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Steve Errey
Steve Errey Quick Facts
Main Areas: Self confidence, confidence,self esteem,success,life coachBest Sellers: The Playbook
Career Focus: Confidence coach
Based out of the UK, I trained as a coach in 2002, have learned every day since then and have specialized as a confidence coach (under the moniker of The Confidence Guy) since 2007. To say I love being able to work with people on their self-confidence is an under-statement. I adore it.
I’ve learned a heap about what real, natural confidence is from both my coaching work and my own life. But man alive, have I made some major screw ups in my life…
I spent a year on anti-depressants when I was 20 and a cocktail of anti-depressants when I turned 30. Having spent way too long forcing myself into a professional role that didn’t fit me I had a breakdown at a level I didn’t even know was possible. I didn’t talk for 3 months because conversation made no sense to me. Time became elastic. I lost my smile.
It took me 18 months to pull myself up, piece myself back together and figure out who the hell I was. And that’s where I started making my own changes. I trained as a coach. I became responsible for the huge debts I’d built up. I made choices that reflected what mattered to me the most, not the stuff that didn’t matter a jot.
I came down with CFS/ME in 2008 (it’s your basic incurable, debilitating, chronic illness) and it’s with me every single day. I’ve sought treatments and solutions, and on that journey have found some things that will benefit me for the rest of my life. I will not permit the illness to win, and I’m confident I’ll beat it.
And here I am today.
I’m not a guru. I don’t have it all figured out, and I’ll always be something of an idiot. I laugh at the most inappropriate and politically incorrect things. My flippant and facetious sense of humour regularly sees me putting my foot squarely in my mouth.
At heart, I’m a geek, physical clutz (seriously, I dance like Ernest Borgnine leading a jazzercise class), big dufus and a bigger kid. But I’m always looking to better myself, and what I do here is simply sharing some stuff that I’ve found to work, for me and for my clients.
So if you’ve made it this far then I owe you a big THANK YOU – time is the one thing they’re not making any more of, so I appreciate you spending some of your time right here.
I hope you won’t be a stranger – it would be great to see you around here, and I’d love to hear your story.
So let me know what’s up with you. I wanna hear what you’re busy with. I wanna hear what struggles you face. I wanna hear about you.
Drop me a line at steve@thecoec.com, and if you give me your email below you’ll get an email from me right away so we can start to chat.
Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Steve Errey
- I choked on a grape when I was 9 and nearly bought the farm. Mum was shaking me up and down by my ankles while I turned a nice shade of blue.
- I was born in a small town in East Sussex in 1971. I’m a 70’s child but still not quite a grown-up.
- I accumulated about £60,000 worth of debt in my 20’s as I went around the world thinking that I had all the money in the world. I’m still paying it off.
- I don’t understand sport at all.
- My favourite karaoke tune is ‘Over the Sea’, and I sing it darn well.
- Good food and drink are my favourites, so it’s a miracle that I’ve weighed 66 kilo’s ever since I was a teenager.
- I’m a bit of a romantic, and I’m still looking for that someone who can be my partner in crime (although we won’t be committing any actual crimes). The thought makes me smile.
- I had a Kalashnikov rifle pushed in my face as I crossed the Romanian border in 1989, when I refused to give the border guard my walkman.
- My Dad is the strongest and funniest man I know.
- I have knobbly knees.
- My favourite alcoholic drink is a vodka martini (dry). It’s like drinking an angels tears.
- My all time favourite TV shows include Moonlighting, thirtysomething, Seinfeld, Twin Peaks and Masterchef.
- I’ve written a novel called ‘The Kissing Stopped’, which I’m currently rewriting ready to send out to agents.
- I was in an advert for a yoghurt drink in Morocco.
- I love being around people and am in my element when socialising. I also love my own space, watching my favourite show or playing a little PlayStation 3.
- I have 2 older sisters who amaze me with how much more they know about life than me.
- I love vanilla. My favourite deserts are New York baked vanilla cheesecake and crème brulee.
- One of my ambitions is to live half of the year in the UK and half in the US.
- When I was 5 years old I made up a joke. Wanna hear it? “Yes I do want an apple, no I don’t want an apple“. Such a grasp of irony at such a young age…
- I love laughing, and consequently humour is amazingly important to me.
- The best steak I’ve ever eaten was in the Waldorf hotel in New York City at a friends wedding. It still makes me smile.
- Alongside my coaching I freelance as a Project Manager for ad agencies in London too. Consequently most of my spare time is spent coaching or writing, which is tough. Sometimes I just wanna schlep around a bit.
- I have 3 nephews and a niece ranging from 2 to 18 years old, and they’re all flippin’ brilliant.
- In my 20’s I had a big alcohol problem. Got to the point where I’d be having gin & tonics for breakfast and couldn’t function without having alcohol in my system.
- I’m a bit of a control freak, which I’m constantly doing my best to, erm, control.
Contacting Steve Errey
I’d love to connect and hear your story (although if it’s gory, a little heads up would be good).
So feel free to let me know what’s up with you. What you’re busy with. What struggles you’re facing. Whatever you wanna say or get off your chest is peachy with me.
Use the form down the page or the other places below. Go right ahead; I’m looking forward to hearing from you.
Email: steve@thecoec.com / Twitter: @steveerrey / Skype: steve.errey
