Marie Forleo

The new profession was called coaching. you have to get that in the late 90s, nobody had heard of coaching. This was like groundbreaking. And I remember reading that article and it was as though a Christmas tree lit up inside of me. It was as though the clouds parted and little angels came out and it was like, oh, this is what you're supposed to do.

And there was one day at work when I was on the internet and I discovered this article and it was about a new profession at the time. It's about 1999. the new profession was called coaching. You have to get that in the late nineties, nobody had heard of coaching. Like this was like groundbreaking, right? And I remember reading that article and it was as though a Christmas tree lit up inside of me.

But at the same time, I was 23 years old and the mean voice in my head said, what are you Are you kidding me? You're 23. Who the heck's going to hire a 23-year-old life coach? You haven't even lived life yet. You're in piles and piles of debt. You can't seem to hold down a job. This is going to be one more thing you fail at. So I had that going on, but I couldn't deny that in my body,

It was as though the clouds parted and little angels came out and it was like, oh, like this is what you're supposed to do. But at the same time, you know, I was 23 years old and the mean voice in my head said, what are you Are you kidding me? You're 23. Who the heck's going to hire a 23-year-old life coach? You haven't even lived life yet. You're in piles and piles of debt.

And my intuition told me that there was something there that I was meant to follow. And I signed up on the spot for a three-year coach training program. I was doing that at night, on the weekends, kept my magazine job during the day. And then I got a call from the HR department and they had a promotion for me to go move up, bigger paycheck, better position, to be a part of Vogue magazine.

You can't seem to hold down a job. This is going to be one more thing you fail at. So I had that going on, but I couldn't deny that in my body, And my intuition told me that there was something there that I was meant to follow. And I signed up on the spot for a three-year coach training program. I was doing that at night, on the weekends, kept my magazine job during the day.

arguably one of the top fashion magazines in the world. And that was my fork in the road. Do I stay on the safe path with the paycheck and the health benefits and like a career that people actually understand what the hell it is? Or do I quit and do this weird ass life coaching thing that no one has ever heard of?

And then I got a call from the HR department and they had a promotion for me to go move up, bigger paycheck, better position, to be a part of Vogue magazine. arguably one of the top fashion magazines in the world. And that was my fork in the road. Do I stay on the safe path with the paycheck and the health benefits and like a career that people actually understand what the hell it is?

I have no idea how to even turn it into a business and it sounds ridiculous when I say it out loud. So I chose that path. I gave up my job and I went back to bartending and waiting tables, which I did all throughout college. And I figured out how to build a coaching practice during the day.

Or do I quit and do this weird ass life coaching thing that no one has ever heard of? I have no idea how to even turn it into a business. And it sounds ridiculous when I say it out loud. So I chose that path. I gave up my job and I went back to bartending and waiting tables, which I did all throughout college. And I figured out how to build a coaching practice during the day.

So that's kind of the through line of being a multi-passionate kid, not knowing what that was to kind of getting me to the place where, you know, and I'll pause because I'm sure we have other questions, but we can kind of take it all the way through.

Okay. Signing up for that program felt really significant to me because I just basically graduated from school just a few years earlier. So I was still in that mode of being like, I am a student. When you want a new skill, you go put yourself in an environment to gain those skills and capabilities.

Okay. Signing up for that program felt really significant to me because I just basically, you know, graduated from school just a few years earlier. So I was still in that mode of being like, I am a student.

And everything that they taught and all of the topics and what we would talk about in terms of communication, in terms of supporting other people, creating frameworks, understanding how to listen and to ask questions, those things felt like second nature to me.

Like when you want a new skill, you go put yourself in an environment to gain those skills and capabilities and everything that they taught and all of the topics and what we would talk about in terms of communication, in terms of supporting other people, creating frameworks, understanding how to listen and to ask questions. Those things felt like second nature to me.

They felt like areas where I was so excited to learn as opposed to things that I went through in college where it was like, oh, you know, I'm rolling my eyes to get through every topic. Like there was no resonance there. So that was my first clue that I was onto something is I really, really enjoyed learning.

Second part of my coach training was actually that you should not wait to get what we called at that time practice clients. It was like, Hey, just work with people for free. Like that was kind of a part of how they told you that you're going to build a business and build your confidence was not to go out there and like pretend that you're further along than you are.

Trend

Appearances