Meredith Walters

I consulted Meredith to help make a shift in my photography business and it was a great idea to work with her.
She helped me realize that not all decisions are made with our brain. We have to figure out ways to listen to our bodies as well. That was a difficult step for me, but it was an important one to help me determine a new direction.
Meredith followed up each of our meetings with an email reviewing what went over during our session, and included «homework» to prepare for the next time we sat down together.
If you are looking to make a big career change or a small pivot, I recommend career coaching with Meredith Walters. She has helped me take my business to a new level.

This marks my first review on Unilocal and speaks to how strongly I feel about letting others know how great Meredith is as a life coach and career counselor. I have struggled for years with trying to get the infamous ‘work-​life balance’, gain satisfaction in my career, and overall lead a happy and contented life. I thought this was a lot to ask for and that I might get one out of three. Working with Meredith made me see that these were reasonable and attainable goals and that with the right tools, I could make it happen. And with her help, insight, coaching and counseling, I have.
When I went to Meredith, I was overwhelmed with my current job, was trying to decide what I wanted to be when I grew up, and was frustrated with my inability to figure it all out. A challenging task when you’re over 50 years old. Meredith took it all in stride and helped develop a program with specific goals and outcomes. Like the other reviewers have noted, she takes a holistic approach combining both career and quality of life issues. She helped me gain confidence, rediscover those aspects of my career that I truly enjoyed, pinpoint my strengths, and work towards what I wanted in life and career.
The beauty of Meredith’s coaching and career counseling is that is designed around you and your needs and wants. She is insightful, patient, calming, motivational, and inspirational. She has been a great help to me and I highly recommend her for anyone who wants to get more out of their life and careers.

I signed up to spend six months with Meredith. I went in hoping to find an answer for what I wanted to do career wise. What I came away with was WHY I was not able to ever make a decision about my career, and honestly, what was holding me back in other areas of my life. I realized I had some thinking that was holding me back, but never felt I had the tools to really change it. Meredith is so intuitive and skilled at what she does. I came away with things that have continued to «stick» for me, and I feel like I am looking at life very differently now. I went in looking for answers, and Meredith showed me that I already had them, I just had to find the courage to listen and pursue them without trying to control everything. She is extremely generous and kind, and I am very thankful that I was able to spend time with Meredith. I highly recommend her.

During the recession, my job went away and I felt that I needed to take a job that I really didn’t like and was not a good fit. I put up with it for 2 years because I felt lost and was stumbling around in the wilderness. When depression started to creep in, I hired Meredith to help me figure out my next career move. We didn’t just deal with career issues; we also dealt with quality of life issues. Meredith stuck with me for a whole year and she stressed that what I was going through was temporary and that there is the right job for me out there. She gave me a lot of assignments that were time consuming, but they are important if you want to figure out what you want in your life and career.
Now, I do have the right job for me in the right environment and I’m no longer stumbling around in the wilderness. So, if you are at a point in your life where you are stumbling around and are not sure what to do, I highly recommend that you hire Meredith to help you find a new path because life is too short for you to be depressed with your job and life.

I’ll start first by telling you where I am today because of my work with Meredith:
I now have my small video editing business up and running, I have clients, I am loving my work, I am finding time to exercise, make dinner, spend quality time with my family, see friends … and most importantly, I am HAPPY! Now don’t get me wrong, it takes work to keep this balance. But before I started working with Meredith, I felt like I was completely lacking in the tools to help me find this kind of balance and peace, to be able to set goals and accomplish the things I wanted for myself.
So where was I before Meredith?
Well … I was at home taking care of my wonderful children who I adore but I was in agony over what felt like a complete loss of identity. The transition to motherhood was harder than I had expected it to be. I felt like I was failing at everything, had no career to return to and was overwhelmed by negative feelings about myself that continued to push me down every time I tried to move forward.
At that point I knew I needed help. Therapy wasn’t doing it for me. I needed someone to help guide me. I found out about Meredith through a dear friend whose life I saw completely changed for the better after the work they did together.
So I signed up!
Within a few sessions I could already feel change happening. Through the exercises Meredith had me do both in our sessions and on my own, I discovered and uncovered feelings and patterns of thinking that were old, un-​useful and frankly just negative. I found some tools for handling those feelings and letting them go. I learned to create some new ways of thinking, created some tools to help silence the perfectionist within me who was keeping me from even taking the first steps and found the strength within me to give myself permission to move ahead … imperfectly … knowing that I would HAVE to make mistakes along the way in order to grow as a person and in my career.
And becoming OK with making mistakes has become an essentially important part of my life, my career and my parenting. If I couldn’t show my daughter that it’s ok to make mistakes, how in the world would she ever learn to move forward bravely through life?!
Thank you, Meredith for all that you’ve done and all that you do. My work with you has been life changing.

It is really impossible for me to quantify the enormous difference Meredith has made in my life. Her consistent and insightful guidance was my life raft during the tumultuous first year of my new business. One of the most revelatory take-​aways that I learned from Meredith’s program was how to identify the voice of my «inner critic.» For me, my inner critic was a steady monologue of discouraging and judgmental thoughts that I mistook as my own voice. It would ooze into my conscious mind anytime I was attempting something challenging, risky, or scary. For me, this voice would arrive to counteract every hopeful, motivated, and inspired thought or idea that I had. I had always thought that this voice helped keep me «down to earth» or realistic about my ambitions and desires, but as it turns out, this voice had really only kept me small.
I’m not afraid of being vulnerable anymore, because I know that being vulnerable opens up possibilities for growth and success beyond anything I have ever experienced until now. It’s daunting to dream big and to take a risk on myself, but the more integrated and confident I become, the more exhilarating it is to do precisely that! And the best part is that this is only the beginning!
Meredith is so clearly living and working in her natural strengths and talents. She has such a knack for locating the «broken thinking» and emotional hang ups that get in the way of finding fulfillment. I felt seen and understood in precisely the ways I needed to, and my business has flourished right alongside my personal life, due to her program.

I spent an extremely productive eight months working with Meredith. She didn’t tell me what or how to think: she forced me to be honest with myself about what I really wanted instead of what I thought I should want. Her focus on pinpointing my priorities and goals-​what I wanted-​was immensely valuable in figuring how to make myself a better, happier person, and it’s a foundational step that many self-​improvement plans either ignore or painfully misunderstand. Working with Meredith gave me two great gifts: the ability to identify things I want to achieve, and the plan, the tools and the confidence to achieve them. I couldn’t have asked for more!

Working with Meredith was a pleasant and eye opening experience. Meredith was sensitive enough to pick up behaviors that have been holding me back most of my life. She directed me throughout the work with grace and wisdom… After working with Meredith, I have more compassion and love for myself. My relationships with others have also improved. I am still the same person but my perspective has changed. I feel like my spirit is lighter.