Dotty Scott left a 12-year career as a wealth-management paralegal after burnout and her mother's death. She realized the client-facing work she loved most, asking questions about estates and tax plans, was actually coaching. So she started her own coaching business.
So can you share your story of how you did it? How did you make that leap? So I made that leap, um, because I, I had been working as a, a wealth management paralegal/accountant, and my, my story was the, um, typical burnout. I had been doing that for about 12 years, and I just, I had a traumatic incident in my life. I suddenly lost my mother. And when that happened, I had a very hard time going into being in meetings with clients who were talking about who dies first, who dies first, who dies first. And those meetings were very heavy for me. And so I was done. I wanted to move on, and I was ready to create my own business. And coaching seemed like the next— the best logical path for me, because being in those meetings with the clients, figuring out what they wanted to do with their estates, what— how they wanted a tax plan, um, was essentially coaching in a different kind of way. But asking those poignant questions, the probing questions, and getting the answers, and really having the clients think about what they wanted to do for themselves, for their future, for their family, any kind of legacy they wanted to, um, leave. So I thought that going into coaching was a nice way to make that leap from what I was already used to doing into a new area.
