I know the difficulties of coaching when you have a long term health problem so I thought I would share this inspiring story of a coach who continues to work with clients after waking up one morning deaf.
This is the story of Michele Alexander, a business coach in the ActionCOACH business franchise.
About two years ago on a Monday evening, she was working on her computer when she "heard" a home alarm going off. But her husband couldn’t hear anything, and she thought nothing else of it.
But the the next morning Michelle woke up completely deaf.
“I woke up the next morning and could hear nothing,” she said in an interview with AustralianWomenOnline.com. “Well, actually I had tinnitus, so I heard heaps – the ringing in my ears seemed so loud against the deafness. It was something like the noise we hear being submerged in water.”
Despite going completely deaf, she couldn’t let down her clients and kept coaching. There were plenty of challenges since she couldn’t use the telephone and email became her “lifeline” in terms of communicating with her clients.
For the full story see The Orange Deafie Blog.
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