Emma Magenta Coaching

Discovery Call Sorting Hat

What happens on a Discovery Call with moi? From a business perspective, you could consider a Discovery Call to be a sales call.  It is, after all, often a prelude to a purchase—the purchase of my life coaching services.  Now, I’m a businesswoman, so I have no qualms about calling it sales. But I think a […]

Fantasizing is political

My loves, Please please please /// PRACTICE FANTASIZING /// I made a few posts last week about the value of saying what you want. In my DMs and client calls, I had quite a few of you saying some version of, “yes but I don’t know what I want.” I feel you! Not knowing what […]

yep. you can get it.

My loves,  I always take the premise that  my clients are RESOURCEFUL.  Even when we’ve just started working together and I don’t know them very well. This is what resourceful means: Capable of… locating cultivating harvesting …RESOURCES. What are resources? Any old thing that helps you thrive. EducationMoneyRelationshipsCommunityInformationTechnologySpiritualityFoodArtSexPowerExpertiseNatureMeaningPurpose I take this premise—“My clients are infinitely […]

Are you busy?

Are you super busy? // Do you have to be? // I know, the knee-jerk answer to this is “YES!” “Yes goddammit, I am raising these childrenand working this joband trying to be a good friendand a good family memberand a good neighborand a good, ethical citizen of the world,and I take all these responsibilitiesvery […]

Here’s what a feeling is.

Here’s what a feeling is. A feeling is something like: AnxietySadnessElationJoyGriefFearAmbivalenceLonelinessAngerIrritationCuriousity(Not an exhaustive list.) This is something I work on with my clients. Because a lot of us aren’t in the habit of using emotion words. You ask somebody, “What emotions come up for you around this?“ And instead of saying, “I feel excited, anxious, […]