Carla-Marie
“As a professional who does a lot of freelance work and so who works a lot for myself and by myself, I wanted to try working with a coach, someone who I could talk to about my ambitions in life and career and discuss ways I could achieve goals.
I met Jo on a course before I started working with her. As part of the course she spoke about her Sober Jo programme and her coaching business. I loved her energy, her passion and her genuine investment in helping people through a variety of different journeys, and I came away thinking, I would love to work with her.
When I started working with Jo I didn’t really know what to expect from our time together, I just knew I wanted a space to discover and access to guidance.
Jo is such a warm, bubbly, incredibly caring and genuine person, which is exactly the type of person you need when embarking on a (sometimes difficult) journey of evaluating yourself, your life, your work and your goals and ambitions.
Jo helped me realise some of the negative, habitual behaviours that had subconsciously become a part of my life, that were inevitably holding me back. She helped me discover ways I could change these behaviours and mindsets that were not serving me.
She provided a safe space for me to talk freely about my ambitions, my fears, challenges, career goals, personal struggles, my honest desires, all without judgement and with only my best interests in mind, and helped me to pick apart all of these things in order to help me to come to my own discovery of how to move forward, change the situation, use it, learn from it.
I felt supported by her every step of the way and knew I could turn to her if I had any questions or worries or needed any help. It felt great to have my own personal cheerleader.
Jo implemented practical tasks into my coaching that I could do in my own time that would help me evaluate my life, and in order to encourage positive routines that would serve me personally and professionally.
The journey I went on with Jo was not an easy one, you start with one idea of how you need help and then along the way it opens up things that you weren’t so aware of, but for me that is what you want from coaching as you are not always aware of the problems and you don’t always have all the answers.
What makes Jo unique as a coach is not only her amazing personality and her skill as a professional yet personal coach, but also I think that Jo’s own personal sobriety journey gives her coaching a fresh perspective on living your best life, and gaining an awareness of things that don’t serve you.”