December 3, 2024 • 13 mins
What if you could break free from self-doubt and people-pleasing to unlock your true potential? Join us for an inspiring conversation with Caroline Brown, an aligned business and confidence coach who transitioned from a cardiac nurse to a transformative guide for women. Caroline reveals her personal journey of overcoming visibility issues and shares powerful strategies to help women conquer challenges like imposter syndrome. Discover how she empowers clients to achieve a harmonious balance between their professional and personal lives, leading to remarkable transformations such as reigniting passion and confidence in business.
Curious about the coaching experience? We're offering a peek into the world of coaching through the lens of Caroline’s free clarity calls. These complimentary one-hour Zoom sessions are an excellent opportunity to explore the benefits of having a supportive guide and access tailored resources. Caroline’s unwavering dedication to helping individuals achieve clarity and direction is evident throughout our discussion. Plus, we dispel common misconceptions about her practice, emphasizing her commitment to working with all women, not just those in nursing. Get ready to be inspired by Caroline’s story and the profound impact she’s making in the Virginia Beach community.
Caroline Brown Coaching
Virginia Beach, VA
www.carolinebrowncoaching.com
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Good Neighbor Podcast, the place
where local businesses andneighbors come together.
Here's your host, Denise Taylor.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Welcome to the Good Neighbor Podcast for GenuBeach.
Today I have Caroline Brown ofCaroline Brown Coaching.
Thanks so much for being withus, caroline.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Yeah, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Thanks for having me.
How long have you been in thecoaching business?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
So I am coming up on two years this February.
Okay.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
And tell me a little bit about your background,
because I know this is not atraditional route most people
take.
So, yeah, yeah, so.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
I was a nurse.
I was a cardiac nurse on andoff, in and out of the hospital
for a lot of reasons, but Ifound, I guess about two and a
half years ago I found nursecoaching.
So I went through a nurse coachcertification process, which is
not typical and it is veryconfusing to people, which we
(01:05):
can talk about later, but thatis how I got into nurse coaching
.
So I get to support other womennow through coaching.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
That's amazing.
Tell me your perfect or I'msure it's very different in your
business versus otherbusinesses but your avatar like
who are you typically helpingright now?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yeah, so I am an aligned business and confidence
coach for women.
So I help women who strugglewith visibility people pleasing
imposter syndrome, self-doubt.
I help them call out the fearsand limiting beliefs that are
holding them back so that theycan create the life and job that
(01:52):
aligns with each other.
So I can give you an example,if that's helpful.
One woman that I worked withfor about six months when we
started she felt really stuck inher business.
She wanted to quit and burn itall down.
This is a lot of my people andshe was just trying to keep
everyone happy and burningherself out in the process.
(02:13):
So by working together, webuilt her confidence and she was
able to know and value what shebrought to the table, increase
her prices and only take on jobsthat she's super, super excited
about, things that light her up, so she's able to show up more
fully at home and also enjoy herbusiness more.
So creating that alignment andflow between work and life and
(02:37):
it's not always perfectlybalanced, but knowing when you
can give more and when you canpull back so that you can show
up completely at work.
So all women who are buildingtheir business or scaling their
business or just wanting to showup more authentically and
powerfully at work, wanting towalk into a room and not care
(02:58):
what anybody thinks and just bethemselves.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
So I think that's such an important thing as a
business owner myself,Definitely.
I know there was a little clipabout Martha Stewart a couple of
days ago saying that she'snever had imposter syndrome, but
I know a lot of us do feel likesometimes we're in a space that
(03:23):
maybe we really shouldn't be in.
That's really we're not a partof that.
So I think that's so important.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Yeah, and the fears and self-doubt can feel so big
at all different points in yourbusiness.
So just my job is to call themout and help you create that
flow and confidence to be fullyyourself and build something
that's maybe bigger than youthought was possible.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Absolutely.
What do you think is thebiggest misconception of your
business?
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Yeah.
So I think the biggestmisconception is that I only
coach nurses, which is 100% nottrue.
People hear nurse coach whichis why I don't say that anymore
and they think that I coachnurses.
But I coach all women,obviously.
And then they hear I'm a nursecoach and they're like but how
(04:15):
does you help women withbusinesses and confidence?
How does that like?
How is that preventative careor helping?
But I truly believe in aholistic approach and if you are
doing a job that you love andshowing up fully as yourself,
you're eating better, you'redrinking less, you're working
out more, you're creating morespace for things that you love
in your life.
So I believe that it truly doesall work together.
(04:37):
But that is the thing I getmore most often is that people
think I just coach nurses.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Okay, what would you say has in the last two years?
Or well, we can go to anotherquestion, but in the last two
years, what has been yourbiggest challenge that you'd
like to share and have overcome,or, if you're, even, if you're
still working on it, what wouldbe the biggest challenge that
you'd like to share and haveovercome?
Or, if you're, even, if you'restill working on it, what would
(05:03):
be the biggest challenge thatyou've come across?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Oh, in the last two years, okay, well, it's funny,
because I believe that you coachthe most powerfully when you
serve people who are living yourjourney, that I can really
resonate with them.
And so my journey was I did notwant to build a business online
(05:25):
.
I did not want to be visible.
I would have never come on apodcast or wanted to speak in
front of a group.
Now, I love doing things likethis, but that was not who I was
.
That was not something I wascomfortable doing at all.
I almost failed out of speechspeaking class in college.
(05:46):
The professor was just nice tome.
I had complete.
I would completely shut down.
I saw stars, nothing.
So my biggest challenge wasbecoming visible and learning to
step into that over time andlearning to not care what
anybody thought and just fullybe myself.
So that has been my huge growthjourney, and that's why it's so
(06:10):
fun for me to support women whoare doing the same.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Yeah, because it sounds like you've actually gone
through that similar journey.
You can take those things thatyou've learned and actually put
it into practice with the otherwomen you're working with.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Yeah, a hundred percent.
When someone comes to a calland says that they want to build
a business but they're afraidof being visible or there's like
that fear of what people thinkI'm, I get excited.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
There is a lot of fear of what people think when
you know whether it be you know,motherhood, um, our marriages,
our business, and I think wejust we're all affected by that
in some way shape or form Umoutside of your coaching
business.
I know you have a pretty robust, uh, family life.
(06:52):
Tell me a little bit about whatyou guys like to do for fun, um
outside of your business.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Yeah.
So, um, other people might notthink this is fun, but I really
love to foster puppies.
Um, I love taking in fosterpuppies.
We kind of have an endless flow.
I have two little tiny puppieshere right now, um, and I just
really enjoy that, yeah, I enjoyum, bringing them in and
(07:20):
helping them find a really goodfamily.
It's just really fun for us.
We also.
We love going to the beach.
Obviously, we love doinganything outside camping, hiking
, walking.
I love working out.
So all of those things,anything movement based, I love.
That's awesome, yeah.
(07:40):
And I will say one other thingis I just I love watching my
kids play sports and doingthings that they love.
I know that might sound alittle boring to some people,
but that it brings me so muchjoy too.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
So fun I it just to see them excel at something or
try something new.
Yeah, it brings me a lot of joyalso.
Um, I can totally relate tothat.
What is one thing you wish ourlisteners knew about your
business?
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Probably that it's for them.
So often I think that peoplethink that the people I work
with are special or that youhave to be a certain type of
woman to need coaching, andtruly it's about being seen and
heard and creating a space,curating a space that's just for
(08:36):
you and it's not scary.
I promise coaching is not scary.
I think for so many people itis kind of a new realm.
Nurse coaching itself is only Idon't know eight years old
total maybe.
So we are kind of new to thescene and I so often think that
(08:57):
people think that what I do isfor someone else and not them,
but it is for anyone listeningto this.
If you are a woman or even aman, I know so many people to
refer to too.
I love referring people andhelping them find the person
that's the best for them.
So, um, yeah, that it's, it'sfor you, it's not for some
(09:18):
special unicorn of a human.
That, um, is not who you thinkyou are right now.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Tell me some of the industries that you've worked
with.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
So photographers, realtors, mortgage brokers,
other nurse coaches, shop owners, I mean it's very vast
Basically.
If you, is that what you mean?
Yeah, absolutely.
If you own any sort of businessI'm trying to think of other
ones, um, bookkeepers, uh, anysort of business where you want
(09:53):
to put yourself out there in anyway, shape or form, do you feel
like your business is coachingand a little bit of therapy.
Yeah, good question, um, so Ithink therapy and coaching are
incredibly different, um, butthat said, there are moments
(10:13):
when it can feel a little slowerwhen you're, when you're
working through something, um,that feels big, when, um,
there's a lot of being worthy orfeeling like enough for
something, that comes up whenyou're building a business or
when you're stepping intoconfidence, and I get that
question a lot.
To me, therapy is more healingfocused.
(10:34):
It's more past focused.
If you're not able to talkthrough something, I'm going to
send you for therapy.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Right.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
And coaching is more forward movement focused, it's
faster paced, it's more goaloriented.
So that is the biggestdifference that I see between
the two, because I didn't knowif you what.
Sorry, but that's part of.
One thing I love is that ispart of where I think being a
nurse is really helpful becauseour assessment skills are really
(11:05):
high.
Our level of knowing when youneed therapy versus when
coaching is a good fit is prettyhigh, so that's one area that I
feel like, as nurse coaches,we're able to really assess that
pretty well.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
I love that.
Okay, so if a listener isinterested in learning more
about your business, what wouldbe the next steps and, typically
, what's the what's the processlike?
Speaker 3 (11:38):
So you can find me on Instagram at Caroline Brown
coaching.
I have a website.
It's also Caroline Browncoaching.
com.
I kept it pretty simple foreverything, so you can find me
everywhere under Caroline Browncoaching.
If someone wanted to experiencecoaching, I believe coaching is
entirely it's very experiential.
So I give away a certain numberof free clarity calls every
(12:04):
month so they can book a freeclarity call, and right now I'm
booking to January.
So, oh, that's awesome.
How long does a clarity calltake?
So it's one hour over Zoom,okay, and at the end of that I
can either tell you what itwould be like to work with me,
refer you out, get you someresources, whatever that looks
(12:25):
like.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Okay, and that is complimentary.
That's awesome.
Well, thank you so much forbeing on the podcast today and
being one of our neighbors herein Virginia Beach, again
Caroline Brown coaching.
Thank you so much, thank you.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Thank you for listening to the Good Neighbor
Podcast.
To nominate your favorite localbusinesses to be featured on
the show, go to gnpvirginiabeach.
com.
That's gnpvirginiabeach.
com, or call 757-797-8852.
This is the Good Neighbor Podcast, the place
where local businesses andneighbors come together.
Here's your host, Denise Taylor.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Welcome to the Good Neighbor Podcast for GenuBeach.
Today I have Caroline Brown ofCaroline Brown Coaching.
Thanks so much for being withus, caroline.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Yeah, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Thanks for having me.
How long have you been in thecoaching business?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
So I am coming up on two years this February.
Okay.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
And tell me a little bit about your background,
because I know this is not atraditional route most people
take.
So, yeah, yeah, so.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
I was a nurse.
I was a cardiac nurse on andoff, in and out of the hospital
for a lot of reasons, but Ifound, I guess about two and a
half years ago I found nursecoaching.
So I went through a nurse coachcertification process, which is
not typical and it is veryconfusing to people, which we
(01:05):
can talk about later, but thatis how I got into nurse coaching
.
So I get to support other womennow through coaching.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
That's amazing.
Tell me your perfect or I'msure it's very different in your
business versus otherbusinesses but your avatar like
who are you typically helpingright now?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yeah, so I am an aligned business and confidence
coach for women.
So I help women who strugglewith visibility people pleasing
imposter syndrome, self-doubt.
I help them call out the fearsand limiting beliefs that are
holding them back so that theycan create the life and job that
(01:52):
aligns with each other.
So I can give you an example,if that's helpful.
One woman that I worked withfor about six months when we
started she felt really stuck inher business.
She wanted to quit and burn itall down.
This is a lot of my people andshe was just trying to keep
everyone happy and burningherself out in the process.
(02:13):
So by working together, webuilt her confidence and she was
able to know and value what shebrought to the table, increase
her prices and only take on jobsthat she's super, super excited
about, things that light her up, so she's able to show up more
fully at home and also enjoy herbusiness more.
So creating that alignment andflow between work and life and
(02:37):
it's not always perfectlybalanced, but knowing when you
can give more and when you canpull back so that you can show
up completely at work.
So all women who are buildingtheir business or scaling their
business or just wanting to showup more authentically and
powerfully at work, wanting towalk into a room and not care
(02:58):
what anybody thinks and just bethemselves.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
So I think that's such an important thing as a
business owner myself,Definitely.
I know there was a little clipabout Martha Stewart a couple of
days ago saying that she'snever had imposter syndrome, but
I know a lot of us do feel likesometimes we're in a space that
(03:23):
maybe we really shouldn't be in.
That's really we're not a partof that.
So I think that's so important.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Yeah, and the fears and self-doubt can feel so big
at all different points in yourbusiness.
So just my job is to call themout and help you create that
flow and confidence to be fullyyourself and build something
that's maybe bigger than youthought was possible.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Absolutely.
What do you think is thebiggest misconception of your
business?
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Yeah.
So I think the biggestmisconception is that I only
coach nurses, which is 100% nottrue.
People hear nurse coach whichis why I don't say that anymore
and they think that I coachnurses.
But I coach all women,obviously.
And then they hear I'm a nursecoach and they're like but how
(04:15):
does you help women withbusinesses and confidence?
How does that like?
How is that preventative careor helping?
But I truly believe in aholistic approach and if you are
doing a job that you love andshowing up fully as yourself,
you're eating better, you'redrinking less, you're working
out more, you're creating morespace for things that you love
in your life.
So I believe that it truly doesall work together.
(04:37):
But that is the thing I getmore most often is that people
think I just coach nurses.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Okay, what would you say has in the last two years?
Or well, we can go to anotherquestion, but in the last two
years, what has been yourbiggest challenge that you'd
like to share and have overcome,or, if you're, even, if you're
still working on it, what wouldbe the biggest challenge that
you'd like to share and haveovercome?
Or, if you're, even, if you'restill working on it, what would
(05:03):
be the biggest challenge thatyou've come across?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Oh, in the last two years, okay, well, it's funny,
because I believe that you coachthe most powerfully when you
serve people who are living yourjourney, that I can really
resonate with them.
And so my journey was I did notwant to build a business online
(05:25):
.
I did not want to be visible.
I would have never come on apodcast or wanted to speak in
front of a group.
Now, I love doing things likethis, but that was not who I was
.
That was not something I wascomfortable doing at all.
I almost failed out of speechspeaking class in college.
(05:46):
The professor was just nice tome.
I had complete.
I would completely shut down.
I saw stars, nothing.
So my biggest challenge wasbecoming visible and learning to
step into that over time andlearning to not care what
anybody thought and just fullybe myself.
So that has been my huge growthjourney, and that's why it's so
(06:10):
fun for me to support women whoare doing the same.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Yeah, because it sounds like you've actually gone
through that similar journey.
You can take those things thatyou've learned and actually put
it into practice with the otherwomen you're working with.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Yeah, a hundred percent.
When someone comes to a calland says that they want to build
a business but they're afraidof being visible or there's like
that fear of what people thinkI'm, I get excited.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
There is a lot of fear of what people think when
you know whether it be you know,motherhood, um, our marriages,
our business, and I think wejust we're all affected by that
in some way shape or form Umoutside of your coaching
business.
I know you have a pretty robust, uh, family life.
(06:52):
Tell me a little bit about whatyou guys like to do for fun, um
outside of your business.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Yeah.
So, um, other people might notthink this is fun, but I really
love to foster puppies.
Um, I love taking in fosterpuppies.
We kind of have an endless flow.
I have two little tiny puppieshere right now, um, and I just
really enjoy that, yeah, I enjoyum, bringing them in and
(07:20):
helping them find a really goodfamily.
It's just really fun for us.
We also.
We love going to the beach.
Obviously, we love doinganything outside camping, hiking
, walking.
I love working out.
So all of those things,anything movement based, I love.
That's awesome, yeah.
(07:40):
And I will say one other thingis I just I love watching my
kids play sports and doingthings that they love.
I know that might sound alittle boring to some people,
but that it brings me so muchjoy too.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
So fun I it just to see them excel at something or
try something new.
Yeah, it brings me a lot of joyalso.
Um, I can totally relate tothat.
What is one thing you wish ourlisteners knew about your
business?
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Probably that it's for them.
So often I think that peoplethink that the people I work
with are special or that youhave to be a certain type of
woman to need coaching, andtruly it's about being seen and
heard and creating a space,curating a space that's just for
(08:36):
you and it's not scary.
I promise coaching is not scary.
I think for so many people itis kind of a new realm.
Nurse coaching itself is only Idon't know eight years old
total maybe.
So we are kind of new to thescene and I so often think that
(08:57):
people think that what I do isfor someone else and not them,
but it is for anyone listeningto this.
If you are a woman or even aman, I know so many people to
refer to too.
I love referring people andhelping them find the person
that's the best for them.
So, um, yeah, that it's, it'sfor you, it's not for some
(09:18):
special unicorn of a human.
That, um, is not who you thinkyou are right now.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Tell me some of the industries that you've worked
with.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
So photographers, realtors, mortgage brokers,
other nurse coaches, shop owners, I mean it's very vast
Basically.
If you, is that what you mean?
Yeah, absolutely.
If you own any sort of businessI'm trying to think of other
ones, um, bookkeepers, uh, anysort of business where you want
(09:53):
to put yourself out there in anyway, shape or form, do you feel
like your business is coachingand a little bit of therapy.
Yeah, good question, um, so Ithink therapy and coaching are
incredibly different, um, butthat said, there are moments
(10:13):
when it can feel a little slowerwhen you're, when you're
working through something, um,that feels big, when, um,
there's a lot of being worthy orfeeling like enough for
something, that comes up whenyou're building a business or
when you're stepping intoconfidence, and I get that
question a lot.
To me, therapy is more healingfocused.
(10:34):
It's more past focused.
If you're not able to talkthrough something, I'm going to
send you for therapy.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Right.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
And coaching is more forward movement focused, it's
faster paced, it's more goaloriented.
So that is the biggestdifference that I see between
the two, because I didn't knowif you what.
Sorry, but that's part of.
One thing I love is that ispart of where I think being a
nurse is really helpful becauseour assessment skills are really
(11:05):
high.
Our level of knowing when youneed therapy versus when
coaching is a good fit is prettyhigh, so that's one area that I
feel like, as nurse coaches,we're able to really assess that
pretty well.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
I love that.
Okay, so if a listener isinterested in learning more
about your business, what wouldbe the next steps and, typically
, what's the what's the processlike?
Speaker 3 (11:38):
So you can find me on Instagram at Caroline Brown
coaching.
I have a website.
It's also Caroline Browncoaching.
com.
I kept it pretty simple foreverything, so you can find me
everywhere under Caroline Browncoaching.
If someone wanted to experiencecoaching, I believe coaching is
entirely it's very experiential.
So I give away a certain numberof free clarity calls every
(12:04):
month so they can book a freeclarity call, and right now I'm
booking to January.
So, oh, that's awesome.
How long does a clarity calltake?
So it's one hour over Zoom,okay, and at the end of that I
can either tell you what itwould be like to work with me,
refer you out, get you someresources, whatever that looks
(12:25):
like.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Okay, and that is complimentary.
That's awesome.
Well, thank you so much forbeing on the podcast today and
being one of our neighbors herein Virginia Beach, again
Caroline Brown coaching.
Thank you so much, thank you.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Thank you for listening to the Good Neighbor
Podcast.
To nominate your favorite localbusinesses to be featured on
the show, go to gnpvirginiabeach.
com.
That's gnpvirginiabeach.
com, or call 757-797-8852.
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