It’s a gift to be able to break down big complex goals into smaller, manageable, and doable actions. Rupa Shende is blessed with that gift. She combines transactional and transformational coaching which brings out the best in her clients. Rupa believes that consistent and simple actions have the power to create magic. The key is to design a success strategy, take action and be accountable. But how do you keep clients accountable? Rupa says it's not always about having an actual plan and following it. She creates that inner shift by asking her clients one simple question. Before they to go to sleep, are their actions taking them closer to their dreams or away from it?

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Transactional And Transformational Coaching: Creating That Inner Shift with Rupa Shende

I have a very interesting guest. Her name is Rupa Shende. She's from India and even though she's in India, she has clients literally from all over the world. In fact, most of her clients are overseas, Spain, the UK, Belgium, US, Ireland, Canada, Netherlands, Trinidad, India, Australia, Japan and I can keep going and on. Her coaching style is what intrigued me and I’d love to talk about that. She combines transactional and transformational coaching and that's what she brings out the best in her clients. One of the things that she has to say that I so dig and agree with is that she believes that consistent and simple actions have the power to create magic and I totally resonate with that. The key is to design a success strategy says take action and be accountable. When I asked her what her gift is, she said it's the ability to break down big complex goals into smaller, manageable, doable actions, and then making sure that her clients follow through. Rupa, welcome to Heartrepreneur Radio.

Thank you, Terri. It's lovely to be here.

It's great to have you. I'm so attracted by this and I want to get right into it. What do you mean by transactional and transformational coaching?

First, I'll begin with the transformational. By transformational, I essentially believe in the mindset world book and what it requires to do, so that's the internal work. We have energy blocks, confidences blocks. That's all the internal work where we drop a little bit lower than what is being seen and what is functioning underneath. I need to transform that. Transactional is something that you do on a daily basis as complete awareness. It's one thing to say, "I want to transform my business," but at the same time you're currently also doing something which requires mindfulness, alertness, awareness as to what is it that you're doing in the present moment that will bring about your future. Transactional is essentially your external and your present. Transformational is your inner and it's about the future.

I use different words that have applied to this thing I talked to clients about getting your inner game right so you get your outer game right and perfect. It's let's be conscious left, be aware, and then let's be able to take actions from that real present place. I'm curious, how did you get into coaching and how do you end up coaching clients from all over the world?

I didn't have a fancy story to say. It’s not that I was on the verge of bankruptcy and this is what I found. My story is quite simple. Before I got into coaching others in the equity research, financial market. I was working with Morgan Stanley, a very well-known multinational firm. Basically, I interacted with people all over the world and that's what I saw at the end of the day people just want to be happy. Even though they're doing their job of their teams, some who were happy seems to be slipping. In general, I was very attuned to my heart intelligence as I called it.