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Jo Maughan, career coach, with a professional woman

Career coach Surrey

Are you a mid-life professional?

Are you feeling unfulfilled? Like something's not right? Are you headed for burnout? 
Are you tired of using your weekends to recover from work, only to do it all again the next week? 
Perhaps you're feeling stuck, frustrated, stressed, even a bit trapped? 
You don't even know where to start to make changes.

Want to get unstuck?

I can be your career coach. I’ll help you re-think your work and life. To work out what it is YOU want. You only get one life, right, and you don’t want to be one of those people, bitter and regretful for what they didn’t do or try...

Let me tell you a story: 
Anna was feeling fed-up, stressed and unhappy. She’d been doing the same thing in the same organisation for years and no longer liked it. She didn’t know why. Her role had been moved into a new department and she’d been told it would come to an end. She didn’t know what to do. She was worried about becoming pigeon-holed in her current career. Worried about losing her job. Secretly, she dreamt of being an environmental policy adviser.

She applied for and got a free 45 mins Strategy Session with me. In a light bulb moment, she realised that if she left her current organisation she was scared she’d be a failure. She really ‘got’ how deep this fear was: it showed up in the tentative way she sometimes spoke, how she relied on others to take her ideas forward, and how she kept her true interests hidden. If only she could get free of this fear. But how?
She signed up for my silver coaching programme. First off, she filled in my on-boarding questionnaire, telling me how she liked to think, feel, make decisions. This set us up for five months of powerful work together.

Here's what happened:

  • She realised her fear of failing stemmed from how her mum had been very strict when she was a child. She realised she didn't need to think or believe these things any more.
  • She came to appreciate her values and strengths, and how these set her apart from others. She realised she could talk about these things as her Unique Selling Points.
  • She connected emotionally with just how much she feared being truly seen as herself, and appreciated how much this was blocking her from doing what she really wanted. She released this emotion.
  • ​She created a vision in her mind's eye seeing herself live out her ideal day. She felt truly happy. She realised she wanted to work with like-minded people on something important to her & her values. This vision became her motivation.
In her own words, Anna said:
"I was feeling very drained of energy and stressed about my career. I was going through a rough time at work, my contract was ending, and I also felt my work was not very meaningful to me. I had no clue how to move forward: do all I could to hold onto my job even though it was not fulfilling, or to do something more fulfilling, but what? I knew I had potential to do more but I did not know what. I was waking up with anxiety attacks, and felt my self-esteem declining rapidly. I got an email from Jo about a free Strategy Session, and I thought this might be a sign, especially as her email seemed to describe my problem.

I had 5 sessions with Jo. They really helped me out of my rut. We focused on finding what I wanted to do because that was my biggest problem. I realised I had the answers inside of me, I just needed to go inside and search. Six months later, I have focused on projects that are more meaningful to me, and more importantly focused on my vision to publish my book and connect with similar minded people. If I hadn't worked with Jo, I would still be clueless as to what I wanted to do, and what I am passionate about at this stage in my life. Thankfully I now have a vision to inspire me and work towards." 

Are you ready to get out of your rut?

Want to know what we’d actually do in our coaching sessions?

Coaching sessions are all about you. We loosely follow my seven step Rethink Your Life system for a structure to help you (and us) work towards your goal(s). On top of that: I listen to you deeply; I ask questions; we may use visualisation/ imagination exercises; mindfulness techniques; play doh; sketching; tuning into your physical body; collage; improvised role play; imagery; metaphor. 

All my approaches are designed to help you get more in touch with your inner wisdom and your whole, best self. To work out what it is you want.
 
Also, I use all my life experience to support you to reach your goals. Of which there is quite a lot! I used to be a FTSE 100 Tax Director; I've been bullied; my mum had (and has) OCD; at 42, I blacked out, hit my head & ended up in hospital.

Ready to re-think your life? 
Click the button below to get your free copy of my Rethink Your Life toolkit.

Perhaps you'd like a chat - to talk about what you might get out of coaching? 
To get a sense of what coaching with me would be like? 
If yes, click the button below now to schedule your free 30 min consultation.

Need more inspiration first?

Click below to hear me talking about my career change. I was a Tax Director before I retrained as a Career Coach and let myself be the Artist I always was. 

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