Welcome to unfuck your brain.

I'm your host Kara Lowentile, master-certified coach and founder of the School of New

Feminist Thub.

I'm here to help you turn down your anxiety, turn up your confidence, and create a life

on your own terms, one that you're

truly excited to live. Let's go.

All right, my friends, welcome. This is a different kind of guest than I usually have, I would

say, because this is someone who I actually knew before I ever became a coach.

Possibly the only coach, quote, unquote, that my father knew at the time that I decided to quit

law and become a life coach.

So it's probably only thanks to Jerry, who's here with us today, that my father didn't

have a total heart attack when I told him what I was going to do.

So I'm very excited to have Jerry Colonna.

And I also just realized that I didn't ask you how to pronounce your name before we did this. Is that right?

Well, you pronounced it incredibly well, so thank you for that. Then we're just going to keep rolling with that. And so before we even get into your new book and leadership, all the juicy stuff we're going to talk about today, can you tell us a little bit about who you are and what you do and how you got to where you are?

Sure. Well, first thing I will say is I did perform CPR and your father when, no, I'm kidding.

Oh, when he heard. Okay. I was like, I miss a story. My God.

No, we had a preexisting relationship, if you will, a pre-existing condition, and it's

been a delight to have you join what I often refer to as the Avengers, the group of people

who are sort of out there to really, to borrow your phrase, to unfuck the world in many ways, because what we're trying

to do is really meaningful. So yeah, I'm an executive coach. I have been doing this work now for

27 years. Prior to that, I was a venture capitalist. I was on the dark side. I was part of the

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