Grow through what you go through.
Veterans • Recovery • Transformation
Transformational coaching, hypnotherapy, and integration work for veterans, men in recovery, and anyone ready to do the deep inner work.
Book a Discovery CallSeed & Steel is the coaching practice of Bob — Army veteran, certified hypnotherapist, integration coach, and 3rd Degree Black Belt — who guides people through the kind of transformation that happens when you stop running from yourself and start doing the work.
Whether you're a veteran navigating the aftermath of service, a man in recovery doing the hardest honest work of your life, or someone standing at a crossroads wondering who you're becoming — this is a place built for that.
Meet Bob
What We Offer
Structured, direct, and grounded in real experience. Together we'll identify the fears and limiting beliefs running the show and build the daily practices that create momentum.
Learn MoreTranspersonal hypnotherapy works with the subconscious mind to surface and shift the deep patterns that keep you stuck in cycles you can't think your way out of.
Learn MoreThe real work happens in what comes after. Integration is the process of weaving powerful experiences into lasting transformation, not just a peak moment.
Learn MoreThe Design Underneath
What happens in the room isn't improvised. There's a framework built across decades of training, lived experience, and real work with real people — across four stages that most clients move through over time. Not steps on a ladder. Compass headings.
The work before the work. Clarifying what you're actually walking into. Building the resilience and the tools to lean into discomfort instead of bracing against it. Most people skip this — and wonder why they get knocked sideways when things get real.
What happens after something breaks open — a ceremony, a crisis, a breathwork session, a moment of clarity that rearranges the furniture in your head. The insight is not the transformation. Taking that flash and translating it into ordinary daily life is where it either sticks or evaporates.
Not white-knuckling through abstinence. A holistic rebuild — reclaiming identity, rebuilding self-trust, learning to live in your own skin without the thing you used to escape it. This one is known from the inside out.
The deep water. Going after the patterns that built the patterns — societal conditioning, inherited beliefs, identity constructs that were never really yours. Deprogramming that and aligning who you are with who you're meant to be. For the ones who are ready, it changes everything.
The insight is not the transformation. Taking that extraordinary flash and translating it into ordinary daily life — that's where it either sticks or evaporates.
For Those Who Served
Bob is an Army veteran who understands the weight of military service — the discipline it builds, the trauma it can leave behind, and the identity crisis that often follows transition to civilian life.
Through his role as a remote coach with Team SAPO, Bob works with veterans in structured 10-week healing cohorts designed to rebuild purpose, process unresolved trauma, and build a life that feels worth living.
Notes from Bob
Transformation
What happens in the room isn't improvised. A plain-language look at the design underneath — the four stages and what you're actually walking into.
Veterans
On hypervigilance that outlasts its mission, the invisible weapon of words, and the moment you realize you weren't just the dragon slayer — you were the dragon.
Hypnotherapy
Most people picture a swinging pocket watch. The reality is something far more powerful — and far more accessible.