"Vulnerability that's attached with movement is emotional."

Expert Educator Christie Idiong joins me for a heartening conversation on teaching and learning today. Christie is a certified Life Coach and the Founder of Cornerstone Conversations, a black-owned education-driven, people-oriented, principled Health and Wellness platform. She aims to rejuvenate the purpose and passions of individuals experiencing burnout using motivational interviewing and her educational background in human behavior.

Listen in as Christie shares her professional journey with us, talking about how she started with the profession and why she continues to do what she does with love and passion. We also discuss the need to build a rapport between doctors and patients, making people intrinsically motivated towards an activity, and three basic requirements for bringing positive change in their lives. With society continually evolving and creating room for newer advancements, how do we adapt to our goals? Tune in and find out how Christie views challenges and change!

Key Highlights

• Christie's thesis research was qualitative, and it stood out for two reasons. One, not many people go into qualitative, where it is the words, and you're investigating the gray area. And second, she looked into exercise adherence and intrinsic motivation. The twist on her thesis was on social media- how does Instagram influence people's adherence? Does it actually motivate people to stay in a program? Does it motivate individuals to truly exercise?
• Christie talks about Cornerstone conversations and why they started in the first place.
• How do we get people to adhere? Does building a rapport between doctors and patients make them healthier? The fitness business is excellent, but you need to be in the people business.
• A lot of people don't ask those why's to understand the person themselves. "And when we look at that, we know that people are more motivated to do things or continue with an activity and here to an activity if it's internally driven, or intrinsic motivation."
• Christie talks about the three basic needs- Autonomy and Connection, Connectedness, and Competence.
• We talk about being successful online versus in person.
• Can we succeed as a society? If all of a sudden, all the gyms were just gone right now? Like, could we do it based off of what you say? What would our success rate be? We as humans need to move, and we will be drawn to move.
• Learn why coaches will have to evolve and why online training will weed out those that cannot communicate what they need, with words, properly.

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