Good Neighbor Podcast: Virginia Beach
Good Neighbor Podcast: Virginia Beach
Good Neighbor Podcast: Virginia Beach
Ep. 7 Empowering Women: Breaking Free from Self-Doubt and Embracing Confidence
What if you could break free from self-doubt and people-pleasing to unlock your true potential? Join us for an inspiring conversation with Caroline Brown, an aligned business and confidence coach who transitioned from a cardiac nurse to a transformative guide for women. Caroline reveals her personal journey of overcoming visibility issues and shares powerful strategies to help women conquer challenges like imposter syndrome. Discover how she empowers clients to achieve a harmonious balance between their professional and personal lives, leading to remarkable transformations such as reigniting passion and confidence in business.
Curious about the coaching experience? We're offering a peek into the world of coaching through the lens of Caroline’s free clarity calls. These complimentary one-hour Zoom sessions are an excellent opportunity to explore the benefits of having a supportive guide and access tailored resources. Caroline’s unwavering dedication to helping individuals achieve clarity and direction is evident throughout our discussion. Plus, we dispel common misconceptions about her practice, emphasizing her commitment to working with all women, not just those in nursing. Get ready to be inspired by Caroline’s story and the profound impact she’s making in the Virginia Beach community.
Caroline Brown Coaching
Virginia Beach, VA
www.carolinebrowncoaching.com
This is the Good Neighbor Podcast, the place where local businesses and neighbors come together. Here's your host, Denise Taylor.
Speaker 2:Welcome to the Good Neighbor Podcast for GenuBeach. Today I have Caroline Brown of Caroline Brown Coaching. Thanks so much for being with us, caroline.
Speaker 3:Yeah, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2:Thanks for having me. How long have you been in the coaching business?
Speaker 3:So I am coming up on two years this February. Okay.
Speaker 2:And tell me a little bit about your background, because I know this is not a traditional route most people take. So, yeah, yeah, so.
Speaker 3:I was a nurse. I was a cardiac nurse on and off, in and out of the hospital for a lot of reasons, but I found, I guess about two and a half years ago I found nurse coaching. So I went through a nurse coach certification process, which is not typical and it is very confusing to people, which we can talk about later, but that is how I got into nurse coaching. So I get to support other women now through coaching.
Speaker 2:That's amazing. Tell me your perfect or I'm sure it's very different in your business versus other businesses but your avatar like who are you typically helping right now?
Speaker 3:Yeah, so I am an aligned business and confidence coach for women. So I help women who struggle with visibility people pleasing imposter syndrome, self-doubt. I help them call out the fears and limiting beliefs that are holding them back so that they can create the life and job that aligns with each other. So I can give you an example, if that's helpful. One woman that I worked with for about six months when we started she felt really stuck in her business. She wanted to quit and burn it all down.
Speaker 3:This is a lot of my people and she was just trying to keep everyone happy and burning herself out in the process. So by working together, we built her confidence and she was able to know and value what she brought to the table, increase her prices and only take on jobs that she's super, super excited about, things that light her up, so she's able to show up more fully at home and also enjoy her business more. So creating that alignment and flow between work and life and it's not always perfectly balanced, but knowing when you can give more and when you can pull back so that you can show up completely at work. So all women who are building their business or scaling their business or just wanting to show up more authentically and powerfully at work, wanting to walk into a room and not care what anybody thinks and just be themselves.
Speaker 2:So I think that's such an important thing as a business owner myself, Definitely. I know there was a little clip about Martha Stewart a couple of days ago saying that she's never had imposter syndrome, but I know a lot of us do feel like sometimes we're in a space that maybe we really shouldn't be in. That's really we're not a part of that. So I think that's so important.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and the fears and self-doubt can feel so big at all different points in your business. So just my job is to call them out and help you create that flow and confidence to be fully yourself and build something that's maybe bigger than you thought was possible.
Speaker 2:Absolutely. What do you think is the biggest misconception of your business?
Speaker 3:Yeah. So I think the biggest misconception is that I only coach nurses, which is 100% not true. People hear nurse coach which is why I don't say that anymore and they think that I coach nurses. But I coach all women, obviously. And then they hear I'm a nurse coach and they're like but how does you help women with businesses and confidence? How does that like? How is that preventative care or helping? But I truly believe in a holistic approach and if you are doing a job that you love and showing up fully as yourself, you're eating better, you're drinking less, you're working out more, you're creating more space for things that you love in your life. So I believe that it truly does all work together. But that is the thing I get more most often is that people think I just coach nurses.
Speaker 2:Okay, what would you say has in the last two years? Or well, we can go to another question, but in the last two years, what has been your biggest challenge that you'd like to share and have overcome, or, if you're, even, if you're still working on it, what would be the biggest challenge that you'd like to share and have overcome? Or, if you're, even, if you're still working on it, what would be the biggest challenge that you've come across?
Speaker 3:Oh, in the last two years, okay, well, it's funny, because I believe that you coach the most powerfully when you serve people who are living your journey, that I can really resonate with them. And so my journey was I did not want to build a business online. I did not want to be visible. I would have never come on a podcast or wanted to speak in front of a group. Now, I love doing things like this, but that was not who I was. That was not something I was comfortable doing at all. I almost failed out of speech speaking class in college. The professor was just nice to me. I had complete. I would completely shut down. I saw stars, nothing. So my biggest challenge was becoming visible and learning to step into that over time and learning to not care what anybody thought and just fully be myself. So that has been my huge growth journey, and that's why it's so fun for me to support women who are doing the same.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because it sounds like you've actually gone through that similar journey. You can take those things that you've learned and actually put it into practice with the other women you're working with.
Speaker 3:Yeah, a hundred percent. When someone comes to a call and says that they want to build a business but they're afraid of being visible or there's like that fear of what people think I'm, I get excited. Yeah.
Speaker 2:There is a lot of fear of what people think when you know whether it be you know, motherhood, um, our marriages, our business, and I think we just we're all affected by that in some way shape or form Um outside of your coaching business. I know you have a pretty robust, uh, family life. Tell me a little bit about what you guys like to do for fun, um outside of your business.
Speaker 3:Yeah. So, um, other people might not think this is fun, but I really love to foster puppies. Um, I love taking in foster puppies. We kind of have an endless flow.
Speaker 3:I have two little tiny puppies here right now, um, and I just really enjoy that, yeah, I enjoy um, bringing them in and helping them find a really good family. It's just really fun for us. We also. We love going to the beach. Obviously, we love doing anything outside camping, hiking, walking. I love working out. So all of those things, anything movement based, I love. That's awesome, yeah. And I will say one other thing is I just I love watching my kids play sports and doing things that they love. I know that might sound a little boring to some people, but that it brings me so much joy too.
Speaker 2:So fun I it just to see them excel at something or try something new. Yeah, it brings me a lot of joy also. Um, I can totally relate to that. What is one thing you wish our listeners knew about your business?
Speaker 3:Probably that it's for them. So often I think that people think that the people I work with are special or that you have to be a certain type of woman to need coaching, and truly it's about being seen and heard and creating a space, curating a space that's just for you and it's not scary. I promise coaching is not scary. I think for so many people it is kind of a new realm. Nurse coaching itself is only I don't know eight years old total maybe. So we are kind of new to the scene and I so often think that people think that what I do is for someone else and not them, but it is for anyone listening to this. If you are a woman or even a man, I know so many people to refer to too. I love referring people and helping them find the person that's the best for them. So, um, yeah, that it's, it's for you, it's not for some special unicorn of a human. That, um, is not who you think you are right now.
Speaker 2:Tell me some of the industries that you've worked with.
Speaker 3:So photographers, realtors, mortgage brokers, other nurse coaches, shop owners, I mean it's very vast Basically. If you, is that what you mean? Yeah, absolutely. If you own any sort of business I'm trying to think of other ones, um, bookkeepers, uh, any sort of business where you want to put yourself out there in any way, shape or form, do you feel like your business is coaching and a little bit of therapy.
Speaker 3:Yeah, good question, um, so I think therapy and coaching are incredibly different, um, but that said, there are moments when it can feel a little slower when you're, when you're working through something, um, that feels big, when, um, there's a lot of being worthy or feeling like enough for something, that comes up when you're building a business or when you're stepping into confidence, and I get that question a lot. To me, therapy is more healing focused. It's more past focused. If you're not able to talk through something, I'm going to send you for therapy.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 3:And coaching is more forward movement focused, it's faster paced, it's more goal oriented. So that is the biggest difference that I see between the two, because I didn't know if you what. Sorry, but that's part of. One thing I love is that is part of where I think being a nurse is really helpful because our assessment skills are really high. Our level of knowing when you need therapy versus when coaching is a good fit is pretty high, so that's one area that I feel like, as nurse coaches, we're able to really assess that pretty well.
Speaker 2:I love that. Okay, so if a listener is interested in learning more about your business, what would be the next steps and, typically, what's the what's the process like?
Speaker 3:So you can find me on Instagram at Caroline Brown coaching. I have a website. It's also Caroline Brown coaching. com. I kept it pretty simple for everything, so you can find me everywhere under Caroline Brown coaching. If someone wanted to experience coaching, I believe coaching is entirely it's very experiential. So I give away a certain number of free clarity calls every month so they can book a free clarity call, and right now I'm booking to January. So, oh, that's awesome. How long does a clarity call take? So it's one hour over Zoom, okay, and at the end of that I can either tell you what it would be like to work with me, refer you out, get you some resources, whatever that looks like.
Speaker 2:Okay, and that is complimentary. That's awesome. Well, thank you so much for being on the podcast today and being one of our neighbors here in Virginia Beach, again Caroline Brown coaching. Thank you so much, thank you.
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