Coaching? What’s that?!
When I first started The Passionate Physio, I reached out to a few people I knew to let them know I was starting an Instagram page to share “helpful physio and fitness tips and inspiration.” I didn’t even call it a business, because I really didn’t know what it was going to be about. After a week or two, I started sharing more pregnancy-related things since I was 9 months pregnant at the time, and what else would I be posting about?
A month after I started my page, I gave birth to my son. Enter a whirlwind of getting used to life with 2 kids while simultaneously sharing bits of my postpartum recovery journey, while providing valuable content on Instagram. I wonder if I’ll look back on this time and call myself crazy, or whether I’ll look back on it proudly at what I have accomplished. Because I’m right in the thick of it, It’s hard to be objective.
Enter Emma Jack
I’ll preface it by saying I never win anything. Freebies, free T-shirts, nothing. My brother has all the luck in our family. So imagine my surprise, that I actually won something, and on social media, no less! And not just a free T-shirt, I won an entire month of 1:1 coaching with the amazing Emma Jack from @pressplayphysio . I had no idea how much I needed her. I didn’t really even know what coaching was. I had heard of her in the physio world, but thought she helped businesses and clinic owners. And I wasn’t really a business (was I?), so I thought I wasn’t important enough to need a coach.
Well, I was wrong.
Over the course of 4 weeks, I went from unclear and unsure about what I was doing, to being 100% certain that this was the direction I needed to go. I started showing up more on my Stories (as awkward as that felt). I started sharing more of myself. And I started showing up as the confident person I wanted to be. I started interacting more with my colleagues and peers, both to learn more but also to support them as they built their pages. I really felt like I was developing an online community - both to help others, and also to support myself.
Emma showed me that how to get out of the fear mode (fear of judgement, fear of not being enough), and focus on the impact I can make if I’m willing to put myself out there. I need to continue to do what I’m doing, because I am called to it and it lights me up. Any time I doubt myself, I think back to the memory of one of our 8 am sessions, of looking out my window and seeing all the women I can impact by doing the work that I do. I teared up then thinking about it, and I am tearing up now as I’m writing this.
I have endless gratitude to Emma. She allowed me to see the potential I had, at a time that I had no idea I even needed her support!
After our sessions, I started putting together my idea of my very first launch - an 8-week Postpartum Return to Exercise Program! I set dates, I figured out a plan on how to make it work. And then as Emma said, I focused on taking that next right step.
Until the next step,
Surabhi
