Self-help sometimes falls a bit short when it neglects where we have come from and what we’ve picked up along the way. My guest today has designed a method for designing your life outlined in her new book, MAYBE IT’S YOU, that leaves no stone unturned. If you are willing to dig in and do the work, you may just see what’s running the show, AND what to do about it.
Lauren Handel Zander is a life coach, university lecturer, and public speaker. As Co-Founder and Chairman of Handel Group, an international corporate consulting and private coaching company, she has coached countless private clients: professors, politicians, award-winning artists, and Fortune 500 CEOs. The Handel Method has been taught at MIT, Stanford Graduate School of Business, NYU, and in the New York City Public School System. Lauren has also led seminars and conferences all over the world and has contributed to The New York Times, Forbes, Self, Women’s Health, Vogue, Marie Claire, Elle, and The Huffington Post.
More than 15 years ago, Zander created a groundbreaking, results-oriented approach to designing your life called The Handel Method. With an emphasis on honesty, accepting flaws and developing your own tools to short circuit them, Zander and her team have employed her step-by-step plan to successfully guide tens of thousands of people—including authors, entrepreneurs, corporate clients, and Ivy League university students—to lead more fulfilling and daring lives. She requires commitment, time, and a sense of humor from her clients, but promises in return to provide practical no-nonsense solutions to help build a better you.
Lauren is the author of the new book, MAYBE IT’S YOU: Cut the Crap. Face Your Fears. Love Your Life, which has revolutionized the concept of traditional “self-help” through the idea of radical personal accountability, taking a deep-dive look at the patterns and history that are really holding you back. Whether readers want to find love, succeed at work, fix a fractured relationship, or get healthy, MAYBE IT’S YOU will offer a road map to finally get them there.
Today we unpack her new book, MAYBE IT’S YOU and so much more.
We dive into topics like
- How Lauren translated her one on one coaching format into her new book Maybe it’s You
- Why most of us are hesitant to get real and do the work
- The potential down side to positive psychology
- How to address everything you don’t want to face and how to do it with a sense of humor
- The nature to overcompensate in one area of life to make up lacking in another
- The danger of creating a vision for your life without addressing the pain
- How to take all areas of your life into consideration
- Identifying your dream and vision for your life
- What we pick up from our parents and how we model that in our relationships
- How to dial out traits with honor instead of disgust
- No matter where you go, there you are
- How the recipe works if you are willing to do the work
- What originally got Lauren into coaching
- Lauren’s key take home points about life and self-discovery
Click to Tweet Lauren’s quote
“It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.“
– Tom Robbins
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Resources
- Pick up MAYBE IT’S YOU on Amazon.
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