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FOUNDER TO THE PROFILE
Scott Roberts
Life Coach Time Stewardship Coach, Lighthouse Coaching & Consulting
““Everyone gets 168 hours each and every week. Busy people wake up and react. Productive people plan the night before.” "I’m not selling hustle. I’m selling your life back"”
About
Scott Roberts knows what a 100-hour work week costs. For 19 years, he worked 80 to 100 hours a week, splitting his time between church staff work, IT, and a coaching practice on the side. Then his heart forced the issue. Triple bypass surgery stopped him cold and made him rethink how he spent every hour.
He rebuilt his days one hour at a time, and he tested every process on himself first. Those results became the Perfect Day Blueprint, the framework he now teaches clients and lays out in his book of the same name.
Today Scott is a life coach and the founder of Lighthouse Coaching and Consulting. He works with busy professionals and leaders on time stewardship, productivity, and leadership development. He also speaks to groups on time management and leadership. His clients don’t get theory. They get the same system he used to get his own life back.
Scott holds a degree from Bible college, with a major in pastoral assistant studies and a minor in pastoral counseling. He’s completed life coaching certifications in wellness, time-based, leadership, grief, and trauma coaching. He’s a Professional Certified Christian Life Coach through ICCI and an active ICCI member. He also serves as a certified mentor for I Lead in Love and helps write the program’s curriculum.
Ask Scott about his success, and he’ll point to one thing. He lives what he teaches. He doesn’t ask clients to do anything he didn’t do himself, starting with his own recovery.
Key Areas Of Focus
- 01. coaching and mentoring
- 02. expert leadership development
- 03. career advancement strategies
- 04. and relationship-building techniques
IN HIS OWN WORDS
The Q and A
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What do you attribute your success to?
I practiced what I preached. Simple as that.
After my heart surgery, I didn’t sit down and write a book. I went to work on myself first. I tracked every hour of my week. I cut what didn’t matter. I rebuilt my days around what did. Only after I’d lived every piece of the system did I write the first page of The Perfect Day Blueprint.
Testing all of this on myself gave me something no certification ever could. Passion for the work, and the credibility to back up what I say.
So when I coach someone today, I’m not handing them theory. I’m handing them the same system that got me out of an 80 hour week and gave me my life back.
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02
What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
The best career advice I ever got didn’t come from a boss or a business book. It came from a chaplain, a nurse, and a physical therapist while I was recovering from triple bypass surgery.
All three told me the same thing. “God’s not finished with you yet. Take time to stop, shut up, and listen to what He has to tell you.”
For 19+ years I’d worked 80 to 100 hours a week. I thought busy meant valuable. Stopping felt like failure. But lying in that hospital bed, I didn’t have a choice.
So I stopped. I got quiet. And I listened.
Everything I do now came out of those weeks. My coaching practice, my book The Perfect Day Blueprint, and the way I help leaders take back their 168 hours. I don’t teach people to do more. I teach them to stop long enough to figure out what matters.
I still follow that advice every day. Some days I need it more than others.
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03
What advice would you give to young men entering your industry?
My advice to young men going into coaching or counseling is simple. Pick an area you care about deeply. Then live the work before you teach the work.
Clients know the difference. They’ll spot someone reciting a method in about five minutes. They’ll also spot someone who’s been where they are.
Your own experience gives you things no certification course will. Stories people remember. Empathy you didn’t have to fake. Answers that come from what you went through, not what you read.
And you’ll need the passion. Some weeks progress is slow. Clients push back. They cancel. If you don’t care about the problem, those are the weeks you’ll quit.
So here’s my rule. If you don’t love the problem you’re solving, go find a different problem.
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04
What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
My biggest challenge is people.
Every client shows up with a different style, a different pace, and a different way of getting things done. I’m analytical by nature. I like structure. Clear steps. Processes I can measure. Plenty of my clients don’t work that way, and I’ve learned I can’t force my approach on them. I have to meet each person where they are.
That takes work. And I’ll be honest, I don’t always get the fit right on the first try.
But the same challenge turns out to be my biggest opportunity. Every client teaches me something new about how people think and how they work. I carry those lessons into the next coaching relationship. So each person I work with makes me a better coach for the one who comes after them.
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05
What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
I build my values into my calendar. Three things get time blocks I won’t move. God, family, and me. Everything else fits around them.
Monday nights belong to my family. No client calls. No meetings. No catching up on email. I guard those evenings the same way I’d guard an appointment with my biggest client. Actually, harder. My family matters more than any client ever will.
Time with God gets the same protection. So does time for my own health and rest. I learned the hard way what happens when work fills every hour of the week. I ended up in a hospital bed. I’m not going back.
Here’s what I tell people. If a value doesn’t show up on your schedule, you don’t hold that value. You hold an intention.
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