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"It really made me more human..."
How the journey to life coaching changed Tania’s life forever
Tania Serfontein
Life Coach
Life Coach
The Coaching Institute gave me so much wisdom and clarity around my future business as a Life Coach
Ever since I was 16 years old I wanted to help people become the best they can be and to live the most incredible life they had ever dreamed of. I wanted to be a Life Coach but I didn't feel that I had much life to coach with.
After high school, I went on a journey to equip myself with various knowledge and skills so I would be at my own personal peak and feel I was able to coach and train others."
"The Coaching Institute gave me so much wisdom and clarity"
"The one big thing from the experience..."
The one big thing from the experience... I knew that investing in whatever you wanted to expand was important. And for me it was an investment. And yes, it is definitely like the money was back fully, entirely, before six months in.
I had a two year old. Just in case you're thinking, "I don't have time". I had one business full time and more going on. I was kind of doing extra hours. I had a child of 2 years old, and I was studying, so I wanted to do something more, and that was it. The thing is, unless I did something there, I would be doing the same thing today.
Four years later, I only have two businesses. When I say only; it's because one of them is with the skills that I learned here and I've put it on automatic so I don't even come to. It's just passive income."
I knew that education will take me to another level.
The one thing I didn't have were the things that I had to have, I didn't have time.
Nothing was going to change if I'd been investing to get it back. So yes, it's been four years and now I have time.
Before joining The Coaching Institute, I was certain I was not going to have anymore time to spend with my family, which has great value in my life. And now, I'm seeing my kids grow up and playing with them almost everyday.
So much of what you learn, is from when you help others. When you actually have that phone call, someone is putting their hand up saying, "Help I need to learn how to present this proposal to a business." And having that conversation with that person expands your own version of what that looks like, and helps them solve the problem.
Lifts you to another level to help you understand. Then when I am in that situation, I can solve it too, personally and in business as well.
So the first initial part of me joining was to create another stream of income...
So the first initial part of me joining was to create another sort of stream of income.
And that happened quite quickly without even realizing.
So I was saying, the first retainer was actually a 50-something thousand dollars within the six months we went on the programs.
"So I was saying, the first retainer was actually a 50-something thousand dollars within the six months we went on the programs"
I was sitting there going like, "OK third language, I have to learn their language."
English obviously is not my first language, and maybe even one of my mentors here remember those life coaching training sessions where my English improved.
From all of those trainings, I've gotten enough to give my clients...
That's what I'm getting to my role as a result of a starting coaching, which is a great thing, but also you know coaching was that third language that I had to learn. So it was kind of completely out of my reality.
I have pages and pages and pages of all the life coaching programs I've joined. And from all of those, I've gotten enough to give to my clients. It's a mind set you know?Studying, and some people are very organized and complain I'm not.
