I'm super excited to show off this guest for a few reasons. First of all, this person is a heart-centred personal and business development coach. This person also has a background in athletics and hospitality and resort management, is a motivational speaker and they've also hosted their own TV show, which I'm sure we'll talk about shortly. But most excitingly, this person is our very first dude on the show.
In this episode of The Recovering Perfectionist podcast, I chat with James Gardiner - the VERY FIRST dude interviewee on the show!
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James focuses his coaching on understanding personality, brand DNA, how to create a strategy and implement said strategy, and positioning. He sees over and over again that if there's a misalignment between a person's truth and how they're showing up, it will manifest itself in business guaranteed!
Some core ideas we discuss:
•The importance of having boundaries and showing up authentically and being honest about what you want and how you want to live and who you do and don't work with.
•You have to roll up your sleeves and do the deep work, right? You need to get in the trenches, and it's to get to really unpack the truth to get to your real truth. And in business or in or in life. You have to roll up your sleeves and dive in. You know. And the reward is magic. Yes, it's brilliant when you get it
•Everything is a work in progress? It's not like, 'ok we've done that work now we can move on with the rest of our life and never talk about it again".
•The middle lane analogy: And so that middle lane will always evolve as we evolve. And what we need to do is just adjust the scope of the lane as we move forward in life. And as we attract new business associates or venture out or go into relationships, you know, it ultimately has to serve us.
•Once we get crystal clear on on what it is we want the 'how' will become clear too
•Practicing failure on whatever scale you can. Learning that you can ask for something and be rejected...and no one's going to die. And it's going to be okay.
•The idea about being magnetic, which means you're also going to be repellent. And the more repellent you are to certain people, the more attractive you are, to the right people - whether it's friends, relationships, business, network, clients - but it's really scary to take that first step to be, you know, not all things to all people.
•There's a lot of males out there that are in this kind of purgatory - they want to be more emotionally accessible and they walk that fine line between the bro club and having really heartfelt discussions or being vulnerable
•Showing up as the TRUE YOU in whatever situation (whether in an interview, whether on stage, whether in a Starbucks, or at the gym, having a beer with a friend etc.)
•Being a conscious warrior - going all in with
•The difference between being a 'recovering perfectionist' and being amazing at what you do
•External validation and how to stop seeking it
James shares awesome resources, tips and videos on his Facebook page facebook.com/canordinaryinspire
