Episode 88: There Is Life After Failure with Jim Swan

Surviving failure’s darkest moments has prepared Jim Swan to coach those ready to leave the pain behind and launch into a new level of success, contentment, and happiness.

With over 15 years as a small business owner, entrepreneur, award-winning author, and marketing consultant James brings his experience as a survivor of success and failure to the world of business coaching and consulting.

Becoming an iPEC Certified Professional Coach codifies for James years of business experiences, a refined set of personal values, and a belief in the power of transformative coaching. He turned creative energy into a laser-focusedprofessional objective; to support business executives and entrepreneurs as they expand beyond setbacks and failures into their highest and best selves. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree in theology and music from Southwestern University in Waxahachie, Texas, and studied in Arizona State University’s Architecture and Design master’s degree program.

How after struggling through a series of catastrophic professional & personal failures, Jim became certified as a Coach and launched James Swan Coaching. He coaches high-achieving business owners & entrepreneurs to turn pain into fuel, mistakes into opportunities, and dreams into initiatives.  

• The story is messy at best, painful at worst, but the good news about it is that it’s in the past and it doesn’t define me today.  – Jim Swan
• I don’t have to be afraid of my failures, that I can embrace them, learn from them, create a new plan for forward motion, and then I can create a future, in my instance, a future that I never dreamt of and a future that is bigger and brighter and more fulfilling than anything that I have ever experienced before. – Jim Swan
• While it didn’t solve all the problems, it wasn’t a miraculous wave of the wand, but I came out of that 90-minute session for the first time in many, many years, believing that there was a light at the end of the tunnel, that there was a glimmer of hope and that if I really buckled down and learned the lessons that the universe was not so gently asking me to learn that maybe there was a future for me that didn’t involve hiding, that didn’t involve being ashamed of who I was, being ashamed of my past, being ashamed of what I brought to the table. – Jim Swan

• Jim’s Website – https://james-swan.com/
• Jim’s LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/jrswan/