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CAREER COACHING

Success Stories

Of past and present Coach Connection clients

The following career coaching success stories about Coach Connection clients will hopefully enlighten you about the remarkable career goals awaiting you.

Enjoy!

Empty nest widowed baby boomer creates her new career life
(To fulfill her hidden passions, and is enjoying life to the fullest.)

Gena is a 57-year-old young lady who found herself alone, and lost when her soul mate husband suddenly died in late 2005. Her children were grown, had started their own families and had moved to other states. Depression showed up. She found herself "struggling with where I was and what I wanted to do." She chose to "set a course for my new life towards the success picture in my head, without depression or feeling bitter." She called TCC for an appointment because "TCC focused only on me the client and not outside stuff." She further explains: "I thought being able to experience actual coaching sessions with three hand picked prescreened life coaches was fantastic" And " I found my dream coach. We clicked so well, I thought she had known me all of my life."

"My life coach looked at me as a real person" Gena further reports: "She allowed and encouraged me to look inside myself for the first time in my life, without guilt and with total focus and clarity. As a baby boomer I had always focused on what others wanted, but never on what I wanted. I discovered that my true passion was to create costumes for early American life periods." And more importantly she explains, "My coach awakened me to discover the practical and realistic steps to actually turn my dream as a designer and producer of period costumes, into reality, based on ME! Gena encouraged TCC to publish her story, so her fellow baby boomers will learn about the life coaching process that "we did not have available to us in our lifetime."

35 year old young lady discovers her dream position
(After 10 years in the financial world)

Beth was a 35-year-old young lady who had worked within the financial industry for over 10 years. She had been feeling frustrated and lost in her work for quite some time, but did not know what to do about it. She felt confined by the rigidity of finances and the over-emphasis on getting profits from clients and cold numbers. Her husband was given a healthy promotion and transferred to Southern California. Beth decided to find a new career when they moved to her new environment.

She engaged a personal coach from TCC to figure out what she really loved to do. Through the discovery process she was surprised to recognize the many creative talents and passions she had been suppressing for so long. She discovered that she had a natural flare and a strong personal passion to design kitchens, even though she had little experience at doing so, other than helping design the kitchen at her last house. She and her coach focused on what she really wanted to do within the kitchen design field and discovered that her most desirable position was to assist home owners to create the kitchens to suit their personal desires and needs whether remodeling existing homes or building new kitchens.

She discovered which firms were the most recognized and successful in the field of remodeling kitchens and constructing specialty kitchens for private homes. She approached the most highly regarded of all of these firms in Southern California and told the general manager how passionate she was about kitchen design work and in working with cooks to create their most desirable kitchens. She laid it all on the line with a very determined and genuine conviction to work in the field even though she had so little experience and even less training. Much to her delight the manager was impressed enough to ask her to join the firm as an assistant.

Her natural creative talents, her genuine enthusiasm for helping others design kitchens, her open honesty to take the risk to ask for the position, and her experience in finances gave her a great combination that the manager could not turn down. She has since become one of the firms most successful and popular kitchen designers, especially in the high-end neighborhoods of the Beverly Hills. She started this position without much concern for the money she would earn, but her dedication and deep desire to enjoy her work and get better every day, quickly generated an income in six figures in only ten months. She had never had so much fun and had never generated so much income.

Retired therapist transitions into his life long dream position

One 63 year old therapist decided he wanted to continue to help others by focusing on future achievements, rather than continuing to dwell on correcting past problems. He felt he wanted to become a life coach. He was unsure about the differences between the two disciplines and was confused about which coaching school he should use. He wanted to develop new coaching skills and perspectives to augment his therapy skills to become a successful life coach.

He engaged a TCC mentor coach to assist him to confirm that the he was ideally suited to become a life coach, discover the different perspectives necessary to successfully coach others, and to develop those skills unique to coaching that he did not already have. He confirmed through coaching that he really did want to be a life coach, because it allowed him to fulfill his passion of helping others, and it fulfilled his life priorities and desires. He discovered that he could improve the several coaching skills he needed for success, by only taking three specific coaching classes.

He was coaching his first four pro bono coaching clients after only 5 months with his mentor coach. Today, he has a growing coaching practice within the specific niche he and his coach discovered to be his true love.

Disgruntled executive felt trapped and skeptical of career coaching
(Through career coaching he attracted numerous more enjoyable and much better paying positions.)

One 39 year old IT executive found himself in a very high paying job, but he was very unhappy. He had gone to several recruiters to investigate other possible jobs, only to discover the depressed nature of the IT industry and that he was considered "lucky" to have such a high paying and secure executive level position. But, his frustrations continued to rise.

He approached TCC with considerable skepticism to learn about this new (to him) "coaching thing." He was also very suspicious about having a coach focus entirely on him and what he wanted, rather than on the focusing on finding "executive level" jobs for him. But when he was asked what "executive level" job he really wanted, he couldn't even begin to describe it. He realized that he had been chasing the illusive rainbow.

He engaged a TCC coach to assist him to discover and get an "executive level" position that he would love to do. He was even willing to take a 10% cut in salary to do so. He gave the "coaching thing" his 100% effort. He figured that he would use his coach to determine what he really wanted in a new position, and then he would return to the headhunters to get the right one. After all, he reasoned, "how could a coach assist him to get an executive level position?"

After three months of coaching, without using any headhunters, he faced a dilemma. He had two job offers for the special "executive level" positions he and his coach discovered to be his ideal position. He was forced to accept a 50% Increase in compensation for the position he selected.

Young secretary uses career coaching to create and get her dream position.
(Even without experience or connections in a very competitive field)

One 25-year-old young lady worked in New York City as an executive assistant. She and her husband lived in Philadelphia and commuted by train to work in the city. The commute consumed over five hours each day in travel time for each of them. They were exhausted each day, and she didn't like her job or career path.

She engaged a TCC personal coach to assist her to discover what she really wanted to do and actually get it. After only two months of coaching, she and her husband moved from their Philadelphia home, rented it out for more than their monthly costs, and moved into a Manhattan apartment that cost the same amount as the monthly Amtrak fees they saved. Immediately, they reduced their monthly living expenses, started their real estate investment program, and rediscovered their marriage and life together by reducing their daily commutes by over four and a half hours per day for each of them.

After eliminating these daily pressures, she and her coach focused on her and what she really wanted to do. She discovered that she had a passion to work in the production end of movies or TV programs. She and her coach organized the plan to enter this field and she applied for a position at HBO. She was one of only five applicants out of over 1,000 who were asked to have a personal interview, even though she had no prior experience. She had the confidence and clarity to turn HBO's offer down, because it was not the job originally offered and it did not meet her criteria. Instead, she pursued a more desirable job with Court TV and got it and now just walks to work, doing what she really loves to do.

40 year old young man thrived by changing his career conditions
(He took control of his life and career and outlasted his toxic boss)

George was a 40-year-old young man who was working in a large corporation in the TV industry. His selfish shortsighted manager was restricting him. His manager and the corporate culture put pressures on George to bend his beliefs and integrity to suit the agendas of his bosses. His manager took all the credit for the projects and George felt his boss was stepping on him to advance his career at George's expense. The political back stabbing practices of his boss had affected George's disposition and outlook. George became depressed and frustrated and sought to find a way out. In college, he and two friends invented and successfully sold on the international market an unbreakable skateboard bolt. He also started a rock band that played on the Hollywood strip, but the money they made was not enough to sustain them.

George engaged his TCC coach to discover and get his ideal income position, thinking that it would most certainly mean leaving the corporation to reenter the entrepreneurship world again. Through coaching he was reintroduced to his own deep integrity and beliefs. He chose to clarify them through coaching and to live his personal and professional lives around his integrity, his heart, and beliefs. He almost immediately gained a new sense of purpose and power at work by taking control of what he would or would not do. He also decided to create a new business around another invention within a world he really loved, outside of the corporation. He developed his invention, organized the manufacturing, developed the marketing programs, and structured his business to get ready for launching everything. In the meantime, he stayed at the corporate job, and the conditions there changed dramatically to suit him. His selfish boss was released, and George was given several opportunities to grow and use his talents to fulfill several of his passions. George felt revived, but now he knew what he wanted to do with his new opportunities. He only took the steps that followed his beliefs and integrity, and would not allow others to divert him. He was able to create a new position within the corporation that met his passions and talents. He "received a substantial raise, more responsibility and a weightier voice in decision making."

George finds himself in a very enjoyable and prosperous place. He not only is being paid more to enjoy his real calling within his corporation, he has developed his new business venture to the place where he can launch it whenever he wishes. The recent downturn in the economy has slowed his business options, but it has not squelched all of the options that George wants to pursue. He is patiently following several desirable avenues, while he continues to enjoy his newly developed corporate position. As George said, "I have the best of both worlds, even in these bad economic times."

Bob chose a career to please his mother, but both were unhappy
(He changed his career conditions to please himself at age 53)

Bob became an attorney to please his mother. She really wanted him to become a medical doctor, which, in her eyes, was the ultimate profession. Bob was not accepted into medical school. He chose to become an attorney as an alternative to please her desire to have him become a professional. Yet, she remained disappointed because he was not a doctor. He chose to become a very aggressive plaintiff's attorney, suing doctors and hospitals for malpractice. He worked tirelessly to punish them for their mistakes. He became an embittered and unpleasant person but he secured significant awards for his clients.

He had only one outlet for the stress of constantly fighting. Luckily his release valve was harmless and was very pleasing to him. He became an avid sailor. He would spend as much time sailing as his schedule allowed. His sailboats got bigger and better as he attained larger awards for his clients. He would alternate from being the nasty, aggressive, relentless malpractice attorney to the solitude and peace of sailing. But his life was unhealthy and distasteful. He felt stuck. He did not know what he wanted to do. He just wanted out. When he was 53 he broached the idea to his mother that he wanted to change professions. Her response was "Oh goody, now we will finally have a doctor in the family." This response devastated him. There was no way he could ever think of becoming a doctor and he realized that she would never be satisfied with him as an attorney.

Bob was lost, angry, and frustrated as he sought some way out. He called TCC but approached personal coaching as an aggressive plaintiffs attorney. He was very cynical, demanding, distrusting, and demeaning at first. He could not believe that some stranger he would probably never meet would or could help him. It took him several calls before he would even talk about himself. But when he did, it became apparent that he wanted to discover his true ideal income position before it was too late.

He engaged a personal coach through TCC to assist him with designing his ideal income position. His coach asked him right away to reveal his true-life passions. He practically exploded because they had been bottled up inside him for so long. He described his love for sailing, and his passion to earn a living through sailing. He was really shocked to realize that he had such strong passions that had been unrecognized by him. His personal coach was the first person he had met who cared enough to focus entirely on him and to ask what he wanted out of life, without judgment or an agenda. Over time, he described his dream life in detail of owning and operating a sailing school and charter service in the Caribbean. He had evidently been thinking about his new ideal income position for many years. After he described his dream life so clearly, his personal coach asked him one more question: "What's stopping you?" Through this simple question, he finally gave himself permission to pursue his life's dreams at the age of 53.

Eventually, he flew to the Caribbean Island he liked and purchased a sailing school and a lovely piece of property. He returned to New York City to close down his law practice and his contentious life as an attorney, enabling him to begin a life that fully suited him. His health and attitude improved and he began having fun all day, every day. He found that he had a fun loving, caring, personality that he had hidden for so many years. He began to enjoy his life because he was finally able to throw off the yoke of the heavily imposed shoulds of his mother. Bob was one of TCC's poster clients for transitioning the greatest distance within the least amount of time.

Bob called me about 3 years later and although I recognized his name and voice, he was an entirely different person. He was practically smiling through the phone as he enjoyed the life he had wanted to live for so many years. Bob revealed he sold his sailing school and returned to New York to continue being a practicing attorney, only now his perspectives and objectives were much different. He was grateful for his excursion to the Caribbean. He was able to live out his dream and then return to his newly designed life, on his terms. He changed the conditions of his law practice to create his new ideal income position to be able to enjoy both practicing law with much less stress and to fully enjoy his passion for sailing more often than ever before. More importantly, Bob understood, accepted and liked himself.

Young man improves his career and life without changing jobs
(We quote Wayne's story for your enjoyment)

"I turned to Coach Connection honestly as a last resort. Having for some years been dissatisfied with my career generally, I felt neither able to make a change nor knew toward what I might turn with hopes of not running into the same problem eventually. Many of my thoughts and actions in this time were motivated by desperation, wanting simply to 'get out' and not much caring more than that. I really wasn't sure that a coach could help but my unhappiness, and its effect on my family, was great enough that I finally broke down my resistance. The idea that TCC would allow me to really have the freedom to choose a coach that seemed to fit me, rather than simply making it work somehow, encouraged me. Of the three coaches I originally spoke with, at least two of them seemed a good match and from the brief introductory discussion I already felt like there was hope.

"As the actual coaching began I felt like everything suddenly came into focus. While I credit my coach with helping this shift, I feel like she also enabled me to get charge of my life again. I was able to draw back and, strange though it sounds, I was able to notice that my whole life had been connecting dot-to-dot to build toward a career that was now so obvious. Knowing myself as built for this calling gave me a great energy. My biggest problem became that the aspects of the changes, which were outside my control wouldn't move faster. Today I remain committed to my vision, though it has not yet fully come together. The work that I am doing now is generally in the same position I was before, but somehow radically different for me. I see how it is sustaining and preparing me as I continue to advance along my path. I really don't know how well I could have found this without the help of TCC. I have recommended this experience to others, and would do so again, and again.
Wayne"

23 year young lady is boxed in with a selfish and controlling new boss
(She gets promoted out by expressing her priorities to benefit the company first)

Jamie was a 23-year-old single young lady who had worked in several departments of a nationally recognized family held company for four years. She was liked and respected by those for whom she worked. She enjoyed her work and the family team oriented atmosphere. She was quiet but very loyal and repeatedly found new ways to do things that benefited the company. The company grew rapidly and even purchased a few smaller companies. Progress brought in a "high powered" executive to run the newly created Financial Department that included Jamie. The new executive immediately instituted a very demeaning and controlling environment. He demanded absolute loyalty to him and quickly degraded anyone who did not treat him as the king he thought he was. New ideas and suggestions had to be presented only through him and were discouraged, even if they helped the company. She couldn't stand working in this new toxic atmosphere anymore. She felt trapped. She was a young lady with only one employer, with no college education, she was working in a very controlled environment, she knew her unbearable boss would not provide a favorable recommendation, and she had few contacts in other companies. She was miserable, and it got worse as her work results declined under the new stressful conditions. Her boss threatened to fire her if she did not work longer hours without additional pay to make him look good. She did not know where to turn.

She got lucky. Her mother recognized her decline from a happy enthused person into the frustrated stressed out person she became. Her mother offered to pay for a personal coach through TCC to help her to discover what she really wanted to do and find a new position that renewed her zest for working. During the discovery phase of coaching she identified the duties and aspects of work she really enjoyed and disliked. She recognized that there was nothing wrong with her, but that the conditions around her had changed, making her a round peg operating in a newly formed square hole. Jamie realized that she had a lot to offer others, and that she would not continue working for the new tyrant. She decided to resign, and take some time off, even before she had found work elsewhere, a gutsy call that her coach supported. She chose to submit her two-week notice resignation in writing to not only her boss but to the CEO of the company who had originally hired her, and who was the son of the founder of the company.

What happened next was a real eye opener. The CEO called her into his office and expressed his concern for her resignation. He asked her what it would take to keep her within the family. She realized he was very serious, and asked for some time to answer his request in a positive manner. She immediately called her coach and the two of them easily designed her Ideal Income Position within the same company. It entailed working in another department, having no contact or involvement with her present boss, a vacation, and a raise, among other things. She met with the CEO and presented her detailed requests in writing with the expectation that they would be rejected. But to her surprise, the CEO not only accepted everything she wanted but also gave her a higher raise than requested, and a longer vacation.

Jamie took her first vacation and returned reinvigorated to begin her newly formed ideal income position. She enjoyed her new position so much she practically doubled her productivity to generate even more quality results than before. Her CEO reaped the rewards from her increased work results and her marvelous attitude, which became infectious to others. She found her Ideal Income Position almost right under her nose, and better yet she was not only able to shape it to suit her, but both she and her bosses recognized how valuable she was working at her best. As a further footnote, the CEO recognized his previous error and shortly thereafter terminated the toxic executive.

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