Episode #29 - Five Things You May Not Know About Me & My Business

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Welcome to the podcast where relationships, confidence, and

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determination, all converge into an amazing, heartfelt experience.

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This is Speaking From The Heart.

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Welcome back to episode number 29 of Speaking From the Heart.

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Today we're going to talk about five things you might not know about me and

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my business, because I think it's really important to not only know a little

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bit more about what I actually provide as a whole, which we have covered in

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several different episodes in itself, but getting to know me and my background

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really helps to establish some of the trust and relationship that you

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might encounter going through a coach, particularly Your Speaking Voice LLC.

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Now, I have to also say to preference this that it isn't just about what I provide

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as a whole, but what you're willing to do to provide yourself with the opportunities

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to really help yourself get to that next level, which we've been consistently

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talking about in numerous episodes, not only with my monologues, but also with

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my guests, but I think that it's really important to not distinguish between what

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one coach can do over another, especially as I go through my top five things

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that are about my business and myself.

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Coaches are different people of all shapes and sizes, and also have a

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repertoire of different types of things that they provide, and I always

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say to my clients that if I'm not a good fit, I'm always going to find

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someone, or help them find someone, that will help them meet their goals.

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Whether they have ask for it or not is really important that I provide

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that sort of level of accountability and opportunity so that they're able

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to get to where they need to go.

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Kicking off my list then for number one: Coaching is not simply

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about helping others achieve their goals or overcome problems.

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I think that we always say that we need to do goal setting or even need

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to overcome the things that might be challenging, but I think that oftentimes

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people read into some of the things that we often provide as a coach, thinking

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that we are trying to solve what clients are going through, and I think that's

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really important, but I also think it's important to just have a level playing

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field when it comes to understanding what you might be going through, which

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is why we go through the conversation of helping yourself and achieve what

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is really necessary to move forward.

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It's not simply about achieving and listing the goals that are necessary,

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but talking through what is really at the heart of each of every one of them.

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It's really hard sometimes to even go through that exercise without critiquing

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what is actually happening that is the root cause of it in the first place, so

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it's not just about what we're trying to achieve as the goal, not only about what

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we're trying to overcome as the problem, but finding ways deep down inside of how

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we can actually move forward and working together to find the best solution.

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Oftentimes, people confuse that as, "Oh, well, you're just here to

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make goals, and that's it, right?"

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That's not the case.

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As a matter of fact, this is a soul searching exercise, and sometimes even

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with some of my life coaching and even professional development, it's about

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understanding what you are wanting to do to move forward in your life so

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that you have the best version of what you want to get at on the other side.

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It's not, also in public speaking, about simply helping yourself become a better

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speaker or achieve that TEDx opportunity of a lifetime, or even get on that stage

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of over 10,000 people, it's about looking at what is causing some of that fear

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and insecurity in the first place being able to help you get to that next level.

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Some people just simply need that training.

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They might just need an extra skill set or two, and they can often come to

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a coach to help provide that sort of level of experience and accountability

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for them to get to that next point.

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Overall though, it's not just about helping people.

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It's about seeing what we can provide in order for you to continue growing and not

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just be a one-stop shop of having to go back every single time a problem occurs.

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That leads me into number two: Working on yourself does not mean

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taking on everything all at once.

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I often hear all the time, "I need to do more!

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I need to do more!

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I need to do more!", but really doing so much at all at one time can actually

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become the most overwhelming of experiences for someone, especially a

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client that might be going through my program, and they might be turned off

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from wanting to do anything else, and I have to constantly remind that it's

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not about doing everything at once.

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It is important to take steps in all of them, but doesn't mean that they have to

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be synchronous, meaning that they don't have to be all happening all at once in

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order for you to make the best progress.

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I often say, especially starting out, work on at least one, maybe two things

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depending on the level, and start to feel comfortable about what change is that

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you're wanting to accept in your life, in what you're going through, and even

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what you're trying to do as a whole.

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Finding the ways in which we're able to take on those small things at first can

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help lead into the medium-sized goals that we want to achieve, or even the problems

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that we want to address, and even work on the bigger ones that might be the most

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overarching and most scary of them all.

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Finding the ways in which we're able to take on everything at once might

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be something that we work on down the road, but it's often important

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to think about how you move forward once you build that skillset from some

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of the smaller issues that help to resolve the bigger ones down the road.

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Helping yourself to realize that you don't have to challenge yourself on every

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single thing that you want to work on with a coach is really important as a whole.

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I have been both professionally trained and personally

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experienced to handle the many types of coaching scenarios.

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Over the last 13 plus years of my career, especially in state government, along

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with the vast amount of experience I've had before that doing blue collar jobs,

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including even packaging medical bottles, cleaning buildings as a custodian,

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and even working as a part-time center supervisor in which I helped to manage

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events at a building in which it was being rented by a variety of different

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groups of people, both professionally and personally and individually, I've

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learned throughout those many years, even beyond those 13 years, of the

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sheer importance of working hard.

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Being able to get degrees in which I've earned my Master's in Business

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Administration from Alvernia University, my Master's in Public Administration

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from Shippensburg University, along with my Bachelor's in Political Science,

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Communications, with a minor in Business from Alvernia University, in addition

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to the almost 12 years that I have belonged to Toastmasters International,

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surrounding myself and continuously taking workshops and events in which are

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challenging the status quo every time of how we process thinking about public

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speaking, business strategy, life in itself, and even the ways in which we

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set goals professionally, has allowed me to see a worldview that's much bigger.

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You have seen even in some of these episodes that I have published thus

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far about the sheer amount of personal experience going through some of the

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most difficult of things in my entire life, and that's allowed me to see some

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of the things that often help me relate to my clients, wherever they are going

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through some sort of mental exercise of challenging their self beliefs, maybe even

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going through a diagnosis such as ADHD, OCD, or even autism, which I have talked

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about my own personal struggles with, and has allowed me to really get a full handle

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on all the different types of problems, scenarios, and even concerns that you

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might have coming into this establishment.

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It isn't to say, though, that because of all these experiences that I'm the right

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fit for you, which is why I always say to schedule an initial consultation with me

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before you make any decision whatsoever.

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It's always important to have that relationship because I might even say

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to you that I'm not a good fit, and I do that not because of integrity, but

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the fact that we all need to have those right resources behind us to be able to

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help us get to that next level, which leads into my fourth point: there are

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many resources that I can provide to you, as a client, to help you succeed

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even if I do not have all the answers.

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Throughout all those years in which I've been able to be trained not only

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in government, but also nonprofit administration, including even sitting

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on the board of a organization called the Shalom House based in Harrisburg,

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Pennsylvania, it's allowed me to see that there's a variety of different

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opportunities that exist out there that help us to grow not only as individuals,

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but knowing that there's a vast network of independent people that are also coaches,

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practitioners, therapists, psychologists, educators, anything that I didn't mention;

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those are all possible avenues of which I can connect you with to help you succeed

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with no additional costs whatsoever, because I believe in the fact that we

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need to be able to have an interconnected society to help have point people that

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might not know where exactly to go to find the answers, especially with the wealth

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of information that's available nowadays.

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It's easy to Google someone and to be able to find what they're about by

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getting ratings information about what the prospective owner is that is trying

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to get your services, but also helping to understand that maybe you might

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not have all those answers yourself.

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Being able to find additional connections through the resources and the growth that

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you can provide yourself by connecting with someone that knows someone else

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through a word of mouth experience, or even personally experiencing the character

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and the determination of what they're able to do, can help you create some of

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those best successes in addressing some of those resources that you might need.

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The last thing, in which we're going to talk about in a future episode

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more in depth, is that coaching should not be viewed as a luxury,

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especially if everything is on the line for yourself and your business,

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which is my fifth and final point.

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We often think that coaching is always about finding this thousand

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dollar, $5,000, $10,000 coach, in which they have all the answers.

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They're willing to solve our problems, and they're willing to take us to

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that next level because of their vast experience and connections.

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Sure, some of that might be actually relevant, but some of those coaches

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are actually making a living on their own and charging that 1,000, 5,000,

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$10,000 might be the ability for them to feed their family, be able to run

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their business effectively, but more importantly, invest in themselves with

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the resources that they have available through the vast networks so that they

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can continue to provide a high level quality experience each and every

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time a client comes through the door.

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I always believe in the value that someone brings in themselves, and I always say

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that it's important to make sure you know your self-worth, and that goes to

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even what we talk about with coaching in which we need to think about not just

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as it is as a luxury, but thinking about how you can actually help yourself by

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going through all the different things that might be life changing that might

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create 10,000, 50,000, $100,000 a year, probably even more, just because you

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started to see a coach and they're helping to see you get to that next level.

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It's almost like putting a self investment in yourself

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without spending and committing yourself to a four year program.

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For me, it's about understanding what value you wanna add to yourself, and

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also understanding how you want to get to that next level so that I can customize

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a proposal to your specification, particularly if it's something that might

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be very minor or might be very major.

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It's about understanding also what you might need to achieve in

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order for you to get to that next opportunity that's down the road.

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I think that we always have some opportunity in itself to experience

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this, especially if you have to put everything on the line.

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Don't think of coaching as just a luxury, especially with what I provide,

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or even what other coaches provide, because it's actually a way that we

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can engage with ourselves and the ways in which we interact with the world.

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If we start to think of coaching as a luxury, we will never be able to

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grow that mindset from where we are at currently and moving it to the next level.

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That's why it's so important to get to know not only the coach that you

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work with that might be helping you to provide that opportunity, but it's also

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to ensure that you are not living in a life full of fear, insecurity, grief,

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or any other sort of problem that might be laced within your organization.

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These five things that I mentioned in this episode: coaching not simply being

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able to help others achieve their goals or overcome problems; working on yourself

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does not mean taking on everything all at once; being both professionally trained

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and personally experienced to handle many types of coaching situations; having

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many resources that I can provide to you, as a client, to help you succeed,

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even if I don't have all the answers; and finally, coaching not being viewed as a

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luxury, especially if everything is on the line for yourself and your business,

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are just the stepping stones to having a broader conversation about what I am

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and what this business is all about.

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I have shared in countless episodes before this about the importance of

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just being able to listen, to grow, to be able to take yourself to that next

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level, which I've even defined what my business is with its values and even

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the mission of what we're able to do and what my personal struggles have been

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so far getting to this point have been something that have defined even me, and

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have grown me to become who I am today.

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It's true.

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We all stand in front of a door of opportunity, in which I mentioned recently

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in an episode featuring Matthew Roda, but in that context, although I can't really

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go into detail right now, which I would love to in a future episode, I will say

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that because of all the experiences that I've been able to garner through my life

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and through all the different types of opportunities that have been blessed in

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my life, I want to pave the road forward for you: my future potential client.

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I know you have what it takes to be able to take it to that next level, and

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I'm willing to have that conversation with you so that you're able to see

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that best version of yourself because you do have a voice in this ever

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changing world, and I want to give you the relationships, confidence and

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determination that I've been blessed with so that you have the opportunity

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to have your speaking voice be heard.

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I can't wait to hear from you because I think that it's really

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important to not only start you on that journey, but to take you to

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the stars, wherever they might be.

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Thanks for listening to episode number 29 of Speaking From the

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Heart, and I look forward to hearing from your heart very soon.

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