Improving emotional awareness & communication skills
Earlier in my career - I got a lot of feedback re: needing to work on my emotional awareness and communication skills.
I didn't know how to express myself properly. I would often bottle up any negative feelings and they would later leak out passive-aggressively -- or sometimes aggressive-aggressively.
All that is to say that being in tune with my emotions and communicating them properly were not skills that came naturally to me. I had to learn them the painfully hard way throughout my 20's - and the growth journey continues.
A few things helped me along the my journey of growth, such as:
- Growing older and becoming naturally more mature
- Grad school - being exposed to more peer perspectives
- Founding a start-up and scaling a team
- Journaling + writing publicly to structure my thoughts
And I think there are one additional thing I did that really helped:
- Receiving exec / leadership / mindset coaching
Largely because receiving coaching has helped me so much over the years, I've decided to build a community product centered around personal growth - the type that exec / mindset / life coaching provides.
The gist of it is a curated, peer-to-peer paid coaching community.
As a part of the customer-development process, I've been coaching people one-on-one. So far, my "clients" keep coming back and they tell me that they are deriving a lot of value from these sessions. I use "clients" in quotes because I'm not charging , I'm looking to learn about user needs moreso than charging $ for my time.
My "clients" have a wide variety of needs, but there are some common threads. In general, myself + the future community we are building are solving for:
- loneliness
- thought-partnership
- stress
- anxiety
- communication
- confidence
- focus
- meaning
- tactical start-up advice (i.e. fundraising / co-founder tensions)
Anyways - if this resonates with you - please take a look at the following articles.
https://www.yishizuo.com/always-happy-never-satisfied/
https://www.yishizuo.com/coaching/
And if you are interested in receiving a free coaching session / potentially joining this future community - please send me an email! yz@yishizuo.com
