Arete Coach Podcast 1002 Ozzie Gontang: asking with listening and skill
Arete Coach: The Art & Science of Executive Coaching
Arete Coach Podcast
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🗓️ 30 November 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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This is the Arete Coach Podcast where we explore the art and science of executive coaching with host Severin Sorensen. Our guest is Ozzie Gontang, Ph.D., Executive Coach, Master Coach, and Vistage COPE Award Winner (2001). Ozzie's path to executive coaching came through his work as a marathoner, counselor, and psychotherapist. He transitioned to executive coach and executive peer group leader being awarded Vistage's highest honor, the Cope Award in 2001.
This interview was recorded on November 20, 2020.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Arty Coach podcast with Severn Sorenson and his guest, Ozzy Guntank, |
| 0:06.0 | executive coach, master coach and co-op award winner of 2001. This interview took place on November |
| 0:13.2 | 20, 2020 via Zoom. Ozzy operates from San Diego, California, and today works with national and |
| 0:20.8 | international business leaders, large and small, helping them grow. As we began, I want to share that |
| 0:26.3 | Ozzy is one of my good friends. In 2001, soon after I finished the Vistage Studio Chair |
| 0:32.0 | Training Academy, Ozzy reached out to me along with his peers to celebrate this journey of |
| 0:37.5 | cheering. The executive coaching, this life purpose that I had just started. He was a long time |
| 0:43.9 | member of Keepers of the Flame, Annie modeled excellence in abundance, caring, sharing and radical |
| 0:48.9 | candor. I first met Ozzy one-to-one at Vistage's Chair World in San Diego, and we have been good friends |
| 0:55.4 | ever since. What you might not know about Ozzy is that in addition to being a great coach, |
| 1:01.7 | he has completed 81 marathons and is an avid health promoter. I thought speaking today with Ozzy |
| 1:08.0 | would be a great addition to the Arty Coach podcast where we seek to explore excellence and the art |
| 1:13.7 | and science of coaching today. Welcome, Ozzy. Glad to be here, Severn. Glad to be here. |
| 1:19.3 | Oh, this will be fine. I'm looking so much for the journey. So one of the things that stands out |
| 1:24.3 | most of me in your background is this running and health focus. 81 marathons. That is awesome. |
| 1:30.9 | So I'm wondering how did you go from marathon runner to being a coach? |
| 1:37.8 | It's one of those serendipitous paths. I was taking a course on rehabilitation counseling |
| 1:44.8 | working for a master's degree, and one of the courses was talked by a psychiatrist on the |
| 1:50.8 | psychological physiological aspects of disability. And then he started a research program on |
| 1:58.7 | psychological physiological aspects of endurance exercise with running being that. So |
| 2:04.9 | I was one of the guinea pigs. I really got hooked on running. And within a matter of five or six |
| 2:12.8 | months, I had the most horrendous experience of running my first marathon. I sort of thought |
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