Dee Patel Coaching

This year for me was about COURAGE. → Courage to set firmer boundaries. → Courage to have difficult conversations. → Courage to make tough decisions and let go. → Courage to say “Yes!” to things that scare me. → Courage to put myself out there and get rejected. Often, when I wasn’t sure what to do, I’d ask myself: “What would the most courageous version of me do in this moment?” Then I’d go do that. Was I able to show up as my most courageous self all the time? Absolutely not! But overall? I’m pretty happy with the progress. → The thing is, we get to decide who we want to be and how we show up in the world. 👉 Do you know who you are / who you want to be? (P.S. Who you are has nothing to do with job titles or salary). #GetClarityTakeActionCreateResults

2024 taught me something powerful: transformation happens when we stop trying to be who we think we *should* be and start becoming who we truly are. ✨ The proof? Watching my incredible clients: → A leader breaking free from 4 years of negative self-talk to land their dream role. → An entrepreneur saving £100k+ by getting clarity before scaling. → A director moving from overwhelm to promotion in just 6 weeks. → Teams shifting from dysfunction to high performance through mindset work. My own transformation journey continued too. This year I: → Achieved EMCC Senior Practitioner certification. → Joined WeAreHPC's Executive Coaching panel. → Celebrated 40 years around the sun. → Completed 12 months alcohol-free. → Started conquering my sugar addiction. Because I believe in walking my talk - real change starts with getting clear on who you are and what you want. 3 posts that captured pivotal moments: 1) "Coach Certification Achievement" On maintaining the highest standards in an unregulated industry. https://lnkd.in/ggVng_FN 2) "One Year Alcohol-Free Journey" On finding that inner confidence beats liquid courage. https://lnkd.in/gPnBAht3 3) "Personal Introduction at 40" On finally feeling at peace in my own skin. https://lnkd.in/gmzxzGaH To my amazing clients: Thank you for trusting me to be part of your transformation. Your courage to step outside your comfort zone inspires me daily. As we move into 2025, remember: → You don't have to continue being who you've always been. → More is possible for you than you realize. → The right support makes all the difference. Feeling stuck? Ready for transformation? Let's chat! 💖 #GetClarityTakeActionCreateResults -- Get your 2024 LinkedIn Rewind at https://lnkd.in/gt8zkEpE

Do you ever feel like you're broken? That deep down there’s something wrong with you that just can’t be fixed? You don’t admit it out loud, but secretly you’ve felt this way for years. You feel it’s why things don’t seem to work out for you, like they do for everyone else. This week, a client said something that hit me hard, it gave me a lump in my throat and almost brought a tear to my eye. We were wrapping up their coaching programme and seeing what the overall big takeaways were for the whole experience. Their most profound takeaway… “I realise I’m not broken. I know now there’s always things I can do to improve my situation. Previously I was stuck in the past.  I had become all the things that happened to me. But now, I get to decide who I am. I’m not stuck in the past, I’m future-looking now.” And fyi, this client has made phenomenal progress on their goals in such a short space of time, after being stuck in unhelpful patterns for YEARS: → Enjoying their job, getting noticed the right way at work. → Finances have improved and stabilised giving them options and freedom. → Making better food choices and exercising more. → Mental health has improved. → Learning again. → Taking action to create meaningful connections. → And, now they sleep soundly at night. Please hear me when I tell you… YOU. ARE. NOT. BROKEN! ✨ You don’t have to continue being who you’ve always been, so much more is possible for YOU than you realise. ✨ #GetClarityTakeActionCreateResults

Sometimes I need to slow down to speed up. Recently I’ve been feeling increasing resistance and a misalignment. It’s frustrating. Previously that would have freaked me out, and I’d have questioned my path. But now, I know it’s all part of the process of levelling up. Sometimes we have to allow things that are no longer working to crumble and fall away. It’s the only way to make space for something new, something better to be created in its place. Part of figuring out this shift for me always involves a change of scenery - so I completely switched off while travelling around Sri Lanka, it was bliss! • Clients and organisation partners all informed. • LinkedIn DM out of office on.  • Email out of office on. • LinkedIn app deleted from my phone. • Phone mostly in flight mode to avoid notifications. Setting clear boundaries and communicating them meant I was fully present on my trip and got to enjoy every single moment of the experience. It’s the difference between feeling alive and experiencing joy vs feeling like life is happening around you and you’re just a spectator who’s stuck in your own head.  I’m surprised I’ve had 2 people comment on how amazing it is that I set these types of boundaries …because it’s so rare that we allow ourselves this freedom and space. But it shouldn’t be! And after all, setting boundaries is one of the things I help my clients with to protect their mental peace and experience more joy in their lives. Helping them to break free from the invisible chains dragging them down (which are usually self-inflicted). So, it’s important for me that I do the work in my own life. Anywho, I’m going into deep reflection mode over the next few weeks figuring out my plan for 2025 and exactly what the change is that’s needed. Whatever that looks like, I know it’s going to be a bigger and better year!   → Anyone else feel they’ve got big change coming?

What’s your intention for the week? Don’t have one? Just trying to ‘get through’ it? Limping your way to another weekend for a respite, before doing it all over again? Before then finally making it to the end of the year? You’ll have a proper break then, and come the New Year everything will be different, you’ll finally make the changes you’ve been talking about? Except, when you look back, you realise that’s the same approach you’ve taken for the last 2, 5, maybe 10 years! And fundamentally not much has changed about how you feel inside. Nothing changes by just thinking and talking. → Change only happens with ACTION! • Not “someday”. • Not “when” XYZ, “then”... • Not when “perfect” conditions are in place. → But by taking action NOW, no excuses! 👉 What’s one small intentional action you can take this week, that’ll help create a life that feels successful for you? #GetClarityTakeActionCreateResults

Lisa wanted to progress to a C-Suite position, she also wanted to: • Feel listened to and respected.  • Work in a collaborative environment. • Have purpose and make meaningful change. • Inspire teams and have more influence.  • Feel a sense of achievement. • Do things for herself for a change. But she was stuck in a challenging business, and finding it hard to see the wood for the trees to make the right decision about her next steps and how to be more successful. At work she battled with: • Spending 80% of her time with challenging people. • Loneliness, with no safe space to speak.  • Trust issues from past experiences affecting her.  • Feeling constantly anxious.  • Increasing negativity, thinking of the worst case. • Unsure of what to do next. This impacted her at home too. She’s the breadwinner and felt like the relationship was her responsibility. She didn’t want to rock the boat at home and couldn’t talk to her partner the way she’d like. All of this destroyed her confidence. So, after being recommended, Lisa reached out to find out how executive coaching works, she’s never experienced it before. Then, she stepped up for herself and into my Success Accelerator Programme. What happened in the following 3 months is remarkable, Lisa… • Improved the relationship with her boss.  • Communicated to get her ideas heard and valued.  • Created boundaries between work and life.  • Was more present for her daughters. They noticed.  • Had important conversations with her partner.  • Got into fitness again. • Began networking → Found a company whose values align → Offered an executive VP role, with growth opportunity to directly expand to a C-level title. She’s radiating a completely different energy, and it’s getting her results! This is just the start of unlocking her potential.  I predict she’ll get that C-Suite title within 12 months AND feel more satisfied and fulfilled in life. 💖 👉 Enjoyed this post? →  Follow along for more🔔.

My clients secure new jobs, promotions, and 10-40% pay increases (often all 3), WITHOUT me doing any of the following: ❌ Discussing CV’s. ❌ Practising interview techniques.  ❌ Teaching them new technical skills. The work we do is far more transformative: ⭐ Connect deeply to their priorities in work & life.  ⭐ Understand both their value and values.  ⭐ Reduce self-sabotaging thinking. It means clients fast-track their job search with ease to a matter of WEEKS after they actually make the decision to do it. Not months. They find ideal roles which tick all the boxes: ✅ Supportive collaborative cultures.  ✅ Opportunities for development and growth. ✅ Bosses with progressive styles who have EQ. Many clients focus on being the best leader they can be within their current organisations. But for those who decide it's time to move on, I’ve never once heard pay being the reason. Never.  Of course pay is important, but at this level they earn enough. → How they feel on a Sunday night matters far more.    👉 Can you relate to that last part?

Hi. I’m Dee 👋. Let me introduce myself. I’ve just started a new decade of my life, and feel more at peace in my own skin than ever before. I’m a gigantic introvert, who loves socialising with people and does public speaking. I’m a recovering overthinking perfectionist, and I’m adventurous and like to try new things. I live in a West London suburb, and love to travel. I practise gratitude every day, to boost optimistic and positive thinking. For decades I didn’t feel like I fit in, not Indian enough for my heritage culture, and not English to fit in with where I was born and lived my whole life. In my career I’m used to being ‘the only’ in the room. (Woman from the global majority). With age I care less about fitting in, I’m more focused on who I am from within. I’ve pivoted career more than once, and most recently it happened a bit by accident. In 2020 I volunteered to help under-represented 17 year olds, it sent me down a path that’s changed my life. Now I’ve created a business where I get to do something meaningful with impact every day… Which is… ⭐ Coach, train, and empower others to reach their potential. ⭐ Help people feel confident in themselves and decide how to move forwards.    ⭐ Show business leaders how to find clarity and take action to be the best leader they can be at work AND at home (so they can feel joy in their lives). That’s me. ➡️ And you? I’d love to know what we have in common… 😊 P.S. I occasionally like a bit of leopard print, I make no apologies for it!

“You’re not good enough. You can’t do that. You’ll fail. They won’t take you seriously. Who do you think you are!” Do your internal mind Gremlins ever say that to you? Pesky Gremlins running around causing chaos and shouting abuse at you. And it is abuse. They delight in bullying you, making you feel small and sabotaging you. You’d never allow your partner, family or friends to talk to you like that, would you? Yet, when your mind Gremlins say these things, you not only allow it, but you believe their lies! → They make you feel $h!t about yourself, causing overwhelm at the thought of dealing with them. → You get stuck in a paralysed state chasing them round and round in your mind. → Their destruction means you struggle to make decisions or even know what you think anymore. If this is you, there’s 2 things I want you to know: 1) You are not alone. ↳ These thoughts are MUCH more common than you realise. People are great at putting a mask on. 2) You can shrink the Gremlins and cage them. ↳ It won’t happen overnight, but you can retake control and create space to let your confident, positive and go-getting self be free. 👉 The first step are: - Acknowledge sabotaging Gremlins exist. - Understand which types you’re dealing with. - Know they’re NOT telling you the truth! #GetClarityTakeActionCreateResults

I nervously squeezed into the room where they’d suddenly called a company-wide meeting. The bosses had heavy looks on their faces and my heart beat faster with a rising sense of dread. Then I heard it, “redundancy”. My heart sank, a third of us would be going and I knew I’d be out. It was December 2008 and our boutique headhunting firm had a rough few months due to the start of the global financial crash. We lost massive clients overnight including an Icelandic investment bank, the shock of their collapse made worse by finding out from the news. So, while redundancies weren't surprising, it was still upsetting. It was my first time. Even though I’d performed well - parachuted into projects that were off track, asked to lead business in new EMEA territories, and got 110% of my bonus. I knew I wouldn’t survive the consultation process. You see, several months earlier I’d finally made a big decision about my future. Recruitment was only ever temporary while I figured out what I wanted to do. I’d felt safe to tell my managers my plan, they were so supportive and even helped me prepare for interviews. But I hadn’t landed anything yet in months of applying. In this situation, I’d give me the chop too. It turned out redundancy was a blessing in disguise. 5 weeks later, I landed a dream role… because I had time to focus, give it my best, and a new found unstoppable determination! Here’s the thing, there are positives and opportunities in even the worst circumstances. I help people find them, so they can move forward quickly and not get stuck in unhelpful thinking. → Shoot me a DM with the word ‘FORWARD’ and I’ll share details to help you get unstuck and start making progress today. -------------- I explore Leadership, Careers & Mindset. #GetClarityTakeActionCreateResults