Kendra Dahlstrom

And so that's kind of how I got into the work.

Myself was just doing it.

And then I've just found that

I truly believe that God only put me through everything he put me through in life, that I could help liberate others from it too.

Yeah, such a great question.

Well, I'm a big fan of vulnerability.

It needs to be selective, and I'm a big fan of it in service of.

right?

So I would only share something with you that I felt would really be in service of you, not to make myself, not to fill that ego.

So that's a learned skill, and it takes time to really feel into that and make sure that you're not doing it for the wrong reasons.

But I often will share within context that, you know, stories from other executives, if I'm meeting in the corporate context, so that they feel like, okay, she's

she's worked with executives that have felt down and out or have felt like they're in over their skis or they're not ready for this promotion or they signed up for this job and now they're realizing it's everything they didn't want.

And they've got families to feed and all these things.

So, you know, in that context, I share it with my private clients in my practice.

I'll share some of my trauma-informed background, whether it's sexual assault or abuse or it depends, you know, on what's appropriate to help them understand that, look, I've walked through the valley of shadow of death as well and we all have different...

valleys and there's no comparison.

This is not meant to compare mine to yours and there's not one that's better or worse.

It's all relative, but I want you to know that I've been there and I can hold space for that.

And there's a coach I had years ago, Steve Chandler, and I think he even wrote it in a book with Rich Litvin and I loved the quote.

It said, you can only take clients as deep as you've been willing to go yourself.