Sometimes, entrepreneurial folk can’t help but feel stuck along their business journeys. Whether it’s difficult to zero in on one project or they can’t quite pinpoint their business mission, there will be moments when business owners feel slightly lost. One way they can overcome this is by enlisting the help of a professional life coach who can assist in guiding them in a direction that will help them and their businesses flourish.
Home Business Magazine recently had the chance to catch up with Kat Trimarco, a spiritual teacher and published author who helps her clients solve life and relationship issues by understanding the inner emotional dynamic that’s actually causing the outer problem. She was happy to discuss why life coaching is so important for entrepreneurs, how to get results with a coach, how to start your own coaching business, and more.
HBM: What is Life Coaching and why might entrepreneurs need it?
Kat: “The term life coach is very general and different ‘coaches’ use it to label different ways of helping people. I help my clients understand their thoughts and emotions and how those are causing and creating their current reality. I help them navigate their inner thoughts, beliefs and emotions and offer them new perspectives.
My sessions involve me tapping in intuitively to the energy of my client, teachings on creation and asking my clients powerful questions to help them see themselves and their current situation, circumstance or relationship through a different lens that helps them create empowered meanings and use everything that’s happening in their life for good.
When we have a shift in thinking, perspective, and emotion, we are able to take different actions and create different results. It all starts with an internal shift. It’s so strange that in all we learned in school, no one taught us how to navigate our inner world of thoughts, beliefs and emotions and how these create our entire life! This is what I help people learn and navigate. It’s an incredibly transformative experience to work with a coach.
The power in having a coach is that they can see your patterns from an outside perspective and help you become aware of and shift patterns that are holding you back from creating your desired results. I like to use this analogy. Imagine yourself running around in a maze, trying to find your way out. You turn right… and bump into a wall… you go down a dead end… etc. Imagine that a coach is someone who has a bird’s eye view of the maze. They can see where you are and what the easiest path is to get you out of the maze.
The power of a coach over a friend or family member is that a coach is neutral and they have your best interest in mind and heart. Their job is to be of service to you to help you realize and actualize your full potential. Whereas, a family member or friend has emotional attachments to you and their own agenda. A coach is someone who is in complete service to your expansion, growth and wellbeing.
The other powerful aspect about hiring a coach is if they have already attained or accomplished something that you’re desiring to attain and accomplish. It’s like having a tour guide on your hike through the mountains! Someone who knows the terrain which is incredibly helpful when stepping into the unknown.
There are so many benefits to hiring a life coach – emotional healing, turning your past pains and challenges into your power, support and guidance as you make changes in life, healing relationship dynamics, deepening in self-love and acceptance, and opening up your mind to new ways of being and doors of possibility.”
HBM: How did you start a career in coaching women?
Kat: “I went through a massive life transformation five years ago. A lot felt like it was falling apart in my life, as my relationship ended and I was internally ‘waking up’ to these ways in which I’d been operating in my life that didn’t serve me.
I was abusing drugs and alcohol and more or less just going through the motions of life.
It was as if, for the first time in my life, I started to understand that I had more choice than what I was actually exercising. After the death of my ex-boyfriend, I started asking myself much deeper questions about life. Like, “Who am I?” and “Why am I here?
These questions led me down multiple paths and adventures of soul seeking, trying to understand myself. It felt like a dark night of the soul in a lot of ways. There was a lot of painful emotional experiences. I wanted to understand life and through my seeking I made discoveries, which is what led me to want to help other people who felt stuck and were wanting to make changes.
At a point, I felt helpless and was desperately seeking something that made sense… some form of consistency in understanding life and myself. The more I learned, discovered and opened up to inside myself, the more I wanted to share what I was learning and discovering with other people and help them.
I thought that surely if I felt this way and was seeking these answers, other people must be too. I started sharing on social media and offering to coach people in one-on-one sessions. There was a lot of my own doubts, fears and feelings of unworthiness I had to work through to make it to where I am today and it’s a constant peeling away of old layered conditionings to allow myself to expand and grow.
I believe this is a constant process of life; peeling away, discovering and transforming and it’s incredibly powerful to have assistance, support and guidance as we navigate life’s terrains and our own inner emotional landscapes. This is why I wanted to coach other people. I actually feel like I’m denying my soul when I don’t teach, coach and help others. It feels like a natural extension of who I am.
Before I was coaching, teaching workshops, writing and speaking full time, I was a hairstylist for almost 13 years. While I was doing hair, I was essentially coaching my clients as I was beautifying them! It got to a point where I felt like I was dimming down what I actually wanted to be doing and talking about by staying doing hair. I wanted to speak more freely and be able to teach more people.”
HBM: What are the top 5 reasons entrepreneurs might hire a coach?
Kat: “You feel stuck. You can see where you want to go and you can even see other people going there, but you aren’t sure how to get there yourself.
You want to understand your inner world and how to manifest through your thoughts, emotions and energetic frequency.
You want to expedite your growth and experience growth and expansion in less time.
To create inner peace, joy, happiness and harmony, learning how to deeply love and accept yourself.
You’ve tried taking many actions but still aren’t seeing the results you want. Your shift requires a new level of thinking so you want to work with someone who is already operating on this level of thinking and learn from them!”
HBM: What are the top 5 key benefits of working with a life coach?
Kat: “Experiencing internal feelings of joy, peace, gratitude and harmony as well as self-love and acceptance.
Awakening to your creative power and how to navigate your thoughts, emotions and energies to become the conscious creator in your own reality and manifest deliberately.
Feeling heard, seen and understood.
Self-discovery.
New and successful results in your relationships, health, and finances.”
HBM: How do coaches help you get results?
Kat: “All coaches work differently. For my practice, I work with my clients on all levels of their being – emotional, mental, energetic and physical. We can’t see our own patterns of thought and emotion. We are all operating on different programs, so to speak. Meaning, we all have patterned ways of thinking, beliefs and emotional set points. These set points feel normal to us even if they aren’t serving us or helping us get to where we want to go.
The power in having a coach is that they can see your patterns from an outside perspective and help you become aware of and shift patterns that are holding you back from creating your desired results. Another important and powerful part of you getting results is shifting emotionally. So incredibly important! We actually become addicted to emotional states of being inside ourselves. And then we think those states of being are who we actually are. They become so normal and familiar, we don’t even notice we’re operating in them.
A powerful aspect of the work I do with my clients is in identifying the emotional states they are stuck in, bringing consciousness and awareness around these emotions, clearing them, integrating new emotional set points and making those the new normal. It is a commitment to make these changes and having support is essential because it’s easy to go back to old and ingrained patterns because they feel familiar.
Shifting emotionally is life changing! When you understand that everything is energy in denser or less dense forms, you understand that your emotions are energy in a less dense form and eventually it actualizes as manifested experiences and outcomes. Shifting internally is essential to create new results externally.
During my sessions, I teach my clients how energy works so they understand the importance of the work we’re doing together and this helps them make the changes.”
HBM: What kind of successes have people you’ve coached gone on to have?
Kat: “My clients have discovered exponential increases in their internal states of being. They have experienced more happiness and joy which has led to more harmonious relationships and communication. My clients have attracted new partners into their own life and I’ve also helped other clients navigate the ending of relationships that were no longer in alignment with their heart and soul. I have helped my clients start their own coaching businesses and step into their full expression of self where they really feel like they are living and embodying who they are on a soul level.
My clients have experienced increased confidence in who they are, discovering and owning their unique skills, gifts and talents. I’ve specifically helped a lot of women reclaim their sexuality, discovering their authentic sexual expression, healing and tapping into their power through their relationship to their bodies and their pleasure.”
HBM: Have you had a life coach yourself and how did they help you?
Kat: “Yes! So many!
I’m almost always working with someone because any time I do work with my own coach, my expansion is massively sped up. I believe that we can all get to where we are going if the desire is strong enough. And, we can drastically speed up that process by having support along the way.
I’ve had coaches for multiple different areas of life. I’ve worked with sex and relationship coaches in discovering and cultivating my sexual expression as a woman. I’ve worked with spiritual healers who help me understand the broader scope of my life’s purpose and lining up with my soul’s calling. I’ve worked with business coaches who have helped me navigate the fears and resistances that arise when starting a business and leaving the ‘security’ of a traditional job. I’ve worked with coaches who focus mostly on energy and clearing specific energetic patterns to clear space and program new ones.
I’ve worked with money coaches who helped me ditch old stories of scarcity and limitation and step into my worthiness and abundance. I’m almost always working with at least one person because I love learning, growing and expanding. There’s so much value in having support and someone to help you along your path. I’ve also had fitness coaches and nutrition coaches. I’ve had all the coaches!”
HBM: What tips can you give others who want to launch a career on their own?
Kat: “Your desires are yours for a reason and if you desire to live unconventionally, where you’re able to turn your own gifts, talents and skills into a lucrative career and business, you absolutely can.
You have to believe in yourself first and if you’re having a difficult time believing in yourself, borrow other people’s belief in you as you strengthen your own. Again, super powerful in hiring a coach. Other people will doubt you. Your coach is always rooting for you and helping you actualize the visions inside of you.
This is about a paradigm shift in the consciousness of the planet–the dismantling of old paradigms will be essential in you stepping into the creation of your own career.
I believe that we get to be ourselves and that this is enough. Do not get too focused on what other people are doing and trying to replicate them. You are your own unique being and when you line up and follow the guidance of your heart and soul, you will be led.
It’s so easy to get caught up in an idealized version of someone else’s life instead of feeling inside for what’s most resonant for you. Be inspired by other people. Use them as examples of what you want to create, but remember that you are your own unique creation. You have a purpose and mission that is individualized to you. Always work and operate from this place first.
For me, and usually for others who work with me, the inner work within yourself is the most important. Knowing yourself and trusting who you are inside. Sometimes it won’t make sense to other people and that’s okay. You need to trust what’s inside of you and find someone to work with that can help you bring to life what’s inside of you.”
HBM: Why do you differ from other coaches?
I take on a very holistic approach to coaching my clients, working on the levels of thought and belief, emotion, energetics and even reprogramming of the subconscious mind.
A lot of coaches focus on action and behavior only without addressing these underlying aspects that are driving their actions in the first place.
It’s important to work with a coach who’s energy resonates with you. Someone who speaks to your heart and soul, not just the promise of a manifested end result. Someone who understands your current inner dynamic is going to be able to help you get to your desired end result instead of just giving you a formula that they used. This is what sets me apart from many other coaches. I’m able to tap into the energy of my client and what they need.”
HBM: What are your offerings and how can people get in touch with you?
Kt: “I offer one-on-one coaching sessions and packages which are all done over the phone or internet so people can book with me no matter where in the world they live. Yay for technology!
I offer a group coaching program called Align – Master the art of following your highest calling to manifest your dreams and desires. In this program I help my students understand deeply who they are as multidimensional beings, how to navigate their inner world of thoughts, emotions and how to shift their energy to manifest and create inner harmony. This program is currently open for enrollment and starts on Feb 1st!
To apply, just email me at contact@KatTrimarco.com to set up a phone consultation. I can learn more about you and what your current needs and desires are and offer more details on this program.
Another group coaching program I offer that launches 1-2 different times during the year is Self Approved Sex. This program is for women to tap into their unique and authentic sexual, sensual selves and discover their pleasure and desires inside and outside of the bedroom.
I have an online self-study program called Reclaim Your Sex, Reclaim Your Life which is designed to help women awaken their sexual energy, change their mind about sex, and learn how to feel safe and confident in their unique sexual expression. This particular course is available year round at https://kattrimarco.
Kat Trimarco is a relationship & sex coach, spiritual teacher, and published author who helps her clients solve life and relationship issues by understanding the inner emotional dynamic that’s actually causing the outer problem. She helps women reclaim their power, reclaim their sex, and their lives to create a reality that feels aligned with their soul.
