FAQs
- What should the customer know about your pricing (e.g., discounts, fees)?
First time sessions are always half the price of regular sessions and are 30 minutes. Regular sessions run 50 minutes maximum. I'm offering a substantial discount for a brief time to new local clients of $75 per regular session, having recently relocated across country to Nashville. I also offer customized package deals for further discount.
- What is your typical process for working with a new customer?
The most important aspect of working with a new client is feeling like we're a good fit for each other. The best way to do this is to address one key problem in an area that has been especially challenging for you. Once we've established that working together would truly help you stand up to that challenge, we move forward with creating a concrete game plan of how we're going to face that challenge head on, achieve what relevant goals, and by when.
- What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
My formal education was in the subject of philosophy, where I learned how to think critically and ask pertinent questions that demanded viable results. This coupled with a background in Japanese Zen Buddhism, where I actually participated in full-day sitting meditations in a temple on the outskirts of Kyoto, Japan. Since then, my inclination toward coaching grew with advanced interpersonal communication studies, specifically, a methodology known as Nonviolent Communication. Both helped me develop an intense inner awareness and recognition of, what most coaches would refer to as, the "inner game" that dictates our behaviors and approach to what we do. I spent more time after that pursuing studies in psychology, but my attention quickly turned as well to entrepreneurship and finances, and finally, accelerated learning methodology, where my primary focus became understanding the art of learning how to learn toward attaining greater productivity and more rapid achievement of goals. All these and more improved my own life on a personal level, but it is by bringing these to the forefront of coaching that gave me the understanding necessary to look more deeply into the challenges that others face. That is how I discovered my real passion for coaching as a service. Today, my greatest influences continue to be as diverse as Thich Nhat Hanh and Jon Young to Tony Robbins and Tim Ferris.