January 23, 2023

Arete Coach 1111 Deb Calvert "Choose Joy"

51 minutes

This is episode 1,111 of the Arete Coach Podcast with host Severin Sorensen and guest Deb Calvert. Deb Calvert is an executive coach, speaker, and author out of Kansas City. She is also the Founder and President of People First Productivity Solutions and Academy. Early in her career, Deb worked in the newspaper media industry in marketing and sales. Later she pivoted to sales leadership and coaching, and, most recently to executive leadership and team coaching.

During the interview, she shared her simple yet powerful mantra: "Choose Joy." She explains, "everything is a choice, right? And we can choose our attitude, we can choose our mood, we can choose how we interpret whatever's in front of us. Like everybody, I've had some very big challenges and difficulties in life. And even within those if I can find it somewhere, if I can choose joy, I can weather those storms a lot better."

Deb has received a variety of honors and awards: Most Influential Women in Sales Award by Sales Hacker 2018, Most Innovated Sales Blogger Finalist II Commerciale 2018, Best Sales Books of All Time appearing on CNN, Forbes, and Inc., and a variety of other awards focusing on sales and marketing. Deb is also an avid writer with several publications such as “Dealing with the Infobesity Epidemic”, “No More Miserable Meetings”, “The Ultimate Guide to Soft Skills for Managers”, “Promoted! Now What? A Primer for First-Time Sales Managers”, and a variety of others.

In the interview, we explore Deb's background, careers, coaching lessons, and several of her favorite coaching questions stems such as 'tell me more,' and others from her book on questions called DISCOVER. This interview is insightful, humorous, engaging, and a delight to listen to, as Deb is such a wonderful coach and human being. She knows who she is, and what she wants to accomplish.

More on the topic is available at AreteCoach.io.

The Arete Coach Podcast seeks to explore the art and science of executive coaching. You can find out more about this podcast at aretecoach.io.

This episode was produced on 9 January 2023.

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