Meet the Trexo Trainers
They’ve got 1,800 years of experience
And they’re here to help you grow in relationship with God.
You don’t have to figure this out alone.
The Trexo Trainers are the Church Fathers and Mothers — the monastics, bishops, mystics, and teachers who received the Practices from the people who knew the people who knew Jesus, and spent their lives living them, wrestling with them, and passing them on.
They know what it feels like when the Practice is hard. They know what it feels like when it starts to change you. They have seen every struggle, every excuse, every moment of breakthrough.
And they have something to say about all of it.
How Coffee with Coaches works
Wednesdays at 3:30pm ET, we gather live at Trexo for Coffee with Coaches.
In each session, we sit down with one of the Trainers - drawing on their actual writings, their documented wisdom, their lived experience of the Practices - and interviews them using the same five questions:
Why did you practice this? What difference did it make?
Where do I start?
What did people in your time struggle with?
This is hard. What is your advice?
What will look different in my life if I practice this way?
And each interview closes with a blessing — a direct quote from the Trainer, in their own words, for you.
Think of it as sitting down with Basil or Augustine over coffee and asking: how do I actually do this in my life?
And hearing them answer. In their own voices. With hard-won wisdom that is just as alive today as it was 1,800 years ago.
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Meet your Trainers
Each Trainer has a distinct personality and coaching style. Part of the joy of Coffee with Coaches is discovering which ancient voice speaks most directly to you.
Here are some of the Trainers you will meet at Coffee with Coaches:
The Didache (late 1st - early 2nd century) The Voice of the Apostles The oldest surviving Christian training manual. Not one person but a collective voice — the first followers of Jesus showing us the Way of Life that set them apart from the world. Direct. Communal. Radical.
“If you can bear the whole yoke of the Lord, you will be perfect; but if you cannot, do as much as you can.”
John Chrysostom (347-407 AD) The High Performance Coach The “Golden Mouth.” Archbishop of Constantinople. A city coach who taught that the real gym for the soul isn’t the desert — it’s the streets where we meet the poor and reconcile with enemies. Direct. Urban. Uncompromising.
“Fasting of the body is food for the soul.”
Basil the Great (330-379 AD) The Master Strength Coach Bishop of Caesarea. One of the architects of the Nicene Creed. Founder of the first hospital. A master of the athletic metaphor who understood that askēsis — spiritual training — was the same word used for a gymnast preparing for a race. Rigorous. Precise. Eyes on the prize.
“In order to acquire spiritual muscles, you have to go to the spiritual gym.”
Amma Syncletica (4th century) The Captain of the Soul A wealthy noblewoman who gave away everything to live in a desert tomb. One of the Desert Mothers — women whose wisdom was so sought after that people traveled across the known world to find them. Poetic. Embodied. Battle-hardened.
“In the beginning, there are a great many battles and a good deal of suffering for those who are advancing towards God - but after that, indescribable joy.”
Leo the Great (440-461 AD) The Strategic General The Pope who stood down Attila the Hun and navigated a falling empire. He viewed the Christian life as strategic warfare and the spiritual practices as armor. Fierce. Clear-eyed. Absolutely serious about the stakes.
“No one is so holy that he ought not to be holier, nor so devout that he might not be devouter.”
Augustine of Hippo (354-430 AD) The Architect of Purity The most influential theologian in Western history — and a man who knew what it meant to struggle. Deeply personal. Psychologically acute. He doesn’t lecture from a distance. He has been exactly where you are.
“Lord, have mercy on me! You are my physician, I your patient.”
John Cassian (360-435 AD) The Bridge Builder The monk who brought the wisdom of the Egyptian desert fathers to the emerging communities of Europe. Practical. Gentle. The Trainer who meets you exactly where you are and gives you the next small step.
“Start where you are. Focus on the management of thoughts as much as the stomach.”
The Trainers didn’t create the Practices
They received them - just as you are receiving them now. They wrestled with the same kind of longings you do. They wanted to grow closer to God. They struggled with the same resistance, the same distraction, the same longing.
Which means when it gets hard - and it will get hard - they are exactly the right people to turn to. Not because they had it all figured out. But because they kept practicing anyway.
And they want to tell you what happened when they did.
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