Kate's Nuggets

Introducing Kate Arms and Kate's Nuggets
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Hello and welcome. This is Kate's Nuggets, the podcast where I share bite-size nuggets of wisdom about self-leadership. I am your host, Kate Arms. I invite you to listen lightly, let these ideas wash over you. Take what you take and let the rest go. You can always come back and listen again.

Kate Arms:

So this is episode zero of Kate's Nuggets. Kate's Nuggets is a podcast with bite-sized nuggets of wisdom about self-leadership for you to chew on. I'm your host, Kate Arms, and this is the episode where I introduce myself to you.

So first, a little bit about me and my professional role. I am the CEO and lead coach at Signal Fire Coaching. I am the creator of the side-by-side model for healthy relationships and the author of "L.I.F.T.: A Coach Approach to Parenting".

At Signal Fire Coaching, I focus on helping people and organizations thrive through coaching, training in emotional, social, and relationship skills and leadership development. Signal Fire Coaching is committed to creating cultures where people thrive at work, at home, and in their own heads.

I work with software developers, salespeople, project managers, and individual producers in all sorts of arenas, new managers, entrepreneurs, executives, and directors. I work with parents, and I work with people on dating and family relationships, co-parenting after divorce, whatever the complicated situation.

What I'm really focused on is helping smart people deal with highly charged complex emotional situations.

In my work, I keep coming back to the need for mature self-leadership.

When we manage our relationship with ourselves, well, everything else goes better. Whether we're facing challenges at work, at home, or in our communities, we need to be able to keep calm under pressure and be effective in high-stake settings. And good self-leadership is what makes that possible. When we adopt the mindset of conscious self-leadership, we increase our sense of power and engagement in our life, and we increase our ability to shape the world around us into a world we want to live in.

I have been engaged in a multidisciplinary study of what makes people thrive and feel good about their lives and how to create effective organizations that support individual flourishing. I've been studying psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, religion, anthropology, art, law, corporate leadership, organizational change, education, and anything I can get my hands on to try to understand what makes people thrive in community.

And what I share in Kate's Nuggets is a collection of the practical tools, tips and ideas about self-leadership that I have discovered through this study and that I share with my coaching clients and students.

Some of the ideas are abstract, but really my focus is how can we use these ideas to actually do something in our lives.

I am not interested in thinking for thinking's sake. Over-intellectualizing self-leadership is going to get you nowhere, and I am not interested in that. So that is not what we are doing here in this podcast.

Self-leadership is an ever-evolving skill. It is a way of being in the world, and it is not the way that most of us were taught or raised as children to embrace. Most of us, as children, were raised to be followers and the maturing into adulthood of becoming a leader of yourself as a mature adult is a transformational process for many of us.

If you are new to the idea that you can be the leader of your life, no matter what circumstances you find yourself in, please be gentle with yourself. This is a big shift. Making a permanent change to your mindset will require learning new ideas and tools, lots of repetition and practice applying the ideas in your daily life. The repetition is required to rewire your brain. Your brain is plastic enough to take this learning in and be radically changed, but it will take time, and this podcast is intended to support you over that time.

This podcast will support you by providing repetition and encouragement to continue practicing.

Each episode will focus on a single tool or tip or idea, and by listening to many episodes over time and playing with the ideas in your own life, you will discover which ones work best for you, and then by practicing those ones, you will change yourself.

Over the course of multiple episodes, I will come back to the same ideas over and over again. I will bring new lenses and different approaches to the same ideas because what works for you is going to be what works for you. And what works for you today, you will have new insights tomorrow or next week or next month, and you might need a different way of thinking about the same concept.

This is all normal, and this is why this podcast is going to come back around and around in a spiral way, looking at all of the really crucial pieces of self-leadership.

The truth of the matter is that there aren't very many crucial elements to self-leadership.

Fundamentally, self-leadership is about recognizing what's going on inside you, recognizing what's going on in the world, knowing something about the impact that you're having and having some skills to navigate that. But all of that is far more easy to say than to do, and this podcast will help you break that down into very specific things that you can do.

I am here to support you thriving, flourishing, being your best self, accomplishing all your goals, whatever language you use to define success and feeling good about the life that you are living, that's what I'm here for.

Please email me at kate@signalfirecoaching.com. If you've got any questions or there are any specific things you would like to hear me cover on this podcast, I would love to be specifically responding to your concerns. Here's to you thriving.

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To dig deeper into the topics I cover on the podcast, follow me at instagram.com/signalfirekate, or at facebook.com/KateArmsCoach. You can find the show notes with links to additional resources at www.katearms.com/katesnuggets.
Here's to thriving. Catch you next time.
Kate's Nuggets is a Signal Fire Coaching production. The music is adapted under license from Heroic Age by Kevin MacLeod.