Corey Yeager: ...you can be what you choose to be

Nobody Told Me!

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Our guest, Dr. Corey Yeager, joins us as we explore some of the questions you may want to ask yourself to gain self-compassion, discover your purpose, and explore who you want to be. Dr. Yeager is a marriage and family therapist who is the team therapist and Life Coach for the Detroit Pistons. He is the author of a fantastic new book called, "How Am I Doing?: 40 Conversations to Have With Yourself". His website is http://doctorcoreyyeager.com/

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Laura Owens and I'm Jan Black. On this episode, we're going to
0:15.1	explore some of the questions you may want to ask yourself to gain self-compassion,
0:19.5	discover your purpose, and explore who you
0:21.7	want to be. We've been really looking forward to talking with our guest, Dr. Corey Yeager.
0:26.4	Dr. Yeager is a marriage and family therapist who is the team therapist and life coach for the
0:32.2	Detroit Pistons. His clients have also included the Oprah Winfrey Network and the Smithsonian Institute.
0:38.3	Dr. Gager is the author of a wonderful new book called How Am I Doing, 40 Conversations to
0:44.3	Have With Yourself.
0:45.4	Dr. Yeager, thank you so much for joining us.
0:48.3	I am so happy to be with both of you.
0:50.4	Thanks for having me.
0:51.5	We want to know what sparked your desire to write this book,
0:55.1	because it's a fabulous book, fabulous idea. What's behind it? You know, it really comes from all
1:01.8	the work that I'd been doing therapeutically. And the questions, the conversations that I asked
1:05.9	people to have with themselves in the book were really questions I was asking others
1:09.7	therapeutically. So I'm in therapy
1:11.3	with them, doing therapy with clients, and I'm asking these series of questions. So time after
1:18.3	time, I would start to say, all right, so after the session was over, what do I think about that
1:22.3	question? How would I answer that question? And from that, the opportunity came for me to write a book that I thought would
1:28.9	be helpful in having people get better acquainted with themselves. So that's really the genesis of
1:34.6	how the book came to be. The book starts out with a conversation called Who is the Most
1:41.1	Important Person in your life? And already I felt like I was kind of getting into a heated discussion with you
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