Over the past three months, I went through a lot of emotional ups and downs because I felt completely lost in both life and work. I had no idea how to plan either. Ye became a friend, a mentor, and a mirror, continually challenging how I thought.

At first, I expected her to tell me what to do so I could simply follow her advice. Instead, she asked questions that helped me think for myself and discover what was true for me. Her questions helped me see things I hadn’t even realised I was overlooking.

I realised that I work for myself, not just for my company. Other people’s opinions mattered less once I understood that everyone was occupied with their own concerns. A turning point came when I decided to use this time to recover and learn German. Almost immediately, I felt less anxious. I no longer felt lost.

Coaching with Ye felt like a massage for the mind, something I looked forward to every week. It also challenged me to be honest with myself and distinguish what I truly liked from what everyone else was pursuing. I felt safe, supported, and understood, while also being challenged and encouraged to grow.

It was a fruitful journey for me, to discover together with Ye what the “real problem” was under the surface, and to continuously work on the necessary mindset changes in different scenarios. I vividly remember that in the first sessions, I thought she would hand me some tools to “solve” my problems.

But in each session, along with all her questions, her “why is it like this,” I was always struck by how I could uncover real thoughts that might have been buried and ignored, but were quietly holding back a crucial mindset change. I came out of each session refreshed, with an empowered spirit, encouraged to keep going, with a little more confidence and a slightly different way of thinking.

I’m grateful I got to work with her this early in my career. With Ye, I learned how to create impact by leveraging power and authority in the world around me, and proactive feedback from within.

Ye is a fantastic coach, and a respectful, careful listener.

This was a truly eye-opening experience, in the best sense of the word. What surprised me was her ability to break down my sometimes complicated way of thinking and identify the core of my current challenges.

The “looking into the future” perspective, along with best-case and worst-case scenario analysis, was the most helpful tool for me. It gave me much more clarity about my current situation and the possible ways forward.

Ye is a very empathetic, warm person, skilled at asking the right questions to lead her clients towards more clarity. My next step is to spread my wings and look for new professional opportunities.

This experience has been truly eye-opening. I can’t express enough how much value I’ve gained, both personally and professionally. Ye is incredibly patient, straightforward, and friendly, and gave me valuable insight throughout.

What surprised me was Ye’s ability to recognise patterns in my thinking and identify the core issue, which helped me find a breakthrough on my questions and concerns. One tool that stuck with me: using a “filter” to zoom out and see my emotions more clearly.

Compared to five months ago, I’m a different person. I see many things from a different perspective now, and I’ve made peace with what happened over the past year. I’ve learned to assume good intentions and take a win-win mindset, even in unfriendly situations or with difficult people.

Going forward, I’ll keep practising the tools and mindsets I’ve learned, keep reflecting, and keep talking things through with myself, to find the sweet spot where every part of my life feels satisfying.

Ye can help organise my scrambling thoughts, find the underlying problem, and help me focus on that. She listens very carefully, and sharply picks up on the part I didn’t say, and makes it obvious to me. What surprised me most was how she connected the scattered things I mentioned and helped me see the underlying issue. I loved how we connected my past successes to help guide future challenges, and our discussions about energy levels, which helped me see my own behavioural patterns and why they weren’t working.

I’ve become more self-assured: less intimidated by authority and more in control of my own life. If I could do it again, I’d spend even more time on the “spiritual” side of things, not just career coaching itself, because career coaching tends to be more tactical, and that part can be learned. The spiritual layer is more about the underlying way things work, and Ye’s coaching actually leans towards that deeper layer.

Coaching isn’t the end, it’s a start. I’m becoming aware of a lot of things I wasn’t consciously aware of before, and I plan to keep exploring.

Before embarking on this transformative journey, I found myself trapped in a job that left me feeling unfulfilled and unhappy. I feared that my age and lack of German language skills would hinder me from finding meaningful work. Doubts about my abilities and experience gnawed at me, making it difficult to envision a career switch. Imposter syndrome became a constant companion, causing me to doubt my worth and worry about how others perceived me.

I had sought advice from friends and career coaches, but something was missing. Then Ye entered my life with a deep understanding of my struggles, as she had experienced similar challenges herself. Through her coaching, I unearthed my core values and learned to advocate for myself.

The most remarkable achievement was reconnecting with myself and silencing the self-doubt and judgment that had plagued me for so long. Ye’s insights have been monumental. She made me realise that my successes weren’t solely due to luck, but rather the result of my own proactive efforts.

Today, I find myself in an entirely different place. I have broken free from the shackles of my old job and industry. I have embraced change and harnessed my strengths to achieve what I once thought was unattainable.

I love how goal-oriented she is. Before every session, she’d ask me what my goal was for that session, and what I wanted to walk away with by the end. That habit carried over into my work too. Before important meetings now, I ask myself the same thing: what’s the point of this meeting, and what do I want to get out of it?

With her guidance, I said out loud, for the first time, a big ambition I’d been carrying inside. She told me that if this was really what I wanted, she could help me pull that goal closer. That’s when it hit me: no one else gets to tell me what I should or shouldn’t do, and no one else gets to plan my life for me. I just need to know what I want, and then go make it happen, step by step.

For the first time, I also faced some of the unwritten rules and office politics I’d always avoided. I used to think I was above spending time and energy on that kind of thing, but if you actually want to climb higher, you can’t stay disengaged from it forever. Facing something you’ve always avoided is, in itself, something to be proud of.

I’m grateful for her professionalism, her honesty, and the boundaries she holds. She won’t say yes to everything, but even when she says no, she respects my boundaries too. My next step: keep climbing in my field, grow my influence, and hopefully help more women succeed at work.

Before we started, I remember hoping my coach would be non-judgmental. Luckily, that turned out to be exactly true, so I could always dig into myself without feeling weighed down.

The emotional support I got through coaching went beyond what I expected. Ye gave me a space where it felt safe to be vulnerable, helped me manage the stress, anxiety, and anger that come with work, and taught me how to affirm myself, how to handle other people’s judgment, and how to set my own boundaries.

The biggest shift in my thinking was moving from focusing on the present to a much longer time horizon. Once your goals are set further out, it’s a lot easier for the present environment to matter less: a difficult manager, an ill-timed joke from a colleague, none of it carries the same weight anymore.

That shift made my overall state a lot better, and it cut down a lot of the internal friction I used to carry. I’ve become more grounded. I’ve learned to speak up for myself, to push back, to argue my case, instead of just accepting other people’s opinions.

Ye is a trusted partner in my career. She’s someone I can trust, who listens actively, who challenges me directly but with a caring heart, and who has guided and supported me through doubt, uncertainty, and the discomfort that comes with career growth.

She wants me to succeed as much as I want myself to. The energy level test at the beginning, the book recommendations along the way, and the timely support she offered whenever I messaged her, all of it left a real impression on me. Two lines I keep reminding myself of: “I’m good enough.” “I have a choice.”

I’ve gained a more balanced way of handling things, and a lot more confidence in myself. After every session, I write down reflective notes and the actions I want to take, and it’s a habit I’ve kept up ever since.

My coaching sessions with Ye were genuinely inspiring conversations. Over two weeks, a work issue that had been bothering me for a while started to look different, and I found a new way of understanding it.

A lot of the answers I was looking for were actually already in my own head, Ye’s coaching just helped me find them, step by step. Our conversations also helped me step back when facing something that felt hard in the moment, and see what other options I actually had.

At work, take speaking up in meetings, for example. I learned to shift perspective: if I don’t say anything, what does the team lose? That shift made me realise that speaking up isn’t just about me, it also matters to the team.

I think this experience would help Chinese people living abroad who have strong growth goals at work. Ye has a lot of experience in overseas workplaces, so she understood my situation quickly and gave me practical, insightful advice.

Ye was my first career coach, and her style, professional and objective without losing the human touch, made a real impression on me. We happen to share a similar background and career path, so there was a lot of resonance in our conversations, and a lot of insight too.

What inspired me most was Ye reminding me to bring my focus back to myself. As a longtime overthinker, things outside myself often pull away a huge amount of my attention and create unnecessary drain. With her prompting, I’ve slowly started facing that pattern head-on.

I found the courage to stop trying to please everyone. We spent a lot of time on what I actually value, how to build my own sense of order, and how to voice what I need. Through this work, I stopped getting stuck on “needing to be right,” and instead kept digging inward for what genuinely matters to me on my career path, and started trying to say it honestly.

I’d happily recommend Ye to friends who are moving into a growth phase, stepping into management, or feeling stuck while switching tracks.

The whole process felt comfortable. Ye has a lot of empathy, and I could tell she genuinely cared about my personal situation. She also has real insight, she picked up on things I hadn’t even noticed myself.

She doesn’t just offer help, advice, and suggestions, she also follows up seriously and holds me accountable to the goals we set together. Through this work, I learned to see problems from other people’s perspectives, and broke through some of my own long-standing habits and assumptions. I’ve become a lot more proactive about communicating with leadership and going after opportunities.

She’s very professional, but never loses her empathy, and she’s genuinely good at helping me set goals and push past my own limits with ease. Going forward, I want to keep pushing further in my field and go after a promotion.

Working with Ye has been truly amazing. I’m now back to being myself again, and I’m in control of my career path. I’ve learned to trust what I know and believe in what I can offer. This coaching process helped me deal with my feelings, discover new things about myself, and find a way forward. I was totally lost in my life and career before I met Ye.

I feel proud now, because I’m not just letting life happen to me, I’m shaping my own path. Ye helped me get equipped with the right tools and shift my mindset, so I could take ownership and claim my power back at work and in my life.

Ye never judged me or handed me advice like others might. Instead, she asked me lots of thoughtful questions to help me recognise, and then break, my limiting beliefs and old patterns.

Working with you has been a really positive experience. Your questions made me feel like you truly understood my struggles, and you were patient enough to sit with me through my silences while I thought things through.

What I’m most proud of is finally deciding to become my own boss. I went back and forth on that decision for a long time, and having you as a sounding board through our sessions really helped. You reminded me what my values actually are, and now I feel much more in control of my choices and my actions.

I’ve overcome some self-doubt and limiting beliefs, like letting my past define my present and future. I want to make the most of my entrepreneurial journey while staying aligned with my own values and aspirations.

Overall, pretty satisfied. What surprised me was that coaching isn’t just about understanding your job, the market, or your colleagues, it’s really about understanding yourself. Work is just one part of my life.

One thing that changed a lot for me: I added a lot more fitness training into my daily routine, mainly to manage stress and improve my work performance. Surprisingly, my overall health improved a lot too.

I realised that making money is really about solving problems for other people. What I want to focus on now is what kind of problems I want to solve for the world, not just my daily work tasks. I’ve decided I want to start my own business, maybe starting with a project of my own.

Working with Ye goes beyond short-term relief. Like an experienced practitioner of Chinese medicine, she looks beneath the symptoms. Difficulties at work often reflect more than a particular role or company: they can come from a mismatch between others’ expectations and who you really are.

Coaching with Ye was a balanced, insightful experience that helped me get clarity on some things I’d been turning over in my head for months. Along the way, her clear way of paraphrasing and summarising was a really nice surprise.

I kept feeling like the job market was so bad that I had no real shot at the job I wanted, that my chances were basically 0%. Ye reminded me that it’s never actually 0%, even 5% isn’t 0%, and as long as it’s above 0%, there’s still a chance. That reminder stuck with me, and it came at just the right time.

Honestly, what I’m proudest of is that I made the time for this coaching experience in 2024, and dealt with all the bureaucratic hurdles it took to actually make it happen.

I found Ye at the lowest point in my career. It’s hard to think clearly when you’re in a low mood, but I remember our first thirty-minute call clearly, just meant to get to know each other, and she put me completely at ease.

Ye brings a lot of energy, and for the first time at that low point, I saw some hope. Over the following two weeks, she stayed proactive about reaching out, helped me think things through, and gave thoughtful, well-informed answers to every question I raised.

With her encouragement and support, within two weeks I sorted through my own questions, found answers, made a decision, got clear on my career direction going forward, fixed up my resume and cover letter, and even completed a first-round interview.

Since I was in the middle of changing career direction, I only booked two weeks of coaching for now, but I’d happily have Ye as a long-term career mentor as my career moves forward.