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This made me cry… (sharing with permission)

Published about 2 years ago • 2 min read

I don’t know about you Reader, but I always ask for testimonials. Of course partly to share with potential new clients… and also to give myself a boost when I need it (because we all have those days, right?)

Here's the one* that made me cry…

Hi Sarah, I am writing this email because I think you need to know what a huge and positive impact on my life you have had.
Prior to doing the vision board workshop with you, I knew things had to change. I was unhappy, frustrated and unfulfilled as a woman and as a professional.
As you know, I had done 20 years in education, most of that time as a senior leader; naively thinking that the ‘higher’ I climbed on the ladder of education, the more impact I could have.
I was fed up, disheartened and disillusioned after years of sitting around tables with bureaucrats, politicians and ‘business MEN’, who quite frankly were more concerned about having the latest piece of technology in their pockets, than children’s wellbeing and education.
I knew I had to make the leap of faith, but lacking confidence in my own abilities, I didn’t know how to.
But then, through your workshop, I reconnected with ‘Ange’. Not ‘Ange’ Kane’s Mum, or ‘Ange’ the teacher. Just ‘Ange’. And I finally realised she was enough. She had done all this on her own (always been a single Mum!). She had always been ok, even when bad choices had been made. She can do it again, but this time with 44 year years of wisdom and more fire in her belly.
You gave me permission to do this. You inspired me to do my vision board which reaffirmed that Ange was actually an emotionally intelligent, caring, kind, steadfast and stoical woman who can do anything she sets her mind to. And now I feel like I am moving mountains.
I cannot thank you enough for this Sarah and I am actually really emotional typing this email! You can use any of my words for your workshops because I think every ‘lost’ woman needs to work with you because you have had a profound effect on my life.
I’m eternally grateful 😊
Ange xxx

Wow!

Reading this email made me absolutely determined to support as many people as I can to create that I-can-move-mountains feeling for themselves. This really is my WHY. Because we all deserve to feel the way that Ange she felt as she wrote me that email.

And in all the kind words that people share with me after we work together, there is a theme of empowerment, clarity, and permission to dream… AND the energy to go out and make those dreams happen!

If you're ready right now to chase some dreams of your own, join me for my next in-person vision board workshop, right here near Clitheroe, Lancashire, 26th of March 12-4pm.

See you there?

With love,

Sarah x

*who am I kidding? I cry at most of them, and definitely in a good way! :)


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