About + Contact
Welcome. My name is Kate Swoboda. I’m a Life Coach, teacher, and writer who works one-on-one with women from around the world. I am a powerful, funny, and tenderly irreverent supporter of transformation. Originally from the midwest and now based in the San Francisco Bay Area, I can be found rocking out in either cowgirl boots or Birkenstocks (Giddyup! Ommm….)
what’s a life vision?
A statement of your vision for your life. It’s actually an incredibly practical, grounding thing to have–once you have one, a lot comes into focus because you start claiming your life, your choices. Want some help defining yours? My life vision is to make the splendidly daring and courageous choice to love and accept all parts of who I am, even the parts that are hard to be with, moment – to moment – to moment. I do this by practicing practical tools + courageous choices + touchy-feely love + hippy dippy New Age consciousness-type stuff that can’t be proven yet somehow works. I practice the belief that what is juicy is the journey, not the destination (which is why I’ll sport such sassy shoes along the way).
what I do:
1.) I work one-on-one with women from all around the world who are looking for a way of framing their lives powerfully that goes beyond the canned and formulaic.
2.) I lead e-courses that are designed to give you a smorgasbord of opportunities to try out new ways of thinking, doing, or being, to see what fits.
3.) I write–here at the blog, This Courageous Life, and a monthly column over at In the Wish Studio. I’m also working on a book that will be available in September–and it’s available for pre-order, now!
what I have done:
* Worked with clients since 2006, helping them to get unstuck, clarify their life visions, redefine boundaries with the inner critic, and work on BEing the journey (side note: this involves a lot of laughter, not taking ourselves too seriously, and permission to drop the f-bomb as needed).
* Completed counseling/coaching training with a San Francisco-based program called Interchange. I worked with this program for two years and completed 250+ hours in supervised training.
* Joined the ICF, International Coaches Federation.
* Completed state-certified training and then volunteered as a rape-crisis counselor, public speaker, and judicial advocate for LaCASA, the Lake County Council Against Sexual Assault.
* Double-majored to complete my BA in Sociology as well as my BA in English plus a minor in Women’s Studies (yep, I was a busy gal) and then my Master’s degree in English.
* Worked as a freelance photographer, writer, and mixed-media artist.
contacting me
You can set up an appointment by calling me at 510-827-0303, or via email: kate -at- yourcourageouslife -dot- com.
anything else?
I love playing the piano, practicing Bikram yoga, hanging out at libraries, lattes from Peet’s, chatting with friends, and that delicious moment of unwrapping and cracking open a brand-new hardcover ruled Moleskine notebook. Want to know more? Click here to get more details.
