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Hi dear friends,

Time is flying by and this week we have our last guest of the month, as next week we have The Coaching Panel’s panel. But that is for next week. Let me introduce to you this week’s guest: Maggie Currie.

Maggie was born in Braintree, Essex, an illegitimate baby left in a children’s home. She was adopted and brought up in Barkingside, Essex and was sent to a private school at age 11 and achieved all the qualifications necessary to be a secretary. Her first job at the age of 16 was with the Legal & General Assurance Society in London where she started out as a shorthand typist, progressing to personal secretary by the time she left to have her family at age 22. She married at age 19 and had three children. Unfortunately this marriage did not last and she remarried at age 32 and moved to Southend-on-Sea, Essex.

Returning to work when the children were old enough she worked for the NHS as the secretary to a Professor of Thoracic Medicine at The London Chest Hospital and subsequently for a Consultant Psychiatrist at Parklands Hospital in Basingstoke, where they had moved to from Southend-on-Sea in Essex when the children had all left home.

She relocated to the Isle of Wight in 2003, having had a holiday home there since 1998, which was intended to be a retirement home. The move was prompted by the premature death of their next door neighbour just before her 60th birthday.

She started her own secretarial business on the Island aimed at small businesses who could not afford to employ another person. This has built up from just 1 customer in 2004 to over 60 currently.

Whilst on a Business Link course in 2004 she met someone who was undertaking a Life Coaching course with Newcastle College, and it was free at that time. It sounded interesting to her and she had nothing to lose, so she took their free Certificate and Diploma courses as well and successfully qualified as Personal Life Coach. Maggie also discovered that she loved coaching.

She bumped into Jonathan Jay, who she remembered from his stage hypnotic act some ten years before in the holiday camps on the Isle of Wight, at a Small Business Exhibition at the NEC in 2005 and he suggested that she joins him at the Coaching Academy to gain even better qualifications, which she did and successfully qualified as a Corporate & Executive Coach.

She met Dawn Breslin through the Coaching Academy and loved the work she did and the way she did it, and trained with her to become a Confidence Life Coach Practitioner and Confidence Group Trainer. She loves this even more than just coaching.

More recently Maggie has been licensed by Susan Jeffers to present her workshops based on her book “Feel the fear and do it anyway”. This is just fabulous.

She is on a mission to inspire everyone to find and live their passions - to be their authentic, true self. She feels her job is to be responsive, flexible and enabling, to draw out the star in people. In particular, she is skilled in rebuilding people’s self-esteem and confidence, enabling them to develop to their full potential. To do all this requires a holistic, lively approach to personal and professional development, from the delivery of the training and coaching through to on-going support. And she is interested in results – no ifs, no buts.

She has articles published in:

• European Coaching Institute Newsletter June 2006 – Is it cool to be happy?
• Hearing Concern Magazine 2006 - "Benefits of Thought Field Therapy in adapting to loss of hearing"
• Business Vision Magazine - September 2006 - Do you want your ideal work/life balance?

Maggie has recently started writing her first book on life coaching which she plans to have finished and published by the end of this year.

Maggie and myself are looking forward to welcome you as listener during the LIVE interview this coming Tuesday September 23rd 2008 at 20:00 UTC, which is: 21:00 GMT - 22:00 Brussels/Madrid - 16:00 New York.

If you may have any question for Maggie, feel free to use the comment section here below this post.

Have an outstanding day!

Coach Erwin

Hi dear listeners and friends,

Things are going very smoothly this month on The Coaching Panel, and we will continue this next week with our next guest Judy Reith.

When Judy became a mum in 1991, she thought being a parent would be the most natural job in the world. It was much tougher than she imagined. The hardest years were when her two children were about 3 and five – they were arguing with each other and with their parents. She read books and watched parenting programmes and talked with other mothers, but the real transformation came after attending a parenting course. She decided to train to run them herself to give as many parents as possible the opportunity to make their family life better, just as hers had been.
She has been working in parenting education since 1998 running courses in London and Cambridge having originally trained with Parent Network (now part of Parentline Plus)

She is an accredited Life Coach with Distinction from The Coaching Academy, to meet the demand for helping parents individually or as a couple. She has three children and being a Mum remains the most challenging and rewarding part of her life, and she fully understands the pressures on us as parents. She loves working with parents and seeing them flourish as they achieve their parenting goals.
She follows a professional code of Ethics, she is a Consultant for the Parenting Education and Support Forum.

How do she works?
Most of her clients are parents who see her individually, in person or by phone for coaching sessions – usually in blocks of six sessions. About 30% of her clients are working on life coaching (e.g. confidence, career, relationship issues)

Courses – She facilitates the following Parenting course:
Parenting Matters, Being A Parent, Sibling Rivalry, Living With Teenagers

Workshops – usually one off – two hours on a range of parenting topics, such as Stop Juggling – Start Living or You’re A Star! - (boosting self esteem) She runs these for private groups of parents, or in companies dedicated to supporting their working parents. She also speaks to women’s groups about the nature of her work and how she runs her business, Parenting People

Radio – She is a regular guest on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire and she has been interviewed by local and National print, radio and television journalists about parenting

Writing – Her first book Teach Yourself Motherhood (Hodders 2008) is generating plenty of new work leads. She also write columns for magazines and newsletters

Freebies – She gives a portion of her time each year to run workshops for charities working with parents, and she provides upto an hour a fortnight of free coaching time to parents who are on Income Support.

Her Passion – She loves working with parents watching them grow into confident happy parents. For her, it’s the best job in the world!

Join Judy and Coach Erwin LIVE on Tuesday September 16th 2008 at 20:00 UTC / 22:00 CET / 16:00 EST! We are both looking forward welcoming you as listener on the live show.

Have an outstanding weekend!

Coach Erwin

Hi dear friends,

Another week and show has past, and I have already the next guest lined up for you, and yes it is agian a lady: Jessica McGregor Johnson.

Jessica works internationally as a Life Fulfilment Coach, empowering people to move past old limitations and create success in any area of their life. Using the traditional coaching tools of conversation, exploration and creating accountability she also adds in powerful processes of Christopher Howard Results Technologies® and Neurological Re-patterning™ that enables change to take place both internally and externally. By learning the ability to be a positive influence in their own lives, changing the way they communicate both with themselves and others, her clients go on to produce the big changes they wish for in their lives.

There is a strong spiritual aspect to the way she works, she truly believes that we are all connected and that there is far more than meets the eye when it comes to who we are as energetic beings. Bringing that aspect to her work means that she addresses the deeper issues that some people hold and moves her clients towards a place of wholeness, which is where fulfilment lies.

She offer a free introductory session if you would like to explore how she can support you in moving past those old limitations that have stopped you in the past and discover how you can get going on making it happen.

We both are looking forward having you as a listener to the LIVE broadcast on September 9th 2008 at 20:00 UTC / 22:00 CET / 16:00 EST.

Have an outstanding day!

Coach Erwin