Coaching

I am delighted you are interested in coaching! My clients give me great joy.

If you are ready for me, I am ready for you.

I work with corporate employees who want to start a business. I also work with small business owners who feel stuck, overwhelmed or in need of a clear, energizing direction in their business.

If you want a cost-effective way to work with me through a group coaching program, see Quickstart to Self Employment.

If you want more personalized and intensive coaching with me, read on.

Me and client Lisa Chu, former MD turned music school owner. Model of grace and wisdom through change. Photo by Eugene Chan. (a client too!)

Common topics tackled in coaching sessions include:

• Clarifying a business idea and identifying a viable market
• Working through fear and anxiety that accompany a major change in employment status
• Planning and prioritizing start up plans so you can stop feeling overwhelmed and start building your business
• Sorting through different business ideas and choosing the idea that makes the most sense for you at this point in your life
• Defining marketing strategy and specific marketing tactics to grow the market for your product or service
• Identifying specific resources to help you get your business launched quicker and more efficiently (Pam has an amazing web of contacts and connections and is not shy to share it)
• Defining the characteristics of the partners/mentors/High Council of Jedi Knights that you need to have around you to succeed on your own, and making a plan to hook up with them.
• Defining specific ways you can test and try your business idea in the real market with real people so you move from hypothesis to real data.

You schedule sessions at your own convenience with an online scheduler.

To begin coaching together, please select from the options below.

I look forward to working with you soon!

In my client’s words:

“I began consulting Pam Slim at a time when I felt extremely frustrated, lost, confused and hopeless with my professional life. While I have been successful as a Clinical Psychologist in private practice, often times I felt unfulfilled professionally-speaking. Working with Pam has been enlightening, inspiring and productive. Rarely do you come across an individual with great intelligence, tremendous competence, integrity, and a natural ability to guide and educate, like Pam Slim. After several consultations, I have been able to clearly identify an exciting niche within my profession, a new business approach and the tools necessary to bring my practice to the next level of professional satisfaction. I highly recommend Pam Slim to all those who secretly (and not so secretly) feel a burning emptiness with respect to their career, regardless of how successful they are or have been in the past.”

~Angelica Perez, www.AngelicaPerez.com

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“Pamela Slim is one of those rare individuals who is able to combine pragmatic business advice with a deep understanding of the psychological and spiritual sides of being an entrepreneur.

At a certain point in running your own business, you’ll come to the realization that knowing the nuts and bolts of sales, marketing, and operations isn’t always enough. Sometimes what’s holding us back are the deep-rooted beliefs we have about our self-worth and our values.

Pam has a knack for uncovering the beliefs you didn’t even know you had, and then helping you work your way through them. And once you come out on the other side, sky’s the limit as far as what you can accomplish.

~Carmen Van Kerckhove, President, New Demographic.

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“Working with Pamela on figuring out what to do when I grow up (I’m 40) dredged up all kinds of unconscious desires, dreams and fears. Pamela had just the right approach in dealing with the bumpy ride of discovery of my ‘right life.’ Never too wishy washy – never too stone cold rational. All you can ever ask of someone in this role is to be a supportive guide – a coach – a confidant. Pamela excelled at all of it.”

~Jeff, still undercover working for The Man, but not for long!