Justin Perkins Replaced Executive Income and Generated $800,000 in Coaching Revenue

Before I worked with Karen, I was in a very challenging situation. I had just wrapped up a business that failed and also left a day job that had been my career for 15 years. And it was the middle of a pandemic and I decided to go into coaching. I fell in love with the profession and had just launched my own coaching business. My name is Justin Perkins, and I am from Boulder, Colorado, but I currently live in Sankt Blasien, Germany. Any hesitation I had about working with Karen may have been just around whether she was actually too advanced for where I was in my career. I had the impression that she had been at it for a long time and was a very successful executive coach. So, honestly, that was pretty intimidating at first, but it was also why I had a very strong intuitive sense to work with her when I realized she had already gotten to a very high level in the direction that I was really drawn towards. So she handled that very gracefully once she saw my desire to really go for it, and found her to be really warm and receptive and supportive in a pretty vulnerable moment in my life. So what ultimately made me trust to decide Karen was, first of all, her track record and reputation was impeccable. Interacting with Karen she was incredibly warm, incredibly professional felt very connected to her during initial conversations I would say very non judgmental, which was important for me. And as I got to know Karen over time, I can say she's one of the highest integrity people I've ever interacted with and ever worked with. I deeply benefited from the Accelerator program, I did two Accelerators with Karen as part of my engagement with her over three years. many things that shifted during those experiences. One, I was surprised at how deep and broad her understanding of not only business, but life is, and her ability to both deep on a spiritual level, but also wide in terms of content modality, as well as just understanding the games that people play in business as well as in coaching. It's all very nuanced. So having of experience was really wonderful. And during those Accelerators had some massive shifts. So that's what really impressed me, was creating a list at the beginning of the Accelerator of things I wanted to shift that seemed often impossible. And then looking back both times and seeing, wow, we knocked it out of the park for most of those things. I really developed a strong level of trust with Karen after living in Colorado for about a year, working with her about nine months. And during that first year, I had an Accelerator with her in person, which was a huge shift, I'd say on a spiritual level, even. And one of the things that came after that experience a few months later was the opportunity to move my family to Germany, which seemed pretty crazy at the time, in the middle of COVID. And I'll never forget Karen having no doubt that that was a possibility. So one of the big outcomes working with Karen was not only becoming a successful coach in terms of being able to replace my income from a lucrative job before, but also to really learn how to go after and create what I wanted in a way that I kind of remembered how to do from earlier in my life, but at a different level. There were many valuable things I learned working with Karen. I have 23 pages of notes recapping just 2023. Probably what underscored all of it, the most valuable thing I walked away with was permission and a deep faith in myself to do coaching my way. And Karen really models that. And through watching her operate I really made coaching my own and realized that that's the secret power, that's the superpower that the best coaches in the world have, is they deeply trust their intuition, like Karen does. So her example of that impressed me and changed my life in many ways across the spectrum. Some things I can do now after working with Karen are enrolling clients with higher fees. And that was a big leap from where I started before Karen and after working with Karen. And I'll never forget doing a game film session with Karen, where we watched my worst coaching call ever. It was awful. And she very graciously walked through it play by play with me and pointed to other options. I would recommend working with Karen, because out of all of the coaches I've encountered in my travels, across a bunch of different modalities, I find Karen is probably the most humble student that I've ever encountered. What comes with that is a non stop learning curve. So if you're looking for somebody who you'll never catch up with, it's Karen. And Karen really just created this steady experience where you knew and could predict what you were going to get. It was just this constant calm in the middle of the storms of life, and that's beautiful. After working with Karen Davis, I now am in a much better situation. I'm living in the middle of my dream in this remote office here in the Black Forest in Germany, which I was able to create with the funds that I've earned from coaching and move my family here to follow a dream that we've had together. In the short run, the financial return on investment from Karen has been substantial. And when I was working with her, the largest contract I had, I think, was maybe $10,000. And within the first two months, I had increased my rate to 25,000 and sold two of those. And that had already paid for a lot of the investment with Karen. and then the hockey stick. As they say in entrepreneur land, in startups, the hockey stick continued to grow, and over a period of three years, I was able to generate cumulatively, about $800,000 worth of revenue, which was amazing. I didn't know that would be a possibility. And it uncapped where I was capped before in my career in terms of earning potential. What was surprising to me. But Karen really opened me up as a human being, and that's even more valuable to me than the business goals that I hired her for. And that was a surprise at how deep she could go, and she really unlocked the armor that I had been carrying around and opened me back up to exploring life in a much more deep and open way. And that's, a huge gift to kind of rediscover my own depth of love for life and to be able to share that more deeply with my family and my clients. And that's why I recommend Karen Davis.