Sometimes we dream of writing a book before we even know which book idea to start with! There are so many possibilities. Do you start with the poetry collection you’ve always dreamed of, or the novel that’s been sitting in a folder on your desktop, or the practical how-to book that you feel you could write in your sleep?

That was the dilemma for Claire Williams, an executive coach who took the Hungry Authors Map Your Book cohort last summer. In this episode, she talks about how mapping out her ideas helped her decide which one would be the best step forward toward her dreams. Now she’s writing a proposal, launching a Substack, and guesting on pods!

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Claire Williams is an Executive Coach, Team Coach, Leadership Development Writer, and the founder of In Depth Coaching & Development. Claire has trained and coached hundreds of leaders, from managers to the C-Suite, in dozens of organizations across five continents, including Target, Boeing, McDonalds, GE, United HealthCare, Hershey, and Post Consumer Brands. Leaders and organizations seek Claire out for her expertise in transformational development in the workplace, particularly her specialized approaches in Vertical Development, the Enneagram, and the Leadership Circle Profile. Claire publishes The Diving Board, a Substack newsletter “for humans in the deep end – a jumping-off point to pursue meaningful work in a swirly world”. She’s currently working on publishing her first book. As a writer, Claire engages both the mind and the heart of her readers, inviting them into soulful explorations and experiments rooted in time-tested leadership research. She challenges leaders to do the hard work of inner work and equips them with the most powerful tools for the job. Claire refuses to choose between the language of business and the language of the human spirit, because both exist in the real world, and both will shape the world of the future. Claire lives in St. Paul, MN, with her husband Rob and 2 kids: Amos (9) and Mabel (6). She loves books, early mornings, ice cream shops, and avoiding household chores.