Episode #26: Welcome to the Coaching Closet, I'm your host Richele, thank you so much for joining me. Today I am so excited because I'm bringing back my bestie Victoria Alexander to talk about red flags in dating and relationships. We talk about addressing the issues that you know are there, and then when they come up, seeing what the response from the other person is, and if it gets addressed by them. If they care to change something, or maybe if you're just not a match, and trusting your intuition, yourself and your gut feeling. Ready? Listen in...

Episode #25: Welcome to the Coaching Closet, I'm your host Richele. Today I'm going to begin a series of episodes on relationships that has to do with dating, and it's going to be about toxic symptoms, or red flags that you may not know about or you might have heard about. I'm going to break them down for you into different categories, and it's going to be things you can see in other people when you are dating, and also things you can see in yourself. The topic for this episode is about love-bombing, an overly intense attention when you first meet somebody, it's over the top, it's excessive everything. It becomes so over the top to the point where you feel like you can't really even get anything else done, you can't think about anything else, it can be completely toxic. Ready to learn more about love-bombing? Listen in...

Episode #24: Welcome to the Coaching Closet, I'm your host Richele. Today I wanted to get a new episode out to you, but I'm in the process of moving and will be back next week with a new episode. For now, since it's still the beginning of the year and people are looking at starting fresh, losing weight and feeling better about themselves, I thought I would replay my 5th episode, which is on my weight loss journey. I talk about how my weight was affecting my health and 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 23: Welcome to the Coaching Closet, I'm your host Richele Batt. Let's talk about break-ups. They're not easy. None of us usually you see them coming... Not from the beginning, at least. If we did, why would we ever start a relationship? We don't start out in a relationship or a marriage thinking, well, one day this is gonna end... No, definitely not. But break-ups, they don't have to ruin our lives or define our future, and they don't have to be negative, they can be an opportunity for growth and opportunity for a spiritual awakening. Katherine Woodward Thomas came up with the term Conscious Uncoupling, and this is an amazing program that is coached all over the world. Here's a quote from her: "In a nutshell, a break up is nothing short of a once in a lifetime opportunity to have a complete spiritual awakening, one that catapults you to a whole new level of authenticity, compassion, wisdom, depth, and—dare I say it?—even joy.” So breakups are opportunities for growth. Ready to dive into this? Let's go...

Episode 22: Welcome to the Coaching Closet, I'm your host Richele Batt. Happy New Year, I'm really excited about what is in store for you in 2022! I've seen a lot of people express to me personally and on social media that the last couple of years have been particularly trying and difficult in so many ways. But with this New Year, I believe it's a time for a renewed sense of hope and purpose, opening up something fresh and something new. In the last couple of years I have picked a word for the new year, my word this year is 'honor'. With that word, I want to really honor everything in my life, beginning with myself. I've talked a lot about self-love on this podcast and about loving yourself first, because out of that is how you will overflow and love others around you. Ready? Let's get started...

Episode 21: Welcome back to the Coaching Closet, I'm your host Richele Batt. We are here again with my friend, Rex Romander. Rex has been with us before, he's a coach and a dating coach. Today we are going to be talking about dating and what plans you may have for your life, and we are excited to announce our collaboration to do a group coaching class for you in January. Ready to hear more? Let's go...

Episode 20: Welcome to the Coaching Closet, I'm your host Richele Batt. It's a countdown to Christmas! I hope this recording finds you having a wonderful week and excited about the holidays. Today we're going to talk about how it is the most wonderful time of the year, but what if it isn't? What if it's a really difficult time, and if you're going through something difficult, the holidays can magnify your hurts, we're all supposed to be happy during this time, that supposed to can be quotes because I think if we're feeling like we're supposed to feel a certain way or not... And we really can't get ourselves there, can make it even worse on us? I've seen posts on social media lately about people feeling lonely, people going through things, and that's kind of what I wanted to talk about today, and I hope this isn't you... I hope you're in a wonderful place where you can't relate to this, but most likely, if you've lived enough years, you can relate to this, that you've been through something where this time of year came around and it really wasn't such a great time for you. Ready? Let's get started...

Episode 19: Welcome to the Coaching Closet, I'm your host Richele Batt. Let's talk dating apps. So if you're like me and you've been single at one point, you will have most likely checked out a dating app or a dating website, and these can be particularly daunting, especially if you've been thrust back into the dating world after a break-up or divorce or long term relationship. So for myself, I had gotten into my marriage relationship at age 18, married at 20, and I was back out in the dating world at age 42. Reemerging into the dating scene in 2017, everything had changed, and so I had heard from friends that there was this swipe left or right thing, this concept of dating apps, and that's how a lot of people were meeting. This whole new world and the learning curve is crazy and huge, ready to dive in and explore? Let's go...

Episode #18: 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 back live in the Coaching Closet. Ready? Listen in...

Episode 17: Welcome to the Coaching Closet, I'm your host Richele Batt. This month has been all about gratitude and being grateful for what we have. It's something that affects our lives in such a powerful way, but it really affects our relationships, and some people don't think about how often it affects the relationships that we draw into our lives. I'm not sure if you've heard about the law of attraction, it's something that has been talked about in more recent days, really often, how we attract what we are, we attract what we think about, we bring about what we are. We bring about what we think about, we create our own reality. (Please the background noise, I recorded this outdoors.) Let's dive deeper. Ready?