It is January 2022 now! So much has happened since my January 2018 new beginning. I have moved cities, changed professions, and added a side gig with Elarton Point Strategies to the mix. As this new year beckons (and the pandemic carries on), I find myself reflecting on the big and small ways that coaching has been an part of my life.

Much of my coaching work has been done either as an informal internal coach (with students or colleagues), or as a paid coach for an individual. No matter what the context, my coaching brain is a switch I love to flip! I have worked with twenty-somethings trying to figure out their next steps, private clients who are switching gears due to the pandemic, and coaching colleagues who are trying out new skills. I have coached my older daughter (first year university student) and husband (high school math teacher), and done demo coaching sessions for work colleagues.

What’s next? I think it’s the creation of an online course (I do love the tech stuff), maybe some more higher education focusing on coaching as the vehicle for student success, and finding just the right choir to round out my life.

January 2018 was the dawn of something new for me: a small, private coaching and consulting practice alongside my full-time job. I started the website and then did pretty much nothing with it. 2019 brought me into contact with my first private clients and it has grown slowly from there from an idea to a gig to a fully-fledged side hustle.