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I had the incredible opportunity to interview Kim Ades, the founder of Frame of Mind Coaching and co-founder of The Journal That Talks Back. For over 20 years, Kim has been a trailblazer in the realm of leadership coaching, meticulously fine-tuning a unique coaching approach that has changed lives. Her method, involving intensive journaling and weekly coaching calls, offers a deep and transformative experience aimed at addressing feelings of isolation, chronic dissatisfaction, and internal and external friction. Through her work, Kim helps highly driven leaders, executives, and entrepreneurs shift their thinking towards a more fulfilling and impactful life, emphasizing curiosity, intuition, and a robust process/system in coaching.
Kim shares poignant stories, including one about a young man battling stage 4 cancer who wanted coaching to secure his mother's financial future. Despite his grim prognosis, Kim's intervention helped him alleviate stress, leading to remarkable achievements like running marathons and climbing Mount Kilimanjaro. This story encapsulates Kim's message: exceptional leaders are resourceful, relentless in challenging their beliefs, and see beyond limits, not bound by competition but creating new opportunities.
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Kim, Hello everyone, and welcome to this
episode of relationships rule. I have a wonderful guest with me
today, Kim Addis. And Kim and I just met recently, but I feel
like it was so easy to talk to her when we first met that I'm
excited about the interview and getting to know her and letting
you get to know her expertise and her secret sauce, if you
will. Kim is the founder of frame of mind coaching and the
co founder of the journal that talks back. She has been a
pioneer in her field of leadership coaching and thought
mastery for, I think, over 20 years now. But I don't want to
say anymore. I want you to tell me, Kim, I want you to tell my
audience. So what is? Because I know over time, people change
their their focus, or they may change their audience, or what,
what is of interest in, in and the going thing? Let's say so,
what is it that you're doing right now and who are you
serving right now? That's exciting you the most. Okay,
well, first of all, thank you for having me on your
podcast. I'm delighted to be here now. Who are we serving? We
have historically served the, what we call the highly driven
population, and typically they are leaders, executives,
entrepreneurs, and for us, in any industry, in any place in
the world, really, we coach them all. But it's that type, a
personality, the person who has a lot going on, the person who's
the high achiever, the person who always feels like there's
more that they want to achieve, that's our client. But recently,
or instead of the word but, I'll say and recently. I mean, again,
we've we've always coached and trained individuals to learn our
coaching methodology. But recently, we're taking that to a
whole other level. We are now teaching coaches in the world
how to use our approach, our as you say, secret sauce in their
coaching as well. So that's what we're up to. So
that's now more specifically coaching coaches,
right?
So in addition to coaching leaders, executives and
entrepreneurs, we've always coached leaders and taught them
how to coach, but now we're teaching coaches how to use our
very unique approach to coaching so that they can deliver
transformational, phenomenal, off the charts coaching. Yeah,
you, I think one of the taglines on your website
was shift your thinking towards a more fulfilling life. But it's
also shifting and using these tools. And am I right to say
that it's that it's based on your journal, your
job? That's right, that's right. So one of the
things about that, yeah, so when we so like, let's characterize
the people we coach for a minute, they have a few things
in common, right? So number one is they're very isolated. They
have the weight of the world on their shoulders, and they carry
that heavily. But what that also means is they don't trust
everybody with their most intimate, personal challenges or
struggles. So they live very in a very isolated way. They may be
around a lot of people, but that doesn't necessarily mean that
they that they trust everybody with what's truly, deeply
important to them.
Can you stop there for a second, because I
just clarified the isolated. Are they isolated because they're
smarter than everybody else, and they think differently to
everybody else, and are they because they're in the position
that they're in there? Okay, so, so
sometimes it's positional, yeah, positionally
related, right? But what it boils down to is they have a lot
of responsibility, and yes, they delegate, but they feel that at
the end of the day, the buck stops here, and there's not a
lot of people that they can lean on truly to to pick up some of
that burden. And so whatever it is, they spend a lot of time
thinking they don't necessarily share what's happening inside of
them, or
their fears that would show their vulnerability.
Yeah, exactly,
exactly. So, so they're not isolated physically,
but they're isolated maybe intellectually and very often
emotionally. Yes. So that's thing number one. Thing number
two is they are people who have friction with others, and let me
qualify that, they have two kinds of friction. Sometimes
it's obvious external friction, like, you know, they get into
battle with others. Maybe they're raising their voices,
they're very obviously in a state of conflict, right? So
that happens, but more. Often than not, they have friction
that is silent. So other people aren't moving fast enough,
working fast enough. They're not on the same page. They don't
have the same sense of urgency. They don't get it. And so they
they often just hold that in because they have other things
that are perhaps more important, but they see that other people
around them are not rowing in the same direction, and don't
even understand sometimes the direction they're heading in.
And so that causes a lot of internal strife and and so
again, they're ill at ease with that friction, and that could be
professional and or personal as well, right? So you we just see,
like, it's very, very clear that there's this thing going on
outside of them with others. The third thing that we see is that,
again, they're highly driven individuals who have a lot to
achieve, and they're not satisfied. So they have this
sense of Chronic dissatisfaction with where they're at, and so
they feel like we should be further, we should move faster.
What's going on, what's wrong, what's taking so long, what's
wrong with them, what's wrong with me. Maybe now they have a
little bit of self doubt. You know, maybe I'm not cut out for
this. Maybe I'm not the right leader. Maybe somebody else
should fill in. Maybe, you know, I don't have the right team.
Maybe I'm not giving the right orders, whatever it is, right
like they just, they're all over the place. And then last, but
not least, it's a term that I invented. They have something
called slippage. What is slippage? Slippage is when they
let important things slip through the cracks, things like
their health, their sleep, their nutrition, their overall well
being, their friendships, their fun. They're just, you know,
they're not taking care of their lives, and they're letting
really critical things slip through the cracks. So that's
the character that we coach, right? Like, that's that's the
nature of who we coach. And so one of the defining items of
these people is that they need to move fast. They like speed,
yeah, so when they're working with a coach, they don't want it
to take a year to get to where they want to go. They want it to
happen faster. So what we've done is we've created a very
intensive, immersive, very high touch coaching experience that
takes them far in a short period of time. So we assign them to a
coach. I've got a team of coaches and and they start
working with their coach. There's a call every week with
their coach, and we record every call so that they could listen
to the recordings and hear themselves speak. They can hear
what they're saying, how they're saying it. They can start to
become observers of themselves. And so this, the insight they
gather from that process is really, Stark. But then in
between every single call, we also ask them to journal in a
private and secure online journal with their coach every
day. So what happens is, at the beginning of the week, they
receive a journaling question or a journaling prompt and they
journal. And then each time they journal, their coach reads and
responds to the journal and wow. And what happens is that the
coach really, really gets to know their clients, and they're
able to start picking up patterns, patterns of behavior,
beliefs, perspectives, you know, behaviors, all of that. And so
with that information, the coach is equipped to take them far
quickly.
Wow, yeah, that's very intense and and, do you
find that that the, okay, the people that come to you, are
they writers or journalists, journal writers, to begin with,
or are they learning this as they go?
Yeah. I mean, we are all nowadays. We're all texters
and emailers, we're all used to writing, right? So what it is,
is you're writing with someone else. That's it. So don't think
of it as you know anybody who needs to have a writing degree
or a journalism degree or you know that's not what we're
after. We're after a person who's able to write down their
thoughts and experiences. That's it. So just curious
with the the journaling back and forth with
the coach. Are those prompts or questions that the coach puts
out there? Are they individual based on what they've learned
initially from that
question? Yeah, so I love that question. Thank you.
So we have a journey that we take our clients on so we're
asking a specific set of questions designed to extract
specific data, but the data you will supply me is different from
the data anybody else will supply me. So now what happens
is, you know, you give me what I need, and now we're on an
individual journey, right? So there's, you know, yes, the
questions once a week are similar from person to person,
but in between, when you're journaling, now I'm asking you
questions about your specific situation, your specific life.
So there's nothing standardized about this. It's all a very
unique experience for every person that goes through it,
right? Wow,
that's great. And do you match people as best?
Yes, okay,
yes, exactly. So I have an intake call with them,
and I learn about them, what's going on, what are they like? I
get a very strong sense for people very quickly. And then I
think about who would be the best coach for them based on
their experience, their personality, the way they
respond to things, all of that
that's pretty again, that's that's a great
responsibility that you take on, because especially if, and I
know, you coach executives, senior leaders and
entrepreneurs, just right and so it's not so much the the status
of their position, it's the people are people, but in some
cases, if they're they're probably playing paying big
money to do this with you, and it's a big responsibility, so
you have to get a quick win for them, I would imagine. So making
that right fit is important right making
the right fit is very important for them, but it's not
hard to do, and there are many reasons why it's not hard.
Number one is our coaches are phenomenal. Every single one of
them, they're extremely well trained. They're seasoned. And
so if I put you in any one of them, their hands, capable
hands, you're in good hands, but now I can also do a good job of
matching, and I've been doing this for 20 years, so it's very
instinctive at this point, like I can just, I can just know
very, very easily who the right fit would be for each person
that I encounter. And 20 years, like, I've been wrong maybe
three or four times, and we've coached hundreds and hundreds of
people. So
based on you talked about the struggles that
that your your clients have, your typical client has, how do
you how do you see like, what are the the, let's say, three
key thinking strategies that exceptional leaders have or have
to work towards.
Yeah, that's great. So So number one is that they focus
on what they want. And so a lot of times when there's a problem,
what do leaders do? They focus on what's wrong. They focus on
the problem. They focus on why we have a problem. They focus on
all the things that are going wrong. And what we see is
exceptional leaders really focus on what they want and solutions
to problems. So that's thing, number one. Thing number two is
that you're going to think that this is very obvious, but it's
not but exceptional leaders are resourceful in a way that other
people are not. And what I really mean by that is they have
a way of thinking about resources that is different. In
their minds, any resource is accessible to them. They never
say it costs too much we can't afford that. They never think in
those terms. They think, what do we need? I'm going to go get it
and it's out there. So they think there's, there's never a
shortage of money, talent, time. There's no shortage. Everything
is there and everything is at their disposal. And whereas
other people who struggle, leaders, who aren't at that top,
top end of the game, they they think in terms of shortage and
scarcity. And then the last thing that we see is that these
extraordinary leaders are always always challenging their
beliefs. They're always asking themselves. K so I feel like
we're challenged in this department, what are the beliefs
that we have that are causing us to feel this challenge? And
perhaps those beliefs need to be turned around or turned upside
down. So they're the think about their thinking, and they
question whether or not they are thinking in a way that helps
them achieve their goals with ease. So they're constantly, you
know, I wouldn't say having an internal battle, but they're
questioning is that the right way of thinking about what we're
trying to achieve.
So I think that probably what 98% of the people
out there have limited beliefs, and so it's those exceptional
leaders that don't see the world that way. And it is. It's a hard
thing to it can be a hard thing to to change to, or it can be
easy. It's, I don't know, like, I mean, it's, I know that I
limit myself a lot more than I need to. But I also, and I also
think that it's, um, it's pro Oh, what was I just gonna say,
it's probably about. See, it's all tied in with seeing the
world as there isn't competition. There's enough out
there for all of us. Just let's go and get what we need.
Yeah, absolutely. And to be honest, like when, when we
think about the competitive. It a field. They say, Okay, you
play in that ballpark. I'm going to go create a new ballpark.
Yeah, right. So, so competition is fodder for creativity in
many, many ways.
Fantastic. Would you do you ever come across
clients that are non coachable? Of
course, yeah, my mother in laws. One of them,
okay, got it? No. I mean, of course. I mean, just some people
have wrapped their arms around their way of life, their way of
looking at things, and and, and they do it because it's they
feel safer doing that and so, and that's fine, but those
people don't really come to me for coaching, right? Like
they're not lining up outside my door, and they know my style,
they know my approach. You know they come to me because they're
ready to look at the world differently. They're ready for
change, and they're tired of the status quo, and that's why
people reach out to me in particular. That's
must be really rewarding to see the change in
your clients that they want it badly, and then they work with
your your coaches, and they see that change. Do you have a story
that you can share of that transness?
I have so many stories, but I'll tell you one
of my favorites. Um, years ago, I was working with a client, and
he said, I have a referral for you. I want you to coach a very
good friend of mine, but it's very important that you treat
him with kid gloves. And I was a bit surprised, because I'm not,
I don't have kid gloves when I coach. I'm very direct. And I
said, Well, why? Why would you say that? Why would you position
it that way? And he said, Well, he's in his early 30s, and he
has stage four cancer. Oh, wow. So I got on the phone with this,
this young man, and I said, Okay, I have two questions for
you. Question number one is, how long do you have left to live?
And it's a hard question to ask. Like, I felt like I had to,
like, muster up courage to do that, right, especially if you
don't know him, especially if you don't know him. But he he
responded, and I think that question, in and of itself, like
having the courage to ask him, created a connection. Where he
said, who else is going to ask me that a question, right? Like
that. But he said, I'm not sure. I'm guessing I have about a two
year window. I believe that I've already lived longer than I was
meant to live. I'm on all these experimental drugs, and so far,
they've worked, but I don't think they're going to work that
much longer. And so I said, Okay, well, what is it that you
want to achieve as a result of coaching? He said, Well, what I
really want from you is I want you to help me increase my
productivity. And I thought, gee, if I only had two years
left to live, would I be worried about my productivity? Probably
not. And so I said, Well, why is that important to you? He said,
well, because I am an only child of a single mom, and I want to
grow my business and sell it so that I have enough money to
leave behind so she's in a good place. I said, Great. I said,
let me ask you another question. What do you really? Really want
more than anything? He said, Well, what I want is more time,
and I want to travel, and I want to take my mom on a great
vacation, and I want to have a wonderful relationship, and I
want to buy a house, and I want to run a marathon, and I do want
to sell my company, and I want to make sure my mom's in a good
financial place. I said, Well, why don't we do that instead?
And we started to work together, and what I discovered was type A
personality. He owned a financial services valuation
company, and he was the guy who brought every single sale in the
door. He was the guy who looked over every single paper that
went out the door and make made sure every I was dotted and T
was crossed. And I saw he was working really hard. And I said
to him, You know what, we need to talk about hiring people. And
he said, I can't hire people. I can't afford to hire people. But
in my mind, I thought, your life is at stake. You can't afford
not to hire people like you can't keep going like this. I
thought to myself, my job is to help him lower his stress. I
was just gonna say stress must be much higher
while he's working. Yeah, exactly,
so that he could have a fighting chance with those
experimental drugs, so we work together. He ended up hiring
quite a few people, right? We helped him see how that was
possible. But now it's eight years later.
Oh my goodness. Eight years later, he
still has stage four cancer, and he's still fighting
the fight. But he took his mom on two great vacations. He got
married, he sold half of his company and then bought it back.
He bought a house. He ran a marathon. In fact, he climbed
Mount Kilimanjaro, and he just had a baby,
Mazel, tov. Oh, my god, yeah. Oh, that is a
beautiful story.
It's a beautiful. Sorry, but what we needed to do
was help him think a little bit differently about his business
and what was possible, because at the rate he was going right,
he was holding the whole entire company on his shoulders by
himself.
Yeah, it was about thinking differently about
his company and his priorities.
That's right, yeah, that's right. His
life is so short. I went to so short. I was at a
celebration of life yesterday, and it was for someone who, you
know, had lived a good life. It was actually his 80th birthday
yesterday would have been and he had been struggling with
Parkinson's for several, several years, and it finally got the
best of him. But when they did the, you know, the video and and
the speakers talking about his his life, I mean, he'd had a
wonderful life, you had to celebrate it. There was that was
all you could do. He retired at 47 because he sold, he and his
partners had a company Ticketmaster in Canada, and they
sold, wow, yeah. So he didn't have to work anymore, and so he
and his family had a wonderful life. But you know, priorities
when you're sick are completely different, and so you have to
see things differently.
That's right, you have to see things differently. Yeah,
thank
you. That's a great, a great story to share.
So let's sidetrack for a minute before we end this conversation.
Because I love talking to interesting people, and I and I
think because you, what you do, matters so much in in that it's
not the volume so much. It's the lives that that you know, it's
the individual life changing things that can happen, and were
you, were you? Has your career always been coaching, or did you
have a previous
No, I've only been coaching for the past 20 years.
Before that, I used to own a software company, and actually
it was a simulation based assessment company, so we were
building assessments, or simulation based assessments,
before the technology was really ready for us. Yeah, right. So we
were on the leading edge of that technology, but that really
informed a lot of what we do now. And because what we did was
we're trying to figure out who is the top performer. What
differentiates top performer from top performers from other
people. What is it? Is it their personality? Is it their IQ? Is
it their experience, their education? What is it and and
what we discovered really led us well, led me to starting the
company that I run now, what we discovered is that top
performers, no matter what the industry, no matter what the the
level in an organization, have one very strong thing in common.
They have a very high level of emotional resilience. And what
that means is, when they experience failure, when they
have a blow, they don't stay down very long. They don't take
it personally as much as most. They don't take the right and
what they do is they get up quickly, but they also find a
way to leverage that adversity, to turn it into an advantage
somehow. And so that piece of information is really critical.
When you think about how we coach, what we do is we help
people look at their moments of adversity, their challenges, and
we help them reconfigure how they feel and how they reacted
and responded to that experience or event. And we strengthen
people. We build up their mind muscle so that when they do
experience adversity in the future, they get up faster.
It reminds me of Napoleon Hill's book Think and
Grow Rich. I mean, yeah, examples that he used in there,
which, of course, was written in 19, what, 37 and it's still like
brilliant today. So what I'm thinking from what you just
said, is that you went from left brain business, like the tech
side of things, to the right brain, in a way, because it's
more about the people. It's more about, yeah, right. So
for me, though, it was always about the people,
because, you know, when I was running the software business, I
wasn't the software developer, right? We had a team of people
that did that was my conception. Yeah, it was my conception. I
had this idea that that we could build simulations and that it
could help people, and I so I was like, I had this idea, but I
certainly didn't execute by myself. That is for sure,
fair enough, the leader's mind. There you go.
That's, that's awesome. Are you coached today?
Am I coached? I have hired so many different coaches
right now I'm working with someone, and we have interesting
relationship, where I coach her and she coaches me, but I'm
always, always looking for an amazing coach. I'm always in the
market for an amazing coach. And. Um, and so I believe great
coaches need great coaches. Yes, that's fair.
Um, okay, so just a couple of a sideline things.
So how do you today? Because there's so many options, how do
you today, ingest your information or learning? Is it
is it podcasts? Is it reading traditional books? Is it ebooks?
Is it videos?
Is how do you I definitely, I read a lot of
books. I read a lot of journals. Spend a lot of time reading
journals, yes, so I'm reading it interestingly, right? So I'm
reading The life stories of of my clients, who are all
extremely successful, highly driven individuals. So I
weirdly, I get I learn a lot by hearing what they're doing, what
they're up to, what their challenges are, but what's going
on in their businesses. I learn a lot directly from them. You
mean their journals? That yes, their
journals, yeah,
I read a lot of articles in, you know, online
magazines, newspapers, that kind of thing. I watch videos, of
course. I listen to sometimes podcasts. But I find I don't
have all the time that I want to do that,
right? So if you were reading, would you be
reading biographies? Then,
no, sometimes I read like I read, obviously, I read
personal development books, I read that kind of stuff. But
sometimes you just need to chill out, right? Always on go, and
sometimes you just need a little bit of downtime to watch things
like American Idol. I got it. You just need you just brain
needs a break. And so I make sure that I sometimes get some
break
time. It's so funny. We were watching
something last night, actually, just, you know, we've been to
this service yesterday and everything. And I find it when I
sit down after dinner to watch something other than CNN or
whatever I'm watching that way, because it's that's always a
story these days in in the States in particular, but I fall
asleep, I doze off because I'm sitting doing nothing, and
that's very hard for me to do, and my brain goes off, and then
I fall asleep, and Vern says, I'll say, oh, did you enjoy that
show? It just happened. And then
I'm off, you know? And then you're up, and then you
can't sleep at night, right? No, not too early anyway. Yeah, I
get it. Now, my husband is an avid fan of jeopardy, so I see
we watch it every night. Yeah, we watch it together. And I'm
not getting better at answering the questions, but it's
definitely not my strength. You know, everybody has a different
kind of intelligence. Yeah, I am better with intuitively
understanding people, and He's way better at jeopardy. Well,
I find I'm quite intuitive usually with people
and but I love Jeopardy. I've always been that trivia person.
It's crazy, and sometimes I wonder how all that stuff is
still in there, and other times I think I can't get it out fast
enough I get it. Yes, yeah. Interesting. Thank you for
sharing that. And lastly, I am well, almost Lastly, I like to
ask my guests about curiosity. It's my favorite word and two
part question. One, do you think curiosity is innate or learned?
And second, what are you most curious about these days, which
you may have answered already, but feel free,
do I think curiosity is innate or learned? I do. I
think that it's learned,
okay, okay. I
think that it's learned. And the reason I think
that it's learned is because I can see the people that I've
worked with, the people around me, my own children, I have five
of them. Yes, that's another topic, and that we, we have
taught like, I am remarried, okay, I'm remarried. So I came
into my marriage with two children, and my husband came in
with three, okay, and my kids are have always been extremely
curious, because they have two parents who are extremely
curious. But But what I saw, I have seen, is that my husband's
children have learned to be curious interesting, right? They
have learned to be interesting and ask a lot of questions
exactly. I don't think curiosity is something that we're just
like. I think it's something we're taught, okay, that's good.
I think it's something that we're influenced. You know, the
people around us influence us to be curious.
Okay? I mean, there's more conversation there,
but I just like people to give me their answers, yeah, right or
wrong. It's just somebody's,
you know, super interesting question. Now I'm
gonna have to go think about it. Yeah and see if I actually
answered correctly. But that's my best. Yeah,
there's no right or wrong. I mean, it's just that
whole thing started for me when I was just starting my podcast.
And I had and I started it partly because I read this book
called a curious mind by Brian Grazer. Do you know who Brian
Grazer is? I don't Brian Grazer, Ron Howard. Do you know who Ron
Howard is? Yeah. So they're the partners in imagine
entertainment. And Brian Grazer is more of a producer, but he's
also a director as well. And his his he started with splash. Do
you remember that movie? Yeah, yeah. With Tom Hanks first big
hit, and then he did Friday Night Lights on TV, which I
loved. He's done a beautiful mind with Russell Crowe. He's
got, I mean, he's he and Ron Howard are partners, so there's
a million but he grew up being curious and asking questions and
going to interview people when he was a kid and and I just
found it fascinating, because that's what I do. I love to find
out about people. So that was my first take on that second part
of the question is, what are you most
I will say this though. I will say that I think
that great coaches are extremely curious, and they ask questions
that seem to be off limits and seem to be outside of the range
of the conversation. They go to places with their questions that
are unexpected interesting and open doors that have never been
opened before.
I love that, because even in my podcast
experience, sometimes I'll ask a question and people will say,
Oh, that's I've never been asked that before, or that's really
interesting, and it's just whatever's come from inside me.
So that's where I think the intuition is part of it as well.
But being brave enough to ask certainly sometimes those
questions is, yeah, okay, good point. So what are you most
curious about these days?
Right now, I'm on a quest to help coaches do a much
better job at coaching, and so I am learning about how to reach
coaches. I'm learning about marketing in a way that I've
never done before, and I'm curious about that. And I'm
curious about really, there are so many coaches out there who
are who are trying to grow their businesses and struggling, and
I'm curious about how to help them. I'm curious about how to
reach them. I'm curious about how to make a difference in the
coaching industry, and not only in the lives of my clients. So
that's what I'm curious about right now.
That's fantastic. I mean, there's so many pseudo
coaches out there too, right? So, I mean, they have, in your
opinion, is it first and foremost, they have to have some
formal coaching education.
I mean, there are many, many coaches who have
formal coaching education, and perhaps that equips them a
little bit. But I don't think that's the be all and end all of
a great coach. I think it's far, far more than that, far, far
more than that. And I, I will say that I do not think that
coaches have what they need in terms of they are not equipped,
necessarily, to deliver the kind of coaching that is
transformational and like life impacting. They don't. They
don't have what they need in order to make that kind of
impact.
So that begs another question, I can't help
but ask, which is, do you think age has anything to do with
being a good coach? No, okay, because I always feel that, you
know, if someone is older, they're usually wiser. They've
had more experience than the young person. But you
know, my 25 year old daughter could probably do a
much, much better job of coaching than most coaches who
are much older.
So what? Why do you say that just her
personality? Well,
she's very curious, so that's one thing. So going back
to the curiosity thing, and she has strong instincts about
people. And what I mean by that is that when you talk to
someone, you can very easily tell whether or not what they
are saying serves them or doesn't. And so she's capable of
pursuing the path, following the the lead, if you will. Right?
Yeah, the uncover what needs to be uncovered. But when I say
that coaches are not equipped, and what I'm really saying is
I'm not distinguishing one personality from another or one
age from another. What I'm saying is that they don't have a
process or a system or a methodology that enables them to
coach. Really powerfully and easily.
Okay, okay, so that's a good place to wrap
because I think that if anyone wants to find out more about
what your work is all about and how you help coaches, where are
they going to find you? Frame of Mind coaching.
Frame of Mind coaching.com best place to find
me. Reach out to me, Kim at frame of mind coaching com, and
on our website, actually, if you're at all curious about
journaling, if you want to journal by yourself, or if you
want to pick up some journaling prompts for your clients,
whatever it is, we have some really great journaling prompts
on our website. So Go, go find them. Fantastic.
Thank you, Kim, thank you for being here. I love
talking to great people, and it doesn't matter to me what what
industry they're in or whatever. I just people. It's just for me.
It's
about,
can I resonate? Can I be curious enough about what they do and
who they are? And I haven't even talked about having five kids.
So are they all grown up now?
They're all my youngest is 25 and she's just
smack in the middle of doing her PhD. That's right. I
think you had mentioned that when we spoke
before. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you so much. And thank you to my
audience, as usual, for being here. If you like what you
heard, please reach out to Kim and find out more about what she
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