Today’s guest has a mission; to inspire a more connected, compassionate and collaborative world. She shows people how to have better conversations with themselves and others – so they can make an even bigger difference in our world. Through the power of authentic connection and strengthening our mental fitness, she knows we can build even better businesses, communities and nations together.

She is a mentor, speaker, and certified mental fitness coach. She’s written for regional and national magazines since 2006 and has published several books, including “DO Talk To Strangers: How to Connect With Anyone, Anywhere”, the “DO Talk To Strangers Travel Toolkit,” and “How to Talk to Strangers: to decrease anxiety, build confidence, and make a bigger difference in the world.” Please join me in welcoming Kerrie Phipps.

In this episode we discuss:

• her thoughts on leadership: “Leadership is showing up and being human. It means creating a ripple effect on those around you.”
• her experience growing up on her dad’s farm and inviting friends over, having to work hard in order to play hard.
• how a bullying experience as a young girl inspired her to protect people from bullies (even though she didn’t know how to stop the bullies).
• why she chose to leave school at 15 with a desire to begin her “grown up life”.
• her first job at a dental surgery office and then a bank where she discovered her love of helping teenagers.
• her experience being very sick and hitting a wall shortly after becoming a mom and dealing with chronic sickness.
• the global level of stress Kerrie experienced in the moment and how that compares to our global stress now.
• finding out her grandfather had studied the Dale Carnegie books as she was researching her coach training.
• the importance of getting coached even if you are a coach.
• how she broke into the new coaching industry and the experience of being compared to other well known coaches and the impact of her first coaching clients.
• how she began her author journey.
• when she stepped up and stopped being “just a country girl”.
• her travel to Singapore and speaking about coaching to large audiences.
• meeting veterans who found networking intimidating when they have charged into much harder situations.
• how shifting the shoulder is all it takes to be open to meeting new people.
• what she’s looking forward to in the next year.
• how she nurtures and sustains the outer levels of her network.

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