It was a Monday morning in August of 2004, I remember it so clearly.  It was the day my life changed! I had just dropped my children off to school.  I wasn’t headed to work that day because I had just been laid-off. Getting laid-off brought up a lot of fear.  I wasn’t sure how I was going to pay my bills. At the time, I was a single parent. My ex-husband was paying me child support, but that income only covered my car payment and auto insurance. I worried everyday about how I was going to financially take care of my two children. My biggest fear was being unemployed, and now that had happened.  I needed a full-time permanent position, and I needed it NOW!! Imagine how you would feel if you had just been laid-off from work, and had 2 children who depended on you? How desperate might you feel with all of these responsibilities, and no job to pay the bills?   

When I arrived home from dropping off my children, I turned on the TV, and began making breakfast.  I could hear the TV, and what I heard was a conversation between two women. It was so clear…it was as if they were having a conversation in my home.   Their conversation was connecting with me because I was going through some of the same things they were describing. I dropped what I was doing, and began watching this show.  The show was called “Starting Over.” Starting Over, housed 5 women who were there to “Reinvent” their lives. There were two life coaches Rhonda Britten, and Iyanla Vanzant, and 1 Phycologist who supported these women with their reinvention process.  Each day I watched the Starting Over show, I witnessed how these women’s lives were changing, changing because they were being coached to conquer their emotional fears.  The coaching was even starting to change my life, and I knew at that point, I wanted more coaching! This was my defining moment.