Story & Lesson Highlights with Rachel Langston

We’re looking forward to introducing you to Rachel Langston. Check out our conversation below.

Rachel, we’re thrilled to have you with us today. Before we jump into your intro and the heart of the interview, let’s start with a bit of an ice breaker: What is something outside of work that is bringing you joy lately?
This past summer, I decided to grow some tomatoes in my backyard and it opened the world of gardening to me. I have never enjoyed the heat of the summer OR being dirty and sweaty but something flipped in me when I started digging in the dirt and I am hooked.

What started as something small became much bigger! Before the summer was over, I was building terraced beds, ordering seed catalogs, and watching homesteaders on YouTube. I have zero plans to be a homesteader, but I have been inspired by those stories to not be afraid to try some DIY things. AND, I am enjoying the process of watching to see what happens. Some things grow; some things don’t. I am enjoying the process, either way, and not focusing so much on the outcome is very freeing.

Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
After a 20+ year career in education, technology, and communications, I became an Executive Functioning coach. I work with HS & College Students and Young Adults to help them learn and improve skills like personal organization, time management, task initiation, and decision-making.

Before I knew the term “executive functioning”, I saw a need for students that were struggling with these processes. When I realized that the need was widespread, I opened the coaching practice. It’s an interesting niche because, it’s not tutoring and it’s not life coaching, but it includes elements of both of those things.

Let me say that starting my own business in my 50’s was NEVER something I imagined, but I have to say it’s been one of the best decisions of my life. This coaching practice is the perfect culmination of the things I am naturally gifted in paired with all of my previous professional and life experience and I love it!

One of the things that makes my work unique is that I am not teaching a specific program or formula. Instead, my work with clients targets their specific needs, challenges, and way of thinking. Focus On Fewer is my coaching philosophy and it is the mindset that I work to give to all my clients.

The practice is growing and, in 2026, I’ll begin offering group workshops to address common problems/questions and allow for people to experience coaching in smaller segments. I’m very excited about what is ahead!

Thanks for sharing that. Would love to go back in time and hear about how your past might have impacted who you are today. What part of you has served its purpose and must now be released?
I love this question!

The first thing that comes to mind is that I am finished with the part of me that feels the need to prove myself. I have had lots of opportunities to be the “first”, especially in some professional areas. I am very proud of those firsts. What I know now, as I am getting older, is that no one walking those paths today has any idea who built them and that’s ok.
I know I was blessed to be in those positions at those times; I was capable and diligent in the work I did; and I received as much, if not more, than I gave.

As a person of faith, I know that my worth and my purpose are not in my accomplishments, and I am grateful to be at a point in my life where I am as secure in that knowledge as I am in anything that I have ever done or achieved.

What did suffering teach you that success never could?
Suffering has looked very different for me at different times in my life. Sometimes, I have been the one suffering and, other times, I have suffered “indirectly” as the main burden was on someone I loved.

While the circumstances of my suffering have been different, I have learned to keep showing up no matter what. So often, the battle isn’t what we do, it’s what we think. In order to keep showing up, I have to stay in the mindset that motivates me to not let the suffering overtake me.

Even on my worst days, there is so much greater suffering than what I am experiencing! Maybe I can’t control the circumstances that are causing my suffering. But I can control my response to that suffering! So, I keep showing up until I can look around and see that I’ve made it to the other side of the suffering and continue moving forward.

So a lot of these questions go deep, but if you are open to it, we’ve got a few more questions that we’d love to get your take on. What do you believe is true but cannot prove?
I believe every single word of the Bible is true!

Some of it seems strange and impossible.
Some of it seems illogical and beyond comprehension.
Some of it seems harsh and judgmental.
Some of it seems outdated and uninformed.

And I readily admit that there is so much of it that I can’t understand or explain.

Even so, I believe.

I believe we were created by a God that existed before time began.

I believe that the first humans disobeyed God and that sin separates all of us from Him.

I believe that God provided a way for us to be reconciled to Him.

I believe that Jesus came to earth in the form of a human; that he lived a perfect life; that he was crucified and buried; and that he rose from the grave to defeat death and provide for my salvation.

I believe that because of my faith in Christ, I am reconciled to God and that I will spend eternity with Him.

I believe that anyone that chooses to believe God can experience reconciliation just as I have.

And I hope that everyone that hasn’t done so before will choose to do that now!

Thank you so much for all of your openness so far. Maybe we can close with a future oriented question. If you knew you had 10 years left, what would you stop doing immediately?
Staying at home and constantly thinking about financial security!

I would travel and see all the things and places that I want to see. I don’t even have a list of all the places I would want to go. I just know that there are so many places in this world that I haven’t seen and I would want to see them all.

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