WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:06.240 Successful individuals use coaching and mentorship to help them unlock their potential. Not all 2 00:00:06.240 --> 00:00:10.199 coaches are created equal, and that's why we work with the top five percent 3 00:00:10.240 --> 00:00:14.279 of coaches at Idemics. Welcome to Coaches You Need brought to you by Idemics 4 00:00:17.519 --> 00:00:23.399 Welcome to Coaches to Know a podcast short by Idemics Radio. This brief podcast 5 00:00:23.519 --> 00:00:28.559 is designed to deemified coaching and help you our audience understand what coaching is and 6 00:00:28.600 --> 00:00:32.359 how it can help you. I'm their host, Jamie, and today I 7 00:00:32.439 --> 00:00:38.560 have the pleasure of being here with Coach Roberta to discuss a program called Designing 8 00:00:38.799 --> 00:00:44.079 Your Life. Coach. Roberta, of course, is a certified Designing your 9 00:00:44.119 --> 00:00:49.280 Life coach. She's been an executive leadership coach and facilitator for five years. 10 00:00:49.880 --> 00:00:53.920 She had the background in education policy, where she'd worked in government at all 11 00:00:54.039 --> 00:01:00.520 levels and also in the nonprofit area. In all her supplie she's held leadership 12 00:01:00.640 --> 00:01:11.239 roles. Her clients are people seeking to upscale and become leaders. And these 13 00:01:11.239 --> 00:01:18.079 are leaders from C suite executives to senior and mid level leaders to emerging leaders, 14 00:01:18.120 --> 00:01:22.920 which includes young professionals and college students. So welcome to coach from Berta 15 00:01:23.000 --> 00:01:26.680 and thank you for joining us here today. Thank you very much, Jamie. 16 00:01:26.799 --> 00:01:30.040 Great to be here. So let's un britly start if you could just 17 00:01:30.120 --> 00:01:34.519 help us understand what is the program designing your Life and how does it differ 18 00:01:34.599 --> 00:01:41.120 from other programs that are out there. Sure so, Designing your Life is 19 00:01:41.159 --> 00:01:49.079 a framework that was developed by two design engineers at a Stanford University, Bill 20 00:01:49.239 --> 00:02:00.159 Wilburnett and Dave Evans, and basically they have applied design principles for helping people 21 00:02:00.719 --> 00:02:08.840 design a life they love. Bill and Dave's philosophy is that everyone deserves to 22 00:02:09.000 --> 00:02:16.159 be able to have and design a life and as by extension of work, 23 00:02:16.199 --> 00:02:23.000 life that they love and that no one truly If you embrace the principles, 24 00:02:23.599 --> 00:02:30.039 no one is ever finished designing their life. Once you learn the model, 25 00:02:30.120 --> 00:02:34.159 and you learn the philosophy, and you learn the framework, you have the 26 00:02:34.199 --> 00:02:43.680 tools to continue to I would say, fail forward and design a life you 27 00:02:43.759 --> 00:02:50.840 love as you evolve and change, because as humans we are constantly developing, 28 00:02:51.120 --> 00:02:57.879 evolving and changing. Brilliant. Thank you so much. Death. We are 29 00:02:57.919 --> 00:03:01.120 not robots, right so where not yet? Not yet anyway, right, 30 00:03:01.199 --> 00:03:07.400 Jamie. Different makes us different from chat GDP right, which is the right, 31 00:03:07.680 --> 00:03:12.680 right, Thank you so much for that introduction. So it sounds like 32 00:03:12.840 --> 00:03:19.120 one of the key differences, just for clarification, is that the framework and 33 00:03:19.159 --> 00:03:23.280 the way it's built, it is built with a design lens. Is that 34 00:03:23.400 --> 00:03:28.639 correct? Correct? Yes? And there really aren't any other programs that take 35 00:03:28.719 --> 00:03:35.680 that approach, not that I'm aware of. Okay, um, and you 36 00:03:35.759 --> 00:03:39.400 know, um, it's sort of getting to my next question is who is 37 00:03:39.439 --> 00:03:45.439 this for? It sounds like it's something that it's for everybody at any stage 38 00:03:45.439 --> 00:03:47.919 of life. Uh, but you know, I'll let you talk to that 39 00:03:49.039 --> 00:03:54.240 point as well as you know, you mentioned that people can use the framework 40 00:03:54.240 --> 00:03:58.280 over and over again. Is there a you know, is there a recommended 41 00:03:58.319 --> 00:04:03.639 frequency with which you use this framework to you know, I guess reflect on 42 00:04:03.680 --> 00:04:08.360 your life and where you're at and where you want to go. So those 43 00:04:08.400 --> 00:04:12.039 are a lot of questions packed into one, so let me try to peel 44 00:04:12.080 --> 00:04:15.560 them apart. So, first of all, yes, I would say it's 45 00:04:16.079 --> 00:04:26.360 almost for everyone. I think some starting with high school students you would have 46 00:04:26.439 --> 00:04:30.560 to have a certain level of maturity I think in order for it to be 47 00:04:30.639 --> 00:04:38.399 effective, but certainly college students, absolutely, anyone in the workforce and then 48 00:04:39.360 --> 00:04:48.120 most recently I have done some workshops with individuals who are recently retired and ready 49 00:04:48.199 --> 00:04:55.240 to do their second act. So related to your other question about you know, 50 00:04:55.279 --> 00:05:00.319 what is the recommended frequency, it's very individual. It's based on when 51 00:05:00.560 --> 00:05:08.680 someone starts to feel as though whatever they're doing for there in this case, 52 00:05:08.839 --> 00:05:15.000 usually it's for their job, for their career is not aligning with their values 53 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:20.720 and their beliefs. And I call it feeling squidgy. I know that's not 54 00:05:20.759 --> 00:05:26.319 a word in the dictionary, but you just start to feel people start to 55 00:05:26.399 --> 00:05:31.160 feel off kilter, they start to feel uncentered, they're not as they don't 56 00:05:31.160 --> 00:05:36.160 have as much energy, they're not as motivated, they're seeking something else. 57 00:05:36.639 --> 00:05:43.199 So at any point in someone's career or in someone's life, as in the 58 00:05:43.240 --> 00:05:46.680 case with the people who are moving on to their second or third or in 59 00:05:46.720 --> 00:05:51.920 some cases for the act, they want to be able to take some time 60 00:05:51.959 --> 00:05:58.720 to reflect and use these tools to figure out what it is they might want 61 00:05:58.720 --> 00:06:04.959 to do and start exploring and finding out and testing the water to see in 62 00:06:05.040 --> 00:06:10.839 fact, if it is something they want to pursue. Um, thanks so 63 00:06:10.920 --> 00:06:15.319 much. I love the word squidgy. That again, I'm going to use 64 00:06:15.360 --> 00:06:19.959 that. Um, you might want to trademark that. Okay, yeah, 65 00:06:20.160 --> 00:06:26.319 being squidgy, which is you're feeling unsettled or like something is just not right 66 00:06:26.639 --> 00:06:30.920 in what you're doing and what you're feeling. I really appreciate that term, 67 00:06:30.920 --> 00:06:34.759 and it's it's a perfect It perfectly describes the emotion I think. UM, 68 00:06:35.639 --> 00:06:40.519 uh, don't you go to this? This is all very enlightening. Um, 69 00:06:40.560 --> 00:06:43.800 you know as a as a as a final question, you know the 70 00:06:43.839 --> 00:06:48.000 interesting understanding why you shows to get certified and design your life? What was 71 00:06:48.040 --> 00:06:53.000 it for you? Um, that attracted you the program because you know, 72 00:06:53.040 --> 00:06:58.800 in the coaching sphere there are a lot of different assessments and programs. Um. 73 00:06:58.839 --> 00:07:05.360 You know there's there there is no lack of opportunities to pursue different frameworks. 74 00:07:05.360 --> 00:07:12.720 So what what what spoke to you about design your lives? So I 75 00:07:12.759 --> 00:07:17.680 am a product of the program, is the short answer. When I was 76 00:07:18.279 --> 00:07:25.000 in my when I was in my senior leadership position in the federal government, 77 00:07:25.600 --> 00:07:31.600 I started feeling squidgy or uncentered or up kilter, or that something wasn't just 78 00:07:32.079 --> 00:07:38.040 quite right. And so I started, you know, casting my net and 79 00:07:38.199 --> 00:07:46.480 exploring different options, and I landed on the Designing Your Life course, which 80 00:07:46.759 --> 00:07:50.639 I took the course myself as not as a coach. I wasn't as a 81 00:07:50.680 --> 00:07:55.879 coach this time. I just took it to try to find out what I 82 00:07:56.000 --> 00:08:03.120 might want to do next, and that led me down the path of exploring 83 00:08:03.560 --> 00:08:09.040 becoming an executive leadership coach. And you know, fast forward probably about eight 84 00:08:09.120 --> 00:08:15.680 years later, here I am today, you know, in business for myself 85 00:08:15.839 --> 00:08:22.480 as an executive leadership coach and facilitator. So again short answer is I am 86 00:08:22.519 --> 00:08:28.000 a product of the program. And once I became a coach, then I 87 00:08:28.079 --> 00:08:33.960 pursued the certification to be certified as a coach for the Designing Your Life program 88 00:08:35.000 --> 00:08:39.440 and I have continued to see success after success after success with my clients. 89 00:08:41.919 --> 00:08:46.480 That's an amazing note to wrap up on an amazing testament as well to the 90 00:08:48.080 --> 00:08:54.080 Designing Your Life program. But thank you so much Coach Roberta for your time 91 00:08:54.120 --> 00:08:56.840 today and to our audience. If you would like to work with Coach Roberta 92 00:08:58.080 --> 00:09:03.519 or one of our other qualified coaches, please visit the idemix dot com. 93 00:09:03.519 --> 00:09:09.039 Thank you for listening today. Thanks for listening. Please subscribe wherever you listen 94 00:09:09.080 --> 00:09:15.559 and leave us a review. Find your Ideal Coach at www dot vidmx dot 95 00:09:15.559 --> 00:09:20.440 com. 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