Episode #11: Welcome to the Coaching Closet, I'm your host Richele. Thank you so much for joining me. Today I am so excited because I have my bestie Victoria Alexander here to share her story. I'm super excited to introduce to you my friend, she's a podcaster, she has a podcast called You are the Magic Pill. She is very influential and has tons of insight on relationships, so that's why I brought her on, and she's an expert in inspiring people to go within and find their true. So welcome, Victoria. Thank you so much. I'm so excited to be here with you. Thanks so much for being here. We are going to talk today about confidence Ready? Listen in...

Episode #10: Welcome to the Coaching Closet, I'm your host Richele. Thank you so much for joining me. Today, I'm starting with a celebration month because it is my birthday. I absolutely love October, it gets to be a little bit cooler here where I am in Houston, Texas, and I celebrate my birthday all month long, so as your listening to this... My birthday was yesterday. But I start early and I finish late. And as the years have gone by, I just celebrate for longer periods of time... And right now, I'm in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico with my love, Jeff and our best friends, we're just loving it here on the gorgeous beaches of Cabo, I decided to start monthly celebrations. I think it really took off when I turned 40 and I started to see and feel that time was really feeling like I was speeding up. Some people have said time gets faster and faster, and it's kind of weird because, how can that happen? But it just does. It feels like it's not linear, it's not something that's constant it's something that changes over time. It feels so different as you get older, so I thought, Well, I need to link them to make it feel longer and include more people. Ready? Listen in...

Episode #9: Welcome to the Coaching Closet, I'm your host Richele. Thank you so much for joining me for this episode. Today we're going to talk about sleep and sleep hygiene, and how important that is to our health and our relationships. I'm sure that you can relate to this. I have not always had the best sleep hygiene or sleep habits, one reason for that is because of a night owl, and our world isn't really revolved around those particular sleep rhythms, so I've had to adjust at certain times in my life to accommodate the world's schedule. But our sleeping habits really do affect our lives intensely, and they do affect our relationships as well. So many times, disagreements or even fights, arguments, they happen because someone just needs a nap, someone just is freaking tired and they are cranky, so it's really important to understand that. And if we just would pay attention to all of our healthy habits and make us a priority, we would function much better in our relationships. So sleep hygiene. What is it... What does that even mean? Find out today on the Coaching Closet! Listen in...

Episode #8: Welcome to the Coaching Closet, I'm your host Richele. Thank you so much for joining me for this episode. Today, I want to talk to you about people and how we view our relationships, no matter who the person is, and what kind of relationship we have with them. I want to talk to you about how people are not possessions... I think this is where a lot of people go wrong. And although you may not view a person as something that you own, if you really dig down and see the way that you act sometimes or have treated that relationship, many times it goes in that direction and you don't even realize it. Ready? Listen in...

Episode #7: Welcome to the Coaching Closet, I'm your host Richele. Thank you so much for joining me for this episode. This is my official thank you to my haters. It's amazing how life brings things full circle. I know I've shared with you guys how I was such a shy child, and I was brought out of that shyness through a series of circumstances in my life, one being having to move around the world, and my mother being really diligent about putting me in activities to bring me out, and I was not that happy about that. But now I see how it has been used for my benefit, and I think in life, if we can look at situations and see the positive and how it can be used for our good, that we can always see something good. So, whenever something comes up in my life now, I look and I see what can I learn from this experience. Whether it is Good, bad, I try not to really label it anymore, I just look at it and say, What I can learn from this experience? Ready for more? Let's go...

Episode #6: Welcome to the Coaching Closet, I'm your host Richele. I want to share with you experiences I've had with traveling, it's one of my passions. I've been really fortunate and blessed to travel quite a bit in my life, and the reason for that is mainly because I grew up overseas in Europe. My dad was in oil and gas, and my parents were really awesome about taking us with them on trips to different countries. So, I experienced the world at a very young age and really got to appreciate different cultures, and even more than that, I was able to appreciate how experiences are valuable, and I've realized that everything that's been really important to me are the memories that I've made and experiences I've had. Today I'm sharing about a really great trip I went on this summer for a friends birthday, she turned 50, and we planned a girls trip to Key West, Florida. Twelve women, some married, some single, all traveling together to celebrate our friends birthday and have some fun! Ready? Listen in...

Episode #5: Welcome to the Coaching Closet, I'm your host Richele. Today I want to share with you my weight loss journey and how I took control after my health had gotten out of control. So most of my life I was in great health and I really did not struggle with my weight very much. Honestly, I grew up, I was, you know, one of those kids that I was very involved in dance and sports and very, very active. And so I was fortunate, I have great genetics and between that, and being really active and having a Mom who was really blessed to stay home with us and cooked great meals, healthy meals I learned to eat pretty well. But when I got divorced in 2017, I got in some really unhealthy habits. I was 40 plus pounds overweight over what I had been. While I was at a networking event, I ran into a health coach and she was explaining what she did. I was like, I need you please help me. And I signed up for a program that night. That started my health journey in mid September of 2020. Six months later, I had dropped 40 pounds. And now I integrated the health coaching program that I lost weight on into my coaching practice so that I can help people that are struggling with their health. Ready to hear more? Let's go...

Episode #4: Welcome to the Coaching Closet, I'm your host Richele. Today I want to share with you some of my story about finding love again. I really had been through so much through my divorce and really felt beaten down. I wasn't sure where to go. I wasn't sure if I would ever have that true love in my life that was reciprocated, that was a partnership, a friendship. And really, what I wanted to find was my best friend that I couldn't keep my hands off of. And I was wanting that, I was searching for that. I had started to recreate my life. I had found myself in a way that was unique. I wasn't part of a couple anymore. It was just me. It was, you know, who is Rochelle and what do I like? And what am I about? So I started making friendships. I had to create a singles group, and I also started on another part of my personal growth, which was being a client in the coaching program that I'm now a part of as a coach, the community. Then I went through a program called Calling in the One and I now coach it as a coach. So, I was a client and it really helped me to be intentional about what I was searching for, what I was really wanting to call in my life and what my vision was for my love life. Ready to hear more? Let's go...

Episode #3: Welcome to the Coaching Closet, I'm your host Richele . Today I want to share with you guys how I got my stuff together after divorce and being alone after 22 years of marriage. One step that I took that made all the difference in the world, and that was just going to tell you a little bit about this story. I had been alone, I guess I'd filed for divorce a year and a half before my divorce had been final about five months. And it was a time in my life where I was extremely lonely. What I really really needed was friends and when I got divorced, it felt like none of them knew what to do with me. So, I created a singles group and it is now one of the most popular singles groups in Houston and it became like my lifeline. I created what I needed and it just so happens, I created what so many other people needed as well. Ready? Let's get started...

Episode #2: Welcome to the Coaching Closet, I'm your host Richele. Today on episode two, I am sharing with you, why the coaching closet and where did that idea come from? Why do I even talk from the coaching closet and all that good stuff? I've always loved clothing and I've always loved fashion. So my closet is my happy place. Because I love being in my closet. I decided to coach in there with my one-on-one with clients. It's also where I record my YouTube videos and my podcast. Ready to hear more? Let's go...