EPISODE 113 | Buddhist Teachings Help Us Manage Constant Change and Uncertainty with Executive Coach and Writer, John M. DeMarco
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EPISODE 113: Buddhist Teachings Help Us Manage Change and Uncertainty with Coach John M. DeMarco
John M. DeMarco is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credential with the International Coaching Federation (ICF), with 19 years of full-time work as an executive coach, including 18 years internally, working with managers through C-suite executives across all major business functions.
John has extensive experience in communications, financial services, healthcare, higher education, human resources, marketing, non-profits, religious organizations, technology, and telecommunications with a multi-disciplinary, humanities-informed mindset and coaching style with a strong storytelling thread.
He focuses on unique thought leadership content on authentic human leadership in the context of complex, nuanced problems.
Today, we’re talking to Nashvillian John M. DeMarco. There are certain themes that have been flowing through John’s life and career lately: AI, Impermanence, making meaning, and business and career sustainability. And by all areas, I mean he explores these themes as a fiction writer, non-fiction writer, speaker, and coach.
By the way, John is a professional certified coach, and he’s been coaching executives for 19 years. But the discussion we have is less about being an executive, and more about being a human in our ever-changing world.
What’s important to point out here is that our personal and professional lives aren’t really separate. We’re whole humans, and what goes on in one area of our life touches all other areas of our life.
Throughout this episode, we dive deeper into most of the themes that John and his client’s are experiencing, starting with managing expectations around impermanence — that is, the fact that nothing ever stays the same, and one day, we’re all going to die — and how that impacts our satisfaction and what that even means for how we’re separate from and connected to each other. We talk about how greed, selfishness, and delusions come about but also how we can choose a healthier way of being amid constant change to experience more joy and meaning instead.
Then, we explore what legacy is, why it’s important, and how we influence it.
Then, the episode takes a turn into considering mindfulness and tapping into a greater good.
And by “takes a turn,” I mean, the conversation starts out pretty cerebral and then morphs into what felt like an unprepared, real-time experience of mindfulness, presence, and spirituality. In the last third of the interview, I didn’t edit out long pauses as I normally would because I wanted you to experience what John was experiencing as he traversed the emotions that came with learning about himself as he answered big questions about why making meaning is important and what meaning even is. The emotion, on the surface, was subtle, but if you’re really paying attention, you’ll see there was nothing surface-level about this conversation. The emotion and thoughtfulness is palpable.
Coming soon, hang tight!
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CREDITS: Original intro and outro music by Ryan Sauls. Episode creation, editing, production, and graphics by Brandi Fleck. Sound effects from zapslat.com. Bio and photos provided by John M. DeMarco.
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Hi, I’m your podcast host, Brandi Fleck. I’m a recognized communications and interviewing expert, a writer, an artist, and a private practice, certified trauma-informed life coach and trauma recovery coach. No matter how you interact with me, I help you tell and change your story so you can feel more like yourself. So welcome!
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