SFP 63 – Episode 63: The Flip Side of Failing: Exploring Greatness with Sarah McVanel
Simply Focus Podcast – Episode #63Hosted by: Elfie Czerny & Dominik Godat | Intro: Bibiana Czerny & Ken Brooks | Music: www.bensound.com
SFP 63 - Episode 63: The Flip Side of Failing: Exploring Greatness with Sarah McVanel
“You always have a choice to recognize that greatness and to ask yourself what could I do right now that would live into my greatness.”
“What if in fact that failing in this way were actually the best possibility that could have ever happened to you in your life?”
“And what else is possible?”
Show Notes
In today’s episode, we talk with Sarah McVanel, Speaker, Author, HR & OD Professional, about
- what fascinates her with Solution Focus and what changed for her with SF,
- recognition of greatness when working with teams,
- FROG – Forever Recognize Others’ Greatness – and how to „frog“ people,
- her new book the „Flip Side of Failing“ and how people handle failing,
- Solution Focused questions to refocus and elevate,
- her vision for her life right now and the steps she took with her family to make this come true,
- how our conversation when visiting Sarah in her home inspired her for her new book,
- redefining the stories we tell each other and ourselves,
- being involved in the community or how Sarah started and has grown her business.
- The Challenge of the week: Think of a label you give yourself, decide if it is working for you, and if no, allow yourself to envision a different possibility and a more helpful description.
Resources
- Learn more about Sarah, her offers, and how she magnifies greatness on her website!
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Here >>> you can find Sarah’s books and further FROG materials.
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Become part of the Great Happy People Facebook group.
- Here you’ll find more about Sarah’s GreatnessBiz.
- You might also want to listen to her daily FROG Flash briefing on Amazon Alexa or Podbean and follow her YouTube Channel for inspiring inputs.
- Check out the quiz that will soon be available here >>>.
- And here you find The FLIP Side of Failure Roadmap and join The FROG Portal membership site.
- In episode #45 of the SIMPLY FOCUS Podcast we conversed with Ellen Quick about how and why she includes obstacles when asking the miracle question.
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Meet Sarah and many other SF practitioners at this years SFBTA conference in Montréal, Canada from November 6-9, 2019!
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For me this is a very very ‘complete’ podcast! So much information to think through, so many subjects! From private to work and back 🙂 , from clients to family to self, from helping businesses to starting your own business, from … well … so much!
Thank you Sarah, you speak with so much clarity and passion: I loved to listen to you!
Thank you Domnik for your question: “HOW did you become successful?” … there is a lot of hard work in it and choices to make. It made me get my own picture clear!
Thank you so much, dear Ella! Now we are curious: HOW did you do it?