The Transformational Leader

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam interviews Hans Phillips about the humans (ourselves) in the coaching profession, what they see, what they are challenged by, and so and so forth.  

One of the lessons you often hear is, "You better work hard" or "Make sure you are working hard, do hard work." As long as you are working hard, things are okay. With that belief, you went to create a life that is consistent with it. So you become very good at taking the step that requires hard work. You'll become very reliable on the grind. Listen as you will discover the impact of hard work in y...

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam discusses a variety of topics such as Weekly Reviews, Families of Origin, Romantic Relationships, Resolving Team Conflicts, Discernment vs. Judgment, and more!

"I should know better. I should be better." All of us have a process, and what makes it so challenging to have grace for your process is that you have a belief and expectation that you should be able to do better than your current process. Your process is how you get from here to there. You struggle to have grace for other people's processes because you struggle to have grace for your own processe...

There are different subtle acts of leadership. These are ways you can bring leadership into the space that you may step past and what typically most of you do when you start to think about leadership - you look to the growth. Your fear points to you not being a leader or not stepping up. Therefore, you do big gestures that overcome it. One of the subtle forms of leadership is your breathing. By st...

The state that precedes "I can do everything myself" is "I can't do everything myself." In this state, you are reliant on other people and you are seeking expertise from others. That is a challenging place for leadership because it's hard for you to step forward as a leader if you don't trust yourself. You look outside of yourself and look to other people as experts.  The transition from that stag...

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam discusses a variety of topics such as Feminine and Masculine polarity, and Divinity.

Eighty-five percent of the coaching and teaching profession is well-intentioned by diluted and not that potent. The bulk of training in the coaching profession follows the traditional model that is more educational and informational. Elementary school, high school, university, or post-secondary education and certification programs are all offered inside the informational or educational model.  Tha...

Transformation is a shift into the unknown. If you think you are doing a transformation, but if you only do better than what you already know, that's unlikely to be a transformation. As you shift into that unknown, fear shows up, and that's when resistance starts to step in. Your resistance or ego are things you already know, that becomes a habitual, automatic pattern behind your consciousness des...

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam discusses a variety of topics such as The Cruelty of our Obliviousness, Finding Grace when it's Hardest, Turning Worry and Anxiety into Joy, Being Acknowledged and Receiving Love, Being Okay with Not Getting, Working with therapeutic issues, Working within Religious Beliefs, and more!

Most of you get to the point where you are frustrated with the results you are creating, and you want the big game, big projects, and more inspired teams. When you get to this point, you start to feel frustrated with your clients, projects, and team. You always hear phrases like, "This person can't play on the team," or "I need to aim toward a high-class client." Over time, what starts to happen i...

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam discusses a variety of topics such as Subconscious negative beliefs, finding direction, Professional athletes, Those that lack empathy, Vulnerability hangovers, and more .

"What advice would you give yourself ten years ago from here?"   Have you heard this question? It's tempting to answer that you would go back and tell yourself this and that. The truth is, it just shows that you are not trusting your path. You are holding that there is a different way this could have or should have unfolded if only for these circumstances being different the next time through. The...

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam discusses a variety of topics such as Getting what you want, Reading energy, Testimonials, Leadership blocking your leadership, and more .

"The responsibility for how my communication lands lie entirely with myself." In transformational leadership, the leader steps into the stand that they are 100% responsible for how their communication lands. If I say something to you and it upsets you, that's my responsibility. If I say something to you and it lands beautifully with you, that's my responsibility. When you start getting into the fa...

What is boredom? How do you relate to boredom, and how do you work with this?  Boredom is a common thing that many people struggle with. The default relationship you have with boredom is that something is wrong when boredom shows up. If you are bored, something is missing, and you want to get away from it by watching TV, drinking, or playing games. It creates this internal experience of boredom th...

How do shadow and relationship work?  Your shadow self-perpetuates your fears. Every time your fear is getting triggered, what the fear does is it goes out looking into the world to find evidence to prove that it's true. That's natural. Fear does not get defeated through rationality. The way to get out of this is to distinguish that this is all just fear. In a relationship, your partner's fear is...

In the Western world, you don't have a context from medicine the way indigenous peoples do. Instead, you only have a context for drugs, and if you look at the context for drugs, it's something that you can take and stabilize, but the drug itself will lead to dependency and addiction. It doesn't support you in healing, and it is just like a bandage. There is another healing modality available for y...

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam discusses a variety of topics such as Finger pointing, Suppressing your being at work, and learning to shift, Navigating the breakdown, Transmuting energy and learning to create art, Transcending the pendulum (aka, The Transcendulum), and more.

As a leader, if you are committed to developing the leadership ladders, the effective way to do that is by coaching, telling, educating, advising, and mentoring. Lack of coachability is a classic issue in leadership, and as a leader, you can easily label someone as "uncoachable" if they are not cooperating. Uncoachability is an easy label to grab and slap on someone, but most of the time, it is pa...

On this week's mid-week episode, tune in as Adam discusses a variety of topics such as retreats, 15-minute coaching, Cleaning up our messes (and who determines a mess), Bad parenting and giving feedback, a life free of compromise, and more.

Blaming is your default state as a human. Blaming happens when you perceive something is wrong, and two things show up: The first is your behavior, and internally, you arrive at a point where they are wrong. If you see something wrong, you call it out. Listen to how the call-out culture works against its intentions and why blaming makes people defensive. You will also learn why Laissez-faire or br...

It's the continuation of a much-needed retreat of Adam Quiney with her wife, Bay LeBlanc, now in the rainforest of Costa Rica! In this episode's highlight, they recalled how they started as a new couple. Adam and Bay recalled their experiences when they first met and became life partners. He was still in law school, and Bay graduated with her MBA with a lot of debt. All the hardships, trauma, and...

We all need a retreat after long, tiring days. In this episode, Adam Quiney and Bay LeBlanc share their experiences on their latest retreat in Costa Rica, specifically in the mountains of La Fortuna. It is always best to travel somewhere new and do work together. One of the benefits of traveling is you get to experience an adventure. Listen as they share their experiences from their first retreat...

Are you responsible for how things went? The way we typically operate or relate to responsibility is that it is a fact. Whether you are responsible or not, there are problems with this approach. Some of the problems are that when responsibility is a fact, then taking responsibility for how things went becomes a fact-finding mission. As a leader, it diminishes your capacity to be responsible. It al...