You are listening to Severin Sonson, Executive Coach and Curator of the RITA Coach podcast,

where we explore excellence and the art and science of executive coaching.

Today's guest is Norma Rosenberg. She is an executive coach, a VISTA's chair,

and her practice is in Manhattan. Norma is insightful, sage, and perceptive.

She came to coaching after a career of management consulting with PricewaterhouseCoopers.

This particular interview was recorded on November 16, 2020 on Zoom.

Now what's interesting about Norma is that she took a path through management consulting,

having worked with one of the major four firms, and then graduated her way into coaching,

moving from highly analytical tool-based to more feeling, perception, and intuitive based.

And today she would describe her number one strength being intuition and her ability to empathize.

During our interview, Norma shared with me an epiphany she had recently in looking at a space launch

and thinking about the stages of flight as a metaphor for the different stages that we go through.

Last night, I was on the treadmill in our fitness center in my building,

and I was watching the space launch.

And it was thrilling. It was 10 minutes, and you saw the first part that, you know,

with the breakaway, yeah, and come back to Earth.

And I was thinking that that's a little bit about life, you know, about how we have things that help us soar,

and we don't need those anymore. We just go on to something new.

And the foundation, you know, is still in our memory, but we don't need that, you know what I mean?

That's a beautiful metaphor.

Yeah, there's a lot of beautiful metaphors right now.

If we can put aside all of the awful things that are going on, there's some beautiful things about this time.

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