Megan Bauer, CPC, ACC

It all began with a career in public relations. I started working in agencies where I was helping clients across numerous industries around the world. I moved up quickly and in the last year, I realized I was completely miserable. I’ve always been known as a bright and cheery person but I noticed my light dwindling. I began some soul searching and came across one exercise that put everything into perspective.

Matthew Kelly, who authored The Rhythm of Life, had a simple Venn Diagram exercise. In one circle you put your talents, in another you put your passions and in the last one you put your needs. Filling that out set me down the path of getting back to my research roots. I began pursuing consulting and contract work. I worked in the agency world once again where I did research as a part of developing hardware and software products. Then I moved to Nike and began doing employee research.

Moving into research was the first step towards getting in alignment with myself, my strengths and my values, but after a while something still felt missing. In August of 2019, I was sitting in a meeting and was struck with a realization: I would much rather have a really deep, connected impact on individuals over a long period of time, than a higher level impact across 75,000. On the car ride home that day, I decided to look into coaching more seriously. (It’s amazing what happens when you listen to that little voice inside of you).

I met with a couple different coaches for fit sessions and found one that I really felt connected with. She had me do an exercise to understand my strengths and values—this is where the dots really started to connect for me. I went to see the results of my assessment and in opening the page I saw that my number one strength was love. There were many traditional business-related strengths after that, such as leadership and perspective, but the first one was love. Of course I wasn’t feeling completely fulfilled if my #1 strength wasn’t the basis for the work I was doing. Everything started to make so much sense and my light began to awaken.

The next session we did an exercise to write out the times in my life that I have felt the happiest and most fulfilled. My coach scribed throughout our time together across this giant whiteboard. At the end of the session, as I sat back on the couch and took it all in, it was so completely clear that I should be a coach that I cried. I cried from relief and pure joy. The purest joy I have ever felt in my life. I felt it in my bones. That is what I want for you. Discovering my purpose and gaining this clarity started to put everything else into perspective—as you begin to change your way of thinking and perspective in one area, such as career, it filters into all other areas of your life. You begin to shift from who you are now to who you want to become, which goes so far beyond career.

All this to say that I have experienced the power of coaching firsthand and know how much it changed my world. I have supported many clients through this journey. Whether it was finding and working in the career of their dreams, creating intimate and connected relationships or taking time to develop and grow themselves. I’m here and I want to be with you on this journey.