Self-Trust: Christy Uffelman on Coming Back Home to Yourself

Christy Uffelman has coached more than 12,000 leaders, and on the way into this conversation her inner critic still asked who she thought she was, on a podcast with April. Christy, founder and CEO of EDGE Leadership and author of Wayfinding, talks about self-trust, the critic she named Edith, and why she calls this work "less of a learning and more of a remembering."

Less than a year into her first sales manager job, at Bayer, she went down in flames. She explains why the skills that make an A-plus sales rep make a C-minus manager, why most adults are running ChatGPT on an operating system akin to Windows 98, and the work she is headed into next: peer groups for executives moving into retirement.

▶️ Watch the full conversation on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Hy8T7rftH6I

CHAPTERS

00:00 "Who do you think you are?"

00:18 The next chapter you come back to

01:21 Meet Christy Uffelman

03:37 "I challenge the status quo"

05:07 Her very first job, at 16

07:38 One of 50 coaches Brené Brown chose

09:57 Safety differs, bravery doesn't

11:14 From EQ to emotional agility