Grow or Die
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Grow or Die
Leadership and business coaches Lawrence Henderson and Alora Chistiakoff chat over a weekly Coaching Mystery Box topic relating to professional development, career management and leadership. With Lawrence's background in the military and corporate L&D, and Alora's background in entrepreneurial...
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Transitions, Emotions and Couplehood
In theory in our discussion today, Lawrence and I tackled the topic of transitions. But it evolved into a lot of dialogue about transition in and as p...
The Motives and Mechanics of Reframing
Join Lawrence and me as we discuss the nitty gritty of reframing -- how to do it, why bother and what things you need to get clear about in order to d...
Toxic Positivity
Join Lawrence and I this week as we discuss a recent hot topic worth spending a few minutes tackling: toxic positivity. What is it? Why do people do i...
Fairweather Allies?
Join us in this week's conversation as we discuss the reality of post-Covid life, and the 'return to normal' that is starting to roll back a lot of we...
Disruptive Leadership
Today Lawrence and I discussed the notion of disruptive leadership -- how and why it happens, why it matters, and what it can look like from different...
Midlife Transitions, Friendships and a Book to Read
Join Lawrence and me while we discuss Arthur Brooks new book, "From Strength to Strength." Midlife changes, transitioning to new strengths, reviving r...
Anger Management
Anger is universal: we all feel it, we all feel JUSTIFIED in feeling it, and we all have behaviors that are triggered by our anger. But what happens w...
Navigating Conflict
Join Lawrence and I as we discuss our own tricks and techniques not just for managing conflict, but for busting ourselves when we catch ourselves avoi...
Community in times of Trauma
There is no time like when you're hurting to lean into your community. But how do you do that or build that when you don't think you need it? And how...
The Great Resignation and Permission to Quit
The NYT recently had an article that discussed the psychological component of The Great Resignation: that quitting is contagious. Or, put another way,...
Knowing and Managing Your Own Weaknesses
We are back for the beginning of Season 3, and we get things kicked off by discussing how to manage our own weaknesses -- without getting bogged down...
Feeling helpless to help
One of the hardest things we are ever called upon to do in life is to stand by and watch while someone we love is in pain. Whether that is physical or...
Giving yourself permission to ACT
How do you get past analysis paralysis and ACT -- especially when your current situation is safe and predictable? What do you need to do in order to s...
Personal Power - when to use it and when not
One of the hardest things to learn about yourself over time is how much personal power you are capable of conveying (and when), and then when and how...
When a colleague drives you nuts
For all the talk about teams and all of my love of work as a source of social interaction, there are times when you find yourself working with a colle...
Trying to buy a business
The idea of owning your own business is enormously appealing to many people. There are a lot of ways to do this, and one of them is to buy one. In tod...
Managing your energy
We like to pretend that our energy is infinite and that we can muscle our way through when times are tough. But the reality is that our energy matters...
Managing your own triggers
Have you ever heard someone make an excuse like, "Ignore him. It's just his temper talking." Is that actually helpful? One of the most important chara...
Intentionality
Do you feel like you spend your time chasing things for the sake of someone else's rat race? Is it productive? Is it useful? Is it serving you? In thi...
Living in limbo
In the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election and before the results were called, we all had to sit in a truly uncomfortable state: limbo. We too...
Climbing out of mental traps
What are the traps that you create for yourself because of how you are thinking -- or not thinking -- about things? All of us have a different set, an...
Sucking it up when you hate your job
Coaches like to talk about values and self-care. But the truth is, the ability to quit a job you hate is a luxury that not everyone has -- or, at leas...
Dealing with Hostile Coworkers
The first presidential debate of the 2020 US general election presented us with an all-too-common work scenario: trying to get work done while dealing...
Authenticity as a Business Owner
Owning your own business can be exciting. But it often brings up questions and challenges you didn't typically face as someone else's employee. One of...
Identity, Family and Trust
We have kicked off Season 2 of Grow or Die -- Join me and Lawrence while we discuss identity, family and trust. Throw in some sexism and racism, just...
Transition
How do you deal with transition? What kinds are no big deal versus which ones are a struggle? Join me and Lawrence while we discuss what goes into tha...
Community
There is no doubt about it, right now our communities are being tested. Not only at a macro level, but also a micro level. In this episode, Lawrence a...
Rebuilding Trust
How do you begin to rebuild trust once it's been damaged? Building trust originally can be tough, but rebuilding after it's been broken is ten times h...
Identity
Identity is a complicated, convoluted, mixed up bag of stuff we mostly get from those around us -- at least at first. So what happens when you are rea...
Resistance to Change
This week I posed a question: how do we help people get past a resistance to change? A fight against change is central to so many of the toxic things...
Boundaries
Very few of us are naturally great at establishing and maintaining boundaries automatically. It usually requires work -- often after we've learned les...
Accountability
A week into global protesting about unchecked police brutality against people of color, as sparked by the murder of George Floyd, Lawrence and I discu...
Leadership, Empathy, Privilege and Judgement
In this week's episode Lawrence and I took on a tangled web of big -- and highly intertwined -- topics, starting with leadership in the time of Covid-...
Showing Compassion with Boundaries
In this week's Coaching Mystery Box, Lawrence asked the question about how to be compassionate with boundaries -- both to yourself and to others, part...
Starting to Look Towards a Next Normal
Instead of our standard weekly Coaching Mystery Box, today Lawrence and I discussed some of the things we are seeing emerge as considerations for a wo...
Becoming an Executive Coach
Today's Mystery Box was provided by my old friend and colleague, John Ehmann, who is getting ready to start training to be a coach. We discussed some...
Asking for Help
In this episode, I raised the question of ASKING FOR HELP. What does it mean? What does it take? And -- in classic Grow or Die fashion -- we ended up...
Honoring the Small Things
In this week's episode, we address the question of how do we honor the small things? Particularly in this time of chaos and anxiety, what can we do to...
Using Your Mind to Thrive
In this week's episode of Grow or Die, Lawrence asked the question: what do you do to use your mind to thrive? It's an interesting and complicated que...
Grow or Die - Episode #7 - Reframing
One of the most valuable tactics you learn as a coach is called reframing. But more often than not, it's the outside world that does something that ca...