Raquel Braganca - How to Start and Grow a Life Coaching Business

Raquel Braganca: Life Coaching

I adore celebration! It is made of aliveness, enthusiasm and passion.

It ignites the fire in YOU and amplifies what really matters.

Overwhelm dismisses celebration because the magnitude of effort required to control our circumstances is exhausting and depleting. I know it well.

I was THAT woman:

  • Focused on everyone’s needs before my own
  • Feeling responsible for everyone & everything 
  • Looking for certainty in controlling the outcome and therefore constantly anticipating potential consequences. 
  • Terrified of loss. 

Busy was my best friend

You never run out of things to do when your sense of achievement is in how much you can give and do. 

Fixing everything for everyone was very much my measure of success. 

The discomfort comes in the emptiness that keeps getting bigger. 

I shushed mine by DOING because the busier I was the less I noticed the FEELING. 

What I ignored was the damaging impact of carrying the weight of the world whilst demanding MORE of myself.

The Oh F*ck Moment!

Then my world imploded in 2017. 

I went from:

  • Married, stay at home Mama to small children, living in a beautiful home just renovated, living in the UK to be with the man I loved.

To

  • Years of nightmare divorce, determined to remain the main carer of my children, no income or career, not allowed to return to Portugal if I wanted to be with my children.

Everything I dismissed before… 

The overwhelm I shushed in so many areas of my life turned up the volume as everything that used to be my life collapsed. 

During that WHOLE time, I craved examples of women – I could identify with – who understood both the devastation and the glory because they had done it. I wanted the reassurance that it was possible to go from chaos to calm because another woman was resourceful and determined enough to find a way and amongst the tears still feel joy. 

I didn’t find it in one place so I collected the puzzle pieces and over time designed my own step-by-step assembly guide so I could make a difference to someone else’s messy times. 

The F*ck Yeah Moment!

Today I proudly state that I am a Robbins Madanes trained coach. Every step I took towards making my dream a reality has added up and BOOM! 

I empower my clients and witness them thrive, smiling in their freedom certain that they are more than any circumstances. 

I bring new perspectives which reveal entire new possibilities and celebration becomes a daily experience.

Powered by JOY

Even if things are overwhelming right now, we can find momentum. 

My coaching is powered by JOY because it is in smiles and delight and pleasure that you feel the beauty of being alive and you welcome possibility, with energy and enthusiasm. Dealing with shit does not have to be shitty! So let’s take away the dread and have excitement instead.

Interests 

I am passionate about women’s rights. I am in awe of Mamas parenting solo. I ADORE Portugal, my homeland and I am counting down the years to return home for good. I love the power of words - music, reading, writing, poetry. I love art. I love colour.