You are listening to the Life Coach School Podcast with Brookestio episode number 146.

Welcome to the Life Coach School Podcast, where it's all about real clients, real problems, and real coaching.

And now your host, Master Coach Instructor, Brookestio.

Well, hello, hello, hello, my friends. This is my last podcast of 2016.

Can you believe it? This is also my first podcast for myself coaching scholars in a series on resilience.

And let me tell you kind of how I have designed 2017 in terms of my podcast.

Every month, every four episodes within the month, I will be doing an episode on a theme.

And so for the month of January, we're doing resilience.

Now, in this case, what we're doing is I'm starting a little bit early because we are going to get to episode 150 in January.

And that, my friends, is going to be an episode you don't want to miss.

It, first of all, it's 150 episodes. Are you kidding me? It's so exciting.

And it's also such a special, awesome treat. And I can't wait for you to get to that one.

But this episode is the beginning of what I have created for the self coaching scholars.

I created them a study guide to go along with my podcast as they go through each month and each year.

So it doesn't matter when you sign up for self coaching scholars, you will get the next month's worth of podcasts in a study guide.

So instead of just listening to the podcast, we're going to actually do the study guide that goes along with it included in that study guide are my notes that I use to create the actual audio that you're hearing.

I always make notes before I do my research and make notes before I record the podcast. And so that's actually included in the study guide.

And then there's some questions that you write out to engage with the material instead of just listening to it.

So I actually did the questions before I started recording. And it's like amazingly exciting because the topic that we're talking about the overall topic is resilience.

But this one is a compelling reason. And so one of the things that I've learned is that one of the strongest indicators of success is resilience.

And so I really started to think about this. First of all, what is resilience if that's the indicator of success? And it says resilience isn't a character trait.

It's the effect of a compelling reason to complete something to evolve. So I was having this conversation when all of my coaches get certified when they go through my certification in person program, which is separate than the self coaching scholars.

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