Episode 51: Thought Mastery and overcoming self doubt, with Kim Ades [PODCAST]

Kim Ades is an author, speaker, entrepreneur, coach, and mother of five – and one of North America’s foremost experts on coaching with a focus on mindset and thought mastery. By using her unique process of combining coaching with journaling, she works with clients who are intelligent, driven and ambitious, and helps them examine and shift their thinking in order to yield extraordinary results. In today’s episode of Crank It Up David T.S. Wood is going to delve deeply into Kim’s journey toward becoming a thought coach and gets her to unpack some of her tools of the trade that help her to help her clients become masters of their own thoughts. This is a powerful episode you shouldn’t miss.

What is emotional resilience and why is it important?

The key issue that determines your level of success in life and in business is what Kim Ades calls “emotional resilience.” What is it? Emotional resilience is your ability to take what life throws at you and reframe and reuse it to your advantage. For example: Your child in involved in a terrible car accident. Will that event throw you into a pit of despair or will it become a trial that motivates and moves you forward? As you can see, most of us need help in developing this emotional resilience and Kim and her coaching practice are all about helping that happen in amazing ways. Listen in to David’s conversation with Kim to discover how you can build your own emotional resilience and to get in on a free offer Kim is making to listeners of the Crank It up show.

What is thought mastery?

Thought mastery is what Kim Ades and her coaching practice focus on as their niche speciality, so if anyone can tell us what it is, she’s the one. Though mastery is the ability to recognize and master the thousands of thoughts that come through your mind on a given day, taking each one of them captive to do your bidding. No more negative self talk. No more limiting beliefs. You’ve gotten to the point where you control the impact your thoughts have on you instead of your thoughts controlling you by virtue of what they are. This episode is a powerful introduction to the concept and one you shouldn’t neglect listening to.

The 3 characteristics of people who benefit greatly from thought mastery coaching.

People who benefit the most from thought mastery coaching are people who have 3 things in common. What are they? 1 They are people who have or want to pursue big goals. Normal is not enough for them. Status quo is a dirty word to them. They want to pursue things that the average person simply won’t pursue. 2. They want to make a difference with their lives. They are not content to be a consumer but want to produce valuable things that benefit others and make a difference in the world. 3. They are people who want an extraordinary life – not just normal or so-so, but extraordinary. If you find those 3 points describing you, your first place to begin in finding out more about how thought mastery coaching can benefit you, is to listen to this episode of Crank It Up with David T.S. Wood.

The common area of struggle for almost every coaching client: self doubt.

Kim Ades has many years of experience as a thought mastery coach and she’s seen just about every limiting belief that a person could have. But there’s one that becomes evident over and over, even in the most successful and productive people: Self doubt. It’s still amazing to Kim how even the most successful businessperson or coach can still doubt their ability, competence, and worth, even when the results they’ve seen in life or career show the exact opposite. Her practice specializes in helping those people identify the self doubting beliefs that plague them and move away from them to establish new habits of thinking. It’s a liberating step that many people need to take. Are you ready?

Outline of this great episode

[0:47] David’s introduction of Kim Ades,