Hello, friends, and 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 could bring some creativity and levity to your coaching conversations?

How about helping our clients access their needs or connect them to their power?

If so, then you're going to like this replay of our fan favorite series called The First Five Minutes.

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, model what it might look like,

and reveal why this question works.

So this episode is for you if your conversations are feeling a little flat, if your client is

more compliant than actively engaged, if you'd like to learn a new way to open your coaching conversations,

and if you like concrete coaching tools. So if this type of directive teaching around concrete skills

is what you need, what you want, what you like, then you're going to love my learning library

and the

Transformational Coaching PLC. Make sure to check out the show notes so you can learn more about

those. And now let's jump into the episode. All right, folks, for the last month, we've been

giving you these prompts to open up a coaching conversation, prompts that will

boost resilience. I'm so curious how these have been going for you. I would love to hear whether

that is somewhere on social media or in an Apple podcast review.

I'm just so curious, how are these working?

The intention with these prompts is that they are a different way to open up a coaching conversation.

You know, in those first five minutes or so, when you are sitting down with your client,

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