What Do I Really Want?

What if the question underneath every crossroad isn't "what should I do next"... it's "what do I really want?" In this episode of Candid Coach Conversations, Kimberly Boyd sits down with two certified Live Life Fully coaches... Amanda Kaufman, who traded a decade in corporate America for a coaching career, and Teresa Anderson, licensed therapist and author of The Table... to talk about the question she keeps hearing from clients in seasons of job changes, new hires, and shake-ups: is this what I really want, and is this the place for me? Teresa opens with the truth so many high-achievers dodge: your life doesn't have to be falling apart for coaching to be for you. You can be successful and still unfulfilled... years spent taking care of everyone else, finally asking what YOU want. Amanda picks up the thread with the Brendon Burchard seminar she attended during a brutal season at work, and the story from High Performance Habits that named her situation exactly: a woman in achievement, but not alignment. Then Kimberly makes a confession from thirty years in the mental health world... she used to think coaches were wannabe therapists. Until she hired one, learned to actually sleep, got clear on her own standards instead of everyone else's, and literally moved. There's a beautiful full-circle moment here, too: Teresa's coach happens to be Kimberly, and she describes the exact shift when her therapy supervisor started speaking to her in a new language... not "let's talk about the pain" but "so what's next?" And Kimberly, recording on the very morning she lost her aunt, shows the whole philosophy in real time: both things can be true. You can be really sad and still find joy in the day. In this conversation: 💫 "Achievement but not alignment"... the Brendon Burchard story that named what Amanda's corporate success was missing 🛤️ The moment Teresa's therapy supervisor... one Kimberly Boyd... started speaking to her in a coaching language 🤝 Borrowing belief: leaning on your coach's certainty for a sec when your own doubts get loud 🔮 Breaking up with the need to predict the future... and owning your present instead 😴 The first thing Kimberly's coach worked on with her (it wasn't the business... it was sleep) 🗣️ The "yah-buts," the gap between what you say and how you live, and talking to yourself the way you'd talk to a neighbor One line from Teresa worth sitting with: "I have to become the bridge between pain and my future." About Amanda Kaufman Amanda is a certified Live Life Fully coach who spent a decade in corporate America before building a decade-long coaching career of her own. She lives for a good aha... she calls them ABCs: ahas, breakthroughs, and commitments... and believes real coaching isn't vapid cheerleading, it's substantive belief in someone's future. Coaching changed her career, her health, and... by her own definition and nobody else's... helped her become a better wife, stepmom, and mom. Learn more or book a complimentary strategy session with Amanda here: https://llfully.com/amanda-kaufman About Teresa Anderson Teresa is a licensed therapist, a certified Live Life Fully coach, and the author of The Table, a book about transforming stories of pain into purpose. She knows firsthand that success and unfulfillment can share a house... she'd done the therapy, earned the master's degree, hit the goals, and still heard the inner voice saying there's more. Learn more or book a complimentary strategy session with Teresa here: https://llfully.com/teresa-anderson Ready to live your life fully? Go to https://llfully.com to find out more and book your complimentary strategy session. One conversation can be the beginning of everything. 🌟 Free Strategy Session: https://llfully.com 💛 Join The Live Life Fully Club: https://llfully.com/life-accelerator 🎓 Become a Certified Coach: https://llfully.com/llf-coaching-certification 🌐 llfully.com About Live Life Fully You weren't meant to just get through life. You were meant to build a life you love. Each week, Kimberly and the Live Life Fully coaches share conversations on mindset, courage, healing, relationships, boundaries, business-building, and the small daily decisions that change everything. If this episode moved you, subscribe and explore more Candid Coach Conversations here: https://www.youtube.com/@LiveLifeFullyInstitute #WhatDoIReallyWant #Alignment #Fulfillment #BorrowingBelief #CoachingWorks #LiveLifeFully #CandidCoachConversations #LifeCoaching