Couple coaches personal and professional
Husband and wife team Tom and Evie Caprel joke that they're just "a couple-a-coaches."
Both have their own coaching businesses, which they operate from their Wheaton home. He coaches CEOs and business leaders. She supports people who want to embrace good health and well-being.
Evie, a certified wellness coach, operates Live Well Healing Inc., in which she works with clients to find physical, emotional and spiritual balance.
The business owner, also a certified healing touch practitioner, said she has a passion for complementary medicine. She works with clients on an array of chronic issues including losing weight, quitting smoking, nutrition and stress management. She works with a chiropractor in Hinsdale as well.
Evie, who grew up in Lincolnshire, started studying wellness about six years ago.
Before taking some time off to raise her children, Evie operated her own special events public relations agency for 11 years.
The couple, married for 29 years, met in a freshman English class at Western Illinois University.
While the couple have separate businesses, they work together in the same home office.
"It works out well. We respect each other," Evie said.
She added that acknowledging each other's positive attributes is also important.
"We learned that through coaching," she added.
Tom, who has been a coach for seven years, operates Break Through Results, a business that focuses on bringing balance to the client's business and personal life. "I work with high performers as a coach," he said.
He often coaches CEOs or family business owners who have reached a plateau. "They've tried several things and can't break through to the next level," he said.
An entrepreneur for more than 25 years, he has developed a passion for the leading trends in organizational and leadership development. He has been an executive coach and mentor for more than seven years and has worked with clients in insurance, technology, marketing and communications, investment banking, service firms, and others.
Although their businesses are separate, the coaches are working on a project together.
They're creating an audio meditation CD. Finding time to do everything that needs to be done is a common complaint they often hear.
"People need to just stop and ponder," said Tom, 51.
"One of the things we (clients) can't do well is calm our mind and ponder our future. That allows us to act on the present."
For more information, check out www.break-through.us or www.livewellhealing.com.
Good deal: In celebration of its grand opening, the Einstein Bros. Bagels restaurant located in Carol Stream at 480 W. Army Trail Rd., just east of the intersection of Army Trail Road and Kuhn, will offer a breakfast or lunch sandwich for $1.99 to every guest who visits the restaurant today and Saturday, while supplies last.
The restaurant opened for business June 3.
Here comes the bride: The destination wedding market is a fast growing segment of the wedding and honeymoon industry, up 400 percent in the past ten years.
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Taking advantage of a unique new program offered by Signature Travel Network, Jill Rodriguez of Lake Zurich Travel & Cruise has become a Beverly Clark Certified Romantic Travel Specialist. The program was created by renowned wedding and lifestyle expert Beverly Clark specifically to assist travel agents in gaining more knowledge in the field of romantic travel.
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Wine winners: Vintner's Cellar Winery, 529 N. Milwaukee, Libertyville, recently won two bronze medals in the Mid-American Wine Competition, with its Queen Victoria's Market Shiraz and Peachy Keen Peach Chardonnay. They were selected over 640 entries.
This competition gave wineries the opportunity to have their wines judged against carefully selected food friendly dishes. "Typically wine competitions judge wines only against other wines, and typically the biggest wine wins. But wine is supposed to be consumed with food. So we are going to judge these wines in a setting more conducive to wines of balance, and by judging the wines in a setting more receptive to wines of balance, and by judging the wine with food, we think we will see a different outcome than the usual 'bigger is better' response," noted Chief Judge Doug Frost.