“As always, I enjoy our humorous and “productive” meetings together.  I want you to know how much I appreciate the way you not only “listen,” but you “hear” what I’m saying to you. You have a way of processing quickly and giving phenomenal insights.

“I always feel enriched and re-energized after our meetings. You help me see things from a different perspective and push me to step out of the box a bit.

“There are many potential distractions during our public meetings (ie. gorgeous women walking about;) however, you remain focused on our time together. I respect and appreciate that about you!”

Jeanine Calandri
Retirement plan and asset management consulting
Sacramento, CA
Nov. 12, 2011

Why hire a coach? Because your family, friends, and co-workers have better things to do than babysit your ass, tell you what to do and then have you resent them for pointing out your flaws.

Hire a life coach.

Make it objective.

Make it productive.

Title: “One Smile Per Argument”
Contest level: Area
Club: Capital City Toastmasters #142, Sacramento, CA – District 39, Area 51
Contest location: Sutter Cancer Center, Sacramento, CA
Date: Mar 24, 2011

“Friends are good for picking you up, and also for pointing out your already glaringly-obvious flaws, as if you weren’t aware….but sometimes I guess you need a kick in the arse to get some change happening!” –Facebook commenter

My approach to life coaching involves a 3-step cycle:

1. Keeping you on track with your goals: keep you accountable and provide positive support without being judgmental.
2. Solutions to setbacks: provide unbiased feedback to help you work through setbacks, improve self-esteem and collaborate on positive reactions to negative situations.
3. Focus/re-focus: help you decide what to focus on, as well as help you re-establish a productive focus when you’re getting off track.

Then we keep repeating the cycle: stay on track (confidence) + solutions (feedback) + focus/re-focus (clarity)

Note: Life coaching does not go into recovery or anything that requires therapy. Life coaching will only touch on goals for the future, helping you stay on track toward those goals, developing solutions to setbacks and re-focusing. Depression, addiction – anything that requires therapy – is outside of a life coaches credentials. A life coach is not qualified nor licensed to handle therapy-oriented circumstances.

Unbiased feedback
Overwhelming clarity
Screaming confidence

Toastmasters Humorous Speech Contest 2010 – Life Coach Reid Walley – 2nd Place Winner from Reid Walley on Vimeo.
Title: “A Good-Night’s Sleep”
Contest level: Area
Club: Capital City Toastmasters, Sacramento, CA – District 39, Area 51
Contest location: Sutter/Buhler Cancer Center, Sacramento, CA
Date: Sept 9, 2010

If you don’t get along with your ex-spouse/partner/boyfriend/girlfriend/lover – even if it’s to just let them live in peace – what’s YOUR problem?

Hire a life coach!

Life Coach Reid Walley – Study Together; Stay Together – Hewlett-Packard from Reid Walley on Vimeo.

“Study Together; Stay Together” presented during HP Northside Toastmasters meeting at Hewlett-Packard in Roseville, CA, July 22, 2010. Invited to be a guest speaker by Kevin Levine (VP Education).

Elizabeth Scott, who is a life coach and stress management expert for About.com, says a big difference is that therapists try to help people with problems, while [life] coaches help already healthy people improve their lives.

“Often, people need someone to help them take the dreams they have in their heads — the visions of what they want to do next with their lives — and do the work to make them a reality,” she explains.

Read full article: http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/worklife/08/01/wlb.life.coaches/

Life Coach Reid Walley – Toastmasters Speech 10 – If You Don’t Follow Your Passion, You Suck! from Reid Walley on Vimeo.

Title: “If You Don’t Follow Your Passion, You Suck!”
Date: June 28, 2010
Toastmasters speech number: 10
Toastmasters manual: Competent Communicator
Time limit: 8-10 minutes
Official time: 10:34 (disqualified by 4 seconds)
Evaluator: Danny Pastores
Toastmaster: Danny Pastores
Club: Capital City Toastmasters #142
Location: Sacramento, CA
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