Carolline Day

I would attribute my success to my drive and my curiosity. I am someone that is constantly curious and willing to learn. I think it takes someone who is very introspective, who is not afraid of vulnerabilities, to step out and try to understand and gain different perspectives every single day. So I definitely attribute it to my curiosity and my love for learning. I think when people have a love for learning, they allow themselves to gain more information, respect other people's views, and just have a better understanding of the world.

Don't settle.

I would say hire a coach. When I became a coach, I think the biggest gap that we have right now in the coaching industry is we do learn the methodology, but we ourselves also need to know what niche we're going into, who we want to help, and we need to align our values to what we're doing. I was trying on my own for a little bit, and then I decided that I wanted to hire a coach to kind of help me out. When this coach and I met, they went through my social media, my LinkedIn, and said, look, it seems like you have more contacts with executives, you have a lot of people in the industry that are following you, you don't have to go look for a new audience. So I would say don't be afraid to hire a coach so that you know what it is that they really do, how powerful it is to have a coach. You learn for yourself the things that you want to bring with you in your own practice, and the things that you don't want to bring to your practice. It's also a way of mirroring and deciding which path you want to take. I think if you are providing support, hire the support, learn from the support, so that you can take that with you in your own practice.

I think the biggest challenge I've had throughout my career was misalignment, and that's why I have chosen to be in the transition advisory world. Misalignment meaning when you are doing things that is not aligned to your values without even knowing, because a lot of people don't spend a lot of time learning what excites them and what their motives are. For a long time, I was in misalignment. I loved what I did, I loved science and math, but I was told that if I worked really hard, and got a job, and got a house, and built a family and climbed the corporate ladder, that I would be happy. I wasn't. When I did all of it, I looked at my life and I said, okay, what's next? It was the wrong reasons. I think that's the biggest challenge, not for me, but for a lot of people who don't understand their values, who don't understand what motivates them. In terms of opportunities, I think the opportunities are endless. Opportunities are everywhere for the people that are curious. There are so many opportunities when it comes to transition, because transition is something that is very familiar, but dealing with transition can be very unfamiliar. In every area of your life, you will be going through a transition at some point. In your personal life, you have transitions. In your career, you have transitions. You have transitions of environment when you move to another city, another country. It's something that's very relatable, it's something very humane to have transitions. But because you are unfamiliar with the new, there are opportunities to learn how to change in a better way. What I provide is really time efficiency. People may go through it, and may go through it well, but it might take them 5 years as opposed to 6 months, if they were to have the support in order to transition effectively. Everybody I know that have succeeded in life has had help and support and a cheerleader and a mirror. That's what I'm able to provide, and so the opportunities are really endless.

I have what I call my four F's. My first value is family. It's my first motive, what gets me motivated. My second one is freedom. I love the flexibility that coaching provides me, and I think my services and my idea of wealth, it's all surrounded by freedom, the freedom that I have, freedom and flexibility. My third F is faith. I am a very spiritual person. I do a lot of meditation, and I am driven by learnings related to my faith. And last but not least, my fitness. I am very into fitness. I love going to the gym, and I think it's important for us to take care of our bodies just as much as we should with our mind and soul.