818-521-4509
Ageless Conversations
with Coach Annie
Live with Purpose ~ Age with Intention
Annie Charles, CPCC, CSA
Certified Professional Co-Active® Coach
Through Ageless Conversations, I offer coaching that helps individuals navigate life's transitions, strengthen their relationships, and move forward with greater clarity, confidence, and purpose.
Whether you're navigating challenges in a relationship, stepping into a new chapter of life, seeking greater fulfillment in your career or business, or simply feeling ready for personal growth and change, our conversations provide a supportive space to pause, reflect, and discover what matters most.
Through meaningful dialogue and thoughtful exploration, you'll gain greater insight into yourself, your relationships, and the choices in front of you. Together, we'll uncover what may be keeping you stuck, build on your strengths, and help you move forward with renewed energy, intention, and confidence.
Because wisdom, growth, connection, joy, and purpose are truly ageless.
My Approach
Grounded in deep curiosity, I approach each conversation with an open, non-judgmental mindset. I ask thoughtful questions from a place of genuine interest rather than assumption, creating space for your own insights, values, and solutions to naturally emerge. My role is not to tell you what to do, but to help you gain clarity, see new possibilities, and connect with the wisdom and strengths you already possess.
My Coaching Offers Space To:
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Build emotional clarity and resilience to navigate challenges with greater calm and confidence.
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Strengthen communication and develop healthier, more fulfilling relationships.
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Explore patterns, beliefs, and behaviors that may be keeping you stuck.
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Reconnect with your inner voice and make choices that honor your values and goals.
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Navigate life transitions with greater confidence and intention.
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Step into your next chapter feeling grounded, empowered, supported, and open to new possibilities.
Specialties Include:
Relationship Coaching
Relationships can be one of our greatest sources of joy—and one of our greatest challenges. As a coach with Relationship Hero, I work with individuals who want to better understand themselves and create healthier, more connected relationships. Whether you're navigating communication challenges, relationship patterns, conflict, dating, trust, boundaries, or a major transition, coaching provides a supportive and non-judgmental space to explore what's happening and identify how you want to move forward.
Relationship coaching can help you:
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Communicate more clearly and effectively.
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Better understand your relationship patterns and emotional responses.
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Establish and maintain healthy boundaries.
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Navigate conflict with greater awareness and confidence.
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Build stronger connections with romantic partners, family members, and others in your life.
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Gain clarity about what you want and need in your relationships.
Personal Growth & Life Transitions
Life is constantly changing—and sometimes those changes are exciting, while other times they can leave us feeling uncertain or stuck. Coaching provides an opportunity to pause and ask: What do I want now? What's getting in my way? And what might be possible next? Together, we can explore your strengths, challenge self-limiting beliefs and behaviors, and build the confidence needed to create meaningful change.
Career & Business
Whether you're considering a new direction, navigating challenges at work, building a business, or seeking greater fulfillment in your professional life, coaching can help you gain clarity and move forward with intention. We'll work together to define your goals, overcome challenges, enhance your communication and leadership abilities, and build the confidence to move forward with purpose.
About Me.
For more than 30 years, I've been helping people grow, strengthen relationships, and navigate life's challenges. As a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC™), with 16 years of coaching experience, I specialize in helping individuals and couples navigate relationship challenges with greater clarity, confidence, and intention.
My professional training includes certification through the Coaches Training Institute (CTI), leadership development training through the Center for Creative Leadership, and certification as a Certified Senior Advisor (CSA™) through the Society of Certified Senior Advisors. This diverse background allows me to bring a broad perspective to my work with individuals navigating relationships, personal growth, leadership, and life's many transitions.
My coaching style is warm, grounded, intuitive, and genuine. I believe lasting transformation happens when people feel truly seen, heard, and understood. Together, we'll uncover the patterns that may be keeping you stuck, strengthen your communication and self-awareness, and create a clearer path forward.
My work is also informed by my own life experience. I've been married for 36 years, am the proud mom of 3 adult children (triplets!), and a grandmother. These experiences have given me a deep appreciation for the many ways relationships evolve over time—and for the joys, challenges, changes, and growth that come with long-term partnerships, parenting adult children, and family life across generations.
Throughout my career, I've been passionate about helping people build stronger relationships and become the best version of themselves. Whether coaching individuals, supporting couples, mentoring leaders, or developing teams, I've seen that meaningful change begins with honest reflection, compassion, and the courage to do something different.
I believe healthy relationships begin with understanding ourselves—and that growth and change are always possible. Sometimes, we simply need the right support, a fresh perspective, and someone who believes in our ability to move forward. I'd be honored to be that support.
Let's discover what's next, together.
Coach Annie Charles
CLIENT TALK
Marilyn Ross
I’ve known Annie for over 15 years. About six years ago my husband and I began the process of simplifying our life which included re-organizing our assets and downsizing and Annie has been by my side every step of the way. I always love my calls with Coach Annie!
The choices that this stage of life brings can be complicated, and having her calm, reassuring, practical and very intuitive presence has been priceless. There was one moment when I was overcome with emotion and ready to completely reverse the direction we were headed. Annie listened to my concerns (mostly fear) and gave me the space to let it all out. Instead of talking me into a different plan in the moment, she sent me an email the next day gently reminding me of the reasons I chose the path we were on and the long-term goals my husband and I were working toward. By giving me time to sleep on it, and then offering that thoughtful reminder, I was able to see clearly that staying with the original plan was absolutely the right direction. We’ve since carried out entire plan and it has worked out better than we even expected. I am 86 years old and consider myself a smart and successful businesswoman and Coach Annie is an integral part of our team. I recommend her to all my friends. Thank you, Coach Annie!
Karyl Draper, R.N., B.S.N., L.C.S.W.
I am a psychotherapist in Los Angeles and have worked in the field for the past 34 years. In the last several years, have had the opportunity to collaborate with Annie to work with my clients on specific issues that were requiring attention but also interfered with where the therapy needed to go.
I find Annie to be knowledgeable, empathic and instructive. She works with the client in setting reasonable goals to achieve necessary changes in their lives. My clients enjoy their work with Annie and find her to be kind and respectful but also hold them accountable. She has been a positive addition to their lives and my practice.
Carla Adivi
Coach Annie has been an invaluable guiding light during one of the most significant transitions in my life, as I made a leap from working as an employee over the last 35 years to embarking on the exhilarating journey of entrepreneurship. Her unwavering support, attentive listening, and reassuring presence were a beacon of strength throughout the six months we worked together.
Under Annie's mentorship, I witnessed my fears, self-doubts, and apprehensions gradually dissolve. She skillfully let me towards a place of clarity and purpose, helping me refine my vision for my new venture. Annie's perspective as a successful female business owner added a unique and invaluable dimension to her advice.
With each session, Annie instilled in me the confidence to trust my instincts as I embarked on this transformative path. Her continuous reassurance bolstered my belief that I possessed the necessary tools to navigate my newfound identity as an entrepreneur.
The time and resources I invested in working with Coach Annie were well worth it! I am immensely grateful or her support, and I wholeheartedly recommend her to anyone seeking a knowledgeable and compassionate coach for their own journey of transformation.
Sarah Braselton
Annie is a remarkable coach! Her wealth of knowledge and experience, integrated with her pronounced intuition, humility and intellect is unmatched. My work with her has empowered me to move through fear in my professional development through a marriage of tactical and intuitive-based strategies. I highly recommend Annie to anyone who is willing to examine their fear and take action through collaborative coaching.
James Kelly
Annie Charles is a seasoned and highly effective executive coach. As a 30+ year successful business executive, I have had the benefit of working 1:1 with a coach on several occasions throughout my career. It benefitted me personally as well as professionally. Recently, when I advanced from a senior executive leader into a c-suite role in a major financial services organization, I had the opportunity once again to engage an executive coach – I selected Annie.
In working with Annie throughout the transition, my on-boarding and overall effectiveness sharply accelerated. She helped me identify and strengthen the inherent skills I had acquired over the years that were necessary to maximize team effectiveness, business, and financial results. I leveraged powerful techniques she introduced which facilitated good decisions, work-life balance, and targeted messaging drawing out extraordinary performance in myself and others. She has helped me become a more effective executive.
Annie applies a practical approach and comfortable style in her coaching techniques. She focused me on my capabilities and strengths while also helping me self-discover gaps, performance barriers and developmental opportunities. She creates a safe confidential environment which enables authentic and vulnerable conversations accelerating development and results.
Malia Cheshire
Annie has a strong ability to offer motivational insight naturally! While working with Annie, I found her to be a safe place to share ideas and concerns with the "job at hand". Because she is committed to evolving as a person as well as a mentor, she is able to offer direction and guidance as it relates to her own journey, which in turn has helped me as I face some of my own challenges. She will often come back to an idea or thought with a new perspective which has really been helpful for me. Now as I interact with her in a non-work environment, she has provided inspiration to better myself in my health and fitness. She regularly checks in with motivational quips that help to re-direct me to a positive place for the day!
Susan Fiolka
Annie is a true and genuine leader, coach and friend. I was fortunate to meet Annie at the beginning of my career. Her mentorship and expertise were such an inspiration, then and now. Annie undoubtedly helped shape my professional path, but also guided me on a personal level with her wisdom of life. I still ask myself-"I wonder how Annie would handle this situation."
Shannon Price
Annie is a great coach who has guided me with my career decisions. Her encouraging words and motivational style have helped me rid any self-doubt giving me the confidence I needed to be the best version of myself. She is uplifting, authentic, and holds you accountable to your goals. I truly value her as a mentor/coach and highly recommend her.
Danielle Penny
Coach Annie came into my life at an important time. After successfully raising my children and preparing for a new stage in life, I wanted to work on myself for a change. I spent many years serving and helping others, putting myself and my needs last. After the kids moved on and my volunteer work ended, I needed to find a sense of purpose and well-being. I was stuck and needed to rediscover who I am.
Annie helped me realize my inner strength and confidence, manage negative self-talk, and set focus and priority in my life. She guided me down a path of self-development, careful to draw out my capabilities. She reminded me that I am a powerful woman, in command of my thoughts, behavior and actions.
After working with Annie, I am healthier, happier, and I have the tools necessary to pull myself up. I manage the chatter more effectively and am thoughtful to take better care of myself physically and emotionally. Annie has taught me that I can overcome obstacles and more fully enjoy my life, family, and friends. The sky is the limit!
QUOTES
Fear hinders us; it prevents full involvement with experiences we are given to grow on. When we withdraw from a situation in order to save ourselves from failure, we stay stuck in a world we need to leave behind.
Each Day a New Beginning
We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it - but all that had gone before."
Jacob Riis
"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the things you think you cannot do."
Eleanor Roosevelt
SERVICES
Convenient and Flexible