Client Stories

I started coaching with Dragan when I was unsure about my career. I didn’t know if I had made the right choice and truly wasn’t happy. In the very first meeting with Dragan, he made me feel safe and I was able to open up to him right away. Dragan heard me out, and asked me some questions. At the end of the session I didn’t realized I had self-discover so many things I was not aware of myself. I felt like a huge weight had lifted and I felt focus and clear on what I needed to do next. I couldn’t wait for my next session! During my next session, Dragan as a great coach asked the right questions and I discovered even more about myself, things that I had carried from my childhood. It just amazed me to learn that some habits I have as an adult and the way I am comes from far back in my life. By being aware of this, it helped me tremendously identify next steps and how to deal with certain situations. Thanks Dragan for all your help, thanks to you I’m in a better place mentally and emotionally.

- Alejandra

In December 2022, I eliminated an extremely toxic person from my life. He is the quintessential definition of a narcissist. During the last seven years, and more specifically the past couple of years my husband and I introduced some of our friends to the narcissist.

I rocked the boat, suddenly, I became the “bad guy,” for not going along with the trouble making and toxic behavior exhibited by the narcissist, and was scapegoated by the group that we basically introduced him to. I reached out to Dragan for some support and guidance in January 2023.

Dragan’s coaching is very insightful, it’s given me a healthier perspective on life, and has allowed me to develop tools to overcome the narcissist, and the overall destructive dynamics within the entire group: Lingering negative effects, frustration, unhappy feelings, anger, and self-doubt. Narcissist’s love “people pleasers,” and they will hone in on them. With Dragan’s support I am less of a people pleaser! Dragan helped me identify that the more I did for him, the more I accommodated him, the more I put myself and my life second the worse it will get. With Dragan’s coaching I learned getting rid of toxic people from my life gives me the time and energy to develop my own path forward. No longer am I endlessly burden or stressed out about doing and accommodating a narcissist, no longer worried about being singled out, or rejected. This newfound freedom gives me the necessary time, support, and positive energy to advance my own interests, desires, and create a new journey forward.

Dragan always asks the tough questions, and he gets me to think beyond the superficial or easy solutions. He gets me to dig deeper and find the core feelings, issues, or what is actually right for me, and being honest. He empowers me to overcome adversity, think differently, and to not immediately react, which at times is still difficult to do.

Dragan’s coaching is refreshingly positive. He makes me feel comfortable, safe, and is gifted with a genuine understanding about human interactions. Indeed, his coaching has supported me as I overcame adversity, and more importantly he has helped me free myself from a toxic narcissistic relationship. I am sincerely thankful to Dragan, and highly recommend him.

- John

I found the coaching sessions Dragan provided to be very helpful to me as I try to deal with various self-defeating behaviors that have held me back professionally. He provided me with guidance on how I can overcome these behaviors in a positive manner. Most importantly, he did this by helping me find the answers myself rather than giving them to me - a mark of an excellent coach. Overall, I found my experience working with Dragan to be a very positive experience.

- Brian

I began working with Dragan as I was gearing up for a career change. Every day was a struggle as I suffered through a job that did not align with my interests and talents. Dragan helped me take the risks necessary to get me to where I needed and wanted to be. He taught me to take ownership of my future and stop living the life others wanted for me. By being held accountable, I made big changes and am thrilled to be in a fulfilling career now. I'm grateful for Dragan's kindness and realness and look forward to working with him again in the future.

- Jake

I had the opportunity to work with Dragan as a coach when I was at a point in my career that I wanted to figure out my next path forward. My time with Dragan was extremely helpful to figure that out. Without Dragan's help I would not have made the leap to change my work so drastically and I am much happier with my new path. I highly recommend Dragan. If you are looking for a significant, positive transformation in your life he's a great person to help guide that change.

- Karl

It is not an understatement that working with Dragan was the catalyst that finally wrenched me away from endless damaging cycles of interpersonal relationships. With re-established boundaries, informed empathy, and an understanding of what is in my control, I feel empowered with an ever-evolving identity and pride.

My journey will continue, setbacks will occur, the external world will always present challenges and new lessons which I now understand as opportunities. I know I will experience these and take that which has most meaning in partnership with Dragan.

For anyone who says to themselves “I think I know the WHY, but WHAT do I do about it?”, I cannot recommend a better life coach, resource, or partner in lasting personal growth than Dragan Mitric.

- Tom

I have a successful career and am out at work. I felt that my gay identity had a big impact on how I am in my professional life, but spent most of my career focused on fitting in and trying to make the fact that I am gay irrelevant. I worked hard and looked the part, and this led to professional success, but not the kind of happiness that I desired. I approached Dragan to discuss how being gay affects me at work. Through a series of discussions and gentle challenge, we talked about how my gay identity shows up, and how it influences my actions and thinking. I came to see that I spent a large part of my life doing things that aim to convince others (and probably mostly myself) that I am worthy of being where I am. Although I have been out at work for a number of years, my existence was nevertheless very straight, and actually I was not really open with close colleagues in a way that facilitated deep friendships – there was always a barrier between my work and my gay identity that would not be crossed; the cost of this was a difficulty in establishing and maintaining deep friendships. I also realised how fragile my own view of me as a successful professional was, and that anything that might threaten that was seen as a major disaster. Following coaching with Dragan, I no longer feel a need to constantly prove how good I am, I don’t feel threatened in the way I used to, and my workplace friendships are deeper than they used to be. This has led to better life balance and satisfaction overall.

-Mat

I've had the pleasure of working with Dragan as my career coach and I can't recommend him highly enough. He has truly helped me adopt a growth mindset and embrace the various changes in my career and role with confidence. One of the most impactful aspects of our sessions was how Dragan helped me recognize and highlight my strengths while also embracing my weaknesses. He guided me in turning these weaknesses into opportunities to better understand myself, find my own pace, and deal with challenges more effectively. Moreover, Dragan is just pleasant to talk to. If you're looking for a coach who can help you grow both personally and professionally, Dragan is the one to go to.

-Dmytro Netesov