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Sherry Finkel Murphy is a serial achiever and a great believer in serial achievement as a way to feel and stay energized, passionate and fulfilled in life. Sherry has spent more than 25 years in the technology industry selling over $100 million in software, hardware, and services to Fortune 1000 companies. She’s proud of the professional successes with which she’s assisted—and even some of the job moves she coached along. Currently, Sherry is a Sales Performance Coach for a large technology company, where she shares coaching advice, mentoring, and occasional ‘sales therapy.’ She lives part-time on Long Island and part-time in Vermont with her husband, Neil, and a bunch of very fat cats.
Sherry has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Rochester and a Master of Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She received her coaching certification from Corporate Coach University in 1999. It was the experience of having a well-coached achievement that started Sherry down the coaching path:
At five feet tall and built like a fireplug, Sherry longed to have a sport to call her own. One day at the gym, she met a class instructor who was a five-foot-tall competitive natural bodybuilder. On the spot Sherry asked to become her training client.
Five years later, at the age of 38, and with five people on her team coaching her to compete, Sherry took 1st Place in the 1998 NGA United States Natural Bodybuilding Championship Novice Division. It was a life-altering experience that made Sherry want to shout about the benefits of having people in your corner to give you feedback, instruction, support, and sometimes a dose of tough-love. When you have a good coach and a real role-model as a mentor, you can do just about anything you set your mind to do!
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Sherry does not look like this normally! |
Ten years later, you might not know Sherry was a former bodybuilder unless you were working out with her in the gym. But you’d know that she’s taken that experience and parlayed it into a well-articulated understanding of how the use of coaching, mentorship, and sponsorship can get anyone anywhere they truly want to go in life. She also wants you to know that it’s okay not to want the same things in your late 30’s as you wanted in your 20’s, or in your 50’s versus your 40’s. It’s also okay not to want to explain to your family and friends why you want to chase a dream. They don’t see you through the same lens as the one through which you see yourself. Sometimes you need to reach outside your close circle to find the right encouragement.
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With work, coaching and commitment, who knows what Sherry’s next achievement will be? Sherry looks forward to finding out and bootstrapping others along the way.
Photos by: Neil J. Murphy
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