You are listening to the Life Coach School Podcast with Brook Castillo episode number 464.

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, Brook Castillo.

Hello, beautiful friends.

You might be able to hear some water in the background. That is a fountain that is going into the pool.

That is on the land of Cabo in Mexico, where I am right now with my son Connor and Mason to watch Christian playing a golf tournament.

It is gorgeous here this morning. The sky is perfectly blue. There are palm trees everywhere.

I can see the ocean. I am not mad at all today.

But I woke up this morning. I am getting some work done. I am going to have some meetings and record some podcasts.

And then go play some pickleball, of course.

And I have told my son that it is required. The pickleball is required as we travel.

And then we are going to go hang out with Christian. He starts his tournament tomorrow.

So, what I want to talk about today is solving your problems.

Solving your personal problem, solving your professional problems. It doesn't matter what kind of problems you have.

I want to talk to you about solving them because the work that we do with the model,

one of the reasons why I love it so much, is it really can solve any problem that we're dealing with.

And that is, I did a program years ago when I first started with the model and it was called how to solve any problem.

And it was basically how to take any problem and run it through the model and understand problems at a different level.

And so I wanted to record a podcast about that as something that was a little bit more succinct

that you could reference whenever you're dealing with a personal or a professional problem.

So, let's jump in. The first thing that you have to ask yourself is what is a problem.

Because how would you even define what that word means in relation to your life or in relation to your work

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