Working Mother Coaching Success Stories

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

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Life Coaching Success Story #1759

Empty nest mother and wife designs her new career
(To fulfill her passions and enhance her motherhood.)

One 47-year-old mother of three children suddenly found herself with much more time on her hands and feeling less needed, because her kids were busy with their own lives. She felt an unusual sense of emptiness. She began losing interest in things because her full time career as a mother appeared to be winding down. Her husband was happy in his career, and her kids were thriving; yet she felt lost.

She recognized that she needed to pursue another career that did not compete with her part time motherhood, and would provide the sense of purpose and accomplishment she had realized as a full time mother. Yet, she had been out of the work force for over 21 years. She was very confused about where to start, what she should do, and whether she should return to school.

She engaged a TCC career coach to assist her. Her coached focused entirely on her and it felt real good, as it was the first time she was the true center of attention in years. Together, she and her coach discovered her true passions, priorities, values and talents. With coaching, she realized that she had a wealth of very valuable talents and experience that she had developed throughout her motherhood career. She recognized her passion for creating presentations, which she had honed while helping her kids create science fair and inventors projects over the years.

She started a presentation company that specialized in providing scientific, technical and engineering type presentations for companies, groups and such. She hit the ground running and was soon able to pick and choose the projects she wanted, because of her popular successes.

Life Coaching Success Story #1137

Full time working mother creates life balance from stress filled chaos

Carroll was a 32-year-old first time mother who found herself with conflicting priorities. Her family life, which she loves, now needed more time and energy because the arrival of her son. Her work was also demanding more time and effort because downsizing gave her more to do. Work had become drudgery and she was loosing confidence, because she had not been able to deliver on all of the things demanded of her at work. She was missing deadlines. In the past, she took work home for nights and weekends to catch up. Not now. This led to disappointment in herself. She had begun focusing on what was wrong, and was loosing confidence. She felt increasing internal stress because of her conflicts between being a first time mother and being in control at work, along with her guilt of not performing well to suit her at either roll. She had been trying to meet every one else’s demands and expectations at her expense.

She engaged TCC to provide her ideal coach to assist her to find and establish a happy balance between family and work to reduce conflict and stress and to restore her confidence. Through the coaching discovery process she realized her true priorities and boundaries, and how she had become so stressed because she allowed others to cross her boundaries and override her own desires and priorities.

Once she clarified her limits and her priorities, she and her coach set the conditions to allow her to enjoy both her work and her new motherhood, with virtually no internal stress or guilt. She approached her boss (a woman) and explained her new situation and to her surprise was met with relief and understanding. Her boss had noticed that she had been under tremendous stress during the last stages of pregnancy and after returning from delivery, and had seen her work production and accuracy diminish as she kept trying to do everything. Her boss discussed the most important work results that she wanted to gain from Carroll and they organized her work schedule to maximize her work production to suit her boss and to suit Carroll’s new conditions as a mother. To Carroll’s surprise both she and her boss were thrilled at the new arrangement. All because Carroll attained clarity about her priorities and boundaries and was able to express them with confidence.