On this episode of @CoachingThruIt we are joined by queer leadership coach, Liz Cruz (she/they). Liz works with folks who want to grow their emotional intelligence skills and hone their authentic leadership style, fully integrating identities, values, and experiences. Liz’s coaching approach is informed by her deeply-held belief that each of us is inherently brilliant, and that we’re already holding the solutions we’re looking for. Her process begins with exploring the client’s emotional intelligence strengths, and how to best bring them to bear in the challenges at hand. Liz helps their clients to learn about themselves, to investigate their feelings and beliefs, and to build a practice of taking small but powerful actions to create radical change in their leadership. Connect to Liz on LinkedIn & learn more about their coaching & consulting at: https://www.lizcruzconsulting.com/ 

We talk about going from a side project to a full-time business, charging what you’re worth in coaching, piloting coaching programs & being in community with these groups, and signaling to the clients to include equity and access within a coaching practice.

• How to Grow Dahlias
• “Name Your Price” coaching
• Queer Leadership Group Coaching
• Slack Channel: conversations space for group coaching; to encourage participants to lead and post between coaching sessions
• Emotional Intelligence
• EQ-i 2.0 Emotional Intelligence assessment
• Community and/or membership models post-group coaching 
• Burnout
• Advice from Liz: 
  • Charge more money! And then double it.
  • Be more brave & bold.
• Liz’s Coaching Questions:
  • What are you feeling right now?
  • Where else are you feeling this?
  • Where else is this showing up in your life?
  • What is it that you’re not willing to say out loud right now?
• The Feelings Wheel

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Music credit: The song reCreation by airtone has been remixed under a CC-BY license.