The Impact of Coaching on Professional and Personal Growth featuring Karli Elder

Karli Elder: Going into coaching, I knew it was gonna be impactful. I knew that having an accountability partner and having someone else that could support me hold a mirror up. You know, give me the love, but give me the, the truth about how I need to grow was going to be life changing. I think the piece that I wasn't prepared for was that the most important voice through that entire journey was going to be my own.

Kate Volman: How would your life be different if you had someone outside of your family or friends to talk through your biggest challenges? If you had someone walking alongside you, encouraging you, asking you great questions, and holding you accountable to the things you say you're gonna do, holding you accountable to your dreams. Kate Volman: A great coach is there to help you become the best version of yourself personally and professionally. And in this episode, you're gonna hear directly from one of our clients about how coaching has transformed her life and leadership.

Karli Elder, thank you so much for joining us today. Thanks for having me, Kate. Kate Volman: I'm excited to be here. This is gonna be such a fun conversation because coaching has really made an impact in your life, and I'm excited for people to hear a little bit about what that's like because so often people are curious about coaching, but they wonder, is this really for me?

Is this really gonna help? Kate Volman: You know, they see the statistics and they hear about it, but most leaders have never actually invested in themselves enough to hire a coach. And you, you did that so, so. Before we move into the transformation that you had, why don't we talk a little bit about your role.

What is your role? How many people report to you? Kate Volman: What is, what is your day, the day-to-day life of Karli look like? Karli Elder: Yeah.

Um, I am the director of onboarding and account management at Financial Independence Group. So we are an independent marketing organization that really works to serve financial wealth advisors across the industry to serve. Families across the world. Karli Elder: I have the great pleasure every single day to serve two different departments.

So I have about seven direct reports under one side, and then I support another director who has eight reports under her. So I have about 16 people under me that I get to love on and help, you know, make their day to day better every day, as well as help grow our company. Kate Volman: Beautiful and. You've been there Karli Elder: for 12 years now.

Yes, ma'am. Yeah, it does hit 12 here back in August, which is hard to believe. Time sure does fly. Yeah.

That's so Kate Volman: wild. It's so, it's, and it's cool, and it's just a testament to the culture over there and the fact that you've been there for such a long time. Kate Volman: You're continuing to grow, you're continuing to learn. So let's talk about coaching, like what?

Inspired you to reach out, to hire a coach, to make that type of investment in yourself. Karli Elder: One thing about me, which I think would be the same about all of your listeners, frankly, is I'm a lifelong learner. So frankly, challenge gets thrown my way. Karli Elder: The next thing I wanna do is roll up my sleeves and absorb as much information about the topic as possible.

So several years ago, I was promoted to be a director for the very first time. And frankly I was shaken in my boots. I was like, I cannot believe that they like, you know, offered me this and I really wanted to do well with it. Karli Elder: So what did I do?

I went out, I read books, I listened to podcasts, and I really tried to immerse myself in anything and everything that was gonna help me be the absolute best leader that I could be. But I got to a point where I felt. Like I was falling a little bit short. You know, I can DIY as much as I can, but there came a point where I was like, this, it's just not quite hitting the mark.

Karli Elder: And so, um, I witnessed another person or a company, they actually went through coaching and I saw their transformation and I was like, wow, that, like, what is that? That's interesting. And then through a podcast, I'm also hearing the importance of coaching and investing in yourself. And I thought to myself.

Karli Elder: What am I waiting for? Right? Like the best of the best, the best athletes, the best leaders, the best folks that we talk to or listen to day in and day out. They are doing just that.

They're reaching out and they're finding somebody that they can lean on that can support them and hold themselves accountable. Karli Elder: And I decide, hey, it's time to take, take the leap of faith and let's, let's do that for myself. Kate Volman: So what did you see in the other person that intrigued you so much? What were some of the changes that you saw that you thought, Ooh, this is interesting.

I want, I want some of that. Karli Elder: One of the main things that stood out to me was presence, right? Karli Elder: So it's like this person always had. He is amazing, frankly, like he's something I look up to.

But I saw a shift in him where he just found a, a different level of confidence and presence and the way that he was even coaching, mentoring, speaking to me, had a bit of a elevation to it. It changed, evolved, and I was like, man, that's the exact same type of feeling that I wanna pour into other people. Karli Elder: So how did you do that and how can I get some of that too? Kate Volman: So you started the coaching.

Let talk through that. What is that month one you're going, you're getting into it. Were you nervous? Were you prepared?

Were you excited? What were all the feelings as you started with your coach? Karli Elder: I, you know, it's a good question. Karli Elder: I think it's important to even take a step back and think before I even agreed to sign on, because right.

It, it's not something I didn't get promoted several years ago, and then in six months that I'm gonna get a coach. It took me years to get there, and I think one thing that I really had to get over was. Karli Elder: I have a very full plate, so where am I gonna fit coaching, right? I, yeah, I've, I've got all these beautiful people that I support at work, but I'm also a mom, right?

I'm a mom of three. I've got a wonderful husband. I have a life outside of work. And so for me, first and foremost, it was, okay, how am I gonna fit this in?

Karli Elder: I'm not looking, I'm not like. Don't have enough on my plate to already, you know, there's nothing I need to take off. So the thing for me was first and foremost, okay, how am I going to do this? Am I gonna have time for it?

And then it's finding, you know, a company that really fits what I'm looking to do. So, you know, finding Floyd for me was. Karli Elder: Everything. I just, you know, reading through their website, learning about who they are, what they're about, really fit my values and, and help sink in for me.

Like, okay, this is the right fit for me and the right place that I wanna go. So, went on the website, signed up and, you know, was eagerly awaiting. Karli Elder: They're like, you gotta coach, here we go. And, and in my very first appointment with my coach, we talked about that.

What are the reservations? And I was very frank with her. I said, I'm not sure I'm gonna have time for this. Like, frankly, I already don't have enough time.

And she. Right away helped me feel comfortable with that. Karli Elder: You know, she's, any homework that we had, she was like, it's nothing like I want you to succeed, so I'm gonna make sure that what we do will be so small. It'll be so I small but impactful.

But it's not gonna be so much that you're gonna feel like you're taking on a third job. And that was really, really important for me to know, okay, I can do this and I can grow, but I can also sustain what I'm signing up for. Karli Elder: 'cause this is about to be a, a year long commitment for myself. Kate Volman: I appreciate you taking it back a step, because that is such a big concern for so many leaders, right?

Like to your point, nobody has, nobody has extra room on their plate. Everyone is booked, and we have, we're all, we're all leading these very busy lives, and I think that's part of why a coach can help, right? Kate Volman: Like people want to, we don't want to feel so busy. We want to feel fulfilled.

We want to feel like we're making progress. And so we can get so caught up in, well, I have to do all of these things. So there's no time for coaching. But coaching is the one thing that when you do, it's going to alleviate all of these other challenges in your life and all these other stresses so that you actually move forward even faster.

Kate Volman: But. It's hard for us to think about that. 'cause all we're looking at it like, well, it's, it's one more thing. So you have to change the mindset from, it's one more thing to, no, this is the thing that is going to help all of these other pieces in my life.

Exactly. I'm curious. When we do coaching, we talk a lot about what are the. Kate Volman: Top, what are the three things you wanna focus on and achieve personally over the next year and professionally over the next year?

What was that exercise like for you? Did you know what you really wanted to focus on or were there there some aha moments right from the beginning? That's a good question. Kate Volman: I'd say Karli Elder: I had always, I've always been.

A lover, a love, a love of pouring into people. So one thing I knew going into it was I'm pouring into a lot of folks, but I'm not doing the best job of giving that right back to myself. So one of the immediate things that I identified was I really wanted to work with a coach. Karli Elder: So that I could build more of that work life integration and have more of that in my life.

So that was one of 'em. The other one that stood out to me was, how can I make sure that I'm pouring into these adults in a way that fits for them? So in my past life, before I jumped into finance, I was a teacher. Karli Elder: So I taught middle and high school kids and, and it was fun and I loved it, but I was like, dang.

Is this gonna feel corny? You know, here I am pulling out my old teacher hat, you know, to do this with adults, so, so finding confidence in that as well as really getting over imposter syndrome. So, like I said in the beginning, I was scared. Karli Elder: I can't believe that they promoted me to this, do I belong?

So a lot of the work that I knew I wanted to do with the coach was find that confident voice and belief in myself. Kate Volman: Ugh. I love that. It's interesting to me how so many leaders will talk about this confidence and how coaching helps with that confidence.

Kate Volman: So when, I mean, that was what you noticed in this other leader and then going through coaching yourself. How did you feel? Like, what did you achieve that level of confidence? Like did you have like a scale, like when you started where you're like, I feel like maybe it's from one to 10, it was at a five and it got up to a nine.

Kate Volman: Like what did that look like from before and after coaching? Yeah. Karli Elder: If you wanna speak on the scale part, because I don't wanna lose that. One thing that I did love about coaching is we did have scale and metrics throughout it.

So every single session we went through a scorecard and I rated all of these different areas of my life and that was impactful because I could see progress with that. Karli Elder: So don't wanna lose sight of that because I think that is one of the main parts of coaching that I was. So grateful for and didn't realize I was gonna get as part of it. But yeah, so when I first started, I mean, frankly, I think like any of us, when we are struggling with a little bit of imposter syndrome, my inner voice was on the low end of the scale.

Karli Elder: So if you're rated one to five, I'm more like a two. You know, I again, I'm like, are you sure I should be here? How do we know we've done the right thing? I wanna make sure I kill it.

And by the time we got to the end of coaching. I'm closer to a five. Well, I'm not a full five 'cause I don't believe. I'm like, there's always work to do, right?

Karli Elder: Like I'm humble. I always wanna learn. I always wanna grow. But significant changes and, and being here and speaking to you is a good example of that.

So one of the reasons for that change really came down to the ways in which my coach asked me questions. So we always hear questions, questions, questions important, but I think. Karli Elder: What's important to be very intentional about is the way those questions are asked. So my most favorite question that my coach would always hit me with when I'm in my head is she'd say, okay, well you're talking about this topic, so let's just take maybe my confidence in, in a meeting.

Like, I'm not really sure if I'll, I'll land of the message. Karli Elder: I'm not feeling the best about it. She said, okay, well where would you rate that? Eh, I'm a two, two and a half today.

And she'd say to me, alright, well what would it take to make that a three? And I'd be like. My brain would unlock Kate. Like I'd be like, you know, like we could have gone a couple ways.

Why do you think it's that way? Karli Elder: You know, what could we be doing differently? No, no, no. The question of what would it take to make it a three opened my mind up and I was like, alright, now I can think about this logically and now I can problem solve.

So it was those types of questions that really elevated me and transformed me through this, and I use those questions with my team today. Karli Elder: It's amazing to see how much impact that that can have. Kate Volman: I was just gonna ask how many of the questions that you got asked, are you now then going back to your team and asking those same questions? Because isn't it crazy how just the way in which it's asked can make such the shift?

Mm-hmm. Because it really does it, it really inspires action because why do you feel like that is very different than Okay. Kate Volman: It happened. It is what it is, but moving forward, so what is it gonna take?

And then you can start to think those small little baby steps, those small little things that you can do. So it feels less overwhelming. So is there, is there another people, people on this show love questions because who doesn't love a good question. Kate Volman: So is there any other question that kind of sticks out to you that you've used in other meetings with your team?

I use a Karli Elder: lot of the start, stop, keep actually. So, so, you know, it's really important when building a team to really build a deep relationship. That relationship really is the foundation that gives you what you need to be able to grow, coach, and, and do all the things. Karli Elder: But part of of that relationship is building a vulnerable relationship such that, yes, I can share with you, but you can also share back with me so that we have a well-rounded relationship and which we're both growing and I believe.

One of the, the key successes. So what I do is in every one of my monthly regroups, I always ask my teams, what should I start doing? Karli Elder: What should I stop doing? And what should I keep doing?

And the reason why I like that is because it takes them out of the uncomfortableness of, okay, well how, how do I share with her? Maybe I need something a little bit different and it makes it a little bit more comfortable to have those conversations. Karli Elder: And I do it every single time. So in the beginning, you know, with my new hires, they're like, well, nothing.

Nothing. And I'm like, okay, but we're gonna do this again next month. So be thinking between now and then and know like, this will always be something that I'm going to ask you because it's just important for me to learn from you as it is for, for you to learn from me. Karli Elder: So that's another really good example of something I use quite regularly.

Kate Volman: What surprised you the most Karli Elder: about having a coach? I love this question. It's my favorite one to answer when people ask me on the streets going into coaching, I knew. Because I've, I witnessed others and heard others.

I knew it was gonna be impactful. Karli Elder: I knew that having an accountability partner and having someone else that could support me hold a mirror up, you know, give me the love, but give me the, the truth about how I need to grow was going to be, frankly, life changing. I think the piece that I wasn't prepared for was that the most important voice through that entire journey was going to be my own. Karli Elder: So I learned and I grew and I changed my inner voice through that process.

And that is really why I had such a great success throughout the process. Ugh, Kate Volman: I love that. That's what a great coach is supposed. It's you.

You are the one. I mean it. Our clients love to give accolades to. My coach is amazing.

She's the best and or he's the best. Kate Volman: And we have incredible coaches that are the best at what they do. World class just. Amazing.

But you're the one that's doing the work, like you are the one doing the work. And so I, I love hearing you say that because that's really where that empowerment comes from. And then your coach gets to walk alongside of you and to cheer you on and to ask those great questions and to kind of lift you up when you have those kind of moments that were setbacks and also be able to come to with a big challenge. Kate Volman: So I know a lot of leaders, especially when you're.

Leading a big team, you and you're on this mission, you sometimes you're making big decisions and you don't have somebody that you can necessarily talk through, am I doing this right, or is this the right move? And so tell us a little bit about with your leadership, how did this help leading your team through some of the challenges or through some of the questions that you had yourself as a leader? Karli Elder: Yeah, we went through some changes throughout that time and I really identified that we needed more people and.

Again, I was new and like you just said, who do I lean on to? Help me think through the best way to structure that or to have those conversations. And so as I, I identified, Hey, I know I need to hire more people, but I went to my coach and said, but frankly, I don't know how, how to build a map. Karli Elder: You know, how do I build the, the fancy org chart?

How do I have the conversations with my executive staff that's going to help move that needle forward so that we can land that plane and get what we need? And so I really utilized my coach and her knowledge and expertise to help me with that. So we took a a session where we really focused on, okay, what is a functional org chart? Karli Elder: What are the roles of that?

What does it mean? Who do you put where, how do you drive and inspire around that? So it's not just, I think. What was eyeopening for me is it's not just about tasks, but it's about people in seats too.

So that was helpful, but then we also role played the other side. Okay? I, I, I drew up the map, but now I have to present this map to an executive team and get their buy-in. Karli Elder: And that goes back to confidence.

I'm trying to build my confident voice so I can have these kinds of conversations. So, so through my coaching experience, she and I were able to do role play. So we talked about, okay, what does this mean? And it was more than that.

So, okay. Role play. Yes, she can play them and I can play me and we can do that. Karli Elder: But we also talk about the dynamics of the people in the room.

So I'm nervous I'm going to this room. What are they coming to the table with? So let's humanize the entire conversation so it doesn't feel so nerve wracking. 'cause at the end of the day, we're all just people doing our jobs, showing up and doing the best that we can.

Karli Elder: So let's add a little bit more of that, like love, support, humanism around it. So it's something that I could do. So through that work, I really went from a, uh, through the work of, of her helping me. That's where I went from a team of four to a team of seven over the course of a number of months.

Kate Volman: And talk about how coaching has helped you become a better coach. Kate Volman: I mean, you shared a little bit with some of the questions that you asked, but you know, obviously you have a heart to learn and to serve your, your team, which is what you're doing. And like you said, co the best of the best have coaches. Coaches need coaches.

So you are a leader. You are essentially a coach for your, for your people. Kate Volman: So how has coaching really helped you become a better coach for your team? Karli Elder: Well, I learned through coaching how to be a better coach, frankly, you know, it's like walking through this experience gave me experience that I could lean on.

It also solidified a lot of the different things I was reading in the books too. Karli Elder: So my coach helped me build a framework. So there were a couple of things I didn't have like. I have built a get to know you form so that I can have, you know, better insight into the team, what fills them up, how they like to receive feedback, what types of goals that they have, things like that, as well as down to like little gifts.

Karli Elder: Gift giving is not my love language, but it is for some folks. So I was like, I really wanna know what are those little things that, you know, would brighten them up and make them feel good if they got them. So there was that piece too, but it helped me also. Go, I go back to questions.

It helped me think about how do I ask questions of them. Karli Elder: So I always, you know, being a teacher, being a learner, being somebody who just loves to pour in people, I, I do recognize and see the importance of, hey, let's ask questions to help people come to their own place. But I was able to work with my coach on, okay, but how do we ask those questions? What do they look like?

Karli Elder: How often should you meet with people? You know, what are the different ways in which you can pour into people? So things like little gifts. You know, monthly lunches with the team, um, where you have just like, we're not talking about work.

I think that was important. You know, I think we all get into the work mode and we're like, okay, well we're only gonna talk about work and we're gonna come to the office and we're gonna do meetings and it's gonna be onsite, blah, blah, blah. Karli Elder: And it's like. No, actually there's a lot of impact in just having offsites, let's meet out and, and have lunch and, and in the purpose of that is we're just talking about you, you, you, you, what's going on in your personal life?

And now we don't talk about work. So coaching fulfilled or filled up the confidence of, okay, I'm, I'm hitting this in the right place. Karli Elder: It's not cheesy, but then it also expanded my ability to ask better questions to help grow people more quickly. Kate Volman: It's great how you're talking about your team.

I mean, it's, you're so intentional about wanting to support and help them, which is amazing because that is the culture that you've helped to create over there, which is necessary for people. Kate Volman: I mean, obviously at Floyd we believe an organization can only be the best version of itself to the extent that your people are becoming better versions of themselves, and that is essentially what you're doing. And so to be able to implement those kinds of things on a team is.

Is really important. And to have a leader that is self-aware enough to know, Hey, this isn't, this isn't how I need to be led, but this is how my people might need to be led. Kate Volman: And so to be able to better understand our people is so important. So to put processes in place in order to do that is very, is amazing.

Is there anything that surprised you about yourself while going through coaching? Karli Elder: Probably that I knew a lot more than I really thought I did. You know, my coach did a really good job of being like. Karli Elder: Karli, you got it.

Like, what, what are you talking about? So I think, you know, I did go into it with obviously a sense of self doubt about my ability and, and very quickly learned like, no, you got it girl. Like, you got it. You know what you're doing.

I'm here to just make sure you see that confidence. So I think that was a big piece for me was. Karli Elder: I'm doing all the right things, even though I didn't know I am. And, and that was an exciting realization for me.

And then from that, you know, I carry that through every single day. So like I said, you know that. Voice and, and getting my voice to be a strong, loud, positive voice is what was the most influential. Karli Elder: And so, so through coaching, my coach helped me develop a, a little mantra essentially that I tell myself every single day and it pops up my phone every single day.

But frankly, Kate, I look back to it on the hard time. So if I'm getting ready to go into a hard meeting, a hard conversation, something, um. Karli Elder: Little bit nervous walking into, I lean back on that every single time. I will slow down, I'll open it up on my phone and I will read it out loud to myself and I will let that be the truth that drives me through what I'm about to walk into.

Kate Volman: What are you most proud of accomplishing through your coaching process? Karli Elder: I, I found that integration that I was looking for, so in, in the early days. My husband and I always talked about, you know, it's not work life balance, it's work life integration. And I could absolutely speak to it.

I could share it. I understood it, but I wasn't living it, frankly. And so through coaching, my coach always said, you know, you're not two people. Karli Elder: You're just one person.

So why are you trying to be multiple people in your life? So, so she and I walked through a couple of things. One, Off Balance, phenomenal book. If you haven't read it, go read.

It's Off Balance by Matthew Kelly. Absolutely was the exercise that I needed to. Really turn on that logical brain that, that needed to take a, an assessment about my life. Karli Elder: So, read that book, went through the exercises, and got really strong clarity about what is most important to me, because I wanna make sure I'm pouring the right energy into the right place.

So first and foremost, did that, that was eye-opening, frankly. Here I am. Busy girl. Working, pouring a lot into work.

Karli Elder: But you know, what was most important to me was my marriage and my family, which I knew that and I felt guilt for, but I wasn't doing the best job integrating all that and, and I had to work on that. So fast forward working with my coach and we talked through, okay, so what are the non-negotiables? What are the non-negotiables in your life that you are going to draw a line in the sand on and you're gonna hold yourself accountable to? Karli Elder: And one of them was around, I'm gonna leave work on time.

I'm gonna leave work on time. I want to be home with my family. And that is important to me. It's important to be there, to read with my daughter, to do the homework, to, you know, to support my husband as he is helping us make dinner.

All the things. Karli Elder: The other piece was it, of it for me was how do I get back into exercising? So the one thing that I recognized in, in my journey is the first thing to go when I get busy is exercise. But the first thing to bring me back on track and to make me feel really good day in and day out is exercise.

So why am I allowing that to constantly be pushed off the plate? Karli Elder: Like it needs to have a permanent spot on the plate. So, so with my coach, we talked about, okay, so what is it? What do you love to do?

Where do you wanna go? And I was like, you know what? Running is a thing for me. Like, I just like to run.

I know that, you know, that's crazy for some people, but for me, getting up in the morning and going for a run just like sets my day up for success and I want to get back into that, but I also wanna do it really well. Karli Elder: So we set a goal. And the goal was I was going to sign up for a 5K in that year. And then I set a goal and said, I wanna place top 10 in my age bracket.

So here we went. And so that's what we did. We built a plan. I built, I mean I went old school paper calendar, wrote it down.

I first identified, okay, how often in a week could I work out? Karli Elder: What does that look like? And let me, alright, let me back up Kate. It's important to know that one of my homework assignments for a whole month was literally to just look at my calendar and figure out where I have space.

That was it. Okay. So I didn't have to like in that next month build the plan. No, I just took a whole month and just studied, where do I have space?

Karli Elder: Where can I do that? Then I identified, okay, I've identified two or three days in my week where I feel confident that I can hold myself to doing this running plan. Then I went out, I built a plan, I picked a, you know, couch to 5K, wrote it in the calendar and off I went. And I'm happy to announce that I did place in the top 10 in my H bracket when I ran it, which was pretty awesome.

Kate Volman: Aw, that's so amazing. Yeah. Yeah. So it's a big deal.

That's so cool. You know what I love, I love hearing these stories so much, especially because we tend to overcomplicate. And make things seem harder than they actually are. Mm-hmm.

And all of the things that we do, uh, all like all of Matthew's books, right? Kate Volman: There's a reason he sold over 70 million copies of books because they are, they're full of wisdom, but they're simple. They're these, these big ideas, but they make it feel so tangible. Like, oh, like, so, so much of this conversation.

I'm hearing that you've really implemented some really important habits into your life. Kate Volman: These small, little daily habits and practices that help push you forward. And so what seems like a huge. I mean, I still think it seems like a big deal running a marathon.

I, I, I don't know. I, I'm big into health and fitness, but that is, is one thing that I'm like, that seems like a lot, and it's a, but it's, that's a big goal that a lot of people have. Kate Volman: Right. And, and a lot of people talk about it.

A lot of people talk about these dreams. They, they're gonna run a marathon, they're gonna do a traveling, they're gonna write a book, they're gonna start a company, they're gonna do all the things, but never actually get started. And so you got started and did and and put it out into the world like, I'm gonna do this. Kate Volman: And then you did it.

Yeah. Amazing. Karli Elder: Yeah. Kate Volman: That's so cool.

Karli Elder: Now what you're saying makes sense. It's the small incremental steps. You're right. We overcomplicate it at the end of the day, but it's what's the first step?

And you know, my coach would say that, okay, we've got this big dream, feels scary, but what's the next first step you can take? Karli Elder: So let's just focus on that and then after we get through that first step. Okay, well let's talk about the second step. You know, we don't always have to have every baby step fully outlined before we move towards a goal, but if we break it down in bite size pieces and just go one baby step at a time before you know it, if hit the finish line Kate Volman: Yeah.

Kate Volman: And you start coaching and then a year later it's almost like. Wait, I feel like it was just my first session and it's already a year. And look at all the things that you've accomplished. What has your, has your team said anything to you?

Has your husband noticed a difference in you? Karli Elder: Yeah, absolutely. I think one of the. Karli Elder: Moments that I remember the most was actually at work.

And somebody had come up to me and they were just like, something's going on with you. And, and to be frank, I kept it a secret. Like I was like, I'm just gonna do this coaching thing and we're just gonna see what happens. And someone said.

I'm seeing the difference in you. Karli Elder: And I said, yeah, I'm going to coaching. And they were like, I can tell. And the things that they could tell about me was that presence.

So we go way back to the beginning of this story and what I saw in somebody else was presence and confidence. And now here I am towards the end of coaching and people are seeing that in me. Karli Elder: And that really just sealed the deal for me. I was like, I did it.

I did it. It's happening and I wanna share it with the world because this is phenomenal. Kate Volman: And, and. Presence and confidence.

It's when if someone said, oh, my goal is to be more president and have confidence, the how behind that, no, it's. It takes time. Kate Volman: It takes all of these things that you've been talking about this entire episode. Those things just don't happen.

Those things just don't pop up in in you. And so you did the work and you started doing all these things. It seems like you had a lot of fun doing it too. Even as you're talking, you have this big smile on your face for those that aren't watching and only listening.

Kate Volman: Every time you're talking about these things that you're learning and, and starting to implement into your life, it's, you can just tell that it's brought you a lot of energy and really supported you in so many different ways. And all of the things that you've learned really have helped you personally and professionally, which is a beautiful thing for somebody. Kate Volman: Imagine you are, you're at lunch, you're with a friend. They're a leader in a role.

They're feeling kind of challenged some things that are not going so great, or they just feel like, like you, they're a lifelong learner and they just kind of feel like, oh, I don't know. I feel like I need to up my game a little bit. Kate Volman: What would you say to them about. Hiring a coach, what advice would you give them if they were thinking about it, but they weren't quite sure?

Karli Elder: I asked them why they're not sure really, first and foremost, and I think I'd dig a little bit, okay, hey, where are we at? What's the problem that you're trying to solve Most often, and I've had some of these conversations, the most often hurdle that people have is time. Karli Elder: And my response is always, you are never going to find the perfect time. Just do it.

Just get out there, sign up and do it. So that's one piece there. And then I think ask yourself, how would you feel if you jump into this and saw yourself differently a year from now? How would you feel if you didn't do it?

Karli Elder: But imagine how you would feel if you did. And I think if anything, that right there should be the motivation to get you moving and filling out the form and signing up. Kate Volman: Yeah. Oh my gosh.

All right. Well Karli, you are so awesome and I'm so grateful that you took some time to chat with us about your journey through coaching. Kate Volman: And you asked some really great, you shared some really great questions, which again, people really love to hear that they can use on themselves and then also to ask their team. So thank you so much for coming on the show.

We so appreciate it. Thank you so much for having me, Kate. This has been such a joy and thank you all so much for watching. Kate Volman: We appreciate you and if you are interested at all in hiring a coach or even just having that conversation, you, you don't know what it is, but you're kind of like, Ooh, this sounds like I would really want to.

I would wanna try it. Like Karli made some really great, I has some really great feedback on what it has done in her life, and it can do the same for you. Kate Volman: So if you're interested or curious at all, please go to floydcoaching.com and someone on our team will reach out to you.

You are amazing. Thank you all so much for listening. We appreciate you and until next time, Lead with Culture.