Jo RenshawStrategic Operations & Business Development Lead, Orange Property · and my career has taken a genuinely unusual path: from Steiner Waldorf class tea

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24 Apr 2023 · 2 min

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In this first-person testimonial, the speaker recounts a six‑month coaching relationship with Jo Renshaw that began during the COVID pandemic when the speaker had time to refocus on a professional writing career. The coach helped the speaker learn to control emotional and thought patterns, develop a consistent mental model, and cultivate a feeling of safety. As a result, the speaker completed a second draft of a pilot script—described as one of the most profound achievements of their life—gained momentum, and felt the project was finally taking off like a "rocket ship." The speaker emphasizes the simplicity of the process taught, the value of the coaching (worth every dollar), and the transformative sense of coming home to themselves, now living in a space where their writing goals feel achievable and already happening.

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And then in like the 6 months that we were working together, it was like a rocket ship and things just like really took off. And just my circumstances and COVID allowed me to like take a little bit of time and refocus on what I want to do, which was to be a professional writer. And I knew that I like needed help and I reached out and that's how it started. You, Jo, you really kind of helped me learn how to control my emotional sort of my thought experience of what I was going through. And, and, um, I really, really believe that it was like this, like cultivating this like consistency of thought. And I think that the reason I didn't spin out, the reason I have a second draft of this thing right now, and the reason that I'm like having some momentum and success with it is because we worked together on like That model that you taught me. Finishing the first shitty draft of this pilot was one of the— was like one of the most profound achievements of my life. It just like the dream actually feels possible. The feeling that we cultivated in our sessions was like safety, you know? You were able to show me— Show me, you know? Like how simple it is, how simple it can be. Obviously, yes, do it. Because it's like anything else, you get what you give. And I had a really profound experience working with you. And I mean, this is like the rest of my life that I'm talking about, you know? Like, so yeah, it was worth every dollar. I mean, it's— And then in like the 6 months that we were working together, it was like a rocket ship. And things just like really took off inside of me, which allowed this project to blossom. I mean, it was— the whole thing was just me, was just like a coming home to myself. I want to live in the place where it's like achievable and it's already happening. It has begun.