Testimonials
I heart Victoria.
And I am so happy she’s officially started her coaching practice. Consider this a clear “yes, I recommend her highly” statement.
What I love about Victoria is that wonderfully steady, thoughtful, insightful way of hers. Also that she’s a total goofball. Super smart, very fun and extremely good at what she does.
– Havi Brooks
fluentself.com
Dear Victoria,
Remember how scared I was when I began working with you? Remember how slow my business was and how I was not even making my rent? Remember how I cried and told you my scary fear of pushing my belongings around in a shopping cart? Remember how the economy sucked and I was in that icky part-time job that had me crying every week? Oh my. I felt so paralyzed and at a loss about how to move forward.
You helped me so much! We set a goal & you helped me come up with practical and implementable steps to meet it. During our weekly meetings your approach was always a wonderful blend of ideal and practical, soft and hard, compassion and pragmatism, hilarity (oh the puns!) and seriousness. (And I quit the god-awful job!)
Most of all I am grateful to you for standing right alongside me while I took all those itty-bitty-baby-steps. I could sense you cheering me on, even outside of our weekly meeting times.
I love how approachable, funny, down-to-earth, sensitive and sensible you were in your work with me.
Can I tell you that July was my best business month all year? There you go: it was! In fact, week before last I surpassed my clients/week goal by 2 people. How fantastic is that. Thank YOU! A million times thank you!
– Heidi Fischbach
www.babayagasplace.com/massage-heidi-fischbach
When Victoria and I started working together, I was overwhelmed about all the different options for starting an online business–something I’ll be doing in 2010. Should I use my current blog? Start a new one? And what, specifically, will I be offering?
Victoria met me exactly where I was and responded to the way my mind was bouncing all over the place. She definitely didn’t use a cookie-cutter approach to our work, which really helped me feel heard and understood.
She has a way of listening deeply and asking very insightful questions, and this really helped to channel my thought process. By reflecting things back at me, she enabled me to look at different options in new ways. She also did a great job of getting me back on track if I started rambling about something off-topic.
By the end of our sessions together, I had pages and pages of notes, including some very workable ideas for income generation. All those ideas are like seeds that have been planted, and I plan to go back through my notes to do additional brainstorming.
Victoria helped me see that I really can use my blog as a launching point for my business. Based on what we accomplished together, I’m excited to get to work on my business in the new year!
– Michelle Russell
PracticeMakesImperfect.com
Victoria’s advice and guidance gave me the confidence to act on a photo book project I had been contemplating and agonizing over for more than a year. She helped me define specific tasks and set achievable and measurable goals, which made all the difference in helping me get unstuck.
When you hire Victoria, you are choosing someone who is smart, sensitive to your needs, and supportive in every way. As a result of our work together, I completed my photo book project and submitted it for publishing just a few days after the original deadline I set for myself.
In just one session, not only did Victoria help create a plan for me to follow, she also told me to take notes on what parts of the project I liked and disliked. By doing that, I now have more detailed ideas about a potential future ittybiz!
I’ll definitely be doing more projects by adapting the road map she created for me.
My deepest, sincerest thanks to you, Victoria!
– Claire Tom
strawberrymayo.com
I was blown away. I was completely awed and overjoyed by Victoria’s insight, authenticity, kindness, and amazing helpfulness.
For example, I’ve been working on this one thing for what, like six years? (It’s complicated, but it has to do with getting my head and my heart to work together instead of against each other.) Victoria and I totally solved it during our second session. How ’bout that? I expected that with a mere three sessions we’d make some progress, maybe make a dent in it, but no. TOTALLY SOLVED in two.
Which meant that in session #3, she got to help me out with a totally unrelated question, wherein she helped me untangle a sticky communication problem. In case you don’t understand why this is both awesome and hilarious, I’m a communication coach (among other things) and Victoria is a life coach. And SHE was the one giving ME the communication advice. And it was very good communication advice, I must say.
Victoria has a true gift, the kind of special talent you only see once in a blue moon. The world is a better place with her as a life coach.
– Pace Smith
freakrevolution.com
I started working with Victoria when I was being pulled in many different directions in my business.
Victoria helped me to identify what I wanted to accomplish, based on my own vision for an ideal work day. I decided that writing an e-book would be the next step in getting to where I want to be. After only two sessions with Victoria, I was well into the first draft of the book, and am already revising it.
I would absolutely recommend Victoria, especially to small business owners. She can help you define what it is you really want to do, and show you how to make that happen.
– Maryann Devine
www.smartsandculture.com
I first began working with Victoria because I had been trying to create an ebook based on the content of my blog and I was stuck and frustrated.
Victoria set me at ease right away. I felt as though I’d known her for years. She always seemed to know the right questions to ask, and she helped me see that the reason I was having trouble finishing the ebook was because I really wanted to move my business in a new direction.
That’s exactly what I needed to understand. I stopped feeling frustrated, and gave myself permission to get on with the stuff I was jazzed about.
The coolest part is that our work together helped me realize it was okay to get help with that ebook. And I’ve already found the right person to help me. So not only will I be able to finish my ebook after all, I’ll be doing it in a way that makes me feels excited to work on it.
Victoria knows her stuff. She’s easy to talk to. She’s fun and an all around cool chick.
Hurry and book a package of sessions with her before she’s all famous-like and raises those rates!
– Karen J Lloyd
karenjlloyd.com
