Coffee House Coaching
Coffee House Coaching is an Executive Coaching podcast where I speak with fellow Executive Coaches about their practice, their process and how they help their clients. I also speak with individuals impacted by coaching and how it has improved their lives. My goal is to shine some light on the wonderful world of Executive Coaching and explain what it is and how it works. So, grab a cup of coffee, sit back, relax, and enjoy my conversations about Executive Coaching.
Coffee House Coaching
Ep 108 Nik Kinley - Your Edges Define You / "Just so you are aware . . . " / Pure Unbiased Guidance
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Gary Nowak
Some Highlights:
- 🧠 Learning psychotherapy in his 20s—mastering the mind early on.
- ⏳ Returning to the world of coaching in the early 2000s—coming back stronger!
- 🛠️ Early days at BP—everyone had a coach until they didn't.
- 🚔 Working in the prison system early on, aiding in rehabilitation efforts.
- 🎲 Throwing something in the middle of the room and seeing what happens—embracing spontaneity!
- 🤐 Hates when things are left unsaid.
- 🗣️ "When I feel something, I need to say something"—the motto to live by.
- 💬 Often telling clients, "Just so you are aware..."
- 🧘♂️ Cultivating self-awareness and awareness of one’s impact on others.
- 🔍 Fascinated by discovering the edges of people.
- ✨ It's the edges that define the shape of who we are.
- 🔎 Understanding your core self and recognizing when behaviors help or hinder you.
- 📝 Advice to a younger self: keep trying and embrace mistakes.
- 🤝 Great coaching is a co-creation process.
- 🛟 Using the gold Rolex as a life preserver—finding value in unexpected places.
- 🥊 Sometimes, when you're struggling, you have to "Pick a fight."
- 🧘♀️ Approaching clients without memory or desire—pure, unbiased guidance.