I was born and raised in the North of England with my parents and lived there until I was around 25 years old.

My passion and hobbies from a very early age were horses, acting and singing!

I was very lucky to be able to own my own pony at the age of 12 and have spent most of my life riding, show jumping and owning my own horses for the last 40+ years!

 

As well as riding, my other obsession was acting and at the age of 13, I joined the infamous Oldham Theatre Workshop and was trained by David Johnson, the founder of this Youth Theatre which is still going strong today.

 

I decided that was going to be my career and threw myself into it. I was very lucky to have lots of leading roles in various musicals, pantomimes and comedy dramas and also did a substantial amount of television work, although most of that was very small walk on parts for the BBC, ITV, and Yorkshire TV.

I eventually landed a great little speaking part in Coronation St where I played the role of one of Terry Duckworth’s girlfriends and throughout my short acting career, I met many stars who were great inspirations and mentors to me.

 

I also did professional singing and did a whole week at Bernard Manning’s club in Manchester once, which was a fantastic experience. Mr Manning said something to me one day, when the audience were being a bit rowdy (it was a policeman’s ball!!). He said” Andrea, you will come across all sorts of people in this life, but no matter how daunting or intimidating it might be, put on your smile, hold your head up high and walk on that stage like you bloody own it!”

 

That conversation has stayed with me throughout my life and in many areas of my life, has been an absolute inspiration to the way I have approached and handled situations.

I have always been a people person and having now been in the hair and beauty industry for over 30 years also taught me that I was an extremely good mentor and a great listener, something I now utilise to my greatest advantage in what I do now through my High Performance Coaching. 

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I have also been through some dark times, including divorce which left me pretty much with nothing. There have also been some family traumas, especially with my young daughter’s ill health in 2018 which led me down a very dark path of mental illness and depression. My daughter became unwell at the age of 14 and she spent the next two years of her life in hospitals, the first year was an eating disorder hospital with Anorexia and the second year was for her mental health. I realised very quickly that there was pretty much no support out there for parents going through the ordeal of trying to deal with their child being so ill and quite frankly, potentially losing them forever, which was a very real thing for me on regular occasions! 

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Through my experience, I began to help other parents who were going through similar experiences to me with my daughter and one of them said to me one day, "Andrea, you are so good at this! You should do this for a living!" 

That was my epiphany! That was why I decided to go into coaching! 

 

Over the next few years, I have now built a very successful business and mindset coaching business and my main passion now is to help as many parents as possible to overcome and deal with the struggles of challenging parenting through mental health! 

 

My Life’s Mission?

I am passionate about helping parents build deeper connections with their teenage children, navigate through mental health challenges, and create stronger, more resilient families, through communication, motivation and inspiration! 

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Andrea Marsh