Coach Rachelle Disbennett Lee, PhD, is an international coach and motivational speaker. After spending 17 years in corporate America, Coach Lee was invited to leave (laid off) in 1995. In 1996, she read an article about coaching in NewsWeek Magazine. A week later she met and hired a local coach to introduce her to the profession, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Coach Lee graduated from Coach University in 1997, but continued to hone her skills as a teleclass leader until 2001. Coach Lee also holds a Doctorate Degree from Walden University in Applied Management and Decision Sciences.
Coach lee is an advocate of daily action and the power it wields. She is a coach, author, speaker and Professor. Universal Publishing published Coach Lee’s first book, 365 Days of Coaching – Because Life Happens Ever Day, in 2003. She is a contributing author to “A Guide to Getting it, Self Esteem” (Clear Vision Publishing, 2002). Coach Lee is often quoted in such publication as Woman’s Day, USA Today Online, and Fitness Magazine. Coach Lee hosted her own nationally syndicated radio show “Live the Day with Coach Lee” for five years.
Coach Lee is obsessed with reading magazines and anything else that contains concise information and is a quick read. A self-proclaimed self-help junkie Coach Lee is also a dyed in the wool optimist and the believer of the basic good in people. When not doing something coachy she spends time with her husband, Adrian, and their rescue fur baby Buddy.
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I chose to work with Coach Lee because I felt as if I would perish if I did not do something about the gnawing feeling in my gut that kept telling me that I was not content in my working life. I have a fine job with good benefits and more flexibility than most, but it left me bored and exhausted daily. I knew deep down that I needed to find passion in my work or work toward a passion or love my work-I’d read enough self-help books to figure that part out. Okay, find your passion and do it! Easier said than done. Books are good, but they cannot make you accountable to yourself the way a real person can. Friends are nice to talk to, but they are not necessarily objective. They don’t want to just talk about you and your career- for hours! Family, well they are family, and if you are struggling with the same things that I do, then it’s probably due much to how you were raised and what your family’s beliefs are about working your dream vs. just working and making ends meet. They can be dream squishers because they want to protect you from the unknown. A life coach that you like and trust is a good choice.
Coach Lee helped me realize that change takes time and that I really can trust myself to take care of myself. That was a huge awakening to me. I have never let myself or my children go hungry, or not have a place to live. Why would I now? I can make small changes without the risk of catastrophic failure! She also helped me to narrow down all my endless options into a single goal to move toward. I have started my own business and it has already replaced the sick feeling in my stomach with one of fire and motivation. I am still working the job that bores me for the time being, but there is a plan in place and an ever-evolving, passion-filled future to look forward to. I am excited every day even if all I do toward my goal is one tiny thing. I highly recommend Coach Lee to anyone in search of coaching. I truly believe that on a certain level she helped me to save my life.
Sincerely,
Helen Bartley
Vancouver, Washington.