About Me

Professional coach James Gibb helps executives, leaders, and senior professionals live more balanced and meaningful lives

About James

I started Deep Life Journey in the summer of 2022 as a passion project. I wanted to create a place to share my writing, reflections, and photography. Over time, it became a platform for exploring how we can live and lead with more clarity, intention, and fulfilment.

Deep Life Journey is built on three core principles:

Intention allows us to make choices that resonate with our values and aspirations, forming the building blocks of our future.

Balance promotes harmony across all areas of life, nurturing us professionally, personally, and spiritually.

Cultivation involves investing in our talents, relationships, and passions with patience, care, and dedication.

These three principles—Intention, Balance, and Cultivation—have shaped many of the choices I’ve made in my own life.

In 2012, I moved from my home country of Scotland to Dubai with little more than two suitcases. It was a fantastic place to meet people from nearly every corner of the world. Just recently, I made another leap, this time from Dubai to Murcia, Spain. Murcia’s slower pace of life, strong sense of community, and closeness to the mountains and coastline all line up with what I want this next chapter to be.

I’ve also strived for balance, building a rewarding career while making time for exercise, relationships, travel, personal passions, and continuous learning and reflection.

Deep Life Journey has naturally evolved into a place where I also offer my professional services. It’s a home for both my creative pursuits and my consulting and coaching partnerships. I’ve worked with many successful people and perhaps I can help you too.

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I’ve always had a strong focus on health and wellbeing. Inspired by my grandfather, who was a professional footballer for Leicester City, I’ve followed a lifelong passion for sport, especially football and running. As an ambassador for ASICS and a three-time marathon finisher, I promote a sound mind in a sound body as part of a comprehensive approach to health.

This focus became even more crucial in December 2023, when I underwent open-heart surgery to replace a severely damaged heart valve. I wrote about the experience and recovery, and how the mindset I’d developed over the years as a runner, together with support from my family and friends, helped me meet the challenge with clarity and perspective.

I’ve always been grateful for my health, and never more so than today.

I also love film and cinema, playing my Gibson J-35 acoustic guitar, photography, world history, and reading—I aim for three books a month, mixing up fiction and non-fiction. I enjoy visiting places that interest or inspire me, good conversations, and helping others wherever I can.

Whether you’re interested in working together or simply want to follow along through my essays, reflections, and photography, I invite you to spend some time exploring Deep Life Journey.

Feel free to drop me a message if something resonates.

James

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