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Ignite

Growth

Unearth the roots of your frustrations and boredom and light up your life with newfound enthusiasm and joy. Discover how to channel this positive energy into making everyday life meaningful and fulfilling.

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Elevate Current Growth

Feel a powerful sense of direction with our purpose discovery process. Unravel your true passions and learn how they can shape a compelling purpose for your life, driving you towards personal and professional success.

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Unlock New Levels of Growth

Stumble, fall, but always rise up stronger. Learn strategies to enhance your resilience, cope with setbacks, and transform them into stepping stones for growth. Establish this habitual resilience to stay persistently in the pathway of fulfilment.

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Ignite

Growth

Unearth the roots of your frustrations and boredom and light up your life with newfound enthusiasm and joy. Discover how to channel this positive energy into making everyday life meaningful and fulfilling.

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Elevate Current Growth

Feel a powerful sense of direction with our purpose discovery process. Unravel your true passions and learn how they can shape a compelling purpose for your life, driving you towards personal and professional success.

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Unlock New Levels of Growth

Stumble, fall, but always rise up stronger. Learn strategies to enhance your resilience, cope with setbacks, and transform them into stepping stones for growth. Establish this habitual resilience to stay persistently in the pathway of fulfilment.

Why Thrive Life Coaching Exists

You are meant to thrive in your life, and you have immense potential.

You do not have to be held back by limiting beliefs, discouraging emotions, self-sabotaging behaviours, negative experiences, or difficult circumstances.

Ultimately, your choices – the commitments you make and the action you take – determine your growth.

Thrive Life Coaching partners with growth-minded people to activate more of their potential in their personal development, leadership, and spiritual formation – for clearer purpose, deeper fulfilment, and greater impact.

My Journey to Thrive Life Coaching

My nearly 20 years’ experience spans formal studies in psychology, ethics, and development studies; and professional work in the social impact sector.

Over the course of my career, I’ve been in organisations whose vision and mission aligned with my interest in cultivating and nurturing human potential – and where I could both contribute and grow my knowledge and skills.

While I valued and learnt from many aspects of the roles I've held, I often found myself not thriving vocationally in the way I longed to.

So I made the decision to pursue life coaching – a vocation I believed I could thrive in.

Now, as a certified professional Life Coach and Christian Coach, I partner with growth-minded people to ignite, elevate, or unlock growth in their personal development, leadership, or spiritual formation – an incredibly purposeful, fulfilling, and impactful privilege.

My Life Coaching Philosophy

I believe people are designed and desire to thrive, have extraordinary potential, and have agency.

When people harness their agency to activate more of their potential – deliberately choosing how they grow – they experience clearer purpose, deeper fulfilment, and greater impact in their lives.

Life coaching enhances this intentionality by creating space for and supporting reflection, insight, commitment, action, and accountability.

My Life Coaching Approach

As a thinking partner, I create a safe, confidential, and non-judgemental space where clients are seen, understood, encouraged, and supported.

I partner with clients to clarify where they are now, envision where they want to be, and take steps to get there.

My Professional Credentials

Life Coaching Qualifications

LEDISA Academy

Certified Professional Life Coach

Life Coach Training Institute

Certified Professional Christian Coach

Additional Life Coaching Training

Light University

• Human Flourishing Coaching

Leadership Coaching

Spiritual Formation Coaching

Other Qualifications

University of the Western Cape

Bachelor of Arts in Ethics, French, and Psychology (Summa Cum Laude)

Bachelor of Arts Honours in Ethics (Cum Laude)

Master of Arts in Ethics

SOAS University of London

Master of Science in Development Studies (Merit)

Hear From Our Clients

"My coaching session with Mario was an incredible experience. He has an amazing gift for listening and gently guiding you toward clarity."

- Z. S.

"I gained insight into areas I've neglected and areas where I'm thriving. This newfound understanding helped me address my feelings of being stuck… the experience was clear, beneficial, and truly valuable.”

- J. M.

AS SEEN ON

"I returned to my inner axis in the fastest and the most effective way. I’ve got strong and indisputable realizations about my own responsibility and reached a state of inner peace and raised my self-esteem. Now I know my life’s mission and have the purpose of life..."

- Mark H., Leadership Coach

"So the lightness is unspeakable…Gratitude is boundless and cannot be valued by any wealth.… The path taken together brought priceless experience and ignited hope… opened the soul and showed the way… The way to a new life, a life that I can create myself with the help of the Universe…"

- Sandra W., Health Coach

"The system you are working with is unique and really gives brilliant results. Each day I was more curious to learn about myself. Thank you for your professional, and very sincere support during my journey of uncomfortable personal situations. Today I feel confident, valuable, and needed..."

- Ryan P., Mindset Coach

"How good it is to get rid of that old baggage that dragged me down... How good it is to find a way, or maybe even a huge highway... How good it is to understand that life is JUST beginning… even when I am 52 and my children are grown and grandchildren are already running… "

- Noah Z., Business Coach

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