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 147 Nir Megnazi Gr8 Questions - From Intel Chips to Emotional Shifts: Coaching that cuts through the noise!
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Season 4
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Episode 147
Welcome to Coffee House Coaching, where great conversations are brewed one powerful question at a time. I’m your host, Gary Nowak, and each episode is steeped in 8 thought-provoking, no-fluff questions designed to tap into the Coaches insight, impact and inner work of their practice.
Today’s guest is Nir Megnazi - "From Intel Chips to Emotional Shifts: Coaching That Cuts Through the Noise"
Episode Highlights
- 🧠 “Have you solved your own problems?” — Nir’s humbling first day of coaching school slaps his ego into shape.
- 🔄 From Intel engineer to emotional coach: how Nir learned to sense clients’ core issues using body awareness and intuition.
- 🧘♂️ Trusting the gut: Nir’s transformative coaching style blends inner sensing with deep listening.
- 🚧 Coaching the person, not the title — and definitely not the résumé.
- ⚠️ His biggest coaching screw-up (and recovery): when ego talks louder than empathy.
- 🧊 How to hold space when a client won't stop talking (even when your brain screams “move on!”).
- 🤹♂️ Play, tone, and sarcasm — how Nir makes coaching fun, without losing depth.
- 🧊 Cold weather sucks. Portland is tolerable. Snowboarding helps.