re: OT's opinion on "Life Coaches"

Alex Honnold's girlfriend Sanni McCandless is a "life coach." Would you hire her for "coaching" sessions?



She's 26 years old. WTF does she know about life? One thing young people can't understand is just how many years it takes to acquire some true wisdom.

Sanni almost single-handedly destroyed Alex's dream. As the Free Solo film well-documented, Alex got two serious injuries after getting together with Sanni. As Alex says in the film, he hadn't had an injury in seven years, and suddenly he had two bad injuries in a short time, while training to do the hardest climb of his life. And she was trying to train him emotionally at the wrong fricking time. Her interference with his life and training actually made the climb more dramatic, because you wonder if she wussified him too much (even though we already knew the end result). In other words, this film was a terrible indictment of her skills as a "life coach."

(She does deserve some credit though. The best thing she did in the film was drive back home a couple of days before he did the climb).