Episode 38: Coffee with Gabi! Is Hiring a Coach Worthwhile?

Hello, lovely friends! I wanted to chat with you today about the value of hiring a coach.

I know it seems like everyone is coaching these days and when it's so ubiquitous, we can start to think it lacks value. So I wanted to share some of my own experiences with hiring coaches and the benefits they have brought to my mental health and personal development.

I think it's incredibly important to have someone (or multiple someones!) walking alongside you on your journey of growth - whether that's to help you heal, aid in your personal development, or to teach you skills that you'll use in a professional capacity. Having community and accountability from someone a few steps ahead of you can truly be an invaluable asset, and I have definitely found this to be true in my own life.

On today's episode, I also am sharing what I have to offer as a coach, and that I am currently accepting one-on-one clients! I would be so so honored to serve you and walk alongside you in this way.

Some things I can help you with as your coach (any or all of the below - it's catered to each person's needs):

-Understanding how your nervous system works

-Decreasing anxiety and shutdown while dream-chasing (nervous system regulation)

-Uncovering and unfolding your God-given dream

-Trauma-informed time management and best practices for dream-chasers and entrepreneurs

-A safe space to share your story and be met with attunement and compassion

-(Re)connecting with God as you heal

-Healing from trauma

-Next steps in finding a therapist

-Finding your voice and writing your personal narrative (writing coaching)

I am passionate to see you heal and set free to be and do all that God has created you to be. Let's chat and see if we would be a good fit to work together! You can schedule a FREE 15-minute connection call ⁠HERE.⁠

Connect with Gabi:

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Website - ⁠⁠gabiruth.com⁠⁠

Coach with Gabi - ⁠⁠gabiruth.com/book-a-1on1-call⁠⁠

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(TRANSCRIPT) Ep. 38: Coffee with Gabi! Is Hiring a Coach Worthwhile?

Note: Transcript is created by AI. Please excuse any errors.

Gabi: Hello, my beautiful friends. Well, as life would have it, I am once again recording a podcast from the Starbucks parking lot. . This is the same thing I did last week. It just seems like this is how my life is playing out right now. So I'm sorry that I haven't been able to go live on Facebook and Instagram for those of you who have been enjoying that to record these.

Um, hopefully as spring kind of gets a little bit further along, I'll be able to do that more. Um, next week is spring break for my kiddos, so . We'll see how that goes as far as how I'll record the podcast, but I definitely did not wanna miss out on having a little coffee with Gavi time today. So I hope you're able to grab your favorite beverage and wherever you are in the country of it's, I hope you're enjoying the sunshine.

If it's cold, grab your blanket and snuggle up, and let's chat for a few minutes. I wanted to chat with you today about coaching. I know that it seems that coaching is just everywhere that your. Best friend and their mama are all becoming coaches, and I know we can become a bit jaded about stuff like this, but I just wanted to share my personal experience with coaching and why it's been so impactful for my life.

And also to let you guys know that I have opened up one-on-one coaching spots personally, and I would love to coach. . So let me share a little bit about my experience with coaching. Um, the first time I ever hired a coach was actually, I wanna say it was four years ago now. Um, and I hired a coach to help me with my network marketing business.

Um, I was, Doing network marketing for several years and it was great. It was a wonderful experience. Um, but I wasn't really getting the training and support that I needed on my own team. So I hired an amazing coach. You guys have heard her here on the podcast. Her name is Brooke Hemingway. Um, and I joined her specific coaching program, which gave me a lot more tools and a lot more.

To be successful in the business. Now, I could have chosen any number of people to help coach me through that process, but one thing I'm gonna say to you right now, I feel is so important, and if you're anything like me and you've been raised in some kind of a religious atmosphere and told that you can't trust your gut, I am going to tell you.

One of the most important healing things that you can do for yourself is learning to trust your gut. So the biggest thing for me, cause I did not know Brooke at all at the time, was that I just felt in my gut that she was a good fit for me. I remember specifically, I was act at the gym on the treadmill and I was, um, listening to one of her training videos on YouTube and I was like, oh my gosh.

I resonate with her, I vibe with her. I would love to coach with her. So as soon as I left the gym, I went online to see if she was offering anything and she was actually starting a small group coaching program, I think like the next day or two days later. So I signed up like immediately. . It was super cool.

Um, but like I said, I just trusted my gut and went with it. And I'll tell you right now that that was probably the best investment I've ever made because it started a relationship with Brooke that has lasted to this day, which has opened up so many doors for me. Brooke, if you're listening, just thank you for who you are.

Um, Significantly impacted my life. Um, so that morphed over time into her actually expanding as a coach into other areas. And I just went along for the ride because I was expanding as a person as well. In fact, during some of this time, . I couldn't work much at all because of what was going on with my kids, but I just felt like, you know what?

I'm gonna stay plugged in. I'm gonna stay connected. I'm gonna keep honing my skills and learning from people who are doing what I wanna do because I know who I am meant to be. Even if I don't have the capacity for it right now, because of the state of emergency that we were in. It was really a faith journey for me, and maybe you find yourself in that space.

Maybe you find yourself in a space where you're like, , I know what I want to be doing or I know kind of where I want to be going, but my life is kind of in a state of emergency or deep healing right now. I wanna encourage you, like still connect with people who will keep your mind up on that higher plane of, I'm meant for more.

It will change everything if you only surround your people yourself with people. are going to basically meet you where you're at. , in the, oh well, is me state. There's a space for that. Of course, you need compassionate people in your life, but what if there are compassionate people who are also inspiring you to heal and move forward?

That is so important, and in a coach, it's. Imperative that they see where you're at and they can connect compassionately with you, but they also will spur you on to become an even better version of yourself. So that's a little side tangent, but I feel like that's really, really important to talk about. So anyway, um, at that, Brooke actually became certified as a high performance coach, and so she did high performance coaching and I signed up for that as well.

And it was more of a holistic view of how to be a high performer and um, like very entrepreneurial. Focused, but how to maintain your energy, um, how to create a level of importance for different things, all of those different things. It was so, so good. So I, I just continued to coach with her and, um, I've stayed plugged into her events and her communities and.

It's been just a really cool journey. A couple of years ago, then I hired a coach for something completely different, and that was somatic experiencing. I may have mentioned this in a past episode, but basically somatic experiencing is a trauma recovery modality. It's amazing. It involves utilizing your body.

Um, to heal because as I've said so many times, trauma gets stored in your body and so you have to engage your body in order to heal. So I hired a coach. It was not cheap, but it was life changing because I could feel, I could sense in myself that one of my blockages was that I was still holding on to all of these things in my.

and I didn't understand enough how to regulate my nervous system in order to pursue the things that I wanted to pursue, not to mention heal. So I did that. It was a four month intensive coaching for somatic experiencing, and it was incredible. Um, fast forward, about a year later, I hired another coach to do another healing, um, modality.

Her name is Alejandra Krisa. You will have heard her on my podcast as well. And that was like really helping to level up and understanding resistance when you level up and how to heal and grow through that resistance instead of turn back to your old coping mechanisms or your old behaviors and beliefs.

So that was also incredibly impactful for my life. All of these spaces, as I mentioned, for the first one, I just felt in my gut I needed to do, it wasn't necessarily the best on paper looking financial decision for me. Um, but they've all been so beneficial in launching me forward and into becoming the person that I am.

I would not trade coaching for anything. I am now in a year-long mastermind with my incredible coach, Amber Lee Lago, and a group of about a dozen other entrepreneurial women. And that's upleveling me like in a really fast-paced way. That's, it's a big financial and time commitment. Um, but you get what you pay for

I really. I really believe that especially if you do your homework and you know who you're getting involved with, like I knew that Amber Lee, um, had the resources and the relationships to really help us move ahead. Not to mention she just has the best heart, and I would love to always treat people professionally and personally the way that she.

So coaching with her was really like a no-brainer. Um, but again, it's been like step by step process of up-leveling myself through more and more intensive. Spats spats. spans, I don't know what I'm trying to say, but time periods of coaching, if that makes sense. So what I would love to tell you about is what I offer as a coach.

I feel like I'm a bit unique as a coach because of the experience that I have and because of the trauma informed modalities that I am aware of. Uh, if you've been following me for any length of time, you know that I am the dream girl. Like I have always been the person that my friends will come to when they're feeling discouraged about their dreams or if they wanna tell me about their dreams.

And I have just always been a big dreamer. I wrote my book, the Footsteps of a Dreamer several years ago. It's just something I'm passionate. . But as I've learned over the past few years, there's a lot that stops us on a nervous system level from really pursuing the things that we want to pursue. Like have you ever tried to start something new and you find that you are suddenly numb or shut down or depressed or just scrolling on your phone and you can't seem to focus?

That is a nervous system regulation issue, and I love to help my clients, first of all, understand. Their nervous systems and what is going on inside of their nervous. And secondly, to create, uh, what I like to call an emergency toolkit of processes and regulation tools to help you regulate when you recognize where you're at inside of your nervous system.

I also have all of this business coaching under my belt. So I have a lot of best practices for those of you who are wanting to really launch into a dream, but you don't know what steps to take next and how to do that in a way that is trauma informed and kind to your nervous system. So I help with.

Basically help you unfold, uncover, and unfold your dream in a trauma informed and nervous system, healthy way. Additionally, I pride myself on creating safe spaces for you to share your story. Maybe you're not ready to see an actual therapist yet, but you're looking for someone who will just sit and listen.

to your story in a very compassionate and safe container. This is something that I'm very skilled at and something I love to offer my clients. It has been an absolute joy to hear my client's stories. And to hold them safely and to help them walk through the process of what's next with that story. For some, it has been simple things like what are some spiritual practices that I can use to reengage my faith after what I have been through?

For others, it is practical resources. Getting some things out of your body somatically that I have learned through my somatic experience in coaching and other trauma training that I have, um, studied and gone through. . So these are two of the ways that I love to coach. And then thirdly, for those of you who are really wanting to actually write down your story, I also do writing coaching to help you find your voice and write your story.

So if you, um, relate to any or all of those things, I would love to connect with you. That's why I wanted to do this on the podcast. So more of you can know that this is available for you, that I've created a safe container for you to come with your story, to understand your nervous system, to pursue your dreams, and maybe even to write.

And I would love to spend this time with you helping you, um, just step into the next level of your life. So if that is something that interests you, please go check. Gabi ruth.com, G A B I R U T h.com, and you will see a button that says Book a one-on-one coaching call. And in there you will have a link where we can actually set up a free 15 minute.

um, connection call, so for free we can talk, we can chat, we can see if this is a good fit for you and if it is a good fit for you, then we can either book a single call or I can do a five call bundle where you'll save a little bit of money by booking five calls all at once and. I would just have so, so much excitement and joy to be working with you in that way.

Um, I'll also put all of these links and resources in the show notes to make it easy for you guys. But all of this to say is no matter where you're trying to go with your life, What area are you trying to uplevel? I highly recommend, of course, do your research and make sure people are qualified and they have what you want.

But I highly recommend hiring a coach. It offers you the community aspect that you really need for accountability for, um, a sense of safety. and it offers you the opportunity to really learn from someone who is either a few steps ahead of you or many steps ahead of you in a unique relational way that you can't really get from like a large conference or a book or, you know, like, uh, Recorded seminar or something like that.

I feel like it's very powerful and it has the potential to really change your life. So I again, would love to work with you. Um, and I encourage you again that wherever you're going, whatever you're doing, try to find a coach. To come alongside you on that journey because you will find so much more progress on your path if you do that.

So thank you friends. I appreciate you listening to my story, and I hope to be hearing from some of you to connect soon. Again, if you're enjoying this podcast, it would mean the world to me. If you would leave a rating and a review and also subscribe, press that subscribe button on Spotify or Apple Podcasts or wherever you're listening.

It helps so much I cannot even tell you. So thank you for subscribing, reviewing, and rating. Um, let's get this healing. Podcast out to more people. You're amazing. I appreciate you and I will chat with you next time.