Jun 30, 2009 8:25 am US/Eastern
Life Coach Helps Job Seekers Set A Course In Life
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Life coach Martha Boston teaches people about life through sailing.
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After sluggish economy ended Gladys Guerrero's successful career in sales and marketing, unemployment had a definitive impact on the way she viewed her life.
Guerrero said in dealing with her situation she found joy in the smallest of pleasures.
"I call it my Ben and Jerry's moment, I get my ice cream popsicle and take 45 minutes," said Guerrero.
David Jeannot is also looking for work more than a year after graduation.
"It got to the point that I would be walking around angry, like this is just not fair. What's going on, what's wrong with me," Jeannot told
CBS4's Jorge Estevez.
To get them, and their careers, on track
CBS4 and
Neighbors 4 Neighbors introduced them to a life coach to help them chart a course to success. Life coach Martha Boston created Captain's Courageous, a local company that uses sailing as a way to coach people through bad times.
"How they steer the boat is going to be some analogy how they steer their lives or their goals or their team members," said Boston. "We coach people out there all the time and people walk away from these experiences having enlightened themselves."
Because of all the different tasks on board of the boat which require collaboration, Boston said the good and bad comes out and that teaches people something about themselves that will help them in life.
After a day on the water in a sailboat, Gurrero said she can see the analogy to real life.
"The economic situation is like the storms that are around and it's a challenge every day and every moment of the day," said Gurrero.
Boston adds that just like sailing, if you keep your eye on the prize you will make it through any storm.
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