Season 3, Ep. 28: Negotiating Your Way Back To Your Authentic Self After Losing Yourself in a Toxic Relationship

So I'd love for you to share with my listeners like what you like to do and who you like to work with, as well as some interesting facts about yourself.

Thank you.

Well, who I like to not just work with, but be with are people who are open to growth and connection and first and foremost with themselves, which is.

is not always the most common, but when I say open, not that they've necessarily done that, but know that there's possibility and opportunity for success when they do so.

And professionally, that looks like high stakes leaders, particularly in healthcare, given that it's a very high stakes environment.

And my whole background, long story short, is in almost every facet of healthcare.

But the way I approach my work is there's a human in front of me.

I don't care if you're the CEO of a hospital or your stay-at-home parent, you're a human in front of me.

It's just that I think the greatest contribution I provide is when people are feeling that they are in a high stakes, particularly challenging situation and they feel at a loss and how to deal with it with themselves and with the person or people in front of them.

That's where I come in and we partner on how to go about that in the best suited way to them as individuals.

And how did you get into the, I'm just curious before we even get started, how did you get into the healthcare like field?

It's a very long story, but the shortest version of it is one that I wanted to be a doctor, decided right before med school I didn't.

Then it was like feeling a little lost.

And so I went into all these different areas in healthcare.

Then I met my husband who is a physician.

And given that on top of that, I also have multiple chronic illnesses and then navigated the US healthcare system without a diagnosis for 30 years.

I don't think I really need to fill in the gaps there of how... how difficult and often traumatizing that was for me.

And so being married to a physician, working in healthcare, it really gave me a 360 view on that experience, which eventually led to me coaching healthcare leaders.

Because I'd had that experience and what I saw throughout every experience, personal and professional, was the hardships that people encounter with themselves.

with understanding what it is that's holding them back and making everything externally so challenging.

And so when we're talking about negotiations here, I was interested in speaking here because I see that the first and foremost important negotiation you have to have is with yourself before anything you have with another person.