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Podcast: Beyond Belief Sobriety with Coach David Greer

Post author:David Greer
Post published:July 20, 2021
Post category:Alcoholism Entrepreneurs
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John Sheldon hosts the Beyond Belief Sobriety podcast. I had the privilege of being a guest on John’s podcast where we had a wide-ranging conversation that touched on these topics:

My story of recovery: what it was like, what happened, what it is like now.
How entrepreneurial coach Kevin Lawrence was the first person I admitted I had a drinking problem to and how he coached me to going to 12-step recovery.
Why I became a business coach.
How John relates to the coaching in his work as a manager and in motivating people in his recovery work.
My decision to focus on coaching and facilitating with entrepreneurs who struggle with alcohol or who have struggled with alcohol in the past.
Why only some people are ready for coaching or recovery.
Making conscious decisions in your life and how important it is to carve out time and energy to do things that are only for you.
The power of holding space and listening to another person.
How I was adopted at birth and my journey in discovering my birth parents.
How alcohol is normalized in business situations and how difficult it can be for someone in recovery to navigate those drinking situations.

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Sometimes You Just Have to Push

Post author:David Greer
Post published:July 21, 2016
Post category:Performance Strategy
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I was standing at the front of the room as the clock ticked down the time when we had to wrap up our quarterly planning session. We had been at it since first thing in the morning. The energy in the room was low. We had been going in circles for a while in making the final decision on the #1 priority for the quarter and what the theme should be. I had let the group have their say, we had brain stormed everything onto the wall, but now it was time. I gathered my own energy together and then said “it’s time to decide.” For the next twenty minutes I just pushed, and pushed, until the group had made up their mind.

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