About Austin & Rachel Holt | Christian Marriage Coaches & Counselors

Their Story

They answered the call

Austin and Rachel saw a gap that nobody was filling. Marriage help was either biblically serious and practically thin, or psychologically sophisticated and spiritually empty. Couples were being handed one half of what they needed.

After years of training under some of the best minds in transformational coaching, psychology, and ministry, they built the thing they could not find. Conscious Christian Marriage launched in 2017 and has since served over a thousand couples in all fifty states and internationally.

Their story is the story of the couples they serve. They have felt the tension. They have done the work. They keep doing it, in their own marriage first.

The Work Behind The Work

Who they have trained, and where they have gone

Austin and Rachel would rather talk about the couples than about themselves. But if you are going to hand someone your marriage, you should know who you are handing it to.

They train the professionals

Therapists, licensed counselors, and pastors have come through CCM as members and as students. Several now use the frameworks in their own practices and ministries. When the people whose job is helping marriages choose to be coached themselves, that tells you something.

Endorsed by clinicians

A psychologist of thirty years, a top-rated counselor and therapist of twenty-seven years, and the co-founder of The Foundation for Conscious Living have all publicly endorsed the program. Their words are on the success stories page, unedited.

Couples in fifty states and beyond

More than a thousand couples across all fifty states and several countries. Members join CCM calls from different continents and time zones.

Hired to lead events internationally

Austin and Rachel have been brought in to lead marriage events and trainings, domestically and abroad, for churches and organizations that wanted more than a motivational weekend.

Speaking in churches

They have spoken at churches across the country, from Sunday services to leadership trainings to multi-day marriage intensives. They also equip church leaders to support the marriages already sitting in their pews.

Trained by the best, on purpose

Years of travel and training under leading minds in transformational coaching and psychology, then years of testing every bit of it against Scripture. They kept what held up and threw out what did not.

None of that is the reason to trust us. The reason is what happens in your marriage after ninety days.

Not Just Coaches

They live the thing they teach

Austin

Christian, husband, father, and self-described life hobbyist. He loves marriage, ministry, parenting, coffee, and being outdoors, roughly in that order depending on the day. His actual gift is deep transformational work in the hearts and minds of other people, helping them show up exactly as God made them to.

Rachel

Christian, wife, mother, homesteader, and homeschooler. She loves fuzzy blankets, snuggles with Austin and their four kids, quiet time with Jesus, and singing worship music. She has a particular calling to equip women to live impactful, joy-filled lives and to build real friendships with other women while they do it.

They homeschool their four children and run a homestead. They serve and lead as volunteers at their local church. They are owners and investors in several companies. All of it happens in the same week, in the same house, with the same marriage they are asking you to build. That is the point. They are not teaching from a whiteboard.

The Short Version

Who they are outside the coaching room

Family

Married 13 years, parents to four kids they homeschool, on a farm they love in the Lee's Summit area of Missouri.

Faith

Deeply involved with Hope City Church in Harrisonville, Missouri. Faith is not a backdrop to what they do. It is the foundation.

Business

Owners and investors in multiple companies. They know what it is to be driven and still show up fully at home.

Coaching History

CCM launched in 2017. Membership, courses, retreats, and private coaching since.

Life on the Farm

Outside constantly, cooking great food, enjoying the good old days while they are in them. The farm hosts the spring and fall gatherings.

Their Standard

Fully committed to helping Christ-centered couples experience marriage the way God intended. They know they are not everyone's cup of tea, and they are fine with that.

The Word That Defines Them

Me'od

Hebrew, found in the heart of the Shema, Deuteronomy 6:5

It translates as muchness, very, or with everything you have. There is no half-measure with Austin and Rachel. They pursue God, their marriage, their family, and their calling with Me'od, and they call the couples they work with to do the same.

This is not a program for couples looking for quick fixes. It is for the couple who is done playing small with their marriage.

How We Run This

It is not the Austin and Rachel show

The mission is bigger than the two of them, and they build it that way on purpose. Members who have done the work for years now train in the year-long Conscious Christian Coaching certification and lead calls themselves. That is the point. A couple walks in needing help and eventually becomes the person helping someone else.

CCM is also not infinitely scalable, and that is on purpose. Austin and Rachel answer their own emails. There is no bot writing back to you. The community grows almost entirely through members telling their friends rather than through advertising, which means the room stays full of people who actually want to be in it.

We know we are not everyone's flavor. Some couples have left because of it. We would rather be clear than popular.

Meet Austin & Rachel