Today we’d like to introduce you to Debbie Mctammany
Hi Debbie, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today?
My story centers around what many people are experiencing in their job, careers right now.. BURN OUT in so many ways shapes and forms. I was in the corporate world for 26 years while working my way up the corporate ladder to finally a General Manager of a Dental Sales organization. Until one day in October 2020, I walked away from it all. In hindsight, I can clearly see what happened, but at that moment in time, I said, I am done walked out and never looked back. YES, not the most responsible thing to do with kids in colleges, no other job on the horizon, but I was broken mentality, emotionally, physically. I did the bravest thing I could ever do for me; I chose and trusted myself and left the job. The changed everything for myself and my family lives.
Fastward over the past 4 years, I had one other management job in retail while starting my coaching business in 2021. YES the beginning of the panademic and why not start my own business. As a solo entrepreneur I have cried, learned, wanted to quit, celebrated successes, but throughout all of it I found my passion, life coaching. I put myself in coaching containers and spend years studying to become a certified Life Coach with the Life Coach School. I was challenged, overwhelmed, but all the hard work paid on obtaining my certification.
I reflect back over the past 4 years and never, ever did I think, dream I would be a certified coach helping other woman to soar in their lives. I was very, very brave one day with the words, I quit. Now I help other woman be brave in their lives.
I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
Has it been a smooth road? Such an interesting question and filled with many layers of answers. After quitting my job that defined me for 26 years it took time to figure out who I was without a “job title”. That was more difficult than I expected it to be. Bottom line, it was the AH HA moment when I realized I had been acutely focused on my career despite the job being the thing that was slowly killing me. I understand this now, but certainly didn’t in the midst of the demise.
The second bumpy part of my career, post corporate job, was becoming a solo entrepreneur. This is not for the faint of heart. Most days there are more questions than answers. There are no correct answers in how to start, grow your business only the answers that work for you. I learned this tidbit of brillance over the years. I don’t compare then despair my business to others because that only leaves to a dark spiral. I have build my business in ways that work and feel good to me. It is a daily learning curve, but over time you just become a little less stressed out by the WHAT IF’S.
Appreciate you sharing that. What should we know about True You, Navigating Through Change?
I came up with the name of my business over the years of change for me. I was desperately searching for the answers to now what do I do after leaving my corporate career. I went in search of answers via therapy and with my first life coach. My life coach was a pivotal shift in my life. From my 6 months of coaching work with her, my idea of becoming a coach came to life. I was in search of Who is Debbie, What does Debbie want to do. In answering those questions, I found me in coaching.
I am a certified life coach helping other woman create change in their lives. You don’t have to do it alone. We all want something to be different, but between the thinking and the doing is where most people get hung up. I help my clients with the thinking to doing resulting in CHANGE.
I adore being a coach. Over the years of being a coach, my clients have switched careers/jobs, retired, set and honored boundaries, got divorced, got remarried, worked through the empty nester transition, became happier more at peace with their lives, found joy, stopped the 24/7 numb carousel of living, found confidence and strength in trusting themselves, figured out how to do things while feeling scared, learned to feel and express emotions just so many incredible results and I get a front row seat.
My coaching work arounds around the cognitive work of what you are thinking and believing might just be the beginning of why your life feels the way it does. You can’t outrun your life. Why, because the problems just follow you. I help you go from feeling overwhelmed, scaried to taking 1st step while creating epic changes BOLDING and CONFIDENTLY in your life.
I do 1:1 coaching work. The majority of my clients stay for an extended period of time. Why, because once you have a coach you understand the value of having me in your corner is PRICELESS. Trust me, your family and friends don’t support you the way I do.
What would you say have been one of the most important lessons you’ve learned?
From the day the words, I quit, came out of my mouth literally shocking myself like, what did I just say!!! I learned self trust. I was like the beach ball you push down in the water. It is eventually going to come flying up just the law of physics. IT did that day and that changed everything in my life. . I have learned how to have my own back, give myself time, compassion and celebrate my successes by showing up for them. I have learned to feel, express emotions and show up for my life. My life, my terms and owning my power. Granted it only took 5 decades to find ME out of what others thought I show be doing, feeling, thinking, but I got there. That is all the matters, I got HERE.
This gift is what I help others find their voice, their terms, their life. YOU GET TO DECIDE. No more giving your power away.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.yourcoachdebbie.com
- Instagram: _your_coach_debbie
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/debbie.mctammany.7
