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A Coach on Every Corner?
What the heck is going on?
I recently moved to a new house in a new city in a new state and of course as a business owner I wanted to connect locally, so I went to a few networking MeetUps, and what did I find…?
Out of 20 people in a Meetup, 14 were coaches of one kind or another!
What the hell was going on here? Had I somehow unknowingly landed in the land where coaches go to die? Or was there some wealth of population so in need of help that all the coaches on the planet somehow magically were drawn to live in this city? And what kinds of coaches were these?
When I looked around further I noticed that there were life and career coaches, executive and leadership coaches. There were coaches who got you out of, or into relationships. There was a Resilience and Positive Psychology, (me) and a few Emotional Intelligence coaches. There was an intuitive coach, and a coach who used reiki and energetic healing in his work. There were coaches for life, Work, Health, Wellness, Happiness and Desire, there was a coach who worked with crystals and another who was guide by angels and even a coach for your pets. (Don’t ask)!
There were coaches who were certified with international organisations, and those of us who are registered with world-wide certification groups, and then there were coaches…
