Episode 17: Believe it and Make it True – with Allison Task
Do you ever feel like your life has been something of a crooked path? It is safe to say we have all been there. My guest is very familiar with curves in the road, and she has learned how to navigate them well. Her latest life turn is as a career and life coach.
In this episode, my guest Allison Task and I discuss the power of believing that dreams can come true. Allison has made a career out of guiding people through their thought processes and into the answers they already know. She likes to say, “You have answers, I have questions.” Those questions have served her and her clients well.
Allison Task is a career and life coach who has helped hundreds of people transform their lives. By actively pursuing meaningful personal and career goals, Allison’s clients have changed careers, launched companies, retired early, moved their families across the country — and around the world.
Prior to coaching, Allison was an on-camera cooking host, cookbook author, and marketing executive. She was the host of Yahoo’s Blue Ribbon Hunter, Lifetime’s Cook Yourself Thin and TLC’s Home Made Simple.
Allison has a degree in Human Development and Family Studies from Cornell University, a coaching certificate and Master’s Degree from New York University, and a culinary degree from the Institute of Culinary Education. Her latest book is Personal (R)evolution: How To Be Happy, Change Your Life, and Do That Thing You’ve Always Wanted To Do.
What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
- How working in a dreams-come-true environment can have a huge impact on your attitude and how you approach challenges and opportunity
- Why asking a life coach about ROI is an important and legitimate question
- How coaching is about helping people process what they already know
- Why hiring different coaches for different decisions or challenges can be the smart move
- How, why and when to break up with a coach
- The difference between a life coach, a career coach, and a therapist
- Why, if you are not at baseline mentally, you need a therapist before you need a coach
- How life coaching looks beyond career, as important as career is, to satisfaction with your whole life