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In 2019 I began two concurrent journeys that have fundamentally changed my life. In June, my fiancé and I started the visa process to bring him to the United States so we could get married and build a life together in Texas. In July, I went back to school to become a Certified Professional Coach.
The next ten months were intense. I was flying 9-hour red-eye flights to Santiago, Chile, to be with Víctor while we waited for his visa. Then flying back to the United States to attend work meetings and my in-person coaching workshops. I look back now and I still don’t know how I held it all together through the arduous immigration process, maintaining a long-distance relationship, going back to school, doing hours of homework, studying and coaching every week, and maintaining my current work schedule.
I knew when all this started almost a year ago that it was going to be a challenging period of my life. But even though 2020 has thus far been a crazy year for us all, it’s also been a year of completion for me:
Víctor and I were married in March here in the United States.
And just this week I graduated from my coaching program, the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC).
What I learned from this experience is even when facing seemingly overwhelming circumstances, we can draw from yet untapped inner strength to pull us through and thrive. And we can rely on the love and support of our family, friends, and coworkers to help give us the energetic boosts we need to succeed.
So… I’m now a Certified Professional Coach!
I’m excited to have this credential as part of my resumé. It’s not just about having a certificate or diploma to hang on a wall. It’s the countless hours of work, experience and growth that piece of paper signifies. And the growth and learning doesn’t end with graduation. The certification honors one step in an ongoing journey. For the rest of my career and life, I will continue to learn how to be a coach who helps transform how we work, live and BE. (Here’s the video where I share my exciting news…)
Here is some of the future of work and conscious leadership content I found interesting this week:
The office of the future could be a VR workplace. One of the downsides of remote work is not having the same interaction with coworkers as in a physical office. As a sci-fi fan and remote work advocate, I envision a future where we can live anywhere but interact seamlessly through technology. This article talks about the first step in this direction by using VR “to bring the corporate desk into the spare bedroom.”
This week I penned a column for State Policy Network about the power of affiliation. One powerful way to build your conscious leadership and receive life-changing coaching is to join a mastermind group or coaching group. Affiliating with others provides the support and challenge many need to accelerate their growth. I will soon be launching some of these coaching/mastermind groups and will share details via this newsletter and my live videos.
As a conscious leader, are you speaking your truth and empowering others to do so as well? Juliet Tang shares the compelling reasons we need to speak our truth and the cost of not doing it.
How can you build team trust in a virtual world? Research shows psychological safety is the number one determiner of a team’s success. And conscious leaders intentionally create this environment so their teams can thrive. The Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute shares some steps for building this vital element for a remote team.
Work happy. Live happy. BE happy.
Meredith
Meredith’s coaching helps conscious leaders step courageously into the future of work. Contact her to develop your conscious leadership and transform your organization into the workplace of the future.
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