No, it isn’t what you think. Well maybe. Lots of great speakers and networking opportunities. Some interesting information and one defining moment. The conference was actually organized by a good friend of mine who is launching her career as a speaker. What better way than to dive in and organize your own conference and surround yourself with other well known speakers. It worked! She was amazing. I was really proud of her and what she had done, and I was inspired by the risks she took to put it together. One of the things she did was to invite 25 women from shelters around Toronto to participate in the conference. I had an opportunity to meet a number of these women throughout the day and I was really struck by their resilience. Some felt a little uncomfortable as it was the first time they had participated in such an event. When the conference was over, I could not stop thinking about the women I had met from the shelter. I felt drawn to them. Have you ever had a knowing in your gut about what you wanted or what you knew you needed to do? I have been pursuing a goal of becoming a coach and have been thinking about the people I would be coaching. My focus has been on the corporate world, with some individual life and career coaching mixed in, because these are areas I know about. I wasn’t prepared for the feeling that came up in me after I met these women. It was like I had this knowing that I wanted to help them and I knew right away that some of my coaching time was going to be devoted to helping women in shelters get back on their feet and start their lives over. I get excited about it even as I write this. This is what it feels like to know what you are supposed to do.
