You are listening to the Life Coach School podcast with Berkis D.L., episode number 323.

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, Berkis D.L.

Well, hello, my friends. I'm really excited to talk to you today about some work I've been doing with my clients, and some work that I've been doing on my own brain.

That has me really excited, really looking forward to all the awareness and all the uncovering that is ahead of me.

And I wanted to share with you my process and what I'm going through and talk a little bit about how I'm using my work and the model to uncover some thoughts that I haven't even known to look for.

And so I'm calling this podcast looking for thoughts because I feel like the whole process is about going into our brain and finding our unconscious thoughts, finding thoughts that we have been programmed to believe through our culture and through our education systems.

And we may not even be aware that we have, and we may not want to have. And so I'm hoping that the process that I'm going through and that some of my students are going through with me will also benefit you.

So as most of you know, I have hired a coach who is helping me with finding my own internal biases, educating me on diversity and inclusion and equity.

And lots of topics that I haven't studied before and that I haven't had a lot of knowledge in.

And I'm very committed to this work because it's really important for me to become the best possible coach that I can be.

And I know that awareness is one of the most important things that any of us can do in our own work.

And it's awareness of our own thinking, awareness of the differentiation between what we think is just real and what are actually our thoughts and how those affect our behavior and also understanding how we are influenced by the people that were around by the way that we're educated and how to undo some of that.

I've talked a lot on this podcast about mental health and about how the way that we are taught in school and the way that we are educated has caused us so many problems as just humans.

I've also talked a lot about how specifically women and the way that our history has been taught to us and the way that our history is and how much that has influenced the way that we show up in the world and the things that we believe.

And I'm learning now about a lot of the racism that has been woven into our education and that we have been taught that we may not even realize is there.

And so uncovering all of this for me has been really powerful, really painful and has me really motivated.

So I thought I would start with talking a little bit about sexism and how thinking about that has really helped me in doing some of this work on myself.

And what I'm always teaching on this podcast is stuff that I have learned and applied to myself and then I go and teach.

So that's what I'm going to continue to do always on this podcast and so that's what I'm sharing with you here.

I know that there's a lot of men that listen to this podcast and I actually think this will benefit you to listen to just to understand in a way that like might blow your mind a little bit.

So I have been a very successful business woman in this online industry.

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