What I Learned from Talking to 41 Career Coaches

Working with one means getting comfortable with self-reflection. And lists. Lots of lists.

Tom Chiarella
Forge
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10 min readOct 31, 2019

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FFive years ago, I lost a job that I really loved — not an easy moment, but not an entirely unexpected one, either. I figured I was built for it. I mean, I’m old. I’m solid. I’d helped other people through rough times. I could change…

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Tom Chiarella
Forge
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Tom Chiarella: 5 books, most recently: Becoming A Life Coach. Written for Esquire, Popular Mechanics, Golf, Outside, Runner’s World, O: the Oprah Magazine, Elle