Katana Abbott This is Me

 Web References

1. 1. www.alternativemedicine.com

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   Published on: 4/28/2007   Last Visited: 4/28/2007

   Katana Abbott, 45 Recovering from a knee injury gave her time to reassess her whole life.
   
   Last spring, Katana Abbott's left knee gave out, a casualty of ten years of arthritis and a sudden cartilage tear. "I could barely get out of a chair or go up the stairs," she says. So she decided to take a leave from work.
   
   She wasn't happy, but days spent slumped in bed freed her to think about her mounting frustrations with her job. A financial planner for a large firm, Abbott felt stifled by the company's rules. "I had taken some life coaching classes, which teach people how to make smart choices in all areas of their lives, but my company wouldn't let me apply the creative methods I'd learned to financial planning. It just wasn't in line with their program," she says.
   ...
   "It was a fabulous experience," Abbott says. "I shared an idea I had about a nonprofit coaching program for women, and everyone loved it." She met a woman who agreed to teach her the business, and together they realized that the financial clients Abbott already had could form the core of her new business, which she decided to call the Smart Women's Coaching Program.
   
   As she focused on defining her dream, she was also seeing a physical therapist for her knee. After ten weeks of exercise, the pain was gone, and so was the need for surgery. Now she's scaled back her financial practice and launched her new business. "I believe I needed to bottom out to figure out what I was supposed to do with my life," she says.

2. 2. Alternative Medicine—Reinventing Midlife

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   Published on: 5/1/2004   Last Visited: 5/9/2006

   Katana Abbott, 45 Recovering from a knee injury gave her time to reassess her whole life.
   
   Last spring, Katana Abbott's left knee gave out, a casualty of ten years of arthritis and a sudden cartilage tear. "I could barely get out of a chair or go up the stairs," she says. So she decided to take a leave from work.
   
   She wasn't happy, but days spent slumped in bed freed her to think about her mounting frustrations with her job. A financial planner for a large firm, Abbott felt stifled by the company's rules. "I had taken some life coaching classes, which teach people how to make smart choices in all areas of their lives, but my company wouldn't let me apply the creative methods I'd learned to financial planning. It just wasn't in line with their program," she says.
   ...
   "It was a fabulous experience," Abbott says. "I shared an idea I had about a nonprofit coaching program for women, and everyone loved it." She met a woman who agreed to teach her the business, and together they realized that the financial clients Abbott already had could form the core of her new business, which she decided to call the Smart Women's Coaching Program.
   
   As she focused on defining her dream, she was also seeing a physical therapist for her knee. After ten weeks of exercise, the pain was gone, and so was the need for surgery. Now she's scaled back her financial practice and launched her new business. "I believe I needed to bottom out to figure out what I was supposed to do with my life," she says.