From Sales To Self: Why I Chose Coaching
Today (7th of May, 2025), I told my colleagues that I’ll be leaving my role to pursue coaching full time. I will continue to fulfill my sales role until the end of this year and then I will dedicate myself to coaching entirely. Almost a year ago, I completed my certification with the Academy for Coaching and Counselling, but since then, I’ve remained fully dedicated to my sales career. A career I started 12 years ago.
After my announcement, one of my colleagues reached out and said she’d love to talk more after hours. After work, we connected and she asked me how I decided to focus on coaching. “What was the compelling event?” she asked, a phrase we often use in sales.
I told her my turning point happened at the end of Q4 last year. I had been pushing hard to hit my target, just like I did every quarter. And every time, I caught myself wishing that the next quarter would somehow be easier, better. But it never was.
That was my “click.” I realised no magical quarter was coming. Not because I wasn’t trying hard enough, but because I was pushing against something deeper, my own core. That realisation hit hard: maybe the problem wasn’t the target. Maybe I was pushing in a direction that no longer fit who I was becoming.
That’s when things really aligned for me. I had been tuning out a quieter voice in me, one that had been gently urging me toward coaching. It wasn’t that I didn’t care about my work; I did, and still do. But I was starting to feel disconnected from it and that feeling was growing louder. Still, I hesitated. Fear, conditioning, comparison, they all played a part in keeping me quiet.
So how did I know I was being guided by intuition and not just a passing frustration? Because it didn’t go away. The discomfort was consistent and I felt like I was moving against my own current. That’s how intuition works. When you ignore it, there’s this thought in the back of your mind that won’t leave you alone. It feels persistent, maybe even irrational, but it’s there. On December 31st, I made a quiet promise to myself - I would begin building something new. That day, I registered The Intuition Coach domain. I didn’t have all the answers, but I felt a shift. From January 1st on, I started to feel lighter, more grounded. I hadn’t quit anything, just made space for something else to grow alongside what I was already doing.
Back to that conversation with my colleague - toward the end, she shared something I hadn’t expected. She told me she had always seen me as a role model. Not because she resonates a lot with me due to our shared cultural background, but because of how I show up in conversations and how people respond when I speak. I teared up. I told her that in my deepest fantasies, that’s how I hope to be seen.
Later, when I shared the moment with my husband, he smiled and said, “You have a positive effect on people’s lives.” His words stayed with me. They felt like another breadcrumb on this path I’m following, not one away from something, but toward something more aligned with who I am.
So today, in my very first blog post - of many more to come - I want to share this with you: I want to bring a positive effect into your life, too.
If you're feeling that quiet tug, that inner nudge that something isn't quite aligned, even if everything looks "right" on the outside, you're not alone. That feeling might be your intuition speaking. And if you're ready to explore what it's trying to tell you, I’d be honoured to support you.
This is the work I do now: I help people reconnect with their inner wisdom - their mind, heart, gut and body - so they can make aligned choices and live more authentically.
