21 Gatekeeper, LLC

21 Gatekeeper, LLC Gatekeeper Coach | Standing at the Threshold Where Truth Authorizes Movement Welcome! My name is Michael and I am the owner/operator of 21 Gatekeeper.

I have a diverse background in law enforcement and private security. My background includes being a Police Officer; Police Academy Training in both Alabama and Michigan (Apparently, I love being yelled at). I have worked in Private Security ranging from Corporate Level, Substance Abuse Clinics, Sex Offender Housing, Executive Protection details, Armed and Unarmed Security, Supervisory positions, and more. For the past 6 years I have been focusing on security efforts within Houses of Worship fulfilling my calling to "Protect the Flock". Since that time, I realized there was a strong need for TRAINING and discovered that I had a passion for developing and empowering others to Protect their Flock-whether that is their house of worship, home, work, school, or their community. To equip and empower individuals to be true PEACEMAKERS within conflict. However, in order to effectively resolve conflict on a daily basis, a Peacemaker has to know WHO they were created to be, to know their true given IDENTITY. If you don't know WHO you are, then you are just responding to daily situations in a False Identity created by lies and insecurities from yourself and others. If that's the case, then how can you restore Peace in your community, if you don't have Peace within? That's why 21 Gatekeeper was created... To develop 21st Century Peacemakers who know their true Identity, in order so they can protect and restore Peace wherever they are presently at.

Chuches and Parents:Today’s teens are not lacking information.They are overwhelmed by voices.Pressure.Confusion.Decision...
01/25/2026

Chuches and Parents:

Today’s teens are not lacking information.
They are overwhelmed by voices.

Pressure.
Confusion.
Decisions made without grounding in Kingdom identity.

This is not a failure of youth ministry.
It is a capacity issue.

21 Gatekeeper Teen Coaching is not a replacement for pastors or youth leaders.
It is an extension of care.

It gives local churches access to individualized coaching for students without hiring staff or creating new programs, supports teens who need more than group settings allow, and adds a layer of care that reinforces—not competes with—the church’s teaching and leadership.

Youth pastors remain the primary spiritual leaders.
This coaching supports maturity, responsibility, and alignment within the church’s framework.

Parents: If you are reading this and recognize your teen needs focused support, you may reach out directly. No church partnership required.

Learn more:

My Coaching approach with Teens:
21gatekeeper.com/coaching-for-teens

Church Partnerships:
21gatekeeper.com/churches-and-non-profits

From false momentum to authorized movement

01/22/2026

Coming up March 28th here in Grand Rapids, MI 😃

Among the speakers will be Trevor from Trinity Training and Security , AND Mike from 21 Gatekeeper, LLC 😃👍

Use promo code "Gentle Response" for 10% discount! 💲

01/19/2026

The local church carries unseen weight.

Leadership decisions.
Spiritual responsibility.
Faithfulness under pressure.

There is a professional way to support church leaders that strengthens what God has already entrusted to them.

https://21gatekeeper.com/churches-and-non-profits




This morning’s perspective at a SLC-sponsored training, moments before taking the floor.Grateful for Security Leaders Co...
01/17/2026

This morning’s perspective at a SLC-sponsored training, moments before taking the floor.

Grateful for Security Leaders Coalition for utilizing 21 Gatekeeper, and to Christian Community Church for hosting and opening their doors to the region.
https://www.securityleaderscoalition.org

We had strong representation from multiple churches and ministries. Worship, tech, ushers, medical, security, children’s, and more.
That matters. Because the Gate is not held by one role. It is held by posture.

Today’s training was

At the Gate: Discernment of Advancing Harm,

21 Gatekeeper’s approach to observational skills and threat recognition.

The Gate is the threshold between what is false and what is true.
Between our natural lens and a Kingdom lens.
Between where we are and where God is calling us.

Standing at the Gate disciplines what we observe, governs the words that leave our mouth, and shapes the decisions and actions that follow. If the Gate is compromised, everything downstream is compromised.

One of the largest groups SLC has gathered for training. Praying leaders choose discernment before movement, and responsibility before reaction.

For organizations and individuals looking for coaching or training, understand this clearly.
This is not motivational coaching.
This is not performance enhancement.
This is not forward motion at all costs.

21 Gatekeeper exists to interrupt false ground, restrain misaligned movement, and restore decision integrity before action is authorized. It does not fit neatly into the training and coaching industry. It was never meant to.

If you are responsible for people, decisions, or protection, and you know something in the current coaching and training world feels hollow or incomplete, you already know why this work exists.

https://21gatekeeper.com/

That is 21 Gatekeeper.
Standing at the Gate.

Sometimes the Gate is not an obstacle…it’s the place where truth shows up. https://21gatekeeper.com
01/15/2026

Sometimes the Gate is not an obstacle…it’s the place where truth shows up.

https://21gatekeeper.com

Developing resilient, purpose-driven people for workplaces, churches, and teams.

01/14/2026

Most conflict isn’t about facts.
It’s about the story someone believes when pressure hits.

That story drives the reaction.
The reaction creates the damage.

The difference is made by those who pause, test the story, and act from what’s real.

A Kingdom-Focused Coaching Standard for Your MarriageThis is a longer post, but it speaks to something I believe will be...
01/08/2026

A Kingdom-Focused Coaching Standard for Your Marriage

This is a longer post, but it speaks to something I believe will be genuinely beneficial for you, your spouse, your family—and the legacy-shaping impact your marriage can have on others.

I’ll be upfront: I’m biased. I’m the one offering it.

It’s called Kingdom Covenant Coaching.

And it’s exactly what it sounds like—coaching designed for married couples who are believers in Jesus and who want to lead their marriage with intention, clarity, and purpose.

This focus grew out of my own frustrations and observations with what’s currently available for married couples of believers.
And the current mindset of the typical Go-To’s with the therapists and counselors.

If a marriage is struggling, in need of repair, or in crisis, there are clear lanes we walk in: marriage and family counseling or therapy, counseling with a pastor, and marriage retreats. Some of those are great and can be helpful for particular couples, particular seasons, or particular weekends to reset.

But there is a space and a type of couple that I believe is being neglected…
Marriages that are doing okay to well. I know that sounds strange, but I’m talking about a movement for marriages that doesn’t fit into the parameters of those existing lanes. Not out of ego or denial, but because you’re simply not in that season, belief system, or pathway.

Couples who sense, We don’t need marriage counseling from our pastor or a therapist. We don’t need therapy focused on repair. We don’t need programs built around set curriculum, workbooks, videos, and “experts” telling us how our marriage should look, what to say, or how it should operate. Not because we have too much pride, or ego, but because we are just not in that place right now.
This is for the couple who knows there is a fire within that you want to ignite or grow bigger for the Kingdom….Purpose. Impact. Mission. Next level of what a marriage looks like for the Kingdom.

Every marriage is in a different season, with different strengths and challenges, different belief systems. They’re unique. Why? Because that’s how God made us…with strategic purpose and design.

In many of these marriage programs & support environments, I find myself analyzing the content and becoming focused on taking a position, becoming defensive, focusing on how “we” aren’t like that couple that this applies to…and most cases it’s reasonable. In those programs the participating couple is often expected to conform to the program rather than be seen and met at a level for who they actually are.

There are few things that trigger me more than someone telling me how to run operations or lead people, coming in with ego-driven solutions without first being present with humility…listening, seeing, understanding the environment, the people, or the reality for us.
And because Marriage is no different and deserves better than that, Kingdom Covenant Coaching intentionally operates at a different level of serving couples right where they’re at.

I believe each of us has been uniquely and strategically designed by God. He is the only true authority to set the framework. He knows who we are, where we are, and where He is calling us within the Kingdom mission of being in relationship with Him, with others, and making Him known through our careers, church, community, and marriage.

This coaching is NOT advice giving. You don’t want to hear from me how your marriage should function. I'm not acting as an authoritative leader over you. You’re not coming to me because you need help…far from it…you would be implementing me as a tool to strategically position your marriage for precise ex*****on of its Kingdom mission.

My role is to stand in your corner—present, clear, and focused.
I help surface blind spots, reflect what’s really happening, and ask the questions most couples never slow down enough to face.

This is Identity-Driven Executive Coaching for your marriage.
The same way leaders invest in coaching to sharpen how they think, lead, and execute, this work applies to an even higher standard to your covenant.

There are no prescribed opinions. No scripts. No workbooks.
Because you are not generic—and neither is your marriage. God is precise in how He forms people and how He joins them. This work honors that precision by meeting you where you are, not forcing you into someone else’s framework.

Between leading trainings, investing in my own development, and navigating the constant noise of competing opinions, I’ve come to deeply value coaching in its purest form.

Coaching that doesn’t act as the expert. Coaching that doesn’t give advice, but guides, asks probing questions, and encourages exploration. Sometimes even creating a little tension, all for the purpose of empowering people to live authentically as who they are in Christ.

If you’re done with comparisons, done with set frameworks, done with experts and prescribed curriculum grading what success looks like, this may be worth considering.

Living out Kingdom purpose in your marriage. Taking things to the next level. Not allowing ego, fear, or the flesh to keep us from stepping fully into our Kingdom mission through our Kingdom marriage, for the King Himself.

If you want more information:

Equipping people, covenants, and organizations to move with purpose

What if your marriage isn’t broken… just being called forward?Most marriage support falls into familiar lanes.Counseling...
01/06/2026

What if your marriage isn’t broken… just being called forward?

Most marriage support falls into familiar lanes.
Counseling. Therapy. Meeting with a pastor.
Important spaces, especially when things are falling apart.

But what about marriages that aren’t in crisis?

Newlyweds.
Couples five, ten, twenty years in.
Faithful, committed marriages that are doing well and still sense there’s more.

More purpose.
More clarity.
More Kingdom impact through their marriage.

That space has largely gone uncharted.

What if you could gain clarity and direction before counseling was ever necessary?
What if you had someone in your corner between or beyond marriage retreats, helping you move forward in real life, not just a weekend away?
What if your marriage had a space focused on where you’re being called next, not just where you’ve been?

Kingdom Covenant Coaching exists for couples in that season.
Not a program. Not a curriculum. Not a one-size-fits-all process.

It’s a space for real, in-the-moment coaching that meets a marriage where it is and helps it move forward with intention and direction.

Marriage was never meant to simply work.
It was meant to move.

Learn more here:
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Equipping people, covenants, and organizations to move with purpose

This year is ending.What you avoided.What you outgrew.What you know cannot come with you.A year from now, you will not b...
12/21/2025

This year is ending.

What you avoided.
What you outgrew.
What you know cannot come with you.

A year from now, you will not be wondering if things could be different.
You’ll be living the result of the choice you make now.

Coaching is not improvement.
It is alignment.
It clears what is false so what is true can lead.

I’m Mike. I work with people who are ready to live from who they are—not who they’ve been managing.

Twelve months from now is already forming.

Begin here:

Developing resilient, purpose-driven people for workplaces, churches, and teams.

Forge: Identity-Driven Coaching for Men in High-Demand LivesMost men carry weight they never speak of — pressure to perf...
12/06/2025

Forge: Identity-Driven Coaching for Men in High-Demand Lives

Most men carry weight they never speak of — pressure to perform, provide, lead. Underneath the roles is a man shaped by expectation, shame, comparison, past wounds… a man trying to carry that weight and lead from a borrowed identity.

Forge isn’t about becoming “a better man.” It’s about recovering the true man God designed — the one whose identity was spoken over him before the world ever shaped him.

If you’re tired of leading from pressure and performance, and you want to lead from truth, calling and Kingdom authority — then Forge is for you.

Check out this link for information on FORGE:

https://21gatekeeper.com/coaching-for-men

Request a 90-minute coaching conversation. No fluff. No pressure. Just clarity, accountability, and a path to become who you were made to be.

Developing resilient, purpose-driven people for workplaces, churches, and teams.

If I could get 60 seconds of your time:Over the past year I’ve been building something I truly believe in within 21 Gate...
12/05/2025

If I could get 60 seconds of your time:

Over the past year I’ve been building something I truly believe in within 21 Gatekeeper…Deep Transformative Coaching.

Coaching that helps individuals live from the identity and purpose that was strategically and intentionally designed for them. And then strategically applying that to every aspect of their life. When identity is clear, everything changes, from how you lead in your career, how you show up at home, to how you make decisions under pressure.

I coach men, women, and teens.
Individually and through organizational partnerships.

My niche is focused: Identity-driven coaching for high-impact and emerging leaders.
Different settings, same focus: Helping people live and lead from the identity that is uniquely theirs by design, authentic at the core, and transformative in every environment they touch.

Most people have never experienced real coaching. For one thing, this experience is not me giving you advice, telling you what to do. This is legitimately an intentional conversation, where you move from where you’re at to where you want to be. And if I have done anything right, you felt empowered, challenged—sometimes even the fight or flight kicking in, and ready for the next step in your life.

If you’re curious or you need clarity, direction, or a reset, I’m open to a complimentary 90-minute coaching conversation.

There is no pressure. If continuing makes sense, great. If not, you will still walk away with clarity you can use right away.

You have nothing to lose.

If this resonates, message me and I’ll block off some time for you.

Developing resilient, purpose-driven people for workplaces, churches, and teams.

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