Ep #237: How to Fire Someone

The Life Coach School Podcast

Brooke Castillo

Education, Entrepreneurship, Business, Self-improvement

4.8 • 9.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Chances are, if you’re an entrepreneur, you will have to fire someone. Same goes for managers and executives. And if you’re neither, there’s a chance that you may be fired. I think this process is a great metaphor for life and how we handle relationships and people. From figuring out whether someone needs to be fired to managing your mind through this process, you’ll learn everything you need to know about letting them go for the right reasons in a way that serves you and your business.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Life Coach School podcast with Brook Castillo episode number 237
0:06.9	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
0:18.9	Brook Castillo
0:21.4	Well hello my friends
0:24.0	excited to talk to you today. I have a very awful topic
0:30.5	But and it's one this kind of random for my podcast because I'm the Life Coach School podcast
0:35.1	I teach how to coach yourself, but this is one of those topics that I get asked about a lot and I think it's so important that
0:46.2	We understand it because chances are if you're an entrepreneur you will have to fire someone
0:53.4	And if you're not an entrepreneur, there's a chance that you would have to fire someone if you're an executive or a manager or that you could be fired and so I think
1:02.3	It's a great metaphor for life and for how we handle relationships and people and I think I have quite a bit of experience in this area
1:12.6	So I want to start with just the truth here, which is I have
1:18.8	In the past year hired and fired more people than most people will in a lifetime
1:25.8	And if you guys remember if you've been following me that the beginning of this year
1:30.0	I was determined to hire a CEO and the reason why I wanted to hire a CEO is so they could take care of hiring and firing and managing and processes and all of the things that I didn't feel that I was good at and I was
1:41.0	Super excited to hire someone to do all of that and I did a lot of interviewing and a lot of hiring and a lot of
1:48.1	Trying to get someone to do that for me and for whatever reason it just didn't work out and
1:53.4	It's a blessing now. I'm super proud of myself for how I've handled myself this year and for especially doing all the work. I didn't want to do
2:04.3	I didn't want to be a CEO. I didn't want to hire people. I didn't want to create processes
2:09.4	And I did all of that and I really like
2:12.2	Pat myself on the head
2:13.4	I'm like nice work woman for doing all of that
2:17.0	But in the process I've made lots of mistakes and I've done a lot of things right and one of the things that's really fascinating is I've had to fire quite a few people
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