Team’s Pick: Co-Creating Breakthroughs (Adam Quiney)

The Mirasee FM podcast team chooses their favorite episode of 2024 to close out the year. In this pick, Melinda talks with executive leadership coach Adam Quiney about his key insights for facilitating breakthroughs, allowing discomfort for growth, and creating tangible results in a co-creative process. Adam Quiney is an executive leadership coach specializing in working with the “Smartest People in the Room.” In this episode, Melinda and Adam explore the secrets behind breakthroughs and the difference between transformational and transactional results. They discuss the importance of meeting clients where they are and testing and navigating the limits of their worldviews. Melinda and Adam also delve into the process of breakthroughs and the challenges that arise along the way. The conversation highlights the significance of trusting intuition and making room for spirit in the coaching process — and we learn practical strategies to facilitate breakthroughs and create tangible results. Key Takeaways:Transformational results require a fundamental shift in the way we show up in our lives, while transactional results are surface-level changes that don't require a fundamental shift.Coaches should meet clients where they are and explore the limits of their worldviews to support them in creating breakthroughs.Breakthroughs often involve a process of discomfort and uncertainty, and coaches should hold space for clients to be in their own process.Creating tangible results and setting measurable goals can support clients in staying on the path of breakthroughs.Coaches should make room for spirit and trust the process of co-creation in facilitating breakthroughs. Chapters: 00:00 - The Secrets Behind Breakthroughs 01:46 - Adam Quiney's Journey of Self-Discovery and Transformation 02:45 - Transformational Results vs Transactional Results 04:14 - Creating Transformational Results 05:12 - The Difference Between Surface Level Changes and Transformation 06:34 - Meeting Clients Where They Start 08:02 - Exploring the Limits of Clients' Worldviews 09:23 - The Process of Breakthroughs 10:49 - Navigating the Challenges of Breakthroughs 13:14 - The Structure and Magic of Breakthroughs 16:29 - Trusting Intuition and Being in the Process 18:18 - Creating Tangible Results 20:43 - Making Room for Spirit in Breakthroughs 22:34 - The Journey of Trusting Spirit 28:22 - Approaches to Facilitate Breakthroughs “To create the transformational result where I worked half as many hours and made twice as much money, that was going to require a breakthrough, a fundamental change in the way I showed up in my life.” — Adam Quiney Guest Bio: Adam Quiney is an executive leadership coach specializing in working with the “Smartest People in the Room.” A former software developer and attorney, Adam's learned the hard way about the costs that come from keeping your heart safe and chasing after external rewards to feel whole and complete. From a place of love, Adam is connection, passion, presence, wit, and brilliance. From a place of fear, he is awkward, robotic, apathetic, irrelevant, and arrogant. He's learned to embrace all these parts of himself and works with others to do the same in their own lives. Living with his beautiful wife and their dog in Victoria, British Columbia, he is a man on a mission to bring the world to a more inspired and fully-expressed place. Resources or websites mentioned in this episode: Mirasee Coaches Console Melinda’s book: The Confident Coach Adam’s website: AdamQuiney.com Adam’s podcast: The Transformational Leader Adam’s YouTube channel: @AdamQuiney Credits: Host: Melinda Cohan Producer: Michi Lantz Supervising Producer: Cynthia Lamb Audio Editor: Marvin del Rosario Executive Producer: Danny Iny Music Soundscape: Chad Michael Snavely Making our hosts sound great: Home Brew Audio To catch the great episodes that are coming up on Just Between Coaches, please follow us on Mirasee FM's YouTube channel or your favorite podcast player. And if you enjoyed the show, please leave us a comment or a starred review. It's the best way to help us get these ideas to more people. Music credits: Track Title: Clouds Artist Name: Acreage Writer Name: Marshall Usinger Publisher Name: BOSS SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTIONS Track Title: Coastline Dream Artist Name: Wild Sky Writer Name: Adam Simons Publisher Name: BOSS SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTIONS Track Title: Coo Coos Artist Name: Dresden, The Flamingo Writer Name: Matthew Wigton Publisher Name: A SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTION Track Title: Stars & Trees Artist Name: Outside The Sky Writer Name: Dustin Ransom Publisher Name: A SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTION Special effects credits: 24990513_birds-chirping_by_promission used with permission of the author and under license by AudioJungle/Envato Market. Episode transcript: Team’s Pick: Co-Creating Breakthroughs (Adam Quiney) coming soon.