Lara Heacock on Becoming a Life Coach

Lara Heacock is an award-winning Executive Coach. Learn more about her at https://laraheacock.com

What were the specific worries that you had about what other people might think of you becoming a coach?

What is a coach? What do they do? Is that a real thing? 

Were you more worried about what your job would think, or what your friends and family would think, or what random strangers would think?

A little of each, and I think I loved the idea of life coaching but it definitely had/has a stigma with some folks, although it's much more mainstream & accepted now. I also resisted the title of Executive Coach for a while because it felt too big for me, but I've happily evolved into it.

How did you move through these worries, specifically? What actionable strategies did you use? 

I honestly fell so in love with coaching, that I couldn't not do it! I just kept coaching and things kept building momentum. Funny thing about building something—people's worries and judgments melt away when you make it work. 

What have you learned about how to handle it when you worry what other people think, since? 

People judge. We all do it. I do it, you do it, everyone does it. I'd rather be judged and happy than judged and doing something that I hate.