
Can You Be A Successful and Effective Life Coach If You Don’t Have Your Life Together?
One of the most common misconceptions we hear from people about life coaching is that you must have your life entirely ‘together’, (aka borderline or actually perfect) to be a good coach. Whether you’re thinking about stepping into life coaching as a career, a trainee life coach, newly graduated or even well established, this is a pervasive narrative we regularly hear whereby life coaches should be perfect or near to it, including having perfect lives, never struggling with things like mental health difficulties or relationships and that their lives and businesses should be on a straightforward trajectory upwards, never experiencing anything challenging or difficult. And so when we were asked this question for an episode of Inspired Coach Podcast by Beautiful You Coach Tanya Jones...

Must Read Personal Development Books For An Amazing Life (Especially If You Are Thinking About Becoming a Life Coach!)
Here’s something we know for sure... People start to feel a desire to become a life coach for many different reasons. It can be a life altering event. A spiritual awakening. A great experience of being coached themselves. Or simply a longing and desire they have in their heart to be in deep service to people in an amazing way. Along the way to exploring the path of becoming a life coach, or actually making the leap to becoming one, incredible and life affirming BOOKS are so often a welcome companion on that path. Books that are inspiring, challenging, heart opening and more. If you are considering becoming a life coach the following books are ones we highly recommend as amazing reading for your personal development and growth. Each of them will support you in different ways to...

Seven Myths About Being a Life Coach We Need To Talk About!
Life Coaching is a truly amazing way to be in service to people and create your own business. We should know! We’ve now trained over 2,500 life coaches from all corners of the globe - with we know more to come. And we’ve seen countless times what people can achieve in their life when they have the support of an incredible life coach AND what coaches can achieve in a business of their dreams too. Every day we speak with people dreaming about taking the leap to become a life coach. Yet one of the things we see, (more often than we’d care to!) are incredible humans who want to make a difference, see others grow and shine, work with people they love and create their own incredible business and a life they love, hold back from stepping fully into that dream because they’ve been...

Introducing Caroline Donahue – 2021-2022 Podcast of the Year winner
Welcome to our blog series profiling the winners of the 2021-2022 Beautiful You Coaching Academy Awards. The awards aim to uplift and honour our worldwide community of coaches and the incredible work they are doing through their coaching, events, programs, books, products, podcasts and more. Get ready to have your mind and heart blown wide open and be inspired by an incredible round-up of coaches. Today we’d love to introduce you to our 2021-2022 Podcast of the Year Award winner, Caroline. Caroline Donahue is an American writer, podcaster, and writing coach living in Berlin. The host of The Secret Library podcast since 2016, she is also the author of Story Arcana: Tarot for Writers. ‘The Secret Library’ podcast is amazing. What made you decide to create it? When I began coaching after...

Introducing Dr Monica D Rajasagram – 2021-2022 Book/Product of the Year winner
Welcome to our blog series profiling the winners of the 2021-2022 Beautiful You Coaching Academy Awards. The awards aim to uplift and honour our worldwide community of coaches and the incredible work they are doing through their coaching, events, programs, books, products, podcasts and more. Get ready to have your mind and heart blown wide open and be inspired by an incredible round-up of coaches. Today we’d love to introduce you to one of our 2021-2022 Book/Product of the Year Award winners, Dr Monica D Rajasagaram. Monica is certified Maxwell Leadership Coach, Author and Speaker and a Tiny Habits certified Instructor. She is also a wife, mum of two girls and a community builder. Monica is passionate about helping ambitious women LEAD and GROW through in life, business and faith. She is...

Introducing Winitha Bonney – 2021-2022 Book/Product of the Year winner
Welcome to our blog series profiling the winners of the 2021-2022 Beautiful You Coaching Academy Awards. The awards aim to uplift and honour our worldwide community of coaches and the incredible work they are doing through their coaching, events, programs, books, products, podcasts and more. Get ready to have your mind and heart blown wide open and be inspired by an incredible round-up of coaches. Today we’d love to introduce you to one of our 2021-2022 Book/Product of the Year Award winners, Winitha Bonney. Winitha Bonney has helped countless companies all around the world to build inclusive, connected and engaged cultures. A CEO and thought leader, she was awarded an Order of Australia Medal for her extensive work in diversity and inclusion in 2021. With many lived experiences, as a...