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I'm actually relax. Welcome to the broad experience, the show about women, the workplace, and success. I'm Ashley Milne Tite.

This time, the coaching industry has exploded in recent years, and it's dominated by women.

Women in our corporations are dealing with a lot of bias, so they seek out help to acknowledge what they're experiencing, whether it's I got fired on

maternity leave or I'm being overlooked for this promotion.

And as anyone who sought out a coach knows, their services are an investment.

I never really thought about hiring an executive coach. I've met executive

coaches, but it always appeared to me that they were very, very expensive, and I kind of had

excluded myself mentally from being the kind of person who would enlist an executive coach myself.

But what value do we place on improving our lives in and out of work?

Sometimes when people are skeptical of price,

there's always this thing to me of like, well, what's the value of spending an hour or more a week

with a person whose sole focus it is is on you and what you want from your life.

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