Why do you need to work with me?

If you are like most holistic and wellness practitioners you are brilliant at what you do and you yearn to make a difference in the lives of others.

You studied hard and you passed your exams and then it was going to be plain sailing into a natural therapy business of your own. It all sounded so simple back then. So what went wrong?

What your training gave you was the skills to be a practitioner but it probably didn't give you the detailed knowledge, skills and confidence to go out and get your own clients and run your own small private practice.

It certainly didn't give you the marketing skills you need to survive, let alone achieve the kind of lifestyle and success you dream of.

Now you just want to stop struggling and get a steady stream of ideal clients and the type of balanced life you tell your clients they need.

That's where I come in

I too had the dream but fell flat on my face until I worked out that I needed to combine my holistic skills with my business knowledge.

It took me quite some time and thousands of dollars to learn all the things I needed to know. Now I like to share that knowledge.

To be successful in business you will probably need to invest close to the same amount to learn what you need to know to have a winning practice as you spent learning your modality.

The other thing no one told me was that it takes time, consistent effort and a solid plan to get you where you need to be. Most of all you need a system. That's why I purchased the system that helped me become a successful coach and it's now the system I use to help natural therapists all over the world help more people and achieve the success they deserve and desire.

Why Do You Need A Mentor or Coach?

A coach or mentor can do many things for you but rather than me waffling on, this article by Roxane Raffin Chan that appeared in the NEWSLETTER OF THE MICHIGAN HOLISTIC NURSES’ ASSOCIATION FEBRUARY 2008 sums it up beautifully.

Roxane feels it came out so well because she wrote it from the heart and well we all know that ALWAYS works!

HOW to STAY on TRACK as YOU START YOUR OWN BUSINESS

I have only been in business formally for one year and I was surprised to be asked to do a talk on how to start your own healing business.  I was still frantically looking around for mentors to help me put together my practice.  How could I begin to talk about something I know so little about?  Then one day, deep in meditation I found my answer - - just kidding - - it is a no-brainer - - if I put together this talk, I would end up knowing more about how to make my business successful.  So, once again, I am grateful for this wonderful organization. 

Of all the things I have learned, either the hard way from experience or the easy way from listening and reading, the best tip I can give to you is that everyone needs a coach.  Personally I have resisted the idea of a business coach for years.  This is funny to me, because I have had a spiritual coach, or sponsor, in my life for the last 20 years.  This is a person that listens to me and points out to me the inconsistencies of my own words and actions so that I can then adjust myself.  I understood that concept when it came to my spiritual life, but I hit a brick wall in finding a business coach.
I spent all my time looking for someone who had more experience than I did in starting a holistic health business. 

Well, we all know that there are not many of those around.   We also know that when someone is successful, they are busy doing what they are successful at, not sitting around waiting to help other people do what they do.  Whenever I saw someone promoting himself or herself as a business coach I thought it was lame.
Of course they are making money.  They are making money telling you how to make money. That is how they make money.  It seemed like some vicious circle. 

Then one day I was reading about Tiger Woods and how he had been having a bad time in some tournament.  After one particularly terrible day they asked him what he was going to do and he said, “I am going to talk to my coach”.  Can you imagine someone knowing more about golf than Tiger Woods?  How come, if they know so much, they don’t just go out and beat Tiger at his own game?   I finally got it!  I am not looking for someone who is good at what I want to do.  I am looking for someone who can help me to be good at what I want to do.

So the most important thing I have learned in putting this talk together is to tell you to go and find a coach.  Your friend can be your coach.  The MHNA could start a peer group coaching system.  You can also get help on-line.  What you need is someone who will be interactive with you.  You need someone who will listen to what your goals are, what your plan is and what you did today and say, “Well, if your goal is this and your plan is that, then your actions of today do not match”.  You need a mirror.  That is, after all, how we learn.  We learn by feedback.

My spiritual program teaches me that I do not have to learn EVERYTHING the hard way – although those lessons do stick with you!!!  I can learn from someone else’s example.  I can also learn when someone is a mirror for me and allows me to see for myself what is working and what is not working.

Roxane Raffin Chan
CHAN BODY ENERGY
Growing wellness through
Meditation, movement and touch ©
Michigan USA

BIOGRAPHY for ROXANE CHAN

Roxane Ruffin Chan graduated from Northern Illinois University in 1979. She started her nursing career in Joliet, Illinois, and, like the Blues Brothers, worked her way north to Chicago.

In Chicago Roxane completed an M.S. in Nursing Administration and started a very small business called Healthstyles which provided wellness, healthy living education, and seminars to small businesses.
However, Roxane and her two sons did not care to continue to travel northward toward colder weather so they next moved to Los Angeles. Roxane worked at LAC+USC Medical Center in LA as the director of pulmonary nursing services.  While in LA Roxane won the first ever Nursing Innovation award from the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services which includes all three major teaching hospitals in Los Angeles.  She was also named one of the top ten nurses in California in 1995.

Life was good in LA but after getting married and having two more children, the expanding family found that other priorities were pulling at their heartstrings.  The family decided to relocate to Michigan where finding a home did not require you to have a movie star’s salary.  Once in Michigan, Roxane found that she was able to be creative with her nursing career. She spent some time as a home hospice nurse, developed and ran a parish nurse program and taught nursing at Oakland University.  While working as a parish nurse, Roxane and her husband Kevin teamed up to design an outreach program for the promotion of organ donation. Because of this work, they won a $5,000 grant from the American Lung Association and the visionary award for their program in 2003.

Roxane completed massage school at Michigan School of Myomassology and has now opened her own practice.

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