Coaching Isn’t Therapy, It’s About Product Development with You as the Product – In Just 7 Minutes with Babette Bensoussan

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 Discover how to improve yourself and your choices through proper guidance, coaching, or counselling Learn more on the importance of having guidance and clarity as a mean to understand your choices and which are right for you and your life or business Find out how to overcome your limiting beliefs and make the right choice when you allow yourself to be guided Resources/Links: Check out Babette’s Website: www.mindshifts.com Summary Are you in the midst of making a great decision but aren’t sure if it really is the right decision? Are you looking for some clarity with how you’re handling your promotion, or work, or anything that feels like a big thing for you? Do you want to make sure that your choices are what’s meant for you and your business, brand, or life? Babette Bensoussan is a decision-making Maverick. She supports organizations to make better competitive decisions and support individuals to make better decisions about their life, careers, and leadership. In this episode, Babette shares the importance of having clarity when it comes to the decisions that you make in your work, business, or life. She also shares the benefits and importance of having a mentor, counsellor, or coach to guide you in your choices, business, or life. Make the right choices you won’t regret with the correct guidance! Check out these episode highlights: 01:23 - Babette’s ideal client: “My ideal client is anyone who's going through a transition of some kind and needs clarity. So, anyone who has a decision to make, going through a transition, or whatever it is.” 01:42 - Problem Babette helps solve: “Generally, it's about clarity around the decision they have to make. Being promoted to a new field, being promoted to leadership roles, moving out of leadership roles to director roles, moving from one kind of career to another career.” 02:45 - Typical symptoms that clients do before reaching out to Babette: “They tend to be a little confused, unsure, they could feel a bit lost. Some of the women, they might feel that they're not good enough, who would listen to them, if they're going into consulting.” 03:50 - Common mistakes that people make before they find Babette’s solution: “There are two key things for me, first of all, is what I call "the bail", your blind spots, your assumptions, your interpretations, and your limiting beliefs. We all have them. But the problem is, how do you help yourself when you don't know or don't understand what your bail is, what your blind spot, your assumptions?” 05:34 - Babette’s Valuable Free Action: “I think, you know, there is nothing more invaluable than having a mentor, someone, that you respect, or admire, or a coach. I really, I'm a coach, and I have two coaches. One for my coaching supervision, and one for my business.” 06:21 - Babette’s Valuable Free Resource: Check out Babette’s Website: www.mindshifts.com 06:58 - A: You asked me some great questions but I guess my key learning is to let people know, listen to your advice, and plan. You create your own reality. So, if you want to create a reality that's different to what you've got, get someone to work with you, help you, and plan, plan, plan! Tweetable Takeaways from this Episode: “There is nothing more invaluable than having a mentor, someone that you respect, or admire, or a coach.” -Babette BensoussanClick To Tweet Transcript (Note, this was transcribed using a transcription software and may not reflect the exact words used in the podcast...