Checking back in

It seems like an eternity since I last wrote.

One month - not really an eternity, but almost.

I have been busy pursuing and implementing more of my dream. And my dream is to not only have a full practice of coaching clients, but also to be a public speaker and give workshops.

I premiered in both ;)

I was a panelist at the Democratic Women Forum of San Francisco and part of a great evening with the title: 'Polishing your professional persona'. I was nervous!
The good part was, that I got the outline of the evening 2 days before the event. Which meant I could prepare for it. And I did!

I kept telling myself the same thing I am telling my clients: "It's OK to be scared- no go, and do it anyway".

And yes, initially I was a bit tense, but then I thought I did a good job answering questions and just sharing my views. There were 2 more panelists: one on etiquette and one on job placement. The questions were broad but all related on finding a job and presenting yourself. They also touched on generation gap, gender and cultural differences.

I felt great afterwards and some people talked to me after the event - and 3 even showed up to my first workshop which was one week later.

FIRE UP YOUR LIFE! That was the title. My lovely co-coach presenter was PJ. We met in coaching school.

It was fun to prepare the evening with her and we settled on 3 topics:
Powerful questions
3 Levels of listening and
Quieting down your Gremlins (self-limiting thoughts).

18 people showed up! And it went pretty well. Lots of learning there. Most people participated and gave us detailed feedback. Which we asked for.

Now we want to use it to develop our next series of workshops.

So there is more interesting stuff to come!