Marv Curtis is one of the coaches that we found this month and we did a little interview with him. He impressed us with his dedication, expertise, and experience.
He is one of the most experienced coaches that we had the honor of interviewing. His coaching career started all the way back in 1980s’ as a side hustle, but it soon became his main business.
He started coaching to help his oldest son overcome panic attacks and to help his wife overcome depression. Back then, it was hard to find any help for those type of problems in the healthcare industry so he decided to tackle those issues himself and find a way to help his family.
Now, he is a long way from the beginnings of his coaching career and for decades he is successful in helping people overcome Burnout, gain clarity, and establish stronger boundaries. Here is what he said.
Meet Life Coach Marv Curtis:
Name: Marv Curtis
Pillar: The Mind
Who is this coach for: Anyone who wants to avoid or overcome burnout, gain clarity and establish solid boundaries in their life.
How they can help: Through conversational hypnosis, energy psychology, and somatic tracking.
First of all, how are you and your family doing in these Pandemic times?
We are doing well.
It has brought us closer together with a greater sense of what is important in life.
How does the coronavirus pandemic affect your clients? Did it affect you at all?
As a Burnout Coach, the pandemic increased the amount and degree of burnout in most industries and businesses.
It has helped focus on the fastest and most useful treatments.
What are the biggest lessons that you learned in this pandemic?
The effectiveness of going virtual was very liberating.
Surprisingly effective once I got the flow of it.
The Origin:
Tell us about you, your career, how you started with your coaching career?
Coaching started in the 1980’s as a ‘side hustle’ primarily to help my oldest son with his panic attacks and my wife with depression.
We weren’t able to find the help we needed within our healthcare network at that time, so I began to learn how to help them.
What was your biggest obstacle that you had to overcome in your life that made you who you are today?
Tragedy and loss among my family members due to cancer and depression.
The Coaching Style:
How do you innovate with coaching your clients?
Every client responds differently.
As I learn something useful with a new client I try to adapt it to new situations and combine it with other strategies.
What’s unique about your coaching approach?
The use of the client’s own intuition for diagnostics.
What benefits do your clients get after working with you?
1. Clarity about ‘what is the problem’. 2. Finding their own voice. 3. Solid boundaries.
Do you use any specific tools to be efficient with your clients?
1. Conversational hypnosis. 2. Energy psychology. 3. Somatic tracking.
The Impact:
If you had a super megaphone that, when you speak into, the whole world will hear your message, what would you say?
‘Sensitive’ is the new superpower!
What is the greatest lesson you have learned in your life?
1. The importance of simple kindness. 2. Trust is the result of feeling deeply understood.
Your final thoughts?
It’s great to be alive and able to make a contribution in my 70’s.
Where Can You Find Marv Curtis?
If you liked this interview and you would love to find clarity of what’s the real problem in your life behind the scenes, go to www.marvcurtiscoaching.com and see how Marv can help you.
If you would like to connect more personally with him, you can do that through LinkedIn or his Facebook. It was an honor having this interview with him.
Depression is a real mental health disorder that can have serious consequences. It’s easy to go from normal to clinical depression if left untreated.
It affects millions of people in the US each year and can take on different forms depending on the individual’s age, gender, and circumstances.
It is important to understand the different types of depression, as well as the mental and physical effects it has on individuals who suffer from it.
Quick Guide to Understanding Depression:
Types of Depression:
Depression is not a one size fits all condition.
There are many variations that can affect people differently.
The most common type of depression is Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), which is marked by persistent feelings of sadness, emptiness, fatigue, loss of interest in activities once enjoyed, sleep disturbances, changes in appetite or weight, difficulty concentrating, and thoughts of suicide or self harm.
Other types include:
Persistent Depressive Disorder (PDD) which occurs over a much longer period than MDD.
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) which typically only occurs during certain times of year.
Postpartum Depression (PPD) which affects women after giving birth.
Bipolar Disorder (BD) which involves periods of mania as well as depressive episodes.
Atypical Depression (AD) which involves increased appetite or sleeping more than normal.
Psychotic Depression (PD) which involves hallucinations or delusions.
Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD).
Situational Depression (SD).
Dysthymia which is chronic but less severe than MDD.
Those suffering from depression may feel isolated and disconnected from their loved ones.
They may also experience frequent mood swings, difficulty concentrating or making decisions, persistent negative thinking patterns, suicidal ideation or attempts at suicide.
People with depression may also have trouble connecting emotionally with others due to a lack of interest in activities they once enjoyed or an inability to maintain relationships due to mistrust issues.
Additionally, substance abuse is often seen in those struggling with depression as they attempt to self medicate their symptoms without seeking professional help.
Physical Effects of Depression:
Depression can also manifest itself physically by causing fatigue or exhaustion even after getting plenty of restful sleep.
It can lead to changes in appetite resulting in weight gain or loss depending on the individual’s eating habits.
Chronic pain such as headaches or muscle aches can occur due to an increase in stress hormones such as cortisol that are associated with depression.
Digestive problems such as stomach upset are not uncommon either due to the body being under constant stress when depressed.
Additional physical effects include dizziness and heart palpitations caused by higher levels of adrenaline production triggered by stress hormones released during a depressive episode.
Emotional Effects of of Depression:
Aside from its mental and physical effects, it can impact your emotional self in various ways:
Persistent sadness or feeling empty. People with depression often feel sad or empty for prolonged periods of time, even when there is no obvious reason for their low mood.
Loss of interest or pleasure. Depression can cause a person to lose interest in activities or hobbies that they once enjoyed. They may also have difficulty experiencing pleasure or positive emotions.
Guilt or worthlessness. Many people with depression experience feelings of guilt or worthlessness, even when they have not done anything wrong.
Irritability or agitation. Depression can cause a person to be easily irritated or agitated, even over small things.
It is important to note that the emotional effects of depression can vary from person to person and may change over time.
Spiritual Effects of Depression:
Even though not very often spoken of, depression can have a profound impact on a person’s spiritual wellbeing. Some of the spiritual effects of depression may include:
Loss of meaning and purpose. Depression can make it difficult for a person to find meaning and purpose in life. They may feel like their life lacks direction or that they are not fulfilling their purpose.
Questioning faith or beliefs. Depression can cause a person to question their faith or beliefs, particularly if they are struggling to understand why they are experiencing such intense emotional pain.
Feeling disconnected from others. Depression can make a person feel isolated and disconnected from others, including their community, family, and friends. This can lead to feelings of loneliness and despair.
Loss of hope. Depression can cause a person to lose hope for the future. They may feel like there is no way out of their current situation or that things will never get better.
Spiritual crisis. In some cases, depression can trigger a spiritual crisis, which may involve a reevaluation of one’s beliefs, values, and purpose in life.
What are The Benefits of Treating Depression (Aside from Treating Depression):
Let’s take a look at some of the benefits of treating depression.
Reduce Symptoms.
One of the primary benefits of treating depression is to reduce or even eliminate the symptoms associated with the condition.
Depending on your individual needs, this may include medication, psychotherapy, lifestyle changes, or a combination of these approaches.
Working with a mental health professional can help you find the best course of treatment for you.
Improve Functionality.
Depression can interfere with many aspects of daily life, including work performance, relationships, and even basic activities such as sleeping and eating.
By getting treatment for your depression, you can improve functioning in all areas of your life.
This could mean improved job performance, better communication skills in relationships, more regular sleeping and eating habits, and overall improved quality of life.
Decrease Risk Factors.
Treating depression also helps to decrease risk factors associated with the condition such as suicidal thoughts or behaviors or substance abuse issues.
If left untreated, depression can lead to self harm or worse, however, by seeking treatment early on you can reduce these risks drastically and give yourself the best chance for recovery.
Additionally, if caught early enough in some cases it may be possible to completely eliminate symptoms without medication or other forms of therapy.
What is The Purpose of Depression?
Like every other emotion and emotional state, Depression is not a villain. It’s not occurring for “no reason” and it carries a message that you should hear.
The most common message of depression is that you are right now at a period of your life where you should slow down and re evaluate WHO YOU ARE.
There are emotions, events and things that happened to you that you need to digest and sort within your psyche to decide what they will mean for you.
It’s a period of your life where you should allow your old identity to go away so a new YOU can be born.
It’s important to not rush this process but to allow yourself to go through the experience in your own pace, to make sense of your own narrative and decide where you are going to be headed.
Sometimes, you might need a guide and a little help on your journey. Everyone needs a helping hand from time to time. That’s why it’s important to seek help if you feel like you need.
What you should remember?
Understanding how depression affects both our mental and physical health is key for anyone suffering from this disorder so they can get proper treatment and support from family members and friends.
It’s important for all individuals, not just those suffering directly, to be aware of the various types of depression so that they can help those around them who might be struggling with it silently without knowing what exactly it is they are going through.
If you think someone you know may be suffering from depression, don’t hesitate to reach out for help, your words could make all the difference.
Casimiro da Silva Santos is one of the coaches that we found this month and we did a little interview with him. He impressed us with his client centered approach and profesionalism.
He was in the corporate managing business for over 20 years and he started his coaching career while in the corporate world to help high potential individuals to achieve higher performance levels.
He became a certified International Coaching Federation (ICF) coach in executive, leadership, career, groups, and teams, and he is currently pursuing his ACC accreditation.
His coaching approach is focused on helping individuals experience transformation and get rid of limitations so they can take better action toward their goals. Here is what he said.
Meet Life Coach Casimiro da Silva Santos:
Name: Casimiro da Silva Santos
Pillar: The Spirit, The Mind
Who is this coach for: Anyone who wants to get rid of limitations, better focus and take more action toward their goals.
How they can help: Through various tools and techniques, from visual stimulation to vision boarding, including walking coach sessions, just to name a few.
First of all, how are you and your family doing in these Pandemic times?
We are doing well post pandemic times, we were lucky we did not get Coronavirus.
We are fully vaccinated, and we follow the prevention guidelines.
How does the coronavirus pandemic affect your clients? Did it affect you at all?
Most of my clients were used to face to face coaching sessions, and then we transitioned to online sessions.
Zoom became our best friend for coaching.
I believe that clients become more comfortable as they can do coaching from a safe, secure, and confidential place without being interrupted.
Being closed for so long and remote, proposing a walking coaching session to them was very well received and accepted.
What are the biggest lessons that you learned in this pandemic?
Be resilient and patient, and better days are coming.
The Origin:
Tell us about you, your career, how you started with your coaching career?
I hold a master’s degree in Chemical Engineering and an executive MBA.
After 20 years in corporate managing business in water and water treatment chemicals and leading teams, I have become a certified International Coaching Federation coach in executive, leadership, career, groups, and teams.
I am currently pursuing my ACC accreditation.
I started my coaching career during my corporate years coaching and mentoring high potential employees to achieve higher performance levels and be more self assured in the companies I have worked for.
I started my coaching business in early 2020, so, at the beginning of the pandemic.
What was your biggest obstacle that you had to overcome in your life that made you who you are today?
I would not say it will be an obstacle.
Assuming who I am, and being authentic, made me stronger and proud to be, which is one of my hashtags on social media.
Being gay made me unique and understanding of discriminated against and outcasted communities.
The Coaching Style:
How do you innovate with coaching your clients?
I used different techniques such as visualisation, visual stimulations, and word association.
Visioning is also another technique I use.
What’s unique about your coaching approach?
My unique coaching approach is empathy, compassion, and strong, active listening.
The fact that I use several techniques, from visual stimulation to vision boarding, including walking coach sessions, makes me unique.
What benefits do your clients get after working with you?
Most of my clients experience a personal transformation reflecting their performance and relationships.
The fact that I have an international career in business and managing and leading people helps us to get into working together in their improvement areas as I can easily relate to them.
Generally, they see improvements in making decisions, acting on their goals, more focus, verbalizing the life they want, stop procrastinating, feel comfortable saying no without the guilty feeling, and stop believing in their limiting beliefs for success.
Do you use any specific tools to be efficient with your clients?
Yes, I use the Points of You technique when my clients are stuck or do not know what to work on in a session.
Visual stimulation and word association work wonders.
Vision board is another tool I use to guide clients to build their dream life.
The Impact:
If you had a super megaphone that, when you speak into, the whole world will hear your message, what would you say?
Be human, and we are all human.
Be empathic and compassionate to a stranger.
What is the greatest lesson you have learned in your life?
That we are vulnerable, and we need to adapt.
Making the best of every situation.
Curve balls are curved for a reason.
Your final thoughts?
Coaching is my life and unleashing the potential of people and my clients make my life worthwhile living.
Where Can You Find Casimiro da Silva Santos?
If you liked this interview and you would love to get rid of your limitations, better focus and take more action on your goals to build the life that you want to live, go to bringthebest.pt and see how Casimiro da Silva can help you do that.
If you would like to get a glimpse of his coaching, you can follow his Instagram account. If you would like to connect more persionally with him, you can do that through LinkedIn or send him a message on his email [email protected]. It was an honor having this interview with him.
Tara Chatterton is one of the coaches that we found this month and we did a little interview with her. She impressed us with her wisdom and deep understanding of consciousness.
She started coaching after a long period of steering away from her path and getting back to it. She always had a knack for understanding the big picture of people, what they really need to heal and become the best version of themselves.
She got her wake up call after her best friend and her father both passed away. She realized that she is not getting any younger and that was enough to put her on the right path she was meant to walk, the one she was born to walk.
Now, she focuses on helping people become whole and live the life they were meant to live. She does that through a multifaceted coaching method that incorporates healing, coaching, energy work and going into the depths of the unconscious to help people merge their fragmented self into wholeness. Here is what she said.
Meet Life Coach Tara Chatterton:
Name: Tara Chatterton
Pillar: The Spirit
Who is this coach for: Anyone who has unresolved issues preventing them from living their best life, and are looking to unleash their full potential.
How they can help: By utilizing her own healing system, she awakens your true self so that your shadow parts can heal, and bring you back into wholeness.
First of all, how are you and your family doing in these Pandemic times?
My family and I have experienced a lot of transformations over the course of the last couple years, but not because of a loss or anything due to the pandemic so much, but rather, these are changing times, and whenever people experience something as massive as a pandemic, it calls people to question how they live their lives, as it brings up unresolved issues to be faced and dealt with.
I believe the pandemic is more of a global transformation, or an awakening pushing everyone to face their shadows and question who they’ve been showing up as in the world.
Even though the pandemic has uprooted, displaced and destabilized so many people, if you look at it from another perspective, it can also be seen as a blessing, depending on your perspective of course.
When people become uncomfortable, they have to take drastic measures to reroute or reset their lives, and while this can cause temporary unfavorable outcomes, it can also create new ways of living that weren’t possible before, and as a result, we are inevitably adapting to changes that we previously, had been resistant to.
That’s what I see happening on a larger scale.
Life is pushing people to take risks and to show up in ways they never thought possible, and I have been experiencing this in my own life, personally and with my family, and taking stock of the many blessings it has produced along the way.
How does the coronavirus pandemic affect your clients? Did it affect you at all?
The coronavirus pandemic hasn’t specifically come up in my sessions, but rather the side effects of the pandemic, such as isolation, depression, and anxiety, as it seems like just about everyone has suddenly developed anxiety and social phobias.
Luckily, my business is remote, so seeing clients is a nonissue for me.
I actually started working remotely in May of 2019, shortly before the pandemic, and this felt very guided for me, as if a part of me knew what was coming.
The pandemic effected me in many personal ways, mostly due to the uptake in fear based perspectives, that have caused people to take sides and have made it nearly impossible to communicate with each other about their differing perspectives and views.
My goal in my practice concerning this issue, is to help people rise above fear based thinking and tap into their innate natural state, which is neutral and community based.
What are the biggest lessons that you learned in this pandemic?
I wouldn’t say that I have learned lessons due to the pandemic, but rather, that I began to cater more to the new patterns of isolation and the need and importance for true connection.
Connection is everything now, because isolation breeds illness and suicide, so discovering new ways to connect is paramount to our survival as a species.
The problem is that rarely are people taught to connect with themselves or to feel connected within themselves, so this has become the other facet of my work, which is to help people connect with their inner guidance and intuition, because if we can’t trust ourselves, who can we trust?
Some might be skeptical of the spiritual nature of using the terminology “inner guidance” or “spiritual guidance” or think that I am referring to some force outside of them, but what I am referring to is the part of an individual that just knows the answer or the truth of a situation, and is inspired by that knowing or truth.
I help client’s tap into this part of themselves so that they can learn to trust in life again and redirect themselves onto the path that is right for them, which inevitably helps them feel more connected and less likely to fall into patterns of isolation.
The Origin:
Tell us about you, your career, how you started with your coaching career?
I have always had a knack for understanding the big picture for people and what’s needed for them to heal, push through or transform their lives.
I have also felt naturally guided and supported since I was a child, even when my life didn’t reflect this support, in the most challenging times, I always knew that I would be okay.
It was these attributes that led to my interest in coaching and energetic healing.
My life went in many directions before rerouting back to a life long interest in helping others.
It took me years of losing my way, getting off track and hitting rock bottom before I realigned with my purpose, and understanding that my gifts were best utilized as a transformational coach.
After one of my best friends passed away unexpectedly in 2011, and then the death of my father a year later, this woke something up in me and made me realize I wasn’t getting any younger and that I had to start turning this ship around.
I was in retail at the time, but started taking classes on the side and getting numerous certifications in everything from hypnosis to nutritional therapy.
The more I focused on this new career choice, the more my retail business suffered and I eventually had to let the store go in 2015.
Since then I have been building my coaching practice and have many things in the works, such as a book I’ll be launching and programs I’m developing.
My coaching practice is multifaceted, in that it incorporates energetic healing and is more akin with spiritual guidance, helping individuals resolve their repressed emotional traumas so they can free themselves from the past, find true connection in their relationships and align with their purpose and mission in life.
What was your biggest obstacle that you had to overcome in your life that made you who you are today?
That is tricky to narrow down, but I would say that my biggest obstacle has been allowing myself to just be myself simply as I am, and figuring out who that is beneath all the conditioning from my learned experience.
I’ve spent years stripping away the influences of my external environment, that taught me to abandon who I really am, training me to be true to others over myself.
Having grown up with complex trauma and being a highly sensitive and empathic person, my life has been my biggest education.
Overcoming ingrained patterns of people pleasing, unworthiness, self sabotage and perfectionistic behaviors, has been a life long journey for me, that has informed my own methods for transforming these patterns.
I have come to specialize in this area for others, primarily women who struggle in their relationships, often with narcissistic partners, who really just need to be validated, but are often emotionally split, stuck in a perpetual state of panic, between who they think they should be and who they really are.
If someone is emotionally split like this, it will create problems in just about every area of their life, but once you align with who you are and choose from intention, you can turn everything around and start manifesting the life you want.
Of course this isn’t just for women, I have many male clients as well, but all of my clients seem to circulate around this same issue, so mastering that has been my main focus, rather than focusing on subtopics such as finances, divorce, or abuse, because implementing holistic practices will create change in all areas, no matter what initial issues a client comes to me with.
The Coaching Style:
How do you innovate with coaching your clients?
Specifically, I help my clients identify their wounded or dissociated parts of self, that are typically in the client’s subconscious and unknown to the client, by doing my version of what some people call Parts Work or Shadow Work.
With a unique system that I created, I help them to integrate these parts into consciousness so that the client can gain awareness of their patterns and triggers, and better handle these issues in the future with less emotional attachment to them.
Once they gain awareness of themselves and their patterns, they develop a stronger sense of self and identity, so that they can begin to choose differently from a place of awareness that is more empowered and aligned with their sense of integrity.
What’s unique about your coaching approach?
What’s unique about my approach is that I am not just a coach or a mentor, I am also a psychic empath, a channel, an energy healer and a medium, and I bring all of these gifts to my sessions, drawing upon them when necessary.
I know that’s a mouthful, but what that really means is, I tap into my clients energy and connect with their personal guidance, using a system that I created to do this quickly and efficiently, so that I can tune into exactly what they are needing to heal, and create the mindset necessary for transformation.
Each session is not just to coach them or mentor them, but to help them shift their emotional set point and resolve the past, often through breaking patterns, and bringing the unconscious parts of the self forward to integrate them into the conscious self.
What benefits do your clients get after working with you?
My clients often report feeling lighter, like a burden has been lifted.
They have more self awareness and feel more confident in navigating through life’s challenges.
They may feel more mature, like they’ve graduated or grown up from their childhood tendencies and fears.
They report having less pain, illness, depression, anxiety, panic or even night terrors have disappeared.
They begin to learn how to communicate and listen better, so that they can feel less entangled in their relationships, and find a new sense of inner authority for themselves.
One interesting side effect is that many have found themselves in old situations that used to trigger them, or an old pattern they used to fall into, and suddenly they have the awareness and clarity to handle it differently and choose something better.
This is because, when you remove the emotional pattern, you are no longer in resistance or reacting to it in the same way.
For example, what challenged you originally may still exist, but when you realize that it was your perspective that was challenging you and not the situation itself, you suddenly have control over your response because you can always change your perspective.
This is not to say that it isn’t challenging to turn the other cheek, but given a new opportunity to see and respond differently, and when they do it completely breaks the pattern.
It’s kind of like the last step in the process because taking action in our lives is necessary to activate change, but action needs preparation and mindset to create real change.
Many people come to me looking for a quick fix or thinking that I am supposed to fix them, and this is far from how it works.
When I work with people, I am not healing anyone, but rather, helping them to shift their consciousness so that they can approach life with a new set of tools that empower them to make the changes themselves.
What makes this truly valuable, is that they have me there holding their hand through the process and creating a safe container for them to work through their deepest, most intimate parts of their life.
One of my favorite stories is of a client whose mind was racing uncontrollably about her husband, because she often felt neglected and invisible in his world, as he received a lot of attention from other women, and I knew she needed to get off that hamster wheel.
After the session, I asked her how she felt and she looked at me with a long blank stare and slowly said “Nothing… I don’t feel anything, there are no thoughts, it’s all gone, where did it go, it’s just gone!”.
Then she went home and with this new clarity, she set new boundaries with her husband and transformed her relationship with him.
Do you use any specific tools to be efficient with your clients?
Yes, as I explained earlier, I have created my own healing system that I use to communicate with my client’s personal guidance, quickly and efficiently, so that I can accomplish a lot in one session.
Think of someone going to therapy and maybe they experience an emotional shift once in a blue moon, but with the work I do, they often experience several shifts in one session because I am able to pinpoint the issues rapidly, often without the client needing to explain their experience.
What’s really powerful about this is that the client isn’t having to relive their traumas over and over again or having to talk about them in a way that brings them back into the trauma, because we are releasing them as they come up, often allowing them to feel them for the last time.
The client may experience a release during the session or afterwards, but it is natural and without the usual resistance, and just comes.
Having come from a traumatic past myself, I came into this work knowing I had to heal myself before I could start working with others or build a practice, and that meant really moving the needle on my own personal development in a short amount of time.
I spent the first year and a half working solely on myself before practicing with clients, and I continue to work on myself daily, because when you have complex trauma, it can be hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
This is why this work is my passion though, because I believe it’s possible to transform your life regardless of your past experiences or how deeply it has effected you and I am living proof of that.
The Impact:
If you had a super megaphone that, when you speak into, the whole world will hear your message, what would you say?
My message is this…
No one is meant to be someone other than who they really are inside.
We all came here to experience life, and learn to decipher the difference between what is ours and what is not, so that we can expand upon the consciousness of who we truly are and come back home to ourselves.
So many people are lost and think that life just happens to them and that they don’t have a choice, but they do and once you start making empowered choices, it just gets easier from there.
What is the greatest lesson you have learned in your life?
The greatest lesson I have learned in life that has given me the most leverage on how to awaken to my greatest potential is, that life is what you make of it, regardless of what you’ve experienced and what you’ve been led to believe.
Everything in our lives is at the hands of our own creation, and we can either fall victim to it or we can create with intention.
There’s not one aspect of our lives that exists that we are not a match for on some level, due to our emotional set point.
Often innocently, we attract or allow the conditions of our life, rather than stumbling upon them by happenstance.
Because of this, everything we experience is a mirror of our inner emotional reality.
In this way, you can begin to read your life as though every aspect of it is saying something about you and when you make a conscious effort to notice these things, you can begin to take control of how the story plays out… how you show up in life, how you love or have difficulty loving, how others treat you or you treat them, it all says something about how you’ve experienced life and have come to believe that life is happening to you, rather than for you.
When you start observing these patterns, you can see what is acquired apart from what is true, so that you can start to dismantle the false beliefs about who you are.
Your final thoughts?
I would like to say to those reading this interview, that our beliefs and perspectives control everything about our lives, yet we may be deceiving ourselves and blaming others for our own victimhood without seeing the role that we play in the making of our own lives.
If we don’t question our own beliefs and start to notice our own patterns or where our thoughts come from, we do a disservice to ourselves and never really fully live or fulfill our purpose.
We are the only ones who can make the kind of difference in our lives that will stick, but to do this, we have to utilize the power of our choices and learn to be our own authority in life.
If this speaks to you, I know you are meant for more and for whatever reason, you are playing small or hiding from your greatest potential because you have forgotten just how powerful you really are.
But, I’m here to tell you that it’s not too late.
If you are still alive, there is still time to put yourself first.
There’s still time to choose differently and create the life you want, and I can help you get there.
Where Can You Find Tara Chatterton?
If you liked this interview and you would love to free yourself from the issues that are keeping you stuck and reliving your past, so that you can finally awaken to your true self and align with the life you’ve always wanted, go to www.tarachatterton.com and see how Tara can help you do that.
If you’d like to get a glimpse of her coaching, follow her Facebook, Instagram and Twitter accounts.
If you’d like to connect more personally with her, you can do that through LinkedIn or by sending her a message to her email [email protected]. It was an honor having this interview with her.
Rolande S. Sumner is one of the coaches that we found this month and we did a little interview with her. She impressed us with her vast experience and client centered approach.
She is a retired army veteran and CEO and founder of LASTCo, Life After Service Transitional Coaching. She retired in 2015 and since then, she acquired several coaching certifications and credentials.
She had a hard time transitioning from life in the military and finding who she was outside of the uniform. That time allowed her to rediscover her dreams.
Now, she is helping people who want t transition after service, women coaches and new business owners to integrate faith into their business and succeed. Here is what she said.
Meet Life Coach Rolande S. Sumner:
Name: Rolande S. Sumner, PCC, ELP-MP, CTDS
Pillar: The Spirit, The Mind
Who is this coach for: People after service who want to transition into normal life, women coaches and new business owners.
How they can help: Through deep listening and coaching, integrating faith and business to create God centered programs and services.
First of all, how are you and your family doing in these Pandemic times?
My family and I are thriving and thankful for every day we have each other.
How does the coronavirus pandemic affect your clients? Did it affect you at all?
At first, the coronavirus virus brought my business to a screeching halt.
However, it gave me time for prayer, self reflection, learning, and strategizing.
What are the biggest lessons that you learned in this pandemic?
I was reminded that life is short.
Many people of all ages died a painful death.
Some of them wished they lived life more and did things differently.
I am more motivated to live fully and help others do the same.
I don’t want to go to heaven and look back at all the blessings left behind because of fear.
The Origin:
Tell us about you, your career, how you started with your coaching career?
I am a retired US Army veteran, CEO and Founder of Life After Service Transitional Coaching LLC® (LASTCo), and a Business Startup Development Expert.
Since my 2015 retirement from the military, I have gained several coaching certifications and credentials, including Professional Certified Coach (PCC) via the International Coaching Federation, COR.E Transitions Dynamics Specialist (CTDS), and Energy Leadership Index Master Practitioner.
In addition to my professional coaching certifications, I am an award winning co author of “Behind the Ranks Vol.”
LASTCo has received the Alignable Local Business of the Year award for two consecutive years, as well as being SC Women Owned Business Certified and Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business verified.
As a Business Startup Development Coach and Consultant, I work with new women coaches to integrate faith and business to create God centered programs and services.
LASTCo’s subsidiary, Business Launch Prep School (BLPS), is a 3 month start up program that builds a solid foundation for new business owners and those looking to relaunch.
I aim to co create a firm foundation, with BLPS’ 4 Foundational Pillars, to guide students towards time and money freedom and begin building a generational legacy.
I began my business with research and lots of trial and error, gaining shareable knowledge passed on to clients allowing them to shorten the learning curve to reach their startup goals sooner.
In BLPS, students complete the program with the four pillars of a successful business foundation in place.
The 4 Foundational Pillars are the target audience, signature program, pricing, sales, and client experience.
What was your biggest obstacle that you had to overcome in your life that made you who you are today?
To date, my biggest obstacle was my transition from the military.
Once I retired, I had to learn who I was outside of the uniform.
I took that time to peel back the layers and get in touch with the dreams I had let go of.
My military transition allowed me to rediscover and reinvent myself.
The Coaching Style:
How do you innovate with coaching your clients?
To stay innovative in the coaching industry, I’ve found it very helpful to learn constantly.
On any day, I read an article, study, watch informative webinars, and maintain an active membership in the International Coaching Federation.
What’s unique about your coaching approach?
I show up as myself and listen from my heart.
I practice paying attention to the unsaid by observing voice inflection, tone, and body language.
I listen for emotion in addition to the measure.
As an ICF credentialed coach, I was trained to do this.
However, I always had an affinity towards listening in that manner.
My clients are more authentically themselves, creative, and can think more divergently.
What benefits do your clients get after working with you?
Often my clients either benefit in a few ways or a combination thereof.
Many clients make more money in their businesses or with their employers.
Other than that, almost all of my clients walk away feeling heard and have the strength to achieve more in their lives.
Do you use any specific tools to be efficient with your clients?
One tool I use is the bible.
I pray and meditate on his word to serve his will more easily.
This allows me to be fully present, open, and compassionate to others.
I also listen to client and target audience feedback.
They openly share their pain points, solutions they wish to have, and how they want them delivered.
They also keep me sharp by sincerely providing feedback on the service they receive from me.
The Impact:
If you had a super megaphone that, when you speak into, the whole world will hear your message, what would you say?
All great leaders and business professionals receive coaching and mentorship to be their greatest selves and perform at their highest level.
Get a coach, mentorship, mental health professional, or a combination thereof to grow and tap into your greatest potential so you can live a full and regretless life.
What is the greatest lesson you have learned in your life?
As corny as it sounds, I learned to listen to my intuition.
Intuition is a tool from God that signals danger and risk and warns you when something is wrong.
When I was young, I ignored it and paid for it each time.
Now I listen to my intuition. It always led me in the right direction.
Your final thoughts?
Thank you for allowing me to share with your audience.
I’m honored and privileged to be a part of your publication.
Where Can You Find Rolande S. Sumner?
If you liked this interview and if you would love be heard, go to https://lastco.vet and see how Rolande can help you do that.
If you want to enroll in the online university, go to The Business Launch Prep School where you will learn all the essentials to start a business and adopt the right mindsets.
If you would like to connect more personally with her, you can do that through LinkedIn or by sending her a message on her email [email protected]. It was an honor having this interview with her.
Let me introduce myself, my name is Dorte Joy Juul and I am the founder of Cosmos Evolution where we work with Cosmos New Age Energy learning intelligence for the consciousness to become self aware of the whole: Your Higher Self!
I sell wisdom and knowledge.
This whole online concept developed when I took management practice.
Here I became aware that we live destructively in our mindset!
It is not about conflict management, but the conflict revolution!
Cosmos Evolution: The Importance of Self Awareness:
Why do we create problems and challenges?
Problems don’t exist, we humans create them ourselves!
That is why learning wisdom is important…
About the Past, the Present and the Future mindset
Self examination, cleansing for mental health!
You come here to earth, where you end up with your parents and external surroundings (country).
They can teach you what they know and believe because that’s what they grew up with and what they’ve been taught.
What is it that they have learned and what is it that they have not learned and are therefore not aware of, when we talk about the whole in the context?
The new mindset of the future is three dimensional: here we get the wisdom into society, companies, and the education system.
We have two Energies in the world: positive and negative, the balance lies between the two energies.
Therefore, your awareness is important, you must be self aware of which one of the energies you receive and draw on!
Ignorance is what creates poor communication, poor learning, poor working environment, poor management, poor social development, etc.
Design mental health through YOUR awareness for a sustainable mindset and mental health.
When we talk about self management, being able to lead oneself, we also talk about self-insight, culture, and behavior.
For many decades we have separated man into body, mind, and spirituality.
We have doctors who are specialists in the matter of the body, psychologists who are specialists in what concerns the mind, and when it all goes wrong, we seek guidance from the apparent spiritual guides, priests.
They have given us a lot of knowledge.
However, they have made us narrow minded, which has meant that we have lost the overview and thereby how things are connected and created.
This is the difference between wanting to understand and creating the understanding.
This separation or division of man is what has created frustration and powerlessness of our own self understanding.
Therefore, humanity has lost itself, people do not see themselves as a whole person who is both body, mind, and soul.
The understanding of body, mind, and soul has a connection with your thoughts and the word through communication.
Here you go on a discovery within yourself to gather understanding through your awareness, to become self aware of yourself as a whole person! Your Higher Self!
“You are only what you have learned.”
You do not see the world as it is, but as you have been programmed to through your upbringing, through your external environment, through what those around you believe!
From there, our society and the world are created.
The brain can be compared to a hard drive, it receives a lot of information and knowledge, but it does not have the consciousness itself to know what is true and false or good and bad for you.
This is where the deeper meaning will emerge in your self awareness as you become more aware of creation through training with Cosmos New Age Energy.
Here you create a bridge between the heart and the brain, which creates a bridge between EQ and IQ.
“Your empathy and ability to empathize.”
There is probably a point that you can be brain dead and still be alive, but when the heart stops, it’s over.
I think that you have not been allowed to live from the heart, as education and books address the brain and thereby we lose contact with the heart!
Therefore, you can also break yourself down mentally and physically, and create morbid conditions and symptoms.
Body, mind, and soul are connected and here you learn through the heart to clean up the brain. What should be updated and what should we delete?
The whole is about creation in processes and what we create with is our mindset.
Why are you looking for answers outside of yourself?
If we want to change the world, it only happens by changing our mindset. Why?
You make your choices and decisions based on what you believe!
The education system and research have separated man into body, mind, and soul.
The body = the doctor, The mind = psychologist, and the spirituality = priests.
We humans are body, mind, and soul, it is the ignorance that creates frustrations and powerlessness in the problems and challenges that are created.
The teaching is the (re)creation of that understanding via wisdom through consciousness to become self aware of the whole.
We have 2 energies in the world to draw on, the positive and the negative, this is where your consciousness is to become self aware of what kind of energy you are drawing on.
Is it constructive or destructive, it is your responsibility to become aware of it because from there we create.
Paradigm shift: The whole, because the world is energy.
When problems don’t exist!
Why do they exist then? Man’s unconsciousness through the energy in words, feelings, emotions, and action!
How? Because man is not conscious!
How to become one? Through self awareness in words, feelings, emotions, and action in energy! Are they positive or negative because from there we receive! “You can be blinded by the light, or you can get lost in the dark”.
How is it done? Through self awareness.
The world will not become conscious if humanity is not self conscious!
Only there is the world conscious. Because we humans are the creators of the energy in the world! We are each other’s working environment and well being. Create a sustainable mindset for better collaboration and a conscious world.
Scientific studies show that approximately 60 to 80% of human behavior lies on the unconscious level.
This means that man has a consciousness of 20 to 40%.
Therefore, we often talk past each other, create misunderstandings, and make bad decisions.
It is, among other things, The clarity we get through self awareness so that we become more and more aware of our challenges and communication.
It is learned through self examination, by taking control of your mindset.
That awareness means that you become better at navigating through learning processes >challenges or problems<.
Because problems are only created because we need to learn from them.
Otherwise, they weren’t a problem, then we would have acted on them, so they are learning processes for personal development.
The greater self awareness we have, the easier we can navigate and help ourselves, and truly be something for others.
That’s why I’m a good coach, because I’ve been training my consciousness all my life.
I want you to learn how to train your awareness to become self aware, that’s why I have created online courses.
I have trained my consciousness all my life, through How and Why in my problems and challenges.
When problems don’t exist, why do they exist?
Are you seeking the truth in your experiences, to become more aware and enlightened in your life’s challenges for more wisdom and Spiritual growth?
Or do you seek power and influence through money, or titles because you believe that money, power, and influence give you more awareness?
Have you reflected on it?
Cosmos Evolution is about awareness of your self awareness, turning your weaknesses into your strengths, and everything that lies on the unconscious level also called the shadow sides of the mind.
Clean up your challenges and problems (your defenses and reactive behavior) so that there will be more space for your awareness and your self awareness will grow.
Create balance in your outer and inner world. (Your inner compass)
Here comes the mission, vision, values and the goal of Cosmos Evolution purpose and what does Cosmos Evolution offer?
Coaching, sparring of consultant services, and training through online courses, as well as lectures.
Cosmos New Age Learning Intelligence for wisdom.
When the problems don’t exist, why do they exist?
Research and the Education system have separated man into body, mind, and soul.
The separation has meant that man has lost contact with his inner self, the “I”, which is also your higher self. The truth of man, thy wisdom!
Until now, the world has lived in a two dimensional mindset, with right and wrong, good and bad, and healthy and unhealthy.
The balance, truth, and wisdom lie between the positive and the negative, here you become aware of whether you are constructive or destructive in your actions.
This is where you train your consciousness to become self aware of a holistic mindset.
Positive thinking is being able to see the positive in the negative.
“You’re learning processes for personal development.”
Here you turn your weaknesses into strengths. You take back your inner power.
Cosmos Evolution offers learning in the three dimensional way of thinking, where the awareness of how body, mind, and soul are connected with your thoughts and communication.
Without that knowledge, we are not aware of why and how we create positive and negative consequences.
Sustainable thinking!
Become self aware and make a difference. We are each other’s cooperation and working environment, for the well being of a shared world.
Cosmos Evolution Mission:
Cosmos Evolution teaches and coaches new communication skills through the wisdom of creating a holistic mindset for consciousness.
The new learning intelligence will transform and develop our schools, companies, society, and the world, through the strategy of visual thinking with Cosmos New Age Energy which is a new form of intelligence through the three dimensional mindset that means everything.
It’s about YOU and RELATIONSHIPS and COLLABORATION FOR NEW COMMUNICATION SKILLS through self awareness!
That awareness provides the understanding of how body, mind, and soul are connected with your communication, and from there you can experience how problems and challenges are created.
You can break yourself down and you can build and heal yourself.
A revolution within new intelligence and learning methods around conflict management.
Create quality of life, joy, and balance for you and the whole world.
Know the energy you draw on, positive or negative?
The energy is the value for the strategy.
Gets values into companies and society for new business and social culture through mental health.
Cosmos Evolution Vision:
To be the best most attractive company in the wisdom of holistic communication skills and development of personal growth through competence development of employees, management development, and personal development as well as for private and companies.
Self management and change management is being able to manage yourself!
Individual learning and joint learning for personal growth and development.
Teaching EQ, values and the power of words through communication skills, where the pervasive tools are used in everyday life.
It will give the individual teams and individuals the opportunity to see their own strengths and resources.
At the same time, it will also provide insight and clarity on where the individual can strengthen themselves, and through that realization, team development and joint management will create greater growth and better well being, which prevents a good working environment.
It also results in a healthy value base and goal setting being created in one and the same workflow.
Visionary:
Design your behavior through your awareness for new communication skills!
Learn how to take control of your mindset, because how will you be able to make constructive choices and decisions when you don’t know the difference between feelings and emotions?
How will you be able to create the quality of life, joy, and balance when you don’t know the energy you draw on? Is it positive or negative?
Therefore, your awareness to be self aware is important!
Spaciousness via new learning intelligence:
Being able to see the positive in the negative for personal growth and common goals.
Break down the hamster wheel for yourself and others.
Nothing can be fought but everything can be dissolved.
Think positive.
Unique:
Creating value with Cosmos’ two energies, the light or the dark, the balance lies in between, and this is the awareness you must be aware of if you and we are to have a society and the world in balance, joy, and quality of life.
Unifying:
The awareness of the consequences of choices and decisions.
Wisdom is being aware of what you say and do, and also going in the same direction for common goals.
Implement bar:
Take control of your mindset and learn through the three dimensional learning environment via the wisdom to see the difference and raise your awareness, your inner power!
Cosmos Evolution Values:
Cosmos Evolution’s shared value base is that we are passionate and ambitious for the wisdom of holistic overall development for companies, community development, and personal growth through the development of emotional and spiritual awareness through communication skills because all communication is behavior.
Our values are based on honesty, credibility via trust, and respect to materialize quality of life, joy, and balance in the world.
Passionate about holistic overall development because everything has a cause and connection because everything is connected.
It provides a completely new dimension to look at our problems, plus it provides a completely new business and collaborative development for new business and social culture.
Everything lies in our communication and mind because that is where you and we create from.
Each helps to halve the costs of the health care system and create well being and quality of life through mental health.
We are here to create results both on the bottom line and personal growth for mental health, well being, and competencies through communication skills via the self awareness to navigate through everyday problems and challenges.
We are ambitious in terms of goals and execution, as the art is to be able to receive and see the positive in problems and challenges for personal growth.
The value base is closely linked to the organization’s mission.
While the mission says what we must do, the values say something about the way we fulfill the mission.
The value base is also linked to the vision. They must help ensure common footing on the journey towards the vision.
Visual Thinking Strategy:
Cosmos New Age Energy is a new form of intelligence via the three dimensional mindset that means everything.
It’s about YOU and RELATIONSHIPS and COLLABORATION FOR NEW COMMUNICATION SKILLS via your consciousness!
A revolution within new intelligence and learning methods around conflict management.
Example 1: Is Anxiety a Problem?
Problems are often not the problem!
That is what creates the problem, our mind of which we are not aware!
If you don’t know why, you don’t know how we create problems and challenges, both for yourself and others! (as well as society, companies, and the world)
The ignorance of others about themselves affects themselves and others, therefore emotional intelligence is important!
Many do not know the anxiety’s true signal because they have never worked with their behavior (mind) and therefore they react in defense or become passive in the anxiety.
Many are afraid of losing face because they think they are not good enough or they have to prove their worth.
This is where our two dimensional mindset lives.
The problem is not the problem, it is our mind, our behavior.
All communication is Behavior.
Cosmos Evolution teaches behavior and communication skills.
Take control of your mind and become self aware through the wisdom to see the difference in the conflict.
As you can see, the problems are not outside ourselves, but within ourselves (Behavior).
Example 2: Is Anxiety Signaling Danger?
Emotional intelligence and self examination!
How does the mind affect: words, feelings, emotions (Anxiety, anger, and sadness)…
..Actions through choices and decisions in energy!
Scenario 1:
Peter, aged 30, suffered from anxiety and depression, and the municipality helped him with housing and work.
When Peter started work, he said he experienced anxiety.
What he experienced were nervousness and uncertainty, so the anxiety was there to sharpen his attention, to see, listen and learn.
Anxiety is not dangerous, it is our survival signal to be awake and aware of what we are standing in and experiencing.
It is therefore important to become aware of the difference in the power of the word.
If Peter worked on self awareness via self examination of feelings and emotional intelligence, he would know that no one wanted to harm him.
It was really about the anxiety trying to sharpen his attention to the nervousness and uncertainty.
It is completely normal to experience nervousness and uncertainty, therefore anxiety is a help to tell you and him that you have to pay attention, if you sharpen your attention to listen and learn what they tell and show you, the anxiety evaporates.
Because you focus, the nervousness and uncertainty disappear the more you learn.
For that, you need to use your attention.
But why do we often associate anxiety with being afraid or fearful?
For example, anxiety trained in defenses.
We have learned that anxiety is dangerous and unpleasant.
For example, a child of approximately 2 years approaching the road:
“Be careful, cars are dangerous!”
This phrase is often heard in different guises.
Here the child is trained that anxiety is dangerous.
This can lead to anxiety about taking responsibility and acting like an adult.
It is programmed into the cells’ memory.
Therefore, body, mind, and soul have a connection with our communication via the power of the word.
Example 3: Emotional Intelligence Through Wisdom.
No one has taught us about the mind, that it has a connection with your outer and inner world, as a compass to navigate each day.
I would like to share what I have learned, because it has helped me and I have helped others via coaching in self awareness and awareness, which is why I have created the online course for you.
Here is a summary of a coaching session I had with a woman who had been to both a doctor and a psychologist before she came across me.
She almost felt that all options had been tried.
It took a maximum of an hour to get this clarity.
Faith is what you believe. And we believe in authorities.
The woman without limits:
I had an interview with a woman who was on sick leave with stress and depression.
I made it clear to her that I do not believe in illness, but that it is an imbalance of the mind.
That was actually her experience as well.
But she was not aware of why and how it was connected.
Therefore, she decided that she would like to start running to clear her head and have some time for herself.
Most of all, she wanted to have joy in her life!
After she had been telling for a while, she mentions that her friends often asked her, why are you in it?
I interrupted and asked, “What are you into?”
“Yes, we have a child who has ADHD, and she grabs me, pulls my hair, and sticks her fingers in my eyes. Yes, she bit me too!”
I laughed a little and said “Your child should have a trophy for patience, tolerance, and perseverance. Woman, you have no boundaries, and your child tries in vain to seek your boundaries, but you have none. Children reflect the parents’ shortcomings, so you can say that we actually get the children to learn from them.”
She sat for 30 seconds, then she said: “God, it’s a whole new life.”
“Yes, now you will see and experience the joy in your life. Enjoy it!”
Why did it only take one session? Because I have trained my consciousness since I was a child, therefore I can help you with clarity faster!
Wisdom is awareness and no one becomes aware until they are self aware.
Visual Thinking helps you with that through wisdom.
This is where YOU rebuild, to design the mind via consciousness to become self aware, your inner power.
Knowledge and wisdom are 2 different kinds of learning intelligence.
Knowledge is IQ where you learn outside yourself. Here you need to understand, so here we separate the problems into boxes or systems.
Wisdom is EQ where you learn within yourself through introspection about the power of the word. Here a holistic whole is created and creates the connection between the issues.
Cosmos New Age Energy learning intelligence for your inner power, why?
Because problems are created by what we send out from the mind via our consciousness.
Consciousness is becoming self aware, for here lies your wisdom, your insight, your clarity, your power.
No people become aware until they are self aware, and this is created through the three dimensional mindset and learning environment.
By Dr. Dolores Fazzino, DNP, Nurse Practitioner, Medical Intuitive, Energy Whisperer.
As business owners and professionals, our brand and who we are is everything.
One of the most important things I have learned as a business owner is the alignment of my message, my brand, my actions, and myself. Yes, myself!
Be More Authentic and Genuine!
The saying “everywhere you go here you are” so well captures this concept.
An example would be a person who is very unhappy in their work, feels that leaving and going someplace else would be a solution.
The unhappy person leaves and starts their new job, and shortly after, they are unhappy.
The common denominator is the job, but it may be the person.
Most likely, the person maybe unhappy in their life, and this overflows and affects each and every situation that they experience.
Believe it or not, our energetic alignment is more important than many have given it credit.
…Especially in Business!
As business owners, we continue to move in unchartered territory, and much uncertainty.
This is not for the faint of heart.
It takes faith, trust, courage, and being brave to be in alignment with ourselves and our messaging.
Our most important asset as a business owner is our message, how it feels, and the congruency of it and how it aligns with our body, mind, and soul.
This is our secret sauce, the juice of who we are that will attract what we would like to experience in our professional and personal life.
Our business is an extension of ourselves, our body, mind, and soul.
What is even more important now is the energy of our message.
Your message has an energetic vibration that captures the essence of who you are.
Is your message vibrating higher than who you are or where you are at in your life?
Or are you downplaying your message, allowing it to vibrate lower than who you are?
Bottom line, are you vibrating at the same frequency as your message?
These are some questions to consider and contemplate.
Some things to, contemplate, and integrate…
1. Is it who we are or are we pretending to be or deliver something that is not who we are?
2. Are you in integrity with your message? Walking your talk or leading by example? Or are you saying one thing and showing up as someone or something else?
3. Is there a flow to and connection to your messaging or is it choppy and out of alignment?
4. Are you cutting and pasting others’ ideas, templates, and or processes instead of being the creator of your own? There is a lot of this happening today. It is very unauthentic and ingenuine.
Remember that everything is energy.
When there is a disconnect in the messaging or it is not aligned with the brand, or the messaging is not aligned with who we are as a person, Houston, we have a problem!
This can also affect the success of our business as well, the type of clients you are attracting, and the opportunities or lack of them you are receiving.
It is a feel thing.
Everything is interconnected in ways we have no idea of.
I describe this as more of a matrix, than a linear progression.
Who we are as a person is what we bring to the world.
Remember everything is energy, a frequency, and a feel.
You may think that you can confine this to separate boxes, in theory that may work, yet in reality that is not true.
Who you are permeates all aspects of life. It is your energy.
So how does one create the aligned energetic message?
Here are my 3 golden nuggets for this…
3 Golden Nuggets to Be More Authentic and Genuine:
1. Connect with your heart.
When you are in your heart when you listen, communicate, and write, you are connecting with your inner wisdom and sharing the message that is aligned with your essence.
Even though you may not know the how, somehow you say the right thing.
2. Be in the present moment.
When you are in the present moment you can better connect with your heart and be completely in your physical body.
All we have is this moment.
This helps to ground your message in reality, this moment, and even make it evergreen.
3. Listen to your intuition.
When you are in the present moment, you are available to hear and listen to your intuition, your inner guidance system.
We are offered jewels and precious ideas if we allow ourselves, give ourselves permission, and receive what it has to offer.
Most importantly, trust what it is saying no matter what our mind and our ego is saying counter to this innate truth.
When you partner with your intuition to receive your messaging, you say the right thing, provide authentic and genuine copy.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing every industry, including consulting. AI for consultants is one way to work smarter (not harder) while providing greater value for your clients.
The ability of AI to process large amounts of data quickly and accurately, uncover hidden patterns and insights, and automate repetitive tasks makes it a powerful tool for consultants.
In this article, we will explore the effective use of AI for consultants, including its potential impact, use cases, benefits, challenges, best practices, and future developments.
AI for Consultants:
Introduction to AI and Its Potential Impact on Consulting:
AI simulates human intelligence processes through computer systems, including learning, reasoning, and self correction.
The potential impact of AI on consulting is vast, as it can significantly improve the quality and efficiency of services provided to clients.
AI can analyze large datasets, detect patterns and trends, and provide insights that would otherwise be missed.
This can help consultants make data driven decisions and provide more accurate recommendations to clients.
There are various use cases for AI in consulting, such as market analysis, customer segmentation, trend analysis, and risk assessment.
For example, AI can analyze customer data to identify patterns in behavior and preferences, which can help consultants develop more targeted marketing campaigns.
AI can also analyze market trends to help consultants identify new opportunities and assess the potential risks of a given market.
Benefits and Challenges of Using AI for Consultants:
The benefits of using AI in consulting include increased efficiency, improved accuracy, and the ability to focus on higher level tasks.
AI can automate repetitive and time consuming tasks, such as data entry and analysis, freeing up consultants to focus on more strategic and creative work.
However, there are challenges to using AI in consulting, such as data privacy concerns, the need for specialized skills and expertise, and potential biases in the data.
It is essential to address these challenges to ensure the effective use of AI in consulting.
Consider The Best Practices for Using AI in Consulting:
To use AI effectively in consulting, it is crucial to follow best practices.
One of the most important is to select the right AI tools for the task.
Various AI tools are available, and choosing the one best suited for the specific use case is essential.
It is also crucial to ensure data quality and accuracy by cleaning and validating data before using it in AI models.
Addressing potential biases in the data is also critical to ensure that the AI models do not perpetuate existing biases.
Future of AI in Consulting:
The future of AI in consulting is promising, with continued advancements in AI technologies and tools.
One of the most significant developments is the increasing use of machine learning, a type of AI that allows systems to learn and improve from experience without being explicitly programmed.
This can help consultants develop more accurate predictions and recommendations, leading to better decision making.
The use of natural language processing (NLP) is also growing, allowing systems to understand and analyze human language, making it easier to extract insights from unstructured data.
The effective use of AI is critical for consultants to remain competitive and provide high quality services to their clients.
AI can significantly improve the quality and efficiency of services provided by consultants, but it is essential to address the challenges and follow best practices.
As AI technologies continue to advance, the potential for their use in consulting will only grow.
Consultants who stay up to date with the latest AI technologies and tools will be better equipped to provide value to their clients and remain competitive.
By leveraging AI, consultants can improve the quality and efficiency of their work, providing their clients with more accurate and valuable insights.
Here are three ways you can do this…
3 Ways How to Leverage AI for Consultants:
1. Automated data analysis.
One of the most significant benefits of AI in consulting is its ability to automate data analysis.
AI can analyze vast amounts of data quickly and accurately, allowing consultants to identify patterns, insights, and trends that would be difficult or impossible to detect manually.
Consultants can leverage AI to conduct in depth market analysis, customer segmentation, trend analysis, and risk assessment, providing their clients with valuable insights to help them make data driven decisions.
A marketing consultant can use AI to analyze customer data and identify patterns in behavior and preferences.
This can help the consultant develop targeted marketing campaigns more likely to resonate with their client.
A financial consultant can analyze market trends and assess the potential risks of a given market.
This can help the consultant develop investment strategies that generate positive returns.
2. Personalized recommendations.
Another way consultants can leverage AI is by developing personalized client recommendations.
AI can analyze large amounts of data to identify individual preferences, behaviors, and needs, allowing consultants to provide personalized offers tailored to their client’s needs.
For example, a healthcare consultant can use AI to analyze patient data and identify patterns in health outcomes.
This can help the consultant develop personalized treatment plans tailored to the patient’s needs.
Similarly, a financial consultant can use AI to analyze client data and create personalized investment strategies that align with the client’s goals, risk tolerance, and preferences.
3. Process automation.
AI can also be leveraged to automate repetitive and time consuming tasks, freeing up consultants to focus on more strategic and creative work.
This can help consultants increase efficiency, reduce errors, and deliver results faster.
For example, a management consultant can use AI to automate data entry and analysis, allowing them to spend more time developing new strategies and ideas for their clients.
Similarly, a marketing consultant can use AI to automate lead generation and lead scoring, allowing them to focus on developing more targeted marketing campaigns.
By automating repetitive tasks, consultants can increase their productivity, improve the quality of their work, and deliver better results to their clients.
