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Living Service: The Journey of a Prosperous Coach Paperback – Illustrated, September 4, 2019
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Living Service: The Journey of a Prosperous Coach tells the story of Melissa Ford’s rise from struggling coach to thriving professional. Raw, honest and full of humor, Living Service details Melissa’s insecurities and stumbles along the way, as well as the powerful insights and actions that transformed her practice—and her life. Do you struggle to find clients? To know what to charge? To lead as a strong, compassionate professional? To truly serve? Living Service offers priceless wisdom and practical tools to help you address these and other essential questions along the coaching path to prosperity. Wherever you are on your journey, you’ll find that Living Service is the perfect traveling companion."The journey shared here is as honest and real as it gets. Living Service is for coaches who want better business results, deeper friendships, more genuine and loving family relationships, and an all-around great life. Melissa’s heartfelt stories in Living Serviceare beautifully illustrated with humor, candor and light-heartedness."
~ Sherry Welsh, leadership coach and author of Slowing Down: Unexpected Ways to Thrive as a Female Leader
"As a coach, you cannot take your clients where you have never been yourself. Melissa offers a brutally honest and vulnerable account of her own journey of struggle, failure, success, failure, and ultimate success—not as arriving, but as an ongoing journey. This book offers great lessons for any coach who wants to serve clients in the most powerful way."
~ Ron Wilder, creator of CEO Jiu-Jitsu and author of Aligned Action: The Key to CEO
"Melissa Ford’s insightful journey on her path to prosperous coaching is a MUST READ for everyone in the world of coaching!"
~ Steve Chandler, Author of Time Warrior:How to defeat procrastination, people-pleasing, self-doubt, over-commitment, broken promises and chaos
"Melissa Ford is a brilliant coach, and in Living Service she takes us through her personal experiences with humor and clarity so we can learn from her wisdom firsthand. I am a better, more relaxed, and compassionate coach because of this book. One of the best books I’ve ever read on coaching."
~ Tina Quinn, Life Leadership Consultant, coach, speaker and author of Invisible Things: The Most Important Things in Life Are the Ones You Can’t See
"Melissa is a teacher, a compassionate guide, and someone who will always stand behind you and champion you. This book is a doorway to transforming your life and the lives of those you serve."
~ Gary L Mahler, Mahler International Coaching Inc. Life, Business, Relationships, Leadership
"A raw, honest look at what it takes to go from beginner to master. Melissa reminds us that coaching and service are not about systems, strategies and schemes. They are about being human and discovering a deeper connection with yourself, others and the world."
~ William Giruzzi, coach and author of A Life Worth Living
"Service—true service—is the key to a prosperous coaching practice. However, while this word is often used in the world of coaching, it is rare to find a coach who truly understands what it means to live as service. In her wonderful new book, Mellissa Ford shows us just how to do this, and how to build a full practice from this place."
~ David Schwendiman, coach, King of the Unicorns and author of Selling from the Top of the Ladder: The Ultimate Sales Playbook
- Print length226 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateSeptember 4, 2019
- Dimensions5 x 0.51 x 7 inches
- ISBN-101600250769
- ISBN-13978-1600250767
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If you're looking for a quick-fix, seven-step formula or tactics to get clients for your coaching practice, you won't find it here. What you will find, however, is much more valuable--the insight that "service isn't an external strategy; it's an internal stance." As a coach, you cannot take your clients where you have never been yourself. Melissa offers a brutally honest and vulnerable account of her own journey of struggle, failure, success, failure, and ultimate success--not as arriving, but as an ongoing journey. This book offers great lessons for any coach who wants to serve clients in the most powerful way.
Ron Wilder, creator of CEO Jiu-Jitsu and author of Clear Your Hidden Profit Blocker(s): How to Own Your Next Level of Performance So There's No Looking Back, Aligned Action: The Key to CEO Effectiveness and The 100 Watt War
Melissa Ford's insightful journey on her path to prosperous coaching is a MUST READ for everyone in the world of coaching!
Steve Chandler, Author of Time Warrior: How to defeat procrastination, people-pleasing, self-doubt, over-commitment, broken promises and chaos
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- Publisher : Maurice Bassett; Illustrated edition (September 4, 2019)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 226 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1600250769
- ISBN-13 : 978-1600250767
- Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
- Dimensions : 5 x 0.51 x 7 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #237,792 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #292 in Business Mentoring & Coaching (Books)
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I work with a variety of clients from fast-rising coaches, entrepreneurs, executives and career-changers helping them wake up to and engage with their creative power to consciously design the lives they desire.
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Customers find the themes in the book inspiring, relatable, and helpful for coaches. They also say it's one of the best coaching books they've read, and a must for coaches who are ready. Customers also mention that the book is warm-hearted and practical.
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"One of the best books I have ever read on Coaching! Very inspiring content! Really appreciate the personal experiences of Melissa’s story." Read more
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At the time I read this I thought I was giving up on coaching. Until Melissa Ford brilliantly described the "3 Steps of Mastery". I realized I wasn't lazy or inept at enrolling clients! I was simply still in "Stage 2" of Mastery! Now that I had a perspective on the stages of my journey as a coach I could begin again. With much more humility and confidence.
I love the way Melissa takes our hand and walks us through each stage and experience. Especially the cringy ones you thought only belonged to you! I love how she openly shares exact emails, phone convo's and conversations with her clients, colleagues, and her coach. So fabulously helpful! You get the nitty-gritty of what works and what doesnt when it comes to being a truly heart-centered prosperous coach. More things I loved: The acronym 'HOW" she gives us, as very helpful, immediately useful way how to resolve anything. I also liked the illustrations, They perfectly punctuated and illuminated Melissa's words.
Not just for coaches, but for anyone on the path of service. Or anyone looking to to have great, high integrity relationships in their life and work. I highly recommend this deeply practical, warm hearted and inspiring book!
I wanted to believe it is possible to build a successful practice while being true to yourself -- no manipulation, no shady sales funnels. Melissa shows you how. Her honesty, humor, compassion made it more like spending a weekend with her than just reading a book. I could not put it down.
It is a book for a coach at any stage of mastery and prosperity and it will show you how to be prosperous by serving others.
Melissa helps us examine our ideas of service to see how they may be helping or hindering us on our road to success. She teaches us that true service always includes serving ourselves as part of the equation. Service is not an act put on to manipulate others into supporting us, or an endless endeavor of ennobled giving to prove our worthiness. True service is an equation that supports both people in a win, win solution serving the whole.
I enjoyed reading this delightful book which helped me to examine and expand my own ideas of service. I recommend this book to anyone in the service business wishing to expand their prosperity while living a fulfilling life. You will have a laugh as you recognize your own mishaps, you will breathe a sigh of relief at letting go of your misconstrued ideas of perfection, and you will become inspired as you open to new perspectives in thinking that support you in your endeavor to offer your talents and services to others and live a happy and rewarding life.
Sometimes a book crosses your path exactly when you need it. This was one of those books. Although I'm not new to coaching, I recently started my own coaching business. I felt like Melissa was speaking directly to me personally as I read the book. It was relatable, as she told her coaching stories and experience from struggling coach to building a successful practice. She writes with humor and a sense of humility I found refreshing. Melissa writes honestly about her journey and made me rethink "service" as it relates to my coaching practice and my life.
This is one of the best coaching books I've read.
Thanks Mel
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Loved the lucid and simple language of the book. I highly recommend this book to all the coaches no matter where you are in your journey. This book will definitely help you along your way of Living Service.
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Yayati Desai
Life Coach
India
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Not less important is are some issues Melissa raises that are not important only for coaches, and foremost the issue of allowing ourselves to not being right, to listen to criticism without defence and how to respond to that. (chapter 16 It’s a game-changer in any aspect of our lives.
Since many of the books around on this topic are by men, she spoke to me even more deeply. I was inspired reading for the first time a few weeks ago and not less the second time round now. I’ve marked about every other page, recommended it to fellow coaches, to a couple of clients and sought every podcast I could listen to her. I guess this means I highly recommend the book!
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