating Dementia, cognitive decline and the eventual loss of his beloved Dad AND all as a recovering head trauma and brain surgery Survivor struggling to learn how to navigate forward with non-apparent, permanent disabilities and every major life pillar in concurrent trauma

For the next 10+ years, Marc was left to desperately fumble via trial and error, using his traumatized body, brain, heart and soul as his guide to determine what potential resources and support might help him improve his ability to heal, recover & have the possibility to thrive again, as he had in his life & career prior

Step by step, Marc continually pursued new resources, learned new practices and developed skills better enabling him to heal, recover, transform and more fully leverage his evolving, combination of broader life and professional skills with his Firsthand Survivor Experience to drive positive human impact 

We lend our Helping HAND© and Firsthand Survivor Experience to assure other individuals, couples and families don’t go through the unnecessary suffering and devastation Marc and his family experienced by falling through the massive gaps in the medical, disability, career-financial and everyday life processes when navigating post trauma survival
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The HAND in HAND™, Surviving to Thriving Process©

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The HAND in HAND™, Surviving to Thriving Process©

Simple. Powerful. Proven.

Simple. Powerful. Proven.

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HAND in HAND Thriving™ creates and holds space for you to develop on a personal level. We create your unique Surviving to Thriving Solution© to help you navigate your challenges at your own pace, on your own schedule, and at your desired location, supporting what works best for you

We leverage and integrate our Personal, Professional and Firsthand Survivor Experience with only leading, proven, research-based, coaching, modern brain science, relationship psychology, holistic health, wellness, healing and longevity modalities to help you develop new skills, strengthen and improve your self-confidence & decision-making

Be part of the one-of-a-kind, dynamic, experienced, global HAND in HAND Thriving™ community of supportive and caring peers, family members and industry-leading providers to better understand how to improve your daily experience

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1.) Schedule your free 30 mins Initial Consultation to help us assess and understand your current needs, desired outcome and our fit together

2.) Select your initial HAND in HAND Thriving™ solution of choice

3.) Schedule your in depth, Surviving to Thriving Assessment© to help us better understand you, your family, your current priorities and help you identify your initial goals.

You will partner with and be mentored by a credentialed, certified coach who’s professionally trained in modern brain science, relationship psychology and multiple coaching, holistic health, wellness, medical, trauma informed, PTSD and Surviving to Thriving™ healing modalities to help you thrive to your greatest possibility despite your unique fears, obstacles and limitations, while honoring your needs, goals and dreams every step of your Surviving to Thriving Journey© 

4.) We will develop your unique, Surviving to Thriving Roadmap©, your individually-curated strategy, supported by top-quality resourcing, advocating, coaching, mentoring, connections and support every step of your Surviving to Thriving Journey©

We’re highly skilled and experienced working with Survivors of all types, family members, caregivers, medical institutions and providers of people impacted by major life and medical traumas, military veterans, people and families living with medical conditions, including the top 10 deadliest illnesses (heart disease, cancer, accidents-unintentional injuries, stroke, chronic lower respiratory diseases, Alzheimers, diabetes, chronic liver disease-cirrhosis, kidney disease) and anyone needing a Helping HAND© with any aspect of your life that you may be struggling with

5.) You will get to leverage regularly occurring HAND in HAND Thriving™ Q & A calls, support group meetings, Surviving – Surviving™ global support community of peers, medical and holistic health, wellness and longevity leaders for your ongoing support, resourcing and connection needs

6.) You will partner with, be mentored and supported by our trauma Informed, certified, accredited and credentialed human coaching to ensure you, your family and team thrive to your greatest heights possible, despite your unique fears, obstacles and limitations, while honoring your needs, goals and dreams. Step by Step, HAND in HAND™ together.