Barb N.

Boundaries Coach at Higher Power Coaching and Consulting

Women Empowerment

Education: Eastern CT State University - University of Connecticut
New Haven, CT, USA

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Biography

Barb Nangle is a boundaries coach, speaker and the Founder and CEO of Higher Power Coaching and Consulting, LLC. She has hosted the podcast, "Fragmented to Whole: Life Lessons from 12 Step Recovery" weekly since March of 2019.

As a former addict and people-pleasing rescuer, Barb empowers women to thrive and take more control over their personal and professional lives by coaching them to build healthy boundaries. She does presentations on avoiding burnout and reducing turnover, as well as how to stop over-giving. She's especially gifted at helping professional women who say yes when they really want to say no, and are so focused on others that they neglect themselves to change those patterns for good. She's spoken to thousands who learn how to use her system to build their own personalize Boundary Blueprint.

Passion

My passion is speaking to professional women who are over-givers and people-pleasers. As a result of my presentations, they come away feeling empowered to have more balanced relationships with both give and take, and to take care of themselves without feeling selfish. They're able to take more control over their lives than they ever thought was possible. They also realize that it doesn't matter how long-standing these behavior patterns are, it's never too late to change deeply entrenched behavior. They come to experience healthy personal and professional relationships as a result of building healthy boundaries.

I am willing to travel

More than 100 miles

When it comes to payments

I generally get paid for speaking but make exceptions

Topics

boundaries women in the workplace self care employee retention and engagement mindset relationships 12step recovery keynote workshops worklife balance boundary spanning career change empty nest transitions retirement transition life after divorce identity coaching stop overgiving people pleaser codependent codependency enabling overcoming the imposter syndrome imposter syndrome focus on self saying no stop self neglect burnout prevention

Best Story

I hit a codependent "bottom" in 2015 when I invited a homeless friend from church to stay overnight at my home during a snowstorm. He did. And then he stayed another time, and another. Within a few weeks he was practically living with me. I soon felt trapped in my own home. This led me to seek assistance with codependence, which I didn't know about previously. I learned that boundaries are the antidote to codependence, which is why I became a boundaries coach and speaker.

Origin Story

At age 52 when I hit my codependent bottom, I got into 12-step recovery for codependence. This was after therapy since age 15, tons of self-help and numerous types of personal and professional development. All that work scratched the surface of the "iceberg" of my life, whereas recovery melted the iceberg. I learned more things about myself in the first 2-3 years of recovery than in the previous years, none of which came up in all those years of therapy, etc.

In 2017 I got laid off from my 19-year career at Yale University. Through a series of serendipitous events, I started my own business. Initially, I coached anyone who wanted coaching. I then niched into boundaries coaching because boundaries changed everything for me since my core wound is codependence.

It took me 2-3 years along a meandering, haphazard path in recovery to develop boundaries. I've created an accelerated process for my clients to build healthy boundaries over a matter of weeks instead of years. I want for other women to have the kind of freedom, peace, energy and easy relationships I've gotten as a result of my boundaries.