Successful individuals use coaching and mentorship to help them unlock their potential. Not all coaches are created equal, and that's why we work with the top five percent of coaches at Idemics. Welcome to Coaches You Need brought to you by Idemics Welcome to Coaches to Know a podcast short by Idemics Radio. This brief podcast is designed to deemified coaching and help you our audience understand what coaching is and
how it can help you. I'm their host, Jamie, and today I have the pleasure of being here with Coach Roberta to discuss a program called Designing Your Life. Coach. Roberta, of course, is a certified Designing your Life coach. She's been an executive leadership coach and facilitator for five years. She had the background in education policy, where she'd worked in government at all levels and also in the nonprofit area. In all her supplie she's held leadership
roles. Her clients are people seeking to upscale and become leaders. And these are leaders from C suite executives to senior and mid level leaders to emerging leaders, which includes young professionals and college students. So welcome to coach from Berta and thank you for joining us here today. Thank you very much, Jamie. Great to be here. So let's un britly start if you could just help us understand what is the program designing your Life and how does it differ
from other programs that are out there. Sure so, Designing your Life is a framework that was developed by two design engineers at a Stanford University, Bill Wilburnett and Dave Evans, and basically they have applied design principles for helping people design a life they love. Bill and Dave's philosophy is that everyone deserves to be able to have and design a life and as by extension of work, life that they love and that no one truly If you embrace the principles,
no one is ever finished designing their life. Once you learn the model, and you learn the philosophy, and you learn the framework, you have the tools to continue to I would say, fail forward and design a life you love as you evolve and change, because as humans we are constantly developing, evolving and changing. Brilliant. Thank you so much. Death. We are not robots, right so where not yet? Not yet anyway, right, Jamie. Different makes us different from chat GDP right, which is the right,
right, Thank you so much for that introduction. So it sounds like one of the key differences, just for clarification, is that the framework and the way it's built, it is built with a design lens. Is that correct? Correct? Yes? And there really aren't any other programs that take that approach, not that I'm aware of. Okay, um, and you know, um, it's sort of getting to my next question is who is this for? It sounds like it's something that it's for everybody at any stage
of life. Uh, but you know, I'll let you talk to that point as well as you know, you mentioned that people can use the framework over and over again. Is there a you know, is there a recommended frequency with which you use this framework to you know, I guess reflect on your life and where you're at and where you want to go. So those are a lot of questions packed into one, so let me try to peel them apart. So, first of all, yes, I would say it's
almost for everyone. I think some starting with high school students you would have to have a certain level of maturity I think in order for it to be effective, but certainly college students, absolutely, anyone in the workforce and then most recently I have done some workshops with individuals who are recently retired and ready to do their second act. So related to your other question about you know,
what is the recommended frequency, it's very individual. It's based on when someone starts to feel as though whatever they're doing for there in this case, usually it's for their job, for their career is not aligning with their values
and their beliefs. And I call it feeling squidgy. I know that's not a word in the dictionary, but you just start to feel people start to feel off kilter, they start to feel uncentered, they're not as they don't have as much energy, they're not as motivated, they're seeking something else.
So at any point in someone's career or in someone's life, as in the case with the people who are moving on to their second or third or in some cases for the act, they want to be able to take some time to reflect and use these tools to figure out what it is they might want to do and start exploring and finding out and testing the water to see in fact, if it is something they want to pursue. Um, thanks so much. I love the word squidgy. That again, I'm going to use
that. Um, you might want to trademark that. Okay, yeah, being squidgy, which is you're feeling unsettled or like something is just not right in what you're doing and what you're feeling. I really appreciate that term, and it's it's a perfect It perfectly describes the emotion I think. UM, uh, don't you go to this? This is all very enlightening. Um, you know as a as a as a final question, you know the interesting understanding why you shows to get certified and design your life? What was
it for you? Um, that attracted you the program because you know, in the coaching sphere there are a lot of different assessments and programs. Um. You know there's there there is no lack of opportunities to pursue different frameworks. So what what what spoke to you about design your lives? So I
am a product of the program, is the short answer. When I was in my when I was in my senior leadership position in the federal government, I started feeling squidgy or uncentered or up kilter, or that something wasn't just quite right. And so I started, you know, casting my net and exploring different options, and I landed on the Designing Your Life course, which I took the course myself as not as a coach. I wasn't as a
coach this time. I just took it to try to find out what I might want to do next, and that led me down the path of exploring becoming an executive leadership coach. And you know, fast forward probably about eight years later, here I am today, you know, in business for myself as an executive leadership coach and facilitator. So again short answer is I am
a product of the program. And once I became a coach, then I pursued the certification to be certified as a coach for the Designing Your Life program and I have continued to see success after success after success with my clients. That's an amazing note to wrap up on an amazing testament as well to the Designing Your Life program. But thank you so much Coach Roberta for your time
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