SUCCESS STORIES

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Linda is a compassionate coach full of spirit, love, and understanding.

She creates an amazing coaching space where you simply want to open up and share without reservation. Her ability to probe with sincerity and geniune curiosity always makes me feel safe, accepted, and acknowledged. Linda has the unique touch to reveal the truth and remind me of my true being. Thank you, Linda, for your kindness, humility, and believing in me.

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Linda Anderson is a woman who helped me find me.

I owned a very popular café in Sydney and was not coping on any level. Linda had an initial, very emotional, chat with me and agreed to take me on, with neither of us really knowing what I purposed my outcomes to be. Week by week, she helped me to find my sanity in life's busyness and refocus.

Each conversation was gentle, but firm, realistic and encouraging. Within the space of 12 months from our initial conversation I had sold my business, moved to Qld and began to enjoy a 10 month Holiday with my family. I am now once again self-employed with a much bigger and busier restaurant. I am finding life is a Joy and I am able to stay on top of things in a much more balanced way. Sure I slip up and get weighed down and want to pull up the covers and hide. Who doesn't? The difference this time is I am continually self assessing, refocusing and having fun in my journey. The difference is I haven't lost sight of me. I am in control in a way that honours who I am and the people around me. I am proud of me.

When I first spoke to Linda, that sentence was very hard to say.

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My coaching with Linda was a great experience.

When I started, I was mostly looking for more clarity about myself and where I was going, and I definitely achieved this through the coaching process. It was an exciting, liberating, challenging, stimulating and thoroughly enjoyable process. With Linda's help, I was able to identify some old limiting beliefs and got strategies for handling and changing these. The support I got through this process was extremely important for me-it provided me with the clarity, accountability and inspiration I needed to allow more enjoyment and contentment into my life on a daily basis.

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When setting up my own business, without a doubt one of the most effective investments I made was hiring Linda as my coach. When you work for yourself, it is hard to keep yourself accountable. Linda not only filled that important role, but offered valuable feedback, was a reality check and gave me a perspective I wasn't able to access in any other forum. I was able to achieve more than I had ever hoped to - and without Linda that would not have been possible.

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Dear Linda,

In the past six months your coaching has saved me and turned my life around. The transformation due to your support is unbelievable. It has not only had a positive effect on me, but also my family, friends and those around me. From a souring middle aged grump to having my fun and life revived as well as my business. This is a celebration of our success!

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From the first moment, Linda begins to create an environment that is both comfortable and challenging. I appreciated the coaching process being dynamic in that it went where my needs were at the time.

The first area of focus was on regaining the "fitter" me. The plans I made were achievable, accountable and have stuck resulting in the creation of more healthy habits.

By far the main area of growth for me occurred in the setting up a structure for my business. I am sure the brain storming, sharing of resources and encouragement cut my setup time in half. My results show that I was empowered to achieve.

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Coaching was great learning experience. The sessions helped me to fix areas of my life where I was experiencing problems and to work on other areas where I needed growth.

The most powerful part of coaching was working on healing, taking control and moving forward in my life instead of feeling stuck and helpless.

I learnt to be kind to myself; changed my thinking in regards to the effect other people have on me; and opened my eyes to areas in my life that were lacking

Linda helped me overcome a huge hurdle in my life and I'm really not sure where I would be if she hadn't. I am working each day at keeping up the good work she did.

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Coaching was extremely helpful in contributing to my personal development in dealing with personal,business and relationship issues.

Linda made me feel at ease and comfortable during my sessions. This made it very easy for me to be totally open and honest about any personal issues I had that were holding me back from developing my full potential and personal growth. One of the most powerful things was discovering and evaluating myself for the first time.

As a result of coaching my relationship with my family and people generally has improved because my communication has improved.I have also put time aside for "me " time. I am socializing more and taking time out to do things that I enjoy!

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I had reached a crossroad and needed impartial guidance that was logical, unbiased and straightforward. Linda took me back to basics in order to live boldly.

I had already wasted so much time allowing others determine how I should live my life.

I now live with more balance, passion & fun than ever before. I recommend personal coaching before taking that next step in any direction.

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As weird as it sounds....we required someone to help us appreciate the success in business needed to flow into our personal & family life.

Linda is a true professional coach who made us both feel very comfortable & allowed us to put anything on the agenda that came our way.

As result of coaching for over 6 months we have been able to achieve truly amazing personal satisfaction. We have develop a much better balance between business and home life, along with a better understanding of our personal needs. We have eliminated frustration in our days by taking each circumstance as a path or journey for a better today not tomorrow.

We have established a 12 month plan and even given the year a name "Year of Choice, Challenge and Consistency "

Make the first step and you won't go back !

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When I was looking for a coach, my real intention was to find an executive coach to improve my work. I was introduced to Linda by a colleague of mine in Japan. I live in the Philippines (Southeast Asia) and having a coach in Sydney was definitely new to me.

I had a talk with Linda and we hit it off very well. I learned that life is not just all about work. Executive coaching might be good - but I got something much much better than I ever dreamed of.

Linda has been my life coach and she has helped me take a look at what I have done in my life and what I still want to do. And it's not all about work. It's now about faith and family as well. And of course, work. But now, I have learned that thinking about "smelling the roses" does not make me ‘smell the roses". What I need to do is just that - Smell the roses. And it can be done! Linda, thanks for helping me with my life. My family is grateful as well.

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I am a single mother and when I began coaching with Linda I was $35,000 in debt and fearful of the consequences.

Coaching was incredibly helpful to me in assessing what I value most in my life; simplicity.The coaching also held me accountable for moving forward in areas of my life such as debt payment, setting expectations with my son and exercising.

I am currently on a debt pay off program that is very effective and my debt is now down to $23,251. I give myself the gift of exercise every day, and I have placed structure in our home life. Life is good!

Linda is an excellent coach and a great role model. To know that what is being said to you is being lived out by your coach, gives great hope and promise that, as a client, you can also succeed.

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My husband and I set up a small record label to produce my debut album. We both had backgrounds in law, but knew little to nothing about the music industry. We felt insecure moving into this new territory. Our first major hurdle was to secure a distribution agreement for my CD. Together with Linda, we set out a timeline and a plan for achieving this goal. With each step, Linda helped us tackle doubts and insecurities. We secured a deal with our preferred distributor and Linda was fundamental in helping us achieve this outcome. Thanks Linda!

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Life Coaching gave me a direct, sign-posted way out of the maze I was in. Having recently made a lifestyle choice to go and work for a high pressure investment bank, I began to question my motivations for that decision and was left wondering "had I done the right thing?".

Linda helped direct my thoughts and emotions in a clear, methodical way that challenged my thought processes. Coaching allowed me to quickly evaluate my decision against a set of values which I had clarified in our first session. I cannot fully describe the wonderful clarity of thought this gave me.

The process brought into reality the other options I had open to me in my life, and it was only when I stood back and evaluated my current situation against those options that I was able to look at my decision in the right context and achieve complete clarity of thought.

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Linda is a powerful coach with a heart of gold. Her coaching has enabled me to cross some of my internal hurdles and make a big leap forwards. The solutions I created with her help are supporting me every day. I highly recommend her.

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Linda challenges me to take risks, to believe in myself so that I can do my best both professionally and personally. I have enjoyed her counsel over the past few months and my business has benefited from her coaching.

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When I engaged Linda as my coach I was getting settled into a new country AND setting up multiple businesses. I really enjoyed the process and found the coaching to be focused and purposeful whilst being fun. The support I received during this time was invaluable. I now have 2 businesses successfully established and am on my way to earning more money than ever before!

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Linda Anderson of a2a coaching has been fabulous in helping me to realise my strengths and to ensure I was on the path I wanted to travel down. Sometimes she helped me lay the foundations brick by brick and other times she was cheering me along as I walked down that path. Thank you for helping me along my journey.

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I just completed a six week course with Linda and it was really enjoyable! I looked forward to our meeting each week and can actually say I feel like I have made some new friends! The connection with the participants was terrific! It's fun, it's easy and it's ever so helpful to have someone "in the know" available to you to help with goals, plans and the issues of life as they present themselves.

The phone connection was great, all the way from Boston, MA to somewhere in Australia! Linda's techniques are tried and true, helpful and motivating. I was inspired! In fact, I am continuing with Linda and my coaching group for another 12 weeks of inspiration! Take the leap, do it for yourself, you'll be happy you did!

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I was at a stage in my life where I knew there were a lot of things I should have been doing in my life, but kept putting off. Coaching helped me step back, and evaluate what is important in life, and then how to work on those areas.
Linda has a very good style as a coach. She pushes you when you need to be pushed but at the same time making you realize why she is doing it.