Bill Baren Coaching is an organization that works with intelligent and conscious entrepreneurs who find either time, money or energy is missing from their work/life mix. Together we create prosperity by aligning their business and life so that there's more than enough money, time and energy for what's really meaningful to them.

Since 2001 we have coached hundreds of entrepreneurs, business owners and executives to success and prosperity.

Perhaps the best way to begin to describe what I do is to share the defining moment in my life that got me to where I am today. I woke up one morning in the summer of 2000 and simply couldn't get out of bed. I could no longer escape from acknowledging that I was depressed and that my life was no longer working. Though I had at one point enjoyed my career that looked incredible on paper, my heart was no longer in it. It wasn't enough that I was managing a music distribution company and was constantly around incredible music.

Do you ever wonder if your work is making a difference in the world? Or secretly admire people who create positive social or environmental impact through their business? I certainly do. After spending 10 incredible years living Europe, it changed my perspective about life and business in the US.

My career path began like that of many people, born more out of practicality than passion. Not knowing precisely what I wanted to do, I chose to major in business management, deciding that it would likely provide a good foundation for whatever I would end up doing, once I really figured out what "it" was going to be.

Before starting college, I took a strengths profiler assessment and the consistent result was that my strongest asset was in being an entrepreneur. After graduating from the University of Colorado in Boulder with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in International Affairs, I tested this theory by accepting a couple of corporate sales and training positions. While the training and experience I received was invaluable, ultimately I found that those environments, with the associated structure and limitations, stifled my creativity and independent nature.

I'm from Texas, and moved to California in 1988. Texas A&M is my alma mater, granting me a degree is History; if you're familiar with the school you'll know it's not exactly known for it's Liberal Arts departments - it's more of a math and science school. Thus began the story I made up of not fitting in to the dominant culture; my working at the college radio station only emphasized this fact. How could I make it in the structured, corporate mainstream when what I was doing didn't quite fit?

Matt enjoys helping small businesses and entrepreneurs achieve more and continues to be inspired by the success stories they share with him. After graduating from MIT, this has led him to a variety of marketing and strategy roles on both the east and west coasts.

It probably won’t come as much of a surprise if I told you that my college degree did not open the doors to my 'dream' job fresh out of school. I took temp job after temp job until one of them led me to an offer of a full time position working for an asset management firm. Not exactly where I expected to land.

Many people fear the unknown and I admit I was one of them. I didn’t like the idea of failing so I never dare to dip my toes in the water. I can say I was an expert canoeist in this sea called life. Since year 2000, I worked in various Business Process Outsourcing companies in Manila. I can say it’s a fairly lucrative job. And I was fortunate to be a part of the “big ones” here in the Philippines – the room for growth and employee benefits were robust.