Intuition Sessions

I think you were a great listener. And at many points in time during our journey, I felt like I was basically talking to myself. That I was reflecting back things that I wanted to say to myself. And I think you did a very good job at helping me make sense of all the questions that have been lingering in my mind for many, many years. Because many a times when you work with professional coaches, there is a tendency to bring some of their own thinking or their own notions, preconceived notions into the conversations. But I thought that you kept a very open mind. During my time working with Sara, I was at a point in my professional life, where I was at the juncture where I was thinking about what next. So there was a lot of experience that I had behind me and there was a certain linear path that I was on, and I think what these sessions, or what this journey did for me, is that it helped me gain clarity. It helped me understand my strengths, it helped me understand, really, my expertise, and it, very importantly, helped me to explore beyond my comfort zone. The clear tangible change was that I finally made a move to something that I think I will enjoy doing in the near future or foreseeable future. A complete career change, off my linear path. I also realized that intuition is actually a very powerful source of energy. And if you combine it with intellectual thought and with transactions that we execute every day, it can a very useful tool. I recommend Sara for those wanting to find clarity and meaning in their lives, and they will end up with a career switch, or with another job, if that's the intent. But I think there's way more to take out of this. So I would probably recommend this to people who are sitting at the crossroads. Who are looking for a larger change in all areas of life, as well as their professional life.

Sara made me feel comfortable in exploring the uncomfortable. Before working with her, I needed to make everything OK for others. In doing so, I always put everyone’s needs before my own. No one asked or expected me to do this, I just did it. She helped me understand why I did it, and what I needed to do to move beyond it, so I could focus on my own career needs. Consequently, I’m advancing a business I started two years ago! I’m now hyper-focused on what services I want to provide, not what others would expect me to provide. This has fuelled my ambitions and is allowing me to break through barriers that were previously in my way. I’m more confident about what is I want to do, and what I must do to achieve it. This confidence has several positive spinoffs, such as increased self-worth, motivation and courage. Sara is thoughtful, patient, and insightful, and her calming disposition makes it easier to explore inner truths that can be difficult to acknowledge. I recommend coaching with her. It will change your life.

I wanted to do coaching because you do get to a point where you start to plateau. And as soon as I felt that, I thought, I've got to find some way of having a learning mechanism for myself to develop further. Right from the start, I could just see that Sara gets me, understands what my pain points are, and has business experience herself. A lot of coaches that I've been told about or come across don't have that. They are almost academic. And I think what I found with Sara was that she’s done all of that entrepreneur experience, and has then decided to go into coaching. Because that's then relatable to me. I thought we would be much more superficial in dealing with challenges and new learnings, but I found myself unearthing unexpected things. Sometimes it's like working with a diagnostician. It was really profound to learn that these, even, childhood influences, and people around you have such a profound effect in how you see the world. And I think a lot of that is this huge, revelatory kind of moment where you're like, "that's why I do that. Let’s choose to do different." I think some of the big tangible highlights for me were stopping always chasing revenue growth (something that has been a really difficult thing to change). And a refocus towards profitability, rather than chasing revenue, that was really useful to me, because that was part of my real growth through this process. And one of the other really big ones, I think, has been the way I coach others. So coaching other people through a lot of their issues, and a lot of my teams, I'm often spending a lot of effort coaching them. But now I have a step formula that I picked up from our work on how I do that. Whereas before, it was very haphazard. I was spending hours with different team members, and meaning well, but probably, just haphazardly trying to coach them. It saves me a lot of time, it's appreciated, and it has really great results. Sara gets the business world and gets the coaching world. She’s invested heavily into improving herself. So, anyone with a growth mindset will really benefit from that, because you're pairing up, with someone who's got a growth mindset themselves, and, and really understands that they've got to be building themselves up further and further. Learning never stops. I can recommend that Sara is someone who's able to bring the best out in people. I think that's a natural ability. I think some people are born with it. And she’s recognized that and is able to really utilize it, in a way that relates directly to the business environment.