Michael Bungay Stanier: ...the power of having people around you to push you forward

Nobody Told Me!

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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We are proud and inspired by the fact that our listeners want to learn, grow and make a difference in this world in so many ways. You know you have a lot to contribute and you may be searching for ways to shake things up in your life and the world in general. That’s why we know you’ll be excited to listen to the next half hour!

Our guest on this episode, Michael Bungay Stanier, is the author of the best-selling book, “The Coaching Habit” and the founder of the training and development company, Box of Crayons, which has taught coaching skills to hundreds of thousands of people around the world. His newest book is called, "How To Begin: Start Doing Something that Matters".

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Jan Black. And I'm Laura Owens. We are so proud and inspired by the fact that our listeners want to grow, learn, and make a difference
0:21.7	in the world in so many ways. You know you have a lot to contribute and you may be searching
0:26.5	for ways to shake things up in your life and the world in general. That's why we know you'll be
0:31.6	so excited to listen to the next half hour. Our guest on this episode, Michael Bungay-Stanyer,
0:37.1	is the author of the best-selling
0:39.1	book, The Coaching Habit, and the founder of the training and development company, Box of
0:43.9	Crayons, which has taught coaching skills to hundreds of thousands of people around the world.
0:49.2	And his newest book is called How to Begin, Start Doing Something That Matters. Michael, we thank you so much for
0:56.5	joining us. Oh, look, I'm very excited to be here. And I just love how well you pronounced my name.
1:01.2	I mean, I have this complicated surname that gets wrong most of the time. The low point being when
1:07.4	somebody introduced me as Michael banging Spaniel.
1:13.0	But did you remember?
1:13.6	Clearly, yeah,
1:14.7	it was like a win.
1:16.4	It was a high point and a low point at exactly the same time.
1:21.2	But thank you.
1:22.0	I'm excited to be here.
1:23.6	Well,
1:23.9	Michael,
1:24.1	we want to know more about your latest book,
1:26.5	how to begin.
1:27.4	First of all, why do we need a book to tell us how to begin? Isn't it something we automatically know and understand? Well, that's probably true. I mean, most of us know how to get up in the morning and kind of get going. But this book is about helping people claim and name their ambition for themselves and for the world.
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