798: How to Get Unblocked, with Pam Manfredo Curtis

Pam Manfredo Curtis: The Origin of a Leader

Pam Manfredo Curtis is an executive coach and Founder and President of Manfredo Curtis Associates. Her coaching approach involves mining the hearts and souls and childhoods of her CEO clients so they can reach their full potential—to lead authentically, to achieve extraordinary results, and to forge deep, emotional connections, both professionally and personally. She hosted SiriusXM’s Corner Office Confidential and is the author of The Origin of a Leader: Transforming Family Patterns into Leadership Power (Amazon, Bookshop)*.

All of us get blocked, and when we do, our tendency is to set aside or sometimes to run away from our emotions. Today’s guest invites us to do the exact opposite so we can actually tap into our leadership power. In this conversation, Pam and I explore how to learn more about yourself and to use that insight for good.

Key Points

• A significant predictor of how you show up as a leader is your childhood.
• As you learn about yourself, you realize that everyone else already knows these things about you.
• Create an emotional timeline by drawing a line from birth to today and highlighting the highs and lows of your life’s events.
• It’s significant what shows up on your timeline – and also how the length of the highs and lows relate to each other.
• When you understand how childhood impacts your leadership and who you are as a human being, you see how it affects an essential need as a leader: power.
• By creating a timeline, you will be motivated to change in positive ways, see connections you’ve never seen before, and have more empathy for yourself and others.

Resources Mentioned

• The Origin of a Leader: Transforming Family Patterns into Leadership Power by Pam Manfredo Curtis (Amazon, Bookshop)*

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