Testimonials
Read firsthand feedback from workshop organizers, workshop participants, one on one coaching clients, and Maz George’s family & friends
Hear What People Have to Say
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Hear What People Have to Say •
Kasandra, DEI Program Manager, Google
“Maz is great to work with and brainstorm on building thought-provoking and impactful workshops. Having worked with Maz, who created a four part workshop for my team at Google, I was impressed by Maz's ability to make highly complex topics around gender identity approachable for audiences from varying backgrounds. Please know, I'll be looking for more opportunities to work with Maz in the near future.”
Mangala Holland, Sexual Confidence Coach & Facilitator
“Hiring Maz to facilitate Cultivating Trans Safety has been a hugely important component of my professional facilitator training program, Embodied Female Pleasure.
Maz facilitates their work with heart, nuance and compassion, allowing participants to explore their own understanding without fear of getting wrong, being "cancelled" or shamed. My clients have been personally deeply impacted, as it's helped them understand their relationship to gender, cultural conditioning, trauma and safety on an entirely different level. Many of them have reported being deeply, and positively transformed as well as gaining education about how to minimize harm and become better allies.
I enthusiastically recommend Maz as an embodied, sensitive, supportive facilitator of this much-needed work.”
“The experience was so affirming and refreshing. Maz is an extremely competent and dedicated facilitator.”
— Gender Sanctuary Participant
Testimonials from Workshop & Course Participants
Cultivating Trans Safety
“The workshop was a very welcoming, down-to-earth, and safe environment. Maz has a gifted way of making complex and nuanced information extremely digestible, relatable, and fun! It's hard to find all of this information in a single spot on your own, let alone with that context of lived experiences as well as the opportunity to ask questions and learn from others. I cannot recommend the Cultivating Trans Safety enough!”
“Learn from Maz about cultivating safe trans spaces in a way that really calls you in and leaves calling out at the door. Maz gave the right amount of information, emphasized the importance and life changing nature of this work, and helped me see myself as someone who can make a difference.”
Workshops & Circles
“Maz is a thoughtful and indomitable guide who is committed to honest and joyful practice. They offer comfort and support to any who choose to open to them!”
“Maz is exactly the prismatic being you want to guide you through igniting the colors of your inner landscape. They bring the rainbow forward in every sense of their own embodiment, and you cannot help but trust and lean into their gentle but potent invitations to explore your own rooted life force.”
“Being in your golden circle today completely transformed my confidence. I now feel this permission and support to be audacious and loud about all that I am so THANK YOU.”
Gender Sanctuary Course
“While I have been unpacking my gender for awhile, recently I’ve been feeling disheartened, even resentful and apathetic about it. This course helped me infuse life and spirituality back into my gender journey in a way I didn’t expect. I feel renewed excitement and possibility when it comes to my gender and how I relate to it.”
“The experience was so affirming and refreshing. Maz is an extremely competent and dedicated facilitator, effectively guiding me through a deeply spiritual and creative exploration of my gender. Through this opportunity I have started to heal in areas I didn't even know how to access.”
“Working with Maz is one of the greatest things you could ever do for yourself. They are so uplifting, empowering, and fun. Our time together was so adventurous and playful and I learned so many tangible skills.”
— One on One Coaching Client
Testimonials from Coaching Clients
“Maz delves deep into my soul in the most gentle, respectful, and nurturing way. Each session we celebrated and explored all that is sacred within me, I learned so much and found my inner strength. It was so meaningful and also so fun, I always ended our sessions feeling lighter and more alive, it’s the best thing I’ve ever done for myself!”
“I felt like we were on a magical journey through the forest of me, exploring all these paths and layers of my spirit, and you helped me find this holy spring that exists within me, and now the streams of my forest are flowing, it’s vibrant and I’m starting to feel alive.”
“Time with Maz is a dedicated time to allow myself to go deep into the depth and source of my own magic all while being supported tenderly by Maz’s magic.”
“Maz has an exceptional capacity to meet the entire me with integrity, warmth, and compassion. They invite in my complexity, areas of tenderness, unrefined ideas, daydreams and visioning... and they bring a remarkable enthusiasm to the way they inquire deeper, express resonance, or celebrate whatever is arriving/becoming. One of their most unique gifts, is their ability to champion the parts of me that I underestimate, stigmatize, or hide.
I love their playful approach. I love their ability to spot and savor richness. I love that they extend respect inward and outward at the same time... radiating appreciation and self-worth. I love the wild universe of their quick mind.”
“Being coached by Maz was a deeply soft, joyous and excavating adventure. I felt immediately safe to peel back the mask and dance in the truth of what was ready to rise from within me. Maz is a conduit for healing and I felt a deep sense of rest, pleasure and purpose having spent time in their energy. If being coached by Maz is a star on your horizon, follow that star. It has much, much to teach you, show you, and light up within you.”
“Maz is open supportive and so so loving a sacred spark and ocean of intuition. they offer such pwrful witnessing, encouragement, and reflection.”
“Maz provides a coaching experience that is both effective and enjoyable. They have an approach that integrates multiple aspects of a person's emotional experience including the mind and the body. They are very insightful about the forms of alienation that result from gender and sexuality that is not aligned with cultural expectations.
Although they serve an under represented clientele in this space, they also would be very effective for anyone that is straight or cis-gender that responds to integrative approaches to overcoming emotional challenges.
Their guided meditations are highly effective. They are fantastic at listening and analyzing. They provide a safe, light-hearted, slightly subversive environment to explore issues within. They are kind, non-judgmental, insightful, and empathetic. I would highly recommend them to anyone.”
“Working with Maz is one of the greatest things you could ever do for yourself. They are so uplifting, empowering, and fun. Our time together was so adventurous and playful and I learned so many tangible skills.
You wouldn't believe how many times I've walked away from a one-on-one coaching container confused about what it is that I've learned. But not with Maz. With them I can 100% tell you with full confidence that I have learned how to speak my uncomfortable truth. I have also learned how to sit with myself in liminal space when I'm unsure about things. Most importantly I have learned what I'm willing to tolerate and what I am not willing to tolerate when it comes to people in my life accepting who I am. I've gotten so much better with releasing people from my life who do not know how to love me in the way that I deserve to be loved.
Maz is an amazing nurturer who is going to also hold you to your greatness. Being in space with them is by far the most amazing and honorable experience ever. I felt so safe to share uncomfortability. As someone who is a recovering people pleaser you just don't know how huge this is. In our time together we worked through years worth of people pleasery and self-judgment. I'm so much more confident in the way that I have uncomfortable conversations with people and set boundaries when I feel afraid. I am no longer acquiescing, instead I am sitting with the discomfort and allowing it to fuel me instead of stop me. Book Maz, TODAY. This experience will definitely change your life.”
“Maz lives into their truth boldly and holds a torch for other's freedom”
— lou, Maz’s friend & colleague
References from Family & Friends
“As my immediate older sibling, Maz has been informally coaching me for 30 years. They have always met my problems with empathy, genuine emotional investment, and—most importantly—action-oriented advice. Given Maz’s natural emotional intellect, human intuition, and tireless work ethic, I think they are perfectly suited to be a magnificent coach!”
— Thomas George, Maz’s sibling
“Let me first say that Maz and I have been close since the day I was born. They are the most thoughtful, loving person that I know. They are a beautiful soul, a free spirit, and above all they are their true loving self. Words don’t do them justice for how they are as a person. They bring light into a dull room, they are the joy that is always present, and they are truly as radiant as a rainbow.
Maz has a gift like no other. Since I can remember I have always turned to Maz for advice on life, relationships, sex, school, work, and many other topics. They show compassion, love, support, and a safe space for others to express their feeling and struggles that they may be dealing with. They are never there to judge; they are there to help in the best way they can with showing insights and compassion when doing so. I love Maz and they are such a phenomenal person to have in my life, I am lucky for that.”
— Michael George, Maz’s sibling
“Maz has been the glue that holds their siblings together in our family. Since they were a child, Maz has been empathetic, emotionally intelligent, and a gifted mediator. Using those attributes, Maz has been able to boost esteem, affectionately identify underlying issues of conflict and resolve them all while strengthening the relationships at hand. These uniquely qualify Maz to shepherd people through life’s needs.”
— Cecilia George, Maz’s mom
“Maz has a pendulum energy that is difficult to put into a paragraph. they are both a sparkly rainbow explosion and an endless ocean on a dark night. as deep, intuitive, restful n slow as they can be ecstatic and electrifying ~ a sacred spark with the power to light a thousand stars. Maz is a person of many paths with a dedication to joy and radical deep luv. they live into their truth boldly and hold a torch for other's freedom with their very existence.”
— lou, Maz’s friend & colleague
“Maz is a pioneer in what they do. It is through Maz that I deepened my own coaching practice to be holistically inclusive in my space holding, in my language, in my energy and in my heart. Maz has a commanding energy and indeed is a force, guided by their ancestors, spirit guides and other beings of ether. You know you are in the presence of a person who was sent to change the broken bits of our society when you work with Maz.”
— Chloe Adriana, Maz’s colleague
“When I met Maz, I knew I had encountered a truth seeker. They have taught me so much about parenting, love, and communication.
As a parent, I have benefited so much from their guidance and help that comes from their deep care for children. I have a daughter from a previous partnership and being a young, single dad is full of challenging moments. All the advice and encouragement they’ve given me has been invaluable. I’m more patient, understanding, and communicative with my daughter.
Maz is driven not only by passion, but curiosity, which I believe is so important. I think it's imperative to ask the right questions, turning your focus inward to figure out what you need to recalibrate internally. If you are on this journey, Maz will genuinely get to know you as you get to know yourself, encouraging deep, honest excavation and guiding you as you go.”
— JB, Maz’s former partner
“Maz is an insightful, compassionate truth teller and wise companion to those creating their own path as they walk it. They hold what’s true for me without judgment or fixing while challenging me to see potential pitfalls and possibilities outside my limited view. I consistently emerge from our conversations feeling reoriented, grounded and inspired. They are a treasure!”
— Kathy Bresler, Maz’s friend
“Maz has a radiant presence everywhere they go and as their little sister, I can certainly speak to the impact of that presence. It is pretty amazing to see how at ease and comfortable people are when around them. Maz has always been empathetic, helpful, and creative.
Maz is truly the go-to person in our family. Whenever I need advice or am facing a difficult situation, I call Maz first. They give excellent guidance and constructive feedback. I always feel heard, listened to, and respected. Given what I know of them, I have no doubt they are an incredible coach with a natural ability to hold space and provide insight.”
— Veronica George, Maz’s sibling
“Maz is generous, loving, and creative - and always has been - although they have been able to cultivate it in a more full way through coaching. My children are incredibly lucky to have Maz as part of their family.
Mazn's enthusiasm and full acceptance of my kids is a gift that I see them benefit from often. They are always so excited to show and tell Maz about the various aspects of their lives because Maz matches their enthusiasm and builds with it.”
— Dominique Bain, Maz’s sibling
Want to work with Maz?
Maz is currently offering custom Cultivating Trans Safety & Gender Exploration workshops, consulting, and bespoke transformational experiences in New York City. If this sparks your interest, reach out.