Jeff Ryan Coaching - Live Your Vision

My friend Meg Calvin released her debut novel today and I need you to know about it.


There, He Holds Her will, “destroy you in the best way”. There's a love story, yes. But what it's really about is the cost of living a life that was handed to you instead of chosen by you.


Vivian is eighteen in 1979 Texas, in love with her childhood best friend since they were kids with their feet hanging off a dock over a murky green Texas lake. That love is about to be ripped away by family and religion working together to keep her small. Her daughter Heti is a reverend in 2018, one nomination away from bishop, accomplished and quietly dying inside, until the past she was never told the truth about comes bulldozing through the walls she's spent her whole life building.


Two people, two eras, one story about what gets passed down when wounds go unnamed.


Readers who don't even like fiction are finishing this book in a sitting. Here's what they're saying:


"This book destroyed me in all the best ways. I was not prepared for how it would affect me. If you have ever dealt with shame, generational trauma, toxic religion, or just wondered if it's too late for you, this book is for you." ~Jamal Jivanjee, Certified Mastery Method Coach & Author


"It reached inside and showed the real heartache and hope we all carry. After reading this, I felt like calling my mom." ~Katecey Harrell, Journalist & Communications Specialist


"You come for the romance, stay for the spiritual awakening." ~Andrea St. Amand, Lawyer, Psychic Medium & #1 Amazon Bestselling Author

"There was something in it for me, learning to treasure my parents in the richness of their lives beyond how I knew them. To love them, not judge them. And then to offer that grace to myself." ~Rev. Kim Shank, Pastor & Librarian


"This book reminds us that the Divine isn't just found in sermons or sanctuaries, but in the raw, unfinished places of our stories, and that our deepest desires might just be holy ground." ~Brandon Andress, Author of What Can't Be Hidden and Deep Calls to Deep


If you loved The Shack, The Notebook or The Secret Life of Bees, clear your weekend.


This one isn't just for those processing their faith. It's for anyone who's ever sat in a pew feeling like a stranger to themselves. Anyone who's built a life that looks right from the outside and feels hollow from the inside. Anyone who suspects their spiritual life was supposed to be bigger, wilder, and more alive than what they were handed.


Grab your copy today (link in first comment 👇) and tag someone who needs a book that actually means something.

This is why I coach men to trust their Inner Authority. The stories of our fathers and the ways that we have been socialized in the United States have been problematic long before MAGA, but now they are being amplified. We must not abandon our boys and young men. They need love and support and for us to set an example of healthy masculinity for them to follow.

America's Boys Deserve Better Than MAGA Masculinity While so many of us here in America are rightly lamenting the devastating emotional effect this repulsive regime is having on girls and young women, we’ve only been getting half the story.

Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio (Bad Bunny) is a beautiful example of a man embracing healthy masculinity. He challenges gender-roles, lifts matriarchy, supports LGBTQ+, draws attention to climate crisis, addresses issues facing his community, and shares his wealth. His message is rooted in LOVE.

And he understands that it is his Inner Authority that guides him. He doesn't cower to the external, imposed expectations of masculinity or conformity. He stands up and shows up for his community from a place of Love.

He believes in himself and encourages us to believe in ourselves, too.

He believes in possibility.
He believes in Love.

Most men define success by wealth and career, strength and power.
The want respect from their bosses and peers, friends and partners.
Words like weak, vulnerable, and soft threaten who they’ve been taught to be.
They don’t yet know that: Surrender takes courage. Vulnerability requires strength. Compassion demands resilience.
There’s more to being a man that beer, ballgames, bros, bonuses, and babes.
In a world mostly run by little boys with daddy issues, we need to redefine what it means to be a man or else we’re all f*cked.
Change starts with the individual. True success is an inside job.
That’s why I work with men to help them stop seeking external validation and find their inner authority.