FAQs

A Life Coach helps their clients discover their best selves and improve their day-to-day lives.

Life Coaches assist in achieving long-lasting changes by goal setting, identifying obstacles, and creating a path to overcome those obstacles.

A Mindset Life Coach focuses specifically on your mindset to help you achieve happiness and fulfillment and reach your goals.

For more details, please visit What Is Life Coaching.

The simple answer is anything that you want to put the effort into. 

A Mindset Life Coach can help you find overall happiness, purpose, and meaning as well as in business, relationships, fitness, spirituality, or any other area of life where you want to focus and work on shifting your perspective. 

Technically, Life Coaches do not need any specific qualifications in order to practice. 

If you want the piece of mind that someone has been formally trained in Life Coaching techniques, we suggest working with someone who has a certification. Several entities distribute certifications, and it never hurts to review them prior to working with a Life Coach.

In addition to that, we also recommend working with someone you feel comfortable with. Many Life Coaches offer a free Discovery Call so you can ask any questions you may have and get to know them better.

Life Coaches can also have different areas of focus. For example, Mike Kelley is a Mindset Life Coach and focuses on the specifics of reworking your mindset to achieve happiness, fulfillment, and goals.

Mike Kelley is a Certified Professional Life Coach focusing on Mindset. The certification he achieved acknowledges completion of advanced training in Life Coaching techniques, skills, and processes. The certification was completed on March 7, 2023 and the certification was offered and endorsed by Transformation Academy. 

Mike is also currently enrolled in the Jay Shetty Certification School (JSCS) with an anticipated completion date in August of 2023. The JSCS is accredited by the Association for Coaching (AC) at AACT level. 

Sascha is Mike Kelley's legal first name, the name that Reworking Mindsets LLC. is legally registered under, and the name on his Certified Professional Life Coach certification.

Although Mike has been the preferred name and used for years, you are welcome to use either Sascha or Mike. 

Yes, Life Coaches are different than therapists. Where a therapist's work ends, Life Coaching begins. Podcaster, author, Life Coach and former monk Jay Shetty explains that a therapist helps you make sense of your past while a Life Coach helps you build your future.  

Both therapists and Life Coaches help clients move forward, but the approach is different. Therapists focus more on the past and emotional issues and trauma, following a medical model with an emphasis on disease, disorders, and abnormalities. They diagnose clients and must have a Masters or PhD and follow a heavy set of rules and oversight.

Life Coaches are focused on self-empowerment, self-love, and have a deeper spiritual or holistic outlook. Their focus is on positive personal potential as opposed to problems or dysfunction.

Life Coaches and therapists aren't in competition and you can absolutely work with both. In fact, working with a Life Coach either after or while working with a therapist is ideal.

Yes, a Life Coach is different than a mentor. A mentor is more advanced is specific areas than their mentee. These are usually based on experience and age. They are trusted advisors for advice is the same specific area you are looking for mentorship. The goal of a mentor is to take the mentee to the level of the mentor.

A Life Coach doesn't need experience in the exact same thing or to be at a higher level than the client in order to be effective. The goal isn't to take the client to the same level as the Life Coach, but instead to help the client achieve their own individual goals, whatever level that may be. 

Life Coaches and mentors aren't in competition, and you can absolutely work with both. 

All Life Coaches work differently, but we can accurately share what a session with Mindset Life Coach Mike Kelley at Reworking Mindsets entails. 

First, you will use the provided Zoom link to attend the coaching session. Body language and facial expressions can be very telling, so we ask that you please use the camera feature. All sessions are recorded so that Mike can refer back to them if needed and to maintain compliance with certifying bodies. You can request that the session not be recorded, but please not that this may result in a less effective overall experience.

Next, you will be reminded that this is a safe space and that you are encouraged to mention if there is anything you don't want to discuss or disclose, either prior to the session starting or as it comes up.

After that, you will share you goal for the session and any updates from the prior session. You and Mike will have a conversion based on that until the end of the session. This is typically 45 minutes, but can go all the way to 60 depending on the conversation and your level of engagement.

You will be asked to speak openly, honestly, and in detail in order to assist the coach in guiding you and so that you can understand your thinking and actions as well.

Finally, you may be given tools or "homework" to work on for the next session. 

Session recordings are stored safely and privately, and not shared with anyone outside of Reworking Mindsets or any certifying bodies that may request them for quality and compliance purposes only.

Online coaching via Zoom allows for the opportunity to reach clients across the United States and not just within driving distance. This also allows for more schedule flexibility since accounting for travel time is not needed.

In-person coaching may be available based on special circumstances, and will have to be discussed and agreed upon by Mike Kelley at Reworking Mindsets. This would have unique pricing to account for extra travel time, travel expenses, etc.

To request in-person coaching, please Contact Us.

Success can mean so many things and can vary by topic and aspect of life. If you have business or financial success, do you also have family and relationship success? Most people tend to have one or more areas in their life where they aren't as "successful" and want to find growth. 

In addition, success doesn't mean happiness and fulfillment. For an example of this, read more about Mindset Life Coach Mike Kelley.

No matter what your level of "success" is, everyone can benefit from the accountability, motivation, and awareness that Mindset Life Coaching offers. 

Technically, yes, but we strongly advise against it. Our recommended minimum for Mindset Life Coaching sessions is 3. 

Life Coaching is based on a general program structure that is individualized and there is far too much to cover in just one session. If we try to cram all of the information into just one session you will either have information overload or we won't be able to get to many crucial tools and techniques.

Also, Mindset Life Coaching is based on establishing a relationship. This first session is typically where the coach and client develop and understanding of each other and build from there. As with all relationships, this can continue and build over several sessions. Condensing that to just one session will remove the relationship aspect and the coaching won't be nearly as personalized or effective.

Unless other arrangements are made prior to a coaching session or discovery call, Zoom will be required. 

You do not have to purchase or pay for Zoom in order to use the tool for Mindset Life Coaching sessions with Mike Kelley at Reworking Mindsets.

Mindset Life Coach Mike Kelley accepts PayPal and Stripe payments through Reworking Mindsets. 

Upon checkout, you will be given these two options to pay.