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Gorgi Coghlan

👤 Speaker
687 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Humans, being. with Lael Stone
Gorgi Coghlan, being. with Lael Stone | Speaking Our Needs ♥︎

I think there's an imprint there of a little girl wanting to get her dad's attention.

Humans, being. with Lael Stone
Gorgi Coghlan, being. with Lael Stone | Speaking Our Needs ♥︎

And firstborn, first person in my family to go to university.

Humans, being. with Lael Stone
Gorgi Coghlan, being. with Lael Stone | Speaking Our Needs ♥︎

But I think it primarily comes back to that little girl.

Humans, being. with Lael Stone
Gorgi Coghlan, being. with Lael Stone | Speaking Our Needs ♥︎

And when I think of her, she'd be about 10 or 12.

Humans, being. with Lael Stone
Gorgi Coghlan, being. with Lael Stone | Speaking Our Needs ♥︎

Dad was...

Humans, being. with Lael Stone
Gorgi Coghlan, being. with Lael Stone | Speaking Our Needs ♥︎

such a hard worker, had an incredible work ethic, and his way of showing us that he loved us was by working really, really hard and providing us with materialistic things.

Humans, being. with Lael Stone
Gorgi Coghlan, being. with Lael Stone | Speaking Our Needs ♥︎

But it meant that he wasn't around a lot, so there was no emotional connection.

Humans, being. with Lael Stone
Gorgi Coghlan, being. with Lael Stone | Speaking Our Needs ♥︎

So I think I just took that little girl

Humans, being. with Lael Stone
Gorgi Coghlan, being. with Lael Stone | Speaking Our Needs ♥︎

And she just drove this, if I work hard and I'm great at everything and I'm almost perfect at everything, he might see me.

Humans, being. with Lael Stone
Gorgi Coghlan, being. with Lael Stone | Speaking Our Needs ♥︎

If I'm completely, which that's the way I operate, completely honest and vulnerable.

Humans, being. with Lael Stone
Gorgi Coghlan, being. with Lael Stone | Speaking Our Needs ♥︎

And so it's given me so much joy because I don't ever have to question the passion, the ethic, the...

Humans, being. with Lael Stone
Gorgi Coghlan, being. with Lael Stone | Speaking Our Needs ♥︎

There's a classic saying, if I'm going to do something, I do it well.

Humans, being. with Lael Stone
Gorgi Coghlan, being. with Lael Stone | Speaking Our Needs ♥︎

My girlfriends will laugh.

Humans, being. with Lael Stone
Gorgi Coghlan, being. with Lael Stone | Speaking Our Needs ♥︎

You'll do it brilliantly, George, and perfectly.

Humans, being. with Lael Stone
Gorgi Coghlan, being. with Lael Stone | Speaking Our Needs ♥︎

But I completely now am a recovering perfectionist.

Humans, being. with Lael Stone
Gorgi Coghlan, being. with Lael Stone | Speaking Our Needs ♥︎

I'm so much kinder to myself, just acknowledging that little girl.

Humans, being. with Lael Stone
Gorgi Coghlan, being. with Lael Stone | Speaking Our Needs ♥︎

And I always talk to her and say, it's okay.

Humans, being. with Lael Stone
Gorgi Coghlan, being. with Lael Stone | Speaking Our Needs ♥︎

It doesn't need to be perfect now.

Humans, being. with Lael Stone
Gorgi Coghlan, being. with Lael Stone | Speaking Our Needs ♥︎

You've done so much in your life.

Humans, being. with Lael Stone
Gorgi Coghlan, being. with Lael Stone | Speaking Our Needs ♥︎

And I really have to sit in play.