Who
are you
becoming?
The Heartist's Way
Coaching takes courage. Yours to look straight at your starlight and illuminate your blind spots. Mine to hold a safe space, get out of the way, and speak truth to power.
The word courage comes from the Middle English corage, the Old French corage, the Vulgar Latin coraticum, and cor, the Latin word for heart.
How much attention are you paying to your heart's calling? How carefully are you listening to your bright inner self? The heartist's way is the way less traveled.
Entering a coaching relationship takes courage. Courage to know what you want or admit that you don't, be challenged, unlearn and learn anew. Choose your coach from your gut, your heart. If it's a go, say yes the heartist's way.
My clients are ambitious, motivated, committed, energetic, fun, and courageous. They want to make a big impact and see their wildest dreams come true. Does this sound like you? If it's a go, I will say yes the heartist's way.
It would be too easy to pitch you the benefits of coaching. Chat GPT can do it, so I won't. Instead, I will give you a taste of what fierce coaching feels like. Not a sampler taste. A real taste. If you are committed enough to yourself to block two hours in your calendar next week, I'll coach you. And then, we'll both know if we are meant to work together—no strings attached.
The Jedi's Mind
As per CEO coach Shirzad Chamine, "your mind is your best friend, but it can also be your worst enemy. Your mind is constantly sabotaging your potential for both performance and happiness. All your negative emotions, including stress, are the result of self-sabotage. Mental fitness training strengthens the part of your brain that serves you, quiets the part that sabotages you, and allows you to handle life's challenges with a more positive mindset and less stress. The benefits are immediate and sustained improvements in both wellbeing and performance."
Everybody knows to go to the gym to get ripped. But how about developing the habit of training our minds?
I invite every coaching client to begin their coaching journey with a six-week mind fitness boot camp, with app-based daily practices reinforcing new mind fitness habits. The program is also available for teams. We can achieve our full potential only from a place of clarity, focus, ease, and flow.
Don't Start With Why
Whose talk, yours or mine?
You may question my sanity, but for a keynote address, a strategic retreat, a shareholder gathering, or a board meeting, I'll start my talk with a catchy opening:
Don't Start With Why!
Noticing purpose bloating, purpose washing, and purpose myopia, I questioned Simon Sinek's claim that "purpose" was the silver bullet. After all, his famous TED conference is not so much a talk on leadership as it is a masterclass on salesmanship:
"People don't buy what you do;
people buy why you do it."
- Simon Sinek
I have trained, advised, and coached hundreds of sales executives and salespeople, so you may trust me on this:
You can't always trust a sales pitch!
Over the last ten years, I have researched and come up with refreshing and challenging perspectives on leading purposeful transformations.
Now, this changes everything:
Inspiring leaders start with why;
For what's next, we ask: SO WHAT?
And now, what about your talk?
To lead transformations is to revise the script. Storytelling is a strategic skill in your leadership toolkit. When the stakes are high for a keynote address, an investor presentation, or a strategic pitch, all eyes turn to you. With a blend of executive coaching, training, and consulting, I get you to sharpen your skills and boost your confidence as a strategic, effective communicator. The stage is yours. Own it!
Here is the tale of how entrepreneur, artist, and world-record-holding adventurer Theodore Fairhurst took his talks to a higher level.
Inspire Forward
If
Blind in the darks of the maze
And burning in the flesh
Of open wounds
If you can exercise
Your free will
And call the White Dragons
For them to help
Throw your fears in the flames
And intervene
For your healing
If you can
Here, now
Forgive and love
And free yourself
And heal
The broken child within
If you can
Far and wide
Deploy
Your majestuous wings
The right
Devoted to the Light
The left
Devoted to the Rose
And balance both
In harmony
And take off
Fly high into the winds
Above the walls
If you can
Give yourself
The gift of forgiving
And of empowering
All sisters
And brothers
For in loving them
It is you
You're loving
Stop
And inspire within
If you can
Do nothing
Stay still
Listen
And inspire within
And let light
And let grace
Penetrate
Exist
And radiate within
And through
You
If
Open eyes
open heart
You keep amazed
And resonate
With the beats of beauty
Here, around, within
And the bits of magic
Of Divine creations
If you learn gratitude
Every day say thank you
Awaken
Bend space
Bend time
And see that all that's right
Is left
And all that's left
Is right
If you can let it flow
You forgave
You can give
It's time to let abound
Do it
Now
And if you can become
Anew as once you were
Polish your divine gifts
Shine, thrive
Enlighten your powers
And honor Creator
Then
My Child
You will have accomplished
Your first
Of many miracles
Then
New and welcomed to the flock
Bright, powerful White Dragon
In turn, you'll teach
In turn, you'll heal
And
Inspire Forward.
