How to know if coaching is for you (and choose the right coach!)
Are you wondering how to know if coaching is for you and how to choose the right coach? As well as being an exciting prospect (as you contemplate your life…
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How to Find Balance Working From Home
As someone who has spent the last 10 years working from home, I know only too well how easy it is to slip into over-working mode and suffer the mental…
Read MoreWhat I’ve learnt from my first 10 years of self-employment
This month marks the 10-year anniversary of me starting my journey into self-employment. So, it felt timely to do a bit of reflection work and share a few of my…
Read MoreCareer Change Success Stories: Swapping board meetings for the class room
When you’re considering changing careers, it’s helpful (not to mention, inspiring) to see how others navigated those scary first steps, before starting down that path yourself.Meet Graham Walton, Head of…
Read MoreReimagining Your 2021
Imagine it’s New Year’s Eve 2021 and you’re chatting with your friends and family about the year that’s just gone. What do you want to be saying? How do you…
Read MoreReviewing & Releasing Your 2020
It’s been quite a year hasn’t it. One that I’m sure none of us will ever forget. Where do we even begin! This year, of all years, has forced many…
Read More10 Steps to Making a Post Redundancy Career Change
With the UK still in the throws of lockdown, the weeks ahead are uncertain and, as a result, filled with anxiety for the thousands of people in the UK facing…
Read More6 Strategies to Help You Deal With Job Uncertainty and Feel More Hopeful and Calm
The mass media is awash with the negative side of the pandemic and the impact on people’s livelihood. You really have to search for stories which promote hope and positivity,…
Read More8 Steps to Finding More Happiness At Work
For me, finding more happiness at work is about taking a holistic approach which integrates your body, mind and spirit. It’s about harnessing all that you are and all that…
Read MoreHow to take responsibility for your own happiness at work
There are a multitude of circumstances which can make us feel unhappy at work. From a lack of autonomy or feeling undervalued through to boredom, lack of balance or simply…
Read MoreHappiness at Work: the 5 key ingredients
This week is International Week of Happiness at Work (21 – 27 September 2020). Although times are challenging right now and your normal pattern of working may have been disrupted,…
Read MoreComing From Behind The Curtain
I have a confession to make. I have been hiding. My last Facebook post was in October 2019. Ever since I set up my own business back in 2011, I…
Read More6 Spiritual Ways to Feel Calm, Connected & Hopeful in Challenging Times
To anyone reading this, I wish you peace, resilience and hope for these unprecedented times we are living in. My heart goes out to everyone who is affected by this…
Read MoreMake a new years resolution to find your Happy Place
Wondering about your new years resolutions? Thinking of joining the gym, giving up smoking, learning to meditate? This year, I also encourage you to think about your Happy Place –…
Read MoreHow To Make a Career Change or Life Change in 2020 | Step 3: Take Action
Having set your intentions for the year ahead, what ideas do you have about how you’re going to turn them into reality? In this thirds and final step we look at how…
Read MoreHow To Make a Career Change or Life Change in 2020 | Step 2: Set Your Intention
You’ve taken stock of everything that happened last year, so now it’s time to use that insight to help you set some positive intentions (or goals) for the year ahead. This simple…
Read MoreHow to Make a Career Change or Life Change in 2020 | Step 1: Review Your Year
If you’re looking to make a significant career change or life change this year, I recommend the first thing you do is to reflect on the year just gone. It…
Read MoreUsing Your Work Challenge As An Opportunity to Heal Your Life
Often, clients come to Career Coaching looking to transform their work and end up transforming their life. They hadn’t realised they had some deep-seated beliefs they needed to release or…
Read MoreFind your Life Purpose with Ikigai
When you find your life purpose, it can transform everything. You get up with a spring in your step, you feel energised and you have greater resilience to see yourself…
Read MoreTime for a Career Change? Take the Career Quiz and find out!
Trying to decide if it’s time for a career change can be a lonely, confusing and exhausting place. I’ve been in that place several times in my life! By navigating…
Read MoreHow To Let Go of Anxiety, Worry & Panic
How to let go of anxiety, worry and panic is a subject close to my heart. I have experienced all three on and off for the past 20 years. In that time,…
Read MoreFinding Work That You Love: Dealing with Fear
Are you considering a move into self-employment but afraid to take the leap? Fear is one of the main reasons why many people hold themselves back from finding work that…
Read MoreFinding Work That You Love: Getting Started
Many would-be entrepreneurs miss out on the opportunity to get started through a self-sabotaging belief that they don’t have enough money, resources or skills. However, many new ventures need a…
Read MoreFinding Work That You Love: Being True to Yourself
A huge motivation for many looking to become self-employed and often part of the decision for leaving their current work is the ability to be true to themselves. The more…
Read MoreFinding Work That You Love: Overcoming Imposter Syndrome
Even if you’ve never heard of Imposter Syndrome, chances are you’ve had a brush with it or will notice it’s effects as you journey into self-employment. Imposter Syndrome is a…
Read MoreFinding Work That You Love: Embracing a new way of working
For many new entrepreneurs who are used to a more structured office environment and routine, it can be quite an adjustment to start working from home and having full control…
Read MoreFinding Work That You Love: How to navigate the transition into self-employment
Thinking of changing your life and setting up your own business but not sure if you should or where to start? A little thinking and planning now can go a…
Read MoreCompetition winner announced!
Congratulations to Nikki Hamilton, Floral Designer and Owner of Tangled Up In Blooms in Manchester who has won the competition for a free Creative Coaching package. And thanks to all of you who entered. It…
Read MoreFind confidence to launch your Creative Start-up
As Susy Smith, the Editor of Country Living Magazine testifies herself, ‘feelings of self-doubt are something we all suffer with from time to time’. Last month saw the launch of…
Read MoreLife Coach in Manchester and Life Coach in Sheffield
If you’re looking for life coaching with a Life Coach Manchester or Life Coach Sheffield, I offer both face-to-face sessions and sessions via phone and Skype. I also offer Life…
Read MoreHow to turn your hobby into a business
You’ve been working on your craft as a sideline for a little while now, just happy to have an outlet for your creativity. Maybe you’re juggling this alongside a full…
Read MoreLeft brain support for right brain Creative Entrepreneurs
Through my coaching work with Creative Entrepreneurs, I’m fascinated by the workings of the left brain v the right brain. The left brain is the part of us that deals with logic,…
Read MoreFast track to clarity, purpose and inner calm
If you’re currently in search of some clarity, purpose or inner calm, I can recommend a quick way to achieve all those things (providing you have an open mind!) It…
Read More5 Tips to quit your job and set up your own business
Are you tired of you job and desperate to start using your creative talent to make a living but scared to take the leap? The start of a new year is…
Read More10 tips for a confident sales pitch
Attempting to sell your product or service to a potential buyer can be a daunting prospect for any business owner. Often, you only get one chance to make an impression so…
Read MoreHow to price your creative work
Pricing of creative work is a subject which I’ve found often brings up a lot of deep-rooted fear and apprehension in my clients. One of the most difficult parts of being in business…
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