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Welcome to Mandie Holgate Life Coach
Creating Solutions for You and Your Success
I'm Mandie Holgate, Business and Life Coach.
I passionately believe we should live and work to our full potential – Do you?
It's all about me!
For many years I ran a successful large vehicle repair centre and recovery agency. Thankfully (although I did not always appreciate this at the time) I had a boss like an evil biology teacher who would throw paper work at me and say things like “They haven’t paid, sue them” or “We need to be E.P.A registered, do it”. Coming from an administration background in Insurance these areas were very much a mystery to me. But I always said “Yes”
It was this ability (and my boss’s ability to see this potential) that meant I learnt so much so quickly. When you truly believe that if you ask the right questions, speak to the right people and believe the right things you can be a success at anything if you are prepared to be dedicated, determined and passionate. I dealt with every area of running a successful SME, and my motto now is the same as it was then. “Never ask anyone else to do what you are not prepared to do yourself.”
After this I decided that it was time to be a full time mum and in my “gap years” I continued my interest in personal development and success, while working as a part time company secretary to a local SME and an interviewer for a teacher supply company.
After the birth of my second child I suffered severe clinical depression. It was a very difficult time for me that I am happy to talk about, because I am passionate about removing the stigma from mental illness. I want more people to appreciate that 1 in 4 people will suffer from this at some stage in their lives and we need to understand and appreciate all people and what they are experiencing. It was with my exploration of how to get better that I learnt more about Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Counselling but for me counselling lacked the important part. Counselling was beneficial in helping me appreciate the past and my beliefs but it did not help me work out what I wanted to do instead. From now on and in the future - Coaching did this.
Fully recovered, I formalised my studies with The UK Coaching Partnership succeeding in achieving exceptionally high qualifications. Unlike many coaching qualifications available the U.K Coaching Partnership do not use distance learning. You are expected to dedicate yourself to studying and coaching. To really understand the value and the impact of Coaching.
I never appreciated how unique I was and that the skills I have do not naturally exist in everyone. Perhaps that’s the optimist in me. But I really appreciate everyone for the person they are and I can see people’s full potential. People describe me as enthusiastic, positive, friendly and anxious to please. And I think that sums me up pretty well. Life is definitely for living and I love to help others get the most out of their life as I have chosen too.
For me that means balancing my busy enjoyable career with my family and my own personal interests. That’s not just my wonderful long time best friend hubby and our two children. There is also my supportive and fun parents, my sister who is one of my best friends and her hubby with twins on the way, and then there is my little (a lot taller than me) big brother. Yes we don’t always see eye to eye, but we share everything and are always there for each other, lastly there is my stupadog also known as Max.
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