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I didn’t know where to start with creating a coaching business. I was feeling quite lost and overwhelmed.

I’ve now been given very clear steps and I feel comfortable using marketing strategies – and I understand them. It’s pushed me through my insecurities of wondering if I can do it. Now I know I can – and I have my first paying client!

- Sonia Calvo, Coach, London, www.creatingserenity.com
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You have worked wonders with me. I don’t even know where to begin.

I have taken such leaps: I have a new website, I completed another module of training, I started my own blog and now write for a local magazine, and I set up my fitness boot camp and networking site. I am now much, much busier but my life is peaceful. I am happy and focused on my career and also on the positive things that I have achieved.

I am proud of myself and it actually makes me cry to write this. When I think back to how I was when I started this journey with you, I realise how far I have come within myself. I have turned my life around. I now run a successful fitness coaching company and I inspire people with what I bring into their lives which is a very powerful feeling. I don’t think I have ever felt this much belief from other people – or maybe it’s that I have not had the belief in myself.

Now my outlook is one of positivity and I do believe in myself. You have brought joy, light and laughter back into my life and it has been an honour and a privilege to have you walk beside me.

- Charlotte Wall, Personal Fitness Coach, www.purplefitness.co.uk

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I hesitated about the cost of 1-1 coaching. Was I really prepared to invest a significant amount of money in what, at the time, was only a whim? I’d previously spent a fair amount of money on courses that I ended up doing nothing with. If I put money in, I’d have to commit to actually doing something – was I ready and was that what I wanted?

Well, now I’m in action. I have a properly structured website and a new effective approach to marketing. I had never heard before of identifying your ideal client and speaking directly to them. I have a clear vision of what I want to achieve with the business and how I’m going to do it. I have massively increased self-belief and self-confidence and have gone from a vague idea I wasn’t quite committed to, to having had my first paying client.

Without your tireless cheerleading, this idea would have been a non-starter like all the others and I wouldn’t ever have understood why. You’ve helped me protect that little acorn till it could take root and become a sturdy little tree that can stand up on its own.

The most important thing has been the feeling that I have someone with me who is genuinely on my side – things like sending me a text to wish me luck with my first client were really thoughtful and have made all the difference.

- Nicola Howells, www.horsepowertransport.co.uk

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I hadn’t even thought about coaching until my husband suggested I hire Corrina. I was dubious: how could she know what I wanted to do if I didn’t?

I’d lost confidence, which I think you do when you’ve been out of work for so long, and as a mother, it was hard to focus on one thing. It felt like I was waiting for my life to begin. My lack of self-belief meant I almost didn’t get started. It felt like there was too much to do with raising two kids and making a new home in a new country.

About six weeks into the coaching, something suddenly happened within me; it seemed like my life began again overnight. I started feeling more secure and settled and I got enthusiastic about starting to renovate furniture, using eco-friendly paints and materials.

It’s funny to think back to our first sessions when there were all those possibilities for my career – because here I am now making and selling regularly and I know it’s only the beginning.

Each piece of furniture I have put for sale has sold within the same day. I love what I’m doing and I’m meeting people who I really connect with. It maybe helps that I’m a woman working with my hands in a predominantly male world and my main customers are women. I find it easy to sell my furniture because I know it’s been renovated with love and respect for our earth.

Even though our sessions have been by phone and I’ve never met you, it’s been amazing to have someone like you in my life, giving me support and help and being non-judgmental. You’ve helped me see things the way they really are and to stop being so hard on myself.

Thanks once again for your help in getting everything rolling and for giving me the support to start my business.

A million thank you’s

- Hayley Burke, Furniture Renovator, Hamburg, Germany

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When I first contacted Corrina, I was unclear on what my goals were and hesitant about which direction to go with my coaching business.

Corrina helped me realize that I wanted to attract powerful women to my business, I wanted to write a book and I wanted lecture to large groups. This was all very intimidating to me in the beginning, but Corrina helped me identify the lurking saboteurs that kept me from playing in the big leagues in life!

Corrina has an amazing presence and ability that helped me believe in myself and she’s been instrumental in helping me return to my true passions and dreams. I had so many questions about what the next step was and what resources I needed. She helped me create a systematic method to achieve my goals and was there with me every step of the way. Currently, I have a successful coaching business full of powerful women, I send out a regular newsletter, I lecture to many women’s groups, and am writing a book on courageous women.

There is such strength and compassion for you when coaching with Corrina. Not only has she helped me create the life I always wanted, but she has been very successful in her own coaching business as well. If you are interested in creating you ideal business, Corrina Gordon-Barnes has the passion and skills to get you there.

- Terry Sidford, www.createyourlifecoaching.net

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The Passion to Profit programme covers things not covered in books, so don’t expect accounting, or legalities and do expect fun, companionship and real life experience that will make your business work. Add to this the friendship and support of a group of like minded people who all want you to succeed. It gave me the confidence to leave my job of 20 years and head on out to start my own business looking at sustainable living and leadership. The future is looking very bright and I’m now enjoying the freedom of doing something I love.

- Liz Gatheral, Authentic Place, www.authenticplace.co.uk

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