In today’s podcast we spoke to Adrian Bracy. Adrian spent half of her career as a senior financial executive in the NFL. Today she heads up David Stewart’s Family Office. She is most passionate about empowering women through coaching in both business and personal aspects. She is a speaker and an author. In 2018 Adrian wanted to retire as CEO from the YWCA where she had been for 12 years. She knew she wanted to do something different and writing a book and becoming a leadership coach interested her. She also wanted to do public speaking and having a book would be a great avenue for that. In 2020 she wrote Halftime, Learning to Pivot as a Leader and Identify Your Next Step. She used the halftime reference for her title because of all her years in the NFL. It initially speaks about making changes and looking at different paths throughout your career. She also highlights the 3 P’s: passion, purpose, and potential. Having these three aspects in alignment and their importance.

Adrian sees talent as the greatest challenge business owners are facing these days. Some are just hiring people, but they are not really fit for the team. She suggests business owners should be a part of a professional group. One that has others that might not necessarily be in their industry, but one where they can still encourage, learn, and network from one another.

These days Adrian has found harmony working at the David Stewart Family Office where she is able to enhance and inspire the lives of women and young girls through her true passion of being a coach.

Key Takeaways:

“Hire slow, but fire fast when it’s not the right team.” – Adrian Bracy

“It was all for a purpose, it was all for a reason and I wouldn’t be who I am now, and I think it makes me a better coach because I can be more empathetic, and I can understand things that people are going through.” – Tabetha Sheaver

Contact Information:

Adrianbracy.com [email protected]