Posted 6 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Rosa Cabrera Delgado - Express all of yourself with confidence
This week's Coach in the Spotlight is Rosa Cabrera Delgado, an executive confidence coach who trusted the coaching process and turned her perceived limits into fantastic assets. Rosa now uses her previous experience in expressive art to coach Executives who wish to improve their Confidence. Enjoy her inspiring story!
Posted 12 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Ann Skidmore - On Group Coaching and Leadership
What lies behind the power of group coaching? Whether you are managing a team in your business, or you are part of a team in a company and even when you think about your friend group, a good team cohesion is essential in our lives. Ann Skidmore has been coaching teams throughout her career and in this article, she's sharing her thoughts on coaching groups. Enjoy!
Posted 13 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Piotr Jankiewicz - Don't Be Afraid to Raise the Bar
Today we are shining a spotlight on one of the skilful mentors of The Coaching Academy: Piotr Jankiewicz, international business coach and workshop facilitator. We hope you enjoy his inspiring story!
Posted 20 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
7 Powerful Ways to Build a Thriving Coaching Practice
Simon Alexander Ong, Life Coach of the Year 2019, believes that the world needs more people who are dedicated to their mission and passion and has made it his goal to help people become the best versions of themselves. That's why he created this powerful guide so you can build a thriving coaching practice and create the impact you desire.
Posted 20 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Laurie Rees - The journey of self-acceptance
This week's Coach in the Spotlight is Laurie Rees, who, after a long career as an accountant decided to follow her path as a life coach. Today she helps people accept themselves as they are, to be confident and authentic. It's something Laurie struggled with and she found her purpose in coaching. Enjoy her insightful story!
Posted 26 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Being a person of value with Simon Alexander Ong
We caught up with the thoughtful Simon Alexander Ong, Life Coach of the Year 2019 at the 2019 International Coaching Awards, to get a glimpse into the life of an award-winning coach. We hope you enjoy this insightful interview!
Posted 26 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Andrew Davies - Finding balance and joy again
This week's Coach in the Spotlight is Andrew Davies, who decided to pursue coaching and made a commitment to add it to his many skills. Today he is a certified coach, helping others reawaken and find balance in their lives again.
Posted 33 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
How to Run a Business with Compassion
Many coaches start their journey to help others and the thought of creating their own business might seem daunting. But it doesn't have to be! Rasheed Ogunlaru, business coach & trusted TCA Trainer, shares his philosophy of building a business through love and compassion.
Posted 33 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Merete Langler - The Lessons I Have Learned While Coaching in Education
This week's Coach in the Spotlight is Merete Lager, Master Coach and NLP Practitioner who runs her successful LangSand business and coaches young people. Today she's sharing what she has learned in 20+ years working in education. Enjoy!
Posted 40 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Banishing Limiting Beliefs For A Better Life
The power of our beliefs system is immense. If we all developed an understanding of the thoughts and ideas that we automatically have, those that we no longer question when they appear at the forefront of our minds; then we could all be leading a better life through banishing the negative chatter.
Posted 41 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Aneta Sanders - Coaching from the frequency of love
This week's Coach in the Spotlight is Aneta Sanders, who turned her passion for coaching into a part-time job with the TCA Protege Programme. Her work comes from a place of compassion and love and she is on a mission to help people remind themselves of how strong and powerful they are. Enjoy Aneta's inspiring story!
Posted 48 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
The Power of NLP - Coming Home
Challenges come in many shapes and sizes but sometimes, it's a matter of life and death. That was the case for Katalin Marton, NLP Practitioner of 2019, who learned to truly be present and honour all feelings after a life-threatening emergency. Today she's sharing her insights to help us come home to our true self. Enjoy this powerful article!
Posted 48 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Jennifer Langrish - From Manager to Leader
This week's Coach in the Spotlight is Jennifer Langrish, a corporate manager turned career & executive coach. She first started using her coaching skills developing her own leadership skills and now Jennifer coaches others to motivate and inspire confidence in their teams. Enjoy her inspiring story!
Posted 54 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Katalin Marton - Facilitating change with the power of NLP
We caught up with the lovely Katalin Marton, winner of NLP Practitioner of the Year Award at the 2019 International Coaching Awards to get a glimpse into the life of an award-winning coach. We hope you enjoy this inspiring interview!
Posted 54 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Gina Morrell - Coaching and Holistic Healing
This week's Coach in the Spotlight is Gina Morrell who followed her true passion after qualifying and decided to use her top three skills to help her clients in a unique, holistic way. Enjoy her inspiring story!
Posted 61 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
5 Tips for Setting Healthy Boundaries
Boundaries are essential to our health and wellbeing and implementing these are part of building one's identity. Whether you are focusing on establishing boundaries with others or with yourself, we're sharing 5 tips to set up healthy boundaries in our latest article.
Posted 62 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Maria Foxwell - Coaching empowered me to take control
This week's Coach in the Spotlight is Maria Foxwell, who started her coaching journey almost a decade ago as a Senior Manager leading a large team. Maria decided to get officially qualified as a Life Coach in 2018 with TCA and make coaching her full time job. Enjoy her inspiring story!
Posted 69 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Kellie Hick - Managing your studies, your job and your daily responsibilities
This week we're talking about managing your studies alongside daily responsibilities with Kellie Hick, a student of The Coaching Academy. Kellie has started her coaching journey 18 months ago, as an HR professional, completing two diplomas simultaneously. Be prepared to take some notes and enjoy Kellie's fantastic tips!
Posted 69 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
School After Lockdown - Addressing the 5 Levels of Loss
After an uncertain school year young adults, kids of all ages, parents, teachers and school officials are preparing to go back to school in September. With this reopening there will be a real focus on wellbeing, so how can coaches make a difference? Find out in this latest article from our Mastery Series created by TCA Trainer Sharon Lawton.
Posted 76 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Sruti Kanabar - Purposeful Goal Setting when dealing with anxiety
This week's Coach in the Spotlight is Sruti Kanabar who is sharing her goal setting strategies today for everyone dealing with anxiety in times of change and uncertainty. Enjoy her insightful guide!
Posted 76 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
5 powerful ways to boost your confidence today
Self-confidence is the ability to trust in your abilities, capacities and judgments. The power of this confidence is that it creates a firm belief that you're able to successfully face life's challenges and demands.
Posted 83 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
How to use DISC in sales
Can DISC help close a sale? Knowing how your potential client prefers to be communicated to will help you close the gap from 'maybe' to 'heck yes' whether you are a coach looking for new clients or a salesperson for a corporate company.
Posted 83 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Marissa McCallam - Centre Yourself
This week's Coach in the Spotlight is Marissa McCallam, who decided to take a leap of faith, embrace her passion and leave her corporate job after more than a decade. Today, she helps teenage girls increase their confidence with her programmes and a holistic approach to coaching. Enjoy her inspiring story!
Posted 89 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Randal Porter - Enjoy the journey
This week's Coach in the Spotlight is Randal Porter, an ex-detective turned life coach. Still focusing on helping people, Randal is now helping people with their migraines and spiritual growth, all the while building his business one ebook at a time. Enjoy his inspiring story!
Posted 89 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
The power of understanding yourself with Victoria O'Farrell
We caught up with the dynamic Victoria O'Farrell, winner of DISC within Coaching Award at the 2019 International Coaching Awards, to get a glimpse into the life of an award-winning coach. We sat down for an insightful discussion about DISC, tune in below!
Posted 96 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Chasing Illusions
Do you ever find yourself desiring the seemingly perfect life some people live on social media feeds? In a time when many might be struggling to find balance in their life, other's curated social media images might be giving the impression that everything is perfect and we're falling behind. This article is designed to consider whether the goals we want to achieve are realistic or simply an illusion. Read on!
Posted 96 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Helen Jennings - Lean into your values
This week's Coach in the Spotlight is Helen Jennings, who discovered coaching after two decades in HR and has not looked back! Helen leaned into this career change and is now working on building her business and dreams. Enjoy her inspiring story!
Posted 103 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Coaching through a changing business environment
The business environment has changed drastically over the last couple of months without prior warning. Business owners, managers and HR professionals are being challenged in new ways. Can Corporate and Business coaches make a difference in these tough times? We believe they can be more valuable than ever!
Posted 103 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Sarah Curtis - Trust the Process
This week's Coach in the Spotlight is Sarah Curtis, who started her coaching journey to enhance her role as a manager and ended up finding a new career in the process. We hope you enjoy her inspiring story!
Posted 111 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Moving forward from being stuck to getting what you want in life.
We all face challenges every day in different forms so we asked CPD Coach of 2019, Natalie Potts, to share her go-to tips when it comes to taking action towards accomplishing your goals and achieving your dreams.
Posted 111 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Are you too young to become a coach?
This week we're tackling limiting beliefs with Charlotte Bullock, a student of The Coaching Academy. While going through her coaching journey, Charlotte faced many of her fears around being too young and has developed a good strategy to deal with them. Today, she wants to share that with her peers, so that whether you think you're too young, too old, or 'not enough' you can start facing your fears and take action towards your passion. We hope you enjoy Charlotte's insightful story!
Posted 117 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Belinda van Zyl - The road to brave decisions
This week's Coach in the Spotlight is Belinda van Zyl, who started her coaching journey as a researcher and went on to discover where her passion and values really lie.
Posted 117 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Mindset is key with Natalie Potts
We caught up with the energetic Natalie Potts, winner of the CPD Coach of the Year Award at the 2019 International Coaching Awards to get a glimpse into the life of an award-winning coach. We hope you enjoy this inspiring interview!
Posted 125 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Helping Children Dissolve Big Feelings and Manage Uncomfortable Emotions
Natalie Costa, Coach for Children and Parents and Coaching in Education award-winner, shares her top tips to help kids manage the emotions that might come up during uncertain times. These ideas are not only valuable in today's health crisis but they are great to remember for any parent, teacher or anyone working in education to help children deal with uncomfortable emotions. Enjoy Natalie's insightful article!
Posted 125 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Olivia Carter- Remember your why
This week's Coach in the Spotlight is Olivia Carter, who discovered her coaching niche after leaning into helping women deal with the same challenges she experienced as a corporate leader. We hope you enjoy her inspiring story!
Posted 131 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Natalie Costa - Helping kids develop Power Thoughts
We caught up with the beaming Natalie Costa, winner of the Coaching in Education Award at the 2019 International Coaching Awards to get a glimpse into the life of an award-winning coach. We hope you enjoy this thought-provoking interview!
Posted 131 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Mentor Series - Zsuzsanna Recsey, business leader and personal performance coach
Today we're shining a spotlight on one of the wonderful mentors of The Coaching Academy: Zsuzsanna Recsey, a successful business leader, personal performance coach and author. We hope you enjoy her inspiring story!
Posted 139 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Leading Through Crisis
Executive Coach Jo Emerson shares a framework to help others access their inner leaders and help others through any crisis. Read her insightful article!
Posted 139 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Lyndsey Clay - Reframing strategic planning with coaching
This week's Coach in the Spotlight, Lyndsey Clay, who deepened her skills with her coach training and has reframed the work she does. We hope you enjoy her inspiring story!
Posted 145 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Sheleen Johnson - Seizing the day
Our Coach in the Spotlight this week is Sheleen Johnson who after years of caring for others, made it a priority to go for the life she desires. We hope you enjoy her inspiring story!
Posted 146 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Inspiring teams with Jo Emerson
We caught up with the radiant Jo Emerson, winner of Executive Coach of the Year at the 2019 International Coaching Awards to get a glimpse into the life of an award-winning coach. Tagging along to a university festival gave us a chance to see Jo in action on stage and sit down for a coffee and insightful coaching stories.
Posted 153 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Pam Lidford - 3 Techniques to Deal with Anxiety
The pandemic we're facing has changed the lives of us all and this may cause many to feel anxious, sad, worried and experience a wide range of negative emotions. As part of our Mastery Series, Confidence Coach and TCA Trainer Pam Lidford is sharing three techniques that help her face anxiety, they might work for you too.
Posted 153 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Stephen Adams - Inspiring resilience
This week's Coach in the Spotlight is Stephen Adams, who chose coaching after two and a half decades working in the banking industry. We hope you enjoy his inspiring story!
Posted 159 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
The 7 Stages to Success and Breakthroughs
Many of us struggle sometimes on the path to self-improvement. Some procrastinate, some fear the outcome so they never finish the learning process, others give up easily. Paul Dorrington has now created a healthy growth-cycle to help others achieve success and breakthroughs.
Posted 160 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Emma Wright - Turning your resolutions into achievable goals
This week's Coach in the Spotlight is Emma Wright, an ex-teacher turned coach. Having qualified at the end of the year, Emma faced the 'dreaded' question all students face with stride. Read more about her story of fearless action and get ready to be inspired!
Posted 166 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Paul Dorrington - Coaching to make a difference
We caught up with the fantastic Paul Dorrington, winner of the Coaching for a Cause Award at the 2019 International Coaching Awards, to get a glimpse into the life of an award-winning coach. As we're all spending more and more time on Zoom these days, we invited Paul to sit down with The Coaching Academy for an insightful conversation about his coaching journey, coaching during COVID-19 and myths about mental health.
Posted 167 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Carey Davis-Munro - Helping you improve your relationship with food
Our Coach in the Spotlight this week is Carey Davis-Munro who has made it her mission to help people with their health and wellbeing. We hope you enjoy her inspiring story!
Posted 174 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
The DISC Guide To Getting Along
DISC Master Dave Pill wrote an article for those in lockdown who are getting to the stage where they are annoyed because their partner is BLINKING too loud!
Posted 174 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Laura Jeffs - Empowering you to follow your dreams
Our Coach in the Spotlight this week is Laura Jeffs who resonated instantly with the idea of a career in coaching. She fit training and studies around her full-time job and is now focused on building her budding business as a Parent Coach. Read Laura's inspiring journey below!
Posted 180 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
How To Achieve Happiness Within Isolation
Cultivating happiness can be a challenge in an uncertain environment but it's one of the most useful skills that we can learn for ourselves, for our family and for our clients. Mindset Coach & TCA Course Manager Sandra Stocks is sharing three insightful strategies to bring happiness into your life within isolation.
Posted 180 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Diana Moraru - Coaching enhanced my career
This week's Coach in the Spotlight is Diana Moraru, who chose to enhance her HR career by incorporating coaching skills into her work. Read more about Diana's journey and find out how learning new skills can lead to a fulfilling part-time job on the path to success.
Posted 188 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Eight essential elements of a successful coaching business
You might be the best coach in the world, but if no one knows about you and if you're not being paid (enough) for the great work you do, how would that make you feel?
Posted 188 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Caroline Gavin - Coaching for positive growth
This week's Coach in the Spotlight is Caroline Gavin, who chose to use her vast array of coaching skills as well as NLP training to start a coaching-led consultancy business.
Posted 193 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Gear up and Show Up
Are you still waiting for the perfect time to make your dreams a reality? Many will tell you that there is no perfect time, but you do have the present time. As the world around us slows down, this can mean an opportunity of time that you can put to good use. Coach Mariya Draganova shares her story today to offer us a perspective of gratitude for past choices and challenges you to take this gift of time to check in with your dreams for the future.
Posted 192 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Building a coaching business you love with Karen Kissane
We caught up with the wonderful Karen Kissane, Small Business Coach of the Year, to get a glimpse into the life and award-winning coach. We attended the Smart Women's Business Facebook group meetup that Karen hosts in London and we also spent a whole day with the fantastic women in her Group Coaching meeting.
Posted 201 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Prompts to deal with uncertainty
When times are uncertain, many can find solace in an action plan. TCA Trainer and renowned confidence coach Pam Lidford shares useful prompts and techniques to help others find a path forward.
Posted 202 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Mentor Series - Jo Mason, award-winning high-performance coach
Today we're shining a spotlight on the wonderful mentors of The Coaching Academy, starting with Jo Mason - award-winning high-performance coach, accredited CPD provider, mentor, STEM ambassador and small business owner.
Posted 208 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Studying and Working From Home With The Children - Finding Your Balance In These Unprecedented Times
With an increasing number of offices asking staff to work from home and many schools closed, the Coronavirus pandemic has upped the stakes in the work-life balancing game. TCA Trainer and award-winning family coach Sharon Lawton is sharing her top tips to adjust to this new normal with your whole family.
Posted 208 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Juliet M. Dujmovic - Don't be afraid to have a go and make mistakes
This week's Coach in the Spotlight is Juliet M. Dujmovic, who chose to pivot from the construction industry to become a life coach to young women and brides-to-be. Read more about Juliet's s journey and discover how personal experience can help you not just find, but create your niche by spotting a hole in the market!
Posted 215 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Stepping up in times of uncertainty - A message from our CEO, Bev James
As a coaching community, we all agree that what we're focusing on is our choice. Here at The Coaching Academy, we're focusing on showing up for our community, supporting those in need and upskilling in a changing climate, starting with a special message from The Coaching Academy's CEO, Bev James.
Posted 215 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Helping parents & grandparents in the health crisis
How do you celebrate with your loved ones when you can't even hug each other? TCA Trainer and leading UK Coach Ann Skidmore shares an insightful and powerful message about how she celebrated Mothers Day with her elderly mother in this health crisis.
Posted 223 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
7 Ways that Coaching can help Narcissistic Abuse survivors recover
Ronia Fraser is a Narcissistic Abuse Recovery Coach who won International Coach of the Year at the 2019 International Coaching Awards. Today she's sharing more about the role coaching can play in the recovery and healing journey of a narcissistic abuse survivor.
Posted 223 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Rachael Bushby - Coaching is about hope and opportunity
This week our Coach in the Spotlight is Rachael Bushby, who found her path as a wellbeing and confidence coach and now works with adults as well as young people to help them uncover their best self.
Posted 230 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Katie Newman 'The 5 big lessons I learned in my first 6 months of being a coach'
Our Coach in the Spotlight this week is Katie Louise Newman who experienced a common graduate dilemma after qualifying as a life coach - she had no clients, no actual business. Not letting herself get overwhelmed, Katie got to work to build a successful coaching practice. Today she shares the 5 big lessons she learned in her first 6 months of being a coach!
Posted 230 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Coaching to heal from Narcissistic Abuse with Ronia Fraser
We caught up with the inspiring Ronia Fraser, International Coach of the Year, for a glimpse into the life of an award-winning coach. We travelled from London to the British seaside and talked about her Narcissistic Abuse Healing programme as well as her coaching journey. We hope you enjoy her inspiring story!
Posted 237 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Mental Health & Coaching: A Therapist's Perspective
Rebecca Tucker is a Psychological Life Coach and CBT Therapist who won the Best Newcomer Award in the 2019 International Coaching Awards. Today she's sharing her best guidelines with TCA students and not only, on protecting your mental health as a professional.
Posted 237 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Anne Anttonen - Why not focus on succeeding?
Did you find a career you love from the first try? Or did you have to go through multiple jobs and industries to get to where you are? This week's Coach in the Spotlight, Anne Anttonen, changed her career 7 times before discovering coaching.
Posted 243 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
From student to award-winning coach in less than two years: Rebecca Tucker
We caught up with our inspiring and award-winning coach, Rebecca Tucker, for a quick Q&A after the 2019 International Coaching Awards. We hope you enjoy her inspiring story!
Posted 244 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Davinder Rana - If you want to achieve something, you will make it happen
Have you ever felt like you don't have enough time to achieve something? Many people wish for more time in the day to accomplish their dreams. And there are people who don't wish, they just do.
Posted 250 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Unlocking the secret to great teamwork
Do you ever wish that you could wave a magic wand and suddenly your team would understand all that you want to say, your intentions and your goals behind it? Or maybe you wish you'd have telepathy and understand how your coworkers prefer to handle different projects so you can create an enjoyable working environment?
Posted 251 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Chris Green - Delivering long-lasting change
Some people are passionate about teaching and sharing their knowledge but if you ever shared your expertise with a room full of people you might notice that it doesn't always lead to long-lasting change. Chris Green is one of these educators and he decided to find a different way to empower business owners.
Posted 257 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
The 5 soft skills you need to succeed as a coach
One of the first things that people ask when they first hear about The Coaching Academy is who can become a coach? The simple answer is - anyone. In this article we're sharing the most important skills TCA students need to demonstrate to succeed as a coach.
Posted 257 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Julia Davies 'Connecting with your values and priorities makes choices easy to face'
Have you ever stood in front of a crossroad, not knowing which route to choose? Our Coach in the Spotlight this week is Julia Davies, who simplified her life and choices by connecting with her personal values and priorities.
Posted 264 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
5 Simple Reframing techniques to use in your everyday challenges
Reframing is a powerful technique in the toolbox of a successful coach but it's also a great tool to help make small changes in our own lives. In this article, we share 5 everyday challenging situations where reframing will help set your mind at ease and align your behaviour with your intention.
Posted 264 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Ruth Carter - 'The GROW model never let me down'
This week our Coach in the Spotlight is Ruth Carter, who chose to qualify as a life coach at a later stage in her life and is committed to facing all challenges that come with it. Read Ruth's inspiring story below!
Posted 272 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Great leadership is about learning to connect with your team! Mastery Series: Sharon Lawton
Have you ever wondered how you can become a better leader within your team? Are you looking for new tools to motivate more effectively and decrease conflict in the workplace? TCA Trainer Sharon Lawton argues that the answer lies in better communication, using the powerful behavioural model of DISC.
Posted 272 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Tania Zayets - Coaching for personal and business invention
International competitions, workshops and women empowerment groups - what do these things have in common? Our Coach in the Spotlight of the week, Tania Zayets, who shares how coaching can benefit individuals, teams and businesses alike!
Posted 279 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Begin with the end in mind
Stephen R. Covey's famous 'Begin with the end in mind' habit is a staple in the toolbox of a successful coach. If you've been wondering why to try it, how to put it in practice and even how to handle challenges that come with it - we're sharing it all in this article.
Posted 279 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Sue Bassett - 'It's not too late to begin'
This week our Coach in The Spotlight is Sue Bassett, who proves it's never too late to begin, having started her coaching journey at 60 years of age as a grandmother of 11 children!
Posted 286 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
9 Key Ideas to Build and Change Your Habits
For many of us, the first days and weeks of January bring with it a desire to make a change. This is where habits come into the picture.
Posted 286 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Fiona Stimson and Aga Kehinde - 'Coaching through cancer and chronic illness'
This week our Coaches in the Spotlight are Fiona Stimson and Aga Kehinde, who found success and support in their partnership after completing their diplomas and now work together to support those impacted by cancer and chronic illness.
Posted 293 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
7 Questions to reflect on the end of a year
With the start of a brand new decade, you might be excited to plan for the future. Dreaming up your plans for the year, setting goals and getting absorbed in the ideas for the future can be one of the most fun parts of January. But before you go down the rabbit hole, you might want to consider the power of reflecting on the year that just passed.
Posted 293 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Harkiran Bhogal - 'Using coaching skills in the classroom'
This week our Coach in the Spotlight is Harkiran Bhogal, who uses her coaching skills as an integral part of her teaching career. We hope you enjoy this inspiring read!
Posted 314 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Kate Bishop - 'Discover all you can about yourself'
This week our Coach in the Spotlight is Kate Bishop, who since completing two Diplomas with The Coaching Academy, has set up a successful coaching business.
Posted 314 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
5 Gratitude Prompts for the Holiday Season
Gratitude is a mood that expresses appreciation for what one has. It is a recognition of the simple pleasures and is often independent of monetary worth. Generated from within, expressions of gratitude are an invitation to ebb criticism and keep frustration and anxiety at bay.
Posted 321 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Why it's important to take chances
There comes a time in life when you may be faced with making a choice that could involve taking a chance. Maybe you want to change careers, start your own business or study for a new qualification.
Posted 321 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Julia Bauer - 'Coaching across languages'
Our Coach in the Spotlight this week is Julia Bauer, who shares her experience of coaching in another language. Julia, who is originally from Germany, undertook her Diploma with TCA in the UK, and this gave her a unique insight into coaching across languages and cultures.
Posted 328 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Konstantinos Panagiotous - 'Invest in yourself!'
Our Coach in the Spotlight this week is Konstantinos Panagiotous, who shares more about discovering coaching in his previous job, and how his training shaped his mindset.
Posted 328 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Mastery Series: Ann Skidmore on vision and passion
We've launched a monthly Mastery Series to offer you top tips from our accomplished team and trainers. In this week's blog, specialist coach and trainer, Ann Skidmore shares the importance of having a passionate vision and how to connect with this.
Posted 335 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
International Coaching Awards: Meet our Winners
Coaches help transform the lives of so many, and The Coaching Academy believes that the outstanding work achieved by its coaches deserves recognition. The International Coaching Awards was created to celebrate our community and recognised their success over 10 different categories.
Posted 335 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Nataliya Reed - 'Empower yourself to make a change'
Our coach in the spotlight today is Nataliya Reed, who found coaching after her values and priorities shifted.
Posted 342 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Mastery Series - Pam Lidford's 10 things to consider about values
Values are what matter to us most; they underpin what's important and what we focus on. Our values exists, whether they are recognised or not. They drive our choices and decisions, encompassing our motivators and fears, ultimately helping us take action (or not take action).
Posted 342 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Elizabeth Wyn-Davies - 'I felt so privileged to be part of such a fantastic event!'
We caught up with our inspiring and award-winning coach, Elizabeth Wyn-Davies for a quick Q&A for the Coach in The Spotlight column.
Posted 349 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
4 Happiness habits to cultivate
Happiness is an electrifying and exciting state. It is often defined in a multitude of ways, usually encompassing more than a positive mood and including a sense of living a good life.
Posted 349 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Tracy Hart - 'Helping people move from good to great'
Our Coach in the Spotlight this week is Tracy Hart. A former executive for an Oil & Gas company, leading an international team, Tracy shares how she fit her Diploma around her busy life and how she is now using her coaching skills. We hope you enjoy her inspiring story.
Posted 356 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Afua Kudom - 'Coaching has enhanced my career'
Our Coach in the Spotlight today is Afua Kudom, who shares how coaching has enhanced her career and role as a Careers Consultant in the higher education sector.
Posted 356 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Are ANTs keeping you stuck in negativity?
Automatic negative thoughts, dubbed as ANTs by Dr Daniel Amen, pop into our heads routinely and are overwhelmingly pessimistic. These thoughts can trap us in negativity and unconsciously weigh us down.
Posted 363 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Caroline Hallows - 'I was able to make sense of my own journey'
Our Coach in the Spotlight this week is Caroline Hallowes who shares how training to become a qualified coach helped her realign her purpose.
Posted 363 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Mastery Series: Mike Blissett - considering coaching as a career? How to Grow your Coaching Business
Public speaking is a great way to market and grow your coaching business. Having the ability to speak to groups of people will position you as a leader, a person of authority in your niche.
Posted 370 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Claire Brown - Coaching helped me to find myself again
Our Coach in the Spotlight this week is Claire Brown, who after working for 12 years in the not-for-profit sector, made the change to become a professional coach.
Posted 370 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
4 reasons to connect with your values
It is easy to get so caught up in the busyness of life that we forget to tune into what's really important to us. This can cause us to aimlessly drift through life without a clear direction, leaving us feeling lost and despondent.
Posted 377 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Ebonie Allard - 'It was so lovely to be recognised and valued for my work'
We caught up with our inspiring and award-winning coach, Ebonie Allard for a quick Q&A for the Coach in The Spotlight column.
Posted 377 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
6 signs that you're emotionally intelligent - and why it matters
Emotional intelligence (EQ) refers to the ability to identify and manage your emotions, and the emotions of others. An emotionally intelligent person is highly conscious of their emotional states, both negative and positive, and in recent years, EQ has been seen as skills that can be likewise innate and honed.
Posted 384 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Georgia Walters - 'I knew this was an investment in myself'
Our Coach in the Spotlight this week is mindfulness coach, Georgia Walters.
Posted 384 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
3 ways to be a morning person - even in the cold months
Being a morning person is often synonymous with productivity, with many leaders, entrepreneurs, athletes and personal development aficionados attributing their success with rising early. A survey conducted by The Guardian supports this idea, finding that many CEOs of successful companies are awake by 5 am.
Posted 391 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Mastery Series: Adrian Webb's top tips for businesses and entrepreneurs
The role of a Business Coach is to help business owners to improve their business through guidance, support and encouragement.
Posted 391 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Elena Resera - 'Look inside yourself first'
Our Coach in the Spotlight this week is Elena Resera, who shares why she left her job as a Manager for a large corporation and hasn't looked back. Now, Elena empowers women, young entrepreneurs and socially responsible businesses, with her coaching skills. We hope you enjoyed her story!
Posted 397 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Mohinish Khosla - 'It was an honour to be there'
We caught up with our successful and award-winning coach, Mohinish Khosla for a quick Q&A for the Coach in The Spotlight column.
Posted 398 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
How to master life transitions - by Bev James
Many of us can experience life transitions at various points in our lives, it could be moving to a new city, a redundancy, retirement, becoming a parent, a divorce or simply wanting to create positive changes in your life.
Posted 405 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Emma Humphrey - 'My mission is to support people through coaching'
Our coach in the spotlight this week is Emma Humphrey. Emma shares how she discovered coaching during a time in her life when she was feeling stuck and unwell, and how she's now using her coaching skills to help others overcome similar struggles. We hope you enjoy her inspiring story.
Posted 405 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Autumn reset - Getting Back on Track
As summer draws to a close, it's not just the younger generation that is embracing the 'back to school' mindset.
Posted 412 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Daniela Terrile: 'I found coaching during a powerful moment in my life'
Our Coach in the Spotlight this week is Daniela Terrile, who graduate from The Coaching Academy in 2016, and has since become a Professional Certified Coach with ICF.
Posted 412 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
You're more likeable than you realise - according to science
New research finds that we often underestimate how much we are liked in social interactions, and it's called the 'liking gap.'
Posted 419 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Millie Coleman: 'My Coaching Journey'
Our Coach in the Spotlight this week, Millie Coleman, writes about discovering coaching when she was ready for a change in her career.
Posted 419 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
10 Coaching questions to improve your life
The role of a coach is to help others bridge the gap between where they currently are to where they would like to be. One of the ways coaches do this is to ask powerful questions to create breakthroughs and empower their client's thinking.
Posted 426 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Jo Mason: 'It has been a truly humbling experience!'
We caught up with our inspiring and award-winning coach and practitioner, Jo Mason for a quick Q&A for the Coach in The Spotlight column.
Posted 426 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
How to master your thoughts
Our mind is the most powerful tool we have; it can store either inaccurate conclusions about who we believe we are or assist us in turning our dreams into our reality. Depending on our thoughts we can either use our minds to limit our potential or enhance it.
Posted 433 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Rebecca Levene - 'If you put your mind to it, you can achieve your dreams!'
This week our coach in the spotlight is Rebecca Levene, shares how coaching has transformed her life and how she's now helping mums do the same. We hope you enjoyed her inspiring story.
Posted 433 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Mastery Series: Mike Blissett's top tips to be a confident public speaker
We've launched a monthly Mastery Series to offer you top tips from our accomplished team and trainers. In this blog, specialist coach and speaking trainer, Mike Blissett, lends his top tips to become a confident public speaker.
Posted 440 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Coaching and walking - How to align your values to grow your niche by Donna Neseyif
During my training at The Coaching Academy (TCA), I was told many times the importance of 'finding a niche'. I followed this advice, by drawing on my work as a Development worker in Africa, as well as 20 years managing businesses and developing teams, together with successfully running my own holiday cottage business to define my niche; activating individual and business potential.
Posted 440 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Why storytelling is the key to your happiness
The pursuit of happiness is one that spans across cultures, religions and societies. It's a cultural obsession that has weaved its way into many facets of our lives and is inevitably linked to meaning and purpose. Unsurprisingly, happiness has also been the source of a plethora of studies.
Posted 447 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
The recipe for success and fulfilment
Success will always look and feel different for different people. For some, it will mean financial freedom and a career they love, while others might find it from a spiritual journey, or through their family and personal relationships - the truly lucky ones will find it in all of these aspects and more! As, regardless of what success looks and feels like for you, for most people it often goes hand in hand with fulfillment.
Posted 447 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Ros Evans: Your niche finds you
We caught up with our inspiring and award-winning coach, Ros Evan for a quick Q&A for the Coach in The Spotlight column. Ros shared how she discovered coaching and found her niche. She also explores what it means to have her work recognised at the International Coaching Awards.
Posted 454 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Graham Little: I found myself and my future self.
In this week's Coach in the Spotlight our accomplished business and personal performance coach, Graham Little shares how a shift in his career - and priorities - led him to a new profession in business and youth coaching. We hope you enjoy his inspiring journey and top tips.
Posted 454 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
How to achieve even more sales success - By Dave Pill
Selling can be challenging. It's a complex process of human behaviour, that without the right tools, can be impossible to get right. In this blog, I would like to share with you, just a few of the tips and techniques I have learned over more than two decades to help improve your sales performance.
Posted 467 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Embrace your podium moments - by Bev James
Sharing someone's moment of success, when their hard work, sacrifice, commitment and single-mindedness have brought them the ultimate reward is, for me, quite emotional. When I witness an athlete's podium moment I feel humble, and inspired to be the best I can be - in whatever I do.
Posted 461 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Mastery Series: Pam Lidford's top 10 confidence tips
The Coaching Academy is lucky enough to work with award-winning coaches and world-class trainers. With this in mind, we've launched a monthly Mastery Series to offer you top tips from our accomplished team and trainers.
In this blog, specialist Confidence Coach and TCA trainer, Pam Lidford, lends her Top 10 Tips on Confidence.
Posted 475 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Why people are prescribing nature for burnout - By Dawn Breslin
Nature is instrumental for our wellbeing, and people report feeling significantly happier outdoors than they do indoors. Despite this, we are spending less and less time in nature and it is playing a smaller role in our cultural landscape.
Posted 482 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Helping young people succeed with DISC - by Dave Pill
So many people use the DISC personality profiling tool nowadays. Some use it as part of their recruitment process, others use it to manage and motivate their teams, and coaches use it to understand their clients. It is used in conflict resolution and, better still, conflict prevention! The list is endless.
Posted 467 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Donna Smith: An incredible night - I am still in a daze!
We recently caught up with our wonderful and award-winning coach, Donna Smith for a quick Q&A for the Coach in The Spotlight column. Donna shared her remarkable experience of being awarded the Life Coach of The Year 2018 and what this achievement has meant for her coaching business. We hope you enjoy watching Donna's video.
Posted 482 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Mahjabin Quadir: Live, learn and love what you do!
Reflecting on my 15-year career within a corporate environment and personal experiences, what shone through the most was connecting and working in partnership with individuals, developing them to enabling positive outcomes and being open to learning. I had been a Leadership Consultant who also coached, across various business areas for over 5 years, was completing a Counselling and Clinical Skills Diploma with a drive and passion to broaden my skills.
Posted 475 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Nicola McDonald: I became the difference I wanted to see!
Following a redundancy back in 2013, IT Manager Nicola bravely stepped forward and embarked on a life-changing career shift into coaching. Looking back, she has no regrets moving from her 30-year field of IT into coaching. We hope you enjoy!
Posted 461 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Melanie Coeshott: Empowering mid-lifers to take control
This week, our lovely coach, Melanie shared the opportunities coaching has offered her since she embarked on her coaching journey back in 2017. She has since completed 4 coaching diplomas within 18 months and is now leaving her background in accountancy to start her full-time coaching business. We hope you enjoy reading Melanie's inspiring journey.
Posted 489 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Why it's important to celebrate your achievement - by Kris Robertson
When was the last time you celebrated your achievement? Whether they're academic, personal or career-based, it's important to acknowledge your success. Marking your achievement has many benefits, including that it fixes your success in your mind and encourages you to continue to go after our goals.
Posted 496 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Kris Verle: Dare to be different
Since graduating in 2016, our qualified coach Kris Verle has set up a thriving online coaching business. For Kris, technology has allowed him to run his life coaching business entirely online from Bali, while organising retreats internationally and with the freedom to live and work anywhere. We caught up with this TCA alumnus to learn more about his experience of studying with us, and his top tips about coaching.
Posted 496 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
7 small things you can do to be happier, today!
Often times, it can feel like we have to make big changes to boost our happiness and live with a sense of fulfilment. However, it's the subtle changes that move us closer to living a life underpinned by happiness.
Posted 503 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Gabriela Blandy: You know what you're meant to do!
After graduation with TCA in 2017, our accomplished Life Coach, NLP Practitioner and writer, Gabriela Brandy left her job and launched her own coaching practice. She has since been able to make a living as a writer and coach, whilst also being able to travel, create, teach, inspire and connect with amazing people all over the world. For Gabriela, coaching isn't simply a set of techniques to learn, but a way of life and that she couldn't have got where she is today without it. As Gabriela points out, 'That's the thing about coaching. It's always there for you - if you're prepared to take a moment and look."
Posted 503 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
From burnout to breakthrough - by Dawn Breslin
Dawn Breslin is a leading light in the field of coaching and personal transformation. Through her work as Best-selling Hay House author, inspirational keynote speaker, TV & Radio presenter, and media consultant for some of the world's leading brands, she has inspired thousands of individuals to heal, re-energise and transform their lives. Dawn had now taken her passion and years of experience into a new coaching niche - Harmonizing Coaching: we interviewed Dawn about this growing niche and how she turned her burn-out into a breakthrough.
Posted 489 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Martin Robert Hall: An incredibly rewarding experience
This week, TCA accomplished coach, Martin Robert Hall shared with us how honoured he was to be awarded Business Coach of the Year at TCA's 2018 International Coaching Awards. Martin Robert Hall is an award-winning speaker, author and a leading authority in the field of performance psychology and he has coached and consulted top athletes, organisations and ambitious individuals to perform to their best potential.
Posted 510 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Nicki Hainey: An opportune time to be a Coach
Having spent the last decade working in banking and finance, I always felt that I wasn't really doing what I was supposed to do in life. I constantly had side interests, such as being a Special Constable with the MET police, then becoming a listening volunteer with the Samaritans. However, it was attending the TCA's Foundation weekend that truly set me on the right path. I signed up there and then to be a Protege Student.
Posted 510 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
I've finally admitted to my self-help addiction - and I'm not seeking a cure - by Kate Woodward
Go back a decade. Spot me leaving the office bang on time because my job bores me. Follow me as I drive within a mile from home and pull into a layby. Watch as I dig into the bottom of my handbag for the precious book that will help me get through the next twelve hours. I allow myself fifteen minutes with my nose in Susan Jeffers' End the Struggle and Dance with Life and then drive home formulating excuses as to why I'm late.
Posted 516 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
4 top ways to maintain a healthy lifestyle
Maintaining a healthy lifestyle can feel like a difficult balancing act. Some weeks it's easy to eat well and exercise, whilst others you're drawn to junk food and late nights. However, we all deserve to get off the roller coaster of healthy vs unhealthy lifestyle choices and instead maintain our balance.
Posted 516 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Sharon Halliday: Coaching fired up my passion and career
This week our accomplished coach, Sharon Halliday, shared with us her challenging and rewarding coaching journey and how coaching enhanced her career. With a background in both corporate management and consultancy training, Sharon found coaching is another important skill in her toolkit. Sharon has since been using coaching tools and techniques as part of her daily life and enjoys how coaching has profoundly impacted her work/life and her clients' lives.
Posted 520 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Carol Harrison: It's never too late to reach your potential
It was a heart-to-heart chat with a dear friend that inspired me to act; to begin a major shift in the direction of my professional and working life - after spending 15 years in education. I had already trained as a teacher, a counsellor and I now decided to enrol with The Coaching Academy. That was the start of my coaching journey.
Posted 537 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
How coaching positively impacts young people
The role of a coach is to bridge the gap between where someone is, and where they would like to be. Oftentimes, coaches do this by helping their clients identify their values, beliefs, conduct a life audit and set clear goals. They ask the right questions to help people unlock their potential and empower them to take control of their lives.
Posted 541 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Coaching and walking - How to align your values to grow your niche by Donna Neseyif
During my training at The Coaching Academy (TCA), I was told many times the importance of 'finding a niche’.
Posted 543 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Peter Reece: How I coached myself to better health and a new start
My name's Pete Reece and I’m a Personal Resilience Coach, helping clients to make an ally of adversity. When I enrolled on the Personal Performance Diploma in 2010, my intention was to help other people achieve their goals and improve their well-being. One thing I didn't know was how crucial coaching was going to be in helping myself back to better health.
Posted 544 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Toby Marchant: Coaching elevated my career
This week, our accomplished coach, Toby Marchant shared with us how coaching profoundly enhanced his life and career. Having been in corporate life for 32 years, which culminated in being the CEO of a global, listed company, Toby embarked on his search for professional development and since, coaching has been the key for his journey of helping business leaders succeed.
Posted 544 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Young people: Motivations, goals and fears - by Matthew Barnes-Smith
With our Coaching within Education training week coming soon, we asked accomplished coach, NLP Practitioner and TCA's Coaching in Education programme trainer, Matthew Barnes-Smith to share with us what it's like to work with young people.
Posted 551 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Natalie Potts: I began with the end in mind
I have worked in the retail industry as manager for nearly 16 years. In 2015, I felt something was missing in my life. I had always been highly motivated, driven and focused on being the best at what I put my mind to achieving great grades at school and university. I met a personal trainer, who was a coach and he made me start thinking differently. I was introduced to coaching on leadership programmes within my profession, but had a lack of understanding to the difference it could make to someone's life.
Posted 551 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Teenagers and big decisions in life - by Merete Langler
After 20 plus years working within the education system as a teacher and a trainer before adding coaching to my skills, I am only too aware how driven people within the education field can be by external targets and goals.
Posted 558 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
How to make the most of your Easter long-weekend
Long weekends are the perfect opportunity to recharge, refocus and be productive. The key is to be intentional with your time and to focus on balance. In doing so, you can enjoy the right mix of relaxation, and tackling the tasks you've been putting off.
Posted 562 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Federica Biagini: My worthwhile adventure
This week, our wonderful coach, Federica Biagini from Germany recalled her exciting coaching adventure and how she found her calling as an empowerment coach. Federica also shared with us how coaching helped her to overcome her limiting beliefs and life obstacles to reach her goals. Federica is now building her coaching practice while utilising her coaching skills to support her team at work in her new capacity as a Head of Training & Development.
Posted 520 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
The power of visualisation and self-image
Self-image is how you think and feel about yourself. It can be constructed from the experiences you've had, the decisions you've made and your values and beliefs. While much of what making up your self-image begins with external influences, your internal filters also play a large part. As, along the way, you can pick up a trend of negative self-talk and this internal dialogue creates patterns deep in our subconscious. Challenging this negative self-image is difficult, however, techniques like visualisation can enable you to build a better self-image.
Posted 569 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Sarah Keeley - My light bulb moment
It was early 2015 when I was working as a graduate intern at the University of Cumbria in Student Services, a role I sort of fell into. One of my mentors, a careers adviser herself, recommended the Free 2-Day event that The Coaching Academy runs. I knew nothing about coaching, but I thought it sounded interesting. I booked myself on and within a couple of hours on the first day - it hit me; it was a light bulb moment. This is what I want to do...
Posted 569 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
How your personality affects your time management
Have you ever wondered why some people always seem to have enough time? Whereas other people are always busy and rushing to finish tasks at the last minute? More often than not, it comes down to time management.
Posted 576 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Wioleta Wydrych: I was re-born and connected!
This week, our lovely fulfillment coach, Wioleta Wydrych shared with us her remarkable self-discovery journey and how coaching empowered her to re-design her life and started doing what she loved. From feeling like dying to being born again, Wioleta has found her life purpose and started her own coaching practice where she passionately helps people to follow their heart, find fulfillment and live their dream. We hope you enjoy reading Wioleta's inspiring story!
Posted 576 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Infographic: 5 ways to improve yourself in 10 minutes
When people consider improving themselves, they often think of the big picture goals - changing careers, losing weight, learning a language, and so on. However, as any coach will tell you, there are many little steps on the journey to self-improvement and breaking down these grandeur goals can make all the difference in the long run.
Posted 583 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Sarah Pollard: I am on my path
Coaching has been a very useful element of my toolkit as part of leadership development and project management for many years. It was, however, the return to work following the birth of my second child, seven years ago, that made me appreciate the true power of coaching. I was lucky enough to receive coaching, as part of an executive development programme, prior to my return from maternity leave.
Posted 583 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Schoolchildren use the word stress regularly, research suggests
Young people, aged between 8 and 11, regularly use the word 'stress', new research suggests. A survey of 1,000 children in England found that 9 in 10 of the respondents use the word stress often. Furthermore, 90% of children felt that their parents are 'not there' because they are distracted by their phone.
Posted 590 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
4 simple NLP techniques for success
Neuro-Linguistic-Programming (NLP) is defined by its co-founder, Richard Bandler as 'an attitude of curiosity that leaves behind a trail of techniques.' It began by studying and modelling the best communicators and outstanding individuals and has roots in behaviour psychology, general semantics, cognitive behavioural therapy, to highlight a few. As a discipline, NLP offers a collection of useful techniques, as well as an empowering way of thinking.
Posted 590 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Katrina Ramsden: My fulfilling coaching journey
This week, our lovely coach, Katrina Ramsden reflected on her inspiring coaching journey as she's searching for life fulfilment and challenge. She shared with us how coaching enhanced her career and enabled her to relish a more positive work-life balance. She also revealed how coaching boosted her self-confidence and empowered her to develop a positive, solution-based mindset to overcome her life obstacles and accomplish more than she believed possible. We hope you enjoy.
Posted 597 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Debra McAndrew: My life-changing journey
This week, our accomplished coach and 2018 Coaching Within Education Award winner, Debra McAndrew shared with us her inspiring coaching journey and how coaching transformed her life and career. Debra also shared her amazing 2018 Awards experience and how this has benefited her launch of a new website targeting a new market within the Early Years and Childcare Sector where she has been working for nearly 30 years.
Posted 597 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
3 ways to boost your happiness instantly
Happiness is a sense of joy, contentment and is linked to our overall sense of wellbeing. Often referred to as 'the pursuit of happiness,' the idea of this contentment has become somewhat elusive.
Posted 614 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Barbara Guignard - Coaching truly enhanced my career
This week our accomplished and talented coach, Barbara Guignard who speaks 5 languages fluently, shared with us her inspiring journey and how coaching truly enhanced her career. Within 10 months of studying alongside her busy full-time business consulting job, Barbara completed TCA Personal Performance Diploma and set up her own coaching business within 4 months after qualifying. Coaching has become a big part of her life and remarkably empowered her self-discovery and belief. Barbara believes motivation is the key to success and for her, having a full-time job should not be a barrier to one’s entrepreneurial aspirations.
Posted 614 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
4 simple ways to feel more awe in your life
Awe is an emotion that has a powerful impact on you and it is experienced with your entire body. You might, for example, get goose-bumps, tears may flood your eyes and a smile is often transfixed on your face. When we are children, these moments seem to flood our daily lives. However, as we grow up experiencing moments of awe seems to be few and far between.
Posted 621 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Nicky Peachment – No regrets leaving my 20-year full-time job
This week our accomplished coach, Nicky Peachment shared her incredible journey and why she had no regrets leaving her 20-year full-time job to embark on a new journey that has fulfilled her dream. Having completed two Diplomas with distinction, Nicky is now excited to launch her own coaching practice and charity coaching programmes. We hope you enjoy reading Nicky’s brave journey…
Posted 628 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Marta Rodriguez-Karpowicz - A whole new chapter of my life
This week our wonderful coach, Marta Rodriguez-Karpowicz shared with us her inspiring coaching journey and how coaching empowered her to achieve her daring goals. As a busy mum of 3 kids with a full-time job, Marta faced huge challenges on her learning journey. It is through coaching, Marta revealed, she had learned to overcome her challenges, limiting beliefs, fears and finally found her life purpose. She is now excited to enter a whole new chapter of her life. We hope you enjoy reading Marta’s story.
Posted 628 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
How to manage and motivate any team - By Dave Pill
I remember, many years ago I was asked to deliver a motivational workshop to a group who were (as their manager said) totally de-motivated. Always ready for a challenge, I of course said YES! (in a motivated manner).
Posted 621 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
How to clear your mind clutter and regain your focus
Mental clutter refers to times when our mind has too many thoughts which makes it difficult to process and focus. A cluttered mind is disrupting and it hinders our productivity, balance and even our mental health. You know the feeling: you’re forgetting important dates, you feel as if you’re being pulled in a hundred different directions, and you’re unable to finish a project or task from beginning to end.
Posted 635 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Blanka Molnar – I fulfilled my dream!
This week we caught up with our wonderful coach, Blanka Molnar as she shared how coaching transformed her life and helped her on her self-discovery journey. Blanka finally found her calling and achieved what she had always dreamed about. We hope you enjoy reading Blanka’s inspiring journey and find her coaching top tips useful.
Posted 635 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Are you ready to invest in yourself?
Investing in yourself is the most important thing you can spend your time and money on. It is one of the best returns on investment you can have because developing yourself both personally and professionally is the surest way to achieve your goals and future success.
Posted 642 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
How to use self-reflection for your personal growth
If you want to achieve any goal, improve yourself or advance your skills, you need to understand 3 things clearly: what you want to achieve, where you are now and how you can bridge the gap between them.
Posted 649 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Lisa Zevi - Why I became a coach
Before agreeing to attend The Coaching Academy’s 2-Day event with a friend who really wanted to go, I had no idea what coaching was. I definitely came into it with an ignorant and cynical view about 'fluffy’ life coaches, determined not to be 'taken in’ by any of it.
Posted 642 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Katie Stoddart – Coaching kicked start my new life
Meet our 2018 Best Newcomer winner, Katie Stoddart as she shares how coaching radically transformed her life and empowered her, just 4 months after she discovered coaching, to kick start a fresh and truly rewarding career from her several-year engineer role. We hope you enjoy reading Katie’s inspiring journey…
Posted 649 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
5 sure-fire beliefs to blitz procrastination
Procrastination is the avoidance of doing a task that needs to be accomplished. Whether it’s putting off a work project, avoiding daily chores or even postponing your long-held goals, procrastination is an easy pitfall that even the most productive people can fall into. In fact, around 95% of us will procrastinate at one point or another, according to research by psychologist Dr Pier Steels.
Posted 656 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
4 ways to stay motivated to reach your goals
As the clock counts down from one year to the next, amid the cheers of 'Happy New Year,’ many people vow to pursue their dreams. This is because the new year brings a fresh start, and a starting point for people to go after their long-held goals. This surge of purpose goes hand in hand with the idea of setting new year resolutions, a practice that stirs up a dichotomy of emotions in people.
Posted 656 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Julie Nowak – The power of coaching
This week, Julie Nowak, our passionate coach, shares her long-held dream and how coaching has empowered her to become a coaching specialist in her role. Truly inspired by the power of coaching, Julie has been continually developing her coaching skills ever since and her qualification has been opening doors for her as she begins a new phase in her life. We hope you find Julie’s coaching top tips useful.
Posted 675 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Setting resolutions that stick
January is right around the corner, bringing with it new opportunities to grow and thrive in our personal and professional lives. The tradition of setting new year’s resolutions is a great way to kick start the year because they provide a chance to reflect on our goals and dreams. Ultimately, new year resolutions are just goals that are prompted by the fresh start of the year.
Posted 677 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
How to beat the winter blues
The winter blues, also known as seasonal affective disorder (SAD), is a common form of depression that is associated with winter time. In the UK alone, one in three people suffer from SAD and the disorder can affect anyone, at any age. Research has linked SAD to the long periods of darkness that we experience during this time of year. SAD can affect your mood and energy levels, leaving you feeling lethargic, irritable and a little blue. Thankfully, there are a number of tried and tested strategies to boost your spirits.
Posted 677 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Reg Goslin - My light bulb moment
I had a fabulous career with one of the biggest businesses in the UK. My role was a sales contributor and later on sales leader. Although I enjoyed my role, I always found that I preferred the softer side of leadership, through working with people's development more than the operational side of driving the business.
Posted 684 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Dealing with difficult people at Christmas
As one famous Christmas song would have us believe - “it’s the most wonderful time of the year” And for many people it is……. ’Tis the season to be jolly, where families come together and celebrate in the spirit of togetherness and joy but for some, family time together can be awkward, challenging and almost intolerable!
Posted 684 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Rachael McGarrie – I'm living my passion & purpose
At 16, I was the deer in headlights, walking out of the school gates in a surreal slow motion, surrounded by a thickening fog thinking, “What happens next!”. After studying Media Production at college and then taking a year out, I then signed up to University for a Business Management Degree so at least I was heading in some kind of direction. I then fell into a call centre, then into another sales role, working in companies where I just felt I didn’t belong. This then led me into the Personal Development world where I started to learn and grow in knowledge and understanding. I instantly felt 'at home’ here.
Posted 691 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Stevie Worsell – Coaching transformed my mindset
We caught up with our wonderful coach, Stevie Worsell for a Q&A session in the Coach in The Spotlight column as he shares how coaching shifted his perspectives and empowered him to help others to grow and fulfil their dreams. Stevie also lends some great coaching top tips, which we hope you find useful…
Posted 691 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
3 ways to break the cycle of self-sabotage
Have you ever had thought to yourself, 'I don’t have time to tidy the whole kitchen before work so I won’t do any of the dishes,’ – only arrive home exhausted and further stressed out by the prospect of cooking dinner and clearing up from the morning? Or have you ever self-generated stress by starting more projects than you’ve finished? Or do you complain about other people’s gossiping when you need to make the same change in your own life?
Posted 698 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Joanna Britton – Make the difference through coaching
Our wonderful coach, Joanna Britton shares her exciting coaching journey and top tips for setting up a coaching business and qualifying as a coach. Joanna uses her background in marketing to drive her coaching business forward and uses coaching techniques in the field of marketing and branding.
Posted 704 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Celebrating success and inspiring greatness
The role of a coach is to help others bridge the gap between where they currently are to where they would like to be. Coaches help transform the lives of so many, and The Coaching Academy firmly believes that the outstanding work achieved by its coaches deserves recognition. Therefore, the International Coaching Awards was created to celebrate our community and recognised their success over nine different categories.
Posted 704 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Marcela Soler – Trust yourself and the process
Coaching came to my life as it comes into many of others: at the right time. It appeared in the form of healing tool when I was in crossroads in my life, but turned soon into a passion.
Posted 698 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Infographic: The Wheel of Life
The Wheel of Life is an effective tool used in coaching and personal development that allows people to 'check-in’ on their life and their current goals. It is used as a simple yet powerful diagnostic and assessment device that provides clarity and allows you to evaluate the different areas of your life.
Posted 712 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Why kindness matters to your well-being
Kindness is defined as a behaviour marked by ethical characteristics, a warm and pleasing disposition, and a genuine concern for others. It is often considered a virtue, however, it also has an unfair association with negativity and weakness. On the contrary, kindness requires a strength of character and a strong sense of oneself. Furthermore, practising kindness daily can have incredible benefits on your well-being and happiness. In fact, research by John Gottman found that kindness is one of the most important predictors of satisfaction and stability in a marriage. Moreover, kind people enjoy increased energy, happiness and serotonin levels, as well as lower levels of stress, anxiety and blood pressure, according to a survey conducted by Random Act of Kindness.
Posted 712 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Beaj Makhecha – I’m living my dream!
And this is my story…
Posted 719 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Adrian Wales - It was so worth it!
Special thanks to our passionate coach, Adrian Wales for sharing his remarkable coaching journey this week. 3 years down the road and it was so worth it for Adrian – qualified with Distinctions in both Personal Performance Coaching and Small Business Diplomas and has done around 400 coaching sessions with his clients. It is the wonder of coaching that Adrian found and truly loved - for him, coaching was the journey, rather than the destination and he still learns every day and continues to invest in his own personal development.
Posted 719 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
10 powerful affirmations to boost your self-image
Self-image is the mental picture we have of ourselves, simply put it’s our own opinion and view of who we are. This internal image is often a combination of our physical attributes, such as our height, weight, hair colour, etc., as well as the parts of our identity that we have learned. These learnt factors can consist of attributes that have discovered ourselves through personal experiences or by internalising the judgments of others.
Posted 726 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
How to connect with your true self
Truly understanding yourself is one of the most important attributes a person can possess - as Aristotle famously mused, 'Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.’ When you know yourself, you know what path is right for you and instead of looking to others for permission, you are able to make decisions with more certainty. When you are your true self you are empowered to march to the beat of your own drum.
Posted 726 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Karen Kissane – My coaching breakthrough
My journey into coaching was more of a transition and evolution of my career. It was much less about finding myself and more about 'creating myself’ - as in the words of George Bernard Shaw.
Posted 733 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Lorna Devine – Coaching enriched my life and career
We caught up with our passionate coach and therapist, Lorna Devine for a quick Q&A session in this week’s Coach in The Spotlight column, where she shared how coaching enhanced her career and her life. We hope you enjoy and find her coaching top tips helpful…
Posted 733 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
4 NLP techniques to feel instantly happier
Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP) is a powerful approach to communication and personal development that empowers people to have greater control over their emotional state. NLP fundamental skills and tools give you the ability to be at your best more often by effectively managing your thoughts and feelings.
Posted 740 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
How to rewire your brain for positivity
A positive attitude is the key to living a successful and happy life. So why does it feel like our brains are so good at focusing on negative situations?
Posted 740 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Szilvia Radnoti - Just do it!
“The only thing that is constant is change.”
Posted 747 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Maureen Sydney – Believe in yourself
I have been incredibly lucky and have enjoyed three other significant careers. I was a primary school teacher then a classical singer but missed teaching, so I moved back into education albeit in a different sector. My third career culminated in being promoted to Director of Higher Education in a Further Education college.
Posted 747 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
5 professionals who make great business coaches
Business coaches provide business owners, CEOs and managers with the insight and support to enhance their sales, improve their skills and run their business better. They act as a great sounding board, ask prompting questions and remind business owners to 'work on their business and not in it.’
Posted 754 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Sylwia Zuber – I found my inner calling
I needed something more than spending 9 hours in the office every day - I craved more challenges and variety in my life.
Posted 754 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Infographic: GROW Model – Coaching Questions
The GROW Model is the most well-known and widely used coaching tool. It is used by coaches to help their clients set clear and attainable goals to further their professional or personal development.
Posted 761 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Cliodhna O'Dea – Believe and succeed
Cliodhna O’Dea, our accomplished coach shares how she was inspired to turn her passion for personal development into a fulfilling coaching career. Cliodhna discovered coaching after meeting an inspiring graduate of The Coaching Academy and has since transformed her life. We hope you enjoy…
Posted 761 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
7 ways to improve your resilience
Resilience refers to your innate ability to recover and bounce back from life’s challenges. People have strong resilience are better able to deal with stress and pressure. Research shows resilient people are also more positive and are able to maintain a sense of calm in intense and stressful situations.
Posted 768 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
5 beliefs that could hold you back
When it comes to achieving your goals, your mindset is key. Nothing sabotages success faster than a lack of belief in yourself and your abilities. This is because our beliefs shape our immediate reality and they have the ability to lift us up to achieve our goals or hold us back completely. The difference lies in whether you are moving forward with self-belief or feeling stuck by limiting beliefs.
Posted 768 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Mirel Duta: How coaching transformed my beliefs
Mirel Duta, our wonderful Personal Performance Diploma graduate explains how his personal development process led him to coaching. Mirel shares his top coaching tips and lends some amazing insights about challenging your limiting beliefs to seize your dream and shoot for success. We hope you enjoy…
Posted 775 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Debra Carey: It’s never too late to make that change!
Debra Carey, our accomplished NLP practitioner shares her inspiring journey that helped her rediscover her love for coaching and launch her own business after a five year break. Debra lends insightful coaching tips and proves that it’s never too late to make that change and fulfill your dreams.
Posted 775 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Which DISC style makes the best leader? Part 2 - By Dave Pill
DISC is a popular tool to help enhance communication and better understand people.
Posted 782 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Stasia Banto - Life is worth living
Our wonderful NLP practitioner, Stasia Banto this week reflected on her life-changing journey and how coaching helped her reconnect with her passion and purpose. Stasia truly believes that people can achieve what they want in life and be happy with themselves.
Posted 782 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Which DISC style makes the best leader? Part 1 – By Dave Pill
DISC is a powerful profile tool that helps you really understand people and how to communicate with them effectively. As a DISC Master Trainer, I’m often asked “Which style makes the best leader?”, “Which style makes the best manager?” and “how do you motivate people?”
Posted 789 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Shanta Navaratnam - Coaching boosted my life and career
Shanta Navaratnam came across coaching whilst she was at a crossroad in her life. This is Shanta’s amazing story of how coaching transformed her life and boosted her new career as a Chief Financial Offer.
Posted 789 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
6 morning rituals to power up your day
What does your morning routine look like? Is it filled with snoozed alarms until you drag yourself out of bed? Do you rush out the door with a coffee in hand and stress in your mind?
Posted 796 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Lisa Read – Dared to dream and take the first step
Back in the day when no-one had really heard of coaching, I found myself watching a TV programme with a life coach on it. I thought the coach was amazing! At the time I was a stay at home mum to three small children and while I loved being there for my kids, my days had turned into an endless routine of washing, making food, park visits and reading stories with very little plot!
Posted 796 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
5 unexpected benefits of journaling
Keeping a daily journal might seem like something for famous thinkers, or even angsty teenagers. However, in an increasingly digital age, taking the time out to put pen to paper and record our experiences, feelings, gratitude and dreams is a powerful tool for personal development.
Posted 803 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
9 confidence hacks to boost your life - by Annie Ashdown
To feel confident within, you must be your own best friend and honour your commitments to yourself, have down time when you so choose, say what you mean, mean what you say, sleep when you are tired, eat healthily when hungry, play when you want fun, take responsibility for your finances, respect yourself and your choices, appreciate and trust yourself.
Posted 810 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Lisa Jayne Powell – Breakdown to breakthrough
This week, our wonderful coach, Lisa Lopez sat down and shared with us her amazing coaching journey and how coaching awakened and set her free to a new life. Lisa finally found herself looking at life through a new set of eyes…
Posted 810 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
3 questions to help you break through your comfort zone
Bravery isn’t only for people we think of as heroes - those who save lives or climb the highest mountain they can find.
Posted 817 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
3 tips for dealing with resistance to change
You can reclaim your power and get your life back on track when you learn how to stop resisting change. Our resistance to real change makes it so much harder to achieve. After all, if we didn’t resist so much, would it be quite so hard?
Posted 824 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Infographic: 5 steps to success – By Diane Dutto
Let's talk about what's good and turn the frown into a smile. Put our focus on acting on solutions, not complaints. Acting on what we can control and not complaining about what we cannot control.
Posted 824 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Berta Maso – I fell in love with my coaching journey
We recently had the opportunity to catch up with our lovely coach and business psychologist, Berta Maso, for a quick Q&A session in this week’s Coach in The Spotlight column. We hope you enjoy…
Posted 817 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Sarah Jones - Living a full life through coaching
Our brand new series, TCA Coaches’ Getting Clients Top Tips, begins with a quick catch up with our amazing coach, Sarah Jones as she shares some top tips for coaches getting clients.
Posted 831 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Top 10 tips to fast-track your goals – by Richard Denny
I hope you enjoy this article from my friend and mentor the late Richard Denny. Bev James
Posted 831 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Tina Dulieu - Just follow your dream and do it!
Our 'Clients’ Success Story Series’ this week continue with a quick Q&A session with TCA Small Business of The Year 2015, Tina Dulieu where she shares her successes making a great living as a professional coach.
Posted 838 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Louise Hook - How coaching boosted my career
This week, our lovely coach, Louise Hook who is doing her third diploma with us, shares her interesting coaching journey and how coaching empowered her to transform her clients’ lives. Louise recently got promoted at work thanks to her wonderful coaching work and continuous personal development and learning.
Posted 838 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
5 coaching techniques to break free from limiting beliefs - by Pam Lidford
Why do some people have more self-belief than others? Why do some people 'get on with it', while others prevaricate? Is self-belief innate within us, or is it a skill that can be learned?
Posted 845 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
3 ways to wake up motivated - by Brian Cormack Carr
What is motivation? We all know when we have it and when we don't. In our society, we're often told - explicitly and implicitly - that without motivation, nothing would ever get done. No wonder this mysterious motivation stuff is so sought after!
Posted 845 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Philip Maddock - Fulfil life goals through coaching
This week, our 'Clients’ Success Story Series’ continue with a quick Q&A session with our wonderful coach, Phil Maddock where he shares his story of how coaching empowered his client to realise their ultimate dream.
Posted 852 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
NLP techniques to reach your goals fast
Can you think of a time when you set yourself a goal, or wanted to achieve something, but for whatever reason, you didn't succeed? Maybe you have a goal right now - an idea about what you might want to do, to achieve or to be, which you haven't managed to achieve?
Posted 859 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
7 powerful self image boosters
Lucy has been struggling with a poor self-image for the past six years. She felt unattractive and strongly believed that men didn’t find her sexy. She had a successful career as a management consultant but could not stop feeling bad about herself. Through our sessions, we discovered that Lucy had a younger sister. This younger sister was the pretty one, the one who got all the boys, according to Lucy.
Posted 859 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Sharon Lawton - Coaching gave me the tools to build a thriving business
To begin our brand new 'My Clients' Success Story Series’, we asked TCA’s Coach and Parent Coach of The Year 2015, Sharon Lawton to share her story of how coaching has changed her clients’ lives. We hope you enjoy it…
Posted 866 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Coaching Truly Transformed My Life – By Sayyida Bano
'It has been a truly transformative journey’ - as our wonderful coach and mother of 5 children, Sayyida Bano shares with us this week her inspiring coaching journey and how coach helped her overcome her challenges and limiting beliefs and empowered her to transform other people’s lives. For Sayyida, investing in one’s own personal development is priceless, and she is so glad that she did.
Posted 866 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Transform Your Emotional State Instantly With 3 Powerful NLP Techniques - From The Coaching Academy
One of the greatest challenges we all face is managing our own internal emotional state, especially in difficult situations. How do you deal with challenges? Do you like your friends to console you? Do you feel the boil of anger rise followed by a verbal or physical outburst or do you throw yourself head first into activity to stop you from thinking about the difficult situation?
Posted 873 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
How Coaching Enriched My Life and Career – By Donna Smith
Donna Smith recently sat down and shared with us her successful story and how Coaching enhanced her life and career. Donna also qualified with us on the NLP Practitioner Programme and has successfully been running her own Coaching Business since graduation over a year ago.
Posted 873 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
7 Simple Ways to Stay Calm and Focused - From The Coaching Academy
States affect our ability to perform to our best, when under stress our performance can drop by 20-30%. Learning how to manage your state will leave you feeling more in control of the external influences that impact on our general well-being and capability to perform, experiencing both the highs and lows, whilst knowing that you have a choice of how you react to any given experience.
Posted 880 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
4 Powerful NLP Techniques to Enrich Your Life – From The Coaching Academy
NLP or Neuro Linguistic Programming is an incredibly powerful approach to communication and personal development. To quote Richard Bandler, one of the co-founders of NLP - “NLP is a discovery, not an invention”.
Posted 880 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Claire Buck: My Coaching Journey After Quitting My 30-Year Entrepreneurial Business
This week, our amazing coach, Clair Buck, shares with us her remarkable coaching journey since leaving her 30-year hard work entrepreneurial business. Claire has had a great first year of her Coaching business and is working on her plan to launch her online group coaching for Business Owners and Professionals around the world.
Posted 887 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
When Success is Your Only Option - By The Coaching Academy
Richard Branson and J K Rowling didn't have a plan B - for them, achieving their goal was the only option. How much is having your plan B stopping you from succeeding? It may be time to banish it!
Posted 887 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Lynn Degele – Coaching Empowered Me To Succeed With A Learning Difficulty
This week, our wonderful coach, Lynn Degele shares with us her inspiring journey where Coaching empowered her to overcome her learning difficulty and go on to do remarkable things that she would never have thought of. Lynn has begun giving public talks on 'Ways to Succeed with a Learning Difficulty’ at local libraries to share her story.
Posted 894 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Infographic: Spring Clean Your Life in 5 Easy Steps – From The Coaching Academy
Spring is here - a time for sunnier days, blooming flowers and new beginnings. It’s also a time when many people choose to 'spring clean’ their homes.
Posted 894 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Stella Maher - Coaching Rebuilt My Self-Esteem
This week, our passionate coach, Stella Maher, shares with us her inspiring story of how Coaching rebooted her life helping her to regain her self-esteem and beliefs. Stella is living her dream of helping other people overcome their own limiting beliefs and fulfill their potential.
Posted 901 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Conquer Your Fears in 7 Steps - by Liana Ferrier
As our life is constantly changing and we set new goals for ourselves, it is inevitable that these changes, willingly or unwillingly, can cause us to feel certain fears. We may want to set a new goal, dream about changes or find solutions to our problems but the feeling of fear holds us back.
Posted 901 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Dariusz Zurek - Coaching Has Opened A Door For Me!
This week, our passionate coach, Dariusz Zurek, shares his remarkable coaching journey and how Coaching opened a door for him to a happy and fulfilling career and far beyond.
Posted 908 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Lisa Ashworth - I Found My Unique Coaching Niche!
I’ve always loved helping people. Even when I was younger, I preferred talking to my friends about their problems rather than tackling my own!
Posted 908 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Sharon Lawton - The Sky Is The Limit in the Education Sector!
The Education Sector is booming with opportunities to utilise your coaching skills and there is currently a huge demand for coaching across the entire sector ranging from young people and parents to teachers and school leaders.
Posted 915 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
5 Steps To Achieving Your Goals – From The Coaching Academy
The motivation to set a goal usually stems from recognising that you would like to make a change in a certain area of your life. Making the decision to set a goal is a great way to break through your barriers, but a plan is not an action and it is only by taking action that you can truly get the results you are hoping for.
Posted 915 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Coaching Empowered My Life – By Melanie Coeshott
This is my story. I can’t believe I’ve only been coaching a year, but it feels so natural now. I feel like I’ve been doing it much longer…
Posted 922 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
How Coaching Helped Me Overcome My Fears – By Joanna Marszal
This week, our coach, Joanna Marszal sat down and shared with us her inspiring Coaching journey and how Coaching has empowered her to overcome her fears and limiting beliefs to become the life-changing coach she is today. We hope you enjoy…
Posted 922 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
4 Simple Steps To Break Through Limiting Beliefs – From The Coaching Academy
Our mind is the most powerful tool we have; it can store either inaccurate conclusions about who we believe we are or assist us in turning our dreams into our reality. Depending on our thoughts we can either use our minds to limit our potential or enhance it.
Posted 929 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
INFOGRAPHIC: 5 Top Tips For A Healthy Work-Life Balance – From The Coaching Academy
Ever feel like your life is running you instead of the other way round? The pressures of work can become quite a demand when you are trying to juggle career alongside family, friends, social life and general well-being. There is no magic solution to achieving a better work / life balance, like most processes that will have a positive impact in your life, it is something to be practiced but here are some top tips that should help you along the way.
Posted 929 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
No Regrets Looking Back – By Darren Lawrence
In early 2016, I was facing an uncertain future in my role at The Football Association, following a restructure when my role was put 'at risk’. I had been at the organisation for 11 years and whilst I had loved working there, in football (my thing) with some great people, I didn’t feel that I was fulfilling my potential or able to use the skills I have in the best way.
Posted 936 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
How I Fell In Love With Coaching – By Emily Merrell
This week, our PPD coach, Emily Merrell who is also completing her second Diploma - Executive & Corporate Programme, sat down and shared with us her exciting coaching journey and the golden opportunities coaching has brought her since quitting her job. We hope you enjoy...
Posted 936 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Business Success Through Psychological Contract – By Sruti Kanabar
It's mid-March 2018 and I find myself reflecting on the past 7 months with TCA since I started the Diploma in Small Business Coaching alongside the personal experiences that I have had which have inspired me to write this article.
Posted 943 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
7 Visualisation Techniques That Really Work - by John Aspden
Visualisation is the practice of affecting the outside world by changing your thoughts and using imagination to experience new behaviours and new events. By creating detailed schemas of what you want, over and over again and by using all senses to recreate these, new patterns for a change in behaviours are laid down in the brain as templates.
Posted 943 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
I Feel Like A Fairy Godmother – By Cathy Garner, The Artist Coach
What if the only thing that’s really worth doing is the vision that comes from your heart? How do you find that vision? How do you express it? And how do you make it so compelling that you are suddenly able to overcome all the things that may have been stopping you from doing it and transform your life? As coaches, helping our clients do this is a challenge.
Posted 950 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
I Have All The Answers – By Pauline Grant
This week, we caught up with TCA coach, Pauline Grant - a family Restorative Coach, currently in the process of setting up her coaching business, for a quick Q&A session in this week’s Coaching Weekly. We hope you enjoy...
Posted 950 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
5 Ways To Feel Instantly Happier – From The Coaching Academy
Winter has fallen behind us and the season of new beginnings has arrived! Are you filled with excitement for the next season of your life, or do you have a nagging feeling of sadness which questions whether you’ll ever feel happier?
Posted 957 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
A Career Change That Transformed My Life – By Reshma Jobanputra
I’d been stuck at a job that just wasn’t for me for 13 long years. It was in 2015 that I finally realised, just how much of a toll it was taking on me both, physically and mentally. I just had to leave.
Posted 957 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
How To Stay Motivated Every Day – By The Coaching Academy
Coaching is all about asking questions. When you ask the right questions, you can create breakthroughs that provide you with a deeper level of clarity so that you can re-ignite your motivation and take steps to move in the right direction.
Posted 964 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
10 Limiting Beliefs That Hold You Back – By The Coaching Academy
Our thoughts are powerful. Along with words, mind-chatter and the things you say to yourself are often the number one support tool you have to guide you towards your goals. When we don't believe we can, we won't. Is your mind chatter helping you or holding you back?
Posted 964 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
The Power of Coaching – By Ros Evans
I had been a self-employed Learning and Development Consultant for 20 years and had come to the end of a long-term contract with a major global organisation. This coincided with my son of 19 having to withdrawn from university due to severe anxiety issues.
Posted 971 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
6 Secrets to Success – From The Coaching Academy
How do successful people think? What drives them? If you truly understand their belief systems, levels of commitment and positive attitudes toward life and integrate these ways of thinking into your own belief system – you should be able to succeed at anything you put your mind to.
Posted 971 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Coaching Has Fulfilled My Life - By Andreia Trigo
We recently had the opportunity to catch up with NLP Practitioner of The Year 2017, Andreia Trigo, for a Q&A session for this week’s Coach in The Spotlight column. We hope you enjoy…
Posted 978 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
A Worthwhile Investment – By Liz Wyn-Davies
I first discovered coaching in 2002, when I enrolled with the Academy and qualified in the Personal Performance Diploma. At the time, alongside my husband, we ran a design and manufacturing business with over 100 employees. I felt coaching would offer me the tools I needed to help me work with our employees to grow and develop them. After qualifying in 2003, I coached staff as well as others, and it was always a pleasure to see people’s delight when they achieved the goals they had set themselves.
Posted 978 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Top Tips for Successful Networking - By Mary Jane (MJ) Paris
Just as 'location, location, location’ is the key element in real estate, networking is the key ingredient in any business development plan. Whether your business is large or small, a start-up or one with a long-history, for-profit or not-for-profit, 'networking, networking, networking’ is the key to business development.
Posted 985 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
I Achieved My Goal after First Month of Graduation – By Nieves Rodriguez
I had been searching for a career to bring out all the things that I felt that I stood for in life, an honest, trustworthy, understanding person and leader who always liked to help people to develop and achieve their dreams.
Posted 985 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
What Teenagers Want – By Pam Lidford
Research by The Coaching Academy’s Coaching within Education Programme Trainer, Pam Lidford has revealed the answer to the question that has puzzled teachers and parents for generations: what do teenagers really want? Be prepared for a surprise...
Posted 992 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Coaching Got My Business Off The Ground - By Debra McAndrew
This week, TCA Coaches’ 'Getting Clients’ series continues with a quick Q&A session with our coach, Debra McAndrew, where she recalled how coaching helped accelerate her business success and shared some top tips for coaches getting clients. We hope you enjoy…
Posted 992 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
10 Powerful Questions That Can Change Your Life – From The Coaching Academy
Coaching is all about asking powerful questions which can help us to create breakthroughs in our careers, relationships and overall well-being. When we ask ourselves the right questions we direct our minds towards seeking answers, considering different perspectives, altering our moods and finding solutions to our challenges.
Posted 999 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Why More Businesses Are Hiring a Coach – By Merete Langler
Coaching is often likened to the fitness world, and this is especially true at this time of year. As the end of January approaches ('Dry’ or otherwise), a number of Small Business owners and managers are once again realising that many of their New Year resolutions are unlikely to carry as far as February. Like the folk who have set those 'Get fit/lose weight’ etc goals, Small Business owners are planning for an improved year now that the old one has finished.
Posted 999 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Coaching Truly Transformed My Life – By Debora Luzi
TCA coach, Debora Luzi, recently sat down with us for a quick Q&A session for the Coaches’ 'Getting Clients’ Top Tips series this week. We hope you enjoy…
Posted 1006 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
TCA Top Coaches’ 'Getting Clients’ Tips – By Claire Cahill
We recently caught up with Claire Cahill, TCA Executive Coach of The Year 2016 to ask her some quick questions for Top Coaches’ 'Getting Clients’ Tips series this week. We hope you enjoy…
Posted 1006 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Enrich Your Emotional Intelligence - By Nelia Koroleva
If you knew something influenced virtually everything you did or said, would you want to learn more about it? Would you want to develop it? Let’s face it - many of us are stuck sometimes with fear, boredom, sadness, annoyance or anger. Many of us cannot adapt to changing situations. Many of us struggle to connect and maintain personal and professional relationships.
Posted 1013 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Dreams Infographic - From The Coaching Academy
The new year is finally here and we’re into the full swing of 2018. Many of us have been contemplating our dreams to achieve throughout the following year and beyond. However, Robert Herjavec once said, “A goal without a deadline is just a dream”. The key this year is to transform our dreams into goals, and then realise them.
Posted 1013 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Coaching Awakened My Passion and Purpose – By Sue Clarke
Going back to early 2015, as a consequence of reassessing life I decided to quit my full-time job, which I had been doing for almost 15 years. The main driver behind my decision was that I wanted to be around for my 92-year-old mum, who lived with us and also look after our granddaughter 2 days a week when her mum returned to work. So, April 2015 began a new season, as I reflect it was quite a challenge caring for a 92-year-old and a 9-month-old. One, increasing in independence and curiosity of the world around them and the other, with a degree of reluctance, was becoming more dependent.
Posted 1020 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Make Your New Year's Resolutions Last! – The Coaching Academy
Another year has flown by and January has arrived. It's a new year and a new start and many of us may excitedly declare our new year's resolutions only for our motivation to be short-lived. A recent study conducted by the University of Scranton's psychology department showed that 71% of those surveyed only followed through on their new year's resolutions for the first two weeks and sadly it's the case for many of us.
Posted 1020 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Coaching Reignited My Passion – By Julia Williams
About 5 years ago, I was in a career rut and was questioning everything about what I was doing. I had been a Primary School teacher for nearly 20 years, had taken a break to raise my daughter and was really struggling to get back in to it because everything had moved on apace. But I didn’t think there was anything else I could do. Eventually I contacted a Life Coach, called David Jessop. I began working with him and, as well as coaching me to move forward, that led to him working with me in school with the children. He inspired me so much I decided I wanted to do what he did.
Posted 1041 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Success is on the other side of that fear – By Phillipa Horlock
I stumbled into Coaching not knowing what I really wanted, but thinking that I wanted something different to what I already had.
Posted 1048 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
I Found My Calling – by Monika Czuj
At first, it was my personal situation that motivated me to enrol with TCA. When I became a young woman, I found myself in a challenging position.
Posted 1048 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Are You Holding Yourself Back? – The Coaching Academy
The language we use to communicate with ourselves has incredible power and it is often the case that the words we use can be a reflection of both our internal and external experiences.
Posted 1055 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Coaching Has Empowered Me – By Abigale Otchere
We recently caught up with The Coaching Academy Graduate, Abigale Otchere, for a Q&A session for this week 's Coach in The Spotlight. Abigale is currently hosting the Motivational Monday Podcast, where she interviews an array of inspirational experts from around the world. We hope you enjoy it...
Posted 1062 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
The Coaching Academy Award Winners 2017 - It all began with our 2-day FREE event!
What do all these award winners have in common? They all began their coaching journey by attending our FREE 2-day Foundation in Life Coaching event.
Posted 1055 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Unlock Your Potential and Succeed – From The Coaching Academy
Absolutely everyone has it in them to develop themselves and reach their full potential. We all could do a little more each day than we think we can possibly do. This could be in work, relationships, family, sports, fitness or pretty much any situation that requires you to focus your mind-set and behaviours.
Posted 1062 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
I found what I’d been searching for – By Michelle Ross
I had been searching for a career to bring out all the things that I felt that I stood for in life, an honest, trustworthy, understanding caring person who listened intently with family friends and colleagues. I feel that I have a very natural warmth and easy-going manner when it comes to understanding people’s emotions and reactions.
Posted 1069 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Ditch Procrastination Infographic – From The Coaching Academy
As human beings, it’s safe to say many of us can often spend far too much time overthinking our problems within our lives. It is a huge challenge and across the board, we’re forced to stop and ponder over various key points; whether it be work, home, relationship or personally related. In fact, around 95% of us fall into this trap to some degree, according to considerable research by Dr Piers Steel, a Psychologist at the University of Calgary and the world’s foremost authority on procrastination.
Posted 1069 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Coaching Became My Lifeline – By Eva Mantzourani
I have had a long academic career. Until recently, I have been largely known as a musicologist, lecturer and published author. I have lived and worked in Greece and England, and have faced and overcome some formidable, life-changing hurdles that led me to my present life and Coaching career path.
Posted 1076 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Relishing Success Through Coaching – By Debbie Robinson
This week, 'My Client’s Success Story Series’ continue with TCA’s Protégé Graduate - Debbie Robinson’s inspiring story of how coaching has changed the life of one of her clients. We hope you enjoy it…
Posted 1076 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
5 Ingredients of Success - by Bev James
If you consider what you want your future to look like, what does your ultimate success story hold for you? What does it look and feel like? Can you picture yourself punching the air or raising a glass or two in acknowledgement of your achievement? It's a great feeling, isn't it? What would happen if you got offered this opportunity tomorrow? Would you be ready for success?
Posted 1083 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
5 Goal Setting Pitfalls to avoid - by Anthony D. Carter
When setting goals, it is important to avoid making mistakes that can cause you to fail before you ever get to the action phase.
Posted 1083 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Hollywood Director’s Coaching Breakthrough - By David Hare
This week, David Hare sat down with The Coaching Academy to tell us about a powerful success story that changed the life of one of his clients - Jeremy, an award winning, young Hollywood director. We hope you enjoy it…
Posted 1090 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
My Client’s Success Story – by Judith Quin
To begin our 'My Client’s Success Story Series’, we asked TCA’s Coach, Judith Quin, to share her story of how Coaching has influenced her clients’ lives. We hope you enjoy it…
Posted 1090 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Need a Confidence Boost? Here’s how… From The Coaching Academy
Most people at some point in their life could benefit from an improvement in their self-confidence. Often, just talking about it isn’t enough. In order to make lasting change to this life challenge, you have to take action and believe you can change.
Posted 1097 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Coaching Has Transformed My Life – by Irina Sanchez de Lozada
We recently caught up with The Coaching Academy Graduate, Irina Sanchez de Lozada for a Q&A session for this week 's Coach in The Spotlight. Irina has recently set up her own Coaching business and is passionate to help other women become happy and fulfilled. We hope you enjoy it...
Posted 1097 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Coaching Clients? Personality Counts - by Dave Pill
As coaches, we are driven by the desire to help people achieve their goals, explore new opportunities, ideas or possibilities and in some cases, help build the foundations for a better life – what a great way to make a living, making a positive and lasting difference to others.
Posted 1104 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
My Coaching Journey – By Sruti Kanabar
My journey with The Coaching Academy started back in July 2015 when I came across an advert for TCA’s free 2-day Coaching event on the Facebook app on my phone whilst being on my train back home.
Posted 1104 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
How Different Personalities Deal With Conflict – By Dave Pill
The more I work with DISC, the more I love it….. and when you consider I’ve been working with it since 1992 you have to realise, there’s a whole lotta love!
Posted 1111 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
I Have Found My Passion And Purpose – by James Lewis
My journey to become a professional coach started in October 2015.
Posted 1041 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Rock 'n Roll Your Emotional State – by Simone Vincenzi
Anthony Robbins said: “There are no un-resourceful people, just un-resourceful states”. What does it mean?
Posted 1118 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Coach in The Spotlight – Oriel Camp
'Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony.’ - Mahatma Gandhi
Posted 1118 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Boosting Self-Esteem for Teens - By Bev James
Self-esteem is a make-up of the thoughts, feelings and opinions we hold about ourselves, over time these habits of negative thinking can create beliefs about how we see ourselves and dent our self-worth. These beliefs however aren’t fixed and can change, depending on the way we think.
Posted 1125 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
GROW Model Infographic – From The Coaching Academy
The GROW (Goal, Reality, Options, Will/Way forward) model is the most common and widely used coaching tool. It enables the coach to structure a coaching conversation and deliver a meaningful result logically and effectively. GROW needs to be practised but once mastered is incredibly adaptable to many different coaching styles and scenarios.
Posted 1125 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Why it’s great to be a Business Coach - by Adrian Webb
Business coaching is an incredibly rewarding lifestyle business.
Posted 1125 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
My Journey into Coaching - by Sarah Howarth
I have worked in the education sector for most of my professional life, initially teaching and latterly as a senior manager for over 18 years. My first interest in coaching was through a short training course at work and I found that coaching approaches fit with my desire to always help all people to achieve the best they can for themselves.
Posted 1132 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
I Have Now Found My Calling In Life – by Miriam Cuddihy
What an amazing journey The Coaching Academy has taken me on! My initial interest was in taking the NLP Practitioner course and with an abundance of NLP providers in the market place. I was delighted to come across a Free 2-day Foundation in Life Coaching Course with The Coaching Academy which I attended in February 2016.
Posted 1132 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Seven Wonders of Achievement – by David Finney
Was there a time when you once said, 'one day I am going to ….…’ and then didn’t get round to do whatever it was you said you were going to? Maybe that day has now come; when we set ourselves goals we face an interesting dilemma: do we make the goal small that it can be easily achieved or do we make it so large that it feels too big to conquer? When facing a career or lifestyle crossroads, there are numerous things to consider.
Posted 1139 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
My Studies Have Changed My Life – by Penny Barker
My self-development journey has taken me full circle through a career as a veterinary surgeon, programme manager and management consultant and back again. My first experience of coaching was on the Leadership Programme for one of the Big 4 consultancy companies. I was writing my business case for promotion and through the coaching process, I realised that whilst it was a great job that paid well, it didn’t fit in with my personal values. I wasn’t desperately unhappy, but something just wasn’t right. I ended up writing my business case to leave the firm and return to vetting, taking a considerable salary cut but doing something I loved.
Posted 1139 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
The Perfect Dance of Rapport - by Debbie Robinson
Have you ever noticed how conversation just seems to flow when two people are in rapport? Their bodies as well as their words match each other. Just watch a couple in a restaurant or friends meeting in a pub, they dance the dance of rapport! Picking up their glasses in unison, matching each other’s body language and speaking styles - is all part of the dance!
Posted 1146 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Coach in The Spotlight – Nazma Kabir
We recently caught up with The Coaching Academy Graduate Nazma Kabir, who had the privilege to work with Mother Theresa at the age of 17, for a Q&A session for this week 's Coach in The Spotlight. We hope you enjoy it...
Posted 1146 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
Blitz Procrastination And Change Your Life - From The Coaching Academy
Your procrastination habits may seem to be very deep rooted and, indeed, they probably are. But that doesn’t mean they can’t be changed. Forget everything you have ever been told about laziness, tardiness, lack of application and short attention span; procrastination is about how we think. More specifically, it is about how we allow certain thoughts to morph into beliefs. If we are serial procrastinators then we will have some underlying beliefs that are getting in the way of action.
Posted 1153 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles
I Never Looked Back! My Coaching Journey – by James Banfield
My story began on a train journey a few years ago. I had been studying self-help and development all of my adult life, and because of my friendly curious nature, people tended to open up to me and would like to talk through their problems and concerns. This evening was no different, a friend of mine was having a difficult time at work and was considering handing in his notice. We talked through all of the angles and I reassured him that whatever he decided, it would all work out in the end. Then something unexpected happened - Just as he was getting up to leave he turned and said, "You would be a great life coach." It was like a bolt of lightning had just hit me! I didn't even know exactly what a life coach was, but something told me that this conversation was meant to happen and I had to do something about it.
