Career Coaching: lockdown 2.0. What do you need to do to be your best human and your best professional self during these locked-down times? Life in lockdown 2.0 is full of the same shifts and changes we experienced with lockdown 1. What is perhaps different is that we have gotten faster at adapting. We know we […]
Career Coaching: Encouragement. Here’s a little letter I wrote for some gentle encouragement today. I hope it helps you if you too are feeling overwhelmed. ___ “I wanted to let you know that I hear you. I hear your ‘defeated’ and the exhaustion that lies beneath that. There are good reasons for this: It is time to […]
Career Coaching: Who’s on Your Team? My business rule is “Don’t try and do it alone”. The image of the sole-trader, the founder, and the entrepreneur is often a lonesome one. Not true in my opinion. In fact, if isolation IS a truth, the longevity of any enterprise is likely to be limited. If you have […]
Career Coaching: Persistent Need. What do you do when you have a persistent need to do or achieve something when everyone around you is telling you to ‘get a proper job’ In my experience you do what you need to do anyways – that’s what I learned. Many, many people told me that it was […]
Career Coaching: Alchemy. Today I witnessed as a client worked their way through a tricky time in their life. By the end of the session, they had worked out that this tricky-bit had given them their gift. As painful as it was to see, it was so good to see this outcome. I can say the same […]
Career Coaching – Relaunching. Many people are showing up here discontented with how their careers are right now. Many of them showed up to their careers advice session at school with high aspirations. Only to have their aspirations, of being barristers, authors, journalists dashed. To be told it ‘wasn’t possible’, that ‘It wouldn’t make money‘, […]
Career Coaching: Routines: So, when the shit hits the fan in your world, what do you do? I’m noticing a good trait in my world. When the shit hits the fan here, when I know I’m in for a stint of it, I double down on my self-care routines. What does that mean? It means putting […]
Career Coaching: Business is Booming. Before COVID-19 came along, I was working too hard. As I write these words, they have sunk in a little deeper. The business was booming. I was working with up to five clients a day. By the last client of each day, I would feel like I was totally on-it—adrenaline racing […]
Career Coaching: Triggered! I had no idea how hard I find it to ask for help. How did I learn this? I learned this when I needed some minor medical attention from the NHS. Referred to a ‘fast track service’ just before I went abroad for a fortnight, I arrived home to find that my appointment had […]
Career Coaching: Coming Unraveled: As I coach more, whilst my clients are learning about themselves, I too am learning about myself. I always wondered why this was called “A Coaching Practice”??? When would I have finally qualified? And, if you have done any personal development, you too will know that once you have opened the door […]