Show Notes
For this week’s guest, “The NLP Coach” isn’t just a book that came into his life at the right time personally. It also changed the trajectory of his entire career, taking him out of his real estate business and into the world of coaching. The book gave him the framework on how other people think, and how we can separate ourselves from our thoughts so we can engineer the direction we want to go.
At the heart of coaching is the need to understand why people do what they do, and how to change it if we want different results, and the book has both the mental framework of NLP and the practical processes to do just that.
In this episode, Breakthrough Trainer, Business Coach, NLP Master Practitioner, and Speaker, Spencer Combs shares what he got out of this book, and the one thing he keeps returning to years after reading it.
Three Things You’ll Learn In This Episode
How Spencer’s journey led to him being a coach Many people who are in a coaching role have had some level of trauma in their childhood or youth in some way, shape or form. Those experiences create a dynamic where you’re curious about why people do what they do.
Using NLP to change the inner track of our thoughts Most of us have a life because of the story we’re telling ourselves. If we figure out how to change the story, we can change our lives. If we fuse with the story, we’ll accept it, internalize it and it starts to filter through the way we see reality, it starts to color our actions and the results we get.
How Spencer creates Aladdin moments for his coaching clients Meta-Programs are the thing Spencer keeps coming back to years after reading “The NLP Coach”. All of us are wired to act a certain way, but there are ways to engineer this wiring so we can get better results. Meta-Programs open us up to new perspectives, and which allows us to see a whole new world and make change possible.
Guest Bio
Spencer Combs is a Breakthrough Trainer, Business Coach, NLP Master Practitioner, and Speaker. In the greater part of two decades, he has advised million dollar business owners, US Army Colonels, and trauma victims with his programs. In that time, Spencer Combs has relentlessly worked on his 4 phase process for personal and professional alignment. Using that process, he has helped hundreds to accelerate profits, intensify productivity, and deepen their purpose. The Qualified Champion is respected as one of the most valuable tools to personal and business development. As a highly sought after Coach, Spencer Combs continues today in empowering and enriching the lives of everyone he connects with.
For more information head over to https://www.spencercombs.com/.
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