Week 49 - This is BIG

This was a big week for me. I hit a really crazy milestone that I’m still a little in shock from.

When I initially dreamt of being a coach full time and traveling, it was just me myself and I. Working with clients 1:1. Living in beautiful places. I barely knew how to make that come true so that’s kinda where the dream started and stopped. I didn’t really think beyond that.

But let’s take it back. How did I even know I wanted to be a coach??

So 8 years ago I was not performing well at work. I couldn’t figure out how to stop sucking at my job. I was too afraid to ask for help at work, for fear of judgement and what others would think of me. So I turned to external help instead. I found a coach quite randomly. A mentor of mine referred me to her and I didn’t even know what a coach really was, let alone did I ever think I wanted to be one.

But there are moments in life where your intuition lights up like a Christmas tree and that’s what happened when I met this coach. She was walking me through her program and my entire body lit up from the inside - an aha moment 🎄.

As a sales person I recognized that she was selling me into her program, and I was like

‘hey wait a second…I know how to sell…but what I sell is software and what she sells is helping people 🤔 hmmmm….I like helping people…all I do is read self-development to help myself…so what if I sold helping people…💡!!”

I literally told my coach in that moment, ‘I think I want to be a coach!’ And she politely brushed it off because I rightfully had no idea what I was talking about. But I obviously hired her on the spot. I was so lit up I knew I had to hire her.

So over the first 6 months (because I’ve worked with her for 8 years now) I gained an understanding of what coaching actually is from going through it myself, but the point of her 6 months was to help me find career options I wanted to pursue. Well in those 6 months I had a radical self transformation. I learned to trust myself, I learned all my self-sabotaging behaviours, I upgraded my mindset, I set boundaries, and I made results happen! I went from bottom performing AE to #1 AE on my team and went to Club (fancy trip to Hawaii for people that hit their annual quota).

I was literally like “WHAT IS THIS MAGICAL SORCERY THAT IS COACHING?? I NEED TO BECOME A COACH ASAP!”

Well ASAP wasn’t so ASAP, but I did get trained as a coach right away and continued to train over the last 8 years while I took my coaching into the corporate world as a leader at Salesforce and start-ups.

Ok let’s fast forward to now. I am a full-time solopreneur coach working predominately 1:1 with clients. One of my clients, Cym,  in particular reminds me a lot of me. And she also reminds me a lot of me in relationship to my coach. I absolutely adore my coach. I attribute so much of my success and sanity to her. And Cym now feels that way about me, which is literally the best feeling in the whole world because I know EXACTLY how she feels because I’ve felt it.

And funnily enough, because she’s loved her experience in coaching, she too wants to be a coach!

I’ve worked with her for over a year and she has grown SO freaking much. She was burned out, over working, over pleasing, neglecting herself and her needs all at the expense of achievement at work, which she had a lot of. But then it all started to take its toll. And her performance started to slip. Which only threw her deeper into over doing everything.

Fast forward to today, she’s at a new company that is COMPLETELY aligned to her values, celebrates her strengths, gives her space to care for herself, gives her autonomy to explore other facets of herself through side projects, she’s created boundaries that respect her needs and nurture her, she’s in tune with herself, she’s a Linkedin influencer, she has her own successful blog. She’s killing it y’all.

Which is why I knew I had to hire her! Yes, solopreneur me just turned into an entrepreneur!

I welcomed Cym to my coaching practice last week as my newest Imposter Syndrome Coach!

She’ll be focusing on working with individuals who are a little earlier on in their career who are facing imposter syndrome and are lacking clarity about their future and confidence to make it happen. So for all you SDRs, BDRs and AEs out there we’ve got you! I will be focusing on leaders and executives and Cym’s covering the rest.

I’m beyond excited to have Cym join my practice because first of all she’s amazing and has done the work! She’s been through this coaching, has seen the results and loves and believes in it so much that she now wants to help others do exactly the same. And secondly, dude when I was early in my career, like I described above, I was floundering! I needed help and I’m so freaking thankful I found a coach. So my hope is we can be that beacon of light for those early on trying to find their way and make sense of it all.

Cym is still in her full-time role at MovableInk so we have a limited amount of spots to work with her. But that said, grab them! So that I can continue to hire more amazing coaches to work with me and help more people calm their imposer syndrome and claim their confidence.

Book a call to see if there’s a fit to work with us!

And with that, I have a question for y'all to ponder:

What's something that you have now that you couldn't even dream about 10 years ago?

Nothing like a little acknowledgement and gratitude to brighten your week.