Episode #7: Kristen Kosinski - The Power of Being Truly Seen, With All Your Messiness
Kristen Kosinski is a coach, consultant and founder who empowers her clients to achieve the impossible, lead fearlessly, inspire others and manifest their dreams. Midway through a career as a successful executive in Hollywood, Kristen sat down with a woman on the recommendation of a friend. That woman was Mona Miller, the late coach, author and teacher, and over the next 12 years Mona and Kristen worked together as Kristen’s career and relationships were transformed. As part of that work, she founded The Samburu Project, a non-profit organisation which has brought clean drinking water to over 100,000 people in Africa.
Then, in 2016, after leaving The Samburu Project, she set off to do the work that she had learned from Mona, training as a coach and developing a business through a commitment to courage and doing her own deep work… among many other things.
In this episode, we talk about:
How two hours with Mona Miller - the first time she felt all her messiness had been truly seen, in the most extraordinarily loving way - transformed her.
How Kristen came to believe that we live in a world where you can literally live your dreams, and why so many are afraid to even speak about their dreams, let alone follow them.
How visiting her father after his terminal cancer diagnosis gave her permission to leave behind the dream she had had as a child and strike out on a new path
The writing practice she uses to deal with the pain of getting ‘No’s.
Plus, in the final part of the call, Kristen and I get into detail exploring, together, some of the questions about how to structure coaching engagements, what the optimal length is and whether to offer one-off conversations to potential clients.
For more information about Kristen, visit her website: https://kristenkosinski.com/
For information about Robbie’s wider work and writing, visit www.robbieswalecoaching.com.
Music by My Good Man William: listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4KmeQUcTbeE31uFynHQLQg
Things and people we mentioned (that you might be interested in):
First things first, mentioned throughout the call, Mona Miller: http://www.monamiller.com/
Watch the video of the episode with Kristen. (The video versions are more rough and ready than the audio-only episodes.)
~9: Rich Litvin: https://richlitvin.com/
~23: The non-profit organisation Kristen founded, The Samburu Project: https://thesamburuproject.org/
~35: Rich Litvin’s not-currently-offered Prosperous Coach Salon
~46: iPEC/the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching: https://www.ipeccoaching.co.uk/
~46: Coach U: http://www.coachinc.com/CoachU/
~50: The Prosperous Coach by Rich Litvin and Steve Chandler: https://richlitvin.com/the-prosperous-coach/
~52: Katie Harvey and the episode of The Coach’s Journey Podcast with her as the guest: https://www.thecoachsjourney.com/podcast/episode-1-katie-harvey-14000-hours-of-coaching-being-part-of-the-uk-coaching-vanguard-and-being-a-generalist-coach
~59: Invisible Warfare by Mona Miller: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Invisible-Warfare-Mona-Miller/dp/0978665201
~77: The Artist’s Way and Julia Cameron: https://juliacameronlive.com/the-artists-way/
~82: Marianne Williamson: https://marianne.com/
~82: A Course in Miracles by Dr Helen Schucman: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0018A01L4
~82: An example of Marianne Williamson’s work on A Course in Miracles: https://marianne.com/365-days-of-a-course-in-miracles/
FULL BIOGRAPHY FROM KRISTEN
As a Certified Professional Coach (CPC) and consultant, Kristen partners with with her clients empowering them to achieve the impossible, lead fearlessly, inspire others and manifest their dreams.
A graduate of Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC) and an International Coach Federation Professional Certified Coach (PCC), Kristen works one-on-one with her clients utilizing the Core Energy Coaching™ approach, a process that helps tap into your inner purpose and passion, as well as connect you with your outer goals and tasks to bring about extraordinary and sustainable results.
She also brings in the work of Mona Miller, her longtime teacher & coach, which offers a process that cuts through mental constructs and goes directly to the heart of the matter, saving a tremendous amount of time and creating understanding that allows forward movement. As a life long learner, she is committed to ongoing personal and professional development. Kristen has been a member of Rich Litvin’s Salon, a group of powerful, high achieving coaches who are transforming the world and attended two of his intensive trainings. She currently is a member of the Soulfull Success community led by Allison Crow.
Kristen is the founder of The Samburu Project, a grassroots nonprofit organization that has been providing clean, safe drinking water as a foundation to community development in northern Kenya since 2005. Since inception, the organization has brought clean drinking water to over 100,000 people. Before launching The Samburu Project, Kristen worked for a decade at Paramount Pictures as a creative executive making half hour and one hour television shows. Her professional life began in the classroom as a Teach for America corps member where she was privileged to teach elementary school children in Houston and Los Angeles.
Her formative years were spent in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, raised in a blended family as one of ten children. Just after her 18th birthday, she flew the coop to attend college at Pennsylvania State University. While in Happy Valley, she studied Speech Communication and Business.
She is a devoted Iyengar yoga student. Her daily practice is to make a positive impact in the world. Kristen and her 11-year-old son live in Santa Monica, California.