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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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I have completed twelve coaching sessions, mainly on the phone with one face-to-face in Cambridge, and have twelve more sessions to come.

Corrina is a brilliant coach and has moved me quite rapidly from thinking, analysing and exploring to practical and incisive action, with a degree of ease and timeliness that has surprised me.

The coaching is critical in helping me to consolidate all the learning from my Clore Leadership Programme and in creating a mission and blueprint for the next phase. I have placed myself back at the centre of my own creative practice.

She is a terrific coach for me, I would recommend her highly.

- Sharon Murphy

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I cried when I came away from our first session. It was a mix of joy and sadness – sad because I felt so ‘stuck’ and ‘useless’, but positive because I was filled with some hope. I really enjoyed that session with you – your insights and skill of listening so well.

And now, I’m in action! I’ve launched the vegan group which is going really well. My confidence is at an all time high and the motto ‘feel the fear but do it anyway’ is in my head. I’m doing all sorts of things that are scaring the life out of me, but to have that confidence in myself is bloody brilliant. Thank you SO much.

- Lee Anne Chapman

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Thank you so much for all the totally wonderful inspiration you’ve given me and for helping me find my ‘roar’.

I think you’ve realised the massive impact the last 8 months have had on my life and how key they’ve been in helping me create my future and enabling me to reclaim ME!

So a million thank you’s to you!

- Heather Peck

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I wanted a deeper peace and confidence in my ability to run a successful coaching practice. I found I had reflected back to me qualities that will help me as a coach. I realized that my playfulness is not so much a distraction but actually a part of my character that I can use. It was also good to be reminded of my courageous side: where I’ve come from and the resources I have.

Corrina is a perceptive and astute coach in whose company I felt free to be playful and creative with a range of problems – from deeper emotional issues to very practical aspects of my life. We met in the Botanic Gardens and I liked the way we used physical metaphors (using plants and things around us) as well as using silence and stillness, to find meaningful answers from within.

Corrina helped me to develop my personal resources in new ways, using them to overcome obstacles to peace and productivity. I’ve found greater acceptance that power lies in small steps, patience and self-belief. I’ve been encouraged to persevere in actions to reduce anxiety and increase well-being.

I have lots to work with now, and a sense of momentum that will last as I get on with setting up a new business and other adventures in my life.

Thank you Corrina!

- Dr Chloë Cyrus-Kent, Evolutionary Biologist & Life Coach

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When I first approached you, I felt disempowered by seemingly conflicting values. Hiring you wasn’t about getting me onto a horse and riding off, it wasn’t about ambition. It was instead about surrendering and getting to the heart of things. It was an act of compassion to myself to begin the coaching.

Our connection grew and matured effortlessly which allowed exactly what I was hoping for – deep processing, new discoveries and shifts in my thinking that I could take into my life and apply with great success. I was surprised at how creatively attuned we could both be, how the space we co-created invited big insights so easily and how strong and solid our alliance became.

I learned a huge amount from you, Corrina. I really got how powerful and creative co-activity is.

You are a wonderful coach with a great capacity to hold big transformations for your clients. I am impressed by your way of balancing deep intuition and sharp curiosity which opens up great conversations fuelled by very powerful questions. I found this balance to be the bedrock of our process and the fluidity in which we could work. It gave me the clarity to choose this work purely for my own enjoyment, as opposed to wanting to get certified for logistical purposes.

You have supported my self-discovery with your compassionate curiosity which is authentic and truly devoid of directive agendas. I now feel much more centred and grounded. I feel like an elder. It’s been a peaceful, honouring relationship. It’s truly been a meeting of two wise women and I have deep gratitude for that.

- Ella Aboutboul, Certified Professional Coactive Coach (CPCC)

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Having been skeptical and resistant to Twitter (why would I waste my life reading stuff like, ‘I’m having a coffee’?!) Corrina succinctly showed us how it saves time, enables easy promotion and networking, and is invaluable to many businesses.

I was inspired to sign up the next day and, having practised a bit, can see how it will help me reach more people with my message about relationships.

Corrina has a knack for imparting information quickly and clearly, understanding what is relevant to different people, and responding to varied participant needs.

- Caro Burr, Your Relationship Coach

Having spent less than 30 minutes in the effervescent company of the fabulous Corrina Gordon-Barnes bashing on about the delights of Twitter, I have to say that I now feel completely enlightened. Not in a spiritual sense, of course, but more in a sense that I now ‘get it’ – tweeting on Twitter is not a pointless waste of life. It can be (and that’s the point, it’s up to you how you tweet and why you tweet) a life and business enhancing experience – who’d have thought it?!

- Tony Barton, Red Kite Coaching