My Story - TV Producer to LifeCoach

In November 2004, I spotted a LifeCoach’s promotional flyer at a gym near London Bridge. At the time I was a 40 year old TV producer who had lived, studied and worked in Brazil, the USA and France and was now back in London. I had a successful career working for independent TV production companies making and editing programmes for the BBC and helping to launch new cable channels. But I'd lost my work/life balance and I wasn't very happy.

 

The first thing my LifeCoach asked me to do was answer this question: if you were living your best life, what would it look like? It sounded like a fairly easy question at the time but it was harder than I thought because I’d never really stopped to think about what I wanted my life to look like.  I was too busy worried about what the programmes I was making looked like, what my body looked like and what my bank account looked like as I had a mortgage to pay. I knew I wanted to be "happy" but I didn’t really know what "happy" looked like.

 

Thanks to coaching – to the awareness I gained through it and the responsibility I took for my life as a result of it – my life changed completely. Not only did I achieve the goals I identified in 2004, but I went on to achieve many more.  From finding a work/life balance and spending quality time with family and friends to setting up and running a TV-related business, dating, having fun, getting married, spending time near water (rivers, canals, lakes or the sea), walking the last 100 miles of the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage when I was 50 - on my own - and lots more. Training to be a LifeCoach was one of my midlife/pre-retirement life goals. Because I want to do for you what my LifeCoach did for me: help you identify your goals, witness your achievements, celebrate your successes and get from where you are in your life to where you want to be.