Linda Lanker has had a 48-year nonstop association with track and field.

The longtime area community college and high school coach has been to China and Miami as part of USA Track & Field teams. And shes a three-time masters national hurdles champion.

Additionally, Lanker was inducted in January along with former Washington State coach John Chaplain into the Washington State Track and Field Coaches Association Hall of Fame.

Nothing tops her recent experience, though, as the womens head coach for the U20 Pan American team that won the team championship in Trujillo, Peru.

Its the best experience Ive ever had as a coach, the 61-year-old Coeur dAlene resident said.

Lanker met her future team members at the U.S. National meet in June in Sacramento, California. A week later, she called each of the 48 team members.

Then when the team flew to Peru, she had four days to get to know the athletes better before they competed.

As a USATF coach, youre there to serve, Lanker said.

Lanker was appointed head coach in December 2015. She was nominated based on her past experiences with USATF.

Ive always gotten high recommendations from the athletes, Lanker said.

USATF coaches are asked to simply encourage and support the athletes, Lanker said. Its off limits for coaches to talk to athletes about their technique unless the athletes request assistance.

For Lanker, this is where she encountered one of the highlights of her involvement.

Quincy Hall of Raytown, Missouri, a hurdler on the mens team, asked Lanker for some technical help. She told Hall he had to ask his individual coach for permission.

Halls coach knew of Lanker and gave his blessing.

Quincy told me he had terrible form, Lanker said. I noticed he was struggling with his alternate leg, sort of stuttering going over the hurdles. So I showed him a drill I had taught it to (former WSU standout) Jeshua Anderson years ago. Its a four-step drill that forces you to use both legs going over the hurdles.

He had three days to prepare for his heat in the 400-meter hurdles.

Quincy was so coachable, Lanker said. There were just a couple technical things that we worked on.

It made a huge difference. Hall won his heat and the next day captured a gold medal, winning in a personal best time of 49.51 seconds and setting a Pan Am record.

He looked absolutely beautiful, Lanker said. All I said to him before the final was, Youve got this. Give it all you have and the last 150 meters give everything going home.

Hall will be a sophomore at College of the Sequoias, a two-year community college in Visalia, California. Lanker said several NCAA Division I schools are recruiting him.

Hall posted on Instagram his gratefulness for Lankers help.

God sent me an angel. Coach Lanker, thank you for everything, Hall wrote.

Hall plans to spend a week in Coeur dAlene in October getting additional training from Lanker.

Lanker said there was a big police presence around the athletes at the stadium and hotels.

Trujillo is the third-most dangerous city in Peru, Lanker said.

The opportunity to coach the U.S. womens team allowed Lanker the chance to see the best of the up-and-coming athletes. The team consisted of juniors and seniors in high school and freshmen in college.

Theyre next in line for the Worlds and the Olympics, Lanker said.

Two other people with ties to the region also assisted the womens and mens teams in Peru Spokane chiropractor Dru Lopez and University of Idaho assistant track coach Cathleen Cawley, who was an event manager for the women.

Lanker was allowed to keep the Pan Am womens team championship trophy. She plans to find a place for it in her home office.

She wants to continue coaching for another nine years and will welcome any additional opportunities with USATF.

I feel so blessed, Lanker said. Who would have thought at 61 I would have had this opportunity?

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SANTA BARBARA, Calf. Twenty years ago, Virginia Tech gave Bonnie Henrickson her first head-coaching job.

She's a long way from Blacksburg these days.

Henrickson is heading into her third season as the women's basketball coach at UC Santa Barbara.

UCSB plays in the Big West Conference, which lacks the prestige of Henrickson's previous stints in the Big East and the Big 12. But Henrickson is loving life on the California coast.

There are palm trees outside her office. Some of the dormitories on campus overlook the Pacific Ocean.

Henrickson was hired by UCSB in 2015, six weeks after being fired by Kansas. She has never unpacked her winter coat and boots, which remain in a box in her garage.

"I feel very fortunate," Henrickson, 54, said in an interview at her office last month. "When I finally met the players, I'm like, 'You guys really go to class, right?

"In Chicago [at the women's Final Four this year] I saw Geno [Auriemma, the Connecticut coach] and we talked for a while. He was saying, 'You've landed in a good spot, haven't you? and I said, 'Yes."

UCSB does not have a football team, so Henrickson can't bring visiting recruits to home games like she did at her previous two schools. She takes them to the beach instead.

Henrickson also takes advantage of her locale on her days off. She lives about a mile from the ocean, so she takes long walks on the beach on the weekends.

"This just happens to be icing on the cake that it's this beautiful," said Henrickson, who grew up in Minnesota. "But if we win, it wouldn't really matter where I live."

Henrickson coached the Hokies from 1997-2004 back when the team played in the Atlantic 10 and the Big East. The "Bonnie Ball" era produced the glory years of the Tech women's basketball program.

Henrickson was 158-62 with five NCAA tournament appearances in seven seasons. The Hokies advanced to the Sweet 16 in the 1998-99 season, when the team averaged a school-record 5,221 fans at Cassell Coliseum.

"It was fun," she said. "It was the place to be there for a while.

"For me to get a start there at a place like that will always be special for me."

Henrickson had been a Tech assistant for seven years, followed by a two-year stint as an Iowa assistant, before then-Tech athletic director Dave Braine made her a first-time head coach.

She was 34 years old when she took over the Hokies. After winning just 10 games in the final year of the Carol Alfano coaching regime, Tech went 22-10 in Henrickson's first season at the helm.

"The first trip we ever took, we played in the St. Mary's tournament [in California]. I vividly remember being on the bus going to Roanoke to fly out, thinking, 'Oh my God, I'm not mature enough. I'm responsible for everyone right now and we're going to fly and go to the West Coast," Henrickson said.

Henrickson not only has fond memories of some of her NCAA tournament games but also of attending Hokies football games. Former Tech football coach Frank Beamer called her when she got the UCSB job.

"So many good friends in the department and the community and former players. Facebook is for old people, so that's how I catch up with those guys," she said with a chuckle. "I need to go back and see some people."

Lew Perkins, then the athletic director at Kansas, hired her away from Tech in 2004.

Henrickson was 186-171 in 11 seasons with the Jayhawks, including Sweet 16 berths in 2012 and 2013. But those were her only two NCAA bids at the school, and she never had a winning Big 12 record. Perkins' successor, Shehon Zenger, fired her in March 2015 after back-to-back losing seasons.

"Injuries affect success. Success affects recruiting," Henrickson said. "The ability to maintain the level of recruiting at the level it takes to be successful in that league, we didn't get it done."

Henrickson landed her current job the following month. Perkins knew UCSB athletic director John McCutcheon and recommended Henrickson for the Gauchos' vacancy. UCSB needed a replacement for Carlene Mitchell, who was fired after a 2-27 campaign.

Henrickson had recruited in California a great deal when she was the coach at Kansas, so she already had the AAU and high school connections in the state that UCSB was seeking.

When Henrickson visited the campus for her interview, she was impressed.

"The place sells itself," she said.

She also liked the fact that USCB has been to the NCAAs 14 times since the early 1990s.

"At that time, being 52 [when] taking the job, it was really important for me to find a place that I really felt like we could be successful. Because we don't get it done here, this is it for me," she said. "I'm not going to get another chance. For me to be able to land at a place that had so much success and is built to have continued success as long as we do our job, I couldn't have asked for a better situation.

"Sometimes we don't recycle as much on the women's side as we do sometimes on the men's side."

The Gauchos went 12-20 in Henrickson's first season after winning just 10 games in the previous two years combined. The team went 8-8 in Big West play her first season.

Last season, the Gauchos were 16-16 overall and 9-7 in Big West play. They lost to Long Beach State 56-55 in the Big West tournament title game.

"There's no reason we can't be successful here," she said. "There's so much talent in the state of California and [on] the West Coast."

Competing with the beach isn't easy when it comes to luring fans, though. The Gauchos averaged just 673 fans at home last season.

Henrickson looks different than she did during her reign at Tech. She had short, brown hair when she was in Blacksburg, but she now has long, blonde hair.

Her coaching style is a bit different, too.

"All the former players, if they were around me now, would say I've gotten soft in my old age," Henrickson said.

Although Henrickson is still an NCAA Division I coach, she is no longer in a major conference.

"Big-time's not a place. It's a state of your heart," she said. "I think we can be big-time here.

"I love it here. And I think we can win."

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One night we drove through what seemed to be an empty field and ended up swimming in a volcanic vent where hot water seeped straight out into the ocean! - Kaitlyn, retreat guest

We got tossed upside down and around and the only thing that kept us steady was just holding onto the rope. - Kit, retreat host

If, in your world travels, you happen to come across a volcano, youre likely to also come across Rosie and Kit Volcano, who hold periodic retreats at active volcano sites around the world, like this one in the Azores islands off Portugal. They call themselves Yoga Life Coaches, and when theyre not visiting volcanoes, theyre working magic with their coaching clients, both offline in San Diego and online. Youve probably never met a Yoga Life Coach before. Neither had I, until I met these two. Not being into yoga myself, I had to find out just what a Yoga Life Coach can offer thats different from other life coaches, and how much into yoga do I have to be to experience the transformation they offer.

Apparently, not much. Rosie and Kit offer life coaching in person or online, and then offer up live Yoga sessions to their tribe on Facebook. Anyone at any level of yoga, from beginners to the most advanced practitioners, can experience the magic of The Little Volcano, their self-named business.

These two megastars however are from from Little. From their manifestation bathtub series every Monday on Facebook to their Volcano Yoga Retreats, the upcoming one taking place this September in which they will experience the Autumnal Equinox atop Mount Teide in the Canary Islands, where they will experience one of the the most spectacular views of the Milky Way available on earth.

The Volcanoes brand of Life Coaching revolves around mind, body and spirit, with a heavy dose of accountability thrown in. As life coaches, Rosie and Kit help support you in both determining and manifesting your vision, clearing out the blocks that have been holding you back from your deepest desires.

How they do it is signature Volcano style.

So what does yoga have to do with it? Well, in a sense, everything. Rosie explained it to me by sharing her experience the first time she trained with Ana Forrest, creator of the Forrest Yoga technique Rosie and Kit espouse.

So it comes time for the handstand, and I haven't done a handstand since I was a kid. I remember just thinking, Everybody else will do a handstand and I'll just do this thing called down dog on the wall. It's okay if I never do a handstand. I'm just not a handstand person. And then one of the assistants comes over to me and she tells me that Im getting in a handstand, and I was like No I'm not. It's okay. I don't need to do a handstand, and she said Yeah, you do. Come on. And so she basically coaches me through it and I go upside down and I remember just this crazy thought going through my head. It was like panic. And then I come out. And I'm Wow. The thrill that you get and the sense of accomplishment and a sense of fear conquering that you get just from doing a handstand. It applies to every other area of your life as well. It applies to other things that you might be irrationally scared of. There are things in life that people have a lot of fear around that the fear itself is what's keeping them from moving forward. Once you actually go after the actual thing [youre scared of] you realize it wasn't that scary to begin with.

So it's about taking the lessons you learned in yoga and applying them to other areas of your life, other areas where you're not growing, where you're making yourself suffer more than you should, or where you are putting up with a quality of life that [you dont] want.

One of the trademarks of Forrest Yoga is in holding poses for freakishly long periods of time. Rosie advises us to pay attention to, when the pose gets too uncomfortable, or metaphorically, when life gets too uncomfortable, where you start to check out, where you numb yourself to the present moment, where you vacate presence, and where you, like Rosie and the handstand, give up before you even begin.

Through their Yoga Life Coaching, Rosie and Kit guide you in reclaiming the present moment, pursuing your vision and experiencing transformation, through a combination of meditation, shamanic journeying, yoga and ceremony. It may sound sort of woo-woo and out there, but it may just be the kind of out there woo woo that the world needs to reignite passion and fire.

Being a lesbian couple, there were few traditions Rosie and Kit felt particularly beholden to when they got married, least of which was their surname, for which they randomly decided on Volcano, after a thrift store Make Your Own Volcano Kit sitting on their shelf.

As time went on, they realized how appropriate their seemingly accidental name turned out to be. Volcanoes represent creativity, destruction and new life. They destroy, and yet the earth following their eruptions becomes new and fertile.

Volcanoes are also a source of healing. People come from all over the world to experience the healing powers of mineral hot springs, whose heat is generated by the flowing magma underneath.

As Rosie explains, The whole idea of volcanoes [is in] being this kind of contradictory thing where they can either destroy or create. They can provide these healing, clear mineral rich waters that people [flock to for healing, or] they can create these bubbling boiling geysers of mud that [kill].

Rosie and Kit Volcano embody this contradiction themselves. What started as a marriage between two lesbians, Kits transitioning to becoming a man has made their marriage ironically far more traditional. Their woo-woo shamanic journeying and ritualistic ceremonies are wrapped in extreme accountability that would make a conventional business coachs repertoire pale in comparison. And the transformations that their clients are manifesting are life-changing, within the bathtub, and without. After all, life tends to toss us upside down and around, and sometimes the only thing keeping us steady is the rope we hold onto. Yoga life coaches Rosie and Kit help us find that rope within ourselves.

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A social worker once labelled six-year-old Sophie Willan rebellious, disruptive and rude.

Willan, whose early life was spent in and out of care, reclaimed this description of herself in her critically acclaimed and very funny show On Record.

Her new show, Branded, is a continuation of her life story, and also reveals that between the ages of 19 and 22, she earned her living as an escort.

I just really wanted to talk about marginal people and how we brand people and put them into boxes, says Willan. I think whatever you are branded there are only two ways you can interpret it, usually you are a victim or you are a hero it ends up being a single narrative.

Willan, from Bolton, wants to challenge expectations and labels whether it is being northern, female, working class, or a former sex worker. In particular, Branded hinges on an experience she had at the Fringe.

We were in Edinburgh, I had come up with a feminist theatre group and I told one of them about the escort work.

She said, Dont you think its a very unfeminist thing to do? Dont you think you are contributing to the patriarchy and male oppression?

It has taken her until now to be able to talk about it but Willan always wanted to look more closely at that experience of being judged and labelled.

I just felt embarrassed. I hadnt processed it properly myself. Im a lot more confident as a person and I trust myself more. She came from a good background where she had a bedroom and went on holiday. I thought she was a better person than me.

Willan makes the story a launchpad for an examination of class, privilege and economic freedom. Her aim is to challenge perceptions and to make us question the way we label other people.

I didnt want to make a whole show about it. This is just part of a larger story, a bigger conversation.

If you make it the whole thing it puts too much importance on sex work. For me it was a means to an end. I never saw it as a career.

With sex work we tend to glorify it or demonise it. But we need to stop doing that with marginalised groups of people.

One of the things Willan loves about putting her life on stage is when audience members say how much they enjoy the opportunity to laugh about lives like their own.

For health reasons, outings with her mum or with her step-dad can be stressful. But they can also be hilarious.

I talk about my mum, who is a heroin addict, looking like Iggy Pop, and about living with my step-dad who has multiple personalities. Its important to me to introduce them to the world from an affectionate point of view.

I have had care leavers come up to me after a show and say, Thanks for talking about that. It was like you were talking about my mum. Nobody sees her like I see her.

Willans unconventional, eventful and deprived childhood has given her a lot of access to therapy, psychology and counselling and she has benefited a great deal from that.

I think I have come out from it as a whole, rounded person and I think I am emotionally intelligent.

She now spends a lot of time mentoring other care leavers. In June this year she launched Tales of the Weird, the Wild and the Wonderful, an anthology of eight stories written by care leavers. The young people she works with always get free tickets to her shows.

I also offer life coaching sessions. Helping them think about where they want to live and what they want to do.

Working with care leavers is something I have built up over time. Its good because I have been through that experience. And because I am a high-achieving care leaver the idea of giving something back is quite important.

Willans own mentors in the arts are Lem Siss, a Manchester poet who is also a care leaver, and Louise Wallwein, another care leaver who is a playwright and poet.

Although her shows have an exuberant anarchic energy, they are carefully crafted. I think it is stand-up comedy because the jokes are written like stand-up but the structure of the show is quite theatrical. If I set something up there is always a call-back it never just disappears.

In previews, working out her script, she often threw in some random beat boxing. She says she might also throw in a bit of a tit wobble just to annoy people who think she shouldnt. I had a promoter say I shouldnt do that because it puts women in comedy back 20 years. It is amazing the amount of white privileged men who think, Im going to tell you what you should be doing.

Its not a good idea to tell Sophie Willan what she can and cant do or to try to limit her ambition.

She remembers entering the BBC New Comedy award and being told, in reverential tones, that if she did well she might end up writing a joke for Miles Jupp. I said, me and Miles Jupp have nothing in common.

In future shed love to write a sitcom or something for children. And shes newly enthusiastic about politics after seeing the way young people got behind Jeremy Corbyn in the last election. I found Glastonbury really inspiring. It was like Woodstock but better. It felt really positive.

Shes nervous about talking about escorting on stage but shes pretty sure she can find a way to make people laugh about it.

Im quite a wild personality and as a performer I jump around a lot. And Ill be making them laugh. If I can write a bit that can make myself laugh I know that will be a fun thing to do.

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Editors note: This story originally ran in the Bangor Daily News on May 11, 1994.

OLD TOWN, Maine Dick MacPherson surveyed the faces of the senior class of Old Town High School gathered expectantly before him in the schools cafetorium. He selected a story.

I was at Mass on a Saturday night in California a few months back when the priest told everyone to write down on a piece of paper what you hope to do with your life. Im almost 64, so Im thinking what am I going to write? MacPherson recounted, working the room with the ease of a hometown hero among the kids and grandkids of his friends.

I ended up writing down to make sure my wife and I kept our health, kept our love and happiness, and to hope our death would be a pleasant one so we wouldnt be a problem for our kids, MacPherson said before pausing a beat. I looked at that piece of paper and thought, Is that all Ive got left? Ive got to find something to do!

It was the kind of story upon which MacPherson built a 30-year football coaching career that carried him from college assistant all the way to head coach of the New England Patriots: Profound without being hokey. Motivational without being overbearing. Personal.

I kept that piece of paper, as a reminder, MacPherson told the high school kids.

The reminder is that there is indeed life to be lived as long as life remains. There is life after coaching. More specifically, there is life after being fired by the Patriots.

If it seemed MacPherson was relegated to lifes scrap heap 16 months ago when his stormy two-season tenure with the Pats was halted following eight wins and 24 losses, its because he couldnt do much to fight the perception. As a condition for receiving from the Patriots a reported $300,000-per-year settlement of the two seasons plus an option year remaining on his contract, MacPherson had to go away quietly.

By contract, I cant coach right now, MacPherson explained. By settlement, any money I make in any form of athletics be it radio or TV or anything would go back to the Patriots.

So MacPherson went away, agreeing to stay out of the sports klieg lights until March 1995 when his settlement runs out.

Outwardly, MacPherson appears satisfied with the arrangement. He is healthier, wealthier and, yes, wiser, since returning to Syracuse, N.Y., site of his greatest successes as coach of the Syracuse University football teams of the 1980s.

The acute intestinal inflammation that added injury to insult in Foxborough, sidelining him for seven games during his final season while the Pats went 2-14, is long gone. Regret is not in his vocabulary.

Heres what I told my wife and family. If someone were to ask us to come there and go through what we went through, and have that experience and the financial rewards that come with it for me and my family youve got to go, he said.

Probe a little deeper, however, and MacPherson cant help but reveal his view of what went wrong in New England.

When youre a head coach in name only, it isnt as much fun. Thats the reason Jimmy Johnson is done. Thats the reason Tommy Coughlin left BC. There arent many Don Shulas left in the world that can run their whole program, said MacPherson, declining to comment further on his relationships with former Pats owner James Orthwein and former general manager Sam Jankovich. The settlement, again.

MacPherson could have simply sat around and waited for his checks to arrive. He could have gone the golf route, or the world traveling route with his wife Sandra. Instead, he took a job as vice president for corporate communication for a business funding group.

Leave it to MacPherson to find the coaching in the job. Its getting people together and helping them get things done, he explained.

MacPherson is enough of a realist to know at his age he is unlikely to ever coach football again at either the major college or professional level. If thats true, he said he can walk away satisfied.

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Life coaching is a synergistic relationship between an accredited life coach and a client designed to tap into your full potential. Just as Olympic athletes wouldnt think of training without the added insight, objective perspective and enthusiastic support of an athletic coach, many of todays most successful business leaders, professionals, executives, entrepreneurs and CEOs use the services of a life coach to take their lives, careers, or businesses to the next level. At LifeCoach.com we have an international directory of accredited life coaches who can address your personal and business coaching needs for both your personal and professional life. Find the perfect life coach to help you reach your biggest goals and dreamshere.

Part consultant, part motivational speaker, part therapist and part rent-a-friend, coaches work with managers, entrepreneurs, and just plain folks, helping them define and achieve their goals career, personal, or most often, both.

Coaches have the ability to view things from afarin what some call helicopter visionand to shed new light on difficult situations. Often they can act as a sounding board through tough decisions, help sharpen skills, and motivate.

An article inPublic Managementrevealed a study where training alone was compared to life coaching combined with training. The study showed that training alone increased productivity by 22.4% while training combined with weekly life coaching increased productivity by 88%. Here is why:

1)Accountability.Most life coaches have three calls a month with their clients. This regularly scheduled call prompts clients to get more done than they would if left to their own devices. Think about it, if you work out with a personal trainer at the gym, you work much harder than on your own. Clients take bigger actions, set bigger goals and think bigger when they work with a professional coach.

2)Expertise.The trained life coach knows how to help you set the right goals, make more money, and structure your personal and professional life to achieve greater productivity with less effort. Youll achieve more in less time with the input of an accredited Life Coach on your side.

3)Delivery. A well-trained coach knows how to use the right words so that you are naturally motivated. It doesnt take brow-beating or nagging when you are working with a skilled life coach. Coaching typically works best with a weekly call so clients have time to integrate new ways of thinking and take action each week toward their goals. Most life coaching is done by phone and delivered in half hour to one hour coaching calls. The experience is challenging and uplifting. Youll look forward to your weekly calls with your life coach. Find an Accredited Life Coachhere.

4)Speed.Most people find that things start to happen very quickly after hiring a life coach.

Who works with a Life Coach?

Entrepreneurs, executives, business leaders, actors, musicians, creative people, managers, small business owners, start-ups, professionals and home-makers all reach their goals with the help of a life coach. If there is a gap between where you are now and where you want to be, there is room for life coaching. Not only will your life coach help you close the gap, your life coach will help you break through your limited beliefs and challenge you to think bigger.

What would you work on with a life coach?

How does life coaching differ from consulting, therapy, sports coaching, a best friend?

Consulting.Life coaching can be considered a form of consulting. However, consulting is often information and expertise based. For example, you might hire a consultant to help your business with a specific problem. In which case, youd expect your consultant to have knowledge and experience in that particular area. Life coaches, on the other hand, may or may not have a background or experience in your field. A coach is a life specialist, an expert on helping you develop all areas of your business and personal life. Unlike many consultants who propose a solution and leave you to implement it, the life coach stays with you to help you integrate the changes, new skills, and goals to make sure they really happen. This is one reason why coaching is so effectiveit is one thing to have the information and quite another to actually make the change!

Therapy.Life coaching is not therapy. Coaches dont work on past-based issues or traumas. Life coaches are not psychologists or psychotherapists. If you start the process of life coaching, and have not resolved a past issue, then it is very likely you will be referred to work with a therapist to resolve the issue. It is very common for unresolved traumas to stop us from getting what we want in our lives. Life coaches focus on the present and the clients goals for the future. We help people move forward and set personal and professional goals that will give them the life they really want. Most life coaching clients are healthy, successful people who might be a bit stuck or simply want to make a big change in their lives and want the support of their own personal coach to do so.

Sports. Life coaching often includes principles from sports coaching, such as being your best, doing more than you think you can, working with a team, going for the goal. But unlike sports coaching, most professional coaching is not a competition. Your life coach will help you win in your own life!

Best friend. A best friend or two or three is wonderful to have. But is your best friend an objective professional who you can trust to advise you on the most important aspects of your life or business? Sometimes our friends cant tell us the truth as much as they would like to because they dont want to risk losing the friendship. A good life coach is never afraid to tell you the truth and is willing to be fired at any time. Why not have a best friend and a life coach?

Our basic philosophy of life coaching:

If there is a gap between where you are now and where you want to be, then there is room for life coaching. Why struggle on your own when you can get what you want out of life in a fraction of the time with the structure, support, and tools of a skilled life coach?

Who hires a life coach and why?

The ICF puts it nicely:

People hire a life coach because

Its as simple as that. Life coaches help a client get all three. Quickly.

What are the benefits of hiring a life coach?

Do life coaches work on personal goals or business/professional goals?

Usually both. The life coach is the only professional trained to work with all aspects of your life. This is handy because very often, if something is bothering you at work, it is affecting your personal life as well and vice versa. Some clients prefer to spend more time focusing on their business goals, while others may want to focus on personal goals. How you use your coaching call is up to you!

Where does the life coach focus with an average client?

We focus where the client wants us to focus. Your goals are our goals, although we might have some radical suggestions for how to reach your goals more quickly. Sometimes, in order to be more successful in business, you need to do some personal work. So dont be surprised if you get some personal assessments and quizzes!

Why does life coaching work?

Life coaching works for several reasons:

Why is life coaching so popular?

Shouldnt I be able to reach my goals on my own?

Weve been taught that hard work and doing it on your own are the keys to finding life, success, money, or happiness. Most people believe they must sacrifice something to attain what they want. Some people sacrifice their health, their time to enjoy life, or their relationships. None of this is necessary. You can have it all, but maybe not all right this minute! And, with life coaching, youll find you dont have to sacrifice anything to get what you want. You may need to change a few things, true, but clients find they have more time with their families and friends, more money, more opportunity, and are more successful at work when they work with an accredited life coach.

Athletes, performers, CEOs and presidents know that they cant do it alone. They know they need a trained professional or even a team of experts to help them determine the best direction and to provide objective support and feedback. Without this, it is almost impossible to achieve excellence. No athlete would consider going to the Olympics without the support of a coach. The extra edge the coach provides makes all the difference. Why shouldnt you have this same advantage?

Why would people who are already successful hire a life coach?

Nobody really needs a life coach, but many people want one! Are you doing what you most enjoy? Are you tolerating or putting up with anything? Is life easy or are you struggling? Are you on the path to financial independence? Do you have what you really want? Most people can expect a lot more out of their lives. I thought Id start writing when I retired at sixty-five. I wrote my first book at 30! Life coaching really speeds things up so hold on to your hat!

Can a dependency be created between a life coach and coaching client?

No. The client may need the life coach in order to maximize an opportunity or accelerate their personal growth, yet not be dependent on the life coach. Anyone who has big goals can benefit from the structure, advice, and support of a life coach, so in that sense, a coach is needed. As far as creating an emotional or psychological dependency, not to worry. Life coaches work with people who are healthy and successful on their own. Life coaches do not resolve therapy issues. If you start to feel dependent on your life coach, get a therapist.

Can life coaching hurt someone?

No. The client is always responsible for their own life. Clients makes their own decisions and takes their own actions. Life coaches provide positive support and encouragement. While a life coach might challenge you to think differently or suggest that you try a different or even radical approach than you would normally take, the client must decide whether to take the advice or not. Life coaches do not in any way control the clients thoughts, actions or life. If you feel bad after a coaching call, for any reason, let your life coach know about it. It is probably a miscommunication or it could be that this coachs style is not working for you. If this happens consistently, try a different life coach. You should feel uplifted and motivated to take action at the end of each personal coaching call. You should certainly feel good about yourself and your accomplishments.

Can I hire a life coach for a short-term, special project?

Yes. Some clients hire a life coach to help them achieve a specific objective or project. Many clients choose to continue working with their life coach after their initial goals are accomplished because there are even more interesting things to do!

How long must I commit to working with a life coach?

One month. Although on average, most people find life coaching more beneficial than they realized and stay on longer than they initially anticipated. Many life coaches ask for a three to six month commitment but usually let you stop immediately if the coaching is not working for you right now. Some life coaches might ask you to sign a contract or an agreement. This is fine, however, all the Lifecoach.com coaches have agreed that you can coach on a month-by-month basis for as long as it is working for you.We never lock you into a fixed term for life coaching.

This does not apply to corporate contracts which may be for a specific term or project and are negotiated on a case-by-case basis.

How much does life coaching usually cost?

Most life coaches working with individuals charge about $300 to $700 per month for a 30 to 60 minutes call 3 or 4 times a month. Executive coaches charge more and some clients work with an executive coach for an hour or two a week. It all works out to about to about $100 to $300 per hour. Corporate coaching is more, and may cost $1,000 to $10,000 per month, and usually starts at $500 an hour. Corporate coaching may include on-site programs as well as individual executive coaching.

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By changing nothing, nothing changes.

This quote by Tony Robbins pretty much sums up life in general. Change is unavoidable in life. It's what move us forward, toward bigger and better things. Many people are able to take change in stride and adjust to it well, and others may even welcome life changes with open arms in excitement of something new and different.

Not everyone looks forward to life changes, however, and some may have a hard time coping with them. Unfortunately, those who can't or won't change will often miss out on improving their lives. Some may even need help with these changes.

Life coaching is a type of coaching, or counseling, that can be used to help people who are in major transition phases in their lives. Professionals in this field often try to help people plan goals and takes steps to realize those goals. Simply put, a life coach offers advice and guidance to deal with change that will put them on a path to success.

There might be a number of reasons why a person might seek the guidance of a professional life coach. For instance, they might be stuck in a rut in their lives and looking for a way to move forward. Others, however, seek the guidance of life coaches for help at different turning points in their lives, such as:

There are certain traits and skills that an individual should possess in order to succeed in a life coaching career. Life coaches should be energetic, inspirational, motivational, and organizational. Excellent listening and communication skills are also a must.

The field of life coaching has been around for years. It became more popular during the 1970's and 1980's, however, as it took on the form of executive coaching, or business coaching. This type of coaching was often used to help executives and CEOs communicate better with their underlings and further their careers. In the 1990's, business coaching started to make the transition to general life coaching. Today, life coaching is available and useful for everyone, not just executives, and the field is growing steadily.

Many people might feel lost during a major transition in life. Of course, as mentioned above, those who are unable or unwilling to change, will often be unable to move forward in their lives and change them for the better.

Life coaching, however, is excellent for anyone looking to get past the bumps along the path of life. Professionals in this field can help people move forward in their lives, making them better.

Life coaches offer guidance to all types of people in different stages of their lives. Some life coaches might focus solely on certain types of situations, like advancing careers, while others may be willing to help with nearly any life transition.

A life coach will often act as a sounding board for his clients. He is often expected to listen closely to their concerns and problems. Many times, he will also be able to look at a client's life with an unbiased eye and offer fresh perspectives on certain situations. In doing so, the life coach will usually be able to help his client work through any hurdles or problems he may face.

Before a life coach can help a client, however, he first needs to initiate an in depth interview. During this interview, the life coach should be made aware of what a client's wants, needs, and goals are in life.

Helping each client is different for everyone, and it is a very individualized process. Methods that work for one client, for instance, may not work for another. Because of this, a life coach must develop plans based on each client's strengths, weaknesses, abilities, and limitations. A life coach will also usually take into consideration each client's morals and values.

Another important duty of a life coach is to keep track of his clients' progress. He will often give them action-oriented homework assignments that are designed to help them move toward their goals, for instance. A life coach also often demands accountability from his clients, but also acts as a source of inspiration and encouragement.

Some life coaches may be able to find employment with a few select universities and corporations. There are also a handful of large life coaching firms that hire life coaches as well.

The majority of life coaches, however, typically work for themselves, opening their own life coaching practices. In some cases, two or more life coaches may be able to team up together, bringing a wider range of services and areas of expertise together.

There are typically no strict education requirements for starting a life coaching career. Depending on where you live, you may not even be required to be certified or licensed to start a life coaching career.

However, successful life coaches realize that a good and well rounded education is imperative for a successful career. Aspiring life coaches can choose a number of different paths for starting their careers. There are life coaching certificate programs, for instance.

Aspiring life coaches can also choose to earn degrees in areas such as counseling or psychology.

It can be difficult to forecast your salary as a life coach, because publicly available sources such as the Bureau of Labor Statistics do not record specific salary data for areas of specialization like life coaching. However, the Bureau of Labor Statistics does record salary data for school and career counselors, which are considered similar professions to life coaching. These professionals earned a median salary of $53,380 in 2011. A second resource, Payscale.com, reports that life coaches typically earn between $23,000 and $105,000. This range is extremely broad, and is representative of factors such as an individuals ability to attract clientele, and competition within the field.

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Coaching is essentially a conversation between a coach and his or her client, starting with the aim of helping the client to live a fulfilling life.

This is most often achieved by helping the client:

(a) Set goals that will add significantly to your clients life (or as I like to say, and put a BIG smile on your face).

(b) To achieve those goals.

In this way, coaching can be broken down into two halves and this is a great way to communicate coaching to prospective clients.

You may also help the client live a more fulfilling life by helping them to increase their level of self-awareness. This alone can help someone move forward in any area.

Of course, sometimes the client may want to achieve a specific goal that the coach may not agree with (that achieving that goal will not add significantly to that persons life). In such a situation, the coach may point this out either immediately, or over time and will still be willing to work on achieving the goal.

A coach will provide many things during this process, such as:

a) Challenge to expand the thinking process and make bold new decisions. Someone daring you to go further than you ever have before is also an extremely powerful way to break old habits and forge new boundaries.

b) Direction in times of confusion, opinion and if necessary, advice. Once again, the power of a fresh set of eyes to interpret a new perspective on a situation is often invaluable during the coaching process.

c) Brainstorming to flesh out new ideas.

d) Acknowledgement and validation This cannot be stressed enough. The coach who only focuses with the client on what is missing and what needs to be done, deserves to lose the client.

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How did the coaching industry get started?

In the past, many people offered some form of coaching, but did not call themselves coaches.

The field as we know it today started in the early 1980s. Prior to the term coaching, people referred to themselves as mentors, advisers, consultants or just as a helping hand. Today, coaching is a highly recognized and respected profession with a wide range of specializations. Since coaching is not family counseling, social work or psychotherapy, there are no state or regional laws for coaching someone on important challenges and goals in their life.

There is no government-approved agency or federation for the coaching field.

You have complete freedom in selecting your training, and how you will develop your business and career.

A recent study conducted by Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP, gives you some important information about your coaching career:

Here are just a few of your career options as a professional coach:

Personal Success Coach, Online Coach, Author, Professional Speaker, Life Makeover Specialist, Radio Show Host, Podcast Host, Personal Development Expert, or an Internet Entrepreneur. This is really just the beginning. Best of all; we coach YOU on all of your career options and strategies.

There are an estimated 75,000 coaches practicing in 75 countries. And the coaching industry continues to grow at a rate of approximately 20% per year. One of the most appealing aspects of coaching is that 70% of coaches work mostly by telephone, Skype and email with a successful nationwide or global practice. In short, you can enjoy your coaching practice anywhere and in any way you like.

A letter from Spencer Institute founder, Dr. John Spencer Ellis

Thank you for taking the time to learn how the Spencer Institute will enhance your life personally and professionally. From a personal perspective, you will learn techniques and systems that enhance your own well-being and success. In return, you will gain many skills and learn best practices to enhance the lives of others.

You will re-power yourself and then re-power the lives of others. I say re-power as opposed to empower because we all have the power. Sometimes it just needs to be awakened and given direction by a qualified coach.

The coaching industry offers you endless career options. You can become any type coach you want. There are NO LIMITS to your opportunities. Listen to your heart when it tells you, YOU CAN DO THIS! I personally know coaches who are making global changes and at the same time living the the dream life. They enjoy a work-at-home lifestyle, travel, a strong income, and the satisfaction of knowing they are enhancing lives. You can do the same. We will help you.

Your coaching business can take place in a one-on-one setting, on the phone, via Skype, Google Hangout, in a small group, in an online format, or any combination. Many coaches make up to (and beyond) $5,000 per day speaking on their specific coaching techniques. You may decide to conduct lunch time seminars on your coaching specialty to smaller groups at corporations. The choice is always yours.

What sets the Spencer Institute apart from other coaching schools are the diverse training options, niche courses, and our special techniques we share with you for developing a successful coaching business. This provides you with the lifestyle of your dreams. Now is the time to carefully review all of our programs and determine which ones are right for you. Each of our program pages describes how you will benefit and help others create the life of their dreams.

Since the Spencer Institute was launched in 1993, it has been my personal mission to help you become a total success in all aspects of your coaching career. Our programs are easy to follow and appropriately challenging. Each training course is developed with you in mind. We structure each course in a way which allows you to quickly understand the concepts and use the information quickly. In return, you easily help and guide others to success and fulfillment.

I want to thank you for taking the time to read this message. Please let me know how I can personally help you with any part of your coaching career.

Thank you,

Dr. John Spencer Ellis JSE Founder, Spencer Institute

Coaching is the process of observation of existing thinking, behavioral and linguistic patterns, setting specific goals, discerning hidden saboteurs and supporting your client in making a plan of action and following it to achieve the desired results. It is creating such a deep respect and rapport, the client feels comfortable, and most of all safe, to move from their stuck place to success.

Spencer Institute Coaches are trained to listen to their clients words, observe their actions, and become aware of the way their client currently interprets the world around them. Intelligence is about having fine distinctions about a topic or field. The finer the distinctions, the more wisdom or perception is available. This program will teach the coach fine distinctions about human behavior. By identifying limiting strategic filters and beliefs through close observation of verbal and non-verbal patterns, the Spencer Institute Coach elicits solutions and facilitates resolution of conflicts.

Believing that people already have abundant resources within themselves, You act as a detective to identify the strategies that are already successful in other contexts of a persons life and to tease out hidden saboteurs that may be keeping your clients from achieving their goals. They then guide their client in discovering how to apply their successful strategies as a way of overcoming their identified saboteurs. By sharing communication tools and strategies for success, this method of coaching builds a relationship with the client that shapes the clients ability to make better and finer distinctions leading to solid decisions and life choices more naturally and easily.

Great communication skills are at the heart of effective life coaching. A skilled life coach understands the relationship between how people think and communicate. They have an awareness of the relationship between language patterns and behavior. Spencer Institute Life Coaches are trained to track the assumptions and thinking processes of the client reflected in their use of language. Being able to track the clients beliefs, behaviors and metaphors of life enable the coach to ask appropriate and pertinent questions of the client. This facilitates a deep self exploration for the client that often leads to subtle shifts in the clients awareness that often makes all the difference in making significant progress towards desired outcomes.

The number one home-based profession, according to the American magazine Start-ups.

Defined as The art of facilitating the performance, learning and development of another.

A helping profession, which embraces all aspects of life: work and career, relationships, community, self-development, wellness, abundance, education, and spirituality. Clients may choose to focus within one of these issues, or to follow a program of re-examining and enhancing various areas of life.

A way for the coach himself or herself, through self- and peer coaching, to enhance the quality of his or her communication with everyone: family, friends and colleagues, and to be a better manager, supervisor, chairperson, community leader, helper, or team member.

Life Strategies Coaching is a profession that is free from the over-regulation and licensing restrictions, which surround counseling and therapy professions in some countries. Your self-employed coaching career is portable should you decide to resettle in various parts of the U.S., Canada, UK, Europe, or elsewhere without retraining with a locally approved body. Because most coaching is done via the telephone, you have virtually no geographical limits for your client base. You will no longer be tied down to your office desk; you may enjoy a vacation as far away as your cell phone may reach. Best of all, your clients call you at their scheduled appointment times, giving you the freedom to plan your day and at the same time saving on any long distance fees.

Unrivaled in its choice of client specialties. You can find your niche coaching people in a particular career, job, age group, stage of life, spiritual direction, ethnic group, type of relationship, role in life, wellness need, disability or challenge, or any special need for support of which you have knowledge or life experience. Depending on your background or skill, you can coach company CEOs or women returning to work after raising their children; you can help a highly-stressed professional make the transition to a more acceptable way of life; help successful people hone their skills; or help people downshift to a simpler lifestyle. The choice is now yours.

How does coaching take place?

This will vary from coach to coach and client to client. In most cases, coaching is done over the phone. This allows you, the certified professional coach, to work from the comfort of your home. Some coaches use teleclasses or telecoaching. In these cases, a coach conducts coaching sessions over a conference line to several clients at once, or he/she can work with just one individual. Other coaches prefer to use e-mail for follow-ups between coaching sessions to check on their clients progress and give continued support and motivation. Still others prefer in-person sessions for a more personal approach. Of course, webinars are also a simple and highly effective method as well. We show you how.

What type of people become Certified Professional Coaches?

Our students include, but arent limited to the following: Business consultants, fitness and wellness professionals, doctors, lawyers, social workers, meditation instructors, spiritual consultants, career specialists, massage therapists, hyponotherapists, NLP practitioners, Time Line therapists, somatic therapists, natural health educators, psychologists, psychiatrists, counselors, MFTs, holistic health professionals, and biofeedback specialists.

How is coaching different from or similar to psychotherapy?

Some similarity exists, mainly in that the conversations between coach and client are confidential, as are those between patient and therapist. Largely, however, the coaching relationship is based on growth and movement toward achievement of goals, and not focus on the distant past. The time orientation of coaching is present and future, and in therapy it is mainly the past. Certainly there may be therapeutic issues that arise within the context of coaching. The Spencer Institute Life Strategies Coaching Program is not talk therapy delving into the past recesses of personal history with no understanding of the patterns and brainwashing that are held often out of our conscious awareness. Life Strategies does look at the current influences from our past to eliminate any hidden obstacles that could become a roadblock to current and future success.

Our Life Strategies Coaching program is an integration of skills, states of excellence, and step-by-step thinking strategies leading to measurable and reproducible results through the use of Hemispheric Integration techniques. As you go through the course and begin to practice the skills, you will appreciate the effectiveness of adding substance to the encouraging words as you become more than just a cheerleader.

Its the number one home-based profession. START-UPS

Theyre part therapist, part consultantand they sure know how to succeed in business. NEWSWEEK

Career management coachescan identify missing skills or style difficulties and offer pragmatic tips WALL STREET JOURNAL

The goal of coaching is the goal of good management to make the most of an organizations valuable resources. HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW

other companies offer coaching as a prerequisitein the understanding that everyone has blind spots and can benefit from a detached observer. NEW YORK TIMES

Boomers find the budding profession can help focus them on business and personal growth. LOS ANGELES TIMES

Its tough to develop without help with coaching you get to see your blind spots in a save environment. THE DENVER POST

Coaching is having a dedicated mentor; its getting knowledgeable support and encouragement and a new way of looking at things when you need it. EXECUTIVE FEMALE

The benefits of coaching appear to win over even the most cynical clients within just a few weeks. INDUSTRY WEEK

Executive coaches are a hot new industry and a sign that you have truly arrived. TRAINING MAGAZINE

Our program has the missing link between coaching, that gives practical advice about what to do, and psychotherapy, that focuses on talking about the past. Hemispheric Integration and neuro-linguistic skills provide the structure of how to move through challenges and beyond theoretical concepts, by creating a positive road map to success.

The Spencer Institutes Coaching programs are not simply cheerleading.

Encouragement and positive affirmations such as: You can do it! Its easy. Just go ahead and try it! are wonderful, feel good affirmations and yet, they carry no specific information about how to just do it. What is missing with the cheerleading approach is a specific action plan and strategies of action that will create a pathway to success.

With The Spencer Institute, through the use of Hemispheric Integration, we provide you with the information and structure of the necessary tools for balancing the brain. The information in this program is based on structural research, not folklore or testimonials.

The Spencer Institutes Coaching Programs are not talk therapy delving into the past recesses of personal history with no understanding of the patterns and brainwashing that are held often out of our conscious awareness. Life Strategies does look at the current influences from our past to eliminate any hidden obstacles that could become a roadblock to current and future success.

Yes! This is why:

1. Many people are unclear were theyre going in each aspect of life. Frequently, they desire clarify. Coaching helps everyone clarify values, beliefs, purpose, and goals.

2. We may know where were going and what we need to do, but we forget or simply get stuck in our limiting belief systems, ineffective habits, or inability to focus. A well-trained coach gets us back on track by helping us identify limiting beliefs and ineffective habits and find more effective ways of living and enjoying life.

3. Many times we resist change because its easier and more comfortable to stay the way we are. Any change we make causes resistance and backlash within ourselves as well as from other people in our lives. A coach helps us move beyond that resistance -with greater ease and flow. In the coaching relationship you may decide to work on all areas of your life at once or just focus on one.

What will I do as a Certified Life Strategies Coach?

As you decide to become a life coach, you will be an essential ally to those who seek your advice and guidance. You will assess and align your clients beliefs, values, morals and support system as a means for them to naturally and easily achieve their goals. You will guide them in creating a plan of action while remaining a resource to keep their motivation focused on reaching their goals.

You will have many different roles. Often times, as a graduate, you will use your new coaching knowledge to augment an existing talent or skill set that your clients posses. Many coaches come from a wellness background. Fitness professionals may incorporate whole life coaching into their menu of services. A business person who holds an MBA may choose to coach executives on a whole life perspective of mastering the corporate world. Those who work in a personnel or human resources department will use their new interpersonal communication skills to better evoke excellence in others. A religious leader can use his or her coaching skills to better counsel members of their congregation. A psychologist may wish to transition out of traditional therapy and work with clients on future plans rather than past issues. The benefit of being a Certified Spencer Institute Life Strategies Coach is that you will learn how to work with structure instead of working with content. Coaches that work with content tell their clients to be happy, be proactive, feel good, without providing the structure or instructions on HOW TO be happy, proactive, feel good, etc. You will learn the difference that makes the difference in getting reproducible results.

As you can now see, with your education and life strategies coaching certification from the Spencer Institute, you can incorporate coaching into your current field or area of expertise. You may also wish to move in a totally new direction; the choice is completely yours.

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