Maggie Currie



A superb coach in her own right Maggie Currie, The People Magician, is a popular International Advanced Confidence Coach, Group Trainer, Personal Life Coach, Corporate & Executive Coach, NLP Practitioner, Mentor, Speaker & published Author.

 

Maggie is also a qualified teacher of disability awareness and holds a City & Guilds level 4 teaching qualification. In addition she holds a TEFL qualification and can teach English as a foreign language.

 

International coach Maggie has appeared on Solent TV discussing how life coaching will change your life. She was interviewed by Mike Powell on BBC Radio Solent and by Coach Erwin de Grave on Radio Coaching on two occasions discussing how confidence coaching is beneficial and also where coaching will be in 2020 and how it will have evolved. Maggie has presented two teleseminars for Business for Coaches on Thought Field Therapy and confidence building and will be presenting another in March 2010.

 

Maggie Currie - Professional Experience:     It is vitally important to me that you understand that I know exactly where you are coming from. I have been there. I have had absolutely no confidence in myself at all and have learned how to turn that around. That is why I am so passionate about helping you to be more confident.

 

I have hundreds hours of experience coaching individuals and business owners.  I am proud to say that every one of my clients has benefited from my coaching expertise.

 

Maggie's story:

Maggie was born in Braintree, Essex, an illegitimate baby left in a children’s home. Fortunately I was adopted and gained an older brother and was brought up in Barkingside, Essex and was sent to a private school at age 11 because my teachers and parents believed that I was average and that the local comprehensive school was not the place for me to go, and apparently I wan't clever enough to go to the high school.  I achieved all the qualifications necessary to become a secretary, including gaining a distinction in typing stage II with the RSA . My first job at the age of 16 was with the Legal & General Assurance Society in London where I started out as a shorthand typist, progressing to personal secretary and supervisor of the typing pool by the time I left to have my family at age 22.  I married at age 19 and had three children. Unfortunately this marriage did not last and I had to move out of the family home with three small children and live in a one bedroom flat in a strange town, Southend-on-Sea, with no friends, no money and no hope of it getting any better. 

 

I met a lovely man, who was a friend of my brother's and we fell in love and I remarried at age 32 and moved to a four bed Victorian house in Southend. We are still together now and about to celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary.

Returning to work when the children were old enough I worked for the NHS as the medical secretary to a Professor of Thoracic Medicine at The London Chest Hospital and subsequently for a Consultant Psychiatrist at Parklands Hospital in Basingstoke, where we had moved to from Southend-on-Sea in Essex when the children had all left home and my husband's job changed and he needed easy access to motorways.

We relocated to the Isle of Wight in 2003, having had a holiday home there since 1998, which was intended to be a retirement home. The move was prompted by the premature death of our next door neighbour just before her 60th birthday. Maureen had planned to do all the things she hadn't had time to do when she was working when she retired.  This never happened of course, so we decided not to wait until retirement to move to the Isle of Wight and did it there and then.

I started my own secretarial business on the Island aimed at small businesses who didn't want to or could not afford to employ another person. This has built up from just 1 customer in 2004 to over 60 currently. This was brought about because I did a lot of temping and hated every minute of it.  The people and firms were brilliant, but I didn't like the uncertainty.  I also didn't like the fact that the temp, me, was paid one rate and the agency was paid a different, much higher rate.  This meant that the firm I was sent to expected twice as much work out of me as they perceived that I was getting the higher rate.  So now my clients only pay for what they use whether it be 1 hour a month or 20 hours a week.  No contracts, no agency fees.  And it works.  My clients come back again and again.

Whilst on a Business Link course in 2004 I met someone who was undertaking a Life Coaching course with Newcastle College, and it was free at that time. It sounded interesting to me and I had nothing to lose, so I took their free Certificate and Diploma courses as well and successfully qualified as a Personal Life Coach. I also discovered that I loved coaching.

I bumped into Jonathan Jay, who I remembered from his stage hypnotic act some ten years before in the holiday camps on the Isle of Wight, at a Small Business Exhibition at the NEC in 2005 and he suggested that I join him at the Coaching Academy to gain even better qualifications, which I did and successfully qualified as a Corporate & Executive Coach.

Whilst training at the Coaching Academy I met Dawn Breslin  and loved the work she did and the way she did it, and trained with her to become an Advanced Confidence Coach and Confidence Group Trainer. I love this even more than just coaching. People just change in front of me, it is fabulous.

More recently I have been licensed by Susan Jeffers to present her workshops based on her book “Feel the fear and do it anyway”. This is just great.Recently I met Susan in London whilst she was over here on holiday.  She is very gracious and approachable and so friendly.  I had a great couple of hours with her and she has reviewed my new book for me.  She says, and I quote "I think it is a very good book".  Praise indeed!

 

I am passionate about coaching and I am on a mission to inspire everyone to find and live their passions - to be their authentic, true self. My job is to be responsive, flexible and enabling, to draw out the star in you. In particular, I am skilled in building self-esteem and confidence, enabling you to develop to your full potential. To do all this requires a holistic, lively approach to personal and professional development, from the delivery of the training and coaching through to on-going support. And I am interested in your results - no ifs, no buts.

Expect to be challenged, to re-learn old things in new ways but, most of all, expect to change your life.

I have worked with a vast range of clients from chiropodists, funeral directors, teachers to individuals. I am very proud to be able to say that every one of my clients has benefited from my coaching. Many of them have made massive changes to their lives including changing their career and the removal of their fears.

 

 

Maggie Currie - Education:     Clarks College Ilford Essex
Newcastle College
The Coaching Academy
INLPTA
Dawn Breslin Academy
School of Natural Health Sciences
Vocational Training Charitable Trust
Healing Hands School of Natural Therapies
British Thought Field Therapy Association

IW College

UK-TEFL

 

 

Maggie Currie - Interests:    My interests include reading, especially fantasy such as Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next stories. The Twilight saga.  I enjoy walking, socialising, meeting new people, networking, eating out, learning and self-development.

 

 

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