No Place Like Home

Talane Miedaner

We all need an ear-an objective listener to guide us and help us better ourselves. Talane Miedaner has tapped into that need with her successful life-coaching business-helping clients find their way to fulfillment in both their personal and business lives.

Miedaner, 34, coaches from experience-she hired her own personal coach while working at a Manhattan bank. Under his guidance, Miedaner found that she, too, had a knack for coaching and enrolled in a training program at Coach University in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. To secure her finances during start-up, she continued working at the bank while forming a small circle of clients. In 1997, she left her job, wrote Coach Yourself To Success (Contemporary Books, $22.95, 800-323-4900) and continued to grow her client base.

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Coaching everyone from doctors to entrepreneurs, Miedaner's built a name for herself worldwide. "I love the commute," says Miedaner of the comforts of her home in New York's Catskill Mountains. "I roll out of bed, and I'm coaching away."

Working with 40 clients a month, Miedaner has four homebased coaches under her guidance at Talane Coaching Co. Her 2000 sales top $150,000. Concludes Miedaner: "[I help] people get their dream homes, their dream relationships...it's fabulous."

This article was originally published in the September 2000 print edition of Entrepreneur with the headline: No Place Like Home.