Goal-oriented coaching meets peer support
Naming Your "Why" ·
Forming a Supportive Network ·
What Gets in Your Way? ·
Knowing What You Don't Know ·
Asking Questions Together ·
What Kind of Plan Do I Need? ·
My Market, My Brand ·
Leverage Strengths to Move Past Financial Fears ·
Putting It All Together ·
Naming Your "Why" · Forming a Supportive Network · What Gets in Your Way? · Knowing What You Don't Know · Asking Questions Together · What Kind of Plan Do I Need? · My Market, My Brand · Leverage Strengths to Move Past Financial Fears · Putting It All Together ·
Designed to support your success when you need it most.
REcoach is a 12-week structured business coaching intervention. It is delivered by trained and certified peer support specialists.
REcoach combines our educational resources with the personalized guidance of peer support.
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Evidence-based support
Our peer business coaching model has been shown to enhance entrepreneurial self-efficacy, which is the confidence in one's ability to perform specific business tasks.
Participants who used REcoach were significantly more likely to report feeling better able to handle logistics, more connected to other self-employed people, and to report that Reclaiming Employment was helpful in their journey, compared to those who used it on their own.
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Curriculum Focus
The program is structured to help participants outline and draft a complete business plan. This document is often required for securing Vocational Rehabilitation support.
The weekly sessions guide participants through specific stages of business development, starting with "Naming Your Why" (Week 1) and moving through networking, identifying barriers, financial planning, and marketing, culminating in a presentation of their business plan (Week 12).
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Peer Support Model
Coaches are certified peer specialists and/or credentialed life coaches with lived experience. Coaches share lived experience with mental health challenges and self-employment, teach business skills, and model what's possible.
The coach does not provide answers or advice; they use a non-directive "ask-not-tell" approach to help participants find their own solutions.
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Goal-Oriented Coaching
Coaches help participants align business goals with individual needs and values (self-concordant goals) rather than external definitions of success, which improves motivation and performance.
Our trauma-informed approach focuses on mastering specific tasks to build intrinsic motivation and viewing challenges as growth.
REcoach supports VR self-employment plans and produces a completed business plan suitable for VR closure documentation
Delivered remotely, so it's available to clients in any state
Coaches are trained and certified peer support specialists
Contact us to discuss referral arrangements, group cohort pricing, or integration with your service array
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Curriculum-Focused Coaching that Supports You
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REcoach is designed as a 12-week program (plus an orientation week) that guides participants through the "10 Weeks to a Business Plan" course curriculum. The format alternates weekly between two types of interaction:
One-on-One Coaching: These 30-minute sessions (60 minutes for the first session) are personalized meetings where the coach and participant review progress on worksheets, address specific barriers, and set individual goals.
Group Coaching: These 60-minute sessions focus on social learning, role-playing (e.g., practicing business introductions), and collective problem-solving to build a sense of community and reduce isolation
All meetings are hosted on Zoom at a coordinated time.
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Unlike traditional business consulting, REcoach utilizes peer business coaches—individuals with lived experience of both mental health challenges and self-employment. The design relies on specific peer support values:
"Ask-Not-Tell": Coaches use a non-directive approach. Instead of giving advice or answers, they ask open-ended questions to help participants research options and determine their own solutions.
Shared Power: The relationship is built on mutuality and learning together, rather than a teacher-student dynamic.
Lived Experience: Coaches explicitly use their own stories of starting a business to normalize fears, validate difficulties, and model resilience.
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The design follows a specific sequence intended to move a participant from the "preparation" stage to the "action" stage. Key modules in the coaching guide include:
Foundations (Weeks 1–2): Naming the "Why" (Vision/Mission) and forming a support network.
Barriers and Information (Weeks 3–4): Identifying internal/external barriers and determining what information is missing (market research).
Operations and Marketing (Weeks 5–8): Addressing accounting tools, management structures, and branding strategies.
Financials (Week 9): Estimating income, expenses, and cash flow while managing financial fears.
Finalization (Weeks 10–12): Assessing confidence, finalizing the written plan, and presenting it to the group.
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Because the REcoach program includes bi-weekly group meetings, the program starts at designated dates. We will work with you to schedule meeting times that work for everyone.
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REcoach is delivered as a 12 week program. Your coach may be able to conduct make-up sessions if you miss individual meetings, but not group meetings. However, your coach will email you any material that you missed so that you can be prepared for the next session.