We are nearing again the end of the month, but before we have another panel, I have the real pleasure to be able to interview and have on the show Laurie Santos.

Laurie Santos, The Extreme Dream Queen! International Coach, Speaker, and Seminar Leader

Nothing says extreme more than someone telling it like it is regardless of the consequences, and no other approach gets better results. Laurie A. Santos, CEO of Extreme Dream Training and CoachIng and professional speaker, is known for her sassy, no-nonsense, hit-the-ground-running, run-toward-your-fear approach. Recognizing that honesty and commitment to action are the two must-haves for success, she has created a 4-Step Extreme Dream Program guaranteed to help people create a life and business they love.

Laurie helps professionals in every industry discover their Extreme Dream and go after it no matter how radical the measures must be and especially when life deals out difficult circumstances! Encouraging her clients to use their fear as fuel and turn their obstacles into opportunities, The Extreme Dream Queen enables them to break through old ways of thinking and acting so she can help them develop habits of mind and body that will absolutely and immediately ensure their success. Laurie’s combination of her Extreme Dream principles, life coaching methods and training in Universal Laws along with her extreme personality make her a coach like no other!

With a Master in Administration of Justice, teaching credential, a Bachelor of Science in Anthropology, 10 years of probation experience with the most dangerous and cunning of criminals, and two ICF Coach completions (The Coaches Training Institute and The Coaches Training Alliance), Laurie has a deep understanding of human behavior and knows how to support any personality in any environment. As a federal officer and liaison to federal judges, she witnessed that people are hindered only by the stories they create (and stick to) in their own minds, and that change is just a matter of "running toward the fear" and altering habits.

Before committing to full-time work as Chief Extreme Officer of Extreme Dream Training and Coaching, she pursued her own extreme dream (one she admittedly ignored for 20 years!) and moved to Spain and Portugal to volunteer in a small government-owned radio station where she wrote and recorded tag lines and commercials and conducted interviews in both Spanish and English for six months. Laurie loves to brag this was really an Extreme Dream because she quit her high-paying job, rented out her house, all to earn only 120 Euro per month!

Today, Laurie coaches individuals and businesses full-time as well as conducts powerful seminars. She also is a radio show host on Extreme Dream Radio where she features ordinary people doing extraordinary things once weekly in an effort to inspire her listeners to take on risk in order to reap the biggest rewards. The Extreme Dream Queen lives in Hollywood, CA and is finally working on her first book…her new Extreme Dream!

Niche: She works with folks who are finally ready to live out their Extreme Dream fully but are scared to death to go after it and make it happen. An extreme dream is that dream which feels like there is too much rish involved that the individual or business knows they will have to buck the system, go against the grain and do unconventional things in order to make it happen…in other words, it feels extreme but they know the pay-off will be their extreme dream realized.

Target audience: Entrepreneurs, adventure travelers, folks in career transition

Current clients: She mostly works with entrepreneurs, corporate burn-outs and small business owners.

Join Laurie and myself this coming Tuesday at 20:00 UTC LIVE on Radio Coaching. It is your chance to listen to and learn from Laurie Santos.

Have an outstanding day!

Coach Erwin

This week I have the pleasure to interview Patricia Clason. She is an EQ Coach.

For over thirty years, Patricia Clason has traveled across the continent doing speeches, workshops and media appearances as a professional speaker, trainer, consultant, writer, and coach giving over 4,000 presentations for corporations, associations, government agencies and non-profit organizations. Now the Director of the Center for Creative Learning which offers programs for personal and professional development at offices in Milwaukee, Madison, and Detroit, Patricia has written many articles, training programs and personal growth seminars and is a sought-after guest for radio and television.
The focus of her work is on alternative methods of teaching and learning that produce high quality results. Her search for the best in the technology of human resource development has taken her as a student on many adventures through traditional and some not-so-traditional training programs.

Patricia’s passion is in the area of Emotional Intelligence, which includes offering courses in leadership, ethics, communication, negotiation, and coaching.

Currently she is the owner of the Center for Creative Learning and Accountability Coaching Associates, as well as Patricia Clason, LLC. As a consultant and business coach she works with large and small companies, as well as individuals, in the areas of start-up, marketing, and management skills and career building.

Patricia was the first to receive the Registered Corporate Coach designation from the National Association of Business Coaches (now the Worldwide Association of Business Coaches). She is a founding member of Coachville.com, 24-7 Coaching, and BigLife.ws - organizations supporting and/or training coaches.

She created the Business Coaching Certificate program at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, and teaches the cornerstone and capstone classes, as well as emotional intelligence (all required courses for the certificate). Patricia also teaches coaching as one of four classes in the Alverno College Telesis Institute Management Certificate program.
Ask the Coach, Patricia’s Q &A column on career coaching appeared regularly in Employment Times and is currently on MilwaukeeJobs.com and numerous other job sites on the web. Her articles are also often printed in business and trade publications and in online newsletters.

Coaching clients have included executives in Fortune 100 companies, managers and supervisors in companies of all types and sizes, business owners and management teams, and solo entrepreneurs.

You are more than welcome to listen in to the live interview that will take place this coming Tuesday November 11 2008 at 20:00 UTC - 16:00 EST - 14:00 CST - 20:00 GMT - 21:00 CET.

Have an outstanding week!

Coach Erwin

We are at the start of a new month, and that means the start of a new series of interviews. This week’s guest is Lissa Boles.

Known as The True Callings Coach™, Lissa Boles is a top-of-class graduate of the Institute of Integrative Coaching at JFK University and the only Canadian awarded all three of the institute’s advanced professional designations: Master Life Coach, Master Teleclass Facilitator and Master Workshop Leader.

Her easy conversational style, love of inspirational stories of calling and mission, and passion for entrepreneurship and the principles behind meaningful success and personal development led Lissa to serve as broadcast radio correspondent - and regular guest host - for CKDO’s Small Business Big Ideas Show on AM1580 and 107.7FM from 2003 through 2008.
It was on the show she spoke with such notables as Daniel Pink, Jack Canfield, Marci Schimoff, Dr. Lance Secretan, Byron Katie, Dr. William Ury, Debbie Ford, Carl Honore, Stewart Emery & Mark Thompson and more.

In full-time coaching practice since 2001 (with husband and fellow True Callings Coach™ Randy Boles) Lissa is renowned for the revolutionary Mission Mapping Process™ (and the blogging podcast, The View From The Deck: Answerin’ the Call & Livin’ the Dream). Lissa & Randy share their cottage home on the sunny, south-eastern shores of Lake Huron with Pongo the Smiling Dalmatian.

Join me and Lissa in our LIVE interview this coming Tuesday November 4th 2008 at 20:00 UTC.

Have an outstanding day!

Coach Erwin

This week, we are going to be more romantic in The Coaching Panel. Why? Because my guest this week is a Love & Attraction Coach. Her name is Dawn Allen.

Dawn Allen is a Love and Attraction Coach, and founder of Inspired Heart Coaching™. Dawn is a leading authority on Love and Relationships and specializes in helping single women to attract the love of their lives and create the relationship of their dreams.

Dawn helps you attract and create a deep and magical loving relationship in your life by releasing patterns from your past and transforming limiting beliefs that block you from manifesting your heart’s desire. You learn new ways to respond in your relationships, eliminate self-sabotaging behaviors, deepen your connection to yourself and others, and discover practical ways to attract more love into your life.

You get clear of what holds you back. Consciously, intentionally, and deliberately, you will create what you desire, so you can step into a new reality for yourself, your life, and your relationships.

For over 25 years, Dawn has studied personal development, spirituality, and positive psychology. With deep intention, she overcame her own personal struggles with depression, sexual abuse, an eating disorder, and very challenging personal relationships. She became passionate about helping others find love and acceptance for themselves. Using the Law of Attraction, she shows others how to bring their hearts’ desires into reality… especially in their relationships.

Dawn lives is Southern Oregon with her 13-year-old daughter, Lina, and their dog, Chloe. She is happily involved with an incredible man. During her free time, she enjoys playing the piano, reading, writing, yoga, and dancing Argentine Tango.
Dawn holds a Masters Degree in Metaphysics, and is a graduate of the Coach for Life Coaching School. She is also a Certified Dream Coach, Certified Passion Test Facilitator, and Law of Attraction Coach. She is currently completing her doctoral studies.

Give your life some more love and attraction and listen to the live interview of Dawn Allen this coming Tuesday at 20:00 UTC - 16:00 New York - 21:00 London - 22:00 Brussels/Madrid on Radio Coaching.

Have an outstanding day!

Coach Erwin

For the first time in The Coaching Panel, I have a guest from Oceania, more specifically from Australia. This week’s guest is Rik Schnabel.

Rik Schnabel is Australia’s No.1 Wholistic Wealth Coach. He isan International Speaker and Author of ‘Life Beyond Limits: Infinity Belief’, Rik Schnabel is one of the key people featured in the latest inspirational lifestyle documentary ‘What If’. Rik is an inspirational speaker and clearly enjoys sharing his knowledge and understanding of success with audiences around the world.

Founder and Director of ‘Life Beyond Limits’ Pty Ltd, Rik is an experienced coach, trainer, mentor and presenter, who attains breakthrough success working with individuals and groups, enabling then to tap into their power at lightening speed and take action. He often sees the gold in people that they don’t see in themselves.

As a presenter Rik educates, inspires and entertains audiences with metaphors and demonstrations of how Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) can change their lives forever, allowing them to live the life they always wanted. Audiences relate to Rik’s honest and open style and engage with him easily. Many are stirred emotionally and surprised at how easy they apply his techniques.

Prior to working in the personal and professional development field, Rik’s career was in the private sector where he has held senior roles in marketing within News Limited and was founder and director of two companies, ‘Schnabel and Knight Advertising Agency’ and ‘WHOZU Advertising and Marketing’. Creator and entrepreneur, Rik built his businesses from ‘green fields’ to successful companies. He later became an XL Results Foundation member and helped develop a Victorian base for entrepreneurs around the world.

Rik’s formal qualifications in personal and professional development include Master NLP Coach, Master Results Coach, Master Hynotherapist and is a certified Master Neurological RepatteningT specialist.

Rik’s lives in Melbourne, Australia with his wife Rebecca and their two daughters Zoe and Sienna.

Please come and join in listening to the  LIVE interview on Tuesday October 14, 2008 at 20:00 UTC - 16:00 New York - 21:00 London - 22:00 Madrid - 07:00 Melbourne (next day) on The Coaching Panel.

If you have any question you want me to ask the guest, feel free to use the comment’s space to do so.

Have an outstanding day!

Coach Erwin

October has arrived and I certainly can see that the summer is actually over, but still we have lovely days here in the south of Spain.

Last week, we had an interesting panel, that, I have to admit, became at times quite personal, but that is the way it goes. This week, I have finally again a man on the show. His name is Keith Bray.

Keith was educated in Toronto and at the University of Western Ontario.

Since finishing studies at Western, he has been involved in life long learning including programs at York University, Grant McEwen and Centennial Colleges, Kraft University and has attended a host of independently conducted seminars and learning venues.

Keith has lectured at York University, Centennial College and spoken to groups in Canada, the US, Europe and Australia and has been published in several industry magazines including Supermarket News, Canadian Grocer, Western Grocer and Metro Land newspapers .

Since completing his tenure as President of the Markham Board of Trade, Keith has focused and expanding his own education on human potential and has completed certification as a Life Coach. He is currently pursuing a Masters in Spirituality.

In 1994-95, he attended Homewood in Guelph, arguably Canada’s leading addiction treatment program and did an extensive after care program at Homewood. He has worked in a volunteer capacity at Bellwood Rehabilitation Centre in Toronto.

Keith has spent a large portion of his life working with others. Coaching in his areas of expertise fulfills Keith’s Life Purpose, and he works with clients both locally and on a global basis.

As well as being a husband, father of four, grandfather of three and engaged in business, Keith has been an active community volunteer and supporter who believes in giving back. Keith has been a successful independent consultant since incorporating in 1990 following his presidency of a major branded food company.

Keith plays sports at a competitive level, and has been an active coach of sports teams. His current Life Coaching practice employs many of the skills gathered from other phases of life.

Keith brings out the strengths and talents people have within. He is a natural coach and mentor.

Most importantly, he has faced major challenges in life including addictions and abuse, and through hard work and choosing a proven template, has walked the journey of transforming his own life and finding abundance and purpose through a huge attitudinal change (a spiritual awakening). As well as being there for his clients at all times, he has a wealth of personal experience to share when requested or when deemed to be of benefit in meeting objectives.

He has walked the walk, has recovered from much and continues in the growth and recovery process recognizing it is a life long journey.

Keith is a founding member of Big Life and is active in several electronic networking and business ventures. He is currently a Director of Maple Leaf International Acquisitions. He is an active golfer, and player in the game of life!

Keith welcomes the opportunity to work with others in finding a better and more abundant life.

Keith is a proven coach who is prepared to be a “Trusted Confidant” to those who want to follow tested footsteps and by changing, to find peace and serenity. He coaches people who want to LIVE life….and on life’s terms; not watch it go by.

We both are looking forward to welcome you as listener to the LIVE interview this coming Tuesday, October 6th 2008 at 20:00 UTC - 16:00 New York - 21:00 London - 22:00 Madrid/Brussels.

Have an outstanding day!

Coach Erwin

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

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

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

My first guest in the new season of The Coaching Panel is Lauren Ottewil, and she will be interviewed on September 2nd.

Lauren Ottewill was born in Ireland and grew up in Israel. She returned to the UK in the 1980’s and began to develop her own unique approach to life. You could say that she has always been a “go getter“, leaving Israel and traveling the world and deciding to write her own musical and start her own theatre company, when she couldn’t get the part she wanted however she still wasn’t there and felt that something was missing, and as a trained singer with a strong ambition to be on the stage, she began to search for ways to find the key to open the door to success and how to live a happy life.

To help her with this Lauren started out by training as a holistic practitioner, ,i.e. taking care of the physical by studying Reiki healing and Reflexology ,after experiencing the value of this in her own life. However she began to understand that the Physical part was only a small factor in life and she started to ask bigger questions and was looking for better solutions, and so became obsessed, in a good way, with the mind, and how she could achieve her dreams, by learning more about how to develop her own mind and control her own thoughts. Lauren began to practice visualization and also worked on changing her core damaging beliefs and began to see miracles appearing in her life.

Her first audio cassette which helped her to learn this amazing tool. “Was The Power Of Visualization” by Victor Poulous which she purchased from “Nightingale Conant” on one of their, listen for 30 days and send back guarantees This helped her move on to the meta physical side of life, by becoming a qualified “Louise Hay Counselor” and by learning the importance of positive belief systems, and how essential forgiveness and positive thoughts are in our lives.

Over the years Lauren began to design her own way of living which was a combination of spirituality and visualization and learning to take action by setting positive yet realistic goals. Lauren decided to study life coaching after following the teachings of Tony Robbins and Wayne Dwyer and other motivational teachers. This has helped her gain a lot of success she believes, as she finds a balance between developing the spirituality of the client and also taking steps to make their dream come true, by gently and assertively getting that client out of their comfort zones, and always treating each person she works with as an individual who will develop in their own unique way and in their own time. She also believes that when we start to focus on our strengths rather than our weaknesses, we begin to let go of that weaker part and we become the amazing powerful person we were meant to be.

Lauren trained with the Jonathan Jay Coaching Academy and qualified in 2004. Since then she has been developing a practice where she helps the individual to find a way to fill the empty void or the hole inside by changing it into a magnificent vista which can be filled by looking at each person’s own uniqueness and talents and ambitions, and then coming up with a plan around their values and beliefs, to change their lives and help them overcome obstacles and damaging life patterns. Lauren believes that inside each and every one of us is a unique and magical intelligence, which knows everything and can be used in innovative ways to help us heal ourselves and our lives. She also believes that when we are in touch with this amazing part of ourselves ,which she believes is the soul, we can and will create miracles in our lives and can prevent disease of the mind which can lead to disease of the body. If you can find something in life, that means more to you then the damaging habit or condition you will discover that whatever is holding you back ,will disappear from your life and you will reach your goals. Sometimes goals need to become more within our reality, then we get closer to achieving them, and before you know it, you are actually working towards your dream.

We both are looking forward to welcome you as listener on our LIVE interview on September 2nd 2008 at 20:00 UTC / 22:00 CET / 16:00 EST.

Have an outstanding day!

Coach Erwin