Celebrating 2 Years!

Jan 11

Will you celebrate with me?

This week I am thrilled to honor the 2nd anniversary of my business, Endurance Management Coaching.

Many of you have been here from the start. Many of you are new to me and my work. In both cases, what might have seemed easy was a number of years in the making.

Here is the origin story for Endurance Management Coaching…

There are some things you can’t unknow. There becomes a before knowing and an after knowing.

For me, it was Friday, January 11, 2020.

It was day one of a three day training weekend. I signed up for a course with Co-Active Training Institute, believing every people manager should receive proper training on how to be an effective Coach.

Within 2 hours of the training starting, I was coached by the facilitator in front of a group of 25 strangers. Not having met me, not knowing me, she looked me dead in the eye and said, “You are a leader.”

I was transformed by the experience.

I was transformed by the power of being coached.

I went home with adrenaline pumping in my veins. I'd found the missing piece to my puzzle. That was Friday.

By Sunday, I’d started emailing everyone I knew to announce I was starting my business.

In between Friday and Sunday, I kept revisiting two previous moments:

March 2016 - Yelp Manager Summit
April 2019 - Trail Running Retreat

These represent two distinct times I wrote down and communicated what I wanted for my career.

For the Yelp Manager Summit, an Executive Coach worked with us and we did a B.H.A.G exercise - Big Hairy Audacious Goal. You want to know what I literally wrote down on March 25, 2016 as my B.H.A.G? “Corporate Training Consultant.” Literally. I am looking at that notebook page right now as I type this. (PS - you're 42% more likely to hit a goal you write down.)

I didn't know all the details and I wasn't sure what it really meant. Here's what I did know: I love developing people and there is a need in corporate America.

It was in that Phoenix meeting room where I stood in a large circle with the rest of the leadership team (many of whom are receiving this now) and I declared that in the next 5-8 years, I wanted to start my own business. (PSS - you're 65% more likely to hit a goal you share with others.)

Then there was the flight from Oakland to Spokane in April 2019. I was heading to a trail running and yoga retreat, 8 months postpartum.

As a new mom, my priorities shifted. I needed a different solution. I needed to feel more energy from the work I was doing to justify the time the work took away from him.

I spent the 2 hour flight writing down ideas for business names, training offerings, target audiences, packages, and 2 sentence elevator pitches. By the end of the 2 hours, what had felt opaque and unattainable started to become crystal clear and achievable.

I spent the next few days running the mountains of Eastern Washington and telling my girlfriends, Lindsey and Diana, about my dream, my vision.

Well, circling back to Friday, January 11, 2020, my moment of knowing, I didn't need to wait the 5-8 years I'd declared in 2016. My urgency to do the work I was called to do was like a ringing cowbell in my ear.

It was time. It was my time.

I cracked back open that notebook from the trail running retreat and secured Endurance Management Coaching as my DBA.

And as they say…The rest is history.

I share this today for two reasons:

You allow me into your life and inbox and I want to celebrate with you.
Many of you have Big, Hairy, Audacious Goals and you're looking for the moment to start, to commit. If sharing my story inspires even 1 person to take action, well, all I can say is HELL YES!

Thank you for being on this journey with me. Thank you for letting me be part of your journey.

Here is to many more years and continuing my mission to create the next generation of incredible people leaders!