About Carrie Greene

I haven’t always been a coach.  I fact, I have a Wall Street background and a degree in economics. I spent 15 yrs working on Wall Street and ten years working at the New York Stock Exchange.

9/11 was a turning point in my life.  I was working for a company located in New Jersey on the Hudson River overlooking lower Manhattan.  I happened to look up from my desk just in time to watch the first plane crash into the World Trade Center.  I was safe but shaken.  I was also given a gift.  As people escaped from Lower Manhattan by ferry they came directly to my office building.  I was able to talk with these survivors and help them.  This was the beginning of my life on Wall Street as I started to feel more an more separated from the faceless traders that I “helped” by doing my job.

Then I was given an escape route.  The company that I was working for was being acquired. I was faced with a decision.  I took it as a signal that it was time to reassess my situation.  I was very good at what I was doing but I felt uninspired.

These were the early days of reality TV.  One day I found myself watching a show about organizing.  I thought to myself, “Hey, I’m an organized person, I could do that.” So I threw all caution to the wind, fired our wonderful nanny and decided to be a professional organizer.  Boy was I naïve.

As a professional organizer I had a feeling that something was missing.  I was good at helping people create filing systems and organizing closets but I didn’t feel like I was giving my clients what they really needed.  You see, while a new filing system certainly helped, what my clients really needed was to declutter themselves.

Then one day, in early 2003, one of my clients asked me to become a coach because she was looking for one.  I had no idea what a coach was, but the more I learned about coaching the more I realized that it held the key to helping my clients get to the bottom of their clutter and discover themselves.

As the years have gone by and my own experience as a business owner has grown, I find myself drawn to helping others entrepreneurs like myself.  Other entrepreneurs with lots of big ideas.  Entrepreneurs who struggle to get things done.  Entrepreneurs who feel overwhelmed and find themselves procrastinating and spinning in circles.  Entrepreneurs who know that they would make much more money and have much more successful businesses if only they could get themselves grounded, get focused and carry through.

 

My Philosophy

I’ve read many books about entrepreneurship, growing a business and organization but I credit my clients with teaching me everything I know.  My clients taught me that the issues that they face, be it, marketing, sales, time or task management, procrastination, organization or systems are not really the problems…

I know this sounds weird but it is true…the real issues lie within ourselves.  The point is to dig down to uncover what you really want.  What you’ll really do and what to let go of.  Here’s the real secret as you give yourself permission to let go of the excess, the clutter,  you are able to find your focus and to figure out what you want out of your business and life and grow them both beyond your wildest dreams.

There’s a quote attributed to Michelangelo.  He said that sculpture is about discovering what already exists within the marble. So if you want to make a statue of David, just chip away everything that isn’t David, and –voila! — you have Michelangelo’s’ David. Decluttering is like sculpture – revealing the beauty and power within yourself that’s waiting to be uncovered.

It is this philosophy that has helped me make a difference in the lives of thousands of people from all over the world.  It guides everything I do and that weaves its way through my website, newsletters, coaching and all the CarrieThru programs I run.

I am an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) through the International Coaching Federation.

 

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