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New Directions Coaching

A special program for people ready to create a new direction in their life!

New Directions Coaching gets you on a path to setting and manifesting a new vision for your life. With Ann, you’ll articulate your vision, identify and eliminate energy drains and things that are holding you back, create a roadmap for your new direction and be on your way!

Three values guide our coaching:

You start knowing that where you are now is just right.

You decide what you want to create.

You understand that you have absolute freedom.

Good and bad, the events in your life brought you to where you are today – ready to create a new direction! You lead this journey and make the choices that are right for you. Coaching provides an open space for you to articulate your new direction. Yes, there are practicalities – they do not limit you. Rather, dealing with them moves you forward to your dreams! 

How coaching works

We start with discovering your values (the essence of you), getting clear on what you want to accomplish, setting a path to get you there and establishing how we will work together. Once that is done, we begin our calls by phone, Skype, Zoom, FaceTime, Google Meet or other medium where we hold your intentions and you move forward to the life you want to live!

All of my programs include

Weekly 45-minute sessions by phone, skype, zoom, facetime or other method

unlimited email and text support

support in researching and evaluating prospects and possibilities

in-the-moment coaching when time-dependent situations arise

Clients who have found New Directions

Ann had an amazing ability to know just what questions to ask, what statements to make, to create a huge shift in my perceptions. By doing so, she got me to a place of rapid deep change and helped me to open up and to move forward in a completely new direction that has brought so much more joy and fulfillment into my life.  I could have never made such a dramatic shift, so quickly, without Ann’s guidance and assistance.

I started coaching with Ann at the beginning of a great personal and professional transition.  I needed support through the process, and Ann was put in my path.  More than 2 (3?) years and 3,000 miles later, my life looks nothing like I could have imagined.  I have re-invented myself and am growing an amazing new business practice.

Coaching helped me by clarifying my values — a process that is central to decisions about how to spend life’s precious time — and by keeping me focused on goals.  It was also a way to see new possibilities that I hadn’t considered.

Coaching deepened my understanding of the importance of staying in the moment and helped me find clarity. Ann Vanino is a master of asking powerful questions and in that process, I learned to listen to myself and honor my feelings.

Some 25 years ago, I left the firm where we had worked together to start my own business.  It was very scary, because I owned a house and had two kids in college at the time.  When I left, you sent me a card that had the following quote on its cover:

“My barn having burned down, I can now see the moon.”
— Mizuta Masahide (17th century Japanese poet and samurai)

 I saved the card, and in fact, it has been an inspiration to me ever since.  My first attempt at my own business failed, and I had to take on another corporate job to support my family.  But 19 years ago, as I was cleaning drawers in my office, I found your card again.  A few months later, in 2000, I started my own business again, and I’ve never once been less than 100% billable since.  I have never looked back, and I have succeeded at more than I’d ever thought I was capable of accomplishing.

 I found your card again this week, and just had to reach out to tell you that you were an inspiration to me 25 years ago, and have been ever since.  Your encouragement and guidance has been such a gift to me, as I am sure it has been to many others over the past years!

What Coaching Gives You

a champion for the dreams you have for your life

support in navigating a changing world

a non-judgmental space for you to envision a new life

support in removing obstacles that have held you back from the life you want to live

an accountability partner to make sure you get results

the perspective of a coach who has personally navigated change and challenge and helped  hundreds of people do the same

Ann Vanino, Coach - Headshot smiling outdoors

Meet the Coach

Ann Vanino is a long-time career coach, personal coach and author who helps people thrive and grow while embracing personal and planetary change. She writes and practices in the High Mojave Desert of Southern California, inspired by the silent beauty of the landscape. More about Ann.

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