This week on Everyday Inspiration Podcast I will be speaking to the lovely Karen Ramsay Smith. 

Karen Ramsay-Smith Professional Transformational Coach & Mindfulness Teacher Qualifications & Credentials • Advanced Certificate in Coaching Practice • Accredited by the Association for Coaching • Mindfulness CIC - Accredited Teacher Training Professional Summary Before launching her transformational coaching business, Bigger Picture Coaching Karen led a professional career in Marketing and Communications, accruing 25 years’ experience in both the private and public sector and four years within a senior strategic capacity. Leading and working within teams in the corporate sector to produce outstanding results, she has always enjoyed supporting others to see the bigger picture and to evolve and grow. 

Karen’s career has seen her working on major marketing communications projects with large international organisations in the public sector including the University of Warwick and Coventry University. Operating in senior roles including Deputy Director, marketing managerial specialist roles as Head of Digital and Marketing Project Team Leader, she has experience in restructuring and leading teams, managing, planning and delivering high-level messaging and marketing recruitment campaigns including budgets of up to £4 million. Her personal life experience and mindful approach has helped her to grow through, personal relationship challenges, deep grief and finding herself again through her practice, enabling her to pass wisdom and teachings to others. 

Karen now coaches and mentors individuals and groups both private and corporate clients to form a deeper relationship with themselves and the natural world by creating deep self-awareness, balance and lasting transformational change. Karen also utilises her previous marketing and communications experience to support clients to see and share their bigger picture and communicate their own unique personal message and purpose in the world. Karen supports at events and retreats with speaking and meditation guidance and also hosts her own mindful coaching retreats for small groups. Combining deep transformational coaching approaches, mindfulness tools and techniques, Karen helps her clients generate clarity, vision, purpose and fulfilment in their lives and work. Supporting them to have a clear understanding of their sense of who they are, their unique voice and develop their natural intuition, her coaching has been described as compassionate and life-changing. Karen has also embarked on charity work through personal tragedy and leads #loveYOUmore – a support group and charitable movement dedicated to inspiring self-love, bringing hope, compassion and unconditional love to all who need it. “Karen is highly intuitive and compassionate coach. She is incredibly skilled at picking up what issues need particular focus at the different points along the coaching journey. Karen has guided me to a place of better self- awareness and her coaching has been transformational for both my work and personal life. 

Karen has brought me greater self-awareness and presence in the moment. She has equipped me with techniques and strategies to cope with different situations, giving me a toolkit for a better life.” - Joyce “Karen is hands down the most authentic coach I have ever worked with. I have felt completely supported, seen, heard and understood. Karen has an ability to see within you, what you can’t see yourself. You don’t have to compromise who you are or how you need to process things because her priority is that you are truly connected to your values, your vision and supporting you to be your most authentic self. There are no rules with Karen’s coaching, only that you are truthfully honest with yourself, she