WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT COACHING ~ WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP COACHING ~ SUCCESS COACHING ~ LIFE & CAREER COACHING
Are you a high achiever experiencing self doubt & dealing with imposter syndrome? Do you struggle to put your needs & wants at the top of your priority list (or on your list at all)? Do you feel frazzled & overwhelmed accommodating everyone & everything in your life? Have you postponed your dreams or goals in order to take care of all your have-to-do tasks? Do you ever feel like you settle for less than you deserve in your relationships or career?
IT'S TIME TO MAKE YOU & YOUR DREAMS A PRIORITY - LET'S MAKE THEM A REALITY TOGETHER!
I absolutely love working with women to guide you in harnessing your unique awesomeness to live a life filled with joy, passion, purpose, courage, and conviction! As a Certified Women's Empowerment Coach, Life Coach and Career Coach, I get to help my clients RESCRIPT their stories, speak to themselves and about themselves with compassion and confidence, and reach their unique personal and professional goals. Over the last 25+ years, I've worked with countless women to guide them in achieving their dreams! When considering hiring a women's empowerment coach, we usually have a lot of questions. Let's see if we can answer these questions for you to help you determine if women's empowerment coaching is a good fit for you!
What is a Women's Empowerment Coach?
As your Women's Empowerment Coach, I'll work with you on many of the same types of goals that we partner on in life and career coaching, however, we do so through the lens and focus of empowering yourself as a woman in each area of your life! For example, as women, we sometimes struggle to put ourselves and our needs at the top of our priority list (or sometimes, don’t put ourselves on our list at all). We work on this together. We break down thoughts and experiences that contribute to this and we transform them!
As a women's empowerment coach, my primary goal is to support and uplift women in various aspects of their lives. I believe in fostering a positive and empowering environment where women can discover their strengths, overcome challenges, and reach their full potential. I help women identify their goals and aspirations, whether in their careers, relationships, or personal development. I provide guidance and tools to build self-confidence, develop leadership skills, and cultivate a strong sense of self-worth.
As a women's empowerment coach, I understand the unique struggles that women may face in society, and I aim to dismantle limiting beliefs and societal barriers that might hold them back. I encourage open discussions and create a safe space where women can freely express themselves without fear of judgment. Moreover, I celebrate the diversity of each individual, acknowledging that empowerment takes various forms for different women. By offering guidance, motivation, and practical strategies, I strive to empower women to take charge of their lives, make confident decisions, and create a positive impact on themselves and the world around them.
In essence, my role as a women's empowerment coach is to be a supportive ally, helping my clients navigate their journeys towards personal growth, fulfillment, and empowerment.
Together, we'll make sure you: Feel confident knowing that your knowledge & accomplishments ROCK & you can accomplish anything you put your mind to. Never settle for less than you rightfully deserve at work, in life, or in your relationships. Create and claim personal and professional opportunities, instead of waiting to receive whatever just comes your way. Make choices aligned with what you want to do, instead of what you (or others) think you should do. Stop accommodating everyone and everything else around you at the expense of your own wellbeing. Say "No" when you want to say "No" and create boundaries that protect your time and energy. Don't apologize when you've done nothing wrong to apologize for. Own and confidently express your words, wants, wisdom, and will. Value yourself and your own visibility in your relationships and in your workplace.
What Types of Things Do You Help Women Work on as a Women's Empowerment Coach?
As a women's empowerment coach, here are some specific ways I assist women in their journey of empowerment:
Building Self-Confidence: As a women's empowerment coach, I help women identify their unique qualities, skills, and talents, fostering a sense of self-assurance. Through personalized exercises and self-reflection, I encourage them to recognize their worth and embrace their inner strengths.
Setting and Achieving Goals: Together, we create realistic and achievable short-term and long-term goals. As a women's empowerment coach, I assist women in breaking down their aspirations into actionable steps, empowering them to stay focused, motivated, and committed to their personal and professional objectives.
Overcoming Self-Limiting Beliefs: Many women harbor self-limiting beliefs that hold them back from reaching their true potential. As a women's empowerment coach, I help women challenge and reframe these beliefs, replacing them with empowering thoughts and attitudes.
Improving Communication Skills: Effective communication is crucial for success in personal and professional relationships. As a women's empowerment coach, I work with women to enhance their communication skills, assertiveness, handling of conflicts, building of healthier relationships, and ability to set healthy boundaries.
Navigating Career Advancement: For women striving to excel in their careers, I provide guidance in navigating challenges such as negotiating salaries, developing leadership skills, and overcoming gender biases.
Cultivating Work-Life Balance: Balancing personal and professional life can be challenging. I assist women in creating a harmonious work-life balance, prioritizing self-care, and avoiding burnout.
Supporting Entrepreneurial Ventures: For women pursuing entrepreneurial endeavors, I provide mentorship and strategies for business growth, branding, and networking.
Promoting Body Positivity and Self-Care: As a women's empowerment coach, I help women develop a positive body image, promoting self-acceptance and self-love. Encouraging self-care practices allows them to nurture their physical and mental well-being.
Creating Supportive Communities: Building a strong support network is crucial for personal growth. I guide women in finding and nurturing relationships with like-minded individuals who uplift and inspire them.
Navigating Life Transitions: Whether it's starting a new chapter after a significant life change or coping with transitions, I offer tools and resources to embrace change positively and make the most out of new opportunities.
Fostering Financial Empowerment: Financial independence is empowering. As a women's empowerment coach, I help women gain financial literacy, budgeting skills, and investment knowledge, enabling them to take control of their financial future.
Advocating for Gender Equality: Empowerment extends beyond the individual. I encourage women to become advocates for gender equality, inspiring them to create positive change in their communities and beyond.
As a women's empowerment coach, I'm passionate about guiding women through their journey of growth and transformation. Through personalized coaching sessions, I provide a safe and supportive space for them to explore their aspirations, conquer challenges, and embrace their true potential, ultimately leading fulfilling and empowered lives.
No two women have exactly the same experiences, perspectives, wants, and needs, so no assumptions are made. Our women's empowerment coaching work together is customized JUST for you and your unique coaching goals and desires.
How Does Your Women's Empowerment Coaching Process Work?
Step 1 - ACQUAINT: We schedule a FREE 20-minute Discovery Session Call to get acquainted, discuss your coaching needs, and answer any questions you may have.
Step 2 - ASSESS: We'll assess your level of satisfaction with your life and career, as well as evaluate your unique self-talk patterns.
Step 3 - AIM: We'll have an in-depth discussion of your assessment results and begin setting specific short- and long-term goals based on your assessments and what we discover during our discussion so we know what destinations we are aiming for.
Step 4 - ACTION: We'll jump right in with "In-Between Session Actions" (AKA - homework ;-) customized to your needs to begin moving you into action toward your goals.
Step 5 - ACHIEVE, ADDRESS, & APPRECIATE: We'll focus our sessions on reviewing your goal achievement progress, discussing and addressing any negative self-talk that is getting in your way, positively tackling any new challenges and opportunities that arise, and CELEBRATING AND APPRECIATING YOUR SUCCESSES - the small ones along the way and big ones following your hard work!
Can You Share More About Your RESCRIPT Framework?
As a life and career coach, I've developed my own framework for helping my clients quiet negative self talk and become their own best advocates.
We have two very different mental narrators who talk to us in our minds—the Inner Antagonist and the Inner Advocate.
Your Inner Antagonist is your story’s inner opposing force. It tells you that you have disorder, conflict, weaknesses, and deficits within and around you, and that you do not have what it takes to resolve any of it. Your Inner Antagonist can also lead you to act in ways that are not aligned with your values and ultimate desires.
Your Inner Advocate has your back. It’s your inner ally, supporter, encourager, and collaborative problem solver. It tells you that you’re strong and capable. It reminds you of all the resources you have within and around you. It reminds you of the wisdom you’ve gained from life experience. It tells you that you can overcome anything. To amplify our Inner Advocate, we must RESCRIPT:
R - Release Rumination
E - Engage Growth Goals
S - Seek Strengths
C - Challenge Catastrophizing
R - Restrict Regret
I - Invite Imperfection
P - Pursue Passion & Purpose
T - Think Thankfully
What is Your Role as My Women's Empowerment Coach?
I am your co-strategizer: Together, we come up with ideas and strategies to help you quiet your Inner Antagonist, amplify your Inner Advocate, empower and believe in yourself and your worth, set and take action toward your goals, achieve your dreams, and enhance your life satisfaction. I have numerous exercises, worksheets, and resource guides to help you on your journey.
I am your accountability partner: I help you remain motivated, engaged, and on track toward achieving your short- and long-terms goals!
I am your External Advocate and champion: I help you see your strengths, accomplishments, passions, and purpose so you can live your fullest, limitless life. I help encourage, empower, and motivate you, and I celebrate you and all of the steps you take towards positively changing your life.
What is My Role as a Women's Empowerment Coaching Client?
Allow yourself to dream and believe in positive change - You CAN and WILL achieve your goals!
Allow yourself to be a priority in your life - Put yourself on your list - HIGH on your list!
Do the work -Life coaching requires time and effort. You are worth all of it! TOGETHER, we can achieve your dreams.
You rock and don't let anyone (including YOURSELF) tell you otherwise! Your WORDS matter. The experiences you truly WANT for your life and career deserve realization. Your WISDOM from your life experiences and background carry brilliance. Your WILL is strong as steel. Sometimes we don't see this for ourselves. Sometimes we once knew it, but life struggles led us to forget. It's time for you to see it, own it, and use it to live a life you can really love. A life that kicks a$$. A life that packs a punch. A life that leaves a legacy of your unique fabulousness.
Why Should I Work with You as my Women's Empowerment Coach, Dr. Colleen?
Women's development, empowerment, and leadership have long been among my greatest passions and priorities. This passion ignited while I attended Douglass College, the women’s college at Rutgers University (class of 1997). Then, while in graduate school, I wrote my doctoral dissertation on women’s identity development and spent time volunteering on a women’s crisis hotline at a women’s non-profit, where I later worked as a counselor following graduation.
I ultimately spent six of my 13-year higher education administration career serving women students at my Alma Mater, Douglass College, and I've been teaching a women’s leadership course there since 2010. The large majority of my individual coaching clients have been women (fabulous and fierce women!) and I frequently present at women’s business and networking groups.
Furthermore, I have personally struggled with many of the same challenges as a woman that my students and clients have encountered. We must be our own strongest advocates while also helping to grow other women along our journey. I have spent many years transforming my own limiting beliefs and I love working with other women to do the same. Some of my most rewarding professional and personal experiences have been encouraging, empowering, and elevating women to love themselves, own their power, trust their instinct, use their strengths, passions, and purpose to make their mark in the world, and ultimately – VALUE THEIR VOICE! Here's a bit about my background and experience:
Providing life coaching and career coaching and conducting personal and career development workshops for 26 years.
Running my life coaching and career coaching business for 15 of these years.
Former Departmental Director and hiring manager at Rutgers University in my early 30s.
Teaching psychology, counseling, and leadership courses at Rutgers University and Middlesex County College for 15 years.
Doctorate in Counseling Psychology from Rutgers University (2003) and 30+ certificates and certifications in coaching and psychology, including certifications as a Life Coach, Career Coach, Positive Psychology Coach, Health & Nutrition Coach, Anxiety Specialist, Parent Educator, and Time Management Consultant. I also completed Rutgers University's Management Development Program, Business Supervisor Certificate, Supervisor Development Program, and Leadership Development Certificate.
Navigated several challenges and major decisions in my own life and career, including overcoming anxiety and panic attacks, getting divorced and remarried, and leaving salaried work to run my business, to name a few.
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