Hey everyone and welcome to our throwback episode. In our throwback episodes, we are reintroducing you to

some of our most popular episodes. This is great for new listeners who want to learn more about the work

we've done in the past, and it's a great refresher if you've been a listener for a long time.

Enjoy. My name is Daniel Stover. I'm an executive coach for integrated leadership systems.

Senior leadership consultant is my title. So what that means, at an individual level and at an

organizational level, I get to serve my clients, helping them become more effective leaders, if you will, transformational

leaders, largely through the lens of cognitive behavioral psychology and emotional intelligence.

And the short version of the story to how I got here was having a lot of my own emotional reactivity to reconcile. So that goes back to how I was

raised and some of the things I went through when I was growing up that impacted me as an adult.

And I hit this place where I became very depressed and had a lot of anxiety and in working through that

became very passionate about paying forward the emotional tools that I learned to save my life.

But instead of becoming a therapist or a clinician decided to become a coach who specializes

in similar kind of tools without performing

therapy, but helping business people's lives improve for the better, which actually, as research

has shown, helps people lead more effectively. That's fantastic. And yeah, you're doing a great job

with it. And for the listeners, Dan has a great TED Talk as well. So I was kind of following in

your footsteps doing a TED Talk. And so yeah, I appreciate you sharing that story on the TED Talk.

So everybody out there, I strongly recommend checking that one out. Thanks. And make sure you check

out Kwame's if you haven't seen it either. I appreciate that. Earlier you mentioned the term transformational leaders. What

do you mean by that? Yeah, transformational leadership is the essence of what we do at

integrated leadership system. So that's the organization I work for. It was started by a clinical

psychologist named Steve Anderson back about 17, 18 years ago now.

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