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Meet Mary McNutt, Your Life & Business Coach

An experienced, deeply human guide for personal growth, professional development, and recovery aftercare.

Mary's approach
to transformation

Mary combines psychological insight, real-world experience, and direct conversation. Her work is personal by design: understand the whole story, identify what matters, and turn clarity into thoughtful action.

Start with your story

Look honestly at the experiences and patterns shaping your present.

Clarify your values

Build a dependable inner compass for choices, boundaries, and priorities.

Discover your strengths

Recognize natural aptitudes, passions, and potential ready to be used.

Grow self-awareness

See how you move through the world and where change can begin.

Courageous conversation

Work through meaningful questions in a supportive, confidential space.

Make it practical

Translate insight into a personal plan, learning, and concrete next steps.

Build lasting momentum

Use reflection and accountability to support values-driven growth.

Be fully supported

Move forward with compassion, candor, and respect for your own pace.

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Dedicated to your
life transformation

Affectionately known as “Goldilocks,” Mary is recognized for helping clients discover what is just right for their own lives. Her role is not to hand out generic answers, but to help each person find a clear, sustainable way forward.

Unearth your narrative

Reframe your story to see strengths, patterns, and possibility.

Forge your core

Define the values that can guide decisions across life and work.

Discover your genius

Bring your aptitudes, experience, and purpose into alignment.

Activate your lens

Turn greater awareness into influence, action, and meaningful change.

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Experience
with depth and perspective

Mary's coaching voice is grounded in advanced education and decades of work with individuals, families, professionals, and people rebuilding life after addiction.

25+

Years of experience

Professional coaching, counseling, and transformation work.

Master's degrees

Psychology and addiction studies from respected graduate programs.

1:1

Personal attention

Confidential guidance shaped around the person, not a template.

Global

Speaking experience

National and international work in addiction, recovery, and growth.

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A foundation
of education and experience

Mary earned a master's degree in Addiction Studies and Counseling from Hazelden Betty Ford Graduate School and a master's degree in Psychology and Counseling from Saint Mary's University of Minnesota.

She also founded and led an intensive outpatient chemical dependency treatment center, serving in executive and clinical leadership roles. That combination of education, leadership, and direct human experience gives her work uncommon range — from personal purpose and business growth to recovery, family support, grief, and life transitions.

Mary describes her profession as her ministry. Her style is compassionate and engaged, but never passive: she is willing to ask the difficult question, stay with the real issue, and help translate insight into a life that can be lived.

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