Welcome to Unfuck Your Brain. The only podcast that teaches you how to use psychology, feminism

and coaching to rewire your brain and get what you want in life. And now here's your

host, Harvard Law School grad, feminist rock star, and master coach, Carla Lohanthile.

Howdy my friends. This is little extra podcast goodness for the sweet because I think because

January's coming up and people are starting to really think about what they want to create

next year and how they want to change. I'm getting a lot more, which is awesome. Emails

and contact from you guys and Facebook messages and however y'all reach me through the web.

And so I wanted to kind of address today, not just like a couple of the questions I could

ask that all sort of go together. And to me, they all go under the kind of heading of like,

what actually is coaching even? Right? I think we all, a lot of us have been to therapy

or we've at least seen therapy in the movies. And so we have some idea of like what therapy

is or how it's supposed to work. Like you go every week and you talk about your family

and your past and maybe your feelings and it sort of goes on for a while. You know,

it can go on for years. Like people have some idea about that. If you don't really know

what coaching is. And I think they often think it's sort of like therapy and there are ways

that it is and ways that it's really different and not just defining coaching as being comparable

or dissimilar from therapy. But just in general, I think people don't really know what coaching

is. Maybe some of you had sports coaches like that's kind of the last time you had a coach.

So I kind of want to explain what coaching is and where it makes a difference and where

it doesn't. Right? Coaching is not the answer for everyone. Well, I don't know if that's

true. I feel like everyone could benefit from a coach. But that doesn't mean that at any

given time in your life, like coaching is always the perfect option. Right? If you are really

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