Life Coaches for Teens, Young Adults & Parents

Meet Erin Verdis & Chris Adang, Founders of Extraordinary Purpose

We’re Parents, Too. And This Work Is Personal.

We’re Erin and Chris, parents of four and founders of Extraordinary Purpose.

We know what it’s like to watch someone you love struggle with confidence, motivation, belonging, or uncertainty about their future. And we know the questions that can keep a parent up at night: Are they okay? Am I doing enough? How do I help without pushing them further away?

Those experiences, along with more than 20 years of combined coaching and leadership experience, helped shape the Extraordinary Purpose Framework, our identity-first approach to helping teens, young adults, and parents move forward with greater confidence, connection, and direction.

After supporting more than 1,000 teens, young adults, parents, and families, we’ve learned something that guides everything we do: what you see on the surface is rarely the whole story.

Lasting change starts deeper, with identity, connection, purpose, and self-belief.

That’s why we created Extraordinary Purpose

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We See Both Sides

Every day, we hear what teens and young adults wish their parents understood, and what parents are trying so hard to understand about their kids.

Young people talk with us about what they’re struggling with, who they’re becoming, and the things they don’t always know how to say at home. Parents share their worries, their hopes, and the questions that come with trying to help without pushing too hard or holding on too tightly.

As coaches and parents ourselves, we have the privilege of seeing both sides.

That perspective shapes everything we do: helping young people better understand themselves, helping parents stay connected as their role changes, and helping families grow stronger together.

Why We Started Extraordinary Purpose

Extraordinary Purpose grew from a question we kept asking ourselves as parents:

Why are so many incredible young people struggling to believe in themselves and find their way?

We knew how deeply parents loved their kids because we felt it, too. We knew the instinct to encourage, remind, protect, and try to point them in the right direction. But we also began to see that more advice, pressure, or direction wasn’t always what young people needed.

Through our own experiences as parents and the families we coached, one belief became the heart of our work:

Young people don’t need more people telling them who to be. They need the space, support, and guidance to discover it for themselves.

And sometimes, the most powerful thing we can do as parents is learn how to stay connected, believe in who they’re becoming, and give them room to grow.

That belief became Extraordinary Purpose.

Meet Erin & Chris

If you’re wondering who we are beyond the bios and credentials, this is a great place to start.

In this short video, we share a little about our family, what this work means to us, and why we care so deeply about helping teens, young adults, and parents find their way forward.

We’d love for you to get to know us.

What Makes Extraordinary Purpose Different

We don’t start by trying to fix the problem. We start by understanding the person.

After thousands of conversations with teens, young adults, and parents, we’ve learned that what you see on the surface is rarely the whole story.

Low motivation. Screens. Procrastination. Lack of confidence. Feeling lost.

Look a little deeper, and there are often bigger questions underneath:

Who am I? What matters to me? Where am I going?

That’s why we believe identity comes before direction, and direction comes before action.

The Extraordinary Purpose Framework

1. Discover Who You Are
Build self-awareness, confidence, and a stronger sense of identity.

2. Create Your Direction
Discover what matters, explore what’s possible, and create something meaningful to move toward.

3. Take Action & Ownership
Build the habits, skills, and self-leadership to turn direction into meaningful progress.

But the framework is never one-size-fits-all.

We listen first. We meet each person where they are. We help them discover their own answers.

Because our goal isn’t to tell young people who to become. It’s to help them know themselves, believe in themselves, and learn how to lead their own lives.

Explore our Coaching Philosophy or learn more about Life Coaching for Teens, Life Coaching for Young Adults, and Coaching for Parents.

The Right Coach Can Make All the Difference

When you feel understood, it’s easier to open up.

We know how important the relationship with a coach can be. That’s why Extraordinary Purpose offers something different: two coaches, with different perspectives, united by one approach.

Erin | Young Women & Moms

Erin primarily coaches young women and moms, helping them build self-trust, confidence, connection, and purpose as they become more grounded in who they are.

Chris | Young Men & Dads

Chris primarily coaches young men and dads, helping them build confidence, direction, ownership, and self-leadership as they become clearer about who they want to become.

Two Coaches. One Philosophy. One Purpose.

We bring different experiences and perspectives, but share the same Extraordinary Purpose Framework and belief that meaningful change starts with understanding the person.

And because we work with both young people and parents, we see something powerful every day:

When one person grows, relationships change. When families grow together, even more becomes possible.

Explore Life Coaching for Teens, Life Coaching for Young Adults, or Coaching for Parents.

Meet Erin Verdis

Life Coach for Young Women, College Students & Moms

Helping women know who they are, trust themselves, and create lives that feel genuinely their own.

For more than 15 years, Erin has coached young women and moms, helping them build confidence, discover what matters to them, and trust who they’re becoming.

Her connection to this work started much earlier.

At 18, Erin left home to become an international fashion model. The experience opened an incredible world, but also taught her how easy it is to let your appearance, achievements, or other people’s opinions define how you feel about yourself.

It left her with a question that has shaped her life ever since:

Who are you when you stop letting the outside world define you?

Erin went on to earn a degree in Psychology, become a Tony Robbins Certified Coach, and devote her career to helping women discover that answer for themselves.

Today, as a coach and mom, Erin brings warmth, honesty, energy, and a deep belief in the women she works with. She creates a space where they can be themselves, discover what they want, recognize strengths they may have stopped seeing, and build the confidence to move forward.

Erin Helps Women

✔ Build confidence and self-trust
✔ Discover their strengths, passions, and purpose
✔ Move beyond comparison and self-doubt
✔ Strengthen relationships and resilience
✔ Create direction and take ownership of what comes next

What Erin Believes

Women don’t need someone else telling them who they should be.

They need the space to discover who they are, trust their own voice, and believe in what they’re capable of.

Know who you are. Trust yourself. Create a life that feels like yours.

Learn more about Life Coaching for Young Women & College Students.

Meet Chris Adang

Life Coach for Young Men, College Students & Dads

Helping young men discover who they are, find their direction, and become confident, capable men who lead their own lives.

Chris has spent much of his career helping people see more in themselves and turn potential into action.

Before coaching, he built a career in leadership and people development, recruiting, training, and mentoring hundreds of young professionals as they found their footing in work and life.

But some of his most important lessons came from being a dad.

Chris learned that the harder we try to pull answers out of our kids, the more they can pull away. So he started doing something different:

Find a way into their world.

Listen first. Get curious. Understand what matters to them. Connect before trying to change.

That lesson changed the way Chris parented and became central to the way he coaches.

Today, as a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) and ACT Matrix Certified Coach, Chris brings curiosity, energy, honesty, and genuine belief to every conversation. He knows when to listen, when to challenge, and how to help someone see possibilities they may not see yet.

What Chris Helps Young Men Build

✔ Confidence and self-belief
✔ Identity, strengths, passions, and purpose
✔ Direction in college, career, relationships, and life
✔ Stronger habits, resilience, and independence
✔ Ownership of their life and what comes next

For Dads

Chris helps dads find a way into their child’s world, strengthen connection and trust, and learn when to guide, challenge, step back, and let go.

What Chris Believes

Young men don’t need another person telling them what to do with their lives.

They need someone who will understand their world, believe in them, challenge them, and help them discover their own answers.

Because the goal isn’t simply better grades, more motivation, or the right career.

Know who you are. Take ownership of your life. Become a man you’re proud to be.

Learn more about Life Coaching for Young Men & College Students or Coaching for Dads & Parents.

We’d Be Honored to Walk Alongside Your Family

Trusting someone to support your child is a big decision.

We know how deeply you love your child, how hard it can be to watch them struggle, and how much you want to help without pushing too hard or losing connection along the way.

We also know what it means to trust someone enough to invite them into your child’s world.

We don’t take that trust lightly.

When you work with us, you’ll find two people who genuinely care about your family. We’ll listen, celebrate the wins, walk with you through the hard moments, and always look for the person and potential underneath the struggle.

Our hope is that your teen or young adult begins to believe in themselves, discover who they are, and feel excited about where they’re going.

That you feel more confident supporting them.
That your relationship grows stronger.
And that your family moves forward with greater hope.

Our goal is simple: Your family leaves Extraordinary Purpose stronger than when you found us.

If that’s what you’re looking for, we’d love to meet you.

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