Less guessing.
More doing.
Real people. Real careers. Real business experience. We help young people in Northeast Ohio understand their options, hear from people doing the work, and take real next steps.
US$495paid once
Personalized career coaching with Coach Nick.
- 3 private sessions
- Explore careers
- Make connections
US$97/month
SEO and AI visibility, audience growth, introductions and a strategy review.
Become a Growth PartnerNortheast Ohio · Over video, and at local events · Students 13+
Free for schools and students: Business 101, the career quiz and the competition.
Youth career coaching · a gift that lasts this Christmas
Help your teen find their direction
Three private 60-minute sessions to discover their strengths, research three realistic career paths, hold one real career conversation, and finish with a Career Launch Roadmap and a 90-day plan. Over video, wherever you live in Northeast Ohio. US$495, paid once. Plus and Private add real conversations with professionals from Coach Nick's network.
- Sprint US$495 · 2 to 3 weeks
- Plus US$1,495 · About 6 weeks, plus 90 days of follow-up support
- Private US$4,995 · 12 months
Your coach
Coach Nick Gonzalez
Founder of Launch League. He has spent years deciding who gets hired, knows a lot of the people who do the hiring, and helps young people get ready for it.
- U.S. Air Force veteran
- 8 years hiring and training apprentices and co-op students
- Close to 100 job interviews led
- Coached high school basketball for nearly 15 years
No job, admission or earnings is promised, by us or by anyone honest. If the first two sessions aren't worth it, you get the whole fee back.
Why Launch League
Good resources exist. Here is what we add.
There are free quizzes, school programs and pitch contests already, and some of them are excellent. A quiz can tell a teenager what might fit. What I add is a network of people who do the work, and the person who arranges the conversation.
Personal guidance
One person who reads every application and works with your teenager one-to-one, not a platform that hands back a result.A network of people who do the work
Years of working with tradespeople, owners, finance people and veterans in Ohio and Canada. Every person who speaks with a teenager agrees to a code of conduct first, and I tell you plainly which conversations are confirmed.Concrete next steps
A short written plan, and things to do between sessions that involve the real world, not just advice.
Free school programs are free and separate from the paid coaching that parents choose. Launch League is not endorsed by any school district, state agency or branch of the military.
Start where you are
Who is Launch League for?
Each door has its own page, its own questions and its own next step.
- I'm a parentYour teenager says “I don't know” about what's next? One-to-one career coaching over video, and a free career quiz to start.
- I'm a studentAges 13 and up. Learn how a business works, find out what you're good at, and see how to make real money.
- I'm a teacher or counselorNo time to build a career or entrepreneurship unit? Free tools for students 13 and up, and a competition with a real audience.
- I run a businessEverything still goes through you? An operator in your corner every month: strategy, leadership and operations.
- I need a website, SEO or AIGet found, answer every lead, collect the review. Set up by Coach Nick and quoted in writing.
- I own a home service company, or I'm its GMCoaching for the handoff from owner to general manager. For US companies.
- I want to enter or sponsor the competitionTen awards for students and local entrepreneurs across Barberton, Akron, Wadsworth, Rittman and Doylestown.
Free, for any student
Start without paying anything
The free program is the front door. You never need to buy coaching to use any of it.
- Business 101A free, practical course on how a business really works, with exercises you do on your own idea. Hosted on our main site, launchleague.ca.
- How to start a business in OhioThe real steps and what they cost, checked against official sources: trade name, LLC, EIN, sales tax and free help.
- How to make money as a teenagerFifty ideas with what each costs and how to get your first customer, plus what Ohio asks of young workers.
- The free career quizTen minutes, nothing stored: what you like doing and the kinds of work that fit it.
- The Northeast Ohio business competitionTen categories for students and local entrepreneurs in Barberton, Akron, Wadsworth, Rittman and Doylestown. Dates and how to enter will be posted first to the list.
Who is behind it
I was the teenager with a plan
I'm Coach Nick Gonzalez. I grew up in Ohio, where I started a lawn care business, Gonzos Greens, in high school and won first place in a statewide business plan competition. I then spent ten years in the U.S. Air Force, in construction and financial management, and eight years leading operations and growth at a company of more than 100 people in Chatham-Kent, Ontario, where I now live. I watched co-op students become apprentices and tradespeople become supervisors.
Launch League exists to give young people what that competition gave me: someone who takes your idea seriously. I'm bringing it to Northeast Ohio: Barberton, Akron, Wadsworth, Rittman and Doylestown.
Where I am, plainly
Launch League is based in Chatham-Kent, Ontario. I coach over video and show up in person for events in Northeast Ohio.
Not sure which door? Write to me at admin@launchleague.ca and say what you are trying to figure out.