Coaching Reframes and Context with Master Coach John O’Connor

Relationship School Podcast

Jayson Gaddis

Relationships, Relationshippodcast, Sex, Relationshipadvice, Society & Culture, Jaysongaddispodcast, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6 • 981 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

What does it mean to follow your deepest calling? How do you get clear on what actually matters and act on it today? Jayson sits down with executive coach John O’Connor to explore what it takes to create real transformation.

They get into symbolic sovereignty, creating a clear vision, and how deep callings can emerge from deep traumas. Jayson shares what it means to earn your black belt in relationships, they discuss why music is a powerful metaphor for life, and the one skill every facilitator needs. They also talk about entanglement, and having a shared vision with your partner. Stick around for grounded insights on leadership, connection, and showing up fully to the work only you can do.
John O’Connor is an executive coach and facilitator living in Boulder, Colorado. For more than a decade, John has coached the top CEOs and leaders in hedge funds, startups, and Fortune 500 companies. John embodies a masterful level of skill to create radical transformation. His coaching path emerged out of 17 years as a massage therapist, after working through tens of thousands of bodies, he developed a deep connection and curiosity to the unconscious mind, learning how to facilitate behavioral, emotional and mental change at the deepest level. John was a co-lead facilitator at the first two Open Source Retreats that helped lay the foundation for the EVRYMAN movement. He is also a certified NLP and hypnosis trainer, a certified master coach, creator of The Access Method, and author of the upcoming book From Ordinary to Extraordinary.

Timestamps:

1:23 - What is your deepest calling?
3:49 - Stepping out of time
8:54 - Creating a clear vision
10:43 - What are the three most important things you need to do today?
13:19 - Symbolic sovereignty
32:24 - How to get your black belt in relationships
37:36 - Music as a metaphor for relationships
45:48 - Having a shared vision
52:42 - Deep callings can emerge from deep traumas
58:56 - Dealing with entanglement
1:04:00 - An important skill for facilitators and coaches

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0:00.0	All right, welcome to the Relationship Coaching School podcast.
0:05.4	I've got my good friend John O'Connor here.
0:07.6	What's up, John?
0:08.2	What's up, Jay?
0:09.2	John has been an executive coach, transformational coach, for how many years now?
0:14.7	Let's see, going on 16 years.
0:16.6	Yeah.
0:17.0	Jesus.
0:18.4	Yeah, and you have just some wicked kind of, I call them shamanic skills with people in terms of your coaching style.
0:25.4	We're going to get into that.
0:26.8	And you are married.
0:29.0	You have two kids.
0:30.6	You live in Longmont, Colorado.
0:33.4	And we met, I think, in 2016, if I have that right, in Jackson Hole, right?
0:37.6	Yeah, that was true, yeah.
0:38.7	For the first time.
0:39.4	Yeah.
0:39.7	On a ski trip with some mastermind entrepreneur peeps.
0:43.4	Yeah.
0:44.2	Anyway, grateful to have you here and I'm psyched to get into it.
0:46.7	Yeah, same here.
0:47.4	I don't think you and I've ever been in this context.
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