Kellie Richardson
A Little About Me
I am called to hold compassionate yet powerful space for folks seeking to fully realize their purpose and dreams. I partner with my clients on individualized journeys of discovery, centered on unconditional positive regard, accountability and joy. I didn’t call my practice a lab because I thought it was cool. I intentionally picked “lab” to emphasize that our work will be one of practice, innovation, risk and great reward; just like the work that takes place in a lab. Perfectionism is a lie. And I’m here to help you give it the middle finger and be your secret weapon in realizing and reclaiming your unique gifts. You can live the life you want. We will explore, play, and most importantly, YOU will crush the self-limiting believes and external factors (aka haters) that are blocking your path to greatness.
Now, let's get realized af.
I'm Kellie. I coach you to do the reflection, visioning and practices required to live
into your full purpose.
re·al·ize
/ˈrē(ə)ˌlīz/
verb
past tense: realized; past participle: realized
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become fully aware of (something) as a fact; understand clearly.
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cause (something desired or anticipated) to happen.
Why I Coach
My Story
I have always been sensitive. Sensitive, nerdy, and very unsure of myself. My sensitive nature always felt like a liability; a burden that others didn’t carry, a weakness to bury if I was ever to survive in the world. And I fully bought into and successfully navigated this lie for decades. My natural aptitude for words and my intuition taught me how to sense what folks around me needed or wanted and BANG! I developed an identity of chronic pleaser. My intersections as Black, female and queer added another constellation of sensibilities that taught me to how to hustle for my self-worth, especially in white majority spaces. I came to wear my responsiveness to others as a badge of honor, not realizing I was diminishing myself. I would frame it as peacekeeping, adaptability, agility, grit…anything but what it was: fear and violence. I feared my own power and the violence was silencing my true voice and gifts. As a result, I moved through my days disembodied, fighting off deep fatigue and burnout, maintaining and producing at an extreme cost to my body and spirit.
But then I had the incredible fortune to engage in coaching. Words can’t capture the transformation that I experienced. Coaching was the compassionate mirror I needed to come home to myself. I could take a walk through the museum that is me, moving from exhibit to exhibit, to unearth the roots of my self-limiting beliefs and plant new seeds to practice the fullest expression of self-love and most importantly, authenticity. Coaching led me to tap into the wisdom required to tell my fears and haters to f@$k off. Coaching was the touchstone I needed to truly leverage each day toward living a realized life.
I coach specifically to pay this gift forward. Healed, realized leaders will build a healed and realized world. When we are forced to focus all of our energy on surviving oppressive systems, generational trauma, stress, and fear, we need an outside voice and perspective to provide a space for brave new ways of knowing. I am committed to help clients tend to their internal operating system to identify and dismantle the roadblocks that silence, scare or derail them from living into their purpose.
WHAT I DO
My Approach
My Approach
I am guided to serve individuals and groups to identify roadblocks to their healing, growth and success such as self-limiting beliefs, untapped resources, and expanding ways of living and leading. My work is centered on an unwavering belief in your wholeness and possibility. No matter what.
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My coaching practice is centered on creativity, connection, and freedom.
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Creativity to live into the best, truest expression of yourself, and the ability to practice risk and innovation with confidence
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Connection to self above all; to establish the grounded presence you need to weather uncertainty and change.
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Liberation from external and internal voices that diminish your humanity, sow seeds of doubt, and debate your worth.
WHAT I DON'T DO
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Honor your culture, lived experiences, and ways of knowing
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Hold you in unconditional positive regard
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Help you mine for truth, discovery and possibility
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Invite joy, play and humor into our work
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Establish and support action and accountability practices to support your journey
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Try to change you
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Prescribe solutions or give you “the answer”
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Doubt your ability to grow, learn and thrive
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Decide what is “right” or “wrong” for your life or journey
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Force or facilitate anything without your consent
Don't Stop Now
DO THE WORK. HEAL AND BE TRANSFORMED.
Group Coaching
Leadership & Discovery Coaching
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