My journey towards becoming a certified life coach has been a fight between the traditionalist in me and my desire to take a risk on myself. Life coaching has been something I have done for YEARS. I didn’t realize I was already practicing and becoming a life coach until someone in my immediate family sent me a reel on Instagram. The way this person described what their career was, the passion she had, the clarity – that was exactly how I explained what I wanted to be now that I’m all grown up and raised two fantastic humans. Now I had a title to go with the dream job – you can’t google something without knowing the word you want to know more about.

There have been people around me that have always said that I should do this for a living. There were even a few that suggested years ago that I become a consultant. Even being familiar with that role was elusive to me. I have been hard wired to believe that the only “real” jobs were the traditional roles. I have been exposed to small business owners, but those businesses were a readily known commodity. There was a a DJ, electrician, event planner, dancer, group fitness instructor, club owner, fitness studio owner, or nutritionist, etc. In my mind, their services are commonly known and steadily in need. I had no idea how to make being a life coach support me. How do I explain that a client needs a life coach?

That sent me into a deep dive. I was researching every side of it. The good, the bad, the ugly, the even uglier side to this “job”. It led to obtaining a certification as a life coach and the process came easy even familiar to me. The traditionalist in me, felt at ease because this part had a process. Yet the non-traditionalist was beginning to worry because of how excited I was everyday while I sat in front of my computer and dove into all the knowledge. Every page I read I knew it was headed towards the dream. Then when I received my certificate that I had become a certified life coach, my little traditionalist was satisfied and elated and felt like she fell asleep as the entrepreneur came alive and felt the freedom to now push forward towards helping people.

Everyone always tells you that the dream job is one you will be passionate about, it will come easy to you, you’ll want to do it for free because you love it so much. Well as it turns out I have been life coaching for free for years but never knew it. Every chance I got to life coach (before I knew I was doing it) I jumped at it because it gave me a glimmer of happiness to do it. It was the victory I needed to get through the day, the job, the circumstance. I coached and mentored myself into becoming a subject expert for JJ1 Professional Coaching. Once I accepted my inner victory, I was able to gather the people around me that have been waiting for me to take this step to help me with the things I am still learning to do for my business. I now join the entrepreneur world – the people I have always looked at as having the most fun in life. They were living the dream and making new dreams come true. That’s what I want to do for my clients present and future.