You are listening to the Life Coach School Podcast with Brooke Castillo, episode number 486.

Welcome to the Life Coach School Podcast, where it's all about real clients, real problems, and real coaching.

And now your host, Master Coach Instructor Brooke Castillo.

Hey my beautiful friends, how's it going?

I'm in Chicago right now. I'm at the peninsula hotel, which is gorgeous, looking out at the city.

And I have the entire children crew with me. I have all the boys and all their friends.

So we went to this amazing restaurant last night. It was funny, it was like this huge table for dinner, and it was just me and nine boys.

I guess they're all men now, but it felt like my children, my kids, it was really cool.

We actually came to Chicago to watch Christian play in the Western amateur, which he did very well made the cut, played some amazing golf.

It was very exciting. And then we decided to just stay for a minute so we could enjoy Chicago.

And last night we went to our PM steak for dinner. So delicious, so fun, such a great time.

Today we're going to play some pickleball, we're going to do some shopping, tomorrow we're going to a Cubs game, spending time with Christian,

especially before he goes back to college, and then we're going to go to San Diego for a little while.

I'm going to hang out with Connor and San Diego for a little while. So that should be amazing.

Today I want to talk a little bit about what's been going on with a lot of you all for many of you, my friends, my students, my loved ones.

This has been a rough year. A lot has been going on. I've had friends that have been diagnosed and who are dealing with cancer diagnosis and waiting through the fear and pain of that.

I've been helping people through business challenges. I've been talking to people about relationship challenges, lots of drama.

It's been a very interesting year for a lot of you. And one of the things that I want to offer as a solution, in addition to obviously managing your mind and taking care of your emotional life,

is the opportunity we have to help people and how much that can help with a lot of negative emotion. It can be an amazing outlet.

One of the kind of coping mechanisms that I've had in my own life has been to create some self awareness around whatever's going on for me, understand it, and then teach it.

And so many of my colleagues who are coaches and teachers do the same thing and it's very healing.

So for those of you who are new coaches or just getting into this industry and for those of you who aren't coaches, I want to offer this technique, this opportunity to you as well.

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