53: From Therapist to Executive Coach: Meg Rentschler on Recognizing When You've Hit Capacity

What happens when you realize the work that once fulfilled you no longer has room to grow? In this episode of Capacity Conversations, I sit down with Meg Rentschler professional-certified coach, host of the STaR Coach Show, founder of Focus on Results Coaching, and UT Dallas faculty member — to talk about the moment she knew her 20-year therapy career had reached its ceiling. Meg walks us through what it actually took to transition from therapist to executive coach: the certifications, the slow rebuild of a practice, and the hard call to walk away from insurance panels she'd spent years fighting to join. We also get into the season she's in now, navigating her husband's retirement and deciding what deserves her energy for the next chapter of her career. This is a conversation about capacity as a signal, not a failure, and what it looks like to actually listen to it.

In This Episode, You'll Learn:

• Why Meg's passion for therapy quietly eroded after 20 years — and the specific pattern she noticed in her clients that tipped her off

• The difference between "flipping a switch" and the multi-year, deliberate process Meg used to transition from therapy to coaching

• What it really took logistically: getting certified, relocating her practice, and phasing down her caseload while building the new one

• The turning point that pushed her to give up her therapy license entirely, and why that boundary mattered more than she expected

• How losing the license actually gave her more authority to say no,

• Meg's approach to her current transition and why she's giving herself a full 6 months before deciding anything

• Her advice for anyone in the middle of a professional pivot: how to honor what came before while giving yourself permission to explore what's next

Connect with Meg:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/megrentschler/

Meg’s Website: https://afocusonresults.coachesconsole.com/welcome-clients-.html

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