THERESE SKELLY
Your Small-Business Success Coach

Passionate About People, Business, and Karaoke

I’ve always been a “people person.” I began my career working in the correctional system and then switched to the mental health field for a number of years . . . until I couldn’t take it any longer and started my own business. Seems that entrepreneurial spirit has been with me for most of my adult life — working inside organizations that didn’t run very well made me nuts!

I guess that one of my greatest gifts has been my ability to see exactly what was broken within a company and discerning ways to improve it — which is a great gift when working with my small business owner clients.

After my last son was a bit older, I changed careers and earned my Coaching certification from the Coach for Life school in San Diego. This, coupled with my Master’s degree and years of training as a psychotherapist, give me a unique perspective few other coaches possess. I am an absolute expert on human behavior and personality dynamics.

And rounding out my training is the hours and hours I’ve spent learning marketing, sales, business building strategies, and all the other components of the ‘outer game’ of running the business. I’ve been blessed to have had awesome coaches and mentors along the way, so I’ve totally enjoyed learning all these components as well.

Mary Pat Kavanaugh www.QueenOfMarketing.com "Therese is an awesome business coach. In our work together, she helped me achieve the confidence in myself to success, she helped me get out of my own way by identifying some key environmental and mindset issues and she empowered me to believe that I could be successful in my endeavors! "I highly recommend Therese's services to business owners who are looking for out-of-the-box, creative marketing strategies to achieve wild success at a record pace! "Thanks, Therese, for empowering me to achieve my goals and maintain my passions!"

The Mindset and the Marketing--How They Work Together

How does my expertise in human behavior help you, the small-business owner? Well, my entire premise is that having a super-successful business is truly an inner game. You could have the perfect business and marketing plan - but if you don’t have your head in the right place . . . the business will suffer. That’s why I coach you, the owner. I find that in coaching the owner, the whole business benefits. If the focus is on the business alone, the results are much less powerful.

It’s kind of like those parents who drop their kid off in a therapist’s office, saying “Fix him.” While I’ve never experienced this situation with my boys, I sure used to wish someone would take my wacky dogs away for a week and return them in better shape than when they left. But as we all know, change starts from the inside, and moves outward. In the case of my behaviorally challenged canines, the only solution was for me - their owner, and leader of the “pack” - to get some training about how to better respond to the dogs. The same is true for your business . . . except without the fur.

What I’ve discovered as I evolve as a coach and a business owner myself, is that the best methods combine both the mindset and the marketing. Most of my clients fall into three categories:

►Folks who know exactly what they want to do, but get stuck because of their own ‘stuff’ they keep bumping in to.

►Individuals who have mostly mastered their inner game in that they are able to overcome the limiting beliefs or old patterns that used to hold them back, but then don’t know how to grow their business, so we focus on marketing, leveraging their time better, and finding more revenue in ways that work with their lifestyle goals.

►Clients who have a blend of both of the above. Sometimes we are doing some mindset work, other times its marketing strategies, but mostly, they all get woven together.

I truly love doing this work! The most beautiful part is that I get to share my clients’ magic and transformation, and, as a result, experience their excitement about their successes.

The Personal Details . . .

I live in Arizona and yes it's a dry heat!  I am divorced after 18 years, and my ex and I are doing well at keeping a great friendship and raising our two boys, Danny and John. Yes, every mom thinks her kids are the brightest, cutest, and best behaved. OK, I admit we’re not always qualified for the “best behaved” award, but my little guys are very cool. Danny, the eldest, in middle school, going on about 27. He loves to shower me with daily doses of sports and music trivia and is now into fashion and girls.  (Heaven help me!)  John, the younger one, got an early start being quite the handful, but has now morphed into being just the light of our lives.  He works hard to keep up with his brother, and I think he’s about two days away from being able to!

My goal is to be a 'cool' mom, and since I had my kids later in life, I think that just may be the case!

Here’s a photo taken in Rocky Point Mexico.

To recharge and refresh, my most favorite thing to do is to go to Mexico with the kids.  We usually stay in nice condos and spend lots of time on the beach.

Here’s me enjoying breakfast...

Our family shares lots of fun and laughter in our time together, but between the boys and all their friends, I feel like I'm surrounded by a bit too much testosterone! After my ex moved out, we got Kailee, who is a pit bull mix. (Can anyone relate to that...lose the ex and get a dog!) Kailee and I hold down the "estrogen" fort, but suffice it to say, there's lots going on in my house. Here's a pic of Kailee...

Over the last year, I have discovered karaoke!  That may sound totally dorky, but for me it’s been a huge ‘workshop’ about how I show up in life.  Starting out with the mic being quite tentative, doubting my ability, playing small….

Now you should see me!  Melissa Etheridge, watch out!  Someday I want to start a ‘Karaoke Coaching Program’ because it’s a total metaphor about expanding, taking risks, and showing up to play bigger.  Here’s a pic with me doing karaoke…..

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