After 10 years working within the corporate world, understanding what challenges her clients faced and helping them overcome them, Alice  decided to leave her successful career as a recruiter to start up her own life coaching practice. With formal training as an actress and having spent over 5000 hours interviewing people, Alice is an expert in people and her ability to empathize and connect with her clients has set her apart from her competition as a life coach. Today Alice is here to help you with finding your passion.

On today’s episode of the Ted Teo Business Show, Alice shares her tips on how you can explore new areas of interest before committing to a new career or business, the importance of being able to listen, empathize and connect with your customer and the power of being able to educate yourself.

Alice works with women to rediscover what really excites them in life. She helps them reconnect and feel confident about who they are. Helping them find further fulfilment after successful careers. She increases people’s confidence so they can go after what they really want in life. Book a call with Alice to find out more and click here join her newsletter for your weekly dose of motivation and practical tips. 

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https://alicegraves.com/ – Get in touch with Alice at her website!

https://alicegraves.com/contacts/ – Book a call with Alice!

https://alicegraves.com/join-our-newsletter/ – Join Alice’s newsletter!

1. Being able to empathise and to connect with customers is an important skill for any entrepreneur. Always understand who your customers are an what are their pain points to be able to better understand how you can help them.

2. The old school method of picking up your phone and reaching out to your contacts is still a great way to help grow your business and to help others be aware of the services you are offering. So don’t be afraid or shy to do so especially when you are first starting out your business and you should leave no stone unturned.

3. The internet has all the resources you need to learn practically any skill. So make full use of it and educate yourself on new skills. If you need more help there are always great coaches who can help you get to the next stage, but you should not really on them as your first port of call. By educating yourself, you will be able to save money, ask better questions and grow faster.

[3.20] Alice shares about her childhood dream about becoming an actress and how she ultimately dropped this because she allowed her fear of failure get the better of her.

[5.20] Alice then decided to spend 10 years in recruitment which she really enjoyed.

[7.00] Alice however eventually left her career in recruitment to pursue her passion to be a life coach. Before she was able to do so Alice herself had to work with coach to unpack and understand who she really is as a person. Now she aims to help other women who have a story similar to whose.

[10.20] If we suppress our dreams, we lose pieces of ourselves as we grow and try to fit into society. You start running after goals that you didn’t set and you will end up being unhappy. It’s important to redefine what is important for you and to connect with it.

[13.40] Alice shares that most of her clients are usually nervous when they first speak with her because they are worried about saying goodbye to who they are. She always looks at their values to help determine who you are and help them accept who they really are as opposed to who they think they are.

[17.00] Changing careers can be physiologically similar to a break up. You push problems a while for a while and blame yourself for having thoughts of leaving.

[18.40]If you want to take an active step towards exploring a new career or business, look at your values and see if your life currently allows your values to breath. Next look at whether your weekly activities is filled with activities that give you energy. If you are not working on anything that gives you energy that is a problem. Most importantly give yourself time to play to figure out what exactly you want to do.

[21.40] Fulfilment and success doesn’t have to come from your job or business. Sometimes if you are unhappy, instead of changing your job or business, just tweak your hobbies and giving yourself time to pursue. If you are burnt out, that does not mean you need a complete change in lifestyle, but do always look at whether what you are doing is taking you towards the life you want to live.

[24.00] Alice attributes that her time in acting and recruitment has helped her really empathized and connect with her clients and figure out how she can help her clients. It is important to know who your customers are and what their problems are.

[29.25] Alice initially had problems niching down in her business and finding her clients. By working with a business coach, she was able to understand who she wants to work with and where she can be of the most value. She also tapped into her experience and network as a recruiter to reach out to old contacts.

[31.15] The old school way of calling up people to check in on them and finding out if you can be of help to them is a great way for you to grow your business and to help others become aware of what you are working on.

[32.30] Alice shares about her YouTube channel where she provides free resources to help others and her view that people should use all the free resources on the internet before they work with a coach.

[35.00] One of Alice’s biggest pillars of support for her new coaching business came from her husband.

After 10 years working within the corporate world, understanding what challenges her clients faced and helping them overcome them, Alice  decided to leave her successful career as a recruiter to start up her own life coaching practice. With formal training as an actress and having spent over 5000 hours interviewing people, Alice is an expert in people and her ability to empathize and connect with her clients has set her apart from her competition as a life coach. Today Alice is here to help you with finding your passion.

On today’s episode of the Ted Teo Business Show, Alice shares her tips on how you can explore new areas of interest before committing to a new career or business, the importance of being able to listen, empathize and connect with your customer and the power of being able to educate yourself.

Alice works with women to rediscover what really excites them in life. She helps them reconnect and feel confident about who they are. Helping them find further fulfilment after successful careers. She increases people’s confidence so they can go after what they really want in life. Book a call with Alice to find out more and click here join her newsletter for your weekly dose of motivation and practical tips. 

Newsletter l Podcast l Resources 

https://alicegraves.com/ – Get in touch with Alice at her website!

https://alicegraves.com/contacts/ – Book a call with Alice!

https://alicegraves.com/join-our-newsletter/ – Join Alice’s newsletter!

1. Being able to empathise and to connect with customers is an important skill for any entrepreneur. Always understand who your customers are an what are their pain points to be able to better understand how you can help them.

2. The old school method of picking up your phone and reaching out to your contacts is still a great way to help grow your business and to help others be aware of the services you are offering. So don’t be afraid or shy to do so especially when you are first starting out your business and you should leave no stone unturned.

3. The internet has all the resources you need to learn practically any skill. So make full use of it and educate yourself on new skills. If you need more help there are always great coaches who can help you get to the next stage, but you should not really on them as your first port of call. By educating yourself, you will be able to save money, ask better questions and grow faster.

[3.20] Alice shares about her childhood dream about becoming an actress and how she ultimately dropped this because she allowed her fear of failure get the better of her.

[5.20] Alice then decided to spend 10 years in recruitment which she really enjoyed.

[7.00] Alice however eventually left her career in recruitment to pursue her passion to be a life coach. Before she was able to do so Alice herself had to work with coach to unpack and understand who she really is as a person. Now she aims to help other women who have a story similar to whose.

[10.20] If we suppress our dreams, we lose pieces of ourselves as we grow and try to fit into society. You start running after goals that you didn’t set and you will end up being unhappy. It’s important to redefine what is important for you and to connect with it.

[13.40] Alice shares that most of her clients are usually nervous when they first speak with her because they are worried about saying goodbye to who they are. She always looks at their values to help determine who you are and help them accept who they really are as opposed to who they think they are.

[17.00] Changing careers can be physiologically similar to a break up. You push problems a while for a while and blame yourself for having thoughts of leaving.

[18.40]If you want to take an active step towards exploring a new career or business, look at your values and see if your life currently allows your values to breath. Next look at whether your weekly activities is filled with activities that give you energy. If you are not working on anything that gives you energy that is a problem. Most importantly give yourself time to play to figure out what exactly you want to do.

[21.40] Fulfilment and success doesn’t have to come from your job or business. Sometimes if you are unhappy, instead of changing your job or business, just tweak your hobbies and giving yourself time to pursue. If you are burnt out, that does not mean you need a complete change in lifestyle, but do always look at whether what you are doing is taking you towards the life you want to live.

[24.00] Alice attributes that her time in acting and recruitment has helped her really empathized and connect with her clients and figure out how she can help her clients. It is important to know who your customers are and what their problems are.

[29.25] Alice initially had problems niching down in her business and finding her clients. By working with a business coach, she was able to understand who she wants to work with and where she can be of the most value. She also tapped into her experience and network as a recruiter to reach out to old contacts.

[31.15] The old school way of calling up people to check in on them and finding out if you can be of help to them is a great way for you to grow your business and to help others become aware of what you are working on.

[32.30] Alice shares about her YouTube channel where she provides free resources to help others and her view that people should use all the free resources on the internet before they work with a coach.

[35.00] One of Alice’s biggest pillars of support for her new coaching business came from her husband.