Today we’d like to introduce you to Charlotte Balzer-Gott.
Hi Charlotte, please kick things off for us with an introduction to yourself and your story.
I didn’t set out to become a coach, but when I look back, there’s a pretty clear thread through my life. I’ve always worked with people. Long before I became a nurse, I worked in customer service and in roles where, in one way or another, I was helping people navigate problems, difficult situations, or simply figure out what came next.
I became a nurse at 40 and spent the next 16 years in nursing. I loved being able to help people through some of the more vulnerable and challenging moments of their lives. Then an injury changed the trajectory I thought my life was going to take, and eventually I had to face the reality that I wasn’t going to return to nursing.
That left me asking a question I think a lot of women eventually encounter: Who am I when the role I’ve identified with no longer fits—or is no longer available to me?
Initially, I thought I needed to figure out what I was going to do next. What I discovered was that I needed to get to know who I was outside of the roles I had filled for other people.
That process eventually led me to coaching. I became a certified health and life coach and continued my training in transformational coaching, NLP, MER® and hypnosis. But the work also became deeply personal. I began recognizing the ways I had postponed myself, questioned what I wanted, or waited for permission to make choices about my own life.
Today, I work with women who have spent years taking care of everyone else and have reached the point where they’re no longer willing to keep putting themselves last. I help them recognize and change the patterns that keep them disconnected from themselves so they can begin making choices based on who they are and what they actually want their lives to become.
In a lot of ways, the work I do now is a continuation of what I’ve always done: helping people navigate difficult places and find their way forward. The difference is that now I’m helping women find their way back to themselves.
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
It definitely hasn’t been a smooth road. One of the biggest challenges was losing a career I expected to continue and having to create something new at a point in life when I hadn’t planned on starting over.
But the harder part wasn’t figuring out what I was going to do next. It was finding myself first—and then learning to trust the woman I found.
For much of my life, I knew myself through the roles I held and the people who depended on me. When some of those identities began to change, I had to figure out who I was outside of them. What did I want? What mattered to me? What did I want my life to look and feel like?
And finding those answers didn’t automatically mean I trusted them. That came next.
When I first started coaching, I still looked outside myself for a lot of the answers. I had training, templates and people telling me what a coaching business was supposed to look like. I kept trying to fit myself into those structures because I assumed other people knew something I didn’t. I spent a lot of time trying to get it “right.”
Eventually, I began to see that I was recreating the very pattern I wanted to help other women change. I was waiting for permission and looking outside myself for confirmation instead of trusting what I was beginning to know about myself.
There have been plenty of other challenges—building a business later in life, finding my voice, learning how to market work that is deeply personal, and continuing through periods when the results have been slower than I wanted.
But the biggest transformation has been learning that I don’t have to have everything figured out before I choose. I can trust myself enough to make the next choice and allow what comes next to reveal itself from there.
In many ways, the challenges I’ve experienced are now part of what makes me effective at the work I do. When a woman tells me she doesn’t know who she is anymore, doesn’t know what she wants, or knows something needs to change but doesn’t know what comes next, I understand that place. I also know it doesn’t have to be where her story ends.
Appreciate you sharing that. What should we know about Charlotte Gott Coaching ?
Charlotte Gott Coaching is for women who have spent years being capable, responsible, and taking care of everyone else—and have reached a point where they know they can’t keep putting themselves last.
I specialize in helping women recognize and change the unconscious emotional patterns and beliefs that keep them repeating behaviors they consciously know they want to change. Often, the woman I work with already knows a lot. She may understand where a pattern came from, know what she “should” be doing differently, and still find herself doing the same thing. That’s where my work begins.
My approach combines transformational coaching with NLP, MER® and hypnosis. Rather than only talking about a problem or creating another list of things to do, we work with what is keeping the pattern alive and then build from there—helping her reconnect with who she is, decide what she wants now, and begin making choices that reflect that.
I think what sets my work apart is that I’m not interested in creating women who need their coach in order to trust themselves. The goal is for her to become someone she can rely on. I want her to leave our work knowing how to hear herself, trust herself, make a choice, and move forward without continually looking outside herself for permission.
I’m most proud that my business has evolved as I have. I stopped trying to make it look like someone else’s version of coaching and allowed it to become an expression of the work I actually believe in. The heart of my brand is very simple: It’s time to choose you.
My primary work is private, transformational coaching, including my 90-day Release, Reclaim & Rise experience. I also offer shorter ways to work together and am expanding into workshops and collaborative programs.
More than anything, I want readers to know that if they’ve reached a place where they’re thinking, “I don’t recognize myself anymore,” “I know something has to change,” or even “I don’t know what I want anymore,” that doesn’t mean they need to reinvent themselves from scratch. Sometimes the next chapter starts by getting reacquainted with the person who has been there all along—and finally allowing her to have a say in what happens next.
Can you share something surprising about yourself?
People are often surprised by how many different things I’ve done. I’ve built airplane parts, worked retail, made pizzas, served cocktails, and worked as a secretary for a contractor on a military base. I was curious—and nosy—enough about what the IT people were doing that I learned networking, which eventually led me into IT. From there, I became a nurse at 40, and today I’m a coach.
I also have a bit of an adventurous streak. I rode a minibike as a kid, took up trail running around 50—although, if I’m being accurate, I really only loved running downhill—and more recently went paragliding in Cape Town.
It can sound like a random collection of experiences, but I love that I’ve been many things. Curiosity has taken me into some pretty unexpected chapters of my life.
I’m 58. I have no idea what else I’ll add to that list, and I think that’s part of the fun.
Contact Info:
- Instagram: @charlotte.gott.coaching
- Facebook: Charlotte Gott Coaching
- Other: https://link.content360.io/charlottegottcoaching
