Aleks Kop is a confidence coach who teaches and helps people cultivate a connection with their inner selves, guiding their choices towards a more authentic and fulfilling life. In other words, she helps you get off your head and more into your body.
If you have ever been told to “listen to your gut”, but found yourself unable to even sense if you had a gut feeling to begin with, this is the kind of work we’re talking about.
After trying to launch two startups without making them work, I was lost and didn’t know what to do. All of my tools, fully focused on using the mind and its rational ways, collapsed. I was unable to reverse engineer and plan the best path ahead, as I had always done. For months, I woke up and went to sleep with a feeling of generalized anxiety. Out of desperation, at last, I just accepted and surrendered to it as something I couldn’t do much about, but I wanted, at least, to understand what it really wanted from me.
I worked with Aleks for four months and she completely changed my life. Thanks to her help, I am now fully comfortable in my body, my emotions, and those of others. But our journey together goes even further. I discovered things that were influencing my life without me even being aware of it, and I discovered a new way of living, a way that is so much more profound and intensely human.
It’s been hard as f**k, but I am very happy to have gone through it.
It’s wonderful to have her as a guest and I hope, with this little surface-scratching, that you will find this helpful.
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Useful Links:
Work with Aleks: Confidence Coaching Program
Related essays:
* Personal stories: bits of my personal stories, which is useful to understand the journey that led me to work with Aleks
* A conversation with the CPO of Serenis: if you’re into the human experience, this is about religion, meaning, and spirituality
* Granularity matters for self-understanding: written right after I finished my program with Aleks
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction to Body-Centered Practices01:51 The Importance of Being Present02:34 Personal Journey and Emotional Awareness03:35 Understanding Confidence Coaching06:06 Therapy vs. Coaching08:33 The Confidence Club and Its Pillars11:29 Creating a Safe Space for Emotional Exploration19:24 Working with Reactions and Energy27:16 Contraction vs. Expansion35:39 Understanding Contraction and Expansion36:30 The Role of Awareness in Coaching38:34 Integrating Life and Coaching43:14 Naming Emotions and Their Importance52:40 Exploring Anxiety and Its Roots57:22 Balancing Masculine and Feminine Energies01:04:52 Trusting the Process and Embracing Creativity01:06:29 Conclusion and Final Thoughts
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