Victoria Hollen is one of the coaches that we found this month and we did a little interview with her. She impressed us with her expertise and unique approach to coaching.
She has been a hair stylist most of her life, but she also pursued her passion for coaching and learned various techniques and modalities online. She is a certified The Brave Thinking Institute Consultant, and she uses a proven 12 week course that helps her clients go from where they are to where they want to be.
She innovates with her coaching by helping her clients see the amazing things they are capable of doing, finding the positive part of themselves, and breaking free from their limiting beliefs. Her approach is focused on guiding you how to ignite the fire within and create a better life for yourself.
She is a coach who cares deeply about her clients and who has the experience and the tools to help them succeed. Her wisdom and expertise come from her own life, overcoming many obstacles, such as moving 28 times during her childhood, being a single mother of three, and finding her purpose and identity. Here is what she said.
Meet Life Coach Victoria Hollen:
Name: Victoria Hollen
Pillar: The Spirit, The Heart
Who is this coach for: Anyone who is wishing for a better life and really wanting a change or transformation to become the best version of themselves.
How they can help: By finding the right dream for them, eradicating fear and releasing suppressed emotions through forgiveness, aligning their values and beliefs with the person and life they desire to live.
First of all, how are you and your family doing after these Pandemic times?
Thankfully the Pandemic is on the way out and there is freedom again.
I was okay being cautious, just really nice to be able to travel and be out and about without worry.
How did the coronavirus pandemic affect your clients? Did it affect you at all?
What I found during the pandemic, as I was a hairstylist and wearing the mask and the vaccine, were all the different opinions.
Yes, there have been different opinions forever, but the pandemic really brought the opinions out.
It was very fascinating to observe, as I had been studying Life Coaching for years before, and all the different certifications, I really became an observer.
Helped people calm down and helped by listening to everyone as they needed to vent.
The affect the pandemic had on me was the 2 months we couldn’t work.
I sure made up the lost by getting people back in and worked more than usual, I worked 10 to 12 hour days and was booked out for 4 months.
Everyone made it the best that they could and things slowly got back to normal.
Those few months I was able to study and really loved that time!
What are the biggest lessons that you learned in this pandemic?
The biggest lessons I learned was the value of freedom that each individual sees is quite different.
I don’t think people expressed their opinions as much before being told what they could or couldn’t do.
And with having so many clients as a hairstylist I heard everything.
I know what I think is not important to most people, so I for the most part listened.
I know it caused a lot of stress for so many, so I did try to be helpful and used a lot of my coaching to help people find some peace within.
I also never heard so much political rhetoric, though politics is an issue with so many, during the pandemic it was just a lot.
I am not political at all so it was fascinating hearing how strong the opinions became during the pandemic.
The Origin:
Tell us about you, your career, how you started with your coaching career?
I am a mother to 3 grown children and have 4 grand kids.
I have been a hair stylist most of my life and love working with people.
So, as I learned about coaching I plunged right on in and for the last 6 years I have been learning on line.
I love all the studies.
From NLP and CBT to mind body healing and hypnotherapy and more.
My favorite studies which I call my foundation came from “The Brave Thinking Institute”.
I learned an amazing 12 week course that is proven to really take people from where they are to where they want to be.
It is a proven reliable system and my clients love it.
I still love doing hair and being with people, so the transition to being able to give my body a break and work from home helping has been wonderful!
What was your biggest obstacle that you had to overcome in your life that made you who you are today?
Oh wow….. so many obstacles.
First was my childhood.
My family moved 28 times during my upbringing.
I was at a few different schools a year, and never went to a school two years in a row.
No internet back then or cell phones, so connections were tough, making me quite naive.
The positive is I have not had fear of change.
I never had support as a young adult so I had to figure out life.
I started out young being fascinated by people.
I divorced after 11 years of marriage when my children were all under 10 years old, so a single mother.
My children were very important so helping them become strong adults was my top priority.
I never remarried.
My children have all become wonderful successful adults, and I have 4 grandchildren!
The Coaching Style:
How do you innovate with coaching your clients?
When someone is wishing for a better life and really wanting a change, my coaching helps them see the amazing things they are so capable of doing and finding the positive part of themselves that the conditioning of the past has hidden from them.
I get to help ignite the fire within.
I am able to help them with their limiting beliefs, help them make sure their values and beliefs are where they need to be to move forward and not use the past to keep them from their dreams.
What’s unique about your coaching approach?
My past has so many huge lessons, in family, in a partner, being the best you can be to support your children, owning my own business, moving and starting over as an adult and creating successful business.
There is a lot more, but I have so many experiences and with working with people all my life, I know so many things people go through, where they really think they are the only ones in the position they are in.
I am a fantastic listener with a lot of insight so I can connect with people easy.
I also am a very calm person, so I can really feel and have great intuition.
My coaching clients have said to me after I give them an idea, that I have helped them more than anyone and they just get so excited!
I just love when I have helped someone find their power and see how it has changed their life.
What benefits do your clients get after working with you?
They actually have totally changed and are out there doing things they never thought they could do but just dreamed of it!!
Do you use any specific tools to be efficient with your clients?
I go through a sequence starting with the dream they want and making sure it is truly what they want, and then as each session goes on, we check their dream and move towards what is holding them back.
We look at their fears and why they are there.
I help them learn how important forgiveness is and help them see that it is for them to forgive.
It opens them up to receive the most amazing future.
I help them see if their values and beliefs are good for them.
The tool that I use that is just amazing is to let them see the future they can have, and not to look at the past that is holding them back!
The Impact:
If you had a super megaphone that, when you speak into, the whole world will hear your message, what would you say?
Stop thinking limiting beliefs…. they are not you!!
They are words and your thoughts that are holding you back.
You are powerful and amazing and you have so much potential and lets take you to your dream!!!
What is the greatest lesson you have learned in your life?
The greatest lesson I have learned in my life is not taking things personally.
When we are young everything we learn is from our childhood, parents, and friends.
Going through the young adult years I thought the way that I thought was the way most people think.
There can be a personal impact and a feeling of being hurt when others have their own strong opinion.
Learning to not let what others think and what their opinions are be a personal attack, is life changing.
As their values and beliefs are different than mine, and everyone has a different way of thinking.
It allowed me to just look at the way they are, and not compare it to what I think is important.
Once you quit taking things personally and listen and not care what someone thinks of you…. it is the greatest lesson in life.
Your final thoughts?
My final thought is to let so many know that there is so much potential to become amazing, and to know that everyone is worth the investment to become the best they can be.
To know the universe is open to so much abundance and having a belief in a higher power with the universe, be it God or Jesus or a spiritual being is the way to having all you need.
Having that, will help you become the best YOU possible, and live the dream that you want.
Where Can You Find Victoria Hollen?
If you liked this interview and you would love to get rid of the limitations that were put on you so you can be the best version of yourself, go to victoriahollen.dreambuildercoach.com and see how Victoria can help you do that.
If you’d like to connect more personally with her, you can do that through LinkedIn or by sending her a message on her Email [email protected].