If you’re looking for a way to understand yourself best, then today’s episode is for you. On this episode, Jenn talks to Lara about a tool that has changed her life, The Ultimate Life Tool. This tool is something that she uses in her coaching business for leaders, teams and professionals in identifying how to best play to their strengths in the workplace. Now, Lara is using this tool to help mothers identify the parent they want to be and how to pair it to their skillset. She explains how this tool can help you identify your natural talents, strengths, weaknesses, tolerance levels, communication styles and more. This episode will help you to better understand who you are and help you in becoming the mother and partner you dream of being.
What’s In This Episode:
- What the Ultimate Life Tool or ULT is and how Lara’s uses it for her career and motherhood
- Why Lara knew it was time to move on from her corporate role
- Manifesting being able to work remotely and pursue what she loved
- Starting a side hustle as a coach
- Becoming a mother and how this has shifted her perspective on coaching clients
- Rebranding her business to focus on helping other moms
- Natural talents vs. learned talents
- Using your driver and codriver to motivate you
- Understanding your tolerance levels and boundaries
- Taking time to fuel yourself
- Figuring out your communication style
- Using the ULT as your life’s operation manual
- Understanding your strengths and what you excel in
- Why we need people with neutral perspectives, people with positive perspectives and people with negative perspectives
- How things can change due to circumstance
- Taking the pressure off of ourselves
Connect with Lara:
Quotes:
“I saw that the people that I worked with had incredible talents yet they were being overlooked. I didn’t want to manage people that way.” – Lara Schulte
“Motherhood was completely not how I suspected it would be. It didn’t allow for a lot of time and I didn’t have the time to dedicate to my coaching business the way that I had anticipated.” – Lara Schulte
“I think a lot of young moms are just in the thick of it and don’t realize that one of the hardest pieces of motherhood at this stage is really identifying with who you are now as a mom, and not who you were before.” – Lara Schulte
“You’re not gonna expect a lion to elegantly prance around like a deer. You’re gonna expect it to use its roar and be aggressive so it can get its prey.” – Lara
“I have to be really aware of how my alchemy flows with his and vice versa.” – Lara
“These 4 types of communication styles are basically like tires on your car, you want them as balanced as possible.” – Lara
“I see this being really helpful for people who manage other people.” – Jenn Rout
“They can really use it as a guide to how they need to take care of themselves and work with their husbands or partners and where they should put themselves first and where they should be spending time when they do feel depleted of energy in order to get re-energized.” – Lara
“My favorite thing about this tool is it really teaches you how to parent really to what you are.” – Lara
“Ultimately, if we’re not taking care of ourselves as mothers and we don’t have a true understanding of ourselves as mothers, we’ll have no energy or fuel to get us through those long days of childbearing.” – Lara
Links:
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