Paul Kuthe launched his career as a professional ‘action sports’ coach and athlete developing and managing programs for a leading company in his field. His leadership, visibility in the industry and innovative events helped grow that business from 6 employees to over 40+ in the course of a year.
You can learn more about Paul at TributaryCoaching.com
1:36 – Patience comes from empathy
2:51 – Experience as a professional kayaker
6:41 – Life and death situations
9:42 – Taking responsibility, assessing, and not beating yourself up or blaming
12:00 – Translating skills into business coaching
16:40 – Helped restore a business to its prior glory
18:11 – Moving from kayak coaching to business coaching
22:50 – Fueled by coaching
23:31 – Myths of coaching
24:51 – Frameworks and new skills
25:25 – Myth 2: coach has to have done what you’re trying to do
26:55 – Looking behind the curtain of stories of success
29:22 – Difference between training and coaching
32:10 – Challenge by choice
33:00 – How to manage fear and failure
35:00 – Going through fear, not around it
37:10 – Avoiding fear gives it strength
39:29 – Imagining the worst-case scenario to decide
40:45 – Distinction between ego and confidence in business
43:16 – Building confidence
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