Ep.010 Athlete Story PodcastAthlete Transition. How To Present Yourself Without Your Sports Gear Ft Pam Baker & Katherine JohnsonAthlete Transition – How do you present yourself?When you’re quitting sports and you’re trying to find your new way there’s this bit of doubt of, “Who am I actually? I’m the athlete but I’m also a lot of other things.” Everybody is used to seeing you as the athlete. You will have all these doubts coming in on, “How do I even present myself as the non-athlete?”How do you come across as the personal you really are – authentically and confidently? Those are legitimate questions for anybody. But in particular when you are in a transition. In this episode we will talk  with Pam Baker and Katherine Johnson who offer a career planning framework and image consulting, respectively. Together they offer joint workshops about your verbal and visual presence.You have various strings to play on when you tell your story or deliver your message. Words is the most obvious one for us humans but before you even open your mouth you have usually already communicated some things by the way you show up.You know this from people wearing uniforms and what that communicates whether it’s a school uniform, a nurse or a fire fighter.Katherine helps her clients align the way they show up and present themselves physically with what they wish to communicate.Pam is the expert in verbal storytelling and how to connect you values with the way you talk about yourself.The transition is a great time to make sure you are heading in a direction you like. It’s an opportunity to get aligned with your values and a chance to present yourself as the person you are and want to be, so that you can be seen, heard and valued for who you really are as Katherine Johnson says in this episode of Athlete Story.In this session we cover points like→ How do I reflect who I am NOW – and how do I bring forward who I was and the confidence I can find it that→ How can you as an athlete envision your future career and communicate that with authenticity and no noise on the line→ How are you showing up in the world and can people really see and hear you ?→ How Katherine and Pam got into working in these fields→ and a whole lot morePresence isn’t the majority of who we are – but it is the first impression. Some of the themes they work on with their clients are* Discovering what are the qualities that they want to communicate to themselves and outwardly* Integrating the “who I was, who I am now,” to uncover what does that mean in terms of the types of work and career that I want to have. Where is the intersection between those values, interests, and skills?* What can they let go of?* Career prototypingYou can also watch a video version of this interview here.

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Anja INTRO:If you’ve been a more or less full-time athlete for many years, one of the things you will have to do when you take off your gear and transition out of sports is to re-find yourself without that gear. I know you know this. Today, we’ll take that very literally. I brought in two people for this episode that just did a joint workshop in Miami for the Women Athletes Business Network and the International Women’s Forum.That’s former elite squash player, Katherine Johnson, who is today an image consultant. In her own words she helps, “Eliminate the visual static so that you can be seen, heard and valued for who you really are,” and in that way present the most authentic and confident version of yourself to the world. The other person is Pam Baker who is the founder of Journeous, which is a career planning framework to help you align your personal values and your professional life.In a way, Pam helps you put words on who you are what you stand for,