About Sam
The work started with a question Sam could not put down.
Sam Murgatroyd is a life coach and author. His work is rooted in identity, honesty, belonging, and the gap between who people have learned to be and who they actually are.
Sam grew up feeling like he never quite fit in. He saw the world differently to the people around him and spent years wondering if that was something to fix.
He started writing at twelve years old, not because he had a polished plan to become a writer, but because he could not keep what he was thinking bottled up any longer. Writing became the place where the world made more sense.
That curiosity eventually led him into work alongside people at some of the hardest points in their lives. Across those environments, Sam kept seeing the same pattern: people who had spent so long becoming who they thought they had to be that they had lost sight of who they actually were.
The books came from that place. The coaching came from that place. All of it is rooted in something lived, not something lifted from a course or a textbook.
Experience behind the work
- Psychiatric hospitals
- Probation services
- Children's care homes
- SEN schools
- Drug and alcohol rehabilitation
