The daytime television program called Starting Over has been on the air for about three years now. Starting Over is a scripted, Hollywood, dramatized entertainment TV show. It features women with many different life problems, who have been sequestered in a house under controlled conditions. The show produces good theater and entertaining drama as these women are followed around 24/7 with cameras recording their struggles to overcome their problems. The show provides at least two people they call “Life Coaches” and at least one consulting psychologist to help these women overcome their problems. The show will also provide other resources including makeup artists, hair stylists, and even Jenny Craig to help these women improve their appearance and lose weight, as part of their path to overcome their problems.   more »

Life coaching is making the news more and more every day, and is even being featured on television as content for entertainment shows. Here are two articles discussing life coaching that I’ve run across recently. "Life coaching: Becoming a new you for the New Year." "Life coach could help clear career hurdle." Unfortunately, they presented a confusing and less than accurate picture of what life coaching really is. But, one would suspect that there must be something to this life coaching if the likes of Dr. Phil sends his clients to life coaches and the media continues to talk about it.    more »

Denise Houseberg, a client of The Coach Connection (TCC) and President of MarketExpo.com an online storefront for home and garden manufacturers, received a special national acknowledgement from OPEN from American Express and Count Me In for Women’s Economic Independence as the first Make Mine a $Million Business Program Awardee to surpass $1 million in revenues, on December 6, 2005. Denise of Frisco, Texas was a Make Mine a $million Business award recipient at the Dallas conference in April 2005.    more »

This is my response to a Wall Street Journal Article by Jared Sandberg entitled “Some Office Coaches Whitewash Miseries with Sunny Platitudes.” The web address of the original article: Some Office Coaches Whitewash Miseries with Sunny Platitudes The above captioned article was recently published in The Wall Street Journal and has been the buzz of the coaching community. I felt that the article was very indicative of the overall confusion regarding the life coaching process, and warranted a full response. In essence, I felt it was a very good article that inaccurately, yet understandably, misdirected its criticism towards life coaching. The entire article and my responses are shown below.    more »