Interview with your success coach, Suzanne Longstreet

Q: Suzanne, Tell Me How You Came to Be a Coach

A: I’ve been a student of human behaviour and communication since I took my degree in Business. When I was working on the Business Case Studies, I found that the reason for most of the failures was due to lack of communication. This fascinated me, and I began my career in roles that centred around people and communication. Before spending the majority of my career in Human Resources, I was in residential home sales, customer service and after sales service.

For over a decade, I specialized in recruiting, policy development, change management, leadership, team dynamics, communication and performance management before I became an entrepreneur over 10 years ago. All these careers and skills have set me up for success as a Coach today.

In 2015, I invested in myself for my success and went through the extensive and intense Neuro Linguistic Programming training. I discovered the secrets to how every human communicates, thinks, behaves, and transforms at a quantum level. I took all the courses, I read the books, I did the exercises and I transformed into a calmer and happier individual.

Today, I combine all my learnings in communication, human behaviour and business to create success and clarity for my clients.

So, you could say, I’ve been doing what I do today for over 30 years.

Q: Tell Me About Your Clients

A: I have worked with over two hundred entrepreneurs. Mostly, I work with women in a service-based business who are searching for ways to break through that glass ceiling, overcome their negative emotions and limiting beliefs, shift their mindset and implement proven systems to get clarity for their life and business so that they can achieve the success they desire.

The professions I’ve coached and trained to date are quite broad.

Speakers, Consultants, CEOs, Founders, Dentists, Lawyers, Marketing Consultants, Speakers, Business Coaches, Life Coaches, Interior Designers, Real Estate Agents, Teachers, Holistic Healers, Energy Healers, Mortgage Brokers, Contractors, Writers, Authors, Learning & Development Consultants, Financial Consultants, Sales Professionals, Hypnotherapists, Spa Owners, Medical Consultants, Social Media Experts, Website Designers, Artists, Accountants, Speech Therapists, and Wellness Advocates to name a few.

I have worked with service-based entrepreneurs around the world, including Canada, the USA, Britain, South Africa, Australia, The Czech Republic, and Holland. Most likely I have worked with someone in your field.

Even if you don’t see your specific title above, here’s what I’ve learned. Successful service-based entrepreneurs are all searching for ways to improve their mindset, change their thoughts, transform their limiting beliefs, let go of the past negative thoughts and emotions so that they can grow their business & their revenue.

What my current and former clients have found exceedingly helpful is that I bring clarity, simplified processes, and mindset shifts to grow your business and your revenue.

As a result, my clients have increased their revenue exponentially in very short time periods. Imagine, what would your life be like if you tripled your revenue?

Q: What Makes You Different From Other Business Coaches?

A: I’m different from other business coaches because I coach the whole person and as an NLP Master Coach, I guarantee your results. I begin with your thoughts, your feelings and then smash through your limiting beliefs.

In all my coaching and training programs, we start with you. We spend time discovering the strategies that you're running that no longer serve you. We’ll uncover the negative emotions and limiting beliefs that are stopping you from creating your successful business. You’ll move over, under and around the obstacles in your life so that you are able to succeed in your business.

You are, after all, a whole person operating a business and I treat you as such.

Here's how one client described my coaching style: "You know how to push when I need it, stand firm when I need it and be gentle when I need it. You lead by example, you walk the talk, you are real and are constantly learning and growing blazing a trail of opportunity for all."

I truly see the potential in you and will coach you to exceed your own expectations. Clients who have worked with me move quickly towards results. You will get actionable solutions for your best results.

You simply need to follow the step by step process to move you towards your goals.

Q: Who is Your Favourite Type of Client?

A: I work best with female business owners in a service based business who are done with trying to figure it all out on their own. You’ve reached a plateau in your business and want to break through the glass ceiling without the weight of your limiting beliefs and thoughts holding you back.

My coaching programs are best suited for women who have the desire to be more successful in their business and are feeling like they are invisible, not good enough, or challenged by Imposter Syndrome.

Often, my ideal client has tried everything from therapy to spiritual healing and are still feeling stuck .

I get it, you’re done with not having the success you know you can achieve. You’re tired of doing it alone.

My coaching is best suited to people who are excited about taking action and moving forward easily and naturally. You are ready, willing and able to shift your mindset and dedicate time every week to follow the process and take the steps necessary to dig deep inside to find your unique genus and share your light so that you can make a difference in the world.

Q: What is the Get Clarity Now Experience All About?

A: The Get Clarity Now Experience is a unique one-on-one personal coaching program that is specifically designed and tailored for you to address your unique needs and concerns.

Working together, we’ll discover the true nature of the problem and identify the negative emotional baggage, dis-empowering and limiting beliefs, and the deeply embedded behavioural strategies that have held you back in your life and your business.

You will create the skills and strategies to produce the results you desire in your life and your business. The premise of these sessions is for you to move forward with a true sense of direction and motivation, self-confidence, self-acceptance, happiness and inner balance.

This is an intense process that can be done over 12 months or 4 months, depending on what package you choose. As a Master Coach, I guarantee your results in writing for The Get Clarity Now Experience.

You’ll have the opportunity to choose the package that works best for you from three choices - Elite, Elevate & Essentials.

Q: Does Your Coaching Really Work?

A: Yes! Read through the many success stories that clients have shared.

Q: What Results Can I Expect From This Coaching?

A: Here Some of the Actual Income Increases That My Clients Achieved:

• Increased revenue
• Decision making was easier and faster
• Calmer, more peace of mind
• Deeper, more loving connections with loved ones
• Greater confidence and clarity
• Transformation
• Felt lighter and more confident in themselves and in their leadership abilities
• Able to take action more easily
• Raised their prices and paid themselves more
• Served more clients
• Overcame their limiting and sabotaging self talk and their fear of rejection.

As their self worth increased, their net worth grew. Every. Single. One.

Q: For What Kind of Person is This Coaching a Good Fit?

A: Please know I’m very selective with whom I choose to work. I interview all my clients to ensure that we are a good fit. I want you to get the results you desire. Besides, I want to be surrounded by uplifting, fabulous, amazing, brilliant, achievement focused, compassionate women and I want this for you as well.

My coaching programs are NOT for you if you have no money coming in and are absolutely, financially desperate, at least not right away. It’s been my experience that people who are struggling to pay their bills do not trust the recommendations I give them and do not do the work (probably because they spend so much time worrying about where they are going to get next month’s rent or mortgage payment.)

If you fall within this category, please know that you are not alone. We’ve all been in times of financial concern at one point or another.

Here is what I recommend for you:

1. Sign up for the Success & Clarity newsletter. Follow me on Facebook and LinkedIn. I’ll share ideas and suggestions to get you moving towards your goals until you’re ready to work with me.

2. Get some money coming in with a full-time or part-time job at the very least, and then connect with me. This will take the edge off and provide you with a little more peace of mind. Mostly, it will clear your mind enough to focus on your tasks & assignments and the BIG picture. Once you start seeing clients come in regularly as a result of our work, you can then start reducing the hours you work at that other job and focus on your own business.

Doing these things will really help you get ready. When you’re ready, call me and we’ll get started. I love coaching people just like you. I’ve been doing this for years and I will be here when you’re ready.

Another type of person I won’t work with (without exception) is someone who is “at effect”. This is a person who is constantly making excuses and blaming others for where they are in life and in business. I won’t work with someone who is a whiner or a chronic skeptic, and who believes that everyone is out to get them. We won’t work well together as I do what I say and get you the results you desire. I’m not here to prove anything to this kind of person. Our energy won’t resonate well.

Q: How Quickly Can I Expect Results?

A: The short answer is that really depends on your commitment and focus. I’ve witnessed transformation happen in as quickly as one session.

In 2019, I coached a client and after the first session, she saw three opportunities in front of her that she hadn’t noticed before. She took action and closed three deals within a week of our first session and making 50% of her 6-figure yearly revenue. She was delighted that I assisted her in “clearing the cobwebs in her mind”.

Some people take as long as a couple of weeks and others a few months. It really depends on how long you’ve been in business and how much you put into your results.

On average, my clients have all seen results in just a few weeks.

Q: How Can I Achieve Success?

A: Here’s the formula for your success.

1. Decide to make this work. You’re investing your time, your energy and your money for your success.
2. Commit your time and energy to taking the steps to build and grow yourself first and then your business.
3. Focus on what you want and only what you want to create for your future.
4. Take action. Take small steps every day. Even when you don’t feel that you’re ready or you don’t think it’s perfect.

This works!

I’ve been watching clients transform their lives and businesses in a very short time since 2016.

Q: Will I Recover My Investment?

A: Yes! Absolutely.

I’ve seen it happen again and again. I’ve had clients who could only pay me a small amount at first, end up asking how they can pay the full program off in full within a few months. Not once, not twice, multiple times.

The solutions you’ll find will continue to reap year after year in confidence, clarity and revenue.

Also, every client has raved at how much their personal relationships have improved since they decided to transform themselves.

Ultimately, you’ll grow your business faster than you would on your own. You’re investing in yourself and your success, faster results, increased revenue, higher profit and more clients.