A revelation on the operating table led this former teacher to start a successful executive coaching business

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Yeo Chuen Chuen promised herself that if she woke up from surgery, she would discover her life purpose and fulfil it. She tells CNA Women how that meant leaving her teaching career to pursue coaching, as part of our series on women who make extreme job switches.

In 2014, mathematics teacher Yeo Chuen Chuen was relieved to find out that the tumour in her abdomen, while large, was benign. But she would still have to undergo an operation – specifically open surgery – to remove the cyst and make sure there were no cancer cells in the area of her body.

“I was also quite fearful. Lying there I realised there were so many things I didn’t get to try. What if I wasn’t a teacher? What if I didn’t remain an introvert? There were a lot of and none of them happened. Knowing something had to change but not yet knowing what, Yeo then enrolled into Maxwell’s year-long leadership programme, which culminated in the secondary school teacher graduating at a ceremony in Orlando.In the years that followed, Yeo started researching the coaching business, but it was only after that fateful day on the operating table in 2014 that she began truly taking action, slowly attaining the relevant certification needed for her to launch her executive coaching practice.

“ in overdrive all the time. Even something as simple as walking to get food would get my heart pounding and I would find it hard to breathe and be drenched in sweat,” she said. Yeo’s father had been a serial entrepreneur “out of necessity” and she had grown up not trusting in the concept of running a business.

 

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