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74 COACH YOURSELF TO A NEW CAREER

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“If Money Were No Object”

Exercise—Real-Life Stories

Thomas Leonard, the founder of CoachU.com, sold his house in
Colorado, bought an RV, and traveled around the country while
he coached and set up his phone-based coach-training program.
He traveled and coached like this for more than a year, keeping
his costs to a bare minimum so that he could invest his time,
energy, and money in starting a coach-training company. It paid
off when he later sold the company for $2 million.
Karen Kingston, the author of Creating Sacred Space with Feng
Shui, spends half her time in England and half her time in Bali.
One client, Ali Brown, who was from New York, dreamed of liv-
ing in California. She quit her ad-writing job in New York City and
started her own business doing copy writing on a freelance basis.
She decided to move to Los Angeles and set up her business where
she wanted to be. She rented an apartment by the sea with a pool