Five to February 2020
Until 18th September I am opening up a limited number of 1:1 coaching spots for a select group of clients for my 2nd biggest programme, Five to February!
My clients are game-changers, they live at edges and they live in the long-tail of the Bell-Curve.
I am not for everyone. I am not.
There are lots of nice coaches out there. That's not me.
This is a 5 month 6-session coaching membership that sets you up for further work with me and my incredible sacred clients in the future.
You may not know who my clients are - but it may come as a surprise to you which shiny cars I am in the bonnet of.
You will get access to so much content, wisdom and experience.
I am brave and fragile.
I am strong and hurting.
I will do hard things and take the collateral.
I experience great joy and have constructed, deliberately and on a very very different timeline to the one I had envisaged.
Last night I sat in a hammock, on my deck drinking Cava with my husband, who recently quit his job. We watched the moon and the stars and the planets and giggled and realised the hammock smelled of mould - probably been in a warehouse somewhere during rainy season.
This time last year I was desperate and depressed; you'd not know it unless you were close to me at the time - my clients knew and they know that you can also still function through that. I give good face. I understand the nuance of vulnerability and not to spray that around like a Tomcat. I so desperately wanted my life to include open skies, proximity to the sea and lush green on the daily and I KNEW KNEW KNEW it was attainable but I just couldn't quite get a grip on it.
Until my landlord knocked my door and told us we needed to leave our rental they were planning to sell the land.
Blessing in disguise I believe my Nan would haven said. Both of them.
Little did I know that that that would trigger a sequence of events that would lead me to living my seaside fantasy. Little did i know that when I chose to transition my business 80-90% online 3 years ago, that everyone would be doing the same March 2020. Little did I know that a devastating virus would sweep through the world, carried on the back of air travel and increased mobility and close the globe down. Little did I know that would be living out isolation in the hills, near the sea, with my lovely client dialing in on this wonderful technology called Zoom and that this would pull on all my reserves of resilience and toughness and showing up for them, while enjoying my new life. I won't tell a lie, some friendships frayed delivering deep rich lessons and uncovering past stories and experiences that needed a little nudge.
Business relationships were challenged and strengthened. Trust was built. Workshops were delivered online, in-person while 2 metres away from one another, with a wee cleaning man popping in every so often to spray every handle, surface and chair, which was interesting.
My coaches supported me in different ways. Logical, mystical and let me rant my psychological ass off as I made mistake after mistake and they helped me navigate so I didn't break, or break others.
I support people like this too - through Science - the facts, figures, laws and realities, through Psychology - the stories, the techniques, the Western scientific eye on the human condition, and the Supernatural - that stuff we can't see, that we can't account for, the luck, the fortune, the coincidences, the decisions we make that we could never have imagined having such impact further down the line.
What luck that the 'little did I know' things would be the gateway to an unusual but lovely life. What choice that I decided to focus my business online a few years back - I mean that could have gone either way - if the electric or WiFi had been the global disaster - we'd have been having a different conversation.
Coaching is powerful.
It is a space to get through limiting beliefs, make choices and to take what you have and run with it.
It is a place for fun and self-revelation. And to do what you want with what you have.
It's a place to identify want you want, practice asking for it then celebrating the ask and the result - whatever it is.
It's a place to slip into your zone of genius and out of your zone of average, if that's what you want and if that's what is available to you.
It's a fabulous investment in yourself - and others. All the techniques and tools you are given will be life-long guides that become your own.
But a client said it best - coaching at it's best is transformational and conformational - it's about getting closer to yourself and your wishes and wants and collecting the resources you might require - or not, to fulfill whatever it is you want. And to model those things or other people.
I can tell you ALL this stuff but there's nothing more powerful than getting a witness - here's what a client did in a quick coaching session at a career Strategy seminar 2 years ago. She agreed to let me coach her fast and hard. She was at a crossroads in her life and wanted to move. She doesn't mention here that she also went to Bali for a month and did a 200 hours yoga teacher training. This brought a tear to my eye - not because of the mention, that was nice, but because this is one of those sliding door moments. Do the right thing. Or do the scandalous, delicious thing that is deep in your soul...
"Back in 2018 I attended a career-change seminar in Tokyo. I was itching to do something different with my life, especially after a doctor had laughed at me while telling me I should be dead six months earlier. After that ordeal, I figured I probably shouldn't die with the one thing I wanted to do in my lifeunfulfilled.
As part of that seminar I got to sit down with Sarah Everitt Furuya for the most productive fifteen-minutes I've ever had, and in that time we put together a three-year plan for me to change course and head back in the direction I was always supposed be going. So, long story short (too late), I will be studying for a MA on the UK's oldest and most prestigious creative writing course from this September at the University of East Anglia. This is the same writing course Kazuo Ishiguro, Anne Enright and Ian McEwan studied on (the former under the tutelage of my literary heroine Angela Carter), which puts me in excellent company and in no way is a massive amount of pressure...ha ha.
I've been in a slight state of disbelief since I was offered a place back in May, and I kept telling myself not to get excited about something that still might not happen. However, yesterday I received word that I have been awarded a scholarship to study on the course, which has now made the whole thing seem much more real. I think, though, I will still be in a state of disbelief until I get my first piece of fiction ripped to shreds in a workshop. I can’t wait! The amount of worry and heartache (literally and figuratively) involved in getting to this point has been tremendous, but it has been wonderfully validating for my work to be recognized as good enough for this course, and for the amazing generosity of the people supporting my studies. So, I’ll be returning to the UK at the end of August, moving to Norwich at the end of September, and embarking on something I first attempted to do eighteen years ago when then Poet Laureate Andrew Motion told me in his rejection letter that I was in need of more life experience. I’ve got plenty to bring with me."
Interested to know more? Get in touch or book a free discovery call! You can read more about the programme here.