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Meant-to-Be Coach

LIFE, and PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT COACHING with RUTH KUSTOFF

Feeling Stuck or Unfulfilled?

About your career, health, or relationships — you don’t have to figure it out alone.

As a certified Life and Professional Development Coach, I can help you break through what’s holding you back.

If you’re an early- or mid-career professional wanting more clarity, purpose, or direction, I can help guide you to build a clear, step-by-step actionable path forward.

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Coaching Philosophy and Approach

Coaching is a partnership. It’s goal is to help you discover what you want personally or professionally. It brings out the best in you through focused conversations so you gain insight to what you want, what's holding you back, and how to get there. Like a sports coach, coaching supports you, encourages you, and helps you to see what you can change or how to improve to get the results you want.

Meant-to-Be is dedicated to helping you find your own answers and potential through a greater awareness. This is accomplished through listening, reflection, caring and asking questions that lead to possibilities. Coaching creates a safe, non-judgmental space. It allows you to slow down to hear yourself think, and see things with a new perspective to feel energized and empowered to make decisions and act. My role is to listen to you, and to reflect on what you say. I will ask focused, targeted questions to help you re-evaluate how you see things.

As a coach, I meet you where you are. Coaching is about creating space and time for yourself, to explore your true wants, needs, and goals. Through curiosity and meaningful conversation, I help you build confidence while easing fear and doubt. Together, we can explore personal areas such as relationship challenges, including communication and difficult conversations - professional growth and development, including career planning or change - and job satisfaction. I work with you! If you're a business owner, executive, parent, new or seasoned professional, friend, or spouse - coaching helps you see possibilities - to discover the way forward and see what needs to happen.

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Are You Curious
About Coaching?

Explore Possibilities. Gain Clarity & Insight. Take Action.

Let's have a conversation. You share what you want, and let's see where it takes us.

  • Start with two gifted session
  • Get a sense of how coaching works
  • See if it feels like a fit
  • Find out if it will help you get clarity, gain focus
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Services

Life Coaching
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Professional Development
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Group or Team Sessions
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About Me

After years of planning and delivering adult learning and professional development, I’m embarking on an encore career as a coach.

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Frequently Asked Questions

If you’re not familiar with what coaching is, you may think, do I need a coach?  Some reasons you may want to work with a coach are:

  1. It is a catalyst for change
  2. It can lead to possibilities
  3. It promotes your own insights
  4. It builds on your knowledge and knowing yourself
  5. It can be transformative
  6. It helps you to become who you want to be

Please read through the questions and answers below to get more information. If you have further questions or want to discuss anything, please contact me.

What Is Coaching?

Coaching provides a dedicated space for you to step away from daily demands and stress, giving yourself the time to focus on your own growth. It allows you to slow down, reflect, and explore new possibilities. Through coaching, you can imagine what’s possible, consider "what ifs," and discover the path to achieving your goals and dreams.

What Value Does Coaching Provide?

Coaching offers a dedicated space to think out loud and be heard without judgment. It encourages deeper reflection through thought-provoking questions, helping you clarify your goals, overcome obstacles, and create new paths toward success.

Can You Guarantee Results from Coaching?

Specific results cannot be guaranteed, but I can promise my full attention, active listening, and thoughtful questions to guide you toward meaningful insights. Coaching is a partnership—we commit to being present together. With your permission, I will ask reflective questions designed to awaken new perspectives, challenge your thinking, and help you connect the dots in ways you may not have seen before.

What Is Your Coaching Style?

My coaching style is centered on you. I create a supportive, judgment-free space where possibilities can unfold. I listen attentively, reflect on what you share, and ask thoughtful questions to help you explore your thoughts and feelings more deeply. This process allows you to gain clarity on what you truly want. With years of life experience and insights, I guide you in uncovering your goals, defining your next steps, and shaping your next chapter.

How will coaching benefit me?

Coaching is very personal. Depending on what brings you to coaching initially may determine its outcome or benefit. It could be more clarity around a specific situation, it may be more confidence, it may help with decision-making or improve self-awareness. However, often the reason someone first seeks out coaching ends up not being the real reason. Each person experiences it differently. Coaching will help you to help yourself. It can teach you how to see the details and the big picture. It will empower you to take control.

What Is the ROI of Coaching?

The return on investment (ROI) of coaching varies for each person, depending on their goals and commitment. Coaching can lead to increased clarity, confidence, and decision-making skills, which often translate into tangible benefits such as career growth, improved relationships, and enhanced well-being. It helps you break through obstacles, maximize your potential, and create meaningful change. While the outcomes may not always be immediately measurable, the long-term impact can be transformative, providing lasting personal and professional growth.

Testimonials

I was fortunate to find Ruth at a Writer's Getaway. Since I have not worked with coaches before I had no idea what I was in for. What I found is that Ruth is amazing! Her approach is straightforward and firm. Her philosophy is to point you back to yourself so you can see exactly what it is that you truly want. Because of this, we quickly determined that I am not good at multitasking and that I do my best work when I am working on one manuscript or poem at a time. I realized that by working on one piece at a time I can see it through to the submission process. My thinking has improved, because of our working relationship, and I do not feel as overwhelmed as I once did. Prior to our weekly sessions, I would have too many irons in the fire and struggled with keeping everything in order. Now, I am more accepting of my new reality (no more multi-tasking) and I have more patience with myself. I am so grateful for Ruth and her ability to be direct and ask tough questions while also being empathetic. I highly recommend Ruth.

Latasha D

Working with Ruth has been an empowering experience. She listens to understand and asks thoughtful, probing questions that help me gain clarity on what I truly want. Her guidance helps me to be focused and aligned with my personal goals. Ruth has the perfect balance between professionalism and genuine care, making her a coach I can trust.

Lisa D

Ruth has a unique ability to create a space where I feel heard and understood. Her questions don’t reflect what I’ve said, they give me new perspectives I hadn’t thought of. Since working with Ruth, I’ve gained a clearer vision of my goals and the steps I need to take to reach them. What sets Ruth apart is her blend of professionalism and genuine compassion. She brings both heart and insight to every session, and I trust her completely as a coach and guide.

Donna W

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