I got into coaching by accident. This excerpt from my Vroom Vroom Veer podcast appearance tells my personal story – from getting paid to live and work in another country, to my huge crash and burnout, to my more recent comeback. I’ll even tell you why I left Bali in a hurry.

Listen in for:

• How I traveled for a whole year – loved it!
• Questions – How do I live and work in another country? How do I get a transfer?
• Took a risk – got transferred to New York!
• Climbed the corporate ladder
• How unhappy I was in my marriage
• The judgments I had about people who did self-help, and how those people cracked my cynicism
• How I got into coaching – by accident!
• The marriage I helped save
• The big sacrifice I made to pursue coaching
• Spent years diving into the coaching world
• How I built the world’s largest coaching business
• How I hit rock bottom; my burnout experience
• The golden handcuffs I had built for myself
• “What if I had 6 months to live?”
• What got me to Bali, and the life I built
• Teaching myself a programming language so I could write the Get Real app
• Why I got kicked out of Bali – the scary consequences of something I did there
• What got me back into coaching
• Who I serve now and why I love it, and more!

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