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Article: Look what Carole Caplin and Cherie started: now 100,000 Britons have life coaches Want to earn up to pounds 60,000 a year interfering in other people's lives? With Middle England in the grip of `personal development' fever, there's plenty of opportunity out there. Jonathan Thompson investigates
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- The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 2, 2005
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Britain has a new motto for 2005: don't get a life, get a life
coach. The ranks of advisers, coaches, therapists and gurus who claim
they can turn your stressed existence around are swelling so fast
that the numbers are set to double within a couple of years.
What was once considered the indulgent prerogative of wealthy
celebrities such as Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow is now a widespread
phenomenon. Experts estimate that more than 100,000 Britons have
consulted a life coach, a new breed of guru whose popularity is
driving the astonishing boom in the therapy trade.
Life-coaching sessions are fast becoming a Middle England status
symbol. Even airlines have got in on the act: Virgin Atlantic ...