Testimonials of Paula's Coaching

I still vividly remember meeting Paula decades ago, at a state-wide convention. As she spoke she commanded the room, yet she was warm, inclusive and objective. Ever since I have seen her leadership, mentorship, coaching, and motivation first hand. Paula has that rare combination of knowledge, empathy, warmth, and the ‘hands-on’ experience you want in someone coaching you and helping you enhance your life, your work, or your team. I know I look forward to working with her personally, and with my team. 

It’s been awesome working with Paula. She is a thoughtful listener and regularly helps me hear myself. She asks powerful questions which help me identify blockers that I’ve put in my own way. I only have positive things to say about Paula and her sincere engagement as a coach.
 

Single’s Conference:

After previous experience with Paula and her ability to motivate and inspire groups of people, I invited her to be the Keynote Speaker at a Singles Conference attended by hundreds of single adults from all over southern California. She delivered an inspired message that encouraged and uplifted all who attended. Paula is able to tailor a message to her audience and give them the information they want, and motivation that they may not realize they need.  As a speaker Paula is top notch, always prepared, upbeat, and a pleasure to work with.

  I had the opportunity to work with Paula in an organization where she served as the president, and I was one of her selected counselors. She was able to professionally, compassionately and confidentially deal with a variety of issues that arose in the year that we worked together. She has a fantastic sense of humor, is a great teacher and mentor, and can make even the most mundane but necessary tasks a pleasure to participate in. Since then I have frequently sought out her wise and unbiased counsel when tricky situations arise and life happens.

  Coaching Session:

I have had a lengthy career in the BioPharma and Medical Device industries and recently, because of the downturn in the economy and cutbacks, was laid off and found myself looking for new opportunities. I took the time for coaching with Paula and identified steps I could take to market myself better. Paula has the ability to listen and restate the things I was saying in a way that helped me better understand what I was looking for. I left our session with more ideas about effective job search and time management techniques, as well as having establishing parameters for the types of opportunities I would pursue, and those that were not in my best interest.  I highly recommend her coaching services.

Working with Paula has been one of the greatest blessings in my journey! I first started working with Paula in the midst of a very stressful time of my life — I was sleeping 3 hours a night, barely eating, taking 21 units at Arizona State University, pursuing 3 degrees, running my own business, interning for a marketing company in the Phoenix area, running a personal development program for Barrett the Honors college, studying for my coaching certifications, coaching 3-4 clients a week. I had just started a new organization at ASU teaching students professional public speaking. In the free time I didn’t have, I would be at every networking event I could go to, every Toastmasters meeting, every National Speakers Association meeting. I was beside myself, with back-to-back meetings from 5am until midnight every day, including weekends. I was falling apart but I couldn’t let go of anything because I was so addicted to all the work. My first coaching call with Paula I remember how my mind was in a million places and before I got on the call with her, I remember thinking, “Oh gosh, I really don’t have time for this coaching call right now.” I was a tornado of chaos. My apartment was a mess. I was a mess. In our first call, I remembered how I had a workshop the next day I needed to prepare for, and I hadn’t even started working on the content for the workshop, because I hadn’t had time, and I had no idea where to start. It was Paula’s light of encouragement that calmed me down, brought out my creativity, and convinced me I could do it. And then I did… and the workshop was a success! It was the first workshop I’d done! That victory led to even more victories as Paula started to help me unravel all the lies I had built my hectic work schedule upon. She helped me have the biggest breakthrough of my 21 years on this earth when I realized that everything I was doing was from a place of fear and lack… not absolute passion and abundance. I had my self-worth so wrapped up in my achievements and work that I was drowning underneath the pressure of it all that had built up. Paula helped me do the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life… take a step back and let go. I let go of things I never thought I’d be able to let go of. I let go of some of my work. She helped me work through all the guilt I felt around letting go. She helped me see WHO I really am underneath the facade of accomplishment I had built my life upon. She helped me come back to God and focus on my relationship with Him. I became a new person during the months I got to work with Paula. By November, I felt such peace and freedom in my life as I surrendered the pressure and strengthened my relationship with God. Paula has been a true angel in my life and helped me focus on and remember what is truly most important above all else in this life. Had I not worked with Paula, I can’t imagine where I’d be today. I definitely would not have ever taken the time to be 21 years old in college and spend time with friends my senior year if I hadn’t worked with Paula. I would have spent every moment working as I had done my whole life. Now, I have so much more balance and overall happiness and joy in my life! Paula is the most encouraging and joyful coach I have ever met (and I’m a coach myself and have been in this industry now for 2 years). She is the brightest beam of light and truth and her passion for life is infectious! I trust her with my whole heart and felt so comfortable opening up to her about things I had never been able to admit to anyone. She is full of love, grace, intuition, and compassionate kindness! She will challenge you to truly grow to the next level! Simply put… Paula is the most amazing coach I have ever worked with, and I don’t usually give out testimonials or compliments, unless I mean it with my whole entire being! Paula is a blessing to this entire world, and I know that anyone who works with Paula will quickly come to realize how lucky they are.