Once a Pilgrim - Always a Coach with Paris based executive coach Lynne Burney

ONCE A PILGRIM, ALWAYS A COACH by James Navé James Navé (www.jamesnave.com) welcomes Paris-based executive coach Lynne Burney (www.LKB-Coaching.com) to the Twice 5 Milers Microphone. In this interview, Once a Pilgrim, Always a Coach, Lynne recounts how her intended instructional coaching book morphed into a journey memoir about walking the Way of St. James through France and Spain (Santiago de Compostela, Les Chemins de Compostelle.  Suppose you've been thinking of writing a book, especially a memoir. In that case, you'll find this conversation with Lynne Burney helpful and informative.  Like Lynne, most people think they know what story they want to tell. Lynne thought she knew what book she wanted to write in the spring of 2019 when we met in Paris for a long lunch at Le Train Blue above Gare de Lyon (Lyon train station).   I'd known Lynne since 2006 when she attended an Imaginative Storm Writing and Creativity weekend workshop I taught in Normandy for a group of business coaches. It was there that Lynne told me that she mainly wrote for her own pleasure and posted some of what she wrote on her coaching school blog now and then.  Lynne was still writing for her own fun when we met for lunch at Le Train Bleu. After our lunch arrived, Lynne reported that she was ready to write an instructional book based on her 20-plus years as a business coach. She wanted me to be her manuscript coach; I agreed. So off we went on a three-year writing journey.  It took Lynne six months of writing to discover that she had zero interest in writing a book on coaching. Instead, she knew she had to write a pilgrimage memoir about the overland journey she and her husband Richard walked through France and Spain to the tomb of Saint James (Santiago de Compostela, Les Chemins de Compostelle).     And that's exactly the book she wrote, Once a Pilgrim-Always a Coach. You've probably guessed that Once a Pilgrim-Always a Coach ended up being a better book on coaching than Lynne ever imagined. You'll learn how Lynne did it when you listen to the show.