Women’s Empowerment Coaching: Transformational Guidance for Stuck but Strong Women

Is It the Key to Your Success and Happiness?

Women’s empowerment coaching has become an important type of coaching as more women step into leadership positions. As a woman, it can be a struggle to find or embrace your identity. There are internal and external obstacles that can hold you back from fulfillment. Some of these obstacles include:

• Low self-esteem and lack of confidence

• Misalignment between your goals, values, and actions

• Toxic relationships or unhealthy environments that hurt your growth

Women aren’t the only ones who have these experiences. However, we often face these situations. Outdated stereotypes and biases hold us back from living and leading how we want to live and lead.  

In this blog, we’ll explore why women’s empowerment coaching is a necessity for the modern woman. 

The Need for Women’s Empowerment Coaching

Many of us hesitate to get help, whether it’s in the form of coaching or therapy. It can be intimidating letting someone in and allowing them to guide and help you. However, getting support from an experienced, qualified professional is invaluable and an opportunity for growth. 

Women’s empowerment coaching puts girls and women into new positions of life leadership. It can lead to significant transformations when applied to behavioral and thinking patterns. You might be able to find moments and methods of self-empowerment on your own. However, getting help from someone with similar lived experiences is often the key. 

You might be wondering why I focus on women’s empowerment coaching. Of course, coaching can benefit men too. In fact, it’s great when those you’re closest to also want to work on themselves. I focus on female empowerment coaching because confidence and identity issues often hold women back in the workplace. It also affects their relationships and happiness outside of their careers. 

Some studies have found that women in leadership roles have less confidence than men in those roles. They also appear to have less ambition regarding career progression¹. The women I know and work with are ambitious, so any lack of ambition often has a root cause. It could be that they exhibit less ambition because:

• They lack confidence due to past experiences

• Gender and race stereotypes make it difficult for them to progress

• They haven’t been able to determine and embrace their identities due to a lack of safety and support (at home or anywhere else)

Mixed women and women of color often experience other unique obstacles in the workplace. 

Unique Obstacles for Mixed Women

My empowerment coaching for women supports mixed women and girls, as well as women of color. One of the main reasons is that there’s a “concrete ceiling” for black women. I believe this extends to mixed women as well. These women face unique obstacles that are invisible². This barrier can be nearly impossible to break through, which is why it’s called the “concrete” ceiling.

Some factors that contribute to the concrete ceiling include:

• Racism and sexism

• Discrimination and stereotyping

• Feelings of isolation and tokenism once they’re through the barrier 

Maybe you struggle with your identity as a result of these experiences. It’s also possible your identity issues contribute to you feeling stuck and incapable. Either way, these barriers can affect you and your success in major ways. 

My goal is to help you figure out who you want to be and how to embrace all that comes with it. The world needs you as you are. 

What Does a Women’s Empowerment Coach Do?

Women’s empowerment coaching is for you if you’re a woman who wants to:

• Develop a strong sense of pride and conviction in your identity

• Do more for your career, relationships, and health (or do what you’re doing already with confidence)

• Feel like you belong not because someone else tells you so but because you feel it in your soul and you know your worth/what you bring to the table

I created my female empowerment coaching programs to help you achieve your goals. We figure out how to do this without compromising who you are. 

When we lack self-esteem, confidence, and empowerment, we tend to:

• Engage in unhealthy habits and behaviors

• Settle for relationships that are unhealthy, toxic, or detrimental to our growth

• Stay stuck and unhappy in jobs that don’t support our passions, values, and goals

• Chase happiness and fulfillment but struggle to find it because we either don’t think we deserve better or we don’t know how to get it

As a mixed woman, the ability to truly be yourself can open up so many doors for you in your personal and professional life. 

Women’s Empowerment Coaching and the Workplace

Women are just as capable of being leaders as men are, yet internal and external factors hold us back from being powerful, confident leaders.

There are more women in leadership roles today than ever before, but we’re still a minority. This is partly due to social and psychological barriers in the workplace.

1. Gender bias

Leadership is often associated with male traits and styles due to stereotypes and outdated cultural norms³. The pressure to lead this way can create mental and emotional exhaustion for many women. 

2. Racial discrimination

While men and women of other races may experience some bias and stereotyping, black women in leadership positions often have to contend with the “white male” leadership prototype. 

Your sense of self is influenced by many external factors. Most of us go through childhood and adolescence without being aware of the roles and boxes we’ve been forced into in our homes and communities.

Research on the impact of self-esteem on career fulfillment is limited. However, multiple studies have demonstrated a relationship between high self-esteem and⁴:

• Job satisfaction 

• Career success

• Greater resilience in the face of setbacks and failure

Embracing your identity and developing a healthy sense of self-esteem can improve your life in more ways than one. 

How Women’s Empowerment Coaching Can Help You at Home

Empowering yourself can also have a positive impact on your relationships with your partner, friends, and family. 

A huge goal of empowerment coaching is teaching you to be confident in who you are, as well as helping you feel like you have more control over how you move forward and the person you become. 

Feeling more confident in your identity, values, and goals can help you:

• Set boundaries that protect your mental and physical energy so you can focus on what’s important to you

• Take care of yourself and your priorities first so you’re not pouring from an empty cup and developing resentment

• Communicate more effectively with the people in your life, which can help you improve your relationships and overall well-being

If you’re a parent, developing healthy self-esteem and a positive relationship with your identity can also help your children feel more comfortable with themselves. 

Individuals with high self-esteem often have more successful relationships with others. When you love yourself, you’re more likely to choose people and situations that are healthier for you. You don’t easily welcome toxicity or negativity into your life. 

Why I Provide Empowerment Coaching for Women

Working with a competent “partner” in your journey of evolution and transformation can help you create meaningful outcomes and the life you truly want and deserve. 

I understand the complexities of life and leadership as a woman. I know that my experiences and education combined with my compassion and research-based practices bring forth positive change for those who are willing to apply themselves. My lived experiences as a mixed girl, mixed woman, mixed college student, and other roles and identities throughout my life help me empathize with my clients. 

I love the work I do because I know I’m creating a safe space where your voice can be heard. I can lend you a compassionate ear where there was not one before, but I’ll also hold you accountable and help you develop self-reliance. The women’s empowerment coaching I provide is centered on your whole being. 

If you’re a mixed woman, I want to help you tap into the truth of who you are and supply you with new spaces of co-creation to generate what you want in life, both personally and professionally. We’ll get honest about what you’re facing currently, how your past impacts you in the present, and how we can create new pathways for you. 

If you’re ready to open new doors for yourself instead of waiting for them to open for you, please reach out. You deserve to live as your true self so you can stop searching for happiness and fulfillment.