Hero: A person who is admired for their courage, outstanding achievements. I watched a film the other night, and one of the heroes came out with this statement “There Are Only 4 or 5 Moments In Our Life When We Become a Hero.” It got me thinking? I bet if I were to stop you in the street and asked…
Lizzie Fouracre, a 33-year-old Brit with a sparkling personality. Lizzie was living the dream helping to manage a fast-growing technology company in London started by her brother Tim. And while the pace of a technology start-up was exhilarating, over time she found herself wanting more from life. So she quit, packed up a tent and sleeping bag and decided take…
I discovered life coaching by being in a long-term relationship with one! When I started dating her, I had no idea what a ‘life coach’ was? After all, I was just a man with a van that fitted kitchens. I taught her how to use a power drill, and she taught me all about life coaching – and I’m pretty…
Legally Blonde Redux: From Lawyer To Burlesque Dancer Second act stories podcast with Andy Levine Lora Cheadle went from practising law in the insurance industry to burlesque dancing. We’re not making this up. Actually, that’s only a piece of what she does. Lora is also an author, a hypnotherapist, a podcast host and her favourite self-coined term: a life choreographer.…
WARNING: Are You Heading Towards A Midlife Crisis? *The man who invented the midlife crisis had a midlife crisis of his own; His idea bombed. In 1957, a Canadian psychoanalyst named Elliott Jaques gave a speech before a distinguished audience in London in which he claimed people in their mid-thirties went through a depressive period. Reaction to this time of…
Often, we mistake possibility for competence. We think something is not possible when in fact we just do not know how to do it. Everything is simple when you know how to do it. I wish I knew that years ago, instead of beating myself up and telling myself I was useless. Everything you have ever learnt and mastered started…
Pizzaman At the age of 56 and with no experience running a restaurant, Paul Giannone decided to quit his job and open a pizza restaurant. He’s now 66 and still loves what he does and said he will never retire. Paul Giannone (known to all as “Paulie Gee”) grew up in Brooklyn, NY but moved to New Jersey as an…
Beliefs The power of our beliefs system is immense. If we all developed an understanding of the thoughts and ideas that we automatically have, those that we no longer question when they appear at the forefront of our minds; then we could all be leading a better life through banishing the negative chatter. Limiting beliefs are held in the subconscious…
The Gremlin Effect During the course of the coaching relationship, clients will experience ups and downs, plateaus, periods of great insight, everything happening at lightning speed, followed by a trough of the wave, drifting in the doldrums. In particular, for most clients, there’s a slump between weeks three and eight. It happens because change is not happening fast enough, or…
Telephone Repairman Follows His Dream: Designing Women’s Shoes At the age of 50, Chris Donovan, who up to that point had worked as a telephone repairman for 30 years, decided to take a second act to reinvent himself to become a women’s shoe designer. For as long as Chris can remember starting in second grade at high school, he has…
