TinysMom
Well-Known Member
One of the things I've been wanting to do is become a "life coach" and help people make goals and see them through. I know in this economy a lot of folks can't afford it - but some folks can. I've often been told I'm a good listener and I can help people think about things -and it makes me feel so darn good.
There is one school I've been looking at - and one program that they have is called the "Coach Training Accelerator". It is the training and lectures but not the classroom setting for the coaching school. I guess you could call it the self-study course. It is part of the training if you take the full course - which if I remember right is certified by the coaching certification folks.
The self-study course is about $700. In other words - it is out of my range.
I was on Ebay and I found someone listing a new 5 CD set and it looked very detailed. It didn't include workbooks like the course above - but it did have a lot of good information. It was $19.95. I decided to go ahead and buy it - even though it was a new seller (they did have 100% feedback).
It came on Saturday and when I opened the package I was a bit concerned. The disks looked..homemade? I put it in and started to listen to the first one - and I'm sure you see it coming....right...?
It was a bootlegged copy of the course I mentioned up above that I wanted to take.
I listened to about the first 10 minutes - just to make sure that it was what it sounded like it was going to be - and it was. So I turned it off (I don't know that I even listened to it that long) and I cried.
:bigtears:
I think I did more than cry - I bawled. I was so looking forward to learning more about coaching....
You have to understand- Art & I have a personal policy/belief that we don't support bootlegged copies and we think its stealing. Art & I discussed it and he said, "You really shouldn't listen to it without first talking to the school ..." and I really did agree with him.
I hoped that if I contacted them - they would ask me to listen to it all - take notes - whatever - and then send them the discs. Or something.
So I called and left a message with the school about what had happened...and waited for them to call back today.
I just got off the phone w/ the person I'd left a message for....I gave them the email address and contact information for the person who sold the discs plus I am sending the school the discs tomorrow to a certain person's attention. I am also including the mailer it came in since that makes it mail fraud or something like that too. (Can you tell I'm against bootleggers??).
Meanwhile - in appreciation for this - because the seller was listing 5 of these at a time on Ebay...the school is sending me the COMPLETE $700 course - with workbooks, etc. - as their way of saying thank you.
I'm in shock. As I told Lisa when we spoke on the phone - "Character is what you do and who you are when no one is looking...". She told me that my coming forward about this really helped encourage her that there are honest people in the world still.
I don't know about that...all I know is - sometimes Karma sucks...and sometimes when you think things are so darn horrible....they turn out ok after all.
Now I'm sitting here in tears again - but at least they're happy tears....
There is one school I've been looking at - and one program that they have is called the "Coach Training Accelerator". It is the training and lectures but not the classroom setting for the coaching school. I guess you could call it the self-study course. It is part of the training if you take the full course - which if I remember right is certified by the coaching certification folks.
The self-study course is about $700. In other words - it is out of my range.
I was on Ebay and I found someone listing a new 5 CD set and it looked very detailed. It didn't include workbooks like the course above - but it did have a lot of good information. It was $19.95. I decided to go ahead and buy it - even though it was a new seller (they did have 100% feedback).
It came on Saturday and when I opened the package I was a bit concerned. The disks looked..homemade? I put it in and started to listen to the first one - and I'm sure you see it coming....right...?
It was a bootlegged copy of the course I mentioned up above that I wanted to take.
I listened to about the first 10 minutes - just to make sure that it was what it sounded like it was going to be - and it was. So I turned it off (I don't know that I even listened to it that long) and I cried.
:bigtears:
I think I did more than cry - I bawled. I was so looking forward to learning more about coaching....
You have to understand- Art & I have a personal policy/belief that we don't support bootlegged copies and we think its stealing. Art & I discussed it and he said, "You really shouldn't listen to it without first talking to the school ..." and I really did agree with him.
I hoped that if I contacted them - they would ask me to listen to it all - take notes - whatever - and then send them the discs. Or something.
So I called and left a message with the school about what had happened...and waited for them to call back today.
I just got off the phone w/ the person I'd left a message for....I gave them the email address and contact information for the person who sold the discs plus I am sending the school the discs tomorrow to a certain person's attention. I am also including the mailer it came in since that makes it mail fraud or something like that too. (Can you tell I'm against bootleggers??).
Meanwhile - in appreciation for this - because the seller was listing 5 of these at a time on Ebay...the school is sending me the COMPLETE $700 course - with workbooks, etc. - as their way of saying thank you.
I'm in shock. As I told Lisa when we spoke on the phone - "Character is what you do and who you are when no one is looking...". She told me that my coming forward about this really helped encourage her that there are honest people in the world still.
I don't know about that...all I know is - sometimes Karma sucks...and sometimes when you think things are so darn horrible....they turn out ok after all.
Now I'm sitting here in tears again - but at least they're happy tears....
