Spiritual Identity: Exploring The Three Core Lies

Potter's Inn Soul Care Conversations

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We struggle to identity ourselves, but what is the real truth about our Identity?

Today Dustin is talking about Identity with David Sachsenmaier, a trained and certified executive coach whose identity was challenged by a family crisis as a child and now focuses on identity as a cornerstone in his work with others.

Dustin and David discuss the Three Lies we tend to believe about who we are:

1. I am what I do: Our job defines us, we find worth/identity in our work.
2. I am what I have: Identity is wrapped around what we have and own. “I brought nothing into this world, and I will take nothing with me when I leave this world”.
3. I am what others think of me: Our view of ourselves is being shaped the day we are born, by our interactions with others, and especially our relationship with our parents.

About David Sachsenmaier

David is a trained and certified executive coach with over ten years coaching corporate and non-profit executives and has 30 years of international experience working with US and European business executives and managers in both the corporate banking and nonprofit world.

David has a Masters in Divinity with a concentration in counseling. This graduate degree and continued coaching training provide critical foundations that enable David to see deeply into the lives of business executives. Undergraduate degree in international business and French from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

David and his wife Margaret and their six children moved to Colorado in 2009 after working in Hampshire, U.K. for several years.

Learn more about David

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN PODCAST

• The Daily Examen - listen to Episode 12 on more about the Daily Examen

• Echo Within: Finding your True Calling by Robert Benson

• Gorillas of Grace: Prayers for the Battle by Ted Loder

• Moment to Breathe - Empty Me: A Prayer by Ted Loder