UFYB 280: Mentorship & Hierarchy in Coaching: A Conversation with Judith Gaton
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Kara Loewentheil
4.6 • 5.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
When you have goals and aspirations it’s normal to look for someone that can help you reach them. Having a mentor to help guide you can be a great thing. But sometimes as mentees, we put our mentors up on a pedestal. And when we believe our mentors —and not ourselves — have the answer to our success, we strip ourselves of our own authority and power. The same thing goes for coaches.
Tune in to learn how to take the hierarchy out of your mentor and coaching relationships and how the most important mentorship relationship is the one you have with yourself.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Unfuck Your Brain. The only podcast that teaches you how to use psychology, feminism |
| 0:13.8 | and coaching to rewire your brain and get what you want in life. And now here's your |
| 0:19.3 | host, Harvard Law School grad, feminist rock star, and master coach, Carla Lohanthile. |
| 0:26.3 | Hello, my chickens. So a few weeks ago, you all heard me go through a style evolution |
| 0:36.2 | process on air live with the fabulous Judith Gitan, who is an amazing coach. She's a student |
| 0:44.4 | of mine. She's one of my first one-on-one clients back in the day. And then she became a |
| 0:49.4 | coach. She may have already been a coach then. She was also a lawyer at the time. Now she |
| 0:53.5 | is a coach full time. She's a master certified coach. She went through the advanced certification |
| 0:58.4 | and feminist coaching. And she's a style coach for curvy women. And so we did a whole podcast |
| 1:03.6 | on kind of her area of expertise, which is style and kind of evolving my style on air. |
| 1:09.6 | So if you haven't listened to that, go back. But today I want to share a conversation we had |
| 1:13.7 | on a totally different topic, actually. And this aired on Judith's podcast. And I wanted to share |
| 1:18.8 | the conversation with you because I think it was such an interesting conversation. We had a conversation |
| 1:25.0 | about mentorship and kind of what mentorship means, ways of being a mentor, how to build a mentorship |
| 1:31.7 | relationship. But this is a term that it's interesting like watching how the lingo of the coaching |
| 1:37.6 | space changes. I've started to see this use of the term mentorship as like a coaching offering |
| 1:44.7 | or as a coaching relationship start to come in to practice, which and to use. It's not that well |
| 1:51.3 | defined. And I think it's, you know, you could probably have a whole interesting conversation about |
| 1:55.6 | the sort of ways that we may be commodify certain kinds of personal relationships. |
| 2:01.6 | In any case, I don't have a fully worked out theory about what's happening in the coaching space |
| 2:04.9 | with this word. It's not something that I use in my offerings or my work. But in terms of paid offerings. |
| 2:10.3 | But certainly being a mentor, being a mentee, I've been both of those roles in different areas |
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