If you really want to grow in your career, it’s going to take more than buying a book of tips from an airport bookstore.  You need to examine your inner landscape, ask yourself what needs to change, and anticipate what’s going to be hard about that change.  In this episode, we speak with Pam McLean, the CEO of the Hudson Institute of Coaching, which is where Michael got his own coaching training back in the day.  Pam and Michael talk about what it means to “go out onto the balcony,” explain the concept of “the self as coach” and offer some guidelines for coaching yourself.  We learn how coaching is simultaneously a conversation, a relationship and a space and why reflection becomes ever more important as you get older.