Joseph O’Connor is the Co-founder of the International Coaching Community (ICC), and one of the best known and respected coaches and coach trainers in the world. He also founded the Neuroscience Coaching Centre. Joseph is the author of nineteen books in thirty languages on coaching, training, and neuroscience that have sold half a million copies worldwide. He follows his two great interests, giving coaching training and courses on creative nonfiction writing.

Highlights

• Joseph’s background as a musician provided the impetus for him to figure out what he has been teaching about both performance and teaching.
• There is a gap between what you do and what you can do and Joseph helps people understand how to bridge that gap.
• His original interest was in helping people use psychological techniques such as NLP to do a better job of playing the guitar (in the 1980s).
• Joseph’s latest book is Coaching the Brain, which helps coaches understand the brain science they need to use when working with clients.
• If coaches don’t understand brain science, then their ability to lead clients is limited. It also helps coaching clients to know more about how their brain works.
• Emotions are a combination of body sensations and meaning. Joseph talks about emotional intelligence.
• Every thought contains an emotion, and every emotion has a thought, i.e. meaning. Our decisions are based on the emotions that are going on.
• In the end, our decisions are based on our emotions which are designed to keep us alive and moving forward. The idea is to use the energy of emotions constructively.
• We spent time talking about money and emotions.
• Thomas Leonard, who started the whole coaching profession, was originally a financial advisor.
• When we get afraid because the amygdala is activated, the rest of the brain shuts down and stops thinking.
• Our brains are very good at making up negative stories about the future. Taking action can ground us in the present.
• To reduce anxiety, first acknowledge and accept where you are emotionally. Trying to make the anxiety go away, you’re actually makes it worse. Then ask, what can I do? When we do that, other parts of the brain are engaged and we can find solutions.

Links

Coaching the Brain – the book

www.CoachingTheBrain.com has a lot of helpful information

If you’re hoping to increase your income, then there are some things that you need to consider – some internal and some external. In this episode, I discuss what you need to pay attention to as your income increases so that you don’t make bad financial decisions.

Highlights

• As you start making more money, there are new skills you need to learn and practice. You will also have a new internal experience as you start making more money.
• I talk about what I went through as my income started increasing and how I consciously started changing and upgrading some of my habits.
• You have to make new spending and saving decisions, depending on what you want your future to look like.
• Making more money, be sure to be very much in touch with your money by keeping good records and paying attention to what’s going on.
• Monitor your feelings as your income increases and as you deal with money on a different level.
• Set a goal or intention for how much you want to make that’s not far above what you’ve made before in order to stay comfortable.
• Don’t expand your income goals and ideas without talking to someone whose opinion you respect.
• Check out the Small Business Development Center in your area.
• Have you made a rational decision about what kind of entity your business should be: sole proprietor, S Corp., LLC?
• If you are setting an intention for increased income, then you have to ask yourself, what is a rational way for me to accomplish that? What are the actions I have to take in order to realize my intentions?
• It’s a good idea to have an accountability partner.
• Set things up so you’re not taking chances.
• It’s hard for a lot of people to talk about money because they carry so much shame about money.
• To make more money, it’s important to plan for it – before you have it.

Links

SBDC Directory of Locations

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Claudia Harvey is a global entrepreneur & investor, speaker, influencer, best-selling author, and philanthropist. After her successful corporate career, she began Dig It Apparel® Inc. and struck a deal with famous venture capitalist Kevin O’Leary. While raising a family of three, Claudia co-founded BG Wealth Group Inc., BG Property Holdings Inc., and BG Marketing Authority, and became an international keynote speaker and best-selling author.

In 2019, she was awarded the Top Female Business Leader Award from The International Association of Top Professionals. Philanthropy is paramount to Claudia, and she sits on the Boards of Sonas.org.

Highlights

• Claudia Harvey talks about her experience on the Canadian version of Shark Tank and her partnership with Kevin O’Leary.
• She also talks about her entrepreneurial parents and how being adopted had something to do with her developing her drive and ambition.
• Her family was not wealthy, and Claudia learned how to raise money for what she wanted at an early age. Today, although she works hard, she also knows how to relax and enjoy herself.
• If you are going to be busy in your business life, then you also have to nurture your body and soul.
• Because she was adopted, Claudia had no family history to fall back on, which she feels has something to do with the life she has created for herself and her ability to be as accepting and nonjudgmental as she is.
• Don’t live your life with regrets.
• As a child, Claudia’s father taught her that she’s not competing with other people, she’s competing with herself.
• It’s important not to put undue pressure on yourself by competing with others.
• Claudia shares her vision for her future.
• To be able to stand out from the crowd, you have to craft that and not compare yourself to others.
• Because she has developed functioning teams in her businesses, Claudia has more freedom to live her life the way she wants to.
• If you don’t like what you’re doing, what do you have to change? Claudia shares some of the decisions she made to create a life that works for her.
• Our definition of success changes during our life and is often influenced by other people. It’s important to become very centered and clear about who you are and what you want.

Links:

Claudia’s Websites: www.claudiaharvey.com and www.bgwealthgroup.com

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In my course Rewire Your Brain for Prosperity & Financial Freedom, I introduced the 4Rs process for creating new emotional responses to familiar stimuli. In this episode, I focus on the process, especially the Release step.

Highlights

• I define the 4Rs – Recognize, Release, Replace, Repeat. The Recognize step can take a while to complete for each instance.
• Feelings don’t happen in your head. They have been when neuropeptides, which start in your brain, travel to receptor sites in the cells of your organs.
• Saying the feeling that you’re experiencing out loud helps to release the neuropeptides from the receptors. You’re actually expressing the feeling.
• I talk about different ways of using sound to release both feelings and the thoughts that can be looping around in your head.
• Bringing hidden emotions into the light has a very strong effect.
• Call to get to the hidden emotions that started early in childhood.
• If you have any questions about the technique, then ask me those questions by writing to Joan@ProsperityPlace.com.

Links

My Course Rewire Your Brain for Prosperity & Financial Freedom

To set up a time to talk to me, go to https://ProsperityPlace.com/call

My books and audios: https://ProsperityPlace.com/shop