Competency No. 5 podcast

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Chris Nowinski is a former football player at Harvard University and professional wrestler with WWE, World Wrestling Entertainment. After enduring a career-ending head injury, Chris has dedicated his professional life to serving patients and families affected by brain trauma, particularly Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, a progressive neurodegenerative disease that develops after repeated head injuries. Jay and Chris discuss the state of head injuries in American athletics, the difference between advocating for head safety at youth and professional levels, Chris’ newest research, and much more. Episode Chapters (00:00) Intro (00:50) changes in the culture around concussions in the past two decades (02:39) padded helmet technology (03:55) concussion reporting in the NFL (10:35) Chris’ career path and concussion history (14:52) connecting with activists who haven’t themselves suffered a traumatic brain injury (17:42) SHAAKE - a new sign to identify concussions (20:53) Unions can help players advocate for safety policies (23:10) final thoughts and goodbye For video episodes, watch on www.youtube.com/@therudermanfamilyfoundation Stay in touch: X: @JayRuderman | @RudermanFdn LinkedIn: Jay Ruderman | Ruderman Family Foundation Instagram: All About Change Podcast | Ruderman Family Foundation To learn more about the podcast, visit https://allaboutchangepodcast.com/…

Competency No. 5

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Around 4% of the 55,000 + coaches certified with the International Coaching Federation hold the revered status of Master Certified Coach. Why so few? I'm about to find out. Competency No. 5, the podcast, explores how we maintain presence when we coach, lead, and live our lives. We interview coaches and others whose very livelihood depends upon staying calm and present with those they serve. We also chronicle my attempts (as a self-retired professor and global business reporter from New Zealand) to become an MCC coach. This effort requires beaucoup coaching hours, mentoring, and adhering strictly to the ICF's seven core competencies, especially the deceptively tricky Competency No. 5, maintaining presence.

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Competency No. 5

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“I need space for my boldest creativity” Entrepreneur Marie-Louise on staying calm while growing our business 42:03

9天之前42:03

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We’ve a rare treat this week in sharing a coaching call in its entirety, with my client’s blessing and encouragement. The topic? Staying calm and grounded as we grow our business and dreams—a timely topic for entrepreneurs and anyone wanting to create positive life and career change. This often starts within ourselves, our relationship with time, and looking (with blameless discernment) at the flow of our day. Marie-Louise and I wanted to share this conversation for the rich learnings—and there are many, as she’s so inspired and empowered in this call. Also, with the growth of AI coaching, we want to show vs. tell the special role that humans have (and will always have) in coaching. Our conversation, a deep, slowed-down, beautiful conversation, shows what’s possible when two humans trust, connect, and actively listen to one another. Powerful awareness, epiphanies, and changes happen with the deep inquiry and spaciousness that no bot (we suspect) can ever bring. Reach out to me, your show host, for keynote speaking engagements, coaching, and training via my website , or find me also on Linkedin . Join my first workshop on Maven Learning, Listen Like a Boss, here .…

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Victorious Victoria: “I meet with my anxiety daily to hear what she has to say” 18:53

24天之前18:53

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Experts at the World Health Organization estimate around 4% of the global population experience an anxiety disorder. The National Alliance on Mental Illness finds anxiety the most common mental health concern in the U.S. with 19.1% with anxiety, over 40 million adults. Victoria Torno, based in the Philippines, decided a fresh approach to her own anxiety. (Anxiety affects 12.5 million Filipinos, around 12% of the population.) Her anxiety grew gradually and ultimately culminated into panic attacks and hospital visits to cope. She found, after therapy, her own hyper achieving mind was part of what drove her responses. And rather than minimizing the anxiety, she decided to partner with it. Embrace it. Even give the anxiety a name. In this touching interview, Victoria tells us that meeting with her anxiety (she calls hers “Deborah”) daily for an hour and allowing herself to hear her anxious thoughts has helped her see they’re not so bad after all and worthy of listening to. Troubles feel smaller. Achievements bigger. The worries helpful—a prompt for positive change. And with that, she’s renamed herself Victoria, because after all, she is victorious, over her own mind. You can reach out to Victoria on LinkedIn here. Reach out to me, your show host, for keynote speaking engagements, coaching, and training via my website , or find me also on Linkedin .…

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The Peace and Calm from Lunar New Years from our Past 23:50

5 weeks之前23:50

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San Diego based technology project leader Limei Wang loved the Lunar New Years from her past. Growing up in a small rural village in Northern China, the incoming lunar year brought the best food, clothing, and gatherings for the year. Little sleep punctuated the festivities, which lasted all week. Children received beautifully, hand-stitched clothing made just for them and red envelopes of money. They could spend it however they wanted. But in the generous spirit of Lunar New Year, Limei remembers children buying things for each other. In our ad hoc interview, Limei remembers the calm and peace from this centering time with fondness and nostalgia. She’s also reminded that while life has more abundance today, community can take a backseat. Prioritizing connections with others can become a renewed focus in this Year of the Wood Snake, a time to embrace change, make thoughtful decisions, grow, transform, and stay wise. Reach out to me, your show host, for keynote speaking engagements, coaching, and training via my website , or find me also on Linkedin…

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The Final Cut. Where, Why, and How I Still Fall Out of Masterful Coaching 17:22

8 weeks之前17:22

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Over the last year, I’ve listened to 35 different coaching calls I’ve conducted and recorded with a quest to submit one recording (a beautiful recording) to the International Coaching Federation (ICF). I’ve created a self-imposed deadline of Lunar New Year, January 29, Wednesday . (I know my critical mind. With no deadline, my Avoider and Stickler saboteurs will prevail.) If you’ve followed this podcast and mused with me on Medium, you’ll know what this is about: I’m attempting to join the top 4% of coaches globally to certify as a Master Certified Coach . Evaluators at the ICF, the world’s largest nonprofit of coaches determine this fate. And I’ve done (almost) everything to prep, except find a viable recording. So far, none make the cut. Reading from my essay on Medium , this week humor me as I discern the competencies to better honor to help me get there. And follow my musings on what’s going on when I don’t honor these well-intentioned ICF rules very well at all. I’m ready, you see, to make the final cut. And coaching at the MCC level (or at least trying to) becomes the world's best possible training in brevity, trust, confidence, and mindfulness. The activity brings beaucoup training for coaches, but also leaders and anyone wanting to communicate efficiently and listen at a depth you may never have felt before. Reach out to me, your show host, for keynote speaking engagements, coaching, and training via my website , or find me also on Linkedin . Follow other episodes on MCC certification here, here, and here.…

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Content for Coaches. Creating thoughtful content can bring prosperity, clarity, and joy 16:45

11 weeks之前16:45

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Our Competency No 5 podcast has focused much on how to stay calm and present when we coach, lead, and live our lives. For coaches, part of that calm ties to making a living from our coaching, which requires marketing ourselves to our prospective clients. I’m no expert; but I have built a prosperous coaching business in a relatively short time from putting one piece of fresh content “out there” once a week. Through podcasting and writing essays and instructional guides or musings to help democratize communications coaching, bringing the wisdom learned to as many as possible, I’ve retained and attracted a steady base of up to 90 coaching clients. This week’s episode shares some of my tactics, approaches, mindsets towards marketing ourselves as coaches, thought leaders, and entrepreneurs in hopes it sparks creativity, trust, and awareness within you. You can read my musings on this topic on Medium here with all the hyperlinks to the essays I’ve noted. Thanks for listening this year, dear listeners! Dotun and I wish you all the best for the new year and we’ll be back the second week of January 2025. Reach out to me, your show host, for keynote speaking engagements, coaching, and training via my website , or find me also on Linkedin .…

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How do we interrupt our coachees less? And if an ICF evaluator hears, are we failed? 16:48

13 weeks之前16:48

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I muse and mentor some more with MCC Coach Ben Dooley this week, getting deeper into the nitty-gritty on how to lock in, stay fully present with our coachee. We address the inevitable blunder of speaking over—so hard not to in a 45-minute session, ways to rebound earlier, and wonder: how much does this matter? We also tackle an age-old adage almost every coach in training hears as they master active listening: WAIT (why am I talking?). Coach Ben finds this acronym can make us even more self-judgmental. (He urges us to focus more on whom am I talking on behalf of?) It’s a great mentoring session, recorded with Ben and my permission, in service of any certifying ICF coach and anybody simply wanting to become a more effective, more grounded, peaceful and locked-in listener. Reach out to me, your show host, for keynote speaking engagements, group coaching, and training via my website , or find me also on Linkedin . Reach out to MCC Coach Ben Dooley via his website, here. And you can tap his Coaching Skills Forum here. Find our earlier mentoring sessions here.…

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Does any ‘perfect’ coaching session exist? How much error do ICF evaluators allow? 31:18

15 weeks之前31:18

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How to choose which recorded coaching call to submit to the International Coaching Federation to certify at the Master Certified level still perplexes me. And after all this excellent mentoring, I’m feeling more conscious of where I’m falling out of mastery as I coach. Does any perfect coaching call exist? And assuming not, how much margin of error does the ICF allow? These questions I posed to MCC Coach Ben Dooley, my mentor coach, this week. I’m feeling clearer and clearer and even more inspired. Reach out to me, your show host, for keynote speaking engagements, group coaching, and training via my website , or find me also on Linkedin . Reach out to MCC Coach Ben Dooley via his website, here. Find our earlier mentoring sessions here.…

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The pharmaceutical exec who finds (and brings) calm through natural medicine: Jill Staudacher 28:39

17 weeks之前28:39

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Pharma sales executive, Jill Staudacher, appreciates the value of pharmaceutical medicines. She also finds value in natural medicine, especially now as we approach cold and flu season here in North America. (Echinacea, honey, vitamin d and vitamin C can boost our immunity really well.) In our lovely interview, we hear of homeopathic remedies and foods which can help boost our immunity and calm us down, even amidst Q4–a stressful time for many. We also swap notes (as fellow Wisconsinites and working mothers) on how to find our calm and bliss amidst Thanksgiving season, a celebration focused on creating, planning, and sharing food, but also gratitude and how to make time for ourselves and our own self care and reflection, no matter what. If you’d like to reach out to Jill for friendship or guidance, find her via her website Refocus your Health . Want to work with me or join my podcast(s)? Write to me at hangingrockmedia@gmail.com You can follow me also on LinkedIn and find details on my coaching and trainings via my website.…

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Why the International Coaching Federation is right to ask coaches to clarify the topic (and how to do it) 29:37

19 weeks之前29:37

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I’ve often bristled with the International Coaching Federation’s rule to establish (clearly—and in multiple ways) the topic and hopes for the coachee (our client) in every coaching call. Why? Because when you’re locked in and connected, the coaching conversation (in the real world vs. the ICF world) unfolds. Even asking the coachee to establish the topic or confirm it can feel prosaic, inserted, or forced, especially as we’ve already been talking about it. But without that established topic, the ICF gets antsy and will likely fail any recorded submission of our coaching without it. In this week’s episode and recorded mentoring session with my MCC Coach and mentor, Ben Dooley, I’m reminded that these rules become valid and worth following, not just so we can certify at that MCC level, but also to best serve our coachee. Establishing what we’re coaching towards in this moment, why, and what outcome they seek sets us both up for a solid coaching conversation. Establishing what they want and don’t want (and how we can help with that) also helps us feel more confident on how to bring value, and with that stay more present. In driving for specifics on what our coachee truly wants, we also ensure our coachee gains the outcome they seek. So while I still find it irksome, after this week’s training with Coach Ben, I’m really working to reframe how I think about the entire rule. Reach out to me, your show host, for keynote speaking engagements, group coaching, and training via my website , or find me also on Linkedin . Reach out to MCC Coach Ben Dooley via his website, here. Find our earlier mentoring sessions here.…

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One day at a time. Nick McCullough on retirement, Mississippi, and his land 16:39

21 weeks之前16:39

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About 900,000 Americans retired in the first five months of 2024, part of a “silver tsunami” of those reaching retirement age. My father-in-law Nick McCullough is one who retired a few years back, and in beautiful ways returning to the land just outside of Ruth Mississippi where he grew up. The cotton farm of his youth is now his retirement land where he lives with his Cajun wife, Crystall, my American Mum. After years of running his own auto repair workshop outside of New Orleans, Louisiana, he’s done with work, for now. In our touching interview, Nick (who’s hard of hearing, hence me booming my voice just a wee bit) reflects on his farm labor as a boy which started at six a.m. and ended at twilight. He believes growing up rural taught him how to work hard and how to think big. The very openness of the land brings peace, calm, tranquility—and a feeling that anything’s possible. And it is. Reach out to me, your show host, for keynote speaking engagements, group coaching, and training via my website , or find me also on Linkedin .…

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Can I cry with my coachee & still evoke awareness? MCC Coach Ben Dooley says: “Yes!” 31:35

23 weeks之前31:35

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Part two in a two-part series on maintaining presence when certifying as a Master Certified Coach, especially whilst the International Coaching Federation evaluates us. Reach out to me, your show host, for keynote speaking engagements, group coaching, and training via my website , or find me also on Linkedin . Reach out to MCC Coach Ben Dooley via his website, here.…

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How do we coach, not “perform”? MCC Coach Ben Dooley on managing our evaluators’ judgement 22:51

25 weeks之前22:51

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To certify with the International Coaching Federation, the world’s largest nonprofit organization, coaches must submit a recording of a coaching call they deem…well, worthy of certification. The stakes and expense (and the agonizing decision on which recording to submit) goes up with our credentials. The fee to submit a recording for the Master Coaching Certification? Between $675 to $825 US. And the expense of mentoring with a mentor coach, who can review your coaching skills, adds up too. Of course, you’ve the time expense as well — coaching and then analyzing which of your calls might best adhere to the ICF’s core competencies. As of December 31, 2023, there were 2,204 active MCC credential-holders worldwide, and if you’ve been following my writings and podcasts a while, you’ll know I’m vying to join this elite, super rare group. My mentor coaches have taught me a lot on this topic — and helped remove some of the ambiguity and guess work. In this week’s podcast, part of a two-part series, I’m chatting with my newest MCC mentor coach, Ben Dooley, on my residual and ongoing blockers, and his suggestions on getting out of our own way. Part two in this two-part series lives here. Reach out to me, your show host, for keynote speaking engagements, group coaching, and training via my website , or find me also on Linkedin . Reach out to Coach Ben Dooley via his website, here.…

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Clocking off. Kyana Gayden on balancing work, rest, and play 19:30

27 weeks之前19:30

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Air Force contract specialist Kyana Gayden finds that it’s the small tweaks in how we spend our time that yields the biggest results when it comes to work-life balance. She also marvels in that fabulous invention: Paid Time Off, which she never had as a graduate student, and does something fun—and spontaneous—when not working hard. “It makes a difference,” she finds, “and you feel more gratitude for your job, too.”…

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Meet Ben Dooley, my new MCC Mentor Coach. Joy (and struggles) with certifying as an ICF master certified coach 27:54

29 weeks之前27:54

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Warning: This episode's super ad hoc. This week, I met my new mentor coach, Ben Dooley. He's a former actor (among other things) and now runs his own coaching training academy and helps coaches certify in empowering ways. (I felt so inspired connecting with him via our Discovery session, I had to hit record.) In our conversation, we hear from Ben on his first failings as a certifying MCC coach, the blockers many of us striving for that master certification face, and how to navigate the entire process when (like me) you struggle following rules and/or are super creative. You can reach Ben Dooley and learn more about his trainings via his website . Reach out to me, your show host, for keynote speaking engagements, group coaching, and training via my website , or find me also on Linkedin .…

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“I have the best job in the world!” Oliver Singh on hotel ownership and the calm that comes from vacation 19:42

31 weeks之前19:42