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LIFE COACH TOM FUETSCH
TF: Basically they call me up and if they feel they She’s very pragmatic, very firm, so she says, "Well that
want a one-on-one in particular, I have a program was pretty good, I think you were pretty right on."
laid out and we set up a meeting, which I can actually And I said to myself, I expected more because we
do over the phone, or go to them, or they can come really made great breakthroughs. Three days later I
to me. If for example, they are in another country, get this text from her and she says that was awesome I
they just call me and I ask them to write down feel so much better and three days after that she
different things that they can think of that are called me and personally told me.
bothering them. For example, I ask them to write
down what keeps coming up in their memory about CI: What is your background?
their childhood that frustrates them, which TF: I started in human resources, as my degree was
sometimes gives me a key. I have a focus of different in Business Administration, with the emphasis in
items like energy, survival and emotions, and so I’m human resources, so I’m a big believer in people and
looking for those kind of things that people have developing them.
been programmed, and then I sit down and I assess it. If you look back in time everybody had a mentor
I usually know where I’m heading before the end of whether they acknowledge it or not. Life coaching
the talk and so I usually bring the tools to them and has been around, or rather the phrase has been
see what experience is really bothering them. around since 1993, so that's its title. It’s funny, I was
Most businesses have a great person that really looking back with a friend of mine and was
knows his business and you want him or her to stay; describing the training I did to her years ago and she
so you sit him or her down and talk with them and said, "Tom you’ve got to call yourself life coach
you work with them, develop them, you let them because that’s what they call it these days." So
figure it out, you just guide them along. throughout my career I took not only my own
training, but brought in trainers to train my trainers,
It’s a rewarding job for me as
so I've done an awful lot of coaching. So I’ve probably
been actively coaching and training for about 15
I’m a big believer in people,
years – mostly in the casinos.
it’s part of developing a team.
CI: Are you targeting your service to any
particular group?
TF: Yes, I’m going into casino areas because I know
CI: Can you give us a very brief idea of what you people in the business and that is my previous
look at in your clients? professional field of expertise, so I have contacts –
TF: There’s about seven elements of people's minds but I do spread it around other industries as well. I
that I look into. People always worry about their also do executives in general and people in general
survival, they worry about their emotions, so say for because of the life coaching. I started in the casino
example, they just broke up with a loved one or had business and I’ve stayed in that area very heavily. I
issues with a co-worker, that grabs their energy. This really loved managing casinos because there were
will drain them because it just creates an awful lot of always challenges.
fatigue, frustration and depression. Another example
is a boss who tells people to do something his way CI: So if a company says we want you to come in
and they constantly get pounded as you have to do it and give a talk how does it work?
his way – pretty soon people are sort of giving away TF: I’d always loved working with people one-on-
their own self in their mind. It really goes back to the one and now I do seminars also, for instance:
fact that you’ve got to love yourself first, then you can Changing people's energy – in any work force
love everybody else. whether it’s an assembly line workforce, a casino work
What I’ve come across with many people, is that force or an entertainment work force, what happens
they are programmed from way back in their is people get monotony in their job. Because of this,
childhood, for example, in what they can achieve. If they get fatigued, then I go in and talk to those
their parents said: "If you don’t do this, you're not groups and change that energy: I ship that energy
going to measure up!" Even as an adult, it doesn’t and it goes above motivation, I give them tools so
matter how much they achieve, they’re still beating when they feel that way again they can adjust and
themselves up for not measuring up to those change. It’s really been on self empowerment, it’s
expectations. going back to truly owning yourself, and feeling
It’s a rewarding job for me as I’m a big believer in better about yourself.
people, it’s part of developing a team. I was walking With an awful lot of people you just need to get
through the casinos here in Reno, I had the Executive them freeing themselves from their emotion – what
Vice President with me and every place that we you do is you bring out a whole new ray of sunshine,
walked into people came up to me and said, "Thank a different way to look at life and then by the time
you, Tom." you’re done that issue has just been neutralised.
Another thing that has happened to me was I was
life coaching a psychologist and assessing her and Find out more about Tom from his web site,
then at the end I said. "How do you think it went?" www.tomfuetsch.com , or call (001) 775 747 3662.
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