Episode #7: Kristen Kosinski - The Power of Being Truly Seen, With All Your Messiness

Kristen Kosinski is a coach, consultant and founder who empowers her clients to achieve the impossible, lead fearlessly, inspire others and manifest their dreams. Midway through a career as a successful executive in Hollywood, Kristen sat down with a woman on the recommendation of a friend. That woman was Mona Miller, the late coach, author and teacher, and over the next 12 years Mona and Kristen worked together as Kristen’s career and relationships were transformed. As part of that work, she founded The Samburu Project, a non-profit organisation which has brought clean drinking water to over 100,000 people in Africa.

Then, in 2016, after leaving The Samburu Project, she set off to do the work that she had learned from Mona, training as a coach and developing a business through a commitment to courage and doing her own deep work… among many other things.

In this episode, we talk about:

- How two hours with Mona Miller - the first time she felt all her messiness had been truly seen, in the most extraordinarily loving way - transformed her.

- How Kristen came to believe that we live in a world where you can literally live your dreams, and why so many are afraid to even speak about their dreams, let alone follow them.

- How visiting her father after his terminal cancer diagnosis gave her permission to leave behind the dream she had had as a child and strike out on a new path

- The writing practice she uses to deal with the pain of getting ‘No’s.

Plus, in the final part of the call, Kristen and I get into detail exploring, together, some of the questions about how to structure coaching engagements, what the optimal length is and whether to offer one-off conversations to potential clients.

For more information about Kristen, visit her website: https://kristenkosinski.com/

For information about Robbie’s wider work and writing, visit www.robbieswalecoaching.com.

Music by My Good Man William: listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4KmeQUcTbeE31uFynHQLQg

Things and people we mentioned (that you might be interested in):

First things first, mentioned throughout the call, Mona Miller: http://www.monamiller.com/

~9: Rich Litvin: https://richlitvin.com/

~23: The non-profit organisation Kristen founded, The Samburu Project: https://thesamburuproject.org/

~35: Rich Litvin’s not-currently-offered Prosperous Coach Salon

~46: iPEC/the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching: https://www.ipeccoaching.co.uk/

~46: Coach U: http://www.coachinc.com/CoachU/

~50: The Prosperous Coach by Rich Litvin and Steve Chandler: https://richlitvin.com/the-prosperous-coach/

~52: Katie Harvey and the episode of The Coach’s Journey Podcast with her as the guest: https://www.thecoachsjourney.com/podcast/episode-1-katie-harvey-14000-hours-of-coaching-being-part-of-the-uk-coaching-vanguard-and-being-a-generalist-coach

~59: Invisible Warfare by Mona Miller: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Invisible-Warfare-Mona-Miller/dp/0978665201

~77: The Artist’s Way and Julia Cameron: https://juliacameronlive.com/the-artists-way/

~82: Marianne Williamson: https://marianne.com/

~82: A Course in Miracles by Dr Helen Schucman: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0018A01L4

~82: An example of Marianne Williamson’s work on A Course in Miracles: https://marianne.com/365-days-of-a-course-in-miracles/