What We Build When We Feel Alone
Reflections on loneliness, coaching, and the beginnings of a community.
There’s a particular kind of loneliness that creeps in when you start something on your own, especially after being in salaried employment for years.
The kind where questions echo:
Am I doing this right?
Is this sustainable?
Is anyone else feeling this too?
When I left my corporate job to build my coaching business full-time, I stepped into a landscape that was both exhilarating and uncertain. There was freedom, for sure. But also, an odd silence where there used to be structure, colleagues, and casual wisdom exchanged over tea.
That silence is what made me notice something:
Coaches who are building from scratch often feel a sense of quiet isolation.
Not because we don’t want to connect, but because we don’t know where to find a space that holds both our wonderment and tentativeness.
We’ve qualified. We’ve registered. We’re showing up.
But we’re not “established.”
And we don’t want to posture our way through it.
That’s where the idea came from.
What if there was a community just for this season - the first two years of building your coaching business as your primary livelihood?
A circle of trust and camaraderie.
A place to reflect, learn, and grow alongside others who are also doing the vulnerable work of making a living by helping others thrive.
And so, this week, I launched something close to my heart:
✳️ Coaches to Coaches
A free, peer-led community for UK-based coaches in their first two years of running a coaching business full-time.
We’ll meet regularly to reflect together, learn from each other, and hear from experienced coaches about what they’ve learned, what they’d do differently, and what they wish they’d known when they started.
It’s free to join.
The only request? A small (£1+) donation to a charity of the speaker’s choice, each time you attend a guest session.
A gentle act of giving in return for the generosity of wisdom shared.
This is a space I wish I had when I was starting.
So I’m building it — not perfectly, not professionally polished, but with heart.
If you’re in your first two years of coaching, and this resonates, you are welcome.
If you’re a more experienced coach and want to support this, thank you. There will be more to share soon.
And if you’re here, reading, I’m grateful.
We don’t always need to be in the same place to walk beside each other.
If this speaks to where you are in your journey and you'd like to join us, you’re warmly invited to express interest here:
👉 Coaches to Coaches: Sign-up Form
Closing thought:
Sometimes, we build what we once needed.
And sometimes, we build what someone else is waiting for.
Thanks for being here.
Warm regards,
Tribeni