How I built a soulful business when I thought I couldn’t
So when I left my corporate career and fell in love with coaching, I pursued it with the quiet assumption that I'd always need to work inside someone else's business. And honestly, that belief led me somewhere extraordinary. It's the reason I became a candidate for executive leadership at The Life Coach School. I wasn't looking to leave. I was all in on someone else's vision because I genuinely believed I wasn't built to carry my own.
When You Can’t Stop Thinking About Your Clients
A thought. Followed by an image. Then, an insight about what we had just unearthed together. Something I hadn’t seen earlier when I was sitting in “coach” mode, but was now fully landing in the quiet of my kitchen, with pesto shrimp simmering and Noah Kahan playing in the background.
The Number of Times I Want to Quit My Business (In a Day)
Building a business, finding my voice, writing in a way that connects, figuring out what to say, keeping up with marketing trends, algorithms, and whatever Substack is doing this week... it’s exhausting. And some days I just want to lie down and read a book. (Okay, most days.)
The Art of Truly Seeing and Hearing Another Person
That kind of knowing goes beyond listening to words. It means noticing tone, body language, pauses, and the emotions that sit just underneath what someone is willing to say out loud. It means catching the moment when a client says "I'm fine" but their voice catches, and having the courage to stay there rather than move on. It means reflecting back what you see with enough care that the other person recognizes themselves in your words and thinks, "Yes. That's exactly it."