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1:1 Life Coaching
So what is Life coaching? Life coaching is a professional relationship between a coach and their client. Life coaching is like a snapshot in time where a client wants to work on a specific issue in their life. Some issues that we often see in life coaching are changes in career, relationships, health and finances. Basically, any change or transition that a person would be facing as a general fact of life. Life coaching is always looking forward to the future.
One on one life coaching sessions are designed to help the client explore in a safe environment. Julie’s clients have the freedom to explore areas that they may never have looked at before. One of the powerful questions she often asks her clients is “how does it feel to say that out loud?” That truly is a powerful question. And one that brings great reflection from Julie’s clients.
Is life coaching the same as therapy and/or counseling? Great question. No. Life coaching is not the same as therapy or counseling. In fact, it’s very different. As stated above, life coaching is looking toward the future.
Therapy and counseling usually focus on past issues, such as childhood trauma. Do past issues, like childhood trauma, come up during one on one coaching sessions? Yes, they can. However, a life coach is not qualified to deal with issues like childhood trauma. In these cases, the life coach will refer the client to a qualified therapist or counselor.
As a life coach Minneapolis MN, Julie works with all types of people, including both men and women. The common denominator for all of Julie’s clients is that they want to change something in their life.
Oftentimes, a person will seek out Julie as a life coach Minneapolis MN, because something has changed in their life, such as, a difficulty in their job or marriage, a change in finances, a physical move to a new city, being an “empty nester”, starting a business, getting divorced or retiring.
What has you feeling stuck in your life? What’s one thing you’d like to change? If you had a miracle happen overnight, what would be different in your personal or professional life?
These are what we call “powerful” questions in the life coaching world. They are questions that are designed to help our clients open up to deep explorations in their life.
As a life coach Minneapolis MN, Julie’s role is to help her clients find the solution that already exists inside of them and she is passionate about coming alongside her clients to help them rediscover their passion and purpose.This can be done through a series of one on one coaching sessions.
Julie, primarily, conducts her coaching sessions via zoom. Her clients know that this is a safe space and that what is said in the sessions, stays in the sessions.
The International Coaching Federation (ICF) is the governing body that ensures the coaching standards and code of ethics for life coaches who have completed their certification with an IFC accredited program. Julie completed her ICF accredited program with Coach Training EDU in March 2026.
Because the core of life coaching is to help a client find the solution that is already inside them, that’s what Julie, as life coach Minneapolis MN, does when she is life coaching.
So why would someone want to consider life coaching? Are there benefits?
Yes! Absolutely. One of the main benefits of life coaching is personal growth and healing. Life coaching is an excellent tool to look at one’s self to see where changes can be made.
Life coaching is deeply personal as it looks at every aspect of a person’s life. Oftentimes a client will seek out Julie as a life coach Minneapolis MN for one particular area of their life, for example, a career change. But, after a few sessions and deep exploration, through a series of powerful questions, the client realizes that they have some wrong assumptions or limiting beliefs where their job is concerned. The two are definitely related, but the real issue is the limiting beliefs. Once the client starts to explore their limiting beliefs in one area, they can also explore limiting beliefs in other areas of their life.
Will Julie, as a life coach Minneapolis MN, solve a client’s problems?
No. That is not the role of a life coach. Julie does not believe that her clients are broken, so she also does not believe that her clients need to be fixed. Julie believes that her clients already have the needed solution within them. Her role is to help them find that solution. And that is where one on one life coaching shines.
What is a misconception about a Life Coach Minneapolis MN?
That life coaching is exactly the same as productivity coaching. Now, does life coaching play a part in productivity coaching? Yes. But Life Coaching is vastly different from productivity coaching. Productivity is a benefit of life coaching, but life coaching is not part of productivity coaching. A productivity coach is going to hold a person accountable regarding the activity level of specific tasks they should be doing to increase or grow their business. A life coach is going to explore why a person procrastinates or the negative self-talk that they have used their whole life. A life coach Minneapolis MN works with their clients to look inward and uncover why they do what they have always done.
Here is a good example of a life coach verses a productivity coach (or business coach). A small business owner wants to increase the number of sales for their business. They would use a productivity or business coach to map out the tasks needed to increase sales, ie, generate leads. The productivity coach would then hold the business owner accountable regarding the completed weekly tasks, ie, calls made, emails sent, leads followed up on. A life coach, in contrast, is going to help the business owner explore why they will not make the necessary calls to generate leads or why they will not set up a system to follow up on leads in order to close more deals.
The life coach is going to help the client explore their limiting beliefs, wrong assumptions, need to procrastinate or avoidance in order to overcome those issues and establish long term change. That is the power of life coaching.
Group Coaching Sessions
Have you ever been a part of a support group, book club or sports team? Most people have. Why? Because people want to belong to something. They want to know they are not the only one going through a specific issue. When people are part of a great group, they can lean on others and learn from those who have overcome what they are currently facing. Group life coaching serves this purpose. Group coaching sessions follow the same guidelines as one on one coaching sessions. What is said in group, stays in group.
People sometimes need other people to come alongside them. People do not want to feel like they are on an island. When Julie became a life coach Minneapolis MN, she knew she wanted to create a safe group session space for people to share and grow and learn from other successful people. She has online group options as well as in person group options.
It might sound crazy, but being part of a great group, where people know your “stuff” can be where some of the greatest breakthroughs come from. Especially if the group participants do not initially know each other. Julie can attest to this personally when she joined a Christian based support group for women with family members in addiction. The group was in person and averaged 6-8 women on any given week. Julie quickly came to love the other women in the group as they all had common issues (family members with addiction issues). The women of the group trusted each other and learned from each other. One week, someone might be dealing with boundary issues and the group would offer suggestions on things that worked for them. Another week, someone might be dealing up betrayal or trust issues. Again, the group was there to listen and provide suggestions or to be a sounding board. The best groups are those that support all members, no matter what the issues are.
Sometimes feeling stuck, adrift, passionless or just plain lost is a sign that what worked in the past is not working now. As a life coach Minneapolis MN, Julie discovered that this is the power of group life coaching. It is helping people rediscover their passion, get unstuck and be part of a productive community.
But, what if there are other people out there that have overcome some of the same issues that you are facing in your life? What if they are clear across the country? Have you ever thought that talking with other people about the issues faced in life today might be helpful, but you did not really want your friends and family to know? That is more common than one would think.
Before Julie was a life coach Minneapolis MN, she came from the corporate world where she was an operations manager. Her degree is in business management and she has always wanted to develop her team members to be the best they could be. She was very fortunate to have a great mentor at her first “real” job out of college. Her mentor taught her that “when your team is doing well, you praise them. When things are not going well, you stuck it up, because you are ultimately responsible for them”. Julie has never forgotten that. And it’s from that mindset that she developed her group coaching sessions.
When Julie became a life coach Minneapolis MN she knew she wanted to create group coaching sessions via zoom or in person to help as many people realize and learn that there is a new way to do life by creating a safe space where people share with each other what’s working and what’s not. Surprisingly, or not, most people, have the same issues. Whether issues involve family members or other types of relationships, issues of employment and financing, health, avoidance, procrastination or wrong assumptions, group coaching sessions can be a powerful tool to help anyone can unstuck and into a new way of thinking and living.
People want to feel like they are connected to, part of and valued as a member of a group. Julie brings her years of experience as a co-facilitator of a women’s support group for women who have family members dealing with addiction to her Realtor group life coaching sessions. Julie knows how fulfilling it is for the group participants to experience true community through trust and the ability to be vulnerable. Participants that are willing to explore why and how they do the things they do and to do the work to make sustainable changes for the better benefit greatly from group life coaching.
Julie has weekly 90 minute group coaching sessions via Zoom. This gives the participants time to discuss issues they may be facing with the group and then there is a topic of discussion that the participants have worked on from the prior week (the homework or action items). As a life coach Minneapolis MN, Julie firmly believes in the power of group life coaching!
Who would be a good candidate for a group coaching session?
Great question! The easy answer is anyone. But, the people that thrive in group coaching sessions are, generally, people that are comfortable sharing, but not dominating, in the group.
As a life coach Minneapolis MN, Julie has facilitated many groups over the years. She believes the key to a really good, productive group is, (of course the participants), the balance of participation from the group members. As a facilitator, Julie believes her role is to guide the group where it needs to go depending on who is attending. A really good group also has a deep level of trust in order for true vulnerability to take place. Just like any group, it takes time to develop the deep level of trust needed for the group to thrive. However, once achieved, a type of group can be life changing for the participants. Ask Julie how she knows.
So who should not consider group coaching sessions?
Generally speaking, someone who cannot see themselves trusting the rest of the group enough to share or someone who is so introverted that the thought of sharing their thoughts and feelings, even on a surface level, probably would not enjoy the group coaching experience. For everyone else, go for it!
Addiction Recovery Support for Women
Working with someone who understands the issues faced when you have family members with addiction issues is a strength of Julie’s and what sets her apart. In 2017 she met the man she thought she would spend the rest of her life with. In fact, she became engaged to be married to him. But, he was an alcoholic. And he wasn’t interested or ready for sobriety. After lots of begging, pleading and yelling and crying she called off the wedding (after invitations had been sent out) which started her on the best healing journey she had no idea she needed to take.
“The best healing journey I had no idea I needed to take.” Julie has said those words hundreds of times over the years. She was fortunate enough to have a drug and alcohol treatment center attached to her church and they offered a women’s support group for women who have family members with addiction issues and for women who are getting free from addiction. For the first two years, Julie was only an attendee of the group. For the next five years she co-facilitated the group. As a life coach Minneapolis MN, the experience she gained from this women’s support group was absolutely invaluable!
Before Julie started her new journey as a life coach Minneapolis MN, she worked with women in the Women of Worth (WOW) support group through Living Free Recovery Services on an informal, volunteer basis. The support group met weekly in person and was a safe space for the women in attendance. “What is said in group, stays in group”. It was vitally important that the women who attended the group knew it was a safe space, but, more importantly, that it was a place to be vulnerable. To be with other women who understood what they were going through. The group followed a curriculum, usually a book and study guide written by a female author having to do with addiction issues. The group size varied from 3 or 4 to as many as 17 or 18. Ideally, the groups that were 6-8 people were the best. With a group of 7 women, everyone was able to share the challenges they were facing that week and there was time to do “the homework” in the study guide. Julie quickly learned that the group was always exactly what it was supposed to, and needed, to be. Sometimes the entire group time was spent talking and doing the group “check in”. Other times, if a particular chapter was so long, the group time was spent on homework. Other times, it was an even mix of check ins and book discussion.
All of these experiences with the WOW group helped Julie when she became a life coach Minneapolis MN. It gave her a great perspective on a whole spectrum of issues that women with family members in addiction face. Julie also realized that she had been “informally” life coaching for this group for years. Now as a life coach Minneapolis MN, she has the opportunity to help her clients take the next step in healing, self-exploration and change.
With COVID came unforeseen challenges that actually became great learning opportunities. Because the group could not meet in person, but the need to meet was still present, a shift was made for the group to meet via Zoom. Julie was very surprised at how easily the group adjusted to meeting via Zoom. An adding bonus was that now, because of Zoom, the group could include women who lived in other cities, meet regardless of weather conditions or because some women did not want to drive at night.
Julie realized that the main reason the group thrived when it switched to Zoom was because the group had already established tight bonds that allowed for vulnerability and sharing. It was such a blessing to have the opportunity to learn just what a Zoom support group was all about. Now as a life coach Minneapolis MN, Julie is fully open to recreating a Zoom support group for women with family members in addition. Being a life coach Minneapolis MN allows Julie to bring specific life coaching tools like Inner Critic, Assumptions, Limiting Beliefs, the Wheel of Life, Core Motivations and Future Self into the group coaching space.
The best healing journey she had no idea she needed to take. Again, that’s how Julie sums up her journey from support group co-facilitating volunteer to life coach Minneapolis MN. Being able to help her clients, either individually or in a group setting, really look at themselves and explore their long held beliefs, about themselves and their family, in order to implement change for their own healing journey is why Julie is now a life coach Minneapolis MN.
Julie has two different options to serve this group.
- 50-Minute Individual Coaching Sessions via Zoom
- 50-Minute Group Coaching Sessions via Zoom
Either option allows for tremendous healing and break through. It really depends on the work the client is willing to do.
Here are a few of the tools that Julie as a Life Coach Minneapolis MN will use in the coaching session:
Future Self: This can be a very insightful tool. Life coach Minneapolis MN takes the client through an exercise in which the client gets to “meet” their future self. The client determine how far in the future they go; usually 1 to 5 years.
Inner Critic: This tool is used to help a client identify the negative voice inside their head that can rule their life. The goal of the Inner Critic tool is to help a client create new ground rules in which they interact with that negative voice inside them.
Boundaries: Boundaries are healthy. However, people who are not used to having boundaries often react negatively. That’s why Julie as a life coach Minneapolis MN help her clients understand what a boundary is and what is it not. A boundary is someone telling another person what they will and will not accept in their life. It is not someone telling another person how to live their life.