E323: Life-Changing Coaching for Relationships and Recovery

When life's challenges feel overwhelming, having the right guide can make all the difference. Meet Odie Anderson of Samaritan Coaching, whose mission of "changing the world, one life at a time" isn't just a catchphrase—it's the foundation of transformative work happening daily with his clients.

What sets Odie apart in the crowded coaching landscape is his rare combination of clinical counseling training and forward-focused coaching methodology. As he explains, this hybrid approach produces remarkable results: "Where in counseling, you could go for years and be no better at the end than at the beginning, in coaching, people take leaps and bounds in weeks and months." His specialties include helping distressed couples rebuild connection, supporting survivors of narcissistic abuse, facilitating spiritual formation, and creating personalized life plans.

Odie's journey from military service to becoming a coach wasn't accidental. After carefully selecting a Christian counseling program that allowed him to integrate his faith background with psychological principles, he launched directly into private practice. This foundation gives him an exceptional depth of understanding that many coaches lack. "Because I have experience working with real people, I'm not telling you something I think will work—I know it will work," he shares with quiet confidence born from seeing countless transformations.

Currently, Odie is developing an innovative relationship coaching app and seeking ten couples to help shape its development while improving their own relationships. He's also particularly passionate about supporting those recovering from narcissistic abuse—a mission stemming partly from his own experiences of betrayal and rebuilding. "The trials were not sent to break me, but to make me," he reflects, embodying the resilience he helps foster in clients.

Ready to prioritize your growth and healing? Connect with Odie at 772-888-1629, through his website's calendar links, or explore his "Life Reboot" and "Spirituality Unleashed" podcasts on Spotify for a glimpse of his candid, transformative approach before taking that first step toward change.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Good Neighbor Podcast, the place
where local businesses andneighbors come together.
Here's your host, Benjamin John.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Welcome back to the Good Neighbor Podcast once again
.
Hey, are you in search of acoach?
What kind of coach?
Well, I'm going to let the manexplain it to you himself.
Today, I have the pleasure ofintroducing Odie Anderson with
Samaritan Coaching.
How are you doing, Odie?

Speaker 3 (00:33):
I'm doing good, doing great.
Good, good, so do you want meto go ahead and explain?

Speaker 2 (00:40):
What's that?

Speaker 3 (00:42):
Go ahead.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Yeah, pleasure having you on on here and thanks for
making the time.
So I'm excited to have you onhere to talk more about your
business so that people canunderstand a little bit more
about your company.
So let's start at that place.
Can you tell us a little bitmore about Samaritan coaching?

Speaker 3 (00:59):
okay.
So the model, so my business,is changing the world, one life
at a time, and my specialties isdealing with the distressed
couples, women's issues andmen's issues, primarily
narcissistic abuse recovery,spiritual formation, life plan

(01:20):
of goals, premarital andrelationship improvement.
So, in a nutshell, that's whatI do.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
Very nice, okay, that's uh quite a bit of
different.
Uh, there's a broad a varietythere it's really relational in
a way.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
Like in general, that's what I do.
I would do relational stuff,but relational dealing with
yourself and relational dealingwith others.
So if you're struggling witheven you know, self-sabotage,
getting out of your own way,programming a care for your
childhood that has beendestructive in your life, I mean

(02:01):
all different kind of things.
So it's really relational innature.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Yeah, very cool.
Yeah, this sounds like it'svery helpful too.
Uh, how'd you get into thisbusiness?

Speaker 3 (02:13):
So I'm a military guy , um, and on my way out I knew I
was going to be workingeventually in education or
counseling, wasn't really sure.
I took some time.
I actually went on a collegetour and I had an idea of what
school I wanted to go to, but Itook a year.
I took a good year to decideand I was actually working in

(02:37):
education when I got involvedwith the counseling program and
went into counseling and I'mglad I did.
It was a Christian school.
I learned a lot.
It allowed me to use myChristian background and
knowledge to be a bettercounselor.
Actually it was amazing, one ofthe best experiences ever.

(02:58):
So I got into the field, wentto school, started private
practice pretty much from thejump as soon as I got out of
school, which taught me a lot.
The rest is history, I guess.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
Very cool.
Now that you've been in thisindustry, in the coaching
industry, doing a wide varietyof coaching, is there any myths
or misconceptions that you'veseen?

Speaker 3 (03:30):
So I think the biggest myth and I would say,
being a trained counselor, thathappens to be on both sides.
They're a lot more similar thanthe folk.
But the thing that I do likeabout coaching and what I miss
about coaching is that it's notas good or effective as

(03:55):
counseling, and I would say it'sreally the same.
But, like what I said earlier,coaching is a more
forward-focused approach, it'sresults-driven.
So where in a counselingsituation, you could go to
counseling for years and yearsand years and I've seen people

(04:17):
do it and really no better atthe end than they were at the
beginning.
Where in coaching, people takeleaps and bounds in weeks and
months down the road.
Like it's amazing the benefitthat I've seen people have in
their life in a coachingrelationship, because it's more
about boots on the ground, it'smore about being in the game.
So for me I think that's a bigmisconception that coaching is

(04:40):
not as effective.
I will tell you, too, thatcoaching is more for someone who
is, I want to say, more of amore functional.
So we're constantly dealingwith somebody who's in a very

(05:00):
distressed type of situation,like rehab, like you know, just
off the street type of thing.
Archie was really focused onpeople who are fairly stable.
It's more effective withsomebody who's fairly stable not
completely stable, fairlystable because, again, the
stress that the program is gonnaput on them they got to be

(05:22):
ready for.
So that is one thing.
That's a little bit different.
Let me see what I got here.
I have some stuff written downand, Um, that was really one of
them.
So I would say another thing isthat people think all coaches
are the same, and this isanother problem too is that

(05:45):
people think when they hearcoach, they think everybody
works the same and that's nottrue.
It's just like me.
Because of my clinicalbackground, I can go as deep as
somebody wants to go into theminutiae of psychology and all
of that kind of stuff.
I can go as deep as somebodywants to go.
I don't usually go therebecause it's not necessary, but
if somebody really wants tounderstand or is leading in a

(06:08):
situation I can't and it'scalled clinical coaching.
That's the term that's usedwhen it's talking about somebody
that has a clinical background.
But they're also a coach and Iwould say with this kind of
coaching the benefits are justamazing because you're not just
getting some real thing thatsomebody learned in the book and

(06:30):
because I have experiencedealing and working with real
people.
I'm not telling peoplesomething that I think is going
to work.
I know it's going to work.
So all coaches are not the same.
That's all I can say.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
I like that.
Well, I like that, and whereyour mindset is on that, and
that all coaches are not thesame.
That's a good message.
So, right now, who are yourtarget customers and how are you
attracting them?

Speaker 3 (07:03):
So there's a couple of things I'm trying to do right
now.
I actually have an app thatI've developed.
I actually have acommunications course on that
app.
I actually have acommunications course on that
app.
But what I want to do is I'mlooking for 10 couples either
pre-marital or just relationshippeople that need relationship

(07:24):
help to put into a group andbasically they're going to be a
part of a let's say, they'regoing to be a part of helping me
develop the app.
So and this is actuallysomething new so back in the
days, people would sit down andthink about what people would
want and then they would build acourse.
But what they found is it'sbetter to get people into a

(07:49):
process, take them through theprocess and figure out what the
course needs to have, and so Imean I can write a course.
I can write a course in like 10minutes, 10, 15 minutes.
I can write a course.
So I'm looking for about 10companies that I can put into
this course, to flesh it out,and then it's actually going to

(08:09):
become an app.
So that's one thing.
I'm also looking for people whoare struggling with
narcissistic abuse, andpreferably outside of it.
At this point, they've come outof a narcissistic abuse type of
situation, but the same ideaTaking them through a process of
processing what's happened sothey can move on in their life.

(08:31):
And that's where I'm at,because I'm actually coming out
of a situation like that myself.
So that's it, those two things.
That's really what I'm focusedon right now.

Speaker 2 (08:45):
All right, all right, I'm going to switch gears on
you, odie.
Can you describe a hardship ora life challenge that you've
went through and that has madeyou stronger?

Speaker 3 (08:59):
So I'm going to go into details.

Speaker 2 (09:06):
We'll save that for a longer time, yeah yeah, yeah,
yeah.

Speaker 3 (09:12):
So I'm going to start with this scripture I wish you
the best of health, even as yoursoul prospers.
I wish you the best of health,even as your soul prospers.
So I was betrayed by thoseclosest to me.
These were family members,close friends, acquaintances

(09:37):
Basically, three groups ofpeople have came up against me
to destroy my name, like I havebeen through the river, and the
crazy thing is I'm still here.
I've known most of my life.
I wasn't ordinary because Ijust looked at the world
different.
I saw things that other peopledidn't say or were not willing

(10:00):
to acknowledge, and survivingthese trials have taught me.
Although I feel alone at times,I know that I am not.
The trials were not sent tobreak me, but to make me.
I'm a gift to those who I comein contact with.

(10:20):
The problem is most peopledon't realize that until it's
too late, and I've learned thatI'm unstoppable.
So keep it short and sweet.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
I like that Good message too.
Well, hey, how can ourlisteners?
Well, what's one thing theyshould remember about the
company, and how can ourlisteners learn more about
Samaritan coaching?

Speaker 3 (10:54):
So here's the thing and I think this is a problem
with coaching and counseling ingeneral it's almost like people
have to be compelled to do whatthey know they need to do for
themselves, and I think that'swhy ads have to be done the way
that they're done, because it'salmost trying to manipulate and
influence them to make movesthat they already need to make.

(11:15):
I would tell you, I would tellanyone that hears this
information that feels compelled, like they're thinking that man
, this guy gets it.
If you feel that way when youhear this information, reach out
immediately.
Listen, there is no requirementfor you to do work with me
right away, but getting on a 10or 15-minute call to figure out

(11:39):
your situation, to steal yourmom a good fit, is worth it.
It's a free call, right?
If you're not in a good place,you don't have the resources or
time, you don't have to do itright now.
But what I'm saying is it'salmost like you need to do good
at giving yourself what you need.
I think that's the biggestproblem with people getting help
is that they always put it off.

(12:01):
They put themselves off insteadof getting what they need.
That's the biggest issue I havewith it, because there's so
many people out here that arewilling to help you and walk
alongside you, but you've got toavail yourself to it.
Another thing is I'm alwaysopen and available, but I'm not
stuck to my phone.
People can call me at772-888-1629, but leave a

(12:26):
message.
Leave a message, leave a brieflittle synopsis of the issue and
I'll get get get back in touchwith you.
Another way to get in touchwith me I have links, calendar
links on my website and they'rehooked to every different
specialty on my site.

(12:47):
If you click on there, it willtake you to my calendar and you
just put your information andI'll get in touch with you.

Speaker 1 (12:57):
So that's three different ways you can get in
touch with me.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
Perfect.
Well, that sounds great.
Odie, I appreciate you being onthe show and I appreciate you
sharing a little bit aboutyourself and your company and
how people can get ahold of youIf they need to utilize your
services.
Wish you and Samaritan Coachingthe best going forward, all
right.
Wish you and Samaritan coachingthe best going forward, all

(13:31):
right did you?

Speaker 3 (13:34):
did I lose you?
No, I'm still here.
So, um, I didn't say that.
I also also do have a couplepodcasts too.
So, if people want to know whatI really like, I have a Life
Reboot podcast and aSpirituality Unleashed podcast
on Spotify.
That's something else that theycan do.
Just check me out.
I'm pretty candid on that,pretty straight up, just talking

(13:57):
on that.

Speaker 2 (13:59):
There you go.
Very nice.
Well, yeah again, odie, it'sbeen good having you on this
podcast and I appreciate youcoming on here and sharing a
little bit about yourself andthe company, and we wish you and
Samaritan Coaching the bestgoing forward okay.

Speaker 3 (14:18):
Thank you, beth, appreciate it.
Thank you for inviting me, andI'm glad we're able to do it.
I had some technical issueswhen I first got here.
That's why it took me a whileto get on here, but I got it
worked out.

Speaker 2 (14:30):
That's what matters.
All right, take care.

Speaker 3 (14:33):
Thank you Bye-bye.

Speaker 1 (14:37):
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