About Vaughn Gray
This Work Is The Reason Your World Is About To Change
Mission
I blend a scientific understanding of the brain and body with a profoundly intuitive approach to spiritually oriented coaching, helping high achievers find connection, meaning, and purpose.
Career
I started coaching in 2003 with a focus on human health and optimizing health by aligning nutrition, exercise, and lifestyle with human biological design. In essence, I taught people to eat and live the way their DNA is designed to. After a few years I noticed a pattern about who could change their health and their life and who stayed stuck. In general, my clients who were happier and more emotionally balanced were able to change how they lived and get healthier – at least to an extent. My clients who were less happy and less balanced either couldn’t make changes or would change for a time, get good results, then self-sabotage and undo their progress. I wanted to figure out why this was such a consistent pattern and figure out a real way that people could change their inner state.
With time I shed some light on this, changed my life, and learned how to share what I learned. This is the basis for my coaching now. I teach my clients how to shift their inner state. And on the basis of this inner change, create real and meaningful change in their outer lives.
Education
I hold a BA Magna Cum Laude in Biology and Philosophy from Amherst College (2000), an MA with Honors in Human Science from Oxford University (2003) where I studied as a Rhodes Scholar and won the departmental prize for top dissertation with the 2nd highest marks in department history, a Postgraduate Diploma with Distinction from the University of Stirling in Evolutionary Psychology (2017) and a certificate in integrative nutrition through The Institute for Integrative Nutrition (2007). I also studied clinical medicine at Weil Cornell Medical School for two years before withdrawing in 2007 to pursue my career in spiritual teaching and integrative health.
Personal Life
Spirituality, meditation, community, staying healthy, and music are at the core of my personal life. What really drives me is the question: “How do we live best”. Human potential is my inspiration, and spirituality has emerged as my greatest passion because I have seen the dimensions of human potential that authentic spiritual process unlocks. It’s beyond what most people are ready to believe, but not beyond what they can experience with training.
In addition to spiritual coaching, I am also a successful real estate investor with a significant portfolio of income producing rental properties.