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With Career Coach & Life Coach, Dr. Colleen Georges
Women's Empowerment Coaching
WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT COACHING ~ WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP COACHING ~ SUCCESS COACHING ~ LIFE & CAREER COACHING
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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!
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 Life Coach and Certified 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 23 years, I've worked with countless women to guide them in achieving their dreams!
Life coaching is a transformational experience. And, as we know, big changes can be a bit scary. So, when considering hiring a life coach, we usually have a lot of questions. Let's see if we can answer these questions for you to help you determine if life coaching is a good fit for you!
Coaching versus Counseling - What's the Difference?
Although I am a Licensed Professional Counselor with experience providing counseling previously, today I provide coaching, not counseling. You might be wondering--how is coaching different from counseling?
Counseling (also referred to as therapy) involves diagnosing psychological dysfunction and helping clients manage deeper level trauma, clinical disorders, and personality disorders. Counseling often explores a client's past and utilizes insights gained to resolve psychological and emotional traumas. Gaining insight is often a core focus of counseling.
Coaching involves helping clients who are feeling stuck in achieving their goals to get unstuck. Coaching is present and future-focused and does not delve into a client's past, except to identify and transform old, limiting patterns.
As your coach, I focus on exploring your life and/or career goals, as well as identifying the obstacles getting in the way of achieving those goals. I guide you in creating a roadmap for achieving what you want. I partner with you to design and implement actionable steps and benchmarks toward your goals, strategies for maintaining motivation and inspiration along the way, and customized follow-through and accountability methods.
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 Life Coach and Certified 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 23 years, I've worked with countless women to guide them in achieving their dreams!
Life coaching is a transformational experience. And, as we know, big changes can be a bit scary. So, when considering hiring a life coach, we usually have a lot of questions. Let's see if we can answer these questions for you to help you determine if life coaching is a good fit for you!
Coaching versus Counseling - What's the Difference?
Although I am a Licensed Professional Counselor with experience providing counseling previously, today I provide coaching, not counseling. You might be wondering--how is coaching different from counseling?
Counseling (also referred to as therapy) involves diagnosing psychological dysfunction and helping clients manage deeper level trauma, clinical disorders, and personality disorders. Counseling often explores a client's past and utilizes insights gained to resolve psychological and emotional traumas. Gaining insight is often a core focus of counseling.
Coaching involves helping clients who are feeling stuck in achieving their goals to get unstuck. Coaching is present and future-focused and does not delve into a client's past, except to identify and transform old, limiting patterns.
As your coach, I focus on exploring your life and/or career goals, as well as identifying the obstacles getting in the way of achieving those goals. I guide you in creating a roadmap for achieving what you want. I partner with you to design and implement actionable steps and benchmarks toward your goals, strategies for maintaining motivation and inspiration along the way, and customized follow-through and accountability methods.
Things We Might Achieve Together in Women's Empowerment Coaching
We work 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!
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.
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.
Our Work Together Might Also Include:
- Relationships: Eliminating unhealthy patterns, managing loss & transition, addressing conflict, creating connections, establishing boundaries
- Career: Discovering and using your strengths, building your career around your passions and purpose, turning a passion into a business, feeling more engaged at work, creating work-life balance, making major career decisions, navigating career changes, job search and interviewing strategies, career advancement and leadership strategies, managing challenging career transitions or layoffs, improving office communication.
- Financial: Saving for specific goals and passions, saving for the future or emergencies, spending wisely, eliminating debt
- Living Environment: Organizing or enhancing your living space, creating a sanctuary, planning for a move
- Community Engagement: Finding volunteer opportunities, creating a sense of connection within your community
- Physical Health: Creating healthy eating habits, developing exercise and fitness routines, addressing physical ailments and concerns
- Mental & Emotional Health: Minimizing self-criticism, making peace with the past, approaching the future with hope, alleviating overwhelm, enhancing confidence, eliminating over-analyzing, growing self-compassion
- Intellectual Growth: Learning a new skill, gaining new knowledge, growing expertise, taking a course, going back to school, reading more frequently
- Recreation & Relaxation: Creating self-care habits, discovering and making time for activities that bring you joy or calm
- Spirituality: Engaging in activities that fill you with purpose and mission, connecting with your higher power, maintaining gratitude practices
No two women have exactly the same experiences, perspectives, wants, and needs, so no assumptions are made. Our work together is customized JUST for you and your unique coaching goals and desires.
How RESCRIPT Your Story - Women's Empowerment Coaching Works
How RESCRIPT Your Story - Women's Empowerment Coaching Works
- 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!
Dr. Colleen's RESCRIPT Framework (from her award-winning book, RESCRIPT)
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:
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
My Role as Your Women’s Empowerment Coach
Your Role as a Women’s Empowerment Coaching Client
- 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.
Your 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$$. A life that packs a punch. A life that leaves a legacy of your unique fabulousness.
You rock and don't let anyone (including YOURSELF) tell you otherwise! Your WORDS matter. The experiences you truly WANT for your life and career deserve realization. Your WISDOM from your life experiences and background carry brilliance. Your WILL is strong as steel. Sometimes we don't see this for ourselves. Sometimes we once knew it, but life struggles led us to forget. It's time for you to see it, own it, and use it to live a life you can really love. A life that kicks a$$. A life that packs a punch. A life that leaves a legacy of your unique fabulousness.
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A Little About Your 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:
Previous Client Experiences
Several of my clients have been kind enough to provide reviews and recommendations that you can read:
Additional Services
In addition to life coaching and career coaching, I provide resume writing, speaking and training, online courses, and a mastermind group for women who want to start a side hustle business.
I offer a FREE 20-Minute Discovery Session where we can get acquainted, discuss your coaching needs, and I can answer any questions you may have. Completing the form below will help us get started!
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 23 years.
- Running my life coaching and career coaching business for 12 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 12 years.
- Wrote an award-winning, best-selling book, titled RESCRIPT the Story You’re Telling Yourself: The Eight Practices to Quiet Your Inner Antagonist, Amplify Your Inner Advocate, & Author a Limitless Life, chapters in other self-help books, and I have my resume work featured in the Gallery of Best Resumes 5th Edition.
- Was blessed to do a TEDx Talk, called Re-Scripting the Stories We Tell Ourselves and also fortunate to do several TV and podcast interviews talking about my work.
- 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.
- A little more about my story: Dr. Colleen's Story.
Previous Client Experiences
Several of my clients have been kind enough to provide reviews and recommendations that you can read:
Additional Services
In addition to life coaching and career coaching, I provide resume writing, speaking and training, online courses, and a mastermind group for women who want to start a side hustle business.
I offer a FREE 20-Minute Discovery Session where we can get acquainted, discuss your coaching needs, and I can answer any questions you may have. Completing the form below will help us get started!
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