Today we’d like to introduce you to Tori Gordon.
Tori, we appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us today. Where does your story begin?
My path into this work wasn’t something I planned, it was something life initiated me into.
Before I was a coach, speaker, or author, I was a young woman trying to make sense of a lot of loss, grief, and chaos. Between my late teens and early adulthood, I lost six immediate family members, including my sister and my mother to cancer, and I also survived an F4 tornado. Those experiences shaped me in profound ways. On the outside, I learned how to perform, achieve, and keep moving. On the inside, my nervous system was wired for survival.
I went on to study psychology and social work because I genuinely wanted to understand people, healing, and what helps us make meaning out of pain. But it wasn’t until 2019, when I attended a healing retreat in Maui, that everything really shifted. That was my first real introduction to somatics, breathwork, nervous system regulation, parts work, and the deeper connection between the body, trauma, and spiritual awakening. It felt like I had finally found the missing piece—because for the first time, I wasn’t just understanding healing intellectually, I was experiencing it in my body.
I came home from that retreat completely changed. I launched The Coachable Podcast, started sharing what I was learning online, and unexpectedly my content began reaching millions. My business grew quickly, but so did my awareness that external success doesn’t automatically create inner peace. I realized that no amount of mindset work, manifestation, or achievement could override a nervous system that didn’t feel safe holding the life I said I wanted.
That realization led me deeper—into trauma-informed somatic work, breathwork facilitation, spiritual psychology, and psychedelic-assisted healing. It also led me into some of the hardest decisions of my life, including leaving my marriage in 2022, moving across the country, and rebuilding my life from the ground up in alignment with my deepest truth.
Since then, I’ve had the privilege of guiding hundreds of founders, executives, creatives, and seekers through their own healing and transformation—through private mentorship, immersive workshops, ceremonies, and now through my media platform How to Stay Human, which I co-founded with my partner, Kyle.
Today, my work sits at the intersection of nervous system science, spiritual awakening, and embodied leadership. I help high-performing humans build lives that feel as good on the inside as they look on the outside. And in many ways, everything I teach now is the path I had to walk myself.
Alright, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
Definitely not. I often joke that my life has felt less like a straight line and more like a series of initiations.
Long before I ever built a business, I was navigating profound loss. Between my late teens and early adulthood, I lost six immediate family members, including my sister and my mother to cancer, and I also survived an F4 tornado. Those experiences shaped me deeply. They taught me how to be strong, how to perform, how to keep moving… but they also wired my nervous system for survival.
So one of the biggest struggles on my journey hasn’t been building a business, it’s been learning how to build a life and a business from safety instead of survival.
Like a lot of entrepreneurs, I spent years operating on willpower, discipline, and achievement. From the outside, things looked successful. My podcast was growing, my content was reaching millions, and opportunities were opening, but internally I was still carrying unresolved grief, perfectionism, people-pleasing, and a deep fear that if I slowed down, everything might fall apart. There were also very real personal crossroads. In 2022, I made the difficult decision to leave my marriage, leave the life I had built, and start over from the ground up. That season asked me to stop performing a life that looked good and start building one that felt true. Professionally, I’ve had to learn that visibility doesn’t automatically equal clarity, and growth doesn’t always mean alignment. I’ve launched things that didn’t go as planned. I’ve outgrown identities, business models, partnerships, and versions of myself that once felt safe.
But honestly, every challenge has become part of the work I do now. The struggles taught me that healing isn’t about becoming someone new, it’s about creating enough safety to be who you’ve always been beneath the masks you wear..
Appreciate you sharing that. What should we know about Coachable LLC ?
At its core, my work is about helping high-performing humans build lives that feel as good on the inside as they look on the outside. I work at the intersection of nervous system science, spiritual psychology, and embodied leadership. Through private mentorship, transformational group programs, immersive workshops, medicine ceremonies, media, and now my writing, I support founders, executives, creatives, and seekers who are ready to move beyond survival mode and step into deeper alignment, emotional sovereignty, and authentic leadership.
Over the past several years, I’ve had the privilege of guiding hundreds of people through nervous system healing, trauma integration, identity work, and spiritual awakening. My work is deeply informed by my background in psychology and social work, as well as advanced training in somatics, transformational breathwork, energy healing, and psychedelic-assisted integration. What sets my work apart is that I’m not interested in helping people simply perform better. I’m interested in helping them become more whole. A lot of personal development focuses on mindset, productivity, or external success. My work starts somewhere deeper: the body, the nervous system, the subconscious, and the soul. I help people understand that you can’t sustainably create a life your body doesn’t feel safe holding.
Everything I offer is designed as an ecosystem of transformation. My foundational program, Groundwork, helps people build internal safety and emotional resilience. From there, my deeper containers support identity reconstruction, spiritual initiation, and embodied mastery.
I’m also incredibly proud of the media platform my partner Kyle and I are building called How to Stay Human—a podcast, Substack, and immersive event series exploring what it means to stay grounded, connected, and spiritually awake in an increasingly artificial world.
And this year, one of my proudest milestones has been writing my first book, ALTAR: Modern Psalms for a New Earth, which is a contemporary devotional for leaders, seekers, and anyone who feels called to live from deeper truth.
More than anything, I want people to know that my brand isn’t about self-improvement. It’s about self-remembrance. It’s about helping people come home to themselves, and then build their life, leadership, relationships, and work from that place.
Networking and finding a mentor can have such a positive impact on one’s life and career. Any advice?
One of the biggest things I’ve learned is that the right mentor doesn’t just expand your knowledge, they expand your standards, your nervous system, and your sense of what’s possible. Early on, I thought mentorship was about finding someone who had the answers. Over time, I realized it’s really about finding people whose life, relationships, integrity, and energy you genuinely respect, not just their success on paper.
My advice is to stop networking with the intention of “getting” something and start building real relationships. The most meaningful opportunities in my life and business haven’t come from perfect pitches or cold outreach. They’ve come from genuine curiosity, showing up consistently, being useful, asking thoughtful questions, and sticking around long enough for trust to build naturally. I’m also a huge believer in proximity. Put yourself in environments where the kind of people you want to become are already gathering. For me, that’s looked like investing in masterminds, retreats, wellness communities, live events, and surrounding myself with founders, creators, and leaders who challenge me to grow.
And maybe most importantly, don’t just look for mentors above you and instead look for peers who are building alongside you. Some of my most valuable relationships started as friendships with people who were in the trenches with me, and we’ve grown together. At the end of the day, people don’t remember the smartest person in the room. They remember the most present, the most genuine, and the most aligned. Lead with that, and the right relationships tend to find you.
Pricing:
- Somatic Rewiring Series 5 PRIVATE 60-MINUTE SESSIONS · $1,500
- 3-Month Somatic Healing Mentorship 10 PRIVATE 90-MINUTE SESSIONS · $4,500
- Groundwork – 6 Week Foundations to Nervous System Healing $555
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.torigordon.com
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/thetorigordon
- Youtube: https://youtube.com/torigordon
- Other: https://open.spotify.com/show/4e62a5zpupdFpkErMiEimz?si=3a1be7deb46f416f
