Reaching Higher 4 Life

Reaching Higher launched as a Personal Leadership Development (PLD) program for adults in 1997, with these participants experiencing transformational breakthroughs both personally and professionally. However, Founder Susie Dahlmann, a teacher of 20 years, was passionate and determined about filling the gap she saw in the educational system. As a result, Reaching Higher focused on preparing the next generation through its transformative Personal Leadership Development course.

From this strategy, Reaching Higher has successfully developed more than 10,000 graduates who are now adults with careers, families, and leaders in our communities. Reaching Higher 4 Life represents Reaching Higher’s vision of impacting the world through PLD & Coaching by again serving adults through the RH4Life Leadership Community.

The RH4Life Cause

RH4Life represents a threefold commitment:

To help adults experience breakthroughs both personally and professionally.
For RH4Life to propel Reaching Higher by impacting even more youth through RH4Life’s scholarship pricing model.
To continue to journey with and strengthen our more than 10,000 RH4Youth graduates as leaders for life through our RH4Life Leadership Community, coaching and PLD offerings.

Join us for Mission Monday

For this week’s #missionmonday, Reaching Higher 4 Youth Director Steve Livingway discusses how helping our youth today will create a powerful future for everyone! View more episodes >

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Our Latest Blog Posts

The importance of positive life choices

Ann Mettetal / June 7, 2023

Our minds are constantly going.

In Reaching Higher for our Positive Life Choices session, we share the famous quote:
“Watch Your Thoughts,
They Become Words,
Watch Your Words,
They Become Actions,
Watch your Actions,
They become Habits,
Watch your Habits,
They become Character,
Watch your Character,
For it Becomes Your Destiny.”

It all starts with our thoughts. Our thoughts influence our words and choices which leads to
what action we will take. Over time, we have built a habit, either good or bad. Therefore, the
choices we make each day are the ones that shape our future.
It’s the small choices, the everyday choic

The journey from fear to freedom

By Sarah Pettengill / May 3, 2023

Like carrying a weight that gets heavier by the day, living in a state of fear is unhealthy and damaging to both a person’s mental and physical health. But moving beyond a fear state is easier said than done. Being aware of fear is the first step to freedom – and I battle it everyday.

My daughter Emma was born almost 11 years ago to the day of this publication with an omphalocele – a birth defect that caused nearly all of her core organs to be born in a sac outside her body. While I had always been a nervous and anxious person, this diagnosis was the straw that broke the camel’s back – everything I had been running from throughout my life finally came to fruition. The worries, the what-ifs, the unknowns that I had perpetuated in my head since I was a

Changing limiting beliefs

By Steve Livingway / April 5, 2023

What is a limiting belief? It is the voice inside you that says “I am too fat, too stupid, too tall, too short, too different” and “no one likes me, I can’t do it, why should I even try?” Limiting beliefs are dream killers. In fact, since limiting beliefs can stop someone from even trying, they can kill a dream before it even has a CHANCE to succeed.

My limiting beliefs growing up often centered around my weight. I’ve always been big (I am 6’6” and over 300 pounds) and I have almost always been overweight. For me, this meant I didn’t want to change for gym, I didn’t want to participate in swim class, I felt I could not really compete in sports, I was sure that I was hideous, and I was never completely comfortable in my o

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