Anne Young - People Coaching People

Anne Young is a Personal Life Coach, member of the International Coach Federation Australasia, Graduate of Coach U Core Essentials, wife, and mother of two young adults (still living at home).

Read Anne's Benefits of People Helping People here .

For many years Anne has had the desire to motivate and encourage people to achieve their full potential. It has taken Anne many years of personal growth and development to reach the time in her life when she knows that she now has something to give back.

Anne found out about coaching as a career in December 2005 after searching for that new direction and purpose, and immediately enrolled to train as a Life Coach at the Sydney-held Coach U Fast Track Core Essentials course in March 2006.

Everything fell into place very quickly after that. Anne became an Associate Coach for Essense Coaching NZ Ltd and began putting the theory into practice. Her first client said:

“I just wanted to say thank you so much for your very worthwhile assistance when I needed clarification, on how to run a challenging workshop. Your thoughtful attention, coupled with perceptive understanding and a lovely personality, guided me very gracefully to an excellent solution. The workshop was a great success and I was delighted. Many thanks Anne, it will be with great confidence that I recommend you to anyone who is looking for a life coach.
Sincerely, Liz”

In September 2006 Anne attended the Kiwi Coaching Retreat held in Taupo and it was here that her dream began to formulate. A dream to create a place where people could be made aware of the benefits and services that life coaching can bring to people’s lives. By November 2006 the dream had become a vision, and with the support of her daughter, they began to develop the concept of a unilateral website for all coaches and all people to “connect”. Canz Design was contracted in December 2006 to design and develop the most interactive and professional coaching portal yet seen in New Zealand.

People Coaching People was launched on 19 February 2007 – the vision became a reality.

Previous to being involved in the area of life coaching, Anne has held positions as a New Zealand delegate on an international sports body, has been the President of the associated National sports body, Secretary of the associated Auckland sports association, Editor of a sports magazine circulated globally, a private secretary, administrator and has worked primarily in the fields of advertising, promotion, and marketing. Anne has been self-employed most of her life, giving her the flexibility to balance her time between home, family and career.

Currently Anne continues to be involved with the Auckland Confederation of Billiard Sports, and is responsible for publishing a monthly 16 page colour newsletter and has recently been assigned as the website administrator for the ACBS. Anne is an active Life Coach based in Auckland’s eastern suburbs primarily coaching people needing support in making and adjusting to changes in their lives. Anne inputs hours of her time into monitoring, administering and updating the People Coaching People website and ensuring that as much information is available to the public as is possible.

Anne is a gifted communicator who is committed to sharing the benefits of coaching as well as recognising and promoting the reciprocal benefits of “connection”. And if that’s not enough, Anne is also writing a book which she hopes to complete very shortly when she turn’s 50!

Anne’s life experiences bring an exceptional non-judgemental understanding of life issues that many people face. She is a walking, talking example of someone who has turned adversity into an advantage. She has suffered much, and grown as a person, but knows that her journey to reach where she is today was her purpose, but may have been a lot swifter, had she known about life coaching and the benefits of having a life coach.

It is because of her personal life journey that Anne’s passion is to educate and inform all people on the value of quality coaching. It is because of this journey that Anne initiated the People Coaching People website, and it is because of this journey that Anne has invested all she has available into the website’s development.

“Anne Young has become a very close friend, mentor and coach and over the past 10 weeks since I engaged her support, she has inspired and encouraged me to follow through with the things that I knew deep down that I should do, to actually follow through and DO IT!

With each week and each step through her logical and strong support, she has helped me to pull my life, and my family’s life, together and opened my eyes to new and exciting ways to live each day.

After only 10 weeks I feel free of past negative thoughts, my soul and heart are growing again, but most of all my self-esteem, which didn’t exist before, is opening up to a new world of hopes and dreams.

Thank you Anne for everything and I continue to look forward to our weekly, then monthly or just “when ever I need you” chats and meetings.”

Lynda (Auckland)

Anne believes she can assist people to achieve their full potential and to reach their dreams, to transform their ideas into reality, and for those people to know that she cares and believes in them totally.

Anne says: “Life coaching will give me the opportunity to effectively focus my vision as this is truly where my life experiences have been leading me. It’s all about taking one step at a time, it’s all about having faith in yourself to build the courage you need to make the changes you desire and deserve. Life is ever-changing, so we need to be flexible. We need to build on your experiences and turn them into advantages – we need to find the strengths you already have and support each other.”

Anne believes that everyone has something to offer. She knows that we can all offer support to other people and she believes that right here and now, you can contribute by people coaching people!

Together at GrownUps we can rediscover what’s important in your life, find your true purpose or passion, contribute to building healthy relationships, improve confidence and self-esteem, enjoy a wonderful work/life balance, increase energy and reduce stress, clear away clutter so you can reach your full potential, take control of your life again and be supported and valued by us all.

Sometimes people just need a sounding board, encouragement, and motivation. But all people need to know that they are cared about and that someone believes in YOU!

Read Anne's introductions to topics here and here

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