Most coaches pick a side. They work with teens, or they work with parents, or they work with corporates. Rarely all three. Almost never with the actual people standing in between. I think that is the problem. Here is what most people do not know: the silence is not rejection. It is protection. Gen Z is not hiding things because they do not trust you. They are hiding things because they do not want to add their pain to yours. I learned this the hard way, sitting in my own living room, when my kids told a room full of people exactly that. The anxiety in a 16-year-old and the helplessness a parent feels watching it happen are not two separate issues. They are one conversation that broke down somewhere, and nobody in the room has been trained to fix it from both sides at once. I have. Before I became Dr. Gurminder Rawal, ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC) and Founder of Mantranaa, I spent 7 years researching honeybee behaviour for my M.Sc. & PhD, 4 years as a forensic serologist at FSL Madhuban, and 10+ years teaching Biology to teenagers, 7 of which were dedicated to Scottish High International School. I have sat across crime scene evidence and across a sobbing student in equal measure. That mix is rare. I built my entire coaching practice on it. Using NLP, ICF-certified coaching frameworks and two decades of real behavioural science, not theory I read once, I help: → Gen Z professionals and students name and manage what they are actually feeling → Organizations bridge the generational friction quietly costing them their best young talent → Parents and educators communicate without triggering the very shutdown they are trying to avoid The results: 700+ lives impacted, 95% of clients reporting measurable change in confidence, stress and relationships. I do not believe in picking a side of the gap. I believe in standing in the middle of it, where the real work happens. If that is the kind of coach you have been looking for, let us talk. Book a 30-Minute Clarity Call (Link in Featured section). P.S. My own two kids once told me, in front of a room full of people, that they never share their real struggles with me because they do not want to add to mine. That conversation is the reason Mantranaa exists!