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According to Dennis Gaudet, this picture-perfect life can be yours—for a small fee. He promises a better life, with “virtually no concerns or problems.” He brags that he can help you get “as many truly great friends as you want” while showing you how to “have great time in life...
Though he promises the moon, Gaudet is no fairy godmother. He’s not even a licensed psychologist. He is, by his own description, a life coach. So far, six Harvard students have signed up for his daily dish of encouragement, enthusiasm and empathy...
Each week, 45-year-old Gaudet speaks with his client for a few hours on the phone, helping them to form concrete plans for achieving abstract goals. He says, “Coaching is very experimental. I try to get people from where they are to where they want to be.” Gaudet continues, “It’s like being in a lab—sometimes you get a cure for cancer and sometimes you get glop. It’s okay, you just try something else...
...Though Gaudet is not at Harvard as an official campus life coach, he is an University employee. On a typical day, he works as a teaching assistant for the Extension School, teaching several classes a day in both introductory psychology and basic math. Outside the classroom, Gaudet spends much of his day on the phone, talking clients through all sorts of personal issues, ranging from the mundane to the bizarre. “I actually had a client who wanted to work on his relationship with his dog. The man was a control freak and his dog was apparently...
...Stempniak is a guy that seems to get free more easily with his skating ability,” Gaudet said. “Hugh is such a big, tall kid that sometimes it’s tough to get going when people are on him like [Welch and Hafner...