Page 205 - Talane Miedaner - Coach Yourself to a New Career_ 7 Steps to Reinventing Your Professional Life (2010)

STEP 7: MANAGING THE TRANSITION SMOOTHLY 193

really knowing what she would do. It wasn’t until her fourth year, when
her mother sent her Coach Yourself to Success and she took my seminars
and phone classes, that she started to think that coaching would be the
career for her. As soon as she graduated, she enrolled in not one, but two,
of the best coach-training programs and is now coaching young people to
find their passion in life and working with African street children to create
a movie. Her vision is to bring coaching into education, and her big future
goal is to become a talk-show host on TV. I fully believe that she’ll do it.
Quinn never waits for the future and instead does what she wants to
do now. If it doesn’t work out, she tries something else. Sometimes it has
been difficult. She was coaching from nine to five in London and then
looking after an elderly disabled man in the evenings in order to cover
living expenses. Her life has been a process of experimentation, and as
a result, she has found her passion in life at a very young age and has
already started three businesses that she loves.

Talane interviews her client, Quinn:

What was the shift for you?
Something you said in the Coach Yourself to Success phone class has
stuck with me: “You have to give yourself the life you want before
you have it.” You suggested starting with something as simple as hir-
ing a house cleaner before you are rich. Living the future that you
want now.

What was the best outcome from your career transition?
I love Mondays! I have no idea what opportunities and people will
come in a week. I make my week happen. I decide what happens.
And I love coaching! I’m filled up with energy after a coaching call. I
love my life, and I love being me.

How did you overcome your fear of change?
I’m a risk taker. At eleven years old, I realized that I wasn’t “cool”
because I was trying to be like everyone else. I stopped trying to
be like everyone else, and I became “cool,” and suddenly everyone
wanted to be my friend. Stop worrying so much about what other