Interview With Rod Francis: Head of Coaching Faculty At Human Potential Institute

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Ryan Niddel

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🗓️ 21 August 2019

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Rod is Head of Coaching Faculty at the Human Potential Institute and has been working in the field of Coach training for over a decade. He is an ICF-credentialed Positive Psychology & Presence-based Coach, and is a qualified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction teacher with the Center for Mindfulness at UMass Medical School. He’s been coaching and mentoring for almost two decades, teaching for over 3 decades and a meditation practice for even longer. Join us as we dive into a deep discussion of Rod’s past, his current position with the Human Potential Institute, how when we create change within ourselves, no matter how simple, we are also creating change in the world we live in.

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0:00.0	Today I have an incredibly special guest someone that's near and dear to my heart the head what would rod would be what's the official title for you inside the human potential institute I suppose I should have asked that prior to this but you know I just know you as Rob the guy that leans all the training of
0:14.0	of HPI, but what's your official title inside the Human Potential Institute?
0:17.7	The official title is Head of Coaching Faculty. What a brilliant title and I don't even know that that adequately describes the brilliance
0:26.1	that I get to unpackage with you today on the show and couldn't be more happy to have you here
0:30.7	virtually with me.
0:32.1	Right, so I appreciate you rod thank you very much
0:34.2	well thank you Ryan I appreciate the opportunity to come and share with you and also
0:39.1	just to connect as well absolutely well we were having having right ahead to literally stop our pre-show conversation because we were getting
0:47.5	into things that I feel like just have so much impact for you as you're listening right now and one of those things that
0:54.3	that Rod was was touching base on with me was the idea of being a change agent
0:59.9	right being someone that elicits change in the world and I, you know, tongue in cheek but somewhat seriously said, well,
1:06.0	if I'm a change agent for myself, right, am I really being a change agent?
1:11.0	And, Rod, you had some, you you know a really profound statement wrapped
1:14.1	around that would you mind sharing that right now yeah I'd love to because I like you
1:20.4	I we could have carried on that conversation and actually not ended up doing what we were really setting out to do today, which was to communicate to all of these fantastic people who love to connect with you, Ryan.
1:32.0	So, yeah, I guess the simple answer was
1:35.2	when we create changing ourselves,
1:37.4	when we work on ourselves, we improve ourselves,
1:40.4	we are change agents in the world. We are actually shifting the world around us.
1:45.6	Just simply by virtue of the fact that we show up differently, suddenly we start to be
1:51.9	a different person, we communicate differently we interact with other people around us differently and they change we can make profound impacts on the world around us simply by, okay, so simply by being
2:08.8	friendly instead of disconnecting.
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