Hi, I'm Rebecca.

I’m an ICF-certified, trauma-informed life, career, and leadership coach with personal experience in storytelling, corporate leadership, and emotional resilience.

I’ve helped people—starting with myself—navigate major transitions: personal, professional, medical and creative. From the C-suite to the blank page, my work is about one thing: helping humans get unstuck.

Before launching my coaching practice, I held leadership roles at eBay, Taboola, and Condé Nast (Vogue, GQ, Glamour). I built marketing strategies, mentored teams, and led high-stakes sales initiatives.

I’ve also lived my transformation through divorce, career changes, sobriety, and five major surgeries to treat a lifelong chronic illness. Those experiences shaped not just my life, but the creation of Rebecca Babcock Coaching and The Babcock Method™—a holistic, purpose-driven approach to fulfillment in all aspects of life.

Over the years, I’ve coached startup founders and executives, creatives, and caregivers.
People at the top of their game who felt secretly stuck, and those quietly reimagining their lives from the middle.

And then one day, I started coaching fictional characters.

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How

Coaching The Character™

Began

This work started with a chat with my lifelong friend, novelist and memoirist Courtney Maum.

Courtney was stuck on a character in her new book and asked if I’d try something different:

“What if I ran your fictional character through the same process I use with my real coaching clients?”

We treated her character like a real person—exploring motivations, emotional blocks, internal conflicts—and within an hour, her character finally made emotional sense.

Courtney called it “therapy for my novel.”

That session opened the door to a whole new way of helping writers bring their people to life—and Coaching the Character™ was born.

I am not a writing coach

I won’t edit your pages. I won’t critique your plot. I help you unlock what’s underneath:

  • Why your characters do what they do

  • What drives them

  • What holds them back

  • ..And how understanding their emotional world can move your story forward—organically, authentically, powerfully.

Because when your characters make emotional sense, everything else clicks into place.

Professional Background

  • ICF-Certified Executive leadership, Life, Career Transition & Trauma Informed coach

  • PCC, ELI-MP, CLDC

  • Certified in Psychological Safety and Emotional Intelligence

  • Founder of Rebecca Babcock Coaching and The Babcock Method™

  • Former leadership roles at eBay, Taboola, and Condé Nast (Vogue, GQ and Glamour Magazines)

  • Years of experience coaching through career transitions, leadership development, and creative blocks

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  • “In one hour, Rebecca helped me knock down the walls I’d built around my character—without even realizing I’d built them.”

    — Courtney Maum, author of Touch and The Year of the Horses

Ready to Meet Your Character—and Yourself—in a New Way?

Start with a free 20-minute clarity call. No pressure, no prep—just space to explore what’s feeling stuck and whether character coaching could help bring your story to life.