About Molly Jacobson
Molly Jacobson is a book coach who helps naturally talented and creative people get words out of their head and into the minds of eager readers.
Her career began in 1982 when she was ten. Hired to assist babies learning how to swim, she discovered the secret to shoring up timid personalities, soothing the anxious, goosing the laid-back into action, and inspiring the scattered to focus. Moving up to teach more advanced classes to hundreds of older children and adults, she was known for her patience, enthusiastic cheerleading, commitment to excellence of form, and absolute insistence on endurance.
Years later, still teaching summers, she worked her way through college at Tufts University working in a nonprofit, waiting tables, and transcribing hundreds of boring (but important) engineering documents in endless temp jobs.
After undergrad she helped Cambridge residents find just the book they want, marketed one of the most successful bookstores in the U.S., and spent a year in sales at a prestigious, old-fashioned, literary New York publisher.
After a decade in the book business, Molly answered a call from deep inside to attend massage therapy school at the rigorous Swedish Institute in Manhattan. She worked as a massage therapist for several years, during which she became a Reiki Master and fully embraced the intuitive abilities she had ignored for so long. She started reading the Akashic Records for others in 2002.
Molly spent a summer in Missoula, Montana learning photography at her uncle’s photography school. She fell in love with the West and stayed for three years, working with her uncle, learning a whole new visual art form, and shaking off the stress of city living and a grueling, protracted divorce.
While immersing herself in life coach training with Coaches Training Institute, Molly was seized (literally) with a vision. She knew that she had to follow it, even though she did not know where it would lead her. She sold everything she owned and bought a one-way ticket to Maui, which is where she has lived since 2005.
Today she works as an editor and copywriter with her husband in their publishing company, Maui Media. In addition to many other projects, Molly is the co-author of Top Maui Restaurants, a restaurant review guide to Maui, Hawaii.
When asked what she’s really, really good at, Molly answers “reading.” She reads at least two hours every day and an average of three books per week. She started reading entire books at age three, which means she has spent over 25,000 hours reading some 5,460 books.
In addition to her writing, Molly still coaches and gives intuitive readings to clients who want to live according to their deepest spiritual values. Her special interest right now is working with clients who are “pregnant with a book and need help with the labor.”
An anorexic at twelve who turned into an overeater at twenty-two, Molly is currently writing her memoir about how to live with food in a healthy, loving way. She lives a block from the beach in Maui Hawaii, with her husband and her dogs Kanga (Winnie the Pooh, A.A. Milne) and Tink (Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie).
