You are listening to Severin Sorenson, executive coach and curator of the

Artie Coach podcast, where we explore excellence and the art and science and

executive coaching. I am speaking today with executive coach Mickey Williams, who

is a business owner, executive coach, master chair with Vistage International,

recipient of Vistage's Lifetime Achievement Award and Speaker of the Year

Award, and a National Speakers Association, Speaker's Hall of Fame,

recipient, and a TEDx speaker. And once she is not providing key notes or

workshops, she is delivering executive coaching on a monthly basis to

business leaders. Today, Mickey lives in Naples, Florida, where she provides

executive coaching, monthly to business leaders, and interestingly also runs a

speaker school for some of our nation's top speakers. As we begin, I want to

share that Mickey is passionate about the art and science of coaching, and she has

contributed many years of her life to the coaching profession and training

and coaching others. On disclosure, I first met Mickey at an executive coaching

in service training, where Mickey shared how she organizes fabulous executive

retreats with coaching clients, particularly her members of her peer groups

in Vistage, and with this retreat, she gets them bonded together. I esteem Mickey

highly, and I thought speaking with her today would be a great addition to the

art to coach podcasts that seeks to explore excellence and the art of executive

coaching today. Welcome, Mickey. Thank you, Severin. There was a wonderful introduction

that I wrote. I could have gone on and on. You know, it's interesting when we were

starting with the introduction. I was thinking about when I first met you, and I'm

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