"Uncovering the Missing Pieces with Life Coaching (part A) with Sophia Hyde, CLC

In this episode, we sit down for part A of our conversation with Sophia Hyde, a certified life coach.  In 2011, Sophia hit her breaking point. She was working over 80 hours a week, burning the candle at both ends and making no time for self-care or the relationships most important to her. She was carrying around an extra thirty pounds and constantly feeling exhausted. She and her husband were drowning in over $100,000 in debt that they couldn’t see a way out of, and she was waking up everyday having to go to a job she didn’t love.  In what could only be described as divine intervention, she spontaneously decided to take a one week sabbatical and press the pause button on life. She spent a week in voluntary isolation at home, in silence.  This decision to pause and listen was the beginning of a brand new journey.  She set a new course, executed the vision and now has a burning desire to help others who also feel there has to be more to life than the hamster wheel.  She and her husband created the life that once felt out-of-reach. On most days, it is filled with peace and calm, but it didn’t used to be. There were never enough hours in the day. Their net worth was growing in the wrong direction, and their dream life was feeling unrealistic.   For some people, success is defined as a luxury vehicle, home and wardrobe. For others, success is defined by intangibles. Sophia defines success as loving the life you live, loving the people you share it with, and most importantly, loving yourself.   She set out to create this for herself and find a way to teach it to others.  Using the principles of the Ziglar Wheel of Life, she transformed her life. She aligned her priorities with her habits. Now, she uses those same principles to guide others. As a Ziglar-certified coach, she is trained on how to help others define what success and peace-of-mind looks like to them and customize a plan to help them get there. Sophia and I talk about her journey, why life coaching is important, how it's different from other types of coaching and how you can stop "shoulding" all over yourself!  You can follow Sophia on instagram at @thesophiahyde or reach her on her website: https://sophiahyde.com/ Her recommended reads are: Books: A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller. The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks and the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Steven Covey And as always, please share this episode with a friend you think would enjoy it, and I appreciate your support by liking, sharing and following.  You can reach out with questions, requests and more at [email protected] or reach me on instagram at @ansleyknopf_valkyrie.