You are listening to the Life Coach School Podcast with Brookestio episode number 429.

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, my friends. I am so happy to be here. We've been having such amazing summer. All of us, me and the kids in the house, and my friends, Alex and Layla are here. My friend Ryan is coming.

We just went to the Cayman Islands with some of my friends, and just finished up.

Re-invention live, which was insanely fun. So I'm excited to be here. I have been going through your questions for me that you submitted through the Podcast Text Number.

And first of all, I just want to thank everyone for such beautiful messages that you sent, and for such amazing things that you said about how my work has changed your lives, and what you're doing with your lives, and how the Podcast has helped you.

And they were very, very fun to read through. So I'm going to go through and answer as many of these as I can within the next 20 to 30 minutes. And if I need to do a second one, I will.

I picked the questions that I thought were the best questions to address, mostly everyone that listens to the Podcast.

And there were a lot of really specific questions about coaching and needing one-to-one coaching on certain things. I highly recommend that if you submitted a question that was really specific to a problem that you're having, that you definitely joined me in scholars and let me coach you on that question.

And you can have some back-up forth versus me just answering a simple question on the Podcast. We are also answering many of these questions on social media, on short snippet videos that we're creating.

The boys have been playing over there with some social media videos and social media, Instagram, and all the things trying to answer some of these questions and get some more content out to you.

So the first question is, how do you stay so strong-minded? And it's so interesting to get this question today because I've been having a not so strong-minded couple of days.

I think sometimes when I'm in the spotlight, when I'm presenting and when I'm teaching and when I'm coaching, I'm in a space where I've already coached myself and I've already gotten to the space where I can be available to you all as a teacher or as a coach.

And so it's very important to know that I don't always stay strong-minded. I feel like sometimes I don't want to feel my thoughts.

You know what I mean? My thoughts are definitely not strong and they're painful and they're weak and they're worrisome and negative, for sure.

So I don't want anyone to be under the impression that I have strong thoughts all of the time. I don't.

But I do coach myself regularly. I do have faith in my ability to manage my mind and manage my emotions and pull myself out of dark spaces and to really process through the emotions that I'm going through.

And so that's very useful to have the tools, to have the model, to be able to do that. And the other thing that I want to say about that is I don't always want to be strong-minded.

I want to be able to fall apart when I need to fall apart and I need to be able to cry and be in a space of weakness when that's appropriate for me.

And I do do that. I just actually recently did that. It was with my girlfriends actually. And I was able to just fall apart with them.

It was very cathartic and felt amazing. And I wouldn't say that falling apart and crying makes me not strong. I actually think it is part of being strong, but it doesn't obviously appear strong.

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