Welcome to the Brute Strength Podcast, bringing you worldwide experts from all areas of health and fitness.

We cover training, nutrition, coaching, and mindset.

Welcome your host, Strength and Conditioning Coach, 2012 and 2013 CrossFit Games Channel, Michael Cajou.

Mind, Body, brute.

Welcome back. This is Michael Cashew.

And today, I want to talk to you about five ways you can help people through personal

development without giving advice.

And this came up because someone reached out to me on Instagram. Her name was Jasmine.

And she said she wanted to hear my thoughts on helping people through personal development in

general. And she was some type of coach. I can't remember exactly what type of coach.

But she said that she tends to talk more than she listens. And I could just relate

to that so, so much. And so I wanted to put this episode together. And I think this is really

important for anyone that is a coach, a mentor, a leader, or even if you're just someone that

wants to have a positive impact on those around you,

you're probably going to be in conversations with your friends, your loved ones, etc.,

where they come to you for advice or support or whatever it may be.

They're going through a challenge or an obstacle,

and that's your opportunity to have a really big impact on them.

And the way that you respond to that conversation, the way that you show up in that conversation

will determine how impactful, how effective you are at actually helping them.

If you master this, you are going to be able to get people

incredible results, whether you are a CrossFit coach, a nutrition coach, you lead a tech

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