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Carla Larranaga Struble
Mindvalley Certified Life Coach

"I can now say I am a paid coach as I have just signed a client"

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After 15 years of dreaming about helping others through life's darkest moments, Carla finally found the confidence and business skills to launch her coaching practice. She signed her first paying client before even completing certification.

It's been 15 years since I've wanted to do work with people as a spiritual counsellor or something similar for anyone in remission from a mental health, stress or depression crisis, relationship loss, bankruptcy, career change etc (hitting rock bottom basically) and looking for their place in the world, hope and a way out of the hole. I went through the same and much more, and once there was no further down I could go, I wanted to go up. I found my way through reading books, working with people and attending to a lot of Mindvalley free masterclasses. When I was out of the whole, I thought to my self I can help people. My way was long and painful, but had I had someone to guide me things would have developed faster. At that time I knew nothing about Life Coaching as a business but I knew people did energy or spiritual healing and some of those people helped me in a way. When I expressed to my religious family that that was what I wanted to do, they all laughed at me and made me believe I could not do that. I allowed this to stop me doing this kind of work. I later found a way could be doing social work and I went to school for that. However I didn't work in social work because the pay was minimum to start and I was being offered a better deal in corporate. So I left that work on the side. After two years in corporate again I quit because I realized again I did not like corporate work. I after went into various business ventures that were never fulfilling so I kept changing, always knowing my super power was problem solving and I wanted people to be happy. I then accepted that my purpose in life was to be of service of people with no pay and that I was lucky I had a partner who support me and I was able to stay home with the kids. Kids are growing now and I was thinking I have to start something for next year. Mindvalley showed up on my feed with the certified life coaching certificate and I had an aha moment. This is showing up in my life when I need it, so I registered and here I am at the end of the second month knowing I found my way. I knew I could coach and help people, but I had no idea how to convert that into a business. The course has giving me so much direction and has confirmed and reminded me of certain things I knew but forgot. It has giving me the confidence of putting myself out there and the confidence to say I am a life coach even before I am even certified. I worked on my logo, website and used my own name for the logo and website as I am now confident with myself now and have become unfuckwithable as per Vishen's teachings :D I can now say I am a paid coach as I have just signed a client. Not ready to take on too many yet as I still have my daughter at home, but it is a great way to start!


Carla Larranaga Struble

House Parent

Toronto, Canada

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Written 8 February 2020 From our original stories site

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