This week I'm excited to share my conversation with my friend, Gretchen Fox Palmer, Founder & CEO at Made to Order. Gretchen and I met through the LA tech market circa 2010 when Gretchen was VP of Social for LiveNation & Ticketmaster. Fast forward to now, Gretchen shares how she’s putting demand on pause, and transforming her firm MTO from a marketing agency into executive leadership coaching--supporting conscious leaders, impact design & Conscious Leadership Collective retreats. Gretchen is also a “horse whisperer” and a student of Buck Branneman’s Natural Horsemanship integrated equinistic coaching with executive coaching to help people to shift into reflection to be more self-aware and create giant transformation effortlessly and gently through training with horses. Born and raised in rural Texas, she’s moving back to Austin Texas after 20 years away from her home state. This is a very honest and reflective conversation that is worth absorbing for anyone feeling frayed and less resilient from COVID or growth-minded folks who enjoy exploring consciousness. This episode has a lot to offer anyone interested in storytelling, coaching, horses, & the magic of LA and Texas. Please go to KurtyD.com if you want to subscribe to my newsletter and see the special content I’ve created.
What we covered:
Tweetable Quotes:
“If all leaders are kinder, more empathetic, there will be a ripple effect”
“If you’re not prepared to live in this modern world, you’ll always be caught flat-footed”
“I’m aware that I’m not fully recovered from burnout, but now I’m more aware of the orange and red zones”
“There’s the thing you’re experiencing and the narration of the thing you’re experiencing – and oftentimes the judgment is the worst part.”
“Everything we’ve learned as coping skills are survival skills.”
“Business is the biggest lever that we have to fix the world. And if business changes into a force for good, then we can right all the mess that we have.”
I do work on myself constantly to dismantle the errors of my ways and the things that I’ve learned and the ways that business has been done for a long time. It’s not nice, actually.”
“Be a part of the change that we need in the world. The world right now is a dumpster fire of problems, but it doesn’t have to be.”
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