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In this episode, Steve Fretzin and Deb Feder discuss:Importance of client relationship management and deepening connectionsPrioritizing tasks to enhance productivity and work-life balanceRole of social media in professional growth and networkingEffective business development and optimizing client interactions Key Takeaways:Lawyers can achieve more sustainable productivity by prioritizing just two major tasks before checking email each day, preventing inbox overwhelm from dictating their workflow.Strategic questioning, like asking "Tell me more" or inquiring about specific client concerns, allows lawyers to gather deeper insights that often reveal additional opportunities to add value.LinkedIn profile optimization—especially the "about" section and professional headline—helps professionals attract the right clients by clearly reflecting their expertise and approach.Lawyers should leverage informal moments and small talk in client interactions to create authentic connections, which ultimately build client loyalty and lead to new business opportunities. "Tell me more… triggers your brain to get back in and actually actively listen, and from there you can thoughtfully respond." —  Deb Feder Got a challenge growing your law practice? Email me at steve@fretzin.com with your toughest question, and I'll answer it live on the show—anonymously, just using your first name! Thank you to our Sponsors!Rankings.io: https://rankings.io/Rainmakers Roundtable: https://www.fretzin.com/lawyer-coaching-and-training/peer-advisory-groups/ Episode References: Make No Small Plans: Lessons on Thinking Big, Chasing Dreams, and Building Community About Deb Feder: Deb Feder, CEO of Feder Development, LLC, is a business development and practice management strategist and coach for lawyers and law firms. Having practiced corporate law for 15 years, her work focuses on helping lawyers and professionals bring in consistent clients through curious, confident conversations. Deb holds a history degree from the University of Michigan and her JD/MBA from the University of Iowa. She completed her coach training and certification through New Ventures West and completed training in The Daring Way, which is based on the research of Dr. Brené Brown. She is the author of After Hello and Tell Me More. Connect with Deb Feder:  Website: https://debfeder.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bizdeb/ Connect with Steve Fretzin:LinkedIn: Steve FretzinTwitter: @stevefretzinInstagram: @fretzinsteveFacebook: Fretzin, Inc.Website: Fretzin.comEmail: Steve@Fretzin.comBook: Legal Business Development Isn't Rocket Science and more!YouTube: Steve FretzinCall Steve directly at 847-602-6911  Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. 

Today, our special guest is Whitney Hess, Founder and Executive Coach of Vicarious Partners Inc. We discuss the power of bravery, vulnerability, and personal growth. Discover how to overcome fear, cultivate self-awareness, and embrace failure as a stepping stone toward success. With practical tips and inspiring stories, this podcast is a must-listen for anyone looking to live a more courageous and purposeful life. Highlights include: 0:00-4:25 - Whitney discusses her perspective on failure 04:26-8:17 - Whitney shares her backstory, including living on a sailboat 08:18-14:03 - The importance of being present and fully engaged with clients 14:04-19:48 - A closer look at the power dynamics in coaching relationships 19:49-24:12 - Whitney shares a personal anecdote 24:13-29:45 - More on coaching, UX, and the challenges facing the field 29:46-33:58 - Whitney's perspective on the risks of pursuing the management track  33:59-38:20 - Coaching dynamics and the importance of an opt-in relationship 43:03-46:26 - Brendan and Whitney highlight the importance of self-reflection Who is Whitney Hess Whitney Hess is a coach, writer, and designer on a mission to put humanity back into business. She believes empathy builds empires, and she helps progressive, creative leaders design their careers and accelerate their missions. Her techniques help people gain self-awareness, identify blind spots, navigate obstacles, and bring their whole selves to their work.   Whitney has been a user experience (UX) consultant for over a decade, hired to make technology easier and more pleasurable. She has been recognized for her work with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Foundation Center, Seamless, Boxee, and WNYC. She is named as a co-inventor on a U.S. patent with American Express.   Whitney is a two-time Carnegie Mellon University graduate with a Master's in Human-Computer Interaction and a Bachelor's in Professional Writing and HCI. She is a Certified Integral Coach through New Ventures West and a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coaching Federation. She writes on her blog Pleasure & Pain, co-hosts the podcast Designing Yourself, and speaks at conferences and corporations worldwide.   Find Whitney Here: Whitney Hess on LinkedIn Whitney Hess Website Whitney Hess Blog Vicarious Partners Inc. on LinkedIn Whitney Hess Email   Subscribe to Brave UX Like what you heard and want to hear more? Subscribe and support the show by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts (or wherever you listen). Apple Podcast Spotify YouTube Podbean Follow us on our other social channels for more great Brave UX content! LinkedIn Instagram Brendan Jarvis hosts the Show, and you can find him here: Brendan Jarvis on LinkedIn The Space InBetween Website

I had the absolute pleasure of sitting down with Matthew Sloane, an artist, writer, and father whose journey from emotional disconnection to self-awareness is both touching and inspiring. We explored Matthew's childhood experiences of loneliness and bullying, his artistic pursuits, and his transformative path through men's work and relationships. Matthew shared candidly about his struggles with perfectionism, putting women on pedestals, and learning to integrate different aspects of himself. His story of creating "The Hiding Inside a Man," a book blending illustrations and personal insights, resonated deeply with me. We delved into the healing power of men's groups, the importance of playfulness in personal growth, and the ongoing practice of maintaining a healthy marriage while navigating parenthood. Matthew's reflections on fatherhood and his mission to give voice to men's inner worlds left me pondering the vital role of creative expression in our journey towards authenticity and connection.Bio:Matthew Sloane, a devoted father and husband for over a decade, brings a wealth of experience as an Integral Coach from New Ventures West. Co-founder and host of the podcast series Project Rad Dad, he fosters candid conversations among fathers. Recognized for his soulful book on masculinity, Hiding Inside a Man (available November 2024), Matthew is currently crafting his second book—an illustrated story for mindful fathers raising spirited daughters. As the creative force behind Fatherhood Dojo, his newsletter and podcast empowers fathers on their journey to authenticity and deeper connections with their true selves, fostering a community of support and growth.Website

Hospice nurse Eileen Spillane of Befriending Death has learned to be comfortable with the uncomfortable. Eileen is the Founder of Befriending Death and has been a Registered Nurse for over thirty years, specializing in Oncology, Critical Care, and Obstetrics. She is a certified Life Coach from New Ventures West, a former Zen Hospice Project Volunteer, a Meditation Teacher, and an Active Travel Guide. She has been at the bedside of many as they transition through the dying process and cares very deeply about this topic. On the Befriending Death website, Eileen writes that “if we have conversations about it (death), we might loosen up the fear and anxiety around it. If we prepare and share our wishes, we can give our loved ones the gift of clarity and direction so they feel confident they are following our wishes and have the opportunity to grieve without further unnecessary stress”. Eileen's courses can benefit everyone, from people with life-changing illnesses to elder law attorneys and caregivers for someone with a chronic illness. The courses include smaller “buddy groups” that create a deeper connection between participants. The Let's Chat About Death course provides an opportunity to investigate what's important in our lives and make changes that reflect that. Find Befriending Death at befriendingdeath.com. Read more about Eileen Spillane here. Be a part of the Let's Chat About Death course here. Enroll in the Befriending Death, Befriending Your Life course coming Sept. 2024 here. Send a message to Befriending Death here. Find all the resources that Barbara Karnes has to offer at bkbooks.com. Purchase the End of Life Guideline Series Bundle here. Find Barbara's new booklet Always Offer, Never Force: Food at the End of Life here. Read Barbara's blog here. Connect with Barbara Karnes on social media: Facebook Insta LinkedIn Twitter Pinterest YouTube Order your copies of The Hospice Care Plan: A Path to Comfort here, now available in English and Spanish! Check out the free library of video tutorials from the creators of The Hospice Care Plan hospice nurses Nancy Heyerman and Brenda Kizzire here. Read more about Nancy and Brenda and their mission to improve hospice care here. Find Odonata Care on social media: Facebook YouTube IG TikTok Hospice Navigation Services is here for you. If you have questions about hospice care or need to troubleshoot the care you're already receiving, book a session with an expert Hospice Navigator at theheartofhospice.com. Book podcast host Helen Bauer to speak at your event or conference by sending an email to helen@theheartofhospice.com. Find more podcast episodes from The Heart of Hospice at The Heart of Hospice Podcast (theheartofhospice.com)

In 1991, James Flaherty, MCC, founder of New Ventures West, graduated from the Hoffman Process in Virginia. After completing the Process, both James and his wife, Stacy, began to sponsor the Process in Virginia. They found the retreat site, enrolled people, scheduled the teachers, and transported them to the retreat site. They did this for six Processes over a few years. As James says, they were, and still are, deeply committed to the Hoffman Process. Often, our hosts ask our guests if there was a pivotal moment in the Process that has stayed with them. For James, it was when he had an epiphany about the gifts he knew he had to offer to this world. When he heard his teacher tell him that he was a powerful person, he felt a weight drop from his shoulders. He realized he could give his gifts to the world in a "better way." James walks us through the kind of coaching training that New Ventures West offers. He articulates beautifully what happens to our hearts when we are young, how heartache can squash our innate goodness, scarring us so our goodness can not get out into the world. James offers how healing it is when we act for the sake of others. In doing so, we receive much in return. With loving generosity, James thanks Hoffman staff and faculty for all they do to support this powerfully transformative work offered through the Hoffman Institute. Thank you, James. We hope you enjoy this heart-opening conversation with James and Sharon. More about James Flaherty: James Flaherty, MCC, founder of New Ventures West, is the author of the seminal text, Coaching: Evoking Excellence in Others. He has developed a uniquely effective approach to adult education by integrating discoveries in linguistics, developmental psychology, sociology, philosophy, and biology into the practical and customized methodology known as Integral Coaching®. He coaches executives, managers, and leaders throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. James lives in San Francisco with his wife and has an adult daughter whom he adores. In addition to being a voracious reader, he practices yoga and qigong. James owns a large collection of CDs, mostly in the classical, rock, and jazz genres. He enjoys theatre and travel. He is a longtime Zen student, studying with Norman Fischer of Everyday Zen. You can find out more about James on his website and on LinkedIn. As mentioned in this episode: New Ventures West, founded in 1987 The Vagus Nerve Some research from Boston College about mentors and mentoring and people dedicated to assisting others had much more happen for them than those who were not. (10:39 marker) Fernando Flores, Chilean engineer, entrepreneur, and politician.            

Entrevista en video ▶Magda es coach integral por la escuela New Ventures West y es economista y máster en género y política social. Desde el 2007 desarrolla su labor como coach personal y consultora de diversidad e inclusión en una consulta privada y a través de varias consultorías internacionales.

A través de doce historias reales de personas que han vivido un proceso de coaching, la autora desgrana con elocuencia y generosidad doce lecciones clave que como humanos necesitamos aprender para crecer y conseguir despertar a nuestra propia naturaleza. Además de ser una introducción inspiradora y accesible al mundo del crecimiento personal, Da vida a tus sueños ofrece prácticas, ejemplos y preguntas esenciales para evolucionar como personas a la vez que manifestamos nuestros mayores anhelos.Magda Barceló Fort es coach integral por la escuela New Ventures West, economista por la Universitat Rovira i Virgili y máster en Género y Política Social por la London School of Economics. Desde 2007 desarrolla su labor de coach personal y consultora de Diversidad e Inclusión en su consulta privada y a través de varias consultoras internacionales. Colabora periódicamente con medios escritos y audiovisuales en temas de desarrollo personal y es autora de Tu vida épica. Una hoja de ruta para tomar las riendas de tu vida y liberar la fuerza de tu propósito, entre otras publicaciones.

If you believed anything was possible, what would you do?  Tony Lillios comes from an immigrant family that somehow made things happen…whole family pitching in to start a small business on a greek island?  No problem.  Squishing 10 family members into a station wagon, along with bikes and all the necessities for a week at the beach?  A little duct tape and rope, and they were off for their holiday adventure.  As an adult, this translated into Tony's work and personal worlds, starting several businesses, completing 12+ IronMans, and and recently climbing in Bhutan with a world famous entrepreneur. However, even for someone who sees limitless possibilities, there are moments when Tony finds himself conforming and feeling smaller than he truly is. It is a growth edge for him, and there are valuable lessons for all of us to learn from his experiences.  Listen in to hear Tony's perfectly imperfect journey.     Bio Tony Lillios is a serial entrepreneur, Integral Coach, TEDx speaker, film producer, and triathlete that has also co-founded Speck Design and Speck Products. Chances are, if you owned a phone between 2008 and 2014, you owned a Speck Products case. Tony and his partners sold the company to Samsonite in 2014 for a reported 85 million dollars and that's when he turned his attention to personal and professional coaching. Today, Tony coaches others by developing an ongoing set of practices that allow them to develop new skills, capacities, and awareness. This system of integral coaching puts you on your path to sustainable transformation. Tony's unique integral approach comes from a blend of his training through New Ventures West, Stagen's Integral Leadership Program, and self-discovery.

THIS EPISODE IS FOR:anyone who hates their job and is ready to make a changeanyone who has the privilege to leave their job and wants ideas on how to prepareanyone who is in a corporate job they want to leaveanyone who has an entrepreneurial spirit, but don't know what to do with ithow to begin finding joy in your work when your current job sucksTODAY'S GUEST: WINN CLARK Winn Clark is a professional coach who works with creative entrepreneurs, coaches, and executives to courageously move forward in their work. In 2016, Winn completed The Professional Coaching Course and was certified as an Integral Coach at New Ventures West in San Francisco, where she's currently an adjunct faculty member. Before coaching, Winn spent over 20 years in the corporate world in marketing and business development in diverse settings including a Fortune 500 company, a financial services start-up, and the world's largest CRM/direct marketing agency. Along the way, she earned an MBA and followed her career to Miami, Minneapolis, and Chicago. Winn coaches clients from around the world in 1:1 and group coaching. She's based out of her home in Paso Robles, on the Central Coast of California where she lives with her partner Ted and their cats Pinot and Noir.HOW TO CONNECT WITH WINN CLARKInstagram @winnclark-LinkedIn Winn Clark-Website www.winnclark.comRESOURCES WE CHATTED ABOUT“The Way of Integrity” Martha Beck “The Hedgehog Concept” Jim Collins“Ikigai” Hector GarciaHERE IS WHAT JUNE & WINN DISCUSSEDIntroducing Winn Clark Winn's definition of joyWhat happens when you're burnt toastGrievances of corporate clients and people who don't love their jobHow much time we spend at workCollective complaintsGolden handcuffsConnecting with our body for wisdomLayoffs / job loss and where to go from hereThe enmeshment of identity and workThe gift of time and guidanceDiscerning who to tell about your new work and ideasThe importance of communityWinn's 3 pieces of advice on how to find joy in your work --------------------------------CONNECT WITH JOY GUIDE JUNE! Website Instagram TikTokYouTube LinkedIn If you'd like to work with June one-on-one, join her Joy Guidance Program! Learn more HERE.

Want to love your work more (...or at all)? Ever struggled with the Inner Critic?? This episode's for you, my friend! Winn Clark, my own former coach and now friend-for-life (she knows, it's not weird...), drops in this week to give you some BIG stuff to think about:

Meet Derek Kirkland, a strategic change leader at DPR Construction as well as a Professional Certified Coach through New Ventures West. Enjoy a spontaneous first time conversation between a SO 3w2 and a SP 3w2 and have fun noting the similarities and differences.  Learn more about the idea of "competition" in the Three, attachment types, and the vision of Kara's new business venture. We also clarify the misconception that "social" means you have a wide group of friends and explore the "role" of being an attractive partner or a "good" parent. Please email me at contact@enneagramblindspots.com if you have questions or have a topic you think would be good to bring to the community. Also feel free to contact me at 847-850-8185 if you would like a free consultation about the services I can provide.

Lou talks with Whitney Hess as she discusses her vast career in UX design and transition into coaching. She breaks down the different methodologies and philosophies she utilizes with each client and how she embodies her work beyond her coaching. Together, Whitney and Lou discuss the different risks and leaps of faith she has had to take during her career and how that ultimately led her to be a more effective coach. Whitney recommends: Upperlimiting is a concept by Gay Hendricks from his book The Big Leap. Here's an article on the hidden barriers that get in the way of us moving from our Zone of Excellence to our Zone of Genius. https://experiencelife.lifetime.life/article/overcome-your-upper-limits/ Whitney Hess is a coach, writer, and designer on a mission to put humanity back into business. She believes empathy builds empires. Whitney helps creative leaders design their careers and accelerate their missions. Her techniques help people gain self-awareness, identify blind spots, navigate obstacles, and bring their whole selves to their work. For more than a decade, Whitney was a user experience consultant making technology easier and more pleasurable to use. She has been recognized for her work with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Foundation Center, Seamless, Boxee, and WNYC. She is named as a co-inventor on a U.S. patent with American Express. Whitney is a two-time graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, with a Master's in Human-Computer Interaction and a Bachelor's in Professional Writing and HCI. She is a Certified Integral Coach through New Ventures West and a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coaching Federation. She writes on her blog Pleasure & Pain, co-hosts the podcast Designing Yourself, and speaks at conferences and corporations worldwide. A native New Yorker, Whitney lives in Maine with her partner Fredrick Selby. They are in the early stages of planning their circumnavigation.

Khai Seng has been in the UX design field since 2004, focusing on design research and interaction design. He was formerly the Head of Singapore for Foolproof, a UK-based experience design agency. He is a firm believer in holistic experience design spanning digital, spatial, product and service domains. However, he also thinks that delivering great design for a client is only part of the equation – it is also key to help clients bring sustained impact and cultural change in the way they work.Learning and people development are in his blood. He has taught at Republic Polytechnic and helped developed the curriculum in anthropological studies, interaction design, experience design and design thinking. He has also spent time growing the UX community in Singapore through organising the UXSG conferences and monthly meet-ups.Throughout his career, Khai Seng has facilitated many workshops and training programmes with C-suite executives and working professionals to drive cultural change within organisations around design and innovation. Khai Seng is also certified as an Integral coach by New Ventures West – that involves helping clients to create and maintain habits of excellence that are self-generating and self-correcting. Come down to hear us cover: - Journey of leading a UX firm and subsequently a Dojo to help leaders and organisations - What leaders should know about the power of facilitation? - Why Studio Dojo organised design challenges for the community?

In this human existence we experience, how do we "come home to ourselves" to truly feel embodied? What does "embodied relaxation" mean to us, and how can we cultivate it? In this talk Anjali shares methods that can lead us to into more spacious states using our bodies, the elements around us, and practices we can explore internally. ____________ Anjali Sawhney (she/her/hers) is a Certified Integral Life Coach from New Ventures West in San Francisco, 2006, and a trained international Leadership Embodiment Teacher (somatic coaching based on Aikido and Mindfulness) with founder Wendy Palmer, 2011. Anjali has coached and led somatics and mindfulness workshops in the movement, nonprofit, corporate, and educational sectors including at the East Bay Meditation Center (where she is also part of the Leadership Sangha Board) as well as the Richmond Community Foundation, California Endowment, Dream Corps, and UCSF. She is also on the facilitation teaching team at Strozzi Institute (Generative Somatics lineage) and Beloved Communities. Anjali also serves directly with untapped BIPOC and LGBTQI+ students, those unhoused, and those in recovery by providing coaching, counseling, and series workshops. Anjali was born in Asia, raised in Los Angeles, and has lived on the east coast of the United States as well as in South and East Asia. She is passionate about rallying untapped folx through coaching, community, and spirituality as well as street protests for equity and systemic change. Anjali is in awe of nature and live music, and on rare occasions is allowed to groove with her teenagers, Aanika and Jai. Support the show______________ To participate live and be notified of upcoming speakers in advance, please Like us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/gaybuddhistfellowship) or visit https://gaybuddhist.org/calendar/ To support our efforts to share these talks with LGBTQIA audiences worldwide, please visit www.GayBuddhist.org.There you can: Donate Learn how to participate live Find our schedule of upcoming speakers Join our mailing list or discussion forum Enjoy many hundreds of these recorded talks dating back to 1996 CREDITSAudio Engineer: George HubbardProducer: Tom BrueinMusic/Logo/Artwork: Derek Lassiter

It's a challenge to create a safe workplace where each of us can thrive, and the pressure falls hard on our leaders. It takes courage and significant motivation to help leaders improve so they can better lead their people in this complex time.   In this episode of Fifth Dimensional Leadership, I interview Edward Sullivan, CEO & Managing Partner at Velocity Coaching. Edward has coached and mentored start-up founders, Fortune 500 executives, and political leaders for over 20 years. Edward helps startup CEOs and their executive teams scale their leadership skills and build cultures of collaboration, high performance, and psychological safety. When working with more established companies, he focuses on helping CEOs transform their teams and culture to be more agile and responsive to compete in today's fast-paced environment.    In our conversation, Edward talks about transforming leadership to build cultures of collaboration, connection, and psychological safety.   Edward holds an MBA from the Wharton School, an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School, and trained as a coach at Co-Active Training Institute and New Ventures West. In addition, Edward has  co-authored several books including Leading with Heart: Five Conversations That Unlock Creativity, Purpose, and Results; The Secret to Becoming a Better Manager; and How to Protect Your Team From a Toxic Work Culture.   Things you will also learn in this episode: Executive coaching as a competitive advantage. How to proactively address toxicity. Why we are in a leadership crisis How to help manage your team's mental health as a leader. Why Edward wants to wage a war on “executive presence.” Quotes: “Coaching is now viewed as a proactive investment in performance as opposed to a remedial bandage that we put on poor performance.” - Edward Sullivan   “Change has to come from [leaders] for the system to heal. Not all systems heal because one person is able to be brave.” - Edward Sullivan   “When a company is printing billions of dollars per year, there's really no incentive to change. But it takes transformative leadership to stop and think if it's the company you want to build.” - Edward Sullivan   “Have the courage to ask for what we need and the curiosity to ask other what they need” - Edward Sullivan   “We can create change in the dysfunctional system by taking off our masks, putting down our shields, and being vulnerable again.” - Edward Sullivan   “Often, the CEO or the Founder has the clearest lens of what good looks like, but if no one is meeting that expectation, it's a leadership problem, not performance.” - Edward Sullivan   “If we endure for months that feeling of not being seen, not emotionally connected, and not appreciated by our team and leaders, that's when we start to feel emotionally exhausted and that is the true cause of burnout.” - Edward Sullivan   “Often, our gifts come from something we had to learn to do to get by in this world.” - Edward Sullivan

What You'll Learn: How our childhood experiences become the undercurrent of our relationship with wealth How to talk to your kids about money in a way that eliminates fear How to find passion and motivation in children in a family business Why Kjartin recommends low-income, high-impact jobs for children of wealth Holding a family conversation about individual and shared purpose How to build support from the family system How to help children who appear to be unmotivated or disinterested The importance of unconditional positive regard How shame compounds stagnation  Keeping generations connected when Next Gen is exploring new possibilities Looking at the family office as an extension of the family system Making sure the family office represents the family and not just specific individuals   Resources:   https://www.graddha.com https://graddha.medium.com/ https://twitter.com/graddha https://www.facebook.com/Graddha https://www.linkedin.com/company/graddha-inc Bios:   KJARTAN JANSEN, MA, CFA Co-founder and CFO, Graddha   Kjartan brings to Graddha a combination of financial acumen, facilitation training and relevant personal experience. With over two decades in finance, he is committed to normalizing it for clients so they can better navigate the complex landscape of wealth. This involves helping clients define their values, and then creating deep alignment with their financial lives and Relationships.   Kjartan's work is informed by multiple roles in several industries. He began his career in technology consulting. He subsequently held roles in investment banking (equity research), venture capital (clean technology), and as a start-up CFO.    He holds a Bachelors degree in Economics from the University of Bergen in Norway, which included a year studying in Germany as a Ruhrgas scholar. He also holds a Masters degree in Applied Economics from the University of Michigan. Additionally, he is a CFA®️ charterholder. In addition to serving on the board of the family office Springcreek Advisors since 2008, he is an active member of the Purposeful Planning Institute, the Family Firm Institute and The Heritage Institute. He serves on the board of the Ree and Jun Kaneko Foundation, and recently deepened his knowledge of trust administration (Cannon Financials Trust Fundamentals) and family enterprise (Family Firm Institutes Certificate in Family Business Advising). Kjartan speaks five languages. When not working with clients, he can be found pursuing adventure on his skis, bike, or surfboard. He likes to travel with his family to his native Norway and anywhere else he can manage to explore and experience the world with them. Kjartan served in the Norwegian Army and is a serious meditator.   MARLIS JANSEN, MA, LMFT Co-Founder and CEO, Graddha   Marlis is a licensed psychotherapist and certified coach who is trained in wealth psychology. In addition, she is a sixth-generation member of a family of stewardship. This combination of professional training with lived experience gives her a unique perspective on the nuances and complexities of owning financial wealth.   Prior to founding Graddha, Marlis worked in healthcare information technology. As a product developer, she designed call-center based services to assist patients in making health care decisions. Marlis also served as Director of Business Development and Director of Product Development in a couple of healthcare startups. Later, her experience as a mom inspired her to contemplate how we ascribe value to people and work.   Marlis holds a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology from Harvard University, a Masters degree in Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies and a Graduate Certificate in Financial Psychology and Behavioral Finance from Creighton University Heider College of Business. She received her certification in integral coaching from New Ventures West.   She is an active member of the Purposeful Planning Institute, Family Firm Institute, The Heritage Institute and the Financial Therapy Association. She serves on the board of the Stone Age Institute and, since 2009, has served as Vice President of The Springcreek Foundation, her family's private philanthropic foundation.   Marlis is proficient in French, Spanish and Norwegian. She loves to enjoy home cooked family dinners, hike Mt. Tam with her family and dogs, travel in unfamiliar countries and cultures, and compel family members to join her in a game of extreme Pictionary as often as she possibly can.

Welcome to Episode 446 of the Yeukai Business Show. In this episode, Yeukai and Thomas L Rosenberg discuss what it means living a life on purpose. So, if you want to know more about living a meaningful life, tune in now! In this episode, you'll discover: Rediscovering what's truly important to you.The power of reconnecting to yourself2 Case studies  About Thomas L Rosenberg  Thomas is Founder and Chief Calming Officer at ReGenerate Coaching. A Certified Integral Coach, he loves guiding people to grow and flourish by rediscovering what's truly important to them. For him, the shift towards rediscovering what is truly important to him occurred after suffering a traumatic brain injury in a near-fatal bicycle accident in June 2014. It compelled him to rediscover the forgotten wisdom of his heart and body. To stop living inside others' stories and expectations. Inspired by the way a dear friend lived richly, shared all her gifts fully, and died with tremendous grace in 2016, he had a deep desire to lead life heart-first. He decided to move towards developing a full-time coaching practice and began his certification in Integral Coaching, which he received from New Ventures West. His approach blends both Integral Coaching and somatic work drawn from his own journey as a coach and human. To deepen his embodiment, he is currently he is pursuing Somatic Coaching certification through the Strozzi Institute. When he isn't supporting individual and team clients to transform their leadership, he also enjoys tending to his garden and dancing Argentine Tango with his wife. More Information Learn more about living a meaningful life at https://www.regenerate.coach/ LinkedIn Facebook Instagram  Thanks for Tuning In! Thanks so much for being with us this week. Have some feedback you'd like to share? Please leave a note in the comments section below! If you enjoyed this episode on How to Expand your Business, please share it with your friends by using the social media buttons you see at the bottom of the post. Don't forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes to get automatic episode updates for our "Yeukai Business Show !" And, finally, please take a minute to leave us an honest review and rating on iTunes. They really help us out when it comes to the ranking of the show and I make it a point to read every single one of the reviews we get. Please leave a review right now Thanks for listening!

As we participate more and more consciously in our own unfolding, we need to ask what is working, what is holding us back, and how can we develop as individuals and collectively in a way that is in harmony with the wider ecosystem? In this conversation with Spring Cheng, Steve March and Jeremy Johnson we explore the concept of liminality, animated intelligence, constructive and destructive developmental methods, two key pathways to creating change, our relationality and connection to the ecosphere, and embracing diversity within and between us. Spring Cheng: Spring Cheng is the co-founder of Resonance Path Institute, a non-profit organization based in Seattle that pioneers research and practice to restore the sensing-feeling-Self to serve the emergence of collective consciousness and wholesome social organizations, and co-author of The Resonance Code. Jeremy Johnson: Jeremy is an author (Seeing Through the World: Jean Gebser and Integral Consciousness), publisher (Integral Imprint), managing editor (Integral Leadership Review), podcaster (Mutations) and integral philosopher. His academic research, writing, and publishing advocates new forays into integrative thinking and praxis—aligning the scholastic, poetic, and spiritual—as existentially crucial work for pathfinding in a time of planetary crisis. Jeremy currently serves as president for the International Jean Gebser Society, and is working on his doctorate in the Philosophy of Religion at the California Institute of Integral Studies. His second book, Fragments of an Integral Future (Integral Imprint) is forthcoming in late 2022. Steve March: Steve March is a senior faculty member of New Ventures West, and founder of the Aletheia school of integral development. He specializes in coaching leaders stepping into new and/or expanded roles and leaders who are burned out (or on the way to becoming burned out). He brings a deep and rich background of sixteen years working in the field of software development as a software engineer, quality manager, senior process consultant, and manager of organizational development. Visit coachesrising.com to see our acclaimed online coach trainings and other offerings. ***Join us for our FREE Coaching Summit THE EVOLUTION OF COACHING from July 7 - 21 2022***

When all eyes are on us, it's easy to fall into people-pleasing and avoiding conflict, all at the expense of hiding our beliefs and personality. So how do we bring our authentic selves to stressful situations like a job interview? In today's conversation, career coach and former Uber leader Neda Jafarzadeh shares her tips to bring your best self to the interview.Neda was a Career Coach Manager at General Assembly, where she coached over 500 people seeking a new career path. She's designed and managed leadership and development programs for leaders of all levels – including executives – at Uber, and built the foundation for the Learning and Development function at Everlane focusing on leadership, team, and employee development. She's also a Certified Professional Coach with New Ventures West. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nedajaf/ Coaching: https://app.carrus.io/s/neda-jafarzadehShow Notes and Highlights:[8:00] The difference between identity and authenticity. The what vs. the how[11:00] What does "being authentic" really mean? Questions to ask yourself. [13:20] Specific examples you can use to identify if you are being authentic or being fake[15:00] The importance of pausing [16:50] Tools to increase self-awareness and recognize how you feel[19:00] The power of naming emotions. Check out Brene Brown's HBO show here that I mentioned: https://brenebrown.com/book/atlas-of-the-heart/ and her book The Gifts of Imperfection https://brenebrown.com/book/the-gifts-of-imperfection/ [20:30] Why being authentic can create discomfort  [26:40] Why it can be hard to be authentic in general, specific situations, and where you're at in Maslow's Hierarchy[27:50] The overriding needs you have and what makes it tough to be real in an interview[28:50] Pre-work for the interview, knowing your strengths [29:00] Dealing with stern-faced interviewers[33:15] Different ways people are being inauthentic[33:57] The downfalls of faking enthusiasm[36:36] Assessing your own strengths and weaknesses [41:30] Sussing out your manager/future boss and if they're the right fit for you, and questions you can ask your manager in the interview[45:40] Tips to judge your interviewer's style and whether the company is a culture fit for you[47:19] Follow-up questions and digging deep once you have the job offer[52:50] Joining a new company and the counterintuitive idea of taking ownership of your own onboarding plan[58:00] Building a network in the first 180 days on the job, casual 1-1s, and leveraging your boss for introsQuestions/Comments/Feedback about this Episode? Drop me an email anytime at misha@carrus.io!

The days of certainty, of reliability in the external world are indubitably over, and our clients are having to navigate their lives within the context of these shifting times. What does that mean for coaching? How can we meet these complex needs and best serve our clients in these times? In this conversation with coach Steve March we unpack the implications of the global moment for coaches and coaching strategies, solid versus fluid identities, fragmenting versus integrating approaches, parts-driven strategies, fragility and resilience, and what kind of coaching can best support people in the current context. Steve March is a senior faculty member of New Ventures West, and founder of the Aletheia school of integral development. He specializes in coaching leaders stepping into new and/or expanded roles and leaders who are burned out (or on the way to becoming burned out). He brings a deep and rich background of sixteen years working in the field of software development as a software engineer, quality manager, senior process consultant, and manager of organizational development.

Effective leadership starts with a clear vision and defined purpose of direction so you can lead with clarity and conviction. For Thomas Rosenberg “I have always been passionate about helping folks grow and transform. However, coming from a medical and scientific family, I felt the need to pursue a technical career path in order to be seen as a man.” Over the course of my 25+ year career, I've worked in a variety of sectors and roles, often as a technical subject matter expert, with people and teams from different cultures in over 20 countries on 5 continents. The underlying theme through it all has been helping people and their organizations become comfortable with change, to lead change, and to flourish. Although I didn't always recognize it at the time, I instinctually found opportunities to insert myself into coaching situations. My journey to this work, comes from decades of head-centered leadership that left me spinning my wheels professionally. After suffering a traumatic brain injury in a near-fatal bicycle accident in 2014, and inspired by the way a dear friend lived richly, shared all her gifts fully and died with tremendous grace in 2016, I was compelled to rediscover the forgotten wisdom of my heart and body. This changed my life and my leadership. I had a deep desire to lead life heart-first. I decided to move towards coaching full-time. I began my certification as an Integral Coach, which I received from New Ventures West. As a Certified Integral Coach, my approach blends both Integral Coaching and somatic work drawn from my own journey as a coach and human. Integral Coaching is a developmental approach that takes into consideration the client's entire being and their social context. In other words, I help to align your head, heart and body. When all three elements are aligned, we more easily fall into flow states and because we uncover our gifts and bring them more fully to the world, the most authentic and powerful version of ourselves arises. He joined me this week to tell me more. For more information: https://www.regenerate.coach/ LinkedIn: @ThomasLoxleyRosenberg Email: thomas@regenerate.coach

This week's guest is David Lesser, the Founder & CEO of Numina, whose main mission is to empower people to discover their unique gifts, strengths and talents and create the most conducive setting to express them. They also launched The Numina Transformation Retreat at the beginning of the pandemic, which is a half-day experience of deep reflection and vision to fuel the next chapter of your life. In this episode, David Lesser and I sit down and talk about his coaching background and what led him to finding Numina. As an executive coach, David Lesser thought it would be helpful to create a program where people can experience a do it yourself, at home transformation retreat, using the following 5 key processes: Discover the future you want, reveal what matters most to you. Learn from past experiences, explore basic problems on your own. Understand what drives you, realize your unique gifts, strengths and talent. Recognize what holds you back, take different points of view and unleash sabotage. Commit to your next steps, walk away from the retreat with new ideas you have come up with. We also talk about the most common emotions driving change, and why it's so important for people to discover their true passions and gifts in order to live a purposeful, fulfilling life. Other topics include how to handle emotions, which involves observing them, rather than associating your identity with them, how to handle intensity or certain flaws/ traits that disturb others, embracing who you are and the power of self awareness, change and transformation. Feel free to leave a positive review on Apple Podcasts if you enjoyed this episode and be sure to share this with a friend! You can also email any questions or feedback to thecityconfessions@gmail.com. SPECIAL OFFER: Get 20% off the Numina At-Home Transformation Retreat from March 29th- April 28 by using this link here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/mpc/A1BAOGBKKKQBNK About David Lesser: David is a social entrepreneur who believes the best way to change the world is to empower people to be more fully themselves. He has guided people and organizations through crucial transitions for over 35 years, acting as coach and confidant to CEOs and senior executives aspiring to the highest levels of personal growth in a variety of fields. David is passionate about helping executives, teams and individuals to discover their unique gifts, strengths and talents and to find the most conducive setting to express them. He believes strongly in the power of creating personal networks of support for people to encourage and inspire each other to realize their full potential. David has an MBA from London Business School. Formerly CEO of a $100m London-based real estate and construction group and executive director of a $40m worldwide not-for-profit operation, he combines a strong management pedigree with perceptive facilitation skills and clear insight in working with people. David has held senior corporate positions in marketing, real estate and corporate finance. He has taught as visiting professor at Redlands University and spoken at a number of conferences in the US, Europe and Africa. David is trained in emotional process work with Shadow Work training, facilitation with Interaction Associates and in coaching with New Ventures West, and is a certified transformational forum facilitator for Young President's Organization. He has learned Golden Shield Qigong under Paul Holden and Attunement Energy Work under Roger de Winton. David was born in London, England. He moved to Colorado, USA, in 1994. Since 2004, he has been living with his wife, Chellsa, near San Francisco, California. https://numina.team/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thecityconfessions/support

Lucy Basta is an expert in technology, a leadership coach, and the Co-founder of WorkWell, a career-empowering community for women. Lucy and her co-founder, Whitney Cole, started the business to ensure that people of all kinds can equip themselves with successful careers in the tech industry. Lucy has had a diverse career, ranging from emergency room worker to Learning and Development Leader at Apple. From there, she found her niche in leadership coaching and professional preparation. Lucy is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) through New Ventures West and has a degree in Business Leadership and Management from the University of California, Berkeley. In this episode… Diversity has become more important than ever in the workplace. Not only is the topic essential as the cry for equality becomes unanimous, but it's also an impediment for businesses. A lack of diversity can stifle creativity and stop you from reaching an expanding global market. A diverse team can reach new demographics and bring unexplored talents to the table. It truly is the best way for businesses to move into the future. And now, there are companies designed to help that process along. WorkWell is a job accelerator that offers career search, interview skills, and a lifelong community for people entering the tech industry. Their goal is to help people secure these positions and help them transition into their new roles. There are some important skills that candidates should hone if they want to make it in the industry. So, what are they? Dov Pollack sits down with Lucy Basta, the Co-founder of WorkWell, to learn about the importance of diversity in the workplace and the skills needed to work together. They start with Lucy's own career and how she adapted at Apple as a fish out of water. Then, they chat about career preparation, the community building most corporations overlook, which habits to unlearn and how to replace them, and more. Find out more by tuning in to this episode of the Next Wave Leadership podcast.

In this conversation with executive coach Amiel Handelsman we dive into the diversity within the anti-racism movement, how coaches can help, the Omni-American vision, working with white shame and embodied racism. Amiel Handelsman is an executive coach and change consultant, helping leaders and teams rise to the challenge of complexity. He is passionate about navigating cultural waters as an anti-race anti-racist. Amiel has been developing leaders since 1993 and previously directed business development for New Ventures West. He's the author of Practice Greatness: Escape Small Thinking, Listen Like A Master, And Lead With Your Best.

In this special edition of 'Turning Towards Life' Lizzie and Justin talk about the Thirdspace Professional Coaching Course (offered in partnership with New Ventures West), a certification programme in integral development coaching which is at the heart of Thirdspace's work and a project of great joy and love for both of us. Over the course of our conversation you'll hear what makes this special programme unique, how it changes participants and what it makes possible, the distinction between 'developmental' and other kinds of coaching, and more about the details and structure of the programme. You can read more about the course (the 'PCC'), which begins in July 2021 at www.wearethirdspace.org.

Mary Mosham is an award-winning leadership coach, mindfulness teacher, and author. She specializes in leadership, team, and personal development, yoga and meditation, and corporate mindfulness. With over 20 years’ experience in corporate change consulting and management at Cisco and Fortune 100 companies, she pioneered innovative people development solutions and led global change efforts that enhanced organization, leadership, and team performance. Mary earned a master’s degree in organization development from Pepperdine University and ICF professional coach certifications from New Ventures West and Marcus Buckingham Company. She has received numerous awards, including Cisco’s Coach of Excellence award. She is a certified facilitator in leading-edge programs and assessments, including Potential Project’s corporate mindfulness programs, Leadership Circle Profile™, Hogan, StandOut, Emotional Intelligence (EQ-i®), and Enneagram. She is the author of Mindful Career: Seven Keys to End Burnout and Unlock Your Greatest Potential. Away from work, she is passionate about traveling, hiking, healthy living, sponsoring the Tibetan Children Foundation, and creating a more sustainable world.     = = = = = The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience more success, energy, and LIFE as the leader of your business, career, side hustle, or passion.   We always appreciate your 5-star rating and review of the show. Thank you for helping us get the word out about PYP!   Here are a few ways I can help you: Share this episode with one person who could use a boost of inspiration and positivity today. Grab your copy of my leadership playbook that teaches you the 11 skills you can quickly master to become an exceptional leader.   Buy one of my books on Amazon and leave me a 5-star review. Want to explore what a coaching relationship with me could be like for you on the next leg of your business or professional journey? Book a free 15-minute discovery here!

Deb Feder is a business development coach, strategist, owner and CEO of Feder Development LLC, a consulting firm focused on helping lawyers bring in consistent clients through curious, confident conversations and changing the way we view productivity for professionals. Deb believes in dropping excuses and simple productivity solutions. Using LinkedIn as a platform to validate and share ideas, Deb helps professionals engage in meaningful content and connections. For the last decade, Deb has committed herself to changing the way we think about work-life balance and tackle high stakes work, allowing for big careers and enjoying our free time. Deb leads the community in dropping excuses, getting productive, and bringing in business through the monthly membership program, Focus30. Prior to founding Feder Development, Deb practiced corporate law for 15 years and holds a history degree from the University of Michigan and her JD/MBA from the University of Iowa. Deb completed her coach training and certification through New Ventures West and completed the training in The Daring Way™, which is based on the research of Dr. Brené Brown. As a contributing author to the best-selling anthology #Networked, Deb shares her common-sense approach to building business relationships. Deb is a frequent speaker at conferences, podcasts, CLE programs, and corporate retreats on business development, productivity, networking, authenticity, and communication. In this episode, we discuss building relationships, the right way. What is Focus30? What is great about LinkedIn for business development? What's the one piece of advice for professionals wanting to take their career to the next level?

On Episode 018, Garland interviews Tovi Scruggs-Hussein, leadership coach Highlights of Episode 018:Tovi Introduction - 2:30Drivers in Education - 6:45Whiteness - 10:15Racial Healing + Allyship - 12:25Our Being Impacts our Doing - 15:00Let’s get Spiritual - 19:30Intro to Meditation - 26:45What can Parents do? - 30:30What’s next? - 38:21Inclusion & Full Circle - 43:03Afterthoughts 44:57Tovi C. Scruggs-Hussein is a visionary educator, author, and award-winning urban high school principal with over 25 years of emotional intelligence and self-mastery experience. She has served as California’s Regional Executive Director of Partners in School Innovation, founding co-director of the Association of CA School Administrators Equity Leaders Academy and Regional State Equity Representative, and co-founded a secondary school. Tovi is the founding co-teacher of the trauma-informed leadership course at Mills College. Most recently, Tovi was personally trained with Brené Brown and is a Certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitator and Courage Catalyst. Her other certifications are numerous and include Integral Coaching by New Ventures West, Search Inside Yourself, and Niroga Institute. Connect with Tovi:https://www.ticiess.com/IG: @goddessatworkhttps://www.facebook.com/tovi.scruggs.9https://www.linkedin.com/in/tovicscruggs/ Racial Healing Allies workshop: https://www.ticiess.com/racial-healing-alliesDare to Lead Immersion Program: https://www.ticiess.com/dare-to-leadParent Champion: https://amzn.to/2Ntq09rArticle about Parent Advocacy: https://bit.ly/2NDwUcs// Connect with and learn more about your host, Garland Fuller:Web: garlandfuller.comInstagram: @FullCircleWithGarlandLinkedIn: LinkedIn.com/in/garlandfullerSupport the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/garland)

Deb Feder is a business development coach, strategist, owner and CEO of Feder Development LLC, a consulting firm focused on helping lawyers bring in consistent clients through curious, confident conversations and changing the way we view productivity for professionals. Deb believes in dropping excuses and simple productivity solutions. Using LinkedIn as a platform to validate and share ideas, Deb helps professionals engage in meaningful content and connections. For the last decade, Deb has committed herself to changing the way we think about work-life balance and tackle high stakes work, allowing for big careers and enjoying our free time. Deb leads the community in dropping excuses, getting productive, and bringing in business through the monthly membership program, Focus30. Prior to founding Feder Development, Deb practiced corporate law for 15 years and holds a history degree from the University of Michigan and her JD/MBA from the University of Iowa. Deb completed her coach training and certification through New Ventures West and completed the training in The Daring Way™, which is based on the research of Dr. Brené Brown. As a contributing author to the best-selling anthology #Networked, Deb shares her common-sense approach to building business relationships. Deb is a frequent speaker at conferences, podcasts, CLE programs, and corporate retreats on business development, productivity, networking, authenticity, and communication. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/freeman-means-business/support

This episode goes behind the scenes with Lynn Simon to hear how she has addressed nearly 20 years of battling insomnia; her recent transition to a multi-generational household; and her career path in the sustainable building industry, including her current role leading real estate sustainability globally for Google.Lynn’s bio:Lynn N. Simon, FAIA, LEED Fellow, is head of Sustainability for Real Estate and Workplace Services at Google. She leads a team that focuses on three primary areas: accelerating carbon free buildings, mobility & living; advancing circular systems; and cultivating healthy spaces and places. Lynn is responsible for leading the strategic vision across REWS sustainability initiatives and programs from establishing baseline standards across a global real estate portfolio to strategic thought leadership on targeted aspirational goals.She is a recognized pioneer in the sustainable building industry as well as an entrepreneur and catalyst for change. Lynn has consulted on millions of square feet of sustainable projects ranging from multi-family, affordable housing to large scale commercial and institutional projects. She is an experienced and popular speaker on sustainability and leadership topics. Lynn has received several honors including the USGBC’s President's Award (2011); the Women in Sustainability Leadership Award from gb&d magazine (2017); and the SHERO Leadership Award from the USGBC Pacific Region (2020). Lynn is also a certified professional coach through New Ventures West.Resources:Cognitive therapy courseFitBitNew Ventures West coaching programLynn’s recommended books:Daisy Jones and & The Six, by Taylor Jenkins Reid- loosely patterned after Fleetwood MacTeam of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World by Stanley Gen. McChrystal The Weight of Ink, by Rachel Kadish

It’s not every day I get to ask a decision engineer a question. This week, Michelle Florendo joins me on the podcast. She is an executive coach who helps people untangle messy decisions in life and work. You are going to enjoy this conversation if you’ve ever found yourself in a position in making a messy decision. Michelle shares her step-by-step process for making decisions and also helps us untangle the difference between good vs. bad decisions and the desired outcomes.    After studying decision engineering at Stanford University, she spent the past 15 years helping hundreds of professionals use the principles of decision engineering to make decisions with less stress and more clarity. She has led workshops on decision making for both domestic and international audiences, guest-taught on decision making in Stanford's famous Designing Your Life course, been a repeat workshop lead at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business' Women in Leadership Conference, and currently hosts the podcast Ask A Decision Engineer. She served on the inaugural coaching team for Seth Godin's altMBA, is a founding member of the Forbes Coaches Council, is a Senior Coach for Management Leadership for Tomorrow, and is an adjunct faculty member at New Ventures West. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and two small children.   During our time together, Michelle also explained how we have two thinking systems and how we can begin to use the system that is effortless, fast, and often undervalued in our society which tends to value our brainpower over what our heart and gut may be saying. Enjoy.  Highlights:  The characteristics of typical decisions. (6:49)  How to know when you need a decision scientist to have your back. (7:32) There are emotional components to making decisions that require understanding what our emotions are telling us. (9:09) FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) and how we are socialized to think about optimal decisions. (10:13) Michelle shares about how she made the decision to leave a full-time job to work for herself. (11:55) Feeling lost and ashamed about making the wrong career decision and how Michelle applied her expertise to her situation. (14:50) Decisions are made of three components: objective, options, and information on how those options may have on your big objective. (15:51) When we are judged for our decisions: we talk about career trauma or a visceral reaction. (20:42) If a decision had a good outcome then that decision must have been good. Alternatively, if the outcome is bad then the decision must have been bad. Michelle explains how neither of these views is always true and how outside forces can affect decision outcomes. (21:43) System 2 thinking (slow, cerebral, analyzing, effortful) versus System 1 thinking (fast, intuitive, sometimes prone to bias, effortless). (24:48) How we can expand the capacity of either thinking system. (27:05) Is being an entrepreneur or full-time corporate professional more mentally draining? (28:51) Making a career pivot. Pivoting requires one decision and then smaller decisions may be needed to support your success too. (32:26) How to make a decision using System 1 Thinking 101:  write everything in your brain down, then imagine stepping into each option, and tune into what you feel. Ask yourself: are you feeling something that is contrary or not? What is the emotion telling me? Is it fear or a settling? What happens to your heart rate? Give yourself space to explore. How might you use this data? (46:11)  Realizing that you can make the best decision and be vigilant enough to know when you need to make another decision too. (52:00)  Links to quench your curiosity: Read the book Thinking Fast, Slow Learn more about Michelle Catch Michelle on Instagram

A bonus episode describing and exploring the Thirdspace Professional Coaching Course in London, which this year is being offered as a completely on-line programme beginning September 2020.  In this special edition of 'Turning Towards Life' Lizzie and Justin talk about the Thirdspace Professional Coaching Course, offered this year as a completely on-line programme beginning September 2020 (offered in partnership with New Ventures West), a certification programme in integral development coaching which is at the heart of Thirdspace's work and a project of great joy and love for both of us.  This year we're offering the PCC as a completely on-line programme. Over the course of our conversation you'll hear what makes this special programme unique, how it changes participants and what it makes possible, the distinction between 'developmental' and other kinds of coaching, and more about the details and structure of the programme. You can read more about the programme on the Thirdspace website (https://audioboom.com/posts/7478045-bonus-the-thirdspace-professional-coaching-course-starts-september-2020/_wp_link_placeholder) . 

Holly interviews Sean Fargo – the hardest working man in the mindfulness field. With over 12,000 hours on the meditation pillow and an incredible journey from there to being a leading entrepreneur, Sean’s background includes: ·     Certified Instructor, Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute (the mindfulness program born at Google) ·     Chief Zen Officer & Director of Mindfulness Program Development, WellBrain ·     Certified Integral Coach, New Ventures West ·     Buddhist Monk For 2 Years (2008-2010), Thai Theravada Tradition ·     Founder & Teacher, Mindfulness Exercises ·     Mindfulness Teacher for San Francisco & Silicon Valley, Refresh Body ·     Advisory Board Member, ID8TE ·     Mindfulness Teacher, Spirit Rock Meditation Center Questions Holly and Sean cover: ·     How are you merging the religious background into the secular world? ·     What is one of the exercises you’re most passionate about? ·     How do you distinguish mindfulness from meditation? ·     What do you tell someone who claims “I just can’t meditate.”? ·     What do you think the future of mindfulness in a business context? With over 2000 mindfulness exercises and courses on https://mindfulnessexercises.com/, Sean says that one of his most favorite is “Just Like Me” which brings awareness to a particular person and the guided meditation to reflect on how the person is a human being just like me. This exercise fosters compassion and empathy, tapping into that person’s experience. He does admit that many people may not have the courage to step into this exercise because it can create discomfort. Mindfulness in business creates an advantage for morale, the bottom line, mental health, comradery and communication practices. Join Sean in his teachings at https://mindfulnessmastermind.com/, https://mindfulnessexercises.com/ and https://seanfargo.com/ Remember – Mindful Matters and So Do YOU! Find more resources at https://www.everydaymindfulnessshow.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amy is a motivating and inspirational career coach and trusted advisor. She helps corporate professionals and executives make their next career move. She is the owner of Better Path Coaching, LLC and is excited to be on her journey to building a positive and robust coaching practice.She also works as a certified executive coach with Challenger, Gray & Christmas, a national outplacement company, where she leads and facilitates individual and group coaching sessions for business executives, leaders and professionals facing or experiencing change/transition in their job, career and in life. She specializes in helping her clients rediscover their hidden talents, deepen their self-awareness and emotional intelligence to inspire authentic leadership and real action. She leads workshops and day-long retreats for women that enhance self-awareness, improves self-esteem, and generates a positive mind-set.Ms. Krymkowski began her career in Human Resource Management, with a specialty in Employee Relations and worked in several industries including biotechnology, retail and manufacturing for several Fortune 100 companies including Genentech, Men’s Warehouse, Pillsbury and Rockwell Automation.She is a certified Integral Coach® from New Ventures West. She has a Master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in Human Resources and Labor Relations and a Bachelors of Arts degree from University of Wisconsin- Madison in Psychology and a certificate in Women’s Studies.

A bonus episode describing and exploring the Thirdspace Professional Coaching Course in London, which begins June 2020.  In this special edition of 'Turning Towards Life' Lizzie and Justin talk about the Thirdspace Professional Coaching Course beginning June 2020 (offered in partnership with New Ventures West), a certification programme in integral development coaching which is at the heart of Thirdspace's work and a project of great joy and love for both of us. Over the course of our conversation you'll hear what makes this special programme unique, how it changes participants and what it makes possible, the distinction between 'developmental' and other kinds of coaching, and more about the details and structure of the programme. You can read more about the course (the 'PCC') at  www.thirdspacecoaching.com (http://www.thirdspacecoaching.com/)

Our clients are facing situations in our ever more complex world that defy simplistic problem-solving. How can we help to foster deep resilience and availability to what is being asked of our clients in these times of upheaval? In this conversation with senior coach Steve March we explore an emergent approach to working with fear and personal growth utilizing the Four Depths model and how to move our clients into deeper levels of presence. Steve March is a senior faculty member of New Ventures West, and founder of the Aletheia school of integral development. He specializes in coaching leaders stepping into new and/or expanded roles and leaders who are burned out (or on the way to becoming burned out). He brings a deep and rich background of sixteen years working in the field of software development as a software engineer, quality manager, senior process consultant, and manager of organizational development.

My guest today is Andrea Mignolo. Andrea is VP of Product and Design at Movable Ink, a marketing technology company based in New York. In this episode, we discuss design as a way of being in the world, and why it matters. Listen to the full conversation https://theinformeddotlife.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/the-informed-life-episode-22-andrea-mignolo.mp3 Show notes Andrea Mignolo's website Andrea Mignolo on Twitter Andrea Mignolo on Medium Oberlin College Free Speech TV Rails Ember.js Reflections on Business, Design, and Value by Andrea Mignolo Learning Through Worldmaking: The Design Way by Andrea Mignolo The Interaction Design Association VUCA Peter Senge Phil Gilbert Sketch Photoshop New Ventures West Andrea's Experiential Learning Cycle diagram Case Western Reserve University Fernando Flores BEING IN THE WORLD (2010 documentary file) Martin Heidegger Humberto Maturana John Dewey Read the full transcript Jorge: All right, Andrea, welcome to the show. Andrea: Thank you for having me. I'm really excited to be here. Jorge: So for folks who don't know you would you please introduce yourself? Andrea: Sure. My name is Andrea Mignolo. I'm currently the Vice President of product and design at Movable Ink, a company in New York. I'm a designer by background. I came into it through interaction design and had a very winding path to where I am today. Jorge: I'm curious about that, how has the path wound? Andrea: My path started in… Probably in college. I went to Oberlin, and they have a program for… They have the ability for you to design your own major and I was very interested in technology. The internet was pretty nascent at that point, and I was really curious about how we shape technology and how technology shapes us. And I didn't know about HCI at the time I think the programs that were visible to me were probably like the science technology and Society programs. So I kind of looked to those to model my own major and built something called techno-cultural studies. After that, I was really curious about just working in technology, so I ended up as a video game tester and then made my way over to running digital systems for a nonprofit called Free Speech TV from there. I went to Japan and taught English for four years business English, but while driving between all of the different companies that I was teaching at. I listened to a lot of podcasts, and this is kind of after the first internet crash the dot com bust, and new things were starting to happen on the internet. And I was just really obsessed with what people were building and what people were doing, and it was around that time also through these podcasts that I started to learn about interaction design. And something with that clicked for me, and I realized that is the thing that I wanted to do. So from there, I made my way back to the States, gradually. I had a stop in Vancouver worked for some [inaudible] agencies, and then ended up in New York during a time where Rails is really getting big. And there were a number of interesting startup things happening. And so it's just really windy. Jorge: It sounds like the implementation side of things has played a role in your foundations as a professional. Do you consider yourself a more technically-inclined designer?  Andrea: In my earlier days, I was definitely doing a lot more front-end development work, Was a WordPress developer for a while when I came to New York I joined a company that was. Kind of bringing in design for the first time. But they were a Rails shop. And so, I started to learn Rails. At my previous company, we used Ember, and I did all of the front-end development work for the first few years in that platform. These days, I don't… Well, I am writing a little bit of code for a marketing site, but for the most part, I'm not doing that much anymore. But yeah, I would definitely say that I have a technical background. Jorge: You've posted several articles to Medium that drew my attention, and I wanted to talk about that a little bit. You talk in these articles about the value of design, and the idea that design perhaps is not as valued as it should be. Would you please elaborate a bit on this idea of the value of design, as you see it? Andrea: Yeah, I'll see if I can unravel that when I first encountered design… Again, I think it was through interaction design, the Interaction Design Association, there's something with it that really clicked for me. It was suddenly, “Oh, this is how I see the world. This is how I interact with it this is how I learn.” Which, you know coming up through the American school system, Oberlin was a great school and had kind of different styles of teaching, but we ended up in a lot of classrooms all the time just receiving information. And ever since then, I've just been kind of obsessed with it at first in my early career like what does it mean to be a designer? How do you engage in the craft of design? But then, in more recent years, I've been really trying to unravel, “What is it that we're doing when we design?” Because I think it's that attitude or that posture, that perspective, that allows us to explore the world in a unique way. I think that's really the value. And also, obviously, the artifacts that we're making that can push conversations along, etc. And everything that I'm talking about and writing about right now, I'm in the midst of like, there's a lot that's swirling, and I have a lot of unpublished posts and things that I'm trying to articulate to really get hands on this. And so, it's still like a process in the midst of. Jorge: I'm going interpret what it is that I read, and you tell me if that corresponds with the intent, is that design can be not just for making things but also as a way of knowing the world, somehow. Andrea: Yeah. Jorge: As a way of putting small feelers out that allow organizations to experiment with different ways of being. Andrea: Yeah. Jorge: You talk about the concept of VUCA. Could you unpack that a bit? Andrea: VUCA is volatile, uncertain, ambiguous, and what's the C? I can't remember. Jorge: Complexity? Andrea: It might be. But just this idea that we don't live in a predictable world. We never have. There might have been a moment of perceived stability in our kind of limited human senses. But especially now, the complexity of the systems that we've built and the pushing of the ecosystem to the edge of sustainability, there's nothing predictable anymore. Jorge: Yeah, certainly. And business cycles seem to be… Not getting shorter, but the changes that are experienced in each cycle seem to be bigger in some way. It's one of the things that resonated with me when I when I read them, this notion that the traditional way that business folk have gone about making decisions has had to do with models they build in spreadsheets, that presume that there are things about the future they can control or that they can they can forecast. And the argument that I thought you were making with the post was that design gives you a different way of knowing about the future, that doesn't have to do with the numbers. Andrea: Yeah, absolutely. And it's, a lot of times the numbers, again, they point to potential certainty. And I think it's important to use the numbers, and there are other models in financial valuation that can take in risk ambiguity and kind of different paths, but I think what design really points to is this ability to look very broadly and explore a lot of different scenarios that can be valuable to a business and to constantly… I think the reason why it's… The learning part is very interesting to me and very important, and I think it dovetails with some of Peter Senge's writings, is can it shift a conversation into what do we need to learn or what do we not know? There's so much in conversations with business and ROI that's just about like this is the thing. This is the way it is. Versus shifting into this constant open, curious, learning system that helps a business navigate all of these kinds of complexities. Jorge: How would it do that through design? Andrea: It's a good question, what I'm still working on and trying to figure out. But I think, in a lot of ways, it's potentially using things like design thinking across an organization to help shift some of these conversations. I think a lot of people talk about wanting design-driven companies, but I think that that's maybe a little too much hubris. I think it's really design helping facilitate and spread these activities ways of thinking ways of exploring into other departments as well or just creating a culture where this is part of the approach. I think it might have been Phil Gilbert I was talking to, where one of the first things they did at IBM and they were spinning up design was that they partnered with HR and started working with how can design and HR work together to create human-centered experiences for employees. So I think there's this kind of… Depending on the size of the organization, other things are happening. It's a slow process. It's… you know, you're a system inside another system, and all these systems are dynamic and at play. And so you have to figure out how do you start putting, I think you had mentioned earlier, these feelers out. Or, how do you start doing small things and seeing how those start to shift and change in the conversations that are happening? And so, I'm in the midst of being, I think… My writings right now are very abstract about it because I have to figure out what the thing is that I'm pointing to before bringing it back into, and in practice, where all those things are also happening, and what does it look like. Jorge: I'm not familiar with Movable Ink. What does Movable Ink do? Andrea: So we are a B2B SAAS company. We are in the marketing technology space, and basically I describe it as “design tool kits plus APIs.” So the idea is that marketers have very advanced marketing strategies, but it's very hard to create all the content to serve, especially when we're talking about things like micro-segmentation. It's hard to get all of the creative and content to serve the various audiences that marketers are trying to reach. So basically, we connect APIs to creative, like a Sketch- or Photoshop-like tool that we have. And you can connect your APIs to that, and then just generate creative at scale. So a lot of designers at some point in their career have created hundreds of banner ads for various things. And so we can automate a lot of that. So it's kind of an interesting creative automation space that we're playing in. Jorge: So if I'm understanding that correctly, it makes iterating through designs that are perhaps very similar in some ways, iterating through variations in an automated fashion. Andrea: Yeah, what will happen is that the creative will be composed at the moment someone uses it. So we take in contextual signals etc. so that there is a level of personalization. We started in email, so it was very opt-in. Right now, we're moving into web and mobile. But yeah, so we take certain things that we know about the person, where they are, their name, etc. And instead of having a team who's creating each one of those variations, the system just does it at the moment the person looks at the creative. So it's not replacing the design tools that designers are using it's more once those have been made marketing teams can take them, they connect data and then have them generate all the variations when somebody views it. Jorge: I know organizations who would immediately see the value in having a way of scaling up their design production work through something that lets them plug their design tools into their APIs. I also know lots of organizations for whom, if I described that phrase, they would not even understand what I'm talking about. There's this big gap in the world between those. I'm wondering, how does one appeal to them? How does one talk to folks? I'm asking because I'm struggling with the same thing. It's like, how does one get folks to understand that the way that type of work has been done for a long time has gone away, and it's moving to this other domain? Andrea: I'm going to answer that probably more broadly than specifically about Movable Ink. But I recently completed a coaching program from New Ventures West in integral coaching, which is a kind of ontological approach to coaching and ways of being. And one of the things that you learn in coaching is that you have to meet the person where they're at in order for developmental work to begin. And that when you start working with a client, there has to be an opening. And I think those two things are also very critical in working with organizations where there has to be an opening, something that has happened to make them open to, “Hey, wait a minute. Something's not right here. We need to fix this.” Or you know, whatever it might be. And then the other is just, you have to meet them where they're at. And one of the reasons I ended up going to business school and getting an MBA was, I wasn't sure how to have conversations with business using design language. So a lot of times you're having those conversations, not talking about design at all, which I think some designers are uncomfortable with. But we only started using the word “design” in the 14th century, maybe. But I would argue we've been doing it for quite a bit longer than that. So whatever it is that you're getting to, you're trying to drive certain outcomes and work on something together. Language is also a technology, so use the one that's going to help facilitate that communication and start transforming into whatever it is that you're trying to get to. Jorge: There's a diagram in one of your Medium stories that has what I see as a sort of feedback loop. It has a feedback loop where you have four stages of what you've labeled the Experiential Learning Cycle. Can you describe those? Andrea: Yeah, the Experiential Learning Cycle is actually something that I learned when I was in my MBA program. So this is all research and scholarship that comes out of Case Western Reserve University. And it was just so fascinating being in school and everything that we would learn, I'd be like, “Oh, that sounds like design.” And that was something we did in the first the very first session we had together, and we all took… It's called the learning style inventory. I use it with my teams at work. And there's a quick survey or whatever you can take to understand where you fall, or where your comfort zone is, in the learning style inventory. And so we did this in the beginning, and part of it was because we needed to understand… There are certain polarities in that learning cycle where two people might… It might be very hard for them to work together if they don't understand where their comfort zones are, which is why it's really great to use for teams. But we did this because we had to form our study groups, and we were stuck with a study group for two years. So they had us, you know, visualize everyone on a Big Grid and then we kind of… They locked us in a room, and we had to form chains, and it was really awkward. But anyway, I remember learning about this when we saw the experiential learning cycle. And I went up to my professor, and I was just like, “Oh, this is design. This is what we do when we design.” He looked at me. And so, I've been thinking about that a lot, and it wasn't till I had some time after graduation that I could start exploring that more. But I think that as we move through, what I like about the experiential learning cycle is that it has these two axes. One is about transforming experiences; the other is about grasping those experiences. I think that there are things that they get mapped to. But as you're moving through it, there are these tensions that you're trying to resolve to understand what's happening. And I think that those tensions are where creativity comes from. And so it gets very interesting when you map that to design. And I, originally in that post, I also segued into double-loop learning, but then it just got overwhelming. So there's another article at some point that's about the double-loop learning with experiential learning, but that's for later. Jorge: You talked about these two sets of tensions, and you described one of them as… I'm probably not going to use the exact terms you used, but the way that I understood them is, one of them has to do with changing things in some way, and the other has to do with reflecting on the impact of those changes. Is that right? Andrea: The reflection can happen. In the Experiential Learning Cycle the transforming experience is acting and reflecting, and then the other axis is feeling and thinking. And so it's kind of like an understanding versus reflection. Jorge: So the way I'm understanding this is that this is a way of understanding what's going on by making things and intervening in things, in the way they are, and then gauging the results of what you've done and the impact they've had. Is that fair? Andrea: I think so. Jorge: I'm wondering If this line of thinking, or how this line of thinking has had an impact on your own way of being in the world; how you work? Andrea: I think that's what drew me again to the coaching program that I was in, this integral coaching. Because it really is about ways of being but using metaphors to kind of invite you. Into new ways of being and using that language or technology of language into opening up possibilities. And so with the experiential learning cycle with any of these things, it's… I think that's what I'm exploring is: What is this when it's embodied and lived and embraced fully? Versus, you know, “Hey, this is the craft that's producing this thing.” And this is where I think design often can maybe get stuck in organizations, is really focusing on, oh, the product or the service. But that's a small facet of a much larger environment in which we're acting and behaving and affecting various things. Jorge: I hear more and more of our peers, folks who are our colleagues, getting into coaching. What led you to explore that? Andrea: I care a lot about flourishing. It's a very important word to me, and I feel that my mission is to help organizations create new ways of working to support flourishing individuals and flourishing organizations. So part of the reason I went back to business school was trying to understand how organizations work, right? Like, how do I start affecting things at the organizational level, in an organizational-design kind of way? And Case also has a really great organizational behavior program. But you don't learn about the people part in business school. So I had design, and I had business, but I didn't have people. And in researching various programs, I knew that ontological coaching was very important to me. I've [been] influenced by Fernando Flores and ontological design. And I think a lot of what's happening in that program. And when you when you design these programs for people, it's just another exploration embodiment of what it means to design and be in the world. Jorge: I'm unfamiliar with ontological coaching. Can you describe it? Andrea: Yeah, ontological coaching really is about people's ways of being and what I talked about earlier, in terms of using metaphors to shift how you're showing up in the world, how you are embodied in the world, what is possible for you. That's ontological coaching. A lot of times coaching might take the form of like, “Go do these five things and then do this other thing.” Or, you know, If it's a compliance thing for an organization where somebody maybe is on a pip, there's very different forms. But the purpose of this style of coaching in this ontological coaching, is to help people start to become aware of what keeps them stuck, and to build self-generating behavior. So the idea is that you wouldn't have an integral coach for five years, right? Maybe have a six-month engagement, and it's tied to certain types of developmental outcomes. But it's all about your way of being in the world. That's the thing that we learn, it's the thing we learn how to understand. We do use various models. But we also use our own… The first six months of the program, you're building your own capacity to be present and to be in relationship with someone to understand what's happening with them. Jorge: You've been using this phrase “being in the world,” and I'm reminded of a documentary called Being in the World. It's a film about the philosophy of Heidegger, and it's centered on Hubert Dreyfus. And it's about this very subject. Andrea: Yeah, and that's the type of philosophy that informs this program. There's Heidegger, a lot of Maturana, Flores, John Dewey. So, it's definitely a world that had underpinnings and foundations with people that had already been very influential in my own thinking, in terms of design. So to see it kind of pull into this program where you're working with people and understanding them and helping them design different ways to show up in the world. Jorge: You know, I can see how something like ontological coaching can transform someone's life. And I'm wondering if it's possible for organizations to do something like that. Not just for people, right? Andrea: That's what I'm wondering as well. And when you think about like metaphors that we use for organizations, the author's blanking… But there's, I think he had categorized eight metaphors: organization as organism, organization as machine, organization as political system, organization as psychic prison. You know, metaphors open the door to possibilities, but they also can shut down possibilities. And so, understanding the metaphors that we're approaching organizations with, I think is incredibly important for what it means for an organization to shift its way of being. And I know that this form of coaching, the woman who is our master coach does a lot of this with teams and groups. And I know that you can also apply the narrative in the metaphors to them, and I think it's definitely scales up to the organizational level as well. Jorge: Yeah, I suspect that. It takes us back to the topic we covered earlier about creating a particular culture in the organization so that they understand themselves differently. Andrea: Yeah. Jorge: I'm curious about this idea of using metaphors as a way of inviting you into new ways of being. Do you have an example of what that looks like? Andrea: Yeah, I mean it's tied up with the approach in the methodology. So integral coaching is really about, you know, there's different types of coaching for compliance coaching for outcomes Etc. And interview coaching is developmental. It takes, like I mentioned earlier, there's usually like an opening someone will come to you with some problem They're having or something they want to work on. Through the methodology you look at everything else that's going on in their world as well this idea that you have to look at the whole system and starting to get a sense of what's really happening underneath that that core thing and what it's like for that person to be in the world and where they're getting stuck and through that you start to understand what's the metaphor that might… Their experience in the world right now. And I will share it. We joke, the cohort that I was in. We recently went through certification, and you have to coach someone live in front of a panel and also part of your class. And we share a list of metaphors that we've used, narratives with our clients. And we're joking, “Hey, Let's use an oak tree and Joan of Arc. Like everyone can have an oak tree and Joan of Arc. It's going to fit we're going to try to do it.” It was a total joke because we definitely want to be present with the person you're coaching. But the idea would be like, yeah, maybe you are like an oak tree right now, and you're kind of grounded, but you're not connected whatever and if there was some opening for them to be maybe I don't know Joan of Arc riding into battle or whatever. It might be but something. That very particularly connects with your felt sense of what they're experiencing, and what's possible that type of thing you keep coming back to: “Oh, but what is it like to be in the world in this way?” Or another example, I recently got from my coach was to be of the whale. Jorge: A whale? Andrea: Yeah, to show up like a whale. And so, that's how I think about each day. It's like, what is that? And I'm exploring this way of being in the world. So it's like a whale, and it does open up completely different possibilities. Jorge: Can you unpack the whale metaphor a little bit? Andrea: I think for me, and what I've been working with the being in the world and a whale way is in its embracing the bigness right of just like being here not being small, but also not being affected by things right? You're just kind of… You're a big whale. And you can smack the little boats if you need to. But yeah, it was a new narrative. It was offered to me about a month ago. So I'm still exploring it and working with it. Jorge: I find this fascinating, this idea that you can take really what is kind of a verbal construct, and allow that to become an embodied way of being different in the world. Andrea: Yeah, well, and that's the beauty of integral coaching is it is somatic, it is heart-centered, and it is head-centered. So all of these centers have to be online, and you have to work with all of them for any shift to happen. It can't just be an intellectual activity. It has to be felt, it has to be embodied, and it has to be connected in your heart. Jorge: That's a wonderful place to wrap up the conversation. Where can folks follow up with you? Andrea: I'm on Twitter as pnts; [it's] probably the best place to follow up with me is Twitter I have a site pnts.us I have a very sporadic newsletter that I send out, but I need to finish one and get it out the door, but… And I'm on Medium as well. Jorge: Fantastic. Thank you so much for being on the show. Andrea: Thank you for having me.

A bonus episode describing and exploring the Thirdspace Professional Coaching Course which next begins in July 2019 in London. A conversation with Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace. In this special edition of 'Turning Towards Life' Lizzie and Justin talk about the Thirdspace Professional Coaching Course (offered in partnership with New Ventures West), a certification programme in integral development coaching which is at the heart of Thirdspace's work and a project of great joy and love for both of us. Over the course of our conversation you'll hear what makes this special programme unique, how it changes participants and what it makes possible, the distinction between 'developmental' and other kinds of coaching, and more about the details and structure of the programme. You can read more about the course (the 'PCC') at  http://www.wearethirdspace.org

In this special edition of 'Turning Towards Life' Lizzie and Justin talk about the Thirdspace Professional Coaching Course (offered in partnership with New Ventures West), a certification programme in integral development coaching which is at the heart of Thirdspace's work and a project of great joy and love for both of us. Over the course of our conversation you'll hear what makes this special programme unique, how it changes participants and what it makes possible, the distinction between 'developmental' and other kinds of coaching, and more about the details and structure of the programme. You can read more about the course (the 'PCC') at  http://www.thirdspacecoaching.com

The Mindful Parenting in a Messy World podcast with Michelle Gale is for parents who long to be meaningfully connected to themselves and their children, even as the demands and complexities of modern life are accelerated.  As a former Buddhist monk of two years, Certified Instructor for Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute (the mindfulness program born at Google), and Certified Integral Coach (from New Ventures West), Sean blends a combination of depth and practicality to his mindfulness and meditation teachings.  He started Mindfulness Exercises with the aim of helping 100 million people live with more understanding, love and compassion for themselves and for others. He currently runs an online Mindfulness Teacher Certification Program, training people to teach mindfulness with integrity, confidence and certified credibility.   Specialties include: - stress reduction - peak performance - chronic pain - anxiety and depression - insomnia and enhanced sleep - corporate culture - healthcare and hospitals - psychology and mental health   Something Sean put together just for our community! https://mindfulnessexercises.com/mindful-parenting/

Experienced executive coach Curtis Watkins, known for working with the body, joins me from New York to both explain and show somatic (embodied) coaching. We discuss school sports trauma, acting, bring big and small, what's too much and too little, what exactly is coaching, linguistics and Fernando Flores, Ontological coaching, coaching vs sports scorching, taking new perspectives, habits, welcoming pain, curiosity, breath in coaching, and phone and Skype coaching. Newly we also do a live demo where Curtis coaches me… which felt a bit vulnerable but will hopefully be useful to listeners.   Various coaching resources and schools such as the Coaches Rising podcast, Strozz Institute, Stuart Heller, Wendy Palmer, EFC (of course), CTI, and Newfield and New Ventures West are also recommend. http://www.curtiswatkins.com/how_works.html embodiedfacilitator.com https://strozziinstitute.com/ http://www.leadershipembodiment.com/ https://www.walkingyourtalk.com/ https://www.newventureswest.com/ https://newfieldnetwork.com/ https://www.coachesrising.com/

My guest on today’s podcast is my friend Michelle Gale. Michelle and I met at a Wisdom 2.0 conference back in 2011. Wisdom 2.0 is an organization that holds events all over the world which focus on bringing technology and mindfulness together. After working in sales, as a teacher, and as a recruiter, Michelle became a coach.  Her experience as both a recruiter and a coach led her to an opportunity to work at Twitter in the early days of the company as it was beginning to grow.   Michelle left Twitter back in 2012 to focus on coaching full time.  Today she works with organizations, as well as with parents and families, focusing on mindfulness.     What does Bring Your Whole Self to Work Mean to Michelle? Michelle believes it’s all about showing up as your authentic self at work. She says during part of a person's time at work they should be sharing their greatest gifts by working in their flow or their genius.   A Transformative Year Michelle realized she was ready for something new after working amid chaos as a teacher in the Los Angeles area. She began to be triggered by unfortunate situations in her student’s lives. She yearned to be on a path of mindfulness and to incorporate meditation into her life. This desire led her to a year-long, transformational program at New Ventures West. Shortly after finishing the program she started coaching. Her small coaching practice was the perfect accompaniment to her newly acquired motherhood duties. When the recession hit, it was an easy decision for Michelle to go back into recruiting to supplement the household income. She won a part-time recruiting contract with a company with whom she had a history. She advised the founders of the organization their corporate culture needed support through coaching. They gave her the go ahead and she was happy to find herself doing what she loved inside of an organization - coaching.   Twitter A former colleague of Michelle’s asked her to join her team at Twitter in the early days, as they were looking for good recruiters.  She agreed to help with recruiting, as long as they allowed her to pursue her love of coaching. They appointed her their Organizational Coach and Learning and Development Leader. Twitter at the time was just ramping up and was an exciting place to be but Michelle was working 60-70 hour weeks which didn’t leave her much time with her kids. When she overheard someone talking about the Wisdom 2.0 conference she did some research.   The Mindfulness Movement Michelle loved what she read about the conference and knew she would find like-minded people there. She says “The mindfulness movement is a response to what culture is serving up right now.” Michelle’s mindfulness practices include morning meditations and ‘I see you’ moments and texts with her children.   Parents Suffer in Silence   Michelle is excited about bringing support to parents who may be suffering in silence. She says in today’s world, both mom and dad are working and higher expectations are put on moms. Work constantly filters into personal time including time set aside for family vacations. Michelle’s goal is to see organizations go through a culture shift and see the benefits of supporting parents. She says that sparks are already being lit by champions of the cause inside of organizations, like Google. Michelle would like to see other businesses adopt mindful parenting policies. She says it’s critical to weave parental support into business structures through more awareness, more conversations and practical solutions.   Resources: Mike Robbins Website Mike Robbins Podcast Mike Robbins on Facebook Mike Robbins on Twitter Mike Robbins Speaker Page Michelle Gale Website Michelle Gale on Twitter

Miki  Agrawal award-winning serial social entrepreneur, a best-selling author, and the Co-Founder and CEO of THINX, a high-tech underwear solution for women with periods. Miki is also the founder of the farm-to-table, gluten-free pizza concept called WILD. Miki's newest company, TUSHY, is working to bring bidet attachments to America, while helping to solve the global sanitation crisis Adam Klein certified Integral Coach®, with an ICF Professional Coaching Credential (PCC) and is on faculty with New Ventures West. A published poet, he finds inspiration through his practice of ultra-running and extended time in the wild Patrick E Alcorn America's eXtreme Motivator.  He is the Chief Transformation Officer of his company The Transformation Group; a Certified Teacher, Speaker and Coach with the John Maxwell Team; and co-author of two books, including Stepping Stones To Success  For more information go to MoneyForLunch.com. Connect with Bert Martinez on Facebook. Connect with Bert Martinez on Twitter. Need help with your business? Contact Bert Martinez. Have Bert Martinez speak at your event!