Read the full episode breakdown + show notes: https://www.theselftrustcoach.com/blog/ep185-the-promise-you-keep

She's spent 20 years helping other people finish their hardest work. Her own sat unfinished for three years.

My guest this week is Jenn Farrer, certified executive coach, keynote speaker, and author of Make Them Think: How to Coach for Ownership, Insight, and Action. Jenn has coached and trained thousands of executives, athletes, and teams. But this conversation is about the season most people never see, nearly three years into what was supposed to be a six month creative sabbatical, with nothing finished but a Notes app full of half-started ideas, and what it actually took to change that.

In This Episode, We Explore:

• Staking the Ground: why putting your own point of view out is a different kind of vulnerable than helping other people think
• The Real Fear: the specific worry underneath the freeze, and why it has nothing to do with actual competence
• Clearing the Creative Backlog: the phrase from a meditation teacher that finally moved Jenn off the sidelines
• The Public Deadline: what a twelve week timeline revealed about self-trust that years of achievement never had
• Data, Not a Verdict: how to receive feedback as information instead of proof of who you are

Episode Chapters:

00:00 Introduction: The Hardest Thing She's Ever Done

01:18 Three Years Into a Creative Sabbatical With Nothing Finished

03:29 The Vulnerability of Staking the Ground

08:57 Why This Felt Harder Than Surviving a Stroke

11:21 The Real Fear: Being Seen as a Hack

17:31 The Turning Point: Clearing the Creative Backlog

22:56 Making the Twelve-Week Deadline Public

28:36 Redefining Self-Trust: From Outside In to Inside Out

Connect with Jenn Farrer:

Instagram: @jennfarrer

Website: https://jenniferfarrer.com/

Additional resources: Make Them Think, available on Amazon and at barnesandnoble.com

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