Life coaching is about change. It’s about moving out of your comfort zone and going for what you want instead of what you think you can have. It’s about making the most of the present and dreaming up the future.
What can you expect from coaching with me? Increased satisfaction in the fundamental areas of life: family and friends, career, health, money, personal growth, fun and recreation, physical environment, and romantic relationships. You will make more conscious choices and take more resonant action.
Coaching will:
Help you determine your purpose. What does your life look like when you are focused on fulfillment while staying aligned with your values?
Uncover where you are stuck. Could you benefit from looking at a situation from another perspective?
Process your feelings. What do you need to release to invite growth and new possibilities?
As Co-Active coaches like to say: “We do not coach for a problem to be solved. We coach for a life to be lived.”
How do I know that coaching works? Because I am also a client. In 2019, after being a media coach for a decade, I came to a crossroad in my life. Four longtime friends, and both of my senior dogs, had passed away. I grieved those losses hard. What followed in their wake was a keen sense that life really is short. I had a wide open path ahead. How could I honor my friends and not take my time here for granted? I had no idea.
So I hired a coach.
I knew about life coaching but was skeptical. I was living in Los Angeles and heard of people taking a weekend course, or doing one of those “personal development” seminars, and calling themselves a coach. Not my style. But not only had Donna been coaching for 17 years, she was certified by the Co-Active Training Institute — a premier coaching school accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF), and the gold standard in training executive coaches and fostering leadership development.
As Donna and I talked about what was possible for my life, I became intrigued by the tools she had at her disposal. She asked powerful questions that left me speechless. She challenged me. She championed me. She never gave me advice. She helped me see that the answers were already within me. That I am naturally creative, resourceful, and whole.
The experience was profound. My life changed dramatically for the better in the time we worked together. I found a happy and healthy relationship. I raised my rates 50 percent and watched my business grow. I let go of work projects that drained me and instead focused on what I loved to do. I realized a long-held dream of purchasing a second home in my favorite place on earth and relocated there full-time at the end of 2022. Working with Donna sold me on the immense value of coaching. Every goal I had when I started, I achieved.
Our time together connected me to my purpose. I realized that I wanted to expand my coaching beyond helping people talk to the press. I embarked on and completed the rigorous training and credentialing process to become a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) and an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) through the ICF.
Four years, 650+ training and life coaching hours, and an oral and written exam later, I now coach people through significant events and transitions. Co-Active training has also influenced my media coaching practice, enabling me to be more curious and less directive with clients, which has transformed their ability to communicate.
Watch an interview with me about my coaching journey here.
