Why are you here on the planet? Let that sink in. Stay with it. Why are YOU here? What is your purpose? I often ask a client these questions - right in the first session. I figure - let’s cut to the chase & get to the bottom line. Because I believe each of us has something vital and unique to offer the world. So, today’s episode is only about that - pondering and perhaps answering - why ARE you here. If you’re intrigued and eager to know what you have to say - keep listening. 

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This is your opportunity to explore why you are HERE! We start the exploration process of clarifying your purpose so you can better understand and claim who you are. Here are a few examples of clients’ statements of purpose over the years. I hope you will share yours!

• My purpose is to leave places & people I encounter better than I found them. 
• Be a beacon.
• Wander around & experience the world. 
• Help people through difficult spots in their lives. 
• Partner with smart, interesting people to push the world in the right direction.
• Save the oceans.  
• Create beauty.
• Tell the truth that others are too afraid to say.
• Work on the BIG problems. 
• Foster connection & community.
• Provide a safe & stable place for my family to grow.  
• And one of my all time favorites - bring relentless, uplifting, mischievous curiosity to those that want to know themselves. (that one is from a fellow coach)

Are You Ready For Your Own GROWTH MOMENT?

My purpose as a coach is to help unlock your full potential. Connect with me on LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube or visit The Growth Moment website, or email me at [email protected].  Go here to learn about all the ways to coach with me including 1:1, workshops and my transformative group coaching. 

Where are there divides or divisions in your world? Ones that cause pain, confusion or a troubling disconnect. The ones that are WORTH bridging. Whether they are in your professional or personal life and whether the gap is around politics, religion, family history or something else. Today is about the challenging yet powerful work of bridging divides. If YOU are ready to expand your capacity, deepen your skillset and be a change maker, this episode is for you. 

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Here are the two organizations that are beautiful bridge builders!

Irshad Manji & Moral Courage

Braver Angels

And here are the six tips or ideas that help ME in my aspiration to bridge divides.

1. Seek first to understand, then be understood. 

2. Ask, don’t assume. 

3. Pause. Breathe. Speak with intention.  

4. We can agree to disagree! 

5. Stand your ground while creating common ground. 

6. We NEED our differences - everyone has a vital piece of the puzzle.

Are You Ready For Your Own GROWTH MOMENT?

My purpose as a coach is to help unlock your full potential. Connect with me on LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube or visit The Growth Moment website, or email me at [email protected].  Go here to learn about all the ways to coach with me including 1:1, workshops and my transformative group coaching. 

Today is about leading with your Essence, not your Effort! It’s about a shift in orientation - away from measuring your worth only from hustle, productivity or achievement. We explore how to let your essence - who you BE at your core, beyond all of your roles or responsibilities - drive your effort. This concept is still fresh for me - I’m literally in the midst of figuring it out. So, join me as I go down the rabbit hole, if you dare! This is a growth moment for both of us.

SOLO EPISODE: Just Amy K!

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Here are a few prompts & ideas to help explore YOUR essence:

Before any to-do, take a breath and ask, ‘Am I leading with essence or just defaulting to effort?’ 

What’s one recurring task that could be infused with more YOU?

What can you release to make more space for natural, authentic flow?

How can you bring your essence online?

What is a phrase or word that will bring you into the essential?

Are You Ready For Your Own GROWTH MOMENT?

My purpose as a coach is to help unlock your full potential. Connect with me on LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube or visit The Growth Moment website, or email me at [email protected].  Go here to learn about all the ways to coach with me including 1:1, workshops and my transformative group coaching. 

This is SUCH a cool episode!. All about identifying patterns and different aspects of yourself. Figuring out how to integrate AND leverage these pieces so you can bring your full, powerful self to the world. My guest is Erin Reeves - a marvelous human who recently quit her job and has started her own business. Transitions are a perfect time for a coaching hit. A chance to remember that you get to CHOOSE who to be. That you aren’t locked into one way of being, but can weave together a lifetime of strengths, experience, success and failures. This episode is for you whether you are in transition or just want to unlock more of your potential. 

MY GUEST: Erin Reeves

Erin Reeves is an accomplished executive strategist, advisor and coach with over 25 years of experience shaping people-centric organizations and cultures that align with business goals. With insight and unwavering passion, Erin transforms the gap between knowing and doing into measurable and inevitable progress.

Learn more about Erin’s experiences and connect on Linked In

Are You Ready For Your Own GROWTH MOMENT?

My purpose as a coach is to help unlock your full potential. Connect with me on LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube or visit The Growth Moment website, or email me at [email protected].  Go here to learn about all the ways to coach with me including 1:1, workshops and my transformative group coaching. 

My gift for you today is Freedom & Expansion. Free from what life IS. Expanding into what life COULD be. What do YOU want to break free from at this particular age & stage? What are you wishing to expand into? Life by design requires your attention - taking time and making space to ponder your possibilities. I believe that YOU are brave and bold enough for freedom and expansion. So get ready for a blast of inspiration and a call to action. Let’s see what we can create together!

SOLO EPISODE: Just Amy K!

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You get to explore two fundamental questions so you can build YOUR Freedom & Expansion list. 

From what do you wish to FREE yourself? 

Into what do you wish to EXPAND? 

And here is MY list!

Freedom from routine, hamster wheels, mundane, default and decline. 

Expansion into novelty, the unexpected, meaning, design and growth. 

Are You Ready For Your Own GROWTH MOMENT?

My purpose as a coach is to help unlock your full potential. Connect with me on LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube or visit The Growth Moment website, or email me at [email protected].  Go here to learn about all the ways to coach with me including 1:1, workshops and my transformative group coaching. 

How can it be smarter, not harder? That is a question I pose often to my clients. It’s a favorite because it usually generates an immediate mindshift. Moving you away from the “suffer through and slog it out” part of your brain into the “wait a minute, I can see a better way!” SMARTER accesses your natural brilliance and human ingenuity. I want to give you a big dose of smarter for whatever is feeling harder in your life.  

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Coaching is an art, not a science, so there is no set process. However, sometimes it’s lovely to have a few tools in your back pocket. Here is a list of smarter, not harder ideas. See which ones jump out or speak to you for shifting into smarter:

#1 Be Clear & On Purpose. Understand your “why” and align actions with your vision. Basically, get out of the weeds and into the bigger picture. Keep asking yourself, does this move me closer to my goal?

#2 Leverage & Amplify. Collaborate, delegate & get help! Hand off some of the hard to someone who might be able to do it better, faster or cheaper so you can focus on what you love to do. 

#3 Streamline, baby! Design a process that reduces the friction and prevents bottlenecks. 

#4 Manage your energy and emotions. When you are hitting harder, you might need to dial up the self care. Your brain IS marvelous but runs out of gas - know when to rest and restore.

#5 Experiment! Approach harder with curiosity and creativity. Ask yourself, what else is possible? Find a brainstorming partner or coach! Free to try things & toss what doesn’t work.

#6 Do It Your Way - full permission, your way or the highway. Forget about what everyone else says. Focus your time and attention on your unique strengths or zone of genius. Trust yourself.

Are You Ready For Your Own GROWTH MOMENT?

My purpose as a coach is to help unlock your full potential. Connect with me on LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube or visit The Growth Moment website, or email me at [email protected].  Go here to learn about all the ways to coach with me including 1:1, workshops and my transformative group coaching. 

Are you tired of the pressure to define and track your goals, much less the “did you achieve them yet? Goals CAN be the way to go. But occasionally, you might need something a bit more flexible. Today I’m expanding the growth landscape with additional options. Perhaps you need a growth direction, desire or simply an intention. Listen in to see what kind of tool brings YOU the most clarity, focus and momentum. 

SOLO EPISODE: Just Amy K!

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This all came up for me because I’m getting ready to turn 60. And there are many people in my life asking what my goals are for the next decade. The truth is, I don't necessarily have a bunch of concrete goals as I have in previous years. So when I ask myself: Amy, what are your growth goals? I'm coming up with a big nothing. What I do have is fuzzy - more of a feeling or a desire. So, if the question is instead: Amy, what is your DESIRE? Then, I DO have quite a bit to say. I desire to have a life by design, not by default. I don't want to just rinse and repeat. I desire a burst of fresh air, inspiration and innovation for my next age & stage. Hmmph. Clearly, I was able to answer very quickly to the prompt, what's your growth desire? Whereas for whatever reasons, goals left me flat and empty. The switch to desire released a flood of inner knowing. 

That’s what I want for you today! To see if playing with more options helps spark YOUR knowing and enable you to find insight for yourself that you might not have otherwise. 

I’m going to coach you through goals, desires, directions & intentions. Grab something to take notes with if you can & let’s go!

Are You Ready For Your Own GROWTH MOMENT?

My purpose as a coach is to help unlock your full potential. Connect with me on LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube or visit The Growth Moment website, or email me at [email protected].  Go here to learn about all the ways to coach with me including 1:1, workshops and my transformative group coaching. 

Get ready for a mind expanding episode with my guest Holly Franke - a psychic, intuition coach and extremely fascinating human. We delve into one of Holly’s growth moments when she “came out” in public with her incredible intuitive skills. As we explore that transformational moment, Holly & I talk about a myriad of topics - owning all the pieces of yourself, being willing to do that publicly & proudly as well as the best explanation I’ve ever heard on how intuition works. Make sure to listen all the way to the end - Holly does a special psychic intuitive reading with a message for YOU! 

MY GUEST: Holly Franke

Check out Holly’s website: www.hollyfranke.com/

Follow Holly on Instagram: @hollyfrankeintuition

Listen to Holly’s Podcast - Everything Intuition

Download Holly’s “Intuitive History Checklist”

Are You Ready For Your Own GROWTH MOMENT?

My purpose as a coach is to help unlock your full potential. Connect with me on LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube or visit The Growth Moment website, or email me at [email protected].  Go here to learn about all the ways to coach with me including 1:1, workshops and my transformative group coaching. 

The heart of this episode is about following your dream or vision from that higher calling/inspiration space. Spirit led! This is for you if you are on a spirit led path OR want to open up that channel as you move forward. My guests are business partners in Seeking Center - a company revolutionizing your wellness + spiritual journey. We are looking at a pivotal growth moment in Karen & Robyn’s start-up journey and how they moved away from the transactional, straight into the transformational. I hope today gives YOU the courage to embrace what most deeply calls to you.

MY GUESTS: Robyn Brecker & Karen Loenser

Seeking Center: Revolutionizing your wellness + spiritual journey with the best practitioners, experiences and products on the planet! 

Follow Robyn & Karen on LinkedIn

THE SCOOP:

I’m using a special episode format that I only do once in a while - “the growth spotlight.” We look at a pivotal growth moment for the guest, unpack some of the ahas & insights from that time AND look at how it all can be leveraged in the future. Karen & Robyn’s growth moment was working on their first joint project several years ago - a tv pilot that takes someone at a life crossroads and pairs them with different spiritual & wellness practitioners. Think ‘soul makeover’ instead of a house or beauty makeover. Robyn & Karen are both award winning television & digital producers for the likes of Oprah, Discovery & Nickelodeon. This time it was just them - creating a pilot episode with almost no budget, only a single day to shoot, a real deal human, Sarah, who had never met any of these practitioners, everyone HOPING magic would happen. An AUTHENTIC reality show. 

Get ready for a rich & rewarding conversation that reveals the heart of what Robyn & Karen are building - their North Star or beacon. Hopefully it helps YOU reflect on your own spirit led path & what you are called to create in this world.

Are You Ready For Your Own GROWTH MOMENT?

My purpose as a coach is to help unlock your full potential. Connect with me on LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube or visit The Growth Moment website, or email me at [email protected].  Go here to learn about all the ways to coach with me including 1:1, workshops and my transformative group coaching. 

Are YOU in the midst of change & uncertainty? How would you rate your skill at riding the rollercoaster? My plan today is to help you reflect on your ability to handle change & uncertainty. We will also review your current toolkit and assess if it’s time for an upgrade. And I will share some of MY favorite tools - you get to take what’s useful & toss the rest. Let’s leverage LIFE!

SOLO EPISODE: Just Amy K!

THE SCOOP:

Whether you are in the midst of change & uncertainty right now or want to be prepared for the next round, take the lead in figuring out what works for YOU. What tools bring out your best, help you find your feet - handle, navigate, LEVERAGE and more.

You get to build your own toolkit, but here are some of mine. Follow the link to get a full list.

PAUSE & BE PRESENT

Take a breath! Center yourself in THIS moment, not ruminating on the past or worrying about the future. Calm your nervous system with a few more deep breaths.

JUST THE FACTS

What’s actually TRUE? “Do the facts support my anxious thoughts?” Am I doing a bunch of negative ‘what if-ing?’ Drop the assumptions & judgment.

SERENITY

A good one to remember: “the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can & the wisdom to know the difference.” What CAN you control?

TRUST YOURSELF

In the end, trust in your ability to make your life work no matter what.

Are You Ready For Your Own GROWTH MOMENT?

My purpose as a coach is to help unlock your full potential. Connect with me on LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube or visit The Growth Moment website, or email me at [email protected].  Go here to learn about all the ways to coach with me including 1:1, workshops and my transformative group coaching.