We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Linda Katz. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Linda below.

Linda, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Let’s start with a fun one – what’s something you believe that most people in your industry (or in general) disagree with?

Most coaching works with an agenda. You have a specific problem that you’d like to solve with a measurable goal that you’d like to achieve; you hire a coach to assist you with that thing.

When I hired my longtime coach and mentor, I THOUGHT I was hiring her for one thing (assistance with growing my coaching practice), when in reality, I was hiring her as a guide on a much deeper and more meaningful journey back home to myself.

In my experience, coaching is at its most alive and nourishing when both the coach and the client release any sort of preconceived notion of why they are there. The way that I coach my clients is not about developing a strategy to get to a predetermined destination, but rather to follow and trust what emerges in the moment. The more that either of us attempt to enforce an agenda, the more stilted the process becomes.

Oftentimes the voice of what I call the wild soul, or the wise & wild woman within, goes directly against what you think you “should” be doing. Listening for this inner voice and amplifying its message is where the juiciness of coaching lives for me. This is how we begin to break down cultural conditioning and truly start walking our own life paths.

I am so grateful to my coach and mentor for inviting me into something far beyond what I thought I was seeking at the time and helping me to remember there is so much life that exists outside of that which is tangible and measurable.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.

I am a multi-passionate creative and soul-led human. In 2023, I self-published my first book called Homecoming: One Woman’s Story of Dismantling the Inner Cage & Freeing Her Wild Feminine Soul (available via Amazon worldwide).

Homecoming is part memoir, part psychospiritual map; it weaves together my own personal stories with the point of view that has grounded my coaching work with women over the last 10+ years. It is a book about reclaiming our wise & wild selves – our bodies, our dreams, our imagination, our emotional range and richness.

In addition to being a writer, I am a women’s life coach, dream worker, artist, and Qoya Inspired Movement teacher. In my coaching work, I guide and accompany women on the journey of shedding constraining cultural conditioning so that they can embody more of who they truly are. We do that through intuitive coaching, Qoya Inspired Movement and embodiment practices, exploring dream symbology, and more. It is really about reclaiming the soulful and creative aspects of ourselves in a society that tends to value the practical and the measurable.

My coaching work has followed my own journey. When I first began, I thought I was going to focus on health coaching until I realized that I wasn’t interested in talking to people about food. My clients didn’t seem all that interested in talking about food, either! They wanted to tell me about what was meaningful and mattered to them: their relationships, where in their lives they felt trapped or dissatisfied, and what they were most yearning for.

What’s been the best source of new clients for you?

My number one source of new clients has been referrals and direct connections. Meeting, speaking, and getting to know people (without an agenda of trying to sell them) has allowed my coaching practice to grow organically. I will admit, this approach takes time and patience; I have funded my coaching and creative projects by working a day job part-time.

We often hear about learning lessons – but just as important is unlearning lessons. Have you ever had to unlearn a lesson?

When I first started my coaching business, I focused on so many things that failed to move the needle in my business.

I designed beautiful business cards that I rarely handed out.

I created these in-depth press kits that I never sent or gave to a soul. I still have them in a box in my closet. Beautiful and untouched.

I spent time working on my business in a way that made me feel like I was doing what I was “supposed” to be doing, but that was actually very low-risk. It wasn’t actually putting me in front of potential clients. It was busy work. I do less and less of that now. If something isn’t yielding results, and I don’t feel joyful doing it, I stop doing that thing. I would rather do fewer things that are more impactful (even if they make me a little uncomfortable) and spend the rest of my time creating, playing, and living.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.singingbirdcoaching.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/singingbirdcoaching
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/singingbirdhealth
• Other: https://womanuncaged.buzzsprout.com

Image Credits

Black and white photo in the flowers: Jeana Marino