Megan Hyatt Miller:
And he said, “I’ve noticed that you’re very easy to get along with. Your people really like you.” And I’m like, “Whoa, this is such a setup.” And he’s saying only kind of complimentary things, and he’s like, “But I think that you’re too deferential and too collaborative in your decision-making process. It’s slowing down your organization, and it’s creating an inefficiency that you really can’t afford right now.” And I was like, “Dang, you’re so right.” Well, hello. This is Megan Hyatt Miller, and you’re here on the Lead to Win podcast where we help you win at work and succeed at life. And today I kicked my dad off, but don’t tell him, for the purpose of bringing my friend Michele Cushatt, who is our chief coaching officer, on the podcast, because, Michele, we’re talking about our favorite topic, which is coaching.

Michele Cushatt:
Coaching!

Megan Hyatt Miller:
And in particular today…

Michele Cushatt:
I was just cheering for coaching. I mean, you said it was our favorite topic and I’m like, favorite after things like pizza and summer vacation, coaching is our next favorite thing.

Megan Hyatt Miller:
And chocolate.

Michele Cushatt:
Oh, and chocolate. Okay. We’re bridging a long list. The point is that we really like coaching. And so I think we’re excited to talk about coaching today.

Megan Hyatt Miller:
I’m really excited too. And in particular today, we’re going to be talking about why the very best leaders we know, and the very best leaders that we have studied, always have a coach. It’s kind of a little bit perplexing in a way, because you’d think at a certain point it wouldn’t be necessary, but they think it is. And we’re going to talk about our own experiences with that and why we think that’s true.

Megan Hyatt Miller:
Okay. So Michele, let’s get into this topic about why the best leaders have coaches usually for their whole career. Now, I just have to say one thing real quick. I have a fourteen-year-old son who is a massive Kansas City Chiefs fan. Like over the top. He is like all Tyreek all the time, and to the point that this weekend he was watching all these YouTube videos of Tyreek’s workouts and what he eats. I mean, he knows, like make your eyes glaze over unless, of course, you’re a fourteen-year-old boy who wants to be a professional football player and then it’s riveting.

Megan Hyatt Miller:
And he was talking about workouts and working out with the trainer, and he’s now working out with the high school boys on his team anyway. And I said, well, this is another trainer. This is not through the Chiefs. This is another coach that he’s hired to train him to do all these crazy things that he does physically. It’s like in our mind, this is so easy to accept from a sports standpoint, and yet, sometimes as business leaders, it’s not always a given in our mind that we need a coach or that this is going to be really the performance edge that makes all the difference.

Michele Cushatt:
That’s amazing. Yeah. I mean, it really is interesting when you especially look in the physical health space, that it’s expected, that if you really want to be at the top of your game, you are going to solicit the input of a coach. You’re going to make sure that you have a coach. We just finished the Olympics, and all of them have coaches throughout their entire career. It’s not like they get to a place where they’re so talented that they outgrow the need for a coach. In fact, the more talented they are, the more desperate they are for a high-level coach that can help them perform even better with the level of where they are. And I think we’ve got to translate that into the business environment and translate that mindset to us as we grow in our own business, we’re never going to outgrow the need for a coach.

Megan Hyatt Miller:
Well, the only reason you really wouldn’t need a coach, I guess, is if you were just doing the things you’d always done forever and you’re happy with the results.

Michele Cushatt:
Well, and that’s exactly what I was going to say as far as when you mentioned this whole conversation is why the best leaders always have a coach. And I think the first reason why they do is that they’re not satisfied with the status quo.

Megan Hyatt Miller:
Right.

Michele Cushatt:
I think there’s a certain mindset of the best, like cream of the crop, top of their game leaders, that the status quo is not acceptable to them. They are not in this to be comfortable all the time and just deal with average. They want to constantly grow and improve. And I think that kind of mindset is what lends them to always have and invite coaches to speak into their reality. The status quo isn’t okay. Same with those Olympians or the football athletes or whatever. They’re not just content with being an average football player or an average ice skater or whatever. They’re like, no, I want to win the Olympics. I want to win the world championships. And that kind of determination to perform beyond the status quo drives them.

Megan Hyatt Miller:
Yeah. I think that is really freeing, because it means you don’t have to do it on your own.

Michele Cushatt:
Yes.

Megan Hyatt Miller:
Which is one of the most overwhelming parts about being a leader, is thinking you got to have all the answers or you got to do it all on your own. But in reality, if you’re always pushing for the next thing, you’re always trying to go to the next level, you’re always doing things you haven’t done before, you’re leading a team that’s bigger than you’ve ever led or the size of your business is bigger than it’s ever been, or the challenges you’re facing are more significant than ever, or your goals are just bigger and you’re more excited about the future and you’re really pushing toward that, then you’re not going to know how to do all of it. And that’s really where the support and guidance of a coach can be so helpful.

Megan Hyatt Miller:
So, Michele, let’s talk a little bit about our own experiences, because we are not talking about something that we’re not doing in our lives. And I know, because we talked a lot offline, you and I could not imagine doing what we’re doing professionally without our coaches. So tell me a little bit about what your journey, you are a coach, first of all, but what has your journey been like as a coachee?

Michele Cushatt:
Yeah. As a coachee. So-

Megan Hyatt Miller:
Is that the right word for it?

Michele Cushatt:
Yeah. Coachee.

Megan Hyatt Miller:
Okay.

Michele Cushatt:
Coach and the coachee. It’s kind of a weird word, but yes. First of all, I have a woman that is a leadership mentor. She’s also a counselor therapist, but really part of their business is in mentoring leaders. That’s what they do, leadership mentoring. So it’s kind of a combination for me of a coach and a therapeutic counselor therapist as well. But I have been going to see her for, I was counting up, I think, eighteen years. And at first I’d delay. I’d feel like, why does she have to go to the same therapeutic counselor, whatever, for eighteen years? What’s wrong with her? What [inaudible 00:06:41]. And it’s kind of funny cause you’re like, am I not fixed yet? I think that’s the wrong mindset.

Michele Cushatt:
I think we think we only need to coach when something is broken or something is wrong, but this is the way I viewed it. If I’m constantly growing and scaling, then the business I’m a part of, the team I’m a part of, is growing and scaling, too. And at some point, if I don’t keep growing with it, they’re going to outpace me, and I’m going to be left in the dust.

Megan Hyatt Miller:
Yeah.

Michele Cushatt:
I’m going to be left in a position of not being able to offer any wisdom or expertise or guidance to whatever organization I’m a part of. By the way, so I note that’s true for your family, too, right?

Megan Hyatt Miller:
Yeah.

Michele Cushatt:
I mean your age, your relationships.

Megan Hyatt Miller:
Yes, it is.

Michele Cushatt:
And so, because we live, the human experience is a dynamic experience, we have to be dynamic with it. We cannot be static. We’re going to have to constantly grow and adapt and change. We all know this intellectually, that the world is not the same today than it was five days ago or five years ago. We know that our business is not the same as it was then. Then why wouldn’t we, at the same time, not be the same as well? And that requires ongoing growth and coaching to be able to scale up and level up to that next stage, whatever is coming.

Michele Cushatt:
And for me that’s been the incredible, at least one of the incredible values of having a coach is, I have this environment that is literally focused on me. By the way, I don’t think I have any other circle in my world that it’s 100-percent focused on me, because we all know that our children are not focused on us. Right? So we get to go to this room with this person, and I can be focused on my leadership and how I want to grow and the challenges I’m having. And tell you what that’s… I mean, that is a sweet and sacred space for me to be able to scale myself.

Megan Hyatt Miller:
I love that. One of the experiences that we’ve all had as leaders is that we’re kind of in the hand-to-hand combat of just daily life in leadership. And if we don’t have a space where we can go to attend to the bigger questions, the bigger concerns, the higher priorities, either in our business or with ourself, sometimes they never bake the list, because we’re so in the mode of dealing with the urgent than those important but slightly less urgent, sometimes a lot less urgent, things just fall to the wayside. And so I love that you, over the years, a lot of years really, have consistently made space for your own growth and for somebody to speak into your leadership. When you were talking, one of the questions that I wanted to ask you were just some of the things that really stand out over all those eighteen years as some of the big lessons that you’ve learned from your coach. And then second part of the question. How do you think that you’ve grown? Like what are the tangible or intangible results that you’ve had from your own coaching experience?

Michele Cushatt:
Oh, gosh. We wouldn’t have enough time to go through that list, but the one that’s the most front and center right now is the ability to take a difficult circumstance, a challenge, a relationship challenge, or break, or whatever, and to step outside of it rather than be caught in the whirlwind of it, to step outside of it and look at it objectively, acknowledging the feelings, but not being ruled by them. So this ability to kind of take the thing and set it on the shelf and be able to look at it and be objective as you talk through it and identify it, so you can actually make decisions about it rather than bring actions to it.

Michele Cushatt:
I don’t think we come into the world with that natural ability to be curious and to be able to objectively consider something and to not just react to it. Our brains are so wired up to react to crises or to react to any sniff of danger. And so, for me, that’s been probably one of the top five things I’ve gained from coaching is having an environment in which I could practice that with my mentor, my coach, and so I can learn that skill of going, Hey, I can take this big, hairy problem, and I can sit it in front of me and I can look at it and then determine what to do with it.

Megan Hyatt Miller:
I love that. And I agree with you. I’ve had the same experience in my coaching relationships as the coachee. And one of the things that happens as a leader is, it can feel like the decisions that you have to make are so big and hairy, and the pressure to make those decisions quickly or in real time or front of other people is tremendous, and often the stakes are really high.

Megan Hyatt Miller:
And the ability to go sit in someone’s office or across from them on Zoom, someone who’s an, I don’t want to say disinterested third party, but an interested third party who is really for you, but they’re not in your world, they don’t it to you, they don’t have a dog in the hunt, but they can ask you the right questions, they can perform the right diagnostics to help lead you to make the decisions that you need to make, where it’s not inside of you, this thing that you’re considering that you’ve got to make a call on is actually outside of you in a way that can be objectified is, in my experience, one of the greatest benefits that I’ve gotten from coaching is just to have somebody else to walk you through the decision-making process and help you detach from maybe the emotional charge of the moment so that you can really make high-quality decision.

Michele Cushatt:
Yeah, absolutely. The truth is, as much as we like to think of ourselves as being just fully wise and capable, and we have all the insight in the world to solve all of our problems, we all know at the end of the day, that’s not true.

Megan Hyatt Miller:
Right.

Michele Cushatt:
There’s a gap between who we aspire to be and who we currently are. And when we face those big, hairy problems, we feel it acutely. Yeah. That’s when the imposter syndrome comes in, and we’re like, Do I really have what it takes to do this?

Megan Hyatt Miller:
Yeah.

Michele Cushatt:
Inviting a coach, intentionally inviting a coach into that kind of conversation, that kind of situation, allows us to invite some different perspective and pulling a view and different ways of looking at that thing, which we just couldn’t get on our own because there is that gap between who we want to be and who we are right now, because we haven’t quite learned everything there is to know yet.

Megan Hyatt Miller:
Michele, as I look at my own coaching relationships, I think one of the biggest takeaways for me, and this is something we do with our own clients, has been helping… being helped to look at my own thinking. In fact, I have a couple of different coaches, and one of my coaches I was with last week and had breakfast with, and I started to say something and she stopped me immediately and just shared, “Oh, well, when you’re saying this, the problem isn’t this thing over here. It’s actually this other thing.” And I was like, “Oh my gosh, you’re totally right.” It was just right in that moment, I was so stuck in my own narrative about the problem that I was having that I didn’t realize the narrative wasn’t actually true. The narrative was just a story that I had cooked up about the meaning of the situation.

Megan Hyatt Miller:
And she was able to challenge me and say, “Let me just reflect back to you what you said, and here’s the problem with that. And here’s some alternative things that you could think.” And it was so helpful to me, just something that I have been struggling with for a long time, to have that breakthrough. And so I think the mindset piece, learning to develop the ability to think about your thinking and question it is one of the biggest benefits that I’ve gotten from coaching. What’s interesting, if you study particularly athletes, like one of my favorite movies on this kind of a coaching topic, Michele, which I’m sure you’ve seen a million times, is The Legend of Bagger Vance.

Michele Cushatt:
Oh, I love… I just watched that movie for the first time-

Megan Hyatt Miller:
You did?

Michele Cushatt:
… like a month ago, two months ago. I watched it and I loved it.

Megan Hyatt Miller:
So good. It’s such a… This is like, here’s your recommendation for your weekend movie watching. It’s an old movie with Will Smith and Matt Damon in it. And it’s just an excellent movie about coaching. And Will Smith is the coach figure in this movie, and so much of what he spends time working with Matt Damon’s character on is mindset. The reason he’s lost his swing, so to speak, is not because anything happened to him physically, or he got too old or anything like that. It’s that he basically had PTSD from a war situation, and he has to overcome that. And I think that’s a powerful reminder that’s often what stands between us and the things that we want or want to create in the world is what’s right between our ears. It’s not out in front of us really.

Michele Cushatt:
100 percent. What’s so powerful about that whole image of Bagger Vance and the coaching that went on between the caddy and the player is that only one person could swing the club. Like he can’t swing it for him, but he could stand next to him and help him see things differently and help him change his mindset, help him to be able to tap into the potential he already had so he could be successful. And that’s such a key part of the coach collaborative relationship that you, as the coachee, are the only one that can swing the club and find success. You have to do the work, but having a coach there is going to help you unlock exactly what’s in you in order for that to happen.

Megan Hyatt Miller:
Right. And keep you from sabotaging yourself.

Michele Cushatt:
Totally.

Megan Hyatt Miller:
And getting your in your own way. I mean-

Michele Cushatt:
Oh wait, hold on a second. Hold on. I’m sabotaging? I’m sure I have never sabotaged myself.

Megan Hyatt Miller:
What are you talking about?

Michele Cushatt:
What are you talking about?

Megan Hyatt Miller:
Oh, man. When I, again, think back on my experiences with coaching, I’ve had primarily three coaches in my life, and this is one of the things that is kind of a rotating regular topic of conversation, is how am I kind of bailing out emotionally from this moment, not exercising courage.

Michele Cushatt:
Ooh. Ooh, that’s good.

Megan Hyatt Miller:
Getting in my own way. And, Michele, I would say behind every courageous act I’ve taken as a leader, there’s usually been a great session with my coach before that.

Michele Cushatt:
Yeah.

Megan Hyatt Miller:
Has that been true for you?

Michele Cushatt:
Oh yeah. Oh yeah. I just had a session last week, and I’m always amazed how I go into these sessions, and I’m like, I don’t really have anything to talk about. Everything’s great. Everything’s fine. And within a half an hour, there’s some kind of breakthrough that I didn’t even know I needed. Right?

Megan Hyatt Miller:
Yeah.

Michele Cushatt:
And it’s the necessary breakthrough that made possible what comes next.

Megan Hyatt Miller:
Absolutely. Yeah. I think that is so surprising to me every time, because that’s my experience in therapy, too, by the way. Whenever I go to therapy, I’m like, I’m fine. Do I really need to go? And then, ten minutes in, I’m crying. You don’t necessarily cry quite as much at coaching as you do in therapy, but sometimes. There’s just something that happens in that moment that enables you to identify the thing that’s holding you back. And then it’s like you have the accountability and the clear path forward to take the action that you know you need to take, and probably, honestly, before you came to that session, you knew somewhere deep down that you needed it.

Michele Cushatt:
Somewhere, it seems like subconscious or at least ignored to some extent, because we’re still caught up in the day to day reactive nature of our lives. Right?

Megan Hyatt Miller:
Right.

Michele Cushatt:
I’ve got my planner sitting right next to me as we’re talking, and my list is a mile long. I’ve got all kinds of stuff. I don’t have time to sit back and be curious about my life. But because I have a coach, it forces me to, like you say, not tap out of the intensity of whatever that reality is. In fact, I have to sit on the couch and I get to face it, but I get to sit on the couch and face it with my coach. And that means I don’t have to do it alone. Right? So all of a sudden now I’ve got a partner in that horrible facing the reality that I get to do.

Megan Hyatt Miller:
Absolutely. I was just thinking of another thing that happens is that you see patterns in yourself when you’re with a coach, because a coach can point out patterns.

Michele Cushatt:
It’s partly the coach pointed it out, but when we’re with the coach, we’re verbalizing, we’re narrating our own reality. Right? We’re verbalizing and narrating our own reality. A great coach, by the way, the best coaches ask a lot of thoughtful questions.

Megan Hyatt Miller:
Yep.

Michele Cushatt:
So the best coaches ask great questions, and then you end up, as a coachee, being the one that’s doing most of the talking. But when you’re verbalizing this, you actually start to recognize the pattern yourself. Your brain is hearing the audio of your own narrative and picking up on patterns. So then when the coach points it out, you’ve already started to see it yourself. And you’re like, Oh, is that so? I didn’t realize this until I started talking about it. What is so powerful about that is, now, all of a sudden, it’s not just somebody telling you how you need to be fixed. You’re seeing it yourself, and you all of a sudden have the visibility into how you can grow. And then you have a sense of agency for making the necessary change to grow.

Megan Hyatt Miller:
Yep. I shared this with you, Michele, when we met last week, but I had a session with my coach, my current coach, and he was saying to me that… basically he was just giving me some constructive feedback. We’ve recently started working together, so he is just getting to know me, I’m just getting to know him. And he said, “I’ve noticed that you’re very easy to get along with. Your people really like you.” And I’m like, “Whoa, this is such a setup.” And he’s talking about these kind of complimentary things, and he’s like, “But I think that you’re too deferential and too collaborative in your decision-making process. It’s slowing down your organization, and it’s creating an inefficiency that you really can’t afford right now.” And I was like, “Dang, you’re so right. You’re so right”

Michele Cushatt:
Let me write you a check for this, darn it.

Megan Hyatt Miller:
Right. Oh yeah. I wrote that check. I got my money’s worth. What was interesting is that I said to him, based on the goals that I had this year, which are really big goals, “I know that I’m going to have to level up personally. My own leadership will be the lid on our potential as an organization to hit these goals unless I grow. So I feel the weight and the imperative of, I have to grow. I cannot stay the same. I cannot afford to ignore things in myself that are getting in my way.” And so, when he shared that with me, while it was a little sting to my ego for a second, I was so grateful, because I thought, This is exactly what I need, is I need somebody who not only can see me clearly in a way that I can’t see myself, but who’s also willing to share that truth with me and provide the kind of direction that I need, which I think is the other part of coaching.

Megan Hyatt Miller:
Part of it is asking questions, but part of it is providing direction. Not in the same way that a consultant would, but in an advisory way. And it’s so helpful to just have that clear path. And I went and made a bunch of decisions that needed to be made and felt great about it and thought, You know what, I feel proud of how I’m leading with this insight. And I think that’s just something you get from coaching that… I could not have done that on my I own.

Michele Cushatt
Yeah, totally. And that’s a great example of something… You weren’t doing anything, quote, unquote, wrong. In fact, being somebody that everybody enjoys working with is one of your strengths, and it serves you very, very well. What he was able to do is say, but this is where you’ve stated you want to go, and this approach that you’ve done up until now will not get to there.

Megan Hyatt Miller:
Right.

Michele Cushatt:
I think that’s such a critical point about coaching, because I think people sometimes are afraid of going to coaching because they think that somehow they’ve done something wrong or somebody will tell them that they’ve done some… No. No, not at all. What has served you well up until its point is great, but it’s not going to carry you to the vision that you have for a year from now or five years from now or ten years from now. And that’s where the value of a coach being able to step in and say, “This is a wonderful strength. However, if you don’t do something different, it’s going to become your liability. So now is the time to do it.”

Megan Hyatt Miller:
So this is probably the part of the show where you’re thinking to yourself, if you don’t already have an amazing coach, you need a coach. Right? There are so many benefits, and we’re going to review those in a second that we’ve talked about just from our own experience, but also the greatest leaders we know have coaches for the reasons that we’ve been talking about today. If you’re thinking to yourself, I’m doing pretty well, or maybe you’re struggling in a couple areas, but what would it look like if I had the right person with the right methodology and the right system behind them, who could help walk me through things like decision making and learning the skills I need to go to the next level and troubleshooting when things come up, then we have something great to tell you about. Don’t we, Michele?

Michele Cushatt:
Yeah, absolutely. I believe so much in coaching. I’m so passionate about coaching. That’s why I’m the chief coaching officer. I could talk about this all day. But if you have not yet had the opportunity to experience what that’s like or to really figure out how, or if that could be helpful for you, I want you to go to this webpage, ready? It’s businessaccelerator.com/podcast, businessaccelerator.com/podcast. And you have an opportunity on that page to sign up for what is a free business performance call. So it’s free. It doesn’t cost you anything. You can go in there, you can sign up for this and get one free business performance call. We’ve had other clients, other people who have done this business performance call, and without paying a single dime, they got tons of on the ground value for their current reality and current business situation.

Michele Cushatt:
And so we just want you to give it a shot. I mean, if at some point it doesn’t work for you or doesn’t fit for you, that’s fine. And you won’t have lost anything. But I so believe in what we do and the value of a coach for everybody, every leader who wants to scale up, that it’s worth giving it a shot. Just to go to that link again, businessaccelerator.com/podcast, and then you can have a free business call and get a little bit of a taste of what it would look like to have a coach partner with you in your growth and success.

Megan Hyatt Miller:
We should also say that the coaching that we offer at Full Focus is primarily geared towards CEOs and senior leaders. If that’s not the category you fall into, there may be something else we could offer you. We just want to make sure that we’re being as helpful to you as possible. But gosh, Michele, you and I were in a meeting this morning with several of our teams, including your team, the coaching team, and I was just so wowed again by the caliber of coaches that we have, by the depth of their training and expertise in all of our systems and methodologies. And what that enables them to do, that gets me so excited when I think about our clients, is they have the tools they need to walk our clients through a diagnostic process, no matter what they’re dealing with.

Megan Hyatt Miller:
It doesn’t matter, whether you’re coming to us with an HR issue or a financial results, operating results issue, or a culture issue, they have a proven process to walk you through diagnostically to really get at what is the root problem? Not just kind of what the symptoms you’re experiencing. We don’t want to waste your time on that. We use that to help inform getting to the root problem. And then what are the solutions that we can point you to and come to together that is ultimately going to solve that root issue and create opportunity for you so that you’re able to achieve extraordinary results without compromising your most important values, which is our mission in the world. So I just, I love our coaches. I love what you’re doing with our team. I think it’s absolutely the best coaching program out there. And it makes me really excited, not just because I’m the CEO, but because I get to know so many of our clients and see what’s happened in their businesses as well as their personal lives as clients.

Michele Cushatt:
Totally. It’s just we’re at that kind of season where we don’t have to do it alone. And I think that’s what people really want to hear right now is, I need to know I’m not alone in the trenches doing this hard, hard work by myself. I need to know that there’s somebody that can stand with me and help me walk through this. And that’s exactly what we do.

Megan Hyatt Miller:
Okay. So you need to book your business performance call. You will not be, sorry. It will be informative and eye opening and a big step forward in your process of going to the next level. Just go to businessaccelerator.com/podcast, to find a time that you can talk to one of the folks on our team.

Megan Hyatt Miller:
Okay, Michele, let’s review what we talked about today. I’m going to let you do it.

Michele Cushatt:
All right. Well, we talked about a number of different things today, but what I really want to highlight, we talked at the very top, is why the best leaders have a coach, why the ones that are really exceeding and stepping a ahead and doing so without compromising their most important values, the things that they consider the most important to them, why they’re doing it. And here are the benefits of coaching that we’ve kind of discussed through our own personal stories. The first benefit is, or the first reason why is, they have a dissatisfaction with the status quo. So the benefit is that they are stepping up with, they are able to scale beyond what their current reality is today. The second reason why coaching is valuable and the reason that these clients go, or these leaders do go again, again, is their desire for a safe and collaborative space.

Michele Cushatt:
That’s the benefit of coaching is you have someone that’s really dedicated to your success. They care about you, they’re invested. And that safe collaborative space is where you can lay out the challenges in all their ugly glory, and then sit there and look at it together and determine, diagnose, and determine what needs to happen next. But the other, the next value of coaching is this dedicated space to step out of the reactive. So, Megan, you and I talked about the fact that every day, from the moment we wake up till we go to bed, there’s just a lot to do. And if we aren’t intentional about creating space to step out of the reactive and to be strategic about our business in our life, we won’t do it. And so this is a… coaching is a fantastic space to be able to kind of dedicate the time to be curious, not simply reactive.

Michele Cushatt:
Fourth. Different perspectives that you can’t get on your own. We really only see through our own two eyeballs. That’s the only perspective that we have, but no matter how hard to be tried to see things differently, we still wake up with the same two eyes that we look at our life. Having an additional person at the table with us gives us entirely fresh and new perspectives that can help us scale up ourselves, but also scale up our business as it grows, as we grow, we’re able to see things a little bit differently.

Michele Cushatt:
And then, finally, it helps us. And I think this might be the best of all of them. It helps us develop a really strong mindset that can carry us into the future to get the growth that we want for ourselves, the growth we want for our business, and to achieve the vision, the dream that we ultimately have, that vision dream of what we want to achieve. It’s going to take more than just brute force and determination of our will to get there. It’s going to take the kind of mindset that can carry us through to that. And the coach is the line to help us get there.

Megan Hyatt Miller:
I feel like I need my pompoms right now, because I want to just cheer and be, yeah. That is absolutely what I have experienced in my own coaching journey. I know that’s been true for you, Michele. Of course we’re talking out of our experiences today. But, guys, I want this to be true for you, too. I want you to have the benefit of someone to walk alongside you and help guide you on your journey to reach your potential as a leader and to reach your potential in your business. Because if I know you, and I know a lot of people like you, at least, there’s a lot at stake in your world. There’s a lot of people depending on you and your growth, the paramount importance to be able to honor that responsibility that you have and make the contribution I know you want to make.

Megan Hyatt Miller:
So again, we’d love for you to book a business performance call with one of the folks on our team. Just go to businessaccelerator.com/podcast. All right, well, Michele, thank you so much for joining me today. And thank you all for joining us today. It’s been a pleasure to be with you. Hope that you’re inspired about the opportunity of coaching in your life. And I hope you’ll take action on that. Until next time, Lead to Win.