As I write this in Fall 2021, we're coming to perhaps the tail end of the COVID epidemic.
Like many people, my world was turned upside down by the pandemic. The work I was doing teaching storytelling to organizations dried up as all my clients tightened their purse strings.
Similarly, the events I was running through the New Narrative made it onto zoom for a time, but eventually we all became too burned out to sustain it.
For better or worse, I took some time off during the pandemic to work on myself and consider my next steps amid the uncertainty of it all.
It’s been ten years since I first started down my personal development path.
When it started I was in a very dark place.
I had recently lost my job, fallen out of a relationship, and was wrestling with major alcohol issues.
I had a hard time seeing how my life could be anything but a downward spiral to an early death…
But perhaps because I was in such a forlorn place I was willing to consider something I had never given credence to before, which was to read a frickin’ self help book.
The one I choose was Brene Brown, the Gifts of Imperfection.
I had just seen her now famous TED Talk. I had also recently gotten involved with a writing and storytelling group.
Her message on the power of courage and vulnerability heavily resonated with me.
It was specifically how she also talked about understanding, owning, and sharing our own stories that stuck out to me too.
Prior to that I had always been very reserved and didn’t share much of myself. I was slowly coming to realize how much of a disservice that was, not only to myself, but to everybody around me that had been there for me, wanted to know me, wanted to see me, but fro whom I had always hid.
Ten years later this is all still very resonant with me. It what inspired me to move into teaching storytelling and pubic speaking coaching, but I’ve always suspected there was a deeper layer in how I could be helping people too.
Coming out of the pandemic, I realized it was time.
The coaching and training I was doing around storytelling and public speaking was overlapping more and more into conversations about what it means to believe in ourselves, harness our own power, and create the kind of life we’ve always wanted for ourselves.
I had been studying, getting coached, and preparing for years. I knew it was finally time to announce that I was available to take on clients as a life transformation coach.
I started with one simple post on Facebook and Instagram to share what I was up to. That was September 14, 2021.
That post alone got me a handful of inquires and led to my first set of clients.
It’s all been growing steadily ever since.
In one regard, this is all relatively new—but in another sense I’m just finally calling it what it is. I’ve been doing life coaching for years under different names. It time to finally own it and focus my energy on that path.
I feel very blessed to have finally made this shift on my life to have it be going so well.
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We’re all driven by so many unconscious drivers that unless we develop clarity on what it is we’re looking and moving towards, all those other drivers will completely take over.