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Heather McGonigal

Co-CEO and co-founder of Empowering Leadership Teams, an executive coaching firm helping entrepreneurial businesses develop strategic, self-directed leadership teams.

Sep 18, 2026

16:15
How do you...
16:16
How I have done this, and I've had to work really, really hard on this myself personally, which is how I became somebody that could coach and support others through it.
16:28
It is a muscle you have to build.
16:31
And I hear from what you're sharing, Keith, that the work you do helps people also heal the deeper root cause and issue beneath it.
16:40
I graduated a special program here in Santa Monica, California, the University of Santa Monica.
16:47
I got a degree in spiritual psychology.
16:50
I spent two years deeply looking at all the root causes of the stuff going on inside of me and the things that I decided because of things that happened earlier in my life about me and the stories I was telling myself about everything, the things that would get triggered.

6 MINS LATER

23:22
And what for you is purpose, Heather?
16:14
How do you...
16:16
How I have done this, and I've had to work really, really hard on this myself personally, which is how I became somebody that could coach and support others through it.
16:28
It is a muscle you have to build.
16:31
And I hear from what you're sharing, Keith, that the work you do helps people also heal the deeper root cause and issue beneath it.
16:40
I graduated a special program here in Santa Monica, California, the University of Santa Monica.
16:47
I got a degree in spiritual psychology.
16:50
I spent two years deeply looking at all the root causes of the stuff going on inside of me and the things that I decided because of things that happened earlier in my life about me and the stories I was telling myself about everything, the things that would get triggered.

6 MINS LATER

23:22
And what for you is purpose, Heather?

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