Peace And Clarity Through Presence And Introspection With Michanda Lindsey

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We want more peace or more clarity so we can have fulfillment in our lives. Life coach Michanda Lindsey wants all of us to see the beauty of oneness, the freedom of being enough, the power of presence, and the treasures found in stillness. In this episode, she joins Stephen Jaye to talk about the concept of spending time to look deep within ourselves so that we can head in the right direction. We can never control every outcome in our lives. Michanda shares how we could develop a sense of efficacy. If you’re a leader who wants results for organizational growth or an individual who wants to find clarity and get on the right path, then this episode is for you. So take a deep breath, listen within, and tune into this episode! --- Listen to the podcast here: Peace And Clarity Through Presence And Introspection With Michanda Lindsey One narrative that we have in our current day culture that I find particularly suffocating is this narrative that you have to pick just one thing. I observed a lot of people that have also felt suffocated by this. That one thing has to be a clearly defined item from some previously conceived list of jobs. It plays into the whole question, “What do you do?” One of the reasons I tend to dislike that question is because it tends to put your identity into one of however many job description boxes you have, “I am an engineer and that's the only thing about me.” My guest, Michanda Lindsey has a couple of different endeavors as well as her primary endeavor in coaching, which doesn't necessarily fit into the box that we consider coaching. Michanda, welcome to the show. Thank you so much for having me, Stephen. I'm delighted to be here. Thank you very much for joining us. One thing I'm wondering is you describe yourself as a coach because that's how people wrap their brains around your services, but give us a little orientation into what your services are about. I have a challenging time describing myself according to the labels that many people are so used to using. Because I know it helps in understanding, I relent and do use the title of coach. What I provide is a doorway for people to have a safe space to drop down into these parts, the heart, the soul, the spirit and beyond the head. We spend so much time in the head. My services are related to dropping down into this deeper part of who we are and helping people identify their own answers. I love to tell people that your answer is already inside of you. You don't have to travel to Mount Kilimanjaro to go find your answer. I offer executive coaching, meaning I simply work with executives and leaders, whether in the business world, corporate world, education, non-profit. I also do life coaching, so I help people with areas of their life. I do spiritual coaching. The funny piece is that people ask me, “What's the difference?” I say, “It depends on which doorway someone enters because I provide the same thing.” I'm going to talk about slowing down, making space to look inside-out, and cultivating a knowing of who we are beyond the exterior. When you talk about these life coaching and executive coaching, and how they're all pretty much have the same theme, what's the profile of the individual that would need your services in this broad category that we discuss as coaching work? It could be pretty much anything. If you love that show, Ted Lasso, he's technically a coach too. It could mean a lot of things. I got to catch up with that show. One of my sons was watching that show. I need to watch it. I haven't watched it yet. You're my next push to watch it. I would say, yes. What I mean when I say executive coaching, life coaching, spiritual coaching, they're all the same in terms of I'm going to help people go deeper because there's so much more. The ideal or profile clients, I don't have one. I look for people who say they want more. Whatever that more maybe, “I want more peace. I want more clarity. I want more understanding.”