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UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone

220. Coaching at Work, Working for Me, and Using Coaching to Manage: A Conversation with Elana McKernan

UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone

Kara Loewentheil

Education, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.65.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be a coach or work for one? Or, perhaps, how different your experience would be if you used thought work tools at work?

In this episode, you will meet one of my employees - Elana McKernan - and learn how we use coaching tools and philosophies to build our company culture and shape our work experience.

Whether you are in the coaching industry or not, you will leave this episode with a better understanding of how you can utilize coaching to level up your own work experience.

 

Get full show notes and more information here: https://unfuckyourbrain.com/220

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The Future Coach: How to Succeed as a Life Coach Today, Tomorrow, and Beyond is finally here. Every other week, you'll hear practical advice about becoming a coach, improving your coaching skills, and antidotes to the most common concerns, questions, and brain drama that come up with this work, whether you're just starting out or you're years into your career. If you want to find out more, you can find it anywhere you listen to podcasts and hit that follow button.

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0:00.0

Welcome to UnFuck Your Brain. The only podcast that teaches you how to use psychology, feminism, and coaching to rewire your brain

0:16.3

and get what you want in life.

0:18.6

And now here's your host, Harvard Law School grad, Feminist Rockstar, and Master Coach,

0:24.7

Kara Loyenthyle.

0:28.0

Hello, my chickens.

0:30.1

Today is your chance to see inside the black box of my coaching business and working for me

0:38.6

and what it is like to both work for me personally but also just to work in a business where coaching is

0:46.7

so integral to the way that business is done and employees are sort of guided and

0:52.2

mentored and managed and feedback is given.

0:54.6

Think it's going to be really valuable no matter who you are, certainly if you are

0:58.8

an entrepreneur or a manager, it's going to be really helpful to hear how we use coaching in the business, but even if you work for yourself or you work for someone else thinking about how to use coaching tools in the context of how you relate to your work and to your

1:15.8

performance and how you kind of coach yourself and something goes wrong, all of that is really

1:22.2

good stuff in this episode.

1:23.8

So this also seems like an appropriate time

1:25.8

to tell you about how we're hiring right now.

1:29.1

So if you listen to this episode and you think,

1:31.0

yeah, man, that sounds like someplace I want to work because you know we all

1:34.4

talk to ourselves with yeah man at the beginning of our thoughts then you are

1:39.2

going to want to look into whether you are a good fit for one of the two positions that we are

1:43.5

currently trying to fill. We are looking for an incredible organized strategic

1:49.9

unflappable C.O. to be my right-hand person and keep the lights on and the trains running and

1:59.4

whatever those metaphors would be to handle all the logistics and execution and coordination and managing employees while I focus on that

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