Joy!

Something’s missing. 

You can’t quite name it – it’s more of a feeling:  a restless yearning; a notion that time is speeding and you are, in this space, standing still.  So you speed up.  Nothing changes.  So you speed up and take more on and say “yes” to everything that comes your way to prove that you, indeed, are a woman who can bring home the (fake) bacon and fry it up in a pan.

How did you get here?  Wrong question.

Better:  What are you going to do from here on out?

Need a safe space to wonder about answers?  Need a non-judgemental ear and some smart brainstorming?  Need the permission to just be quite for 5 minutes and not to anything?

Right place.  Right here.

First read Danielle Laporte’s essay on coaching (she’s a coach -  I am not afraid to introduce you to other great coaches.  Everything always works out the way it is supposed to.) asking the very pertinent question:  Do you really  need this.     If you think “yes” or “Oh! Hell, yes!” come on back and continue.

Here’s the Run-down

You

1.  You are a woman who wants one-on-one coaching either in person (local to Southern Maryland) or on the phone. 

2. You have or work with a small business or small non-profit, and are entrepreneural and/or solopreneural (which would include most artists!).  There is no clear line between your work and your life because the two seem inextricably entwined.  And you wouldn’t have it any other way.

3.  You understand that coaching is not therapy.  You don’t want to work on “why am I here” but on “how do I get where I want to go.”

4.  You acknowledge that no one has all the answers.  You have a lot of answers that we can uncover together, because you know more about yourself than anyone else will ever know.  You want a partner to help you see things clearly, not a rescuer. 

Me

1.  I do not work with everyone who asks me. 

2.  This is not because I don’t like you. 

It is because I will make sure we are a good fit.  I will learn as much working with you as you learn from me.  It always works that way.  We will influence each other for ever after.  We should both choose carefully and lovingly. 

3.  It may also be because I only take a few clients.  At any moment in time, I may have a full schedule.  But you are always welcome to ask.  If I can’t help you, I may know someone who can.

How to proceed

1.  You email me at:  info@TammyVitale.com. 

2.  I send you an application.  You complete it and send it back to me.

3.  We review it together in a scheduled half-hour phone call or over coffee if you’re local. 

4.  I introduce you to programs based on that interview which I feel are a good fit. 

5.  You get to choose the one that works best for you or none at all.  No hard feelings.  Just joy that we had the opportunity to get to know each other better!

That’s pretty much it.

The ball is in your court.

Testamonials:

Chanda Martin

With your help I was able to recognize that I was in an abusive relationship.  I never knew this until you said, “no one has the right to hit another person, no matter what!  There are no easy hits, only hits that get harder and the abuse just escalates.”     Had we not collaberated, I probably would have been seriously injured by my ex-husband, I would still feel like I didn’t matter much  and I would never have had the courage to do and be the person I am today.  You helped me find my spiritual self and helped me see things I had never seen before . 

Chanda Martin

Our small group recognized the importance of having someone facilitate our actions so that we could accomplish our goals and you were the one we needed. The power of this small group was amazing because we were able to bring the issue to the attention of the elected officials, non-profit groups and social service groups as well as the students of St. Mary’s College. And for the first time, some of the residents affected by the lack of affordable, decent housing felt free to speak up and out.  They felt empowered and became active in bringing this issue to the attention of the general public, the news media and elected official.  With your help, those who  would have been forced out of their homes and forgotten acted on their own behalf and succeeded.<Dudley Lindsley

Tammy Vitale uses her BA in Business Administration, her MA in Story and 20 years’ experience as a community-based organizer to make a safe place for women to step into their own self- power through identifying and changing their internal stories and by using the strength of conscious choices.   It isn’t magic, although in the end it may just feel like it!