About Me
Douglas Turet, CLC, CTC, ICF
This is a story of hope, possibilities, creativity and determination.
Douglas Turet began the journey toward a career in empowerment coaching as someone in desperate need of empowerment, himself.
Born into a family of over-achievers with the confusing combination of badly crossed eyes and multiple learning disabilities but boundless creativity and a thirst for knowledge, in a time and place where none of them were well understood or appreciated and support for them was non-existent, Doug bounced from school to school and tried to follow the conflicting advice of one expert after another for nearly two decades, he realized that if others had already convinced themselves that he was irrelevant or inferior, then by default, that gave him the permission and freedom to try anything that interested him, to see if he could create a path forward that made sense to him, instead!
By pursuing interests in music, geology, reading, writing and concerns over his own and others’ physical and environmental challenges, he built four successful careers for himself, first as a professional drummer and drum instructor (eventually teaching more than 200 students, several of which then went on to enjoy professional music careers, themselves), then as a self-taught but eventually internationally published gemstone cutter and designer and an award-winning jewelry designer (and, eventually, a silversmith & goldsmith, training under Alan Revere and receiving diplomas as a Certified Bench Jeweler and Graduate Jeweler), then as a trained and dually-certified Life Coach (see below) and then as a certified bodyworker, Licensed Massage Therapist and certified Medical Massage Practitioner (see below) for more than a decade, before returning to Coaching again and establishing The HELP Coach during the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic.
Perhaps more importantly, along the way to discovering his "right path", he also tried (and admittedly, often failed miserably at — but then got back up and tried again) as a musical instrument builder & repairman, bicycle repairman, oil change technician, retail boutique clerk, hypnotist, diversification consultant, convenience store cashier, jewelry repairman, autobody repairman, electronics assembler, steel mill stamping machine operator, taxi driver, housepainter, carpenter's apprentice, furniture builder & repairman, bandleader, Latin percussionist, Blues Harp player, singer, actor, commercial voiceover actor, busboy, waiter, cook, tailor, inventor, machinist, nature/geology tour guide, telemarketer, jewelry salesman, car salesman, cutlery salesman, bench mechanic, graphic artist/designer, Mediterranean cruise marketer and residential & commercial security systems consultant.
Among the many credentials and certifications he's collected along the way are: Certified Life Coach, Certified Solution Focused Coach, Certified Transformational Coach, Certified Bench Mechanic, Certified & Licensed Massage Therapist, Certified Medical Massage Practitioner, Certified Diamond Grader, Graduate Jeweler, Certified Minister, Certified Reiki Practitioner, Certified MyoFascial Massage Practitioner, Certified GuaSha Practitioner, Access ConsciousnessTM Bars Practitioner, Access ConsciousnessTM Bars Facilitator and Access ConsciousnessTM Body Processes Practitioner.
In addition to his coaching practice, Mr. Turet is a proud father and loving husband, continues to enjoy and explore his lapidary and poetry writing hobbies and is currently working on the first of five books intended to help people from various walks of life to imagine, design and launch careers of their own, regardless of their backgrounds or financial circumstances.
