Why us as your coach?

“Why did you become a Coach?” was a question posed to us at the start of our journey.

These were the words we agreed on and below are what they mean to us and what we base our approach on:

  • Human Connection
  • Making a difference
  • Fulfilment
  • Self-healing

Human Connection:

To us, connecting and communicating with people is essential and gives great satisfaction. Coaching gives us that opportunity every day in every conversation with our clients. Coaching allows two human beings to get together and have a heart-to-heart conversation. In today’s fast paced world, we have great technological advancements and are connected to the whole world through the internet. But how well are we connected with the humans around us? How frequently do we get the opportunity to have candid, unbiased conversations? How frequently are we heard; how carefully do we listen in order to fully understand the other person’s thought process? How much do we care as to what the person in front of us is dealing with? How frequently do we ask people around us, “What’s important to you?” Coaching makes all of this possible in every single conversation.

 Making a difference:

Many clients have told us that they sought a coach mainly at times when they could not resolve issues on their own. They reached out to a professional only when they felt the issue or goal was really important for them. People are increasingly recognizing the value coaching can add to their lives. Just as we need doctors when we are unwell, we need lawyers for legal matters and Chartered Accountants for financial matters, we need coaches to achieve personal or professional goals. So, the opportunity for us as coaches is to ensure we listen, understand, inspire and motivate our clients to achieve their optimum personal goals.

Fulfilment:

There’s no better satisfaction than to serve the other person with all your heart (and mind). When a client says, “Thank you for listening to me, thank you for helping me develop clarity, thank you for making me aware of my own feelings and thoughts about this issue, thank you for making me think beyond my current realm, thank you for showing me the mirror, thank you for challenging me, thank you for helping me resolving this issue and making me feel lighter, thank you for inviting me to create a new future, thank you for making me believe in myself again”, and the list goes on….and as a coach you cannot help but to be left with an indescribable sense of satisfaction.

 Self-healing:

When you coach, you’re constantly reflecting and growing within yourself. We don’t personally believe that we can give someone else advice or guidance if we aren’t prepared to try it out ourselves in the first instance. We believe conscious living is key!

 

Why us?

We are real people who genuinely care about the impact the world has on us humans. No matter what we’ve been through, we’ve always managed to maintain being kind, gracious, strong, caring inspirational and humble along the way.

“Having a good friend who holds your hand, helps you keep things in perspective, makes you accountable, keeps you humble and helps you through the lesson.”

We have that in each other. 

Hi, we are Kerry & Candice, lifelong friends. 

 At the age of 21 when adult life was supposed to just be starting for Kerry, she was involved in a life changing car accident which rendered her a c5 quadriplegic which at that point felt more like life was ending.

Candice chose to pursue her passion for travel as soon as she possibly could, very much seeing it as a way to escape from her turbulent, and somewhat abusive family life, completely underestimating the impact her upbringing had had, and would have on her as she took on the world alone at 19.

Both of us have come a very long way since our teens/twenties when life threw a series of challenges at us.

Nobody goes through life without physical & emotional scars, and as much as we wish we could say they no longer affect us; they do, and definitely still resurface to remind us of their impact through our insecurities, self-doubt, and fears. Taking a deep breath, we allow and work through these more challenging days with a kind reminder, I am only human! 

What we can say is that we are vastly improved and stronger versions of our younger selves in terms of mental resilience, self-awareness, and with many life lessons in tow we continue striving to live our best lives.

We would love to openly share all of the different lessons we have learned along the way- personally and professionally, the mistakes we’ve made and the trial-and-error process of life. Learning all the time!

Being so aware of how easily life can be turned upside down/ unpredictable, has forced us to focus on what’s really important to us and work on the things we can control, remain present whilst not taking life to seriously…. N0 sweating the small stuff…!