Janie Mak's Bio

Janie is an artist who provides adult coaching sessions. She has a Chinese heritage although she grew up in the South of the United Kingdom. Janie attended Art School in London in the 1980s. She is a mother, a grandmother and a friend.

Janie has been involved in life coaching for a very long time, in fact, well before life coaching entered the main stream.  She is accomplished at what she does and coaching has become a genuine passion for her. Janie’s approach to coaching comes from a deep understanding of people.

Janie’s coaching abilities stem from first hand experiences in her own personal life. The question ‘why is life so hard’ gave her the reason to explore the human existence and ignited her life long journey of self development. Janie has acquired skill sets and formulated her own methods from an ongoing observation of human behaviours.

Alongside coaching Janie also worked in the film and television industry for almost two decades.   She has met, worked with, and coached a diverse number of people, from bank directors, homeless people, tradesman, Oscar nominees, award winners to transport drivers, lawyers to health professionals, artists, military veterans, with the majority being men, from the breadth and depth of the social spectrum.  Being closely involved in the film and television industry gave her an excellent opportunity to study human behaviour. She has the ability to discover what is under people’s outer veneer.

Janie experienced a period of sudden ill health that took her to another level of learning and self discovery. Her convalescence took three years before she was fit again, and at the age of 57, with no idea where she wanted to live, she sold her home, engaged in sofa surfing at various friends properties, spent many nights in a sleeping bag on the floor and lived out of a couple of shopping bags filled with essential belongings. Janie went in search of her forever home, and a place with a sense of community, and a couple of years later, she become a grandma and found her current home in a lovely community in Cowes on the Isle of Wight. Since then she has never looked back.

Janie loves talking with people, smiling, and enjoying cherry and rum ice cream in a cone on warm and sunny days.