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"Hi My Name Is Zoe Routh And I Want To Help YOU Live The Life You've Always Imagined When You First Went In To Business..."
As a professional coach I work with select women entrepreneurs who understand the value of raising their self-awareness to create the funnest, best version of their own life. I love helping small business owners boost their personal effectiveness and create an unstoppable success mindset.
I started Inner Compass in 2002 and have worked with hundreds of individuals and groups as a coach, trainer, and facilitator since 1987.
Inner Compass is about helping people get more FUN, FREEDOM, and ADVENTURE, in their life. Everything I do in my business is about inspiring and teaching people to create and live their own best life.
The way I love to do this is through:
Read on to find out more if you resonate with who I am and what inspires me - we may have some common passions! *Check out my latest news and photos on my personal blog.
About Zoë Growing up around the Commonwealth Born in Derby England to an English Dad and half Canadian-half English Mum. We soon moved to Montreal Canada and then to freezing Winnipeg, Canada where it gets down to –35Celcius in the winter and +35Celcius in the summer. The sky is always blue there though. I left Winnipeg for Montreal and university in 1988, and then jumped on a jumbo jet for an adventure in Australia with Outward Bound in 1996. I have made Australia my home, becoming a citizen in 2002. At the end of 2005 I married Rob, a fair dinkum true blue Aussie (yes - tall and blonde and a bit of surf bum – at least on holidays).  Our wedding day, December 17th, 2005. The cancer thingI was diagnosed with cervical cancer in March 2005, just 4 days after Rob proposed (and I accepted). You can read some of my thoughts and experiences of my cancer journey here.
What I know now through my cancer journey:
The body is a great teacher and is the source of all wisdom.
We create everything in our lives, including the things we really, really don't want.
Life itself is the only true miracle.
Appreciating the love around me, the love people felt for me and I for them, was the real source of my healing.
I don't ever want to experience fear, stress, pressure, the weight of responsiblity, duty, depression, struggle, ever again. I choose to have far more pleasant things in my life.
Life is about joy, fun, freedom, love. That's it. That's what I choose forever more.
Energy in people, places, things is a very real and alive thing.
You can heal yourself.
Death is a facet of life and part of the timeless continuum of existence.
I love learning, creating, laughing, loving, and having fun.
I love my husband.
I love my friends.
I love my family.
I love my life.
I love myself.
Please - take the learning without the lesson - you don't need to go through cancer to understand the truth of all these things. Be open to growth and life will fill you with an abundant joy each day.
Things I have done to earn money 1981 - Age 11 Newspaper route. Tough going. Loved the early mornings. Tips were cool. 1985 - Age 15 Serving drinks and snacks at Orange Julius. Secret ingredients are sugar water and the magic powder compound. 1987-1995 - Summers Age 17-26 Worked at YM-YWCA Winnipeg’s Camp Stephens as summer camp counsellor and canoe trip leader. The most fun and freedom I have ever experienced! This is where I discovered my passion for learning, people, and wilderness adventures. http://www.ymcaywca.mb.ca/campstephens.html
This was the rig I drove as the coordinator of the Wilderness canoe trip program. Very cool!
1988-1996 - Age 18-26,
Winters while studying at McGill University Stock taking. Wore an ugly red smock and used a giant calculator. Counted lots of cards and tins on grocery store aisles. There’s a lot of dust in supermarkets! Teaching English as a second language. I had no idea what I was doling, but I enjoyed it! Waitressing. I learned a lot about people as a waitress. It was a real eye opener. We all need to eat; some people are happy about the experience, others just have cranky pants. Waitressing taught me a lot about systematic thought, hard work, and the power of positive thought. Spring, to earn some cash to pay for university Treeplanting. I joined a large contingency of students who worked like mad dogs over the few weeks of spring to pay for tuition and living expenses for the rest of the year. Treeplanting was done in deforested areas (logging companies are legislated to re-plant the areas they log and contract treeplanting companies to do so). It is back-breaking work. Once I got good at it, I could plant about 2000 tree seedlings per day. Tree planting camps were remote and isolated, rugged, dirty and much like summer camp, but with less days off and better food.
1996-2006 - Age 26-36 Outward Bound Australia While working at Camp Stephens, I decided to make outdoor personal development my career. I then decided that going to Australia sounded like my next fun adventure. I combined the two and ended up working for Outward Bound for ten years. During my time there I was an instructor, staff training coordinator, staff manager, developed the award-winning instructor training program called the Internship, managed the Research and Development department, and was on the management executive for 8 of those years. I finished there in December 2006 after organising the 50th anniversary reunion. On the Aussie Alps during one of the ski programs I instructed in 1997 2002-present – Age 32 – now I started coaching while at Outward Bound. I coached the middle managers there and implemented a management development program. From there I gained more clients until I started coaching full time. Definitely the coolest and most powerful personal development format I have ever experienced. Cool things I loved doing  Hang gliding
This is a picture of me hang gliding in New Zealand in Queenstown. Complete exhilaration taking three steps and floating high above the ground. Flying is very, very cool. Canoe trips I have paddled hundreds of miles by canoe with Camp Stephens. I did my first extended canoe trip at age 15 – we were gone for 3 weeks. The following year I did my first Six Week canoe trip. When I became a trip leader at the age of 19, I paddled a total of 32 weeks, including another Six Week canoe trip. These are some of the rivers I have paddled that you can see on the map of Ontario : Pipestone, Sever, Winisk, Albany. It was total freedom, total pleasure, joy, and adventure. I developed some lifelong friendships on these trips and learned a lifetime of lessons on communication, courage, determination, testing physical boundaries, leadership, and fun! The land of blue and green... the wild waters of northern Ontario Bellydancing I just loved the costumes, the dressing up, and learning how to do funky moves with my hips. I danced for a couple of years, including a few performances at festivals etc. Mountaineering I attended a mountaineering course in New Zealand at Mount Aspiring. It was hard work, incredible views, and a great shifter of perspective. Things I am proud of - I won a poetry contest in High School where I got to read my poem live on TV via satellite to our sister city in the Ukraine.
- Setting up the Instructor Training Program, the Internship, at Outward Bound Australia.
- Running six 42.2km (26 miles) marathons. The last one I ran in April 2006 with my husband Rob just 7 months after surgery and chemotherapy for cervical cancer.
- My two Six Week canoe trips. Takes courage to venture in to the wild unknown waters of northern Canada.
- Setting up my own coaching business and having the courage to live a life I absolutely love that gives me total freedom, joy, and adventure.
Qualifications High School: St John’s Ravenscourt, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Bachelor of Arts Honours English Literature, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Canoeing Certificates – flatwater and whitewater Wilderness First Aid Certificate IV in Assessment and Workplace Training Diploma in Outdoor Recreation Professional Development Member of one of the world’s largest coaching community, Coachville Member of the International Coach Federation Joined the Graduate School of Coaching where I have undertaken a multitude of training programs on coaching skills, techniques, and strategies Unleash the Power Within workshop with Anthony Robbins 2002 Michael Domeyko Rowland’s Absolute Happiness Workshop January 2003 I have hired various coaches and currently work with a coach. I invest a lot of money, I mean A LOT of money, in my own self-growth and am constantly reading new books, listening to new programs, attending new workshops to further my own self-development. Favourite books Wuthering Heights – love the pathos. Catherine and Heathcliff are so awful you have to love them. Anything by Phillippa Gregory – I just love historical fiction, especially anything about Tudor England. All my self-development books listed on the ‘recommended books’ page. Favourite movies I’m a big Star Wars fan – loved all six episodes. I am fascinated by Annikin Skywalker’s emotional torment and journey of self-discovery, along with the Jedi’s quintessential wisdom. Lord of the Rings – what a great classic Odyssey with tons of great cinematography and effects. Top Secret – can’t go past a hilarious Leslie Nielsen film I love the big epics too – Titanic, Out of Africa, Braveheart. Anything historical is also great. How did I become a Coach? I get asked this often. For me it was a natural progression from the work I have been doing all my adult life. Every summer since I was 17 I worked with groups in personal development in the outdoors. My ten years at Outward Bound were about more personal development with groups and individuals – both staff and participants. In 2000 I hired my own coach as I was feeling stuck in my career and personal life. I made some incredible personal shifts and radically improved my life and happiness. After all the work and learning I had done in personal development, I found coaching to be the most concentrated and effective format to move people forward quickly. The coaching field is a place where I can be at the forefront of cutting edge technologies and personal growth resources. Besides, I love working with people, and coaching is all about people. Things I do just because...
I support the Smith Family by sponsoring a young Australian’s education. I also support the Red Cross. Mosaics - cutting out glass and pasting it to things to make pretty patterns is actually quite relaxing.Feed my worm farm. I love that they recycle all my veggie scraps and then help make my garden lush. Very cool recycling. Ride my bike. Is there any better feeling than the wind on your face? It is just like flying I reckon. Skiing, camping, hiking, canoeing, photography, golf, tennis...I love leding an active and adventure filled life!
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