Hello, friends. Welcome to the Bright Morning podcast. I'm your host, Elena Aguilar. And in each podcast

episode, you'll hear me demonstrate how you can lead conversations that build connection and spark

change. Have you ever wondered how you can kindle a sense of power and agency in your clients when they're feeling deflated or overwhelmed?

If so, this replay of our fan favorite first five minutes series is for you.

In this mini episode, I'm going to teach you how to incorporate one

resilience boosting question into your conversations to help your clients get through the

spring slump. I'll also demonstrate how to introduce this new type of question. I'll model what

it might look like, and then I'll reveal why this question works.

So this episode is for you if your clients are feeling powerless or deflated,

if you'd like to learn a new way to open your coaching conversations,

and if you like concrete coaching tools.

Now, if this kind of learning about concrete skills is what you need,

then you are going to love my learning library and transformational coaching PLC. And you can find

out more about that in the show notes. And now let's jump into the episode. All right, friends,

so the first five minutes is a mini series on the opening questions that you can use in a

coaching conversation which will boost your client's resilience. And within about 10 to 12 minutes, I am going to give you the

opening question for this week. I'm going to tell you a little bit about it, why it works,

and I'll throw in some tips and tricks so that this question can boost your client's resilience, which is really necessary at this time of year.

It may also inadvertently boost your own resilience.

You might get vicarious resilience boosting, or maybe you'll reflect on this question, and you'll find it helpful for yourself.

Okay. So in the last couple of weeks, I have shared some information about how to frame

the opening question, especially if this will be a divergence from a usual, hey, how are you

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