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Finding Your “Thing” – how to finally find your passion and purpose.

Greetings!


You know how it is?  Life is a bit like DPD sometimes – it doesn’t always deliver what you thought you’d ordered and often drops it off at some else’s doorstep.

 

It's the forehead-slapping moment you see that, yet again, someone with the wit of a fence post has appropriated the genius idea, you flagged up at the beginning of the meeting, is getting all the applause and plaudits. 


It’s waiting and waiting for things to ger better. But another year is almost over and nothing’s changed.


Few existential meltdowns compare to the fundamental ill ease one feels at not finding your purpose in life.


It may seem like the world is split into two – those who have a passion and purpose early doors and live a high leg-kicking life of joy and satisfaction. The yee-haa to your “yeah but”.

 

Then there's the rest. Those who sigh - “I just drifted into this job/relationship/body shape” and years later are still feeling around for the exit.


It's the people who claim they are “starters not finishers”, who have never found their “thing” or who cite laziness or a Faustian pact with the mortgage company as the reason their life is bound to one of colourless sleep waking.

You know deep down it doesn't have to be like that. Here’s your next step.


It is a fundamental human need to desire purpose. For there to be meaning to your life you need to feel you are doing something that deep down resonates with you and your values.


I have been there too with some of the most dismal jobs that someone who must have been the Devil's emissary posing as an HR professional bestowed upon me. 


“Please rescue me” was my daily mantra.


Mindlessly drifting, making do, taking the money and running, living for the weekend, numbing out via Sauvignon Blanc and “oh blow it” lunch time “treat” shopping are just some of the coping tactics.


Despite being a self-taught journalist who had interviewed the great and good from Paloma Picasso and Stephen Fry and sent on assignments from New York to Moscow I still felt like an imposter.


It was via a combination of soul searching and luck that coaching found me and I came home to my vocation that felt like a vacation.


I have never looked back. I am inviting you to join me.

 

An Introduction to Coaching Workshop


Few things compare to the natural high of helping others. Being a conduit of change where you have motivated, inspired and steered a new course for someone’s life is a joy that few believe can also be a career.


Maybe you have what it takes already. You get a genuine kick out of helping others, are a natural problem solver for friends and are the wise one who sees the potential in others. It may seem daunting and you don’t know where to start but there is a very clear and simple path ahead.


Join us at the Introduction to Coaching Workshop


Details:


📅 January 9th or 10th, 2026 (choose which day suits you)

⏰ 10am-12:30pm GMT (11am - 1.30pm CET) via Zoom

💷 £67 if you book by January 2nd (£97 after)


Special bonuses:


If you enroll in our Pure Academy Spring cohort, your workshop fee will be deducted from the course. 


Plus - You'll get an extra special bonus discount if you enroll within 48 hours of the workshop.


This bonus will be revealed at the end of the workshop. 

 

If you've ever wondered if you have what it takes to become a great coach, this workshop will give you the clarity and confidence you’re looking for. You may want to add new tools and skills to what you are currently doing, would love an added income stream or want to start your own abundant practice - this is the next step for you.


Let’s make 2026 the year you changed your life and career and became the coach you know you can be.

Pure Coaching Academy

Congratulations to the Class of Autumn 2025 who graduated from the Pure Coaching Academy last Saturday. 


Websites are going live, businesses are being created and the graduates are ready and excited to get out there and make a difference. 


We wish them well as they go forth and change the world one coach at a time.

Carole Ann Rice

Life Coach, Author, Columnist

The Real Coaching Co

T: 020 8566 2862

M: 07726 860 014


About Carole Ann Rice


Carole Ann is an award winning journalist, media consultant and high profile coach, with over 20 years' coaching experience with private clients and major organisations such as the London School of Economics and Play England.


She co-wrote Start Your Dream Business and Find Your Dream Job which are available from Amazon.


She is the winner of 'Best Coach' in the Best Business Women's Awards 2017.


She is also MD of the Pure Coaching Academy which is an accredited (IIC&M) 8 week life coach training course where she trains people to become world class coaches. It includes an inclusive coaching manual which is the handbook of any new life coach when starting out.

As her website boldly states "not just another life coach".


Carole Ann Rice | Real Coaching Co | Pure Coaching Academy 


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