This document provides an overview and introduction to life coaching. It begins by stating that life coaching is not about rehashing childhood issues in therapy or having fortunes told. A life coach assists clients in achieving their dreams and goals by creating a space for clients to focus on their values and desires. Coaching accelerates progress by providing focus and awareness of choices. Coaching sessions involve powerful questions and discussions that create clarity and motivate action toward positive change.

1. Demystifying
Life
Coaching
Kathleen Fee, ACC, CLC &
Becky Laubenthal, MA

2. PreludeWelcome to 2158 Connects’ 3-part series
on Demystifying Life Coaching. We are
about to challenge everything you THINK
you know about life coaching! So feel
free to bring your own conceptions, your
husband’s considered opinions, your
Mom’s two cents, your girlfriend’s bad
experience and all media portrayals of life
coaching and lay it right here on the table.
Don’t be shy, plop it all down. Excellent.

3. Let’s start with what
life coaching isn’t
• Life coaching isn’t lying on a couch rehashing
every detail of your less than ideal childhood.
This is what a good therapist is for. They’re
indispensible and we highly recommend
them.
• Life coaching isn’t sitting in a candlelit room
that stinks of incense having your fortune
read by an aging hippy in a flowery moo-moo.
If this was life coaching, we couldn’t do it
because we wouldn’t be caught dead in a

4. The isn’ts• Life coaching isn’t paying for the pleasure of
whining to someone about your unfair boss,
inattentive husband, or ungrateful children.
That’s why you have girlfriends, and they listen
for free.
• Life coaching has nothing to do with tarot cards,
hypnosis, astrological signs or chakra alignment.
Those things, while cool and great adventures,
are just not life coachable.
• And most importantly, life coaching isn’t a sign of
weakness, or something to be ashamed of.

5. So what then is this
mysterious thing called
life coaching then?
• Life coaching is a future focused practice
that leads the client through a series of
processes, powerful questions and self-
discovery, to create the life you have
always desired.
• Life coaching brings your values and
desires into sharp focus. Get ready for the
life, body, job, relationship, whatever the

6. And what then is a
life coach?
• A life coach is the trained professional assisting you
in achieving that dream life, creating and holding the
sacred space for you to “be” and grow at your pace.
We are the personal trainer for your dreams!
• The coach believes in you, even when you have a
tough time believing in you.
• We give you accountability and acknowledgment.
• We are the diver after your pearls, baby- Everything
you need to know is right there deep inside you, and
with each session you discover more and more of
your own hidden gems, allowing dramatic and
immediate change.

7. What a session looks
like
• The first coaching session is usually a 2 to 3
hour foundation session in which the coach and
client do a sacred dance that creates a lasting
bond of trust. You guide the future conversation,
bringing whatever is most important or requires
resolution.
• It is the coaches’ job to listen, contribute
observations and ask powerful questions. It is
this interaction that creates clarity and moves
you into convincing and continuing action. You
will be changed from the first session,
guaranteed! Part Two of our series will focus on
how to hire a coach, so be on the lookout for

8. The benefits of life
coaching
• Coaching accelerates your progress by
providing greater focus and awareness of
choice. You only know what you know when you
know it, right? The coaching interaction is so
powerful that it brings all your thoughts, choices
and ideas you didn’t even know you had to the
surface, allows your creativity to explode, and
brings things that were just possibilities to actual
fruition.
• This is all about where you are today and what
you are willing to do to get where you want to be
tomorrow. We bet you are willing to go to any

9. Our belief
• At 2158 Connect we know that you are smart, sassy
and have all the answers inside you. Don’t let
someone else’s crystals and incense idea of life
coaching influence you any longer. You are armed
with this article and can consider life coaching in a
whole new light.
•
• Life coaching is truly a gift you should give yourself.
You are ready. You have been ready. Is it that new
job that you want? Is it a healthier new you? Are
you ready to improve or find your relationship? Do
you want to reconnect with you? Now is the time.
Hire a life coach now! You won’t regret it! If you are
interested in hiring Kathleen Fee, please email her
at fee@kathleenfee. It would be an honor to coach
you on your journey.

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