Hey, it's Leo for actualized.org, and I'm outside today. It's a beautiful day in Las Vegas.

And today I wanted to talk to you about life coaching, and really I'm trying, I you know you know I'm that I'm a life

coach and I work with people on self-development issues and one of the things that is

curious for me as I was going through coaching training, I did about,

oh, like 200 to 300 hours of coaching training through IPEC and just my own study.

And that's on top of all the self-development stuff stuff that I study.

So I've been doing that and then I did about another 90 to 100 hours now of one-on-one

live coaching with friends and various colleagues and clients.

And so you know as I was doing that I was curious to me I was going through that whole process

as to you know whether coaching even works

because I was skeptical when I first started like what is this coaching stuff does it

really work can it really help you just can talking with somebody really help and

this whole idea of just asking questions. Because one of the distinctions

between being a coach, or working with a coach and working with, let's say, a therapist or a

consultant or a mentor, is that the coach really takes a different approach to how he helps you get results.

So the way coaching is supposed to work is that coaches are not supposed to give you advice.

Coaches are supposed to just ask you questions.

And so at first this idea seems a little bit fishy,

especially to a skeptic like myself,

I started thinking, well, there's so much value

in getting specific advice. Like, like you know if you go and

you talk to a consultant or a mentor the consultant or mentor will tell you exactly what

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