TV Star Already: Coach Maureen Miller Breaks Through the Grassroots Way
September 14, 2007 by Andrea J. Lee
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As you’ll discover from the email snapshot below, coaching in mainstream media such as television doesn’t ONLY occur with great fanfare or even red carpet. It can be a very natural process with nary an agent, hissy fit or M&M dispute in sight.
Coach Maureen shares her inspiring ‘can-do’ approach in a way that begs the question, “If she can do it, I could too, couldn’t I?” If you feel empowered after reading her story, submit your questions or comments below for Maureen; I think I have her energized to lead us some more in this arena, so help encourage her, would you? 
Thanks, Maureen, for your great work…
Visit Maureen online at:
http://thinkingrevolution.blogspot.com
http://www.squidoo.com/ThinkingRevolution
—–Original Message—–
From: Maureen Miller
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 10:54 AM
To: andrea@andreajlee.com
Subject: TV star alreadyAndrea,
I’ve been reading, with interest, your comments on coaching on TV. I guess I beat New Jersey to the punch line. I had been taking a course with Jan Marie Dore and met another woman, from a nearby town who had her own show as a fitness expert.
I immediately got challenged by the group to explore doing this as a coach so I shakily took down the phone number and contact name of the Person who was the producer of the network.
It’s a small local cable company and I went it to talk to the producer. She was very nice and VERY excited that I had an idea for coaching on TV. I told her I could get people to come on TV and coach them through a short session that would get them to a place where they could take an action step. She was thrilled by the idea and wanted to set up a time to start taping the first “bubble show”.
I walked out of the studio with a lump in my throat but was getting quite excited myself. I sat down for a couple of days and built a format for the show, which she suggested I do. We filmed the first show in April and found out the sound didn’t work. So slowly we have built up three shows to pilot this fall.
She has been so impressed by coaching and what I do. She had also told me that once I started it would be a lot of fun. Which it is.
I had also thought that people might not be too keen on admitting to needing some direction in their lives in front of a TV audience. I was wrong. We have three “bubble” shows and the network manager was so impressed they are piloting the three shows with their fall line up.
WOW is all I can say. And what I have learned about being on TV????? Anything from how to cover up a mistake, a cough, how to react to what people are saying without being distracting. I’ve learned all about editing the show and when I told the producer I would love to be more in charge of editing she was excited about not having to do that as well.
She has also warned me to be prepared for an onslaught of business as a result of this. Yikes, I better get moving.
Maureen Miller
Coaching Personally
http://thinkingrevolution.blogspot.com and http://www.squidoo.com/ThinkingRevolution
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