E90: Reinventing for Lasting Change with Tobi Coughlin

THE POWER OF REINVENTION with Kathi Sharpe-Ross

Although Tobi hadn’t planned on being a stay-at-home-mom; in retrospect, with two young children, being laid-off ended up being a blessing. Her decision to then create another chapter in her professional life was cemented when she thought about her kids. She realized she’d raised them to believe their career options were limitless -- yet in her mind, they’d never known their mom as a “real” professional with a profound career in the Advertising industry. As her son went off to college, she went back to school herself, became Certified as a Life and Weight Loss Coach, and launched

Best Life Coach Tobi.

Tobi took being an ‘empty nester” and saw the positives and opportunities in it. She was stuck looking back at the past and what she had accomplished, but then decided to look to the future because her career is nowhere near done. Tobi rediscovered her “why” after putting her kids first and changing her mindset. She understands that any career and life comes with pressures and disruptions, even coaches need coaching, but she has learned to value the progress along the way and never forgot the bigger picture.

Some powerful takeaways from today’s episode:

• Being an empty nester can be extremely opportunistic
• As we get older we’re more likely to think backwards - we see our future based on the experiences that we’ve already had
• No matter what you do remember that being an entrepreneur means being a CEO of your own company
• Your mindset determines your confidence in your career and affects your work
• The “why” - so many people are concerned about taking care of others and we forget to take care of ourselves
• Give yourself some grace when trying to figure out something new
• Acknowledge the progress along the way, not when you’re at the end

Links:

Tobi Coughlin’s Website: bestlifecoachtobi.com

Tobi Coughlin’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobi-coughlin-7b18b670/

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