Brainz Interview With Chris Janssen ― Board Certified Life Coach
- Oct 1, 2021
- 3 min read
Chris Janssen is a Board Certified Life Coach with an honest, strategic style who helps her clients master habits and skills to move toward and thrive in what they love. Chris excels in working with high performers and understands the character traits associated with driven achievers. As a trained Business Coach, Chris specializes in closing the gap between where a company or individual is and where they want to be. Chris partners with her clients to access their creativity and resourcefulness necessary to achieve the sustainable results they want. She cares deeply about her clients' careers, relationships, spirituality, wellness, health, patterns, and mindsets. Chris says her clients are experts at what they do and she is an expert at the psychology of what they do. Together they are unstoppable.
Chris Janssen, Board Certified Life Coach
Who is Chris?
Wow! My answer could take so many directions!! The simplest? I’m a wife and a mom of three adult kids, ages 18, 22, and 23. My husband, Scott, and I have been married for 26 years. I’m a daughter, a sister, and a Christian from Saratoga, California. I grew up in Silicon Valley before it was called Silicon Valley. I first heard of a personal computer when I was a teenager. I got my Bachelor’s in psychology at the University of San Diego, and then my Master’s in counseling psychology from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Scott and I raised our kids in Los Gatos, California. We moved to Castle Pines, Colorado, last year when we became empty-nesters. Now we are Cali-radoans.
Why did you choose Colorado?
Colorado was an easy choice for a new playground because we enjoy outdoor adventures. I love to snow ski, hike, bike, ride horses, golf, and ice skate. We have two horses and a four-pound, three-legged rescue Chihuahua named Tank.
What did you do before you were a Life Coach?
While I was getting my Master’s degree at night, I worked in Human Resources and was a corporate recruiter in Los Angeles and Los Altos, California. I’ve worked for Giorgio Armani, The Ritz Carlton Hotel Company, Guess?, Inc., and a software consulting firm, where I placed candidates in large Silicon Valley tech companies. There’s a lot of career counseling involved in recruiting. I worked with candidates to prepare them for the jobs they desired.
What is it that you do for your clients?
I help my clients close the gap between where they are and want to be financially, emotionally, academically, physically, spiritually, socially, mentally, or career-wise. Coaching is about what works more than what hasn’t worked in the past. Typically, a consultant tells, and a coach asks. I use questions to partner with my clients in accessing their creativity and resourcefulness to get where they want to go. Having a coach on the sideline is vital if your goal is to discover blind spots or untapped strengths.
Who should hire/work with you?
People who want to move forward. Individuals who are stuck and need help breaking free. I also invigorate those who want to go to the next level. Most of my clients are high performers and driven achievers who want to move from excellent to extraordinary.
What are your top three coaching tips?
My top three vary from client to client, and I have many coaching tools under my belt.
However, three of my favorite tips are:
Maintain a level of physical wellness that best serves you and your goals.
Focus on what you want, not on what you don’t want.
Create a powerful narrative for your life (positive self-talk consciously and subconsciously)
What is your big goal? Where do you see yourself five years from now?
Still serving God by serving people—and loving my husband, kids, family, friends, and community well.
I just finished writing my first book; it’s in the editing process. I’m super excited about it!
I remind myself each morning to be on God’s agenda for my day, not my own—and my Creator is full of surprises! I can only imagine how much fun I will be having five years from now!
© 2021 Chris Janssen. No part of this article may be reproduced online or in print without the author’s written permission
Want to learn more from Chris? Follow her on Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin or visit her website.
