The Inspired Leader's Podcast with Tarah Keech: Recent Episodes
Tarah Keech
I am life and leadership coach, Tarah Keech, and this is the Inspired Leader's Podcast where you learn how to lead an inspired life so you can inspire those you lead. If you enjoyed this episode you have got to join me in The Leader’s Coaching Mentorship - where you get the coaching, mentoring, and skills you need to live your most inspired life and love leading others - join us today at theleaderscoachingmentorship.com.
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Learn more about the Coach Well Lead Well Certification program at coachwellleadwell.com.
To share your answers or ask questions, reach out to me at tarah@tarahkeech.com.
Your rage matters. All of your feelings matter.
Coaching skills help you listen to them. Learn from them. And grow forward.
If you’d like coaching for yourself or to learn and become certified in using these same skills, book a discovery call with me here.
And to hear all about unpacking anger - listen to today’s podcast.
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Opting out of productivity-at-all-costs is simple when you tap into these two things: Alignment and Sufficiency.
What that looks like and how to start in today’s episode.
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If... your FOCUS creates your EXPERIENCE,
Then... what you're focusing on is creating your lived experience and your life.
How is that working for you?
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NEWSFLASH: You're not being rushed into our out of any emotions.
You're welcome! :)
Here is the link to the video I referenced - by Dillon Michael White, I originally saw it here: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C1uUQnMLzpl/?igsh=dGc5bjl0YzdzcnAw
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No matter where you're at. No matter where you're headed. This episode shares a powerful thought you can call on when you're making progress, needing to revise a plan, needing to take a weird or scary action.
As a leader, you face dozens of decision points a day - keep doing some things, stop doing some things, and start new things, what to do, how to do it, and when to do it.
This one thought can help you pivot out of a fixation, into a more neutral space, and eventually into the next step that will help you create the outcome you want.
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Being over-talked, disregarded or flat out ignored - it's enough to make anyone frustrated!
This episode dissects the situation, what's going on in their mind and yours, and three ways you can douse the fire of your own frustration using coaching tools - useful at work, in conference calls, with argumentative kids, and more.
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If you want my help in your own intention setting or planning event - email me at tarah@tarahkeech.com
Meanwhile, here are some questions you can use to kickstart your intention setting and planning:
Reflection – Personal (within the business) – Based on Simon Sinek’s Why X 5
- Why do you do what you do? You could do nearly anything nearly anywhere but this is what you chose. I.e., You do what you do not just for a paycheck. You do what you do here because it matters to you – you want to tap into what that reason is.
- Why do you care about that?
- What difference does this work make? In the world, in the community, in the lives of those you interact with?
- Why is that difference important? To you, to others…
- Why does that matter to you? This is your Why* – the deeper value-based reason for why you each individually and collectively do what you do in this company.
Reflection – As a team, company
- What were the biggest lessons learned this past year? What do you know now that you didn’t know this time last year?
- Think about the challenges that were “investments” of pain, resources, heart aches that you don’t want to have to “re-learn” in the future.
- What works that we definitely want to keep doing?
- What were our clients’ lessons learned about us? And how do we know that to be true (vs. anecdotal) – quotes/testimonials, metrics?
- Looking back at 2023, what dominant theme (or emotion) represents this year?
Intention – Answer this both personally and as a team/company
- Looking forward to 2024, imagining us at this time next year, what do we want our dominant them (or emotion) to be? Checking in - Does this intention honor / align with each of our Why’s?
- What do we want our clients’ experience of us to be? What do we want them to tell their friends and colleagues about us?
- How will we know when we’ve achieved that? SMART goals / KPIs, team morale/retention, what clients will say… This becomes the definition of success
- If we do this and only this – will we be successful? You want to be able to make it simple to say no to all the other non-essential ideas and opportunities that will come up. Clarifying and narrowing the definition of success sets future you up for simpler decision making.
Planning - Putting intention into action
- What would make our success inevitable?
- What are the most resource efficient and smartest ways to get us there based on what we know now? Make sure each idea has a clear, SMART hypothesis so it will be easy to know when an action does / not work.
- Are there any opportunities to streamline our focus?
- What methods of encouragement and accountability seem like the best fit?
Eliminating the pressure and time crunches and budgets - when you WANT to gift give, finding or making what you really want to give is like a full on quest.
You have to either shop from what’s available and hope what you really want exists, is accessible and available. Or, you have to have a high enough level of skill, creativity and supplies to make what you really want.
It’s the same with the decisions we make.
You make decisions based on what you have at that time - what you know, what you think, what you feel.
So for all those decisions you are actively making, give yourself a little grace.
And for any past decisions you may be regretting- past you deserves some forgiveness and grace too.
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Beating yourself up over past decisions? Or is regret weighing you down?
The truth of what past you did was to make the best decision you knew to make based on the information, thoughts, and emotions you had at that moment.
Looking back, even those regrettable decisions can have value, purpose, or/and pleasure.
This is the art and skill set of coaching. Imagine being able to help those you lead, those you work with, those you work for - imagine helping them take inspired action towards your shared goals. Imagine if it was easy to communicate with them and imagine if creating alignment was simple. That's exactly what I teach in The Leader's Coaching Mentorship.
Click here and book a discovery consult with me - you'll share your situation, I'll A your Q's and share more, and together we'll make a plan for your next steps and how you can use coaching skills to get there.
When you have a thought that keeps showing up or loops through your mind and it keeps you stuck, makes you feel small, or makes you want to throw up - this is the practice I use and that I teach my clients to break that thought cycle.
Links from this episode:
- Byron Katie's "The Work": https://thework.com/instruction-the-work-byron-katie
- Book a discovery call with me: https://tarahkeech.as.me/discoveryconsult
This is the art and skill set of coaching. Imagine being able to help those you lead, those you work with, those you work for - imagine helping them take inspired action towards your shared goals. Imagine if it was easy to communicate with them and imagine if creating alignment was simple. That's exactly what I teach in The Leader's Coaching Mentorship.
Want to learn more? Click here and book a discovery consult with me - you'll share your situation, I'll A your Q's and share more, and together we'll make a plan for your next steps and how you can use coaching skills to get there.
From missed opportunities, to lost loves, to realities that are different from your dreams, grief shows up in big and small ways all the time but ESPECIALLY during the Holidays. When we're expected to engage in norms, rituals, and gatherings shared by others, the absence of what we love, loved, or wanted can feel even more stark.
Today's episode shares what grief is, how to cope, and my own reflections from that acute pain of loss.
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This is the art and skill set of coaching. Imagine being able to help those you lead, those you work with, those you work for - imagine helping them take inspired action towards your shared goals. Imagine if it was easy to communicate with them and imagine if creating alignment was simple. That's exactly what I teach in The Leader's Coaching Mentorship. Want to learn more? Click here (tarahkeech.com) to book a discovery consult with me - you'll share your situation, I'll A your Q's and share more, and together we'll make a plan for your next steps and how you can use coaching skills to get there.
I really do. It's hard. It's vulnerable. It's frustrating.
For me, teamwork and being in community is and has to be intentional. Here's how to approach it using coaching skills when working with others feels vulnerable and hard.
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This is the art and skill set of coaching. Imagine being able to help those you lead, those you work with, those you work for - imagine helping them take inspired action towards your shared goals. Imagine if it was easy to communicate with them and imagine if creating alignment was simple. That's exactly what I teach in The Leader's Coaching Mentorship. Want to learn more? Click here (tarahkeech.com) to book a discovery consult with me - you'll share your situation, I'll A your Q's and share more, and together we'll make a plan for your next steps and how you can use coaching skills to get there.
This is my post-Covid recap and a set of thoughts from my journey that you can use in your own healing and illness preventions.
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This is the art and skill set of coaching. Imagine being able to help those you lead, those you work with, those you work for - imagine helping them take inspired action towards your shared goals. Imagine if it was easy to communicate with them and imagine if creating alignment was simple. That's exactly what I teach in The Leader's Coaching Mentorship. Want to learn more? Click here (tarahkeech.com) to book a discovery consult with me - you'll share your situation, I'll A your Q's and share more, and together we'll make a plan for your next steps and how you can use coaching skills to get there.
I found myself on the receiving end of an "airing of grievances" the other day... here's what my self coaching showed me and how you can look at your own thoughts to mine the painful situations you face for the richness and opportunity they hold.
Here's a great video clip summarizing Seinfeld's "Festivus" and the tradition of airing grievances: https://youtu.be/1l8Eag9CAFk (not a sponsored link).
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This is the art and skill set of coaching. Imagine being able to help those you lead, those you work with, those you work for - imagine helping them take inspired action towards your shared goals. Imagine if it was easy to communicate with them and imagine if creating alignment was simple. That's exactly what I teach in The Leader's Coaching Mentorship. Want to learn more? Click here (tarahkeech.com) to book a discovery consult with me - you'll share your situation, I'll A your Q's and share more, and together we'll make a plan for your next steps and how you can use coaching skills to get there.
Here's a story and perspective you can borrow when you're discouraged and the day to day fails, misses, and losses are weighing you down.
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This is the art and skill set of coaching. Imagine being able to help those you lead, those you work with, those you work for - imagine helping them take inspired action towards your shared goals. Imagine if it was easy to communicate with them and imagine if creating alignment was simple. That's exactly what I teach in The Leader's Coaching Mentorship. Want to learn more? Click here (tarahkeech.com) to book a discovery consult with me - you'll share your situation, I'll A your Q's and share more, and together we'll make a plan for your next steps and how you can use coaching skills to get there.
This episode is a mini book club for Dr. Yay Hendricks’ “The Big Leap.”
I share a few simple, self coaching reflections that you can use today, my biggest takeaways, and some honest critiques about this useful framework.
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This is the art and skill set of coaching. Imagine being able to help those you lead, those you work with, those you work for - imagine helping them take inspired action towards your shared goals. Imagine if it was easy to communicate with them and imagine if creating alignment was simple. That's exactly what I teach in The Leader's Coaching Mentorship. Want to learn more? Click here (tarahkeech.com) to book a discovery consult with me - you'll share your situation, I'll A your Q's and share more, and together we'll make a plan for your next steps and how you can use coaching skills to get there.
Ever want to get into your flow state or relax your mind? This quick exercise helps you through progressive body relaxation and awareness. When you’re aware of your body your mind can release the mental noise and tension you’re carrying, which helps you tune into your true emotions and allows you to fully embody your zone of genius.
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This is the art and skill set of coaching. Imagine being able to help those you lead, those you work with, those you work for - imagine helping them take inspired action towards your shared goals. Imagine if it was easy to communicate with them and imagine if creating alignment was simple. That's exactly what I teach in The Leader's Coaching Mentorship. Want to learn more? Click here (tarahkeech.com) to book a discovery consult with me - you'll share your situation, I'll A your Q's and share more, and together we'll make a plan for your next steps and how you can use coaching skills to get there.
Sometimes creating space between a tough or overwhelming emotion helps. Here’s a fun and simple way you can shift perspectives and listen to the underlying purpose of the feeling.
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This is the art and skill set of coaching. Imagine being able to help those you lead, those you work with, those you work for - imagine helping them take inspired action towards your shared goals. Imagine if it was easy to communicate with them and imagine if creating alignment was simple. That's exactly what I teach in The Leader's Coaching Mentorship. Want to learn more? Click here (tarahkeech.com) to book a discovery consult with me - you'll share your situation, I'll A your Q's and share more, and together we'll make a plan for your next steps and how you can use coaching skills to get there.
Mansplaining (which is a terrible communication foible of well intentioned people of all genders), happens when people don’t know how to communicate.
Conversations can feel hard. They can BE hard.
What goes through your mind when you think about having to start a conversation with someone?
A lot, right?
Introverts or extroverts, internal and external
processors alike - connecting with other humans presents a ton of emotion and often times inhibitions.
To keep it really simple, this week’s podcast talks through the self coaching you need to connect in a way that is honest, open, and creates confidence.
You want to watch your judgments, get a confirmation or consent that they’re interested in taking, set the tone you want to nurture, and give the clues and cues that help them feel safe and connected too.
More in this week’s episode…
Does saying yes to something mean you have to say no to something else?
No.
This is not a rule. Boundaries don’t have to be all or nothing.
This is not a universal truth. You can design and choose.
This is not a corner you have to be forced into. Boundaries don’t have to suck.
Now that that’s clear, let’s talk about when you do honor your boundaries.
Because you creating and honoring your boundaries for reasons that you love will always support everyone impacted.
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This is the art and skill set of coaching. Imagine being able to help those you lead, those you work with, those you work for - imagine helping them take inspired action towards your shared goals. Imagine if it was easy to communicate with them and imagine if creating alignment was simple. That's exactly what I teach in The Leader's Coaching Mentorship. Want to learn more? Click here (tarahkeech.com) to book a discovery consult with me - you'll share your situation, I'll A your Q's and share more, and together we'll make a plan for your next steps and how you can use coaching skills to get there.
Last week, we dove into the internal work you can do to help recover, heal and rebound from a bad day. Today, we’re calling in all the other resources at your disposal because there’s good news - these are the people who want to and are literally and figuratively invested in helping you. But that can feel awkward.
Sharing with others has been one of the hardest and most rewarding chapters of my personal growth in recent years. I share with you some of my thoughts and a real life sharing win.
This week’s episode focuses on how to relate to others during the bad days. IOW - How to cope and manage a sugar show of a day so you can focus, recover, and show up in your day, in your work, and in your relationships.
This is the art and skill set of coaching. Imagine being able to help those you lead, those you work with, those you work for - imagine helping them take inspired action towards your shared goals. Imagine if it was easy to communicate with them and imagine if creating alignment was simple. That's exactly what I teach in The Leader's Coaching Mentorship. Want to learn more? Click here (tarahkeech.com) to book a discovery consult with me - you'll share your situation, I'll A your Q's and share more, and together we'll make a plan for your next steps and how you can use coaching skills to get there.
Save this episode for future reference for when you're having one of those funky, gross, angry-making, heart-breaking days. This is the inner coaching love you can use for yourself in the baddest of days.
This is the art and skill set of coaching. Imagine being able to help those you lead, those you work with, those you work for - imagine helping them take inspired action towards your shared goals. Imagine if it was easy to communicate with them and imagine if creating alignment was simple. That's exactly what I teach in The Leader's Coaching Mentorship. Want to learn more? Click here (tarahkeech.com) to book a discovery consult with me - you'll share your situation, I'll A your Q's and share more, and together we'll make a plan for your next steps and how you can use coaching skills to get there.
If you've ever seen a weird photo of yourself and thought, "Can this really be what I look like?" then you probably also talked yourself out of believing that's your true appearance. Similarly, awkward self-concepts or beliefs show up but why is it harder to shake those off? This episode shares some coaching and reflection framework to shift that perspective and give yourself more grace with your most cringey thoughts.
This is the art and skill set of coaching. Imagine being able to help those you lead, those you work with, those you work for - imagine helping them take inspired action towards your shared goals. Imagine if it was easy to communicate with them and imagine if creating alignment was simple. That's exactly what I teach in The Leader's Coaching Mentorship. Want to learn more? Click here (tarahkeech.com) to book a discovery consult with me - you'll share your situation, I'll A your Q's and share more, and together we'll make a plan for your next steps and how you can use coaching skills to get there.
If you've ever had to start something new but weren't feeling it, didn't know where to start, or felt completely overwhelmed - this episode is perfect for you. I share my own story and this is the exact process I have used as the new kid at school, a corporate consultant, and even as an entrepreneur. This is the coaching process I follow for myself and walk through with my clients and it can help you too with whatever new thing you're facing these days too.
This is the art and skill set of coaching. Imagine being able to help those you lead, those you work with, those you work for - imagine helping them take inspired action towards your shared goals. Imagine if it was easy to communicate with them and imagine if creating alignment was simple. That's exactly what I teach in The Leader's Coaching Mentorship. Want to learn more? Click here (tarahkeech.com) to book a discovery consult with me - you'll share your situation, I'll A your Q's and share more, and together we'll make a plan for your next steps and how you can use coaching skills to get there.
How do you know you're doing a good job?
How do you know you're a good person?
Now, if those answers are based on input from others, then your value is being sourced externally - completely dependent on praise, feedback, positive reinforcement. Are those the judges you want presiding over your self-image, confidence, and evaluations?
This episode gives you points to be curious about and prompts if you want to feel more connected, more valued, more valuable in your own eyes.
This is the art and skill set of coaching. Imagine being able to help those you lead, those you work with, those you work for - imagine helping them take inspired action towards your shared goals. Imagine if it was easy to communicate with them and imagine if creating alignment was simple. That's exactly what I teach in The Leader's Coaching Mentorship. Want to learn more? Click here (tarahkeech.com) to book a discovery consult with me - you'll share your situation, I'll A your Q's and share more, and together we'll make a plan for your next steps and how you can use coaching skills to get there.
Have you ever experimented with what rest feels the best, when?
This may be a bizarre idea so think about it like this…You have a very custom, individualized sweet spot for everything in your life. You have your favorite order of coffee, go-to playlist, and what I’m willing to bet is a very specific idea of what would be the best vacation ever.
Your mind, emotions, and physical body are all uniquely interconnected and respond distinctly to a wide array of variables in every single circumstance.
So when you need physical, mental, or emotional rest, you are getting a variety of signals to help you know what recipe of rest will be best for where you are right then.
In today’s podcast, there’s an example of my real life rest experiment - It may be something worth trying in your life this weekend.
This is the art and skill set of coaching. Imagine being able to help those you lead, those you work with, those you work for - imagine helping them take inspired action towards your shared goals. Imagine if it was easy to communicate with them and imagine if creating alignment was simple. That's exactly what I teach in The Leader's Coaching Mentorship. Want to learn more? Click here (tarahkeech.com) to book a discovery consult with me - you'll share your situation, I'll A your Q's and share more, and together we'll make a plan for your next steps and how you can use coaching skills to get there.
Do you do what you do out of... Obligation? Guilt? FOMO? Or, love? In this podcast episode, I share a few examples of how to understand the emotion that's driving you to do the things you do.
This is the art and skill set of coaching. Imagine being able to help those you lead, those you work with, those you work for - imagine helping them take inspired action towards your shared goals. Imagine if it was easy to communicate with them and imagine if creating alignment was simple. That's exactly what I teach in The Leader's Coaching Mentorship. Want to learn more? Click here (tarahkeech.com) to book a discovery consult with me - you'll share your situation, I'll A your Q's and share more, and together we'll make a plan for your next steps and how you can use coaching skills to get there.
You can't follow a fog.
When you're interacting with others or leading others but you're unsure of what you want, or what you are working towards, you're in a fog of indecision.
Indecision can be a part of periods of waiting, considering, researching are extremely valuable and nurturing. They're a tool we have that can help us prepare for and plan for what's next. It can be a very powerful, intentionally helpful practice - UNTIL...
It's a problem. When you show up and are trying to lead others, lead change, or make a move - it's time to move out of the fog.
Clarity makes your life and choices easier. And it makes it easier for others to show up and do their part. Let's dive into how to do exactly that.
Imagine having that skillset to use with those you lead and work with? Imagine being able to help them see what they want, and how to align to get it done so they can show up all-in. Want to learn more? Click here (tarahkeech.com) to book a discovery consult with me - you'll share your sitch, I'll A your Q's and share more, and together we'll make a plan for your next steps and how you can use coaching skills to get there.
Every single thing your brain encounters is being submitted into evidence. It's up to you - in your thoughts - to assign it meaning.
Meaning makes our experiences. So what are you making it mean?
And from the other direction, what data are you looking at that is informing your burnout?
I am life and leadership coach, Tarah Keech, and this is the Diary of an Inspired Leader Podcast where you get to see inside the brain of a coach and leader navigating burnout recovery, growth, goals, life, love and all the in-betweens.
If you enjoyed this episode you have got to join me in The Leader’s Coaching Mentorship - this is where you get to receive coaching, mentoring, and you can learn the skills you need to live your most inspired life and love leading others - join us today at theleaderscoachingmentorship.com.
When our VALUES are clear - we are unable to passively live and let die. We are unable to idly watch or ignore. PERSONAL stories help us UNDERSTAND what MATTERS, what we VALUE, and then - we ACT.
Activate is creating the safe place to hear and understand. To learn and ask. To feel and fear. To have safety in the emotional process of uncovering what is REAL and what we WANT to make REAL. Then being with each other in CREATING that RESULT by taking INTENTIONAL, ALIGNED ACTION from a place of TRUTH, AUTHENTICITY, for reasons that MATTER to me on a PERSONAL level.
If you'd like to join the conversation, we would love to have you - You can sign up here: tarahkeech.com/activate.
Negative feelings that come on strong can be confusing and knock us off balance. Feelings we want more of can feel elusive if not impossible. Today I share a simple exercise to actually use that feeling to help guide and center you. Let me know what you think in the comments!
I am life and leadership coach, Tarah Keech, and this is the Diary of an Inspired Leader Podcast where you get to see inside the brain of a coach and leader navigating burnout recovery, growth, goals, life, love and all the in-betweens.
If you enjoyed this episode you have got to join me in The Leader’s Coaching Mentorship - this is where you get to receive coaching, mentoring, and you can learn the skills you need to live your most inspired life and love leading others - join us today at theleaderscoachingmentorship.com.
'Tis the season for overwhelm! Stressed, running ragged, and way outside the acceptable limits for what you need to be a healthy human. Here's what my client did and how you can kick the overwhelm hamster wheel to the curb.
I am life and leadership coach, Tarah Keech, and this is the Diary of an Inspired Leader Podcast where you get to see inside the brain of a coach and leader navigating burnout recovery, growth, goals, life, love and all the in-betweens.
If you enjoyed this episode you have got to join me in The Leader’s Coaching Mentorship - this is where you get to receive coaching, mentoring, and you can learn the skills you need to live your most inspired life and love leading others - join us today at theleaderscoachingmentorship.com.
You are a good human. You are worthy of joy and love and happiness. You are exactly who you are meant to be and you are right on time.
I am life and leadership coach, Tarah Keech, and this is the Diary of an Inspired Leader Podcast where you get to see inside the brain of a coach and leader navigating burnout recovery, growth, goals, life, love and all the in-betweens.
If you enjoyed this episode you have got to join me in The Leader’s Coaching Mentorship - this is where you get to receive coaching, mentoring, and you can learn the skills you need to live your most inspired life and love leading others - join us today at theleaderscoachingmentorship.com.
When you feel like escaping from something that feels too hard or you're up against something that seems impossible, this episode will guide you as you reflect. What is your true MVP? And what thoughts, what approach, what next step is your best next step?
I am life and leadership coach, Tarah Keech, and this is the Diary of an Inspired Leader Podcast where you get to see inside the brain of a coach and leader navigating burnout recovery, growth, goals, life, love and all the in-betweens.
If you enjoyed this episode you have got to join me in The Leader’s Coaching Mentorship - this is where you get to receive coaching, mentoring, and you can learn the skills you need to live your most inspired life and love leading others - join us today at theleaderscoachingmentorship.com.
“I’d love my job if it wasn’t for the people.” How many times have you heard that? How many times have you said that? 🤔
After a really hard work week, I share my experience and pain and frustration and my self coaching in the heat of the moment.
I am life and leadership coach, Tarah Keech, and this is the Diary of an Inspired Leader Podcast where you get to see inside the brain of a coach and leader navigating burnout recovery, growth, goals, life, love and all the in-betweens.
If you enjoyed this episode you have got to join me in The Leader’s Coaching Mentorship - this is where you get to receive coaching, mentoring, and you can learn the skills you need to live your most inspired life and love leading others - join us today at theleaderscoachingmentorship.com.
Manuals are the set of expectations we have about how others should be, think, feel, or behave.
We can NEVER - NEVER - control what ANYone else does or even know what someone else THINKS or FEELS, yet we put SOOOO much weight into it.
My coaching brain knows that whatever it is that we’re looking for someone else to prove ABOUT US - is what we NEED to create for ourselves. Worth. Acceptance. Value. LOVE.
Also, manual is in play anytime we’re resentful, or disappointed, or disgusted, or frustrated - and those feelings show up as part of the breadcrumb trail back to what we really need to focus on and what we’re ready to grow into.
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I am life and leadership coach, Tarah Keech, and this is the Diary of an Inspired Leader Podcast where you get to see inside the brain of a coach and leader navigating burnout recovery, growth, goals, life, love and all the inbetweens.
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Observation is one of your best assets - ESPECIALLY when things are hard.
When you make your emotions the antagonist in the screenplay of your life - then the arc is when you defeat your emotions. It's the only path that story can take.
Couple problems there - the moral of that story means that you can't ever really trust yourself (since you are the one who had the emotions and they turned out to be the villains), and, since your focus was on overcoming the adversity of feelings, that's a really empty victory.
But imagine that you make your emotions play the role of supporting characters or tools that you, as the hero in this story, can use to accomplish what you want and overcome adversity in the face of challenges? THAT is the story that ends in victory. And how much more fun is that?
In today's episode, I show you my thought work as I observe my own responses (and resistance) to doing homework around how I want to (and have not of late been doing a great job) of loving myself.
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I am life and leadership coach, Tarah Keech, and this is the Diary of an Inspired Leader Podcast where you get to see inside the brain of a coach and leader navigating burnout recovery, growth, goals, life, love and all the inbetweens.
If you enjoyed this episode you have got to join me in The Leader’s Coaching Mentorship - this is where you get to receive coaching, mentoring, and you can learn the skills you need to live your most inspired life and love leading others - join us today at theleaderscoachingmentorship.com.
In today's episode of The Diary of an Inspired Leader's podcast, I walk you through my personal self-coaching as I explore why love feels hard - my clues about what may be going on, and some reflections to help me gently, kindly, be curious about what may be hiding in my heart.
This was recorded before the war in Ukraine started. But this work of finding the pain, observing the resistance, and articulating the desires of your heart, is the same regardless of circumstance.
It's not the silver bullet. It's not the solution. it is the start.
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I am life and leadership coach, Tarah Keech, and this is the Diary of an Inspired Leader Podcast where you get to see inside the brain of a coach and leader navigating burnout recovery, growth, goals, life, love and all the in betweens.
If you enjoyed this episode you have got to join me in The Leader’s Coaching Mentorship - this is where you get to receive coaching, mentoring, and you can learn the skills you need to live your most inspired life and love leading others - join us today at theleaderscoachingmentorship.com.
Welcome to The Diary of an Inspired Leader Podcast!
I am life and leadership coach, Tarah Keech, and this is where you get to see inside the brain of a coach and leader navigating burnout recovery, growth, goals, life, love and all the in betweens.
If you enjoyed this episode you have got to join me in The Leader’s Coaching Mentorship - this is where you get to receive coaching, mentoring, and you can learn the skills you need to live your most inspired life and love leading others - join us today at theleaderscoachingmentorship.com.
Meet Inspired Leader Award Winners, Rebecca Gwozdziewycz!
Rebecca started her career as a Human Resources professional 22 years ago in the US Air Force. There she discovered a love of helping people remove barriers to be at their best at work and home. While in the service, she earned her BS in Human Resource Management at Rutgers University.
After the military she worked in HR for the Boeing Company, The United States Job Corps, and for a civil rights law practice. In her current role as a Business Partner at Amazon, she helps leaders strategize how to best support the organizations goals, while balancing the individual associates workplace experience and needs.
Welcome to this special episode where you get to meet one of our Inspired Leader Award Winners, Leon Bell, Jr.!
Meet Inspired Leader Award Winners, Catherine Preston!
Catherine Preston currently serves as the Senior Director of Academic Advising & Transfer Services at the University of South Alabama. She is from Bowling Green, Kentucky, and earned her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in English Literature from The University of Mississippi and Western Kentucky University. Catherine has had the good fortune to work in several positions in higher education that have afforded her unique and challenging experiences and opportunities, specifically in conceptualizing, developing, and implementing various student programs and workshops, working with diverse student populations, helping students, parents, and faculty fully understand the importance of academic planning as it pertains to first and second-year student retention and persistence to graduation, and developing cooperative and collaborative campus-wide programs and relationships.
Catherine helms a high-performing unit at The University of South Alabama. The Academic Advising & Transfer Services office serves students as well as other student support offices across campus. Through proactive, appreciative outreach and communication, her unit is a driving force on campus in helping South students persist into years two and three. Catherine's reporting structure and data sharing is highly respected and valued on campus, and she helps lead South in improving institutional retention. In the almost seven years of providing support for students, South has achieved record first year retention numbers, the second highest record amid a global pandemic.
Academic Advising & Transfer Services currently serves all first-year students along with a large percentage of second-year students. The team also works with students who are interested in pursuing law school admission or a professional health field. Additionally, through the Pathway USA program, advisors work with prospective transfer students at collaborating institutions to help reduce excessive credits in their transfer to South. By adding leadership coaching to advisors' skill sets, she hopes advisors will be better equipped to assess students' strengths and needs and help students devise personalized plans of action that allow them to work towards achieving their academic and career goals.
Catherine serves on various University committees, most notably the Student Success Team, and has been instrumental in developing many programs adopted at South, such as academic milestones, meta majors, an online advising training manual, and ROAR (Reaching Out in Absence Response). She currently serves as the President of the Emerald Coast Academic Advising Network, an organization that connects academic advisors from across the gulf coast region for professional development and networking opportunities. She is a member of the 75,000 Degrees Talent Hub, a community-wide collaborative designed to increase postsecondary attainment by bringing together Mobile’s K-12, higher education, business, and community partners. She also created SouthALACADA, South's allied membership of NACADA - the National Academic Advising Association - which leads professional development across campus. Catherine is a Kentucky Colonel, a commission bestowed by the Governor of Kentucky for recognition of accomplishments and outstanding service to community, state, and nation. She is also certified in life coaching.
Meet Inspired Leader Award Winners, Shana Jordan!
Hey, I'm Shana,
Owner and CEO of Oyster Shell Strategy
I'm a boss lady and a business networker who loves to meet new people and help business owners to achieve their goals.
At Oyster Shell Strategy, we offer a team approach to everything we do. Why? Because two heads are always better than one.
As a full-service advertising agency, we truly can offer the best solutions to our clients. I love being part of an amazing, talented team, and often, our clients become more like family.
Speaking of family…in my free time, I love spending time with family and friends. I have a wonderful supportive husband (Tim), son (Slade), and dog (Penny). I enjoy live music, kayaking, hiking, camping, and traveling.
I believe relationships and great customer service are the keys to being successful. We love making businesses more awesome.
Meet Inspired Leader Award Winners, Cory Penn!
A true Mobilian and servant to his community, Councilman Cory Penn is passionate about helping to improve the quality of life for area youth.
A 2002 graduate of John L. LeFlore High School, Penn was president of the school’s Student Government Association.
Penn is also a graduate of Stillman College in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He became an educator and taught special needs students at Chastang Middle School in Trinity Gardens. During his tenure at the school, he co-founded the Chastang Elite Service Club which is designed to help young boys discover their purpose and give them the skills to have a successful life.
Penn is currently the unit director at Kiwanis Boys and Girls where he teaches good character and leadership skills. He also shares the importance of sustaining meaningful relationships with others and developing a positive self-image.
He is a minister at Right Way Christian Center Church. His true desire is to help individuals fully grow into their potential. He is a family man who puts his faith into action.
A member of Leadership Mobile Class of 2021, Penn is also a member of the board of directors at Mobile Community Action Inc.
Penn always stands ready to help his family, friends and community. He and his wife, Ivonza have two children: daughter, Kori Bell and son, Caleb.
Meet Inspired Leader Award Winners, Dr. LaTarsha Holden!
Dr. LaTarsha Holden is a prolific author with her books ranging from her autobiography, children’s books, a personal development training manual, and her latest release LeadershipPrinciples: The Power of Personal Development. She is a former political candidate as she ran for City Council in the “2017,” election. She is named Ga/National Mother of the Year “2020,” by American Mother’s Inc. She is the 85th woman in U.S. History to hold the title of National Mother of the Year. She’s organized several community events for the homeless, and empowerment events to encourage women enduring difficult hardship. She’s advocated on several issues such as domestic violence, equal rights amendment, homelessness, stop the violence and lack of affordable housing.
Dr. Holden has been a guest panelist on different platforms to discuss topics such as Leaders in Ministry, Race and Poverty in America, Women in Politics, Entrepreneurship and Homelessness. She was the owner of LDW Residential Contracting Services for five years. Dr. Holden is a thought leader on leadership, personal development, and parenting.
As a servant leader, she has implemented several leadership principles that changed the trajectory of her family: from a life of poverty, homelessness, and hopelessness. As a mother of six children her leadership principles became a solid foundation from which her children-built careers in the military, medical field, became authors, entrepreneurs, college graduates, and young adult leaders.
Dr. Holden earned her Associates of Arts degree in Biblical Education, Bachelor’s of Arts degree in Leadership Studies, a Master’s of Business Administration degree from Beulah Heights University. She earned her Doctorate degree in Leadership Studies from GMOR Theological Institute of America. She completed the Community Leadership Institute of Atlanta training from University of Georgia. She is a graduate of the inaugural Lifted Voices Fellow Program at the Black Child Development Institute.