What is Life Coaching? Here Are 16 Ways Hiring A Life Coach WILL Change Your Life!

Laurie Juszkiewicz
Dec 31, 2025
14 min read

Updated: May 12

"What is Life Coaching anyway, and why would I hire a coach, I'm not an athlete?"

I hear this question a lot, so today, I'm answering it.

First off, just you finding this blog post is no accident. You were led here. Something, hem hem, your intuition, your body nudged you by piquing your curiosity to find out more. So let's dive in.

On any day of the week, we're used to buying a product, service, goods, or food and exchanging money for them. These purchases are tangible. We can hold them, eat them, see them, and take them home with us.

But what happens when what you're buying is life coaching, which is NOT a tangible product that you can hold in your hands or put on your body right away? I'm going to break down what is happening that you can't see but are starting to feel.

When you hire a life coach, you and your coach are coming together to focus on an area(s) of your life that you would like to see improved, changed, and/or transformed for the better.

Those kinds of results aren't really tangible at first. You can't see the impact coaching WILL have, yet. Nonetheless, the amazing transformations and improvements are 100% happening behind the scenes, slowly.

The changes become evident in the way you think and feel about situations. The way you interact with others. In the things that you say yes and no to. In the situations and experiences that people often find out when we work together, they've been tolerating and going along to get along, which no longer feels good to them.

Often, when my clients first come to me, they say everything is "fine, "nothing is wrong, but "something feels off." And right there, friend, is a belief popping up that says, "Something has to be wrong to make a shift or change." Through having a coach, you open yourself up to intangible possibilities of how good things can be.

Your coach can see your blind spots, the things you've become "used to" that keep you tolerating the same old routines. The extra weight. The sluggish feeling at work. That feeling of Groundhog Day or being on a hamster wheel is how your body is talking to you, letting you know something is off.

The intangible shifts are in the tiniest of decisions. And those decisions, one by one, start to stack and accumulate into profound shifts, changes, and transformations compounding over time in your life and work.

That's because life coaching focuses on the internal shifts FIRST so that the changes can be brought to the external. Very much like an infinity symbol, we go inward first. We do this work together where we notice key themes, habits, patterns, and beliefs in your life without judgment, removing what keeps you feeling like you're running on a hamster wheel you can't get off of and implementing the new ways of being you choose to live by not the ones passed down to you or the ones that are expected of you, but the ones that will move the needle in the direction you wish to go. It's like taking your life off autopilot and setting your Maps app to exactly where you want to go.

Below, I've put together 16 examples of how hiring a life coach and doing the inner work will transform your life. By no means is this a comprehensive list, and if, after you read this list, you're still wondering if coaching would help you, book a complimentary call here, and let's find out together.

Here are 16 areas in your life that working with a life coach can transform.

1.) Changing Job or Career/Returning to the work force/ Opening Your Own Business

Sometimes it can feel like you "fell" into a job/work/career, rather than actually choosing it. Sometimes, a friend of a friend knows of someone who is hiring. It all makes perfect sense. They're offering Health care and paid time off. 401k. Pension. Flexible hours, but you never really chose it. It made sense and was available at the time.

When it comes time for you to CHOOSE the next career path that lights you up, where you feel fulfilled with your work, that's where coaching comes in. We work together to uncover what it is that truly lights you up so you can start taking the steps and making the decisions to have it. Don't worry if you struggle with making decisions. When we work together, you'll uncover that you have your very own unique decision-making process that you will learn how to harness. Decisions become easy peasy. I promise you have this decision-making ability hardwired into you. We also work together to prevent the cycle of a job choosing you get in the way again. Let's face it, family and peer pressure are real.

Plus, breaking cycles and patterns can be scary. That's why you need a coach to walk alongside you as we navigate the unknown together with someone who has done this before and knows the ups and downs and everything in between. That's what coaching is. Experience and support walking with you as you make these shifts and changes to live a transformed life. Let's see how good life can get for you, together. Book your comlimentsry call here

2.) Learning how to say no and mean it WITHOUT feeling guilty!

This is huge!! How many times is the word yes out of your mouth before you even have a chance to think if you wanted to do the thing or not?

When we say yes to something, we automatically say no to something else that we could do. Oftentimes, that something else is for ourselves. ( Cue the guilt, and so you say yes)

I know that before I hired my first coach, I never even knew that I was allowed to say no. Yes, it was always out of my mouth first. (Put others first) And then right after, I felt terrible because what I said yes to I didn't really want to do, I felt OBLIGATED, so I just "got through it."

When I'm your coach, you will learn how to say no with love and with zero guilt! And, you will learn that by saying no, you are actually opening up to more opportunities and possibilities that are a yes for you. A true yes. A yes, that feels good and right for you. You'll learn what your yes's are and what your no's are, and how to recognize them.

Going back to #1 here. When we "fall into a job," you are saying yes without knowing what job(s) or opportunities you are saying no to as a result. Oftentimes, we say yes because it's logical and/or makes sense, but it is blocking us from what we truly desire our work to be. Even if you don't know what type of work would light you up, we uncover this on your life coaching journey. This could even be set as your intention for our work together. Your coaching journey could revolve around what you want your work to be if you want. It's your choice. Pun intended.

3.) Understanding fear, why it's there, and what it's trying to show and tell you!

Fear is a tool that your brain uses to keep you where you are, in the "status quo". Not because the "status quo" is great but because it's "known," "predictable," and "safe."

Keeping you safe and(alive) is fear's role. Its job is to literally keep you alive and run your body in the most efficient way so that it can conserve energy. Your brain does this by having you repeat the same tasks over and over again until a habit is formed, regardless of the results and outcomes.

This is often why people unintentionally stay at soul-sucking jobs or in bad relationships. Even though their results are shitty, it's known and somewhat safe (even when it's not actually safe), and see #1, they may not realize something else is possible.

Life coaching helps the coachee, the person receiving coaching, recognize and see what fear is trying to tell them. Is it keeping you safe? Or, is it keeping you stuck?

Knowing the difference is LIFE CHANGING!

4.) Understanding how your body is naturally wired!

Understanding your body's physiology and its natural wiring is crucial in recognizing when you are making decisions that are right for you. Your body tells you what a yes is and what a no is. Your body is THE resource that has your "I just know it in my bones" answers.

You may think this is not important. But remember, at the beginning of this blog, when I shared that when you hire a life coach, you will be making internal shifts that you can't see, but you will feel them?

It's through this exact process of knowing how you are naturally wired that you will feel and recognize with "know-it-in-your-bones accuracy" which decisions and directions (GPS) are exactly right for you!

5.) Learn how to tap into, hear, and TRUST your amazing intuition!

You may already hear your intuition; the thing is that you are probably overriding it. You don't trust yourself. It doesn't make sense. "It's not the way everyone else is doing it." You might even be saying, "When I'm making more money, then I can listen to it."

Again, your intuition is intangible; you can't see it, smell it, hold it, wear it, etc., as I shared at the opening of this article. Nonetheless, it IS there. Waiting for you to TRUST it and follow it.

Fun fact: Did you know Warren Buffett and Elon Musk say that they rely heavily on their intuition to guide them in their businesses? They're billionaires, so they know a thing or two about this.

Through hiring a life coach, you will learn to hear your intuition, but, EVEN MORE than that, you will learn to trust it, and follow what it's asking you to do!

This alone IS LIFE CHANGING!! Especially if you're always super busy but don't actually feel like you're moving forward or making progress. Chances are you're working on the wrong thing(s). Let's chat and find out.

6.) The importance of knowing your comfort zone!

As I shared in #3 above, fear will try to keep you in your comfort zone to keep you safe. Your comfort zone is the cycle of habits, patterns, and beliefs that keep you repeating the same tasks over and over again. Through coaching, you learn the parts of your circle (comfort zone) that you want to change so that you can step into your goals, dreams, and desires.

Life coaching is like using Google Maps to reach your goals, dreams, and desires. When you hire me as your coach, we get crystal clear about where you are in your life. We plug in your current location, where you are now, and then put in the destination, which is where you want to be (your goals, dreams, and desires), so that you can get there!! Your body is YOUR compass! Let's get navigating.

7.) Uncover your core values

Your values are not your morals.

Your values are innate to who you are. They are built into you!

Your values are what you VALUE most. When your values aren't being honored in your life, you will feel disconnected, or like something is missing, or something feels off because your values, which are how you really want to feel, are not built into the foundation, the core of your life, your work/business. When you hire a life coach, we work TOGETHER to uncover your values so that you can honor them in your life and work. This is so freeing!!

Right now, you may be thinking I have already done this. I know my values. That is fantastic. My question to you would be, are they built into your life and business? Are you honoring them daily in your decisions?

For example, let's say a few of your values are family, travel, and freedom. Are your work hours aligned with those values? Do you feel freedom in your work? Does your travel budget align with your value of travel? Does your PTO align with your value of freedom? If you're an entrepreneur, are your values living within your business? Do you give yourself PTO? Do you have a travel budget?

This is where the work of installing your values into your life begins, even if it's difficult or doesn't make sense yet.

8.) Enforce your boundaries with love and without guilt

This is super important when you are honoring your values and saying no to things that don't feel good to you. There will be times when people ask you to do things that are a no for you. Chances are, when you say no, they will push back. When I'm your coach, we navigate the "pushback" together. This work was never meant to be done alone. In fact, when we try to do this work alone, we often don't succeed because our old ways of being, the way we get acceptance, approval, our habits, patterns, and beliefs, come up as a default to "protect" us. But what's really happening is you're just doing something new for you. It's like you're at a new job and you're in training. That takes support to navigate with someone who knows the work.

This is why having strong boundaries in place is so important. (And back to #2, knowing how to say no is so important!)

When we honor our boundaries, the Universe responds in huge ways!

I had a person reach out to tell me that when they enforced their boundaries, they got a raise. Another got a new client.

9.) How to create time and space for you without guilt and judgment!

Giving yourself time and space for yourself can often feel like the most gut-wrenching thing to do. Guilt shows up. A restless mind shows up. You may even say to yourself, I'm lazy, I'm not being productive. I can't sit still, I have to get up and do something.

THIS IS THE WORK THAT YOU DO WITH YOUR LIFE COACH!!

Remember in my opening to this blog article where I shared that the shifts are internal first and then they show up in your external world? THIS IS exactly what I mean here.

Your value and your worth are internal; they are inside you!! They are NOT measured by how much you got done on your (external) to-do list!!

You uncover your inherent, God-given worth and value when we work on this together, when I'm your coach!

P.S. Creating time and space for yourself is actually the most loving thing you can do for yourself, your loved ones/friends/family/coworkers/community, etc.

10.) Connect to your embodiment!

Your embodiment is how you want to feel. It's your intention.

How you feel gives crystal clear guidance to what you want. How you want to feel AND what you want activates your inner GPS and intuition!! This allows you to have guidance and support in reaching your goals, dreams, and desires.

Your embodiment is THE KEY to reaching your goals, dreams, and desires and living them, instead of just talking about them and hoping you reach them!

You are always driving your life and choosing where you want to go. Your intuition, your Inner GPS, waits for you to plug in your coordinates. Your coordinates are your embodiment.

Learning how to tap into this inner, wise part of you, this tool alone will change your life FOREVAH!!

11.) Seeing what is possible for you so that you never settle for less than you deserve!

Our experience is all that we know. Because of this, it can be easy to assume that being wealthy, for example, is just not possible for you because it hasn't happened yet. Or, because to get to work you have to commute 2 hours every day, and you hate every damn second of it. Feel free to insert where you feel stuck here _________.

Through life coaching, you understand that anything you want IS possible AND you can have it.

To shift your outside experience and results, you must first shift inside.

Working with a life coach helps you shift internally so that your internal thinking, mindset, and results shift and overflow and spill outward to your external world! #magic

12.) Reaching your goals, dreams, and desires!

Your goals, dreams, and desires have been planted in your heart for a reason! And that reason is that they are meant to be reached and to come true!

You are naturally wired to want these things. In our culture, though, oftentimes we are told from a young age that you should just be happy with what you have because there are starving people in the world and it would be selfish to ask for more than what you already have!

It's stories like these that keep people stuck their entire lives. These old ways of thinking, habits, patterns, and beliefs get to be brought to the surface and healed through life coaching so that you can release the guilt and ask and receive what you truly want in YOUR life!

P.S. As you reach your goals, dreams, and desires, you can help other people reach theirs, too.

13.) Dive deep into Self- love!

When you hire a coach, and we do this work together, you begin to soften. You begin to understand and connect with your internal world and see just how amazing and powerful you truly are. And at the same time, you begin to see others in this same way, which now impacts your external world.

You open up to new perspectives and points of view.

You see your sameness, your oneness with others!!

You may uncover the ways that you want to create change and make an impact in the world or your community.

And, you feel amazing and present.

14.) Become financially free!!!

Through your embodiment, you activate your inner GPS, your intuition that guides you and leads you to what you want.

Say you want to make a million dollars. When you use your body, your physiology, your values, enforce your boundaries, and activate your intuition, all the things you will learn when I am your coach, you receive the steps and the ways for you to reach the 1 million dollars or more!

Don't think it's possible? Just ask Warren Buffett and Elon Musk. It's totally working for them, and they're BILLIONAIRES and actively share that they rely heavily on their intuition in their businesses.

They are tapped in and tuned into their bodies, and they know how it speaks to them, and most importantly, they know how to TRUST IT!!

15.) Life coaching will help you boost your confidence and feel good in your own skin!!

Do you ever feel awkward or uncomfortable when it's time to share or speak at work or with friends and family?

Life coaching helps you to feel empowered, calm, and confident in your own skin!!

Again, these internal shifts happen on the inside that you cannot see right away until those internal shifts begin to grow and grow until they eventually tip over and spill out into your external world. Then everyone will be saying, "I'll have what she's having!!"

16.) Life coaching helps you bring forward your inner courage!!

Life coaching doesn't give you anything that you don't already have. What you're looking for is NOT OUTSIDE OF YOU!! It's in you!!

What life coaching does is it helps you have the courage to bring out what is within you, even when you feel silly or weird. Especially then!

Life coaching helps you feel honored and accepted for who you are. And it gives you the permission to bring that part of you forward.

Oftentimes, what this can look like is you know DEEP DOWN what you want to be doing and what you should be doing, but it can be super scary to say it out loud and actually do it in real life!!

Sometimes that fear overrides your intuition and your core values.

***Courage, deep Inner courage helps you change that and shift into an empowered mindset where you honor yourself and your core values even when it might not be popular with your friends and family!!

If you have been curious about hiring a life coach and what that would give you in your life, then this is your sign and your answer!

I could go on and on here with even more ways of how hiring a life coach can change your life. Maybe I'll make a part 2 to this sometime.

But, for right now, these are just 16 things that you or someone you know may be experiencing and struggling with DAILY, that life coaching can help you and/or them with.

You only get this one life!

You owe it to yourself and who you are deep down to make it the absolute best that it can be!!

Would you like to chat and gain even more clarity around a topic that you have in your life right now? Click here to schedule your complimentary Clarity Call with me. During our call, if it feels like a match for both of us, I'll share how we can work together in a personalized program made just for you, your goals, dreams, and desires that align and bring your values forward and build them into your life! P.S. BONUS # 17

If you are an entrepreneur or business owner, clients have hired me to help them build out their coaching programs, courses, and memberships.

It's so much fun, and the thing I really want you to hear is that they didn't know they were sitting on a program and a course before we worked together. Going back to the list for a moment, friend, you cannot see your own blind spots. You don't see yourself the way I see you. It takes someone on the outside to hear and see what you're not seeing, yet. That's what I do. Schedule a call here and let's see what blind spots we can uncover together.

Talk soon,

Sending you so much love and support,

Laurie Juszkiewicz ICF PCC Coach (Professional Certified Coach)

Certified Bodymind Method Coach

Me, and my fam' 👇