Client story
Sofia M
Management Consultant · 1:1 Coaching · Mental Fitness · NLP
“I didn’t have the usual doubt or endless second-guessing – I knew what I wanted and why. My decision felt clear, considered and intentional.”
The situation
Burning-out but frightened to leave.
Sofia was a senior consulting director on secondment in Canada, stuck in a workplace where she felt constantly undermined and set up to fail.
Most nights she worked until 11pm and by the weekends she had neither the time nor the energy to be present with her loved ones, go to the gym, or invest in her own self-care.
Keeping her stuck was a Pleaser pattern: a habit of absorbing work that she knew no-one else would get done. She could appreciate that much of the stress was self-imposed, but needed to live up to her own high standards and professional expectations.
Sofia felt like the job was swelling over everything that was important to her.
Her gut was telling her to go, but leaving felt like failure. She had built something in Canada, and walking away felt like admitting it had not worked. She also feared that the worst would happen if she left, and this hypervigilance was keeping her in analysis paralysis.
Sofia knew she had to shift, but wasn’t sure what to do. Or where to start.
The work
Mindset. Action. Priorities.
Sofia completed the Positive Intelligence mental fitness programme and four months of one-to-one coaching sessions.
Together we mapped the mindset, actions and priorities that were keeping her stuck, as well as the beliefs that entrenched them. We looked at where she wanted to get to and what it would take to get her there.
Sofia was in an environment that required her to push back constantly, but without the tools to hold her ground without burning herself out. We worked on reconnecting with her values and sense of self to provide a natural foundation for assertiveness and authenticity. We worked on effective communication and conflict management strategies, so she could speak out with self-assurance, and stop absorbing responsibility that belonged to others.
We explored what work-life balance could look like, allowing her professional ambition to flow without it taking over her life. Using powerful NLP techniques to align conscious desires with deeper subconscious needs, we worked to reconcile two sides of her that felt at odds: the part that needed balance and downtime, and the part that needed to feel stretched, challenged and seen.
On the career side, we explored her vision and purpose, weighing up her non-negotiables against different career options, developing an increasingly clear vision of the work type that would stretch and satisfy her both personally and professionally. This pointed clearly to a specific type of role in operational strategy: the kind of position that would challenge and grow her, where she could own real decisions and drive real outcomes.
We worked through the fear of leaving, reframing the move not as a retreat, but as a deliberate choice she was making because she knew what would make her happy.
The shift
An Uncanny Manifester.
Imagination is stronger than will, and Sofia now had a clear vision, sense of purpose, and an openness to see and create new possibilities. By the time our first engagement ended, Sofia had already won a new role on a 6-month project for the remainder of her term in Canada. The new job offered exactly the type of role, responsibility and team culture that she had envisaged – down to the smallest detail.
If Sofia’s story sounds familiar, see my Overwhelm Coaching and Coaching for Overthinking pages.
| Area | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Confidence | 3 / 10 | 8 / 10 |
| Conflict Management | 2 / 10 | 9 / 10 |
| Mental Fitness | 1 / 10 | 7 / 10 |
Testimonial
“Working with Georgina has been genuinely transformative for me. I came to her at a time when both my professional and personal life felt quite cloudy, and I was caught up in overthinking, competing thoughts and trying to work out what I actually wanted. Georgina has an incredible ability to cut through that noise and create the space for you to see things clearly.
One of the biggest outcomes of our work together was the clarity I gained around my career. I genuinely believe that getting so clear on what I wanted helped me manifest an opportunity that felt truly aligned with me. When it came along, I didn’t have the usual doubt or endless second-guessing – I knew what I wanted and why. My decision felt clear, considered and intentional, which was an incredibly empowering and exciting experience.
What I’ve loved most is that working with Georgina hasn’t just been valuable at one particular point in my life. I’ve continued to come back to her whenever I need to rebaseline, particularly when I’m facing a big decision or find myself getting swept up in circumstances and losing sight of what I really want. She has become such a valuable sounding board and a way for me to ground myself, step away from the noise and reconnect with the bigger picture.
I couldn’t recommend Georgina highly enough. If you’re looking for someone who will give you the space, guidance and support to get really clear on what you want – both personally and professionally – working with her is incredibly powerful. I always leave our conversations feeling lighter, more grounded and much more confident about what comes next.”
Sofia M, Management Consultant
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