My guest this week is my friend and mentor coach Sophia Casey who trains coaches like me to strive to become our very best version of ourselves and with that, our most present. We chat about all the barriers getting in our way, including wanting to perform, or solve, even direct our coachees towards profound epiphanies and results. (None of which makes us very present at all.)

Coach Sophia, whose MCC and runs a fabulous coaching training business by the way, also humors her mentee by coaching me using a three-word question technique. Very powerful results come from our session indeed. What a treat. And how beautiful to feel and hear how our conversation slowed with just three word prompts. (Or, less.)

If you’d like to find Coach Sophia Casey’s academy, ICLI Rising, click here. You can also follow Coach Sophia on LinkedIn here. Reach out to me, D G McCullough, for insights on my group coaching and training packages on everything from active listening. public speaking fear to storytelling. You can find my LinkedIn profile here and my website here.

Guess who my podcast guest is this week? It's Jackson James McCullough, my 14-year-old son who I consider a hugely calming influence on me and my life. (I've long wanted to interview this wise young man and he finally said 'yes.' )

Join us on our adhoc interview and woodland walk in our leafy state of Wisconsin, just days after Jackson finished his first year at high school. You'll hear his insights on how to try not to overload, to rest when we're done, to block off time for our bigger tasks, and to make time for things outside of work and school that connect us with our community and bring us joy, every day. (He's a leader beyond his years.)

Reach out to me, D G McCullough, for insights on my group coaching and training packages on everything from active listening. public speaking fear to storytelling. You can find my LinkedIn profile here and my website here.

I’m one of millions of people globally who not only love bird watching, I love to do so from my garden. What a treat to interview Jacqueline Crivello, an award winning photographer, author, bird feeding store owner, a birder, entrepreneur and even an inventor of a bird feeder for hummingbirds. (The latter comes inspired from her very first bird feeder she created as a girl in the forest behind her Wisconsin home. She used a baby food jar and nail polish to attract them.)

In our interview, we’re both surprising crisp and sharp given we both woke at 3:30 a.m. that day, drawn from our sleep by the fuller moon and bird song. (Jacqueline hears her from her forest backdrop in Colorado and mine from my Wisconsin garden.)

You’ll enjoy hopefully hearing two entrepreneurial women who’d never spoken prior to our interview and find plenty of through lines and shared loves: birds, nature, reinvention, and finding peace and calm through the outdoors. Also, lessons from our girlhoods, which still guide us today. Join us.

Follow Jacqueline Crivello on Instagram and find her photography and children’s nature books via @jacqueline_crivello_author and her website.

Reach out to me, D G McCullough, for insights on my group coaching and training packages on everything from active listening. public speaking fear to storytelling. You can find my LinkedIn profile here and my website here.