Audio fileCR Podcast Audio Episode 52.mp3Transcript00:00:05 Joanna Lindenbaum
I’m Joanna Lindenbaum, a coach ritualist and all around transformation nerd who is obsessed with helping clients go deep to create more change and results with their clients. I created the coaching.00:00:20 Joanna Lindenbaum
Revolution podcast to share with you coaching skills, tips and advice as well as a deeper understanding of human behavior and.00:00:29 Joanna Lindenbaum
Of yourself so that you can do even better client work and group work. Grow your business organically.00:00:37 Joanna Lindenbaum
And know that you’re making a real difference in the world. This is about creating a revolution in the transformational industry so that more practitioners feel amazing.00:00:40Ohh.00:00:49 Joanna Lindenbaum
About what they do and so that more of our clients experience life changing shifts, let’s get started.00:01:05 Joanna Lindenbaum
Today’s episode is a quickie, but a really important one. It is my answer to a question that I’ve been asked quite a bit lately, and a question that I’ve actually been asked quite a bit over the last few years because the world has been so tumultuous. It’s rare to wake up in the morning.00:01:26 Joanna Lindenbaum
And not see more tough news happening in the world. And the question is?00:01:33 Joanna Lindenbaum
How do I keep on going with my work and my business when things are so painful in?00:01:38 Joanna Lindenbaum
The world how?00:01:39 Joanna Lindenbaum
Do I keep on showing up for my community and my clients? How do I keep on marketing in these times?00:01:49 Joanna Lindenbaum
These are such valid questions because with the state of the world, sometimes it feels like the best idea is to just stay in my pajamas.00:02:00 Joanna Lindenbaum
Curl up on the couch and watch Netflix all day with a VAT of ice cream as my companion and truth be told, I of course do have my coping strategies when things are stressful and yes, it does include watching a little bit of TV in the evening.00:02:20 Joanna Lindenbaum
Because I really do love watching TV. And if you have any suggestions for anything great that’s streaming right now, let me know my coping strategies also include doing the crossword puzzle every day because I am obsessed with the New York Times crossword puzzle.00:02:37 Joanna Lindenbaum
Small it’s really also just a nice place to focus for 20 minutes each day. Distraction sometimes can be a very good thing.00:02:49But.00:02:50 Joanna Lindenbaum
All that being said.00:02:54 Joanna Lindenbaum
Even with all the tragedy in the world.00:02:59 Joanna Lindenbaum
All of the heartache.00:03:01 Joanna Lindenbaum
There is a bigger reason why I’m able to keep on going with my work.00:03:08 Joanna Lindenbaum
And with my business.00:03:11 Joanna Lindenbaum
And the short answer is this.00:03:16 Joanna Lindenbaum
My work inside of my one-on-one and group containers is my most impactful way to create the change that I so desperately want to see in the world and therefore continuing to do my work is a non.00:03:35 Joanna Lindenbaum
Negotiable.00:03:37 Joanna Lindenbaum
I am not only deeply moved to show up for my work every day, it feels like a necessary thing now.00:03:48 Joanna Lindenbaum
You might ask, how is it that my work is the most impactful way that I can change the world and the way that I want to see it change, especially since I’m just a coach and practitioner trainer and I’m using just in air quotes? Well, yes, the top layer of the work.00:04:10 Joanna Lindenbaum
That I do is teaching the coaching skills and the transformational skills.00:04:15 Joanna Lindenbaum
And the somatic techniques and how to work with fear and resistance. How to help clients rewire their thought patterns? How to help clients achieve more of their goals, et cetera, et cetera. But if you’ve ever been in any one of my trainings, you know that when I train practitioners.00:04:37 Joanna Lindenbaum
How to do all of these things?00:04:41 Joanna Lindenbaum
The work goes so.00:04:42 Joanna Lindenbaum
So much deeper than learning skills and techniques.00:04:48 Joanna Lindenbaum
The work that we do together challenges everything that we as a people, have learned from culture and what happens in the room when I train, whether it’s in person or virtual, is nothing less than complete paradigm shifting.00:05:09 Joanna Lindenbaum
And the extraordinary thing is, through the culture work that we do, each practitioner that I train undergoes profound inner shifts and transformation on their own, fears, their own beliefs and their own shadows.00:05:28 Joanna Lindenbaum
For example, when I train coaches, we go deep into the shadow of power and how to change the paradigm of power inside of our client containers so that it’s power with instead of power over.00:05:47 Joanna Lindenbaum
Or power under when I train coaches, we go deep into how to facilitate group.00:05:54 Joanna Lindenbaum
So that your group programs become a new model of community and culture, where each person in the room is loved, respected, honored for who they are, even when there is tension, because tension will come up sometimes in the group.00:06:13 Joanna Lindenbaum
And even when there’s difference in identity or opinion.00:06:20 Joanna Lindenbaum
When I train practitioners, we go deep into how to love and have compassion for your clients, even when they are acting out right, we go deep into how to honor disintegration and disillusion.00:06:40 Joanna Lindenbaum
And loss as much as we value creation. How to honor the mystery just as much as we can valorize clarity.00:06:52 Joanna Lindenbaum
When I train practitioners, we go deep into how to reclaim shadow, how to reclaim every part of yourself, even those parts that have been deemed unsavory like jealousy or laziness and selfishness so that you can be in charge of those parts of yourself.00:07:13 Joanna Lindenbaum
Instead of them being in charge of you.00:07:18 Joanna Lindenbaum
When I train practitioners.00:07:21 Joanna Lindenbaum
We go deep into how not to need.00:07:25 Joanna Lindenbaum
To be right.00:07:28 Joanna Lindenbaum
We go deep into how to help yourself and clients disengage from oppressive concepts and structures like perfection or production at all costs or hierarchical structures, or the myth of arrival.00:07:48 Joanna Lindenbaum
And so much more.00:07:50 Joanna Lindenbaum
And all of what I just shared, and this is just the tip of the iceberg of what I teach and what is experienced when people work with me. All of it is inherently political, and my greatest form of.00:08:10 Joanna Lindenbaum
Activism.00:08:12 Joanna Lindenbaum
It’s not necessarily political in the sense of this side is right and this side is wrong, though there are obvious correlations when we do the work, but it’s very political in the sense of.00:08:29 Joanna Lindenbaum
Let’s use our client work to dismantle the internalized structures of oppression that need to be taken down, and that will ripple out into the world. Let’s use our client work to create and experience a more fair and collaborative kind of culture.00:08:49 Joanna Lindenbaum
And community.00:08:51 Joanna Lindenbaum
And that will ripple out into the world. Let’s use our client work to create more aligned structures around authority and power so that there’s less abuse of power and that will ripple out into the world. Let’s use our client.00:09:10 Joanna Lindenbaum
Work to not be so quick to label anything or anyone, good or bad, and instead let’s find core structures that need to change.00:09:24 Joanna Lindenbaum
And that will ripple out into the world I’ve long, long said that if you are truly Co creating transformation with your clients.00:09:37 Joanna Lindenbaum
The personal work isn’t just personal work. It’s culture work, period. Because where do most of our personal wounds ultimately come from?00:09:53 Joanna Lindenbaum
It didn’t originally start with our parents or our teachers or bullies in the lunch room. It actually started way before that, with culture and the oppressive structures and messages of culture seeping into our parents and into our teachers and into those bullies.00:10:13 Joanna Lindenbaum
And beyond.00:10:15 Joanna Lindenbaum
For example, if you’ve got a fear of not being good enough that you learned from your mother in one way or another, whether she modeled that fear of not being good enough for you, or whether she criticized you excessively, I can nearly guarantee that.00:10:34 Joanna Lindenbaum
A big part of your mother’s actions.00:10:39 Joanna Lindenbaum
Were rooted in ideas of what’s good enough and what’s not good enough, dictated by the culture that she grew up in.00:10:52 Joanna Lindenbaum
Those messages seeped into her.00:10:56 Joanna Lindenbaum
Or those messages seeped into her parents or their parents before them passed down generation to generation. The culture is always part.00:11:10 Joanna Lindenbaum
Of the personal.00:11:12 Joanna Lindenbaum
You simply cannot transform your fears, beliefs or shadows in a vacuum.00:11:21 Joanna Lindenbaum
And so, even though all that’s happening in the world right now is so painful, and I feel such grief, and sometimes fear on a daily basis.00:11:37 Joanna Lindenbaum
I still find the strength to get up every day and do my work and promote my work because of everything that I’ve shared here today, my client work.00:11:55 Joanna Lindenbaum
Is my best version of protest.00:12:01 Joanna Lindenbaum
It is my best version of being part of the resistance.00:12:09 Joanna Lindenbaum
And this is one of my best ways of standing up for all that I believe the world can be.00:12:17 Joanna Lindenbaum
My work is my best way of doing my part to make a difference.00:12:26 Joanna Lindenbaum
And so I ask you, what about you? What about your work in the world is about changing the culture. What are the cultural paradigms that your work is aiming to shift in these tough times?00:12:47 Joanna Lindenbaum
I really invite you, my friend, to drill deeper into that.00:12:54 Joanna Lindenbaum
To remember the bigger change that you’re here to contribute to, let it give you strength and let it give you inspiration.00:13:05 Joanna Lindenbaum
And please, Please remember, we are in this together. Thank goodness for that.00:13:19 Joanna Lindenbaum
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