YES Youth Coaching

10/13/2026

She kicked ass. She took names. She took her power back.
And she wrote a song about it.

One of my [adult] coaching clients just had a breakthrough that reminded me exactly why YES Youth Coaching exists.

She wrote a song about her identity. About stepping into her own self-love. About reclaiming everything she had been giving away to everyone else.

These breakthroughs happen all the time. With young people and adults alike. And they happen through songwriting in a way that talking alone cannot replicate.

Because a song gives you a vessel to say the thing you have never been able to say. To claim the identity you have been circling around. To write yourself into who you were always meant to be.

If your young person is ready to do the same, I would love to help.

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10/12/2026

Have you seen what’s going on in the world?
Yeah. We have.

And that is exactly why this is one of the most important things I teach young people right now.

We always have two options. Match the energy of everything falling apart around us. Or bring love, kindness, and connection anyway.

Being kind has become an affront to people. Like choosing love right now is somehow naive. But I want to raise a generation of young people who choose it anyway. Who understand that there is not enough light in the world right now so they need to be it.

That is what Eli Lev and I made “The Only Way Outta Here” about. Out now on all platforms.

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10/11/2026

How much muchness are you allowed to have?

This is the question at the heart of everything I do with young people.

Because we live in a world that is constantly telling them who to be. How to show up. How to act. What to say. How to dress. How much of themselves is acceptable.

And most of the time that messaging comes from someone who is not them. Someone whose ideologies and expectations have nothing to do with who they actually are or who they are becoming.

My job is to give young people the tools to write their own narrative instead of living inside someone else's.

This is behind the scenes of the Mental Health Sounds Like This audiobook recording with Ayanna Gallant from Aya Cultural Arts. Dropping before Christmas with Q&A chapters that go deeper than the book.

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10/10/2026

It's finally here!

Written two months after mum died; this song has many layers and reasons for existing.

The most important reason, however, is because sometimes we all need a reminder that when life gets difficult: healing is possible. That we dont have to just GO through life; we get to GROW through life. And that - ultimately - trusting the process is one of the most important steps when it comes to healing, success and fulfillment.

Filmed by LJR Creative [ LJR / Luke Roberts ], Trust the Process is the first single from my upcoming album "The Advantage of Adversity".

Enjoy! ❤️

Trust the Process is the lead single from Emma G's upcoming album "...

10/10/2026

The haka is designed to stimulate your muscles and prepare your body for battle.

I am not teaching you the haka today. But I am teaching you something just as effective. And something every young person needs to know.

Stress is energy that gets stuck in the body. And movement is one of the fastest ways to get it unstuck.

Three options. Tap where you are holding tension and draw that energy out. Go full Taylor Swift and shake it off. Or embrace your inner toddler and stomp as loudly as possible.

All three work. And all three are things young people can do anywhere, any time, before a test, after a hard conversation, in the middle of a rough day.

This is one of the tools I teach in my empowerment workshops for young people. And it is a core tool in my upcoming book Stress Management Sounds Like This.

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10/09/2026

The fear of AI generating all our music is real. But our song? It's different.

And this is me simply leading by example for ALL of the young people that I work with as an empowerment through singing and songwriting coach.

Yes. It's scary to think that in a couple of years all the music we are going to be listening to is going to be AI generated, but not us. Not the music I make, and certainly not the music that I support our young people into making.

This is one of the most important things I teach young people right now.
In a world increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence, the most powerful thing any young person can develop is their authentic voice. Their genuine perspective. Their ability to communicate, collaborate, and create from a place of real lived experience.

Those things cannot be generated. They cannot be prompted. They cannot be faked.

Authenticity, originality, and genuine human connection are the skills that will matter most in the world these young people are inheriting.

Stream "The Only Way Outta Here" everywhere today: listen.eli-lev.com/EliLevEmmaG

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10/09/2026

Someone asked me what legacy means to me.

Five and a half years as a street performer [busker] taught me the answer.

I want to elevate every life I touch. I want young people to leave my presence feeling lighter. Brighter. More capable. More themselves.

And here is what I want every young person I work with to understand about their own legacy.

You do not have to wait until you are famous or successful or have it all figured out. You can start right now. With the person next to you. With one song. With one conversation. With one moment of genuine connection.

Every person you elevate goes on to elevate someone else. That is how love compounds. That is how a mission becomes a movement. That is how saving the world one song at a time actually works.

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10/08/2026

When I was five years old I wrote a list of five things I wanted to be when I grew up.

A mother. A rock star. A fashion designer. A teacher. And a counselor.

Fashion design did not make the cut. I am a cat mum so I am claiming that one. And the teacher and counselor pieces have shown up in every session I have ever delivered with a young person.

Because here is what five year old me already knew.

The most important work in the world is about people. About giving young people the confidence to show up. The creativity to express themselves. The communication skills to say what they mean. The community to belong to. And the compassion to extend to themselves and others.

The five Cs. The legacy. The whole thing.

The Only Way Outta Here with Eli Lev is out today.

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10/07/2026

: this post contains personal disclosures of sexual assault and references to sexual violence.

RAINN National Sexual Assault Hotline: 1-800-656-HOPE or rainn.org
988 Su***de and Crisis Lifeline: call or text 988

My first sexual assault was when I was 12. My second at 15. My third at 19. And again in my mid-20s.

One in four girls and women. One in twelve young men and adult men.

Many of the young people I work with are carrying something similar. And most of them have never had a safe enough space to say it out loud.

The Cornell case is in the news right now. And what I recognize most is how familiar the silence is. The silence that survivors carry because speaking feels more dangerous than staying quiet.

Our job as coaches and mentors is not to force young people to speak. It is to create a space safe enough that when they are ready, the words are there. And when they cannot find the words, there is music. There is songwriting. There is a way in that does not require them to say it directly.

I wrote Barbed Wire about my own experiences as a teenager. I did not have the courage to perform it publicly until my mid-20s. The first time I did, a trafficking survivor approached me with tears in her eyes.

She needed to know she was not alone.

So do your young people.

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10/06/2026

This is one of the most important things I tell every young person I work with: to listen to your favourite song and dance. Be silly. Be weird. Have fun. Live your joy on purpose.

Because you never know what you have in this world. And even if you are going through the worst of the worst right now, guess what.

You woke up today.

Joy is not a reward for finishing the hard stuff. It is part of how we get through it. It is a form of self-love. And self-love is the foundation of everything else.

My upcoming single "The Only Way Outta Here" with Eli Lev is playing in the background because trusting in love is the only way out. And sometimes that looks like dancing in your bedroom to your favourite song.

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