Meet Julia Close
A family move to the Netherlands gave me some space to retrain as a Professional Life Coach and pull together all the different strands of my life. I grew up in the North of England and am married to an Englishman. I’ve been a stay at home Mum, a working Mum and a Mum establishing her own business whilst caring for an elderly parent. I’ve worked with new parents, entrepreneurs and in corporate customer development. We reinvent ourselves so often it’s easy to forget who we are in the first place!
I have three amazing daughters, have lived in three countries and am a mad horse and dog owner.
I am a certified professional coach through iPEC, a COR.e Dynamics transitions coach and Master practitioner for the Energy Leadership Index Assessment.
Meet Anke Fischer
Retraining as a Professional Life Coach gave me the opportunity and tools to use my life’s experiences to create a space for others to get the support I would’ve loved to have many times.
I’ve been a stay at home Mom, a pro-bono working Mom and a Mom establishing her own business whilst caring for elderly parents on a different continent. I grew up in Germany, am married to a German/Brazilian, live in the USA, and I’ve worked with parents and teens, nationally and internationally, for a long time.
I have four very different and equally wonderful children, one cat and two dogs and have lived in four countries. I love sailing and house design. I am a certified professional coach through iPEC, a COR.e Dynamics transitions coach and Master practitioner for Energy Leadership, and an ACC through the International Coaching Federation, as well as a member.
Meet Julia Close
A family move to the Netherlands gave me some space to retrain as a Professional Life Coach and pull together all the different strands of my life. I grew up in the North of England and am married to an Englishman. I’ve been a stay at home Mum, a working Mum and a Mum establishing her own business whilst caring for an elderly parent. I’ve worked with new parents, entrepreneurs and in corporate customer development. We reinvent ourselves so often it’s easy to forget who we are in the first place!
I have three amazing daughters, have lived in three countries and am a mad horse and dog owner.
I am a certified professional coach through iPEC, a COR.e Dynamics transitions coach and Master practitioner for the Energy Leadership Index Assessment.
Meet Anke Fischer
Retraining as a Professional Life Coach gave me the opportunity and tools to use my life’s experiences to create a space for others to get the support I would’ve loved to have many times.
I’ve been a stay at home Mom, a pro-bono working Mom and a Mom establishing her own business whilst caring for elderly parents on a different continent. I grew up in Germany, am married to a German/Brazilian, live in the USA, and I’ve worked with parents and teens, nationally and internationally, for a long time.
I have 4 very different and equally wonderful children, 1 cat and 2 dogs and have lived in four countries. I love sailing and house design. I am a certified professional coach through iPEC, a COR.e Dynamics transitions coach and Master practitioner for Energy Leadership, and an ACC through the International Coaching Federation, as well as a member.
We created Parents are People too as a space where you can safely share, find new awareness and perspectives as well as resources and most of all – feel you are not alone in this wild and wonderful journey of parenting and family life.
We both really missed having a place to come to when things got tough and family life felt so different from what we had imagined it to be.
We have both lived abroad, we have worked and we stayed home, we have kids who thrived in school and kids who have Learning Differences and ADHD, Anxiety and other medical issues.
We have parented babies and toddlers, kindergarteners, grade schoolers and we've sent kids off to college, university and beyond.
We both have had to care for aging parents and maneuver the transitions a family life cycle gives you.
We are parents (of 7 kids between us ranging from 16-29 years)
We both know the feeling of not really being certain WHO you are as a person...feeling stuck, feeling overwhelmed and overall just feeling like steering a ship with no compass.
We are both certified Life & Transition Coaches with our own businesses and with a common vision.
