Mental Health #5: Meeting My Executive Coach (Classic)

Founder's Journal

Morning Brew

Careers, Business, Entrepreneurship

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🗓️ 28 January 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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I reflect on my first executive coaching session. Check out the full transcript of this episode below, and if you have any ideas for our show, email me at [email protected] or my DMs are open @businessbarista. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up, everyone? This is Alex Lieberman, co-founder and executive chairman of Morning Brew.
0:05.6	Welcome back to Founders Journal, my personal audio diary, where I give you the business builder,
0:11.2	the tools you need to think better in order to build better, whether that's building a business,
0:16.0	a team, or a new product. This week on Founders Journal, we're doing things a little differently.
0:21.8	We're dropping a mini-series focused on mental health. I'll talk about my own battle with anxiety.
0:27.6	The effects social media has on our psyche and breakdown my own mental health routine.
0:33.1	That means instead of just one episode, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, this week we're giving you two.
0:38.9	A new show that you won't want to miss, plus a classic episode you maybe haven't heard before.
0:44.1	In today's classic episode, originally published on March 17th, 2021, I talk about my first meeting
0:51.0	with my executive coach. Let's hop into it.
0:57.8	Some people call it executive coaching. Some people call it coaching. I call it professional
1:03.6	coaching. Some people compare coaching to therapy. Others assume it's only reserved for top level
1:09.4	executives, but I believe that coaching is something that every professional should have access to,
1:15.3	and should seriously consider trying out at some point in the near future.
1:19.9	I had my first executive coaching session ever, and I thought it'd be helpful to share what
1:24.0	this experience was like for me and what my coach and I spoke about. On Monday, I had my first
1:30.2	bi-monthly Zoom call with Ryan, who's my new executive coach. Honestly, I even hate using that
1:36.1	word because it perpetuates this idea that you have to be an executive to have this coach.
1:41.1	So I'm just going to call him coach, coach Ryan. Given that Ryan and I already knew each other
1:46.4	prior to coaching, we didn't start the session with formal introductions or the types of pleasantries
1:51.6	that you maybe would share in a new relationship. We just dove right in. We got into chatting and
1:56.9	started to hone in on some of the themes that were most nagging at me professionally and personally.
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