Why Adelie Coaching?

I needed a name for my business and it came up while I was brainstorming with a friend that Adelie penguins are my favorite penguin species. We didn’t come up with a better name, and the socials and domain name weren’t taken, so it became my business name.

How long do you generally expect coaching to last?

I expect coaching to last as long as it’s valuable to us both. I think of coaching as companionship in a journey of ongoing personal growth and exploration. I expect that my clients will forever be on their journey of growth, and it’s just as impossible to predict how long it makes sense for me to walk that path along with them as it is to predict how long a friendship might last.

But really, how much do you charge?

Really, I customize my 1:1 engagements to meet the needs of the people I’m working with. That includes their financial needs. What I’m able to offer varies based on how many commitments I have, but I’m never offended by a request to work together, regardless of the available budget or the outcome of that conversation. I’m just as happy to have a conversation about what individual attention I can offer for $10/month as I am for $1,000/month.

Why charge monthly, instead of per session?

I absolutely believe that different people need different things on their journeys of growth and exploration - and I especially believe that to be true for the people I most want to work with. In order to customize what I’m offering to you as an individual, both as your needs shift and change over time and as compared to what someone else might need, and still be able to make some kind of sense of my own business, capacity, and administration, monthly was the simplest way to be able to offer that. I find that this also allows you to be more fluid about what you need from me, with a consistent monthly budget to plan on, whether you’re needing more active conversations or more time to work through new realizations outside of our time together.

Also, I really do see this as a relationship. I care about you and you’re a part of my life, whether or not we’re actively on a call together. That consumes capacity in my mind and heart that isn’t just measured by minutes on the calendar.  These truths are reflected more honestly in a monthly charge than in charging per session.