Coaching empowered Me to Take the Lead in My Own Way

Why coaching is more than a skill—it’s a mindset for solopreneurs, team leads, and changemakers alike.

Coaching isn’t magic, but it is transformative

When I first encountered coaching, I wasn’t looking to become a coach. I was looking for clarity.

Years of experience in HR and leadership had taught me how to guide others, navigate complexity, and build strong teams. I had led projects, shaped strategies, and mentored in a coached like way managers. But coaching did something different, it helped me pause. It helped me listen more deeply. It helped me think, not just solve.

That shift changed everything.

Coaching empowered me lead myself first

Coaching empowered me to lead, before anything else, coaching taught me how to lead from within.

It wasn’t about becoming someone new. It was about reconnecting with who I was beneath all the roles and responsibilities. Coaching gave me space to reflect without rushing to perform. To ask better questions, not just of others, but of myself.

What do I really want? What’s driving this decision? What am I avoiding? These aren’t questions that show up in a regular workday. But they’re the questions that build self-awareness, confidence, and clarity. And those are the foundations of leadership, whether you’re managing a team, leading a project or building something on your own.

In my case, coaching helped me reimagine my own path. I stepped away from a traditional corporate role and leaned into building something more aligned. Something that reflected not just my skills, but my purpose. A business with heart. A rhythm that was sustainable. A new way of working that honored both strategy and humanity.

That didn’t come from hustle. It came from insight.

How I coach others today

Now, as a coach, I offer that same kind of space to others, founders, team leads, solopreneurs, and professionals in transition. Many are navigating growth. Others are navigating stuckness. Some are crystal clear on what they want, but need support in making it happen with confidence and intention.

I work with people across industries and time zones, from startups to corporate leaders to purpose-driven entrepreneurs. Thanks to the nature of coaching, I can do it from anywhere, and I love that it allows me to connect with clients in both English and Spanish. Every conversation reflects their unique context, but the human layer is always there.

Coaching with me isn’t about fixing people or handing out advice. It’s about co-creating a space where insights can emerge. Where we slow down just enough to hear what’s underneath the noise. Where we untangle thoughts and feelings and start to see the patterns that keep us from moving forward.

Need advice? Call me when I’ve got my HR consultant hat on! Coaching is a different kind of conversation—one where your voice leads.

I use a mix of reflection, metaphor, future-self visioning, role-switching, and coaching the emotional layer, not the to-do list. Every session is different because every person is different. But the common thread is this: the client is always in the driver’s seat. I’m there to ask the questions that reveal the road.

Coaching skills as leadership tools

One of the biggest misconceptions originated in the corporate world about coaching is that it’s only for executives or people with a team. But the truth is, making and impact and leadership are about much more than having direct reports.

In fact, some of the best leaders I’ve worked with weren’t formal managers at all. They were:

• Founders leading bold projects from scratch,

• Subject-matter experts guiding cross-functional initiatives,

• Colleagues who inspired others through curiosity and emotional intelligence,

• Solopreneurs building businesses where they had to wear every hat, including that of their own coach.

What made them effective wasn’t authority. It was presence.

It was how they listened, how they asked questions, how they invited ownership in others.

It was how they held space for learning and change, even when things got uncomfortable.

Coaching skills help you lead with intention.

They help you move from directing to co-creating.

From reacting to responding.

From telling to exploring.

And they’re not just useful in your work, they’re useful in your life. With colleagues, clients, family, partners. Anyone who matters.

Coaching isn’t magic, but it is transformative

It doesn’t offer formulas. It doesn’t come with guaranteed outcomes. But it gives you a new way of seeing (and being) with yourself and others.

It invites you to slow down just enough to hear your own voice again. And it teaches you to hold space for the voices around you, too.

If you’ve never worked with a coach, or if you’re curious about what it could unlock for you or your team, I’d love to talk.

Sometimes all it takes is one powerful conversation to start seeing things differently.

And once you do, you lead differently, too.