Have you ever felt like you can’t get anything done because your team constantly interrupts you with questions they should be able to answer themselves? I lived this reality every day at our insurance agency. My business partner and I became the ultimate bottleneck – our staff depended on us for nearly everything, from basic… Read More
Category: Coaching
Escape the lonely path of leadership with a business coach
Have you ever felt like you’re on an island? Many of my clients have been sharing how isolated they feel as leaders and small business owners. There’s a freedom that comes with being at the top, but the price you pay is having nobody to answer to but yourself. The Silent Burden of Leadership As… Read More
Delegation: How to “let go” by facing your fear of vulnerability
If you’re a high achiever (and make it a large part of your identity), you’ve likely struggled with asking for help and delegating work to others. You tell yourself that the reason you hesitate to “let go” is because you don’t want it to reflect poorly on you, your team, and your company. This may… Read More
How to reclaim and reassess your identity
My personal struggle with identity Coming from an immigrant household, I was never asked about “what I wanted to be when I grew up” or what my “dream job” was. My parents raised me with the mentality that the best way to “make it” in America was to get good grades, go to college, and… Read More
My top three regrets from my career break
After I sold our family business, I was fortunate enough to have the time and resources to take a career break, or sabbatical. I absolutely needed it after grinding it out every day for five years while running the business, but, I made the mistake of going into it without a proper game plan and… Read More
How my coach got me out of analysis paralysis
Let me begin by sharing how a perfect storm of changes led me to analysis paralysis in the first place. Over the last year and a half, I’ve had a few significant life events – I sold our family business, sold my house in Houston, moved to Los Angeles, got engaged, started a new business,… Read More
How is coaching different from therapy or consulting?
The lines between coaching, consulting, therapy (and other professional services) get blurred often because they all focus on providing guidance to the client, just in different ways. The distinctions between these services center around a few things: what the client’s objective is, if that objective is focused on the past or the future, and how… Read More
When should I hire a coach?
This is a tough question to answer, but the best way to think about when to hire a coach is this: if you know you want to make a change, and you know you have the capacity to do so, but you’re not sure how – that is when you hire a coach. There are… Read More
Why did I become a coach?
I was turned onto coaching when I had reached a major crossroads in my life about a year and a half ago…Overwhelmed by change, I was basically at square one, and had no idea what my next step should be…I hired a career coach…After just one session with her, I felt my entire world begin to shift. After just one session with her, I felt my entire world begin to shift. She listened to me so intently and asked the right probing questions to get me to observe my situation in a different light. This is what coaching is – it’s not someone telling you what they think you should do, but rather, it’s asking you questions to get you to come to those realizations yourself.