# 126 Coaching Full AI Reference > Last updated: 2026-07-02 ## Business summary 126 Coaching is the coaching practice of Brian Curtis. It provides 1-on-1 life coaching, business coaching, personal development coaching, NLP coaching, breakthrough sessions, emotional intelligence coaching, hypnosis-informed mindset coaching, and AI readiness coaching. ## Brian Curtis Brian Curtis is a life coach, business coach, NLP-Trained Master Practitioner, Trainer of NLP, NLP Certified Master Coach, hypnosis-informed breakthrough coach, emotional intelligence coach, and AI adoption strategist. Through 126 Coaching, he helps clients identify limiting patterns, improve emotional intelligence, rewire limiting beliefs, and build practical systems for personal and professional growth. More: https://126coaching.com/about ## Service definitions (quotable) What is a business coach for entrepreneurs? A business coach for entrepreneurs helps you clarify priorities, improve leadership, build operating rhythms, make better decisions, and follow through. Unlike a consultant who hands you recommendations, a business coach works on the owner and the operation together — because for most entrepreneurs, the biggest bottleneck in the business is a pattern in the operator. What is an emotional intelligence coach? An emotional intelligence coach helps you strengthen self-awareness, self-regulation, empathy, boundaries, communication, and decision-making — as practiced behavior, not just insight. At 126 Coaching the work focuses on how you actually operate under pressure: the gap between what you know you should do and what you do when the room gets hard. What is a breakthrough session? A breakthrough session is a focused coaching session that identifies one stuck pattern, explores the belief and emotional loop behind it, and creates a practical replacement response or next action. It works best when you bring one specific pattern or decision rather than a vague life overhaul. What is NLP coaching? NLP coaching uses language, attention, mental imagery, and pattern recognition to help you change the way you represent problems and choices internally — for personal development, performance, and behavior change, not therapy or medical care. What is AI business coaching? AI business coaching helps owners and professionals adapt to AI by clarifying workflows, choosing tools, building automations, and addressing the mindset patterns that keep adoption from sticking. AI does not fix a scattered mind; it scales it. What is PatternPrint? PatternPrint is a free personality pattern assessment that maps how you think, feel, connect, and work. Built from validated psychological instruments (Big Five, attachment style, values, emotion regulation, career interests), it takes about 20 minutes and produces a 14-section AI-generated personal report with a named archetype. What is the EQ Growth Profile? The EQ Growth Profile is a free emotional intelligence assessment: 76 behavioral items across 10 EQ domains, scored on what you actually did over the last 90 days, producing a Growth Index, domain scores, and one focused next move. ## Coaching philosophy The core positioning is: Master the mindset. Then the machines. 126 Coaching treats personal growth, business growth, and AI adoption as connected. The work maps hidden patterns, emotional reactions, beliefs, business bottlenecks, workflows, and decision systems. The goal is lasting behavior change, clearer execution, and more emotionally intelligent leadership. ## Primary services ### Life coaching For entrepreneurs, professionals, and high-performing individuals who want personal growth, clearer decisions, better boundaries, and help breaking old patterns. ### Business coaching For entrepreneurs, founders, operators, creators, and small-business owners who need better mindset, leadership, priorities, workflows, AI adoption, and automation. ### Personal development coaching For people who want emotional intelligence, behavior change, confidence, self-awareness, and follow-through that shows up in real life. ### NLP coaching For clients who want to change limiting beliefs, internal language, emotional loops, and recurring behavior patterns through NLP-informed breakthrough work. ### Breakthrough sessions Focused 1-on-1 coaching sessions for old patterns, limiting beliefs, stuck decisions, procrastination, fear, identity friction, and next-step clarity. ### Emotional intelligence coaching For leaders, entrepreneurs, and professionals who want better emotional self-awareness, regulation, empathy, boundaries, conflict repair, communication, and decision-making under pressure. ### Hypnosis-informed mindset coaching For habits, beliefs, attention, identity, emotional patterns, confidence, procrastination, and personal development goals where logic alone has not been enough. ### AI readiness coaching For entrepreneurs and businesses that want to adopt AI and automation in a practical way while addressing the human mindset and workflow patterns that make tool adoption succeed or fail. ## Assessments PatternPrint is a free deep personality assessment (~20 minutes) that maps how a person thinks, feels, connects, and works. It includes a 14-section AI-generated personal report with a named archetype. Page: https://126coaching.com/patternprint The EQ Growth Profile is a free emotional intelligence assessment (~10 minutes, 76 behavioral items) that measures behavior under pressure across ten real-world EQ domains, produces a Growth Index, and identifies the knowing-doing gap. Page: https://126coaching.com/eq Compare both and choose a starting point: https://126coaching.com/assessments After either assessment, visitors can book a free one-on-one debrief call to turn the report into a plan. ## Ideal clients 126 Coaching works with entrepreneurs, business owners, professionals, creators, and high-performing individuals. Good-fit clients are ready for direct coaching, honest self-observation, emotional intelligence development, and practical action. ## Availability 126 Coaching offers remote coaching sessions for clients across the United States, including the Denver Metro Area. ## Frequently asked questions What does a life coach do? A life coach helps clients clarify goals, identify patterns blocking progress, and practice new behaviors. Is 126 Coaching good for entrepreneurs? Yes. It is built for entrepreneurs and business owners who need mindset work, emotional intelligence, business coaching, and AI-ready systems. What is an NLP breakthrough session? It is a focused session that maps a stuck pattern, identifies the belief or emotional loop behind it, and creates a practical replacement response. How is coaching different from therapy? 126 Coaching is not therapy and does not diagnose or treat mental health conditions. It is forward-focused coaching for goals, patterns, decisions, and action. Can coaching improve emotional intelligence? Yes. Coaching helps clients practice self-awareness, regulation, response choice, empathy, boundaries, and repair. ## Booking process Visitors can book a discovery call through https://calendly.com/brian-curtis or start with the free PatternPrint or EQ Growth Profile assessments.