This episode creates an engaging conversation about your podcast host and some other facts of the business, Your Speaking Voice LLC, others may not know about beyond the surface level. These facts include the following:

1) Coaching is not simply about helping others achieve their goals/overcome problems.

2) Working on yourself does not mean taking on EVERYTHING all at once.

3) I have been both professionally trained and personally experienced to handle many types of coaching scenarios.

4) There are many resources that I can provide to you, as a client, to help you succeed even if I do not have all the answers.

5) Coaching should not be viewed as a luxury, especially if everything is on the line for yourself and your business.

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Intro/Outro By: Michael Dugan, Podcast Host: Voice4Chefs

Welcome to the podcast where relationships, confidence, and

determination, all converge into an amazing, heartfelt experience.

This is Speaking From The Heart.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

that are about my business and myself.

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

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

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

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

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

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

to get to where they need to go.

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

about helping others achieve their goals or overcome problems.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

is really necessary to move forward.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

That's not the case.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Some people just simply need that training.

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

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

for them to get to that next point.

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

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

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

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

taking on everything all at once.

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

I need to do more!

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

become the most overwhelming of experiences for someone, especially a

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

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

not about doing everything at once.

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

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

order for you to make the best progress.

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

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

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

what you're trying to do as a whole.

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

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

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

overarching and most scary of them all.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I have been both professionally trained and personally

experienced to handle the many types of coaching scenarios.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

sheer importance of working hard.

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

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

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

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

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

surrounding myself and continuously taking workshops and events in which are

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

might have coming into this establishment.

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

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

before you make any decision whatsoever.

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

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

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

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

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

even if I do not have all the answers.

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

in government, but also nonprofit administration, including even sitting

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

of information that's available nowadays.

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

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

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

not have all those answers yourself.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

which is my fifth and final point.

We often think that coaching is always about finding this thousand

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

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

that next level because of their vast experience and connections.

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

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

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

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

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

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

time a client comes through the door.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It's almost like putting a self investment in yourself

without spending and committing yourself to a four year program.

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

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

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

be very minor or might be very major.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

and what this business is all about.

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

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

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

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

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

have grown me to become who I am today.

It's true.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

to have your speaking voice be heard.

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

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

the stars, wherever they might be.

Thanks for listening to episode number 29 of Speaking From the

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

Thanks for listening.

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