Hey this is Petra with BoundaryLess helping you to unleash your potential and
make a difference across the globe and today I'm very excited to announce a
very special guest. Born and raised in Austria, Marina discovered quite early
how important it is to broaden one's horizon and experience a much bigger
picture of the world and its people. After receiving her master's degree in
business consultancy she commenced a career but didn't feel quite fulfilled.
That's when she started to follow her passion got herself a certificate from the
University of Cambridge and Oxford and started her career as a trainer, coach
and consultant in intercultural communications career and people
development. Marina has also been living and working in the UK for several years
and still acts as a coach at the Queen's Young Leaders Award. As Marina says, her
goal was to become a world-class coach and trainer and this still is her goal.
Marina I'm so excited to have you here today. Thank you very much for the
invitation. I'm very excited to be here. Yeah, my first question is, you know, there
are so many definitions of what coaching is all about, what is coaching to you? For
me coaching is helping people to develop themselves so it's more like helping
people to build their bridge and not telling them and or teaching them. It is
unlocking potential, it is growth, it is a safe space to be honest to yourself,
and to your coach as well, to overcome obstacles, to overthink beliefs and
values, to maybe overcome limiting beliefs because a lot of issues we have,
a lot of problems, more or less, yeah, have the beginning in our brain, in our mental
environment. You know there are actually really a lot of limiting
beliefs people have but what might be one that you find in many, many
different people? I guess, one of them, the major limiting beliefs people have
is that they just think they can't do it.
I think it's one thing people think about themselves very often and there's
one saying from Walt Disney "if you can dream it, you can do it" because if you
can see it in your inner self, then you start to believe it.
Then you can do it. In the end there is so much out there you can achieve and
you can do and it all starts with believing in yourself and believing in
the thing you would like to achieve. It sounds very much like a
self-confidence issue and I can imagine that might be one of the things or one
of the reasons why you go see a coach what are or, when do you
generally should go see a coach. I think there are various reasons to to seek out
to a coach and one yeah, one reason could be that you may be having struggles
to believe in yourself, but there are also other different situations in
life. For example if you need to find clarity, if you want to connect more
with your inner self, your wishes and your needs, if you want to make a change
in your career or change in your life. I think a coach is good for any situation
you would like to reflect on, to think through and where you have the feeling
that you're reaching a certain level of not being able to grow alone anymore. So it's
a safe space to allow your potential and your resources to come to you and to
help you to reach next level. So when it comes to career or a changing careers,
from your experience, what is the one major question we should ask ourselves I
think the one major question is that you should ask yourself what you would like
to achieve in general, because a lot of people, they see their career quite as a
limited space in their life, it's not connected to the other areas and for me
as a coach, or in my practice as a coach, I discovered, that it is
much more easier to find out what you really want and where you would like to
develop your career, in which direction, if you ask yourself, how should
you career fit in in your life, in your in your general life. I guess there are
many different expectations, also from the society, from the culture itself,
how do we manage, that we truly find what makes us happy and maybe not our
parents or generally our family or the rest of the society? I think,
if you want to find the one thing that makes you happy career wise, I
guess it would be the best thing to just look into yourself and try to find out
what you would like to do, if you are not under the pressure to earn money
and what you'd like to do in your free time, so what are the things
you like to read about, what are the places you like to go and for me it was
like reading about how does the human brain works and how we could develop a
better life for us and I like to travel as well and especially in coaching
nowadays which becomes more and more online as well, it allows me to go to
different places and to train in different biggest companies as well and
also to yeah, coach my clients from a beach if I want,
that is quite exciting for me. I know you've been living in the UK
some time, you are also an intercultural cultural trainer, so you help people to
understand maybe the new culture they're going into you a bit better, what
do you feel is maybe the one main struggle that these people face when going
abroad and what might be the one tip for them? I think it's actually quite funny, because
we always think it must be something very big or important and a
lot of people in the trainings, if you talk to them and ask them, okay,
what's the main topic that's might be worrying you,
it is besides of losing kind of the social environment and
maybe having some cultural differences as well, it is just finding a routine
again and to learn how to get simple things, like a bank account,
renting a car, renting a flat ,whom to call if you need to repair something at
home, it's like this little, normal, minor things that can cause a lot
of stress in the summ and what I would recommend is just to think
about your routine at home and try to find out what is important to you
and try to set this up in the new country as well, for example if
you went to yoga every Monday evening, then seek out for a yoga place in
your new city and do this. This will help you to get routine quite
quickly, because routine is equal to security. And that is one of our basic
human needs right? It is one of our basic human needs, one out of six and each person needs
security, of course, each person needs it to a certain amount, some do more, some
less, but a certain amount of security, of routine is necessary for our mental
well-being. And do you think somebody who is really seeking security, you know, that is
one of their top needs, do you still think that they should try to go
abroad? Why not. I think it's quite a
challenge maybe for the person, maybe a bigger challenge than for someone
else, but I think, it's a great chance to learn and maybe the person should yeah
seek out for be more structured environment, maybe go broad with a company,
where we have our job and maybe a flat provided, but yeah, why not. Yeah, I
think it could be an amazing experience and a huge potential for personal growth.
Yeah I also think that this is an experience worth for everyone,
it's more about, maybe even if you feel that you're lacking something, find a
coach that might help you with the special situation you are in. Yeah this
is exactly what we are doing and with the companies, we are helping
the people on the way to another country and in the first month in the country to
settle in a bit more quickly. Now, you know, I had this feeling lately, that
coaching is getting more and more popular and so therefore of course and
also the coach profession is enjoying more and more popularity too. Now when we
are thinking about, how do I know which coach is the best for me and for my
concrete situation? I think it is a quite tricky question because in the most
countries it's not a regulated market so there it's like a free market and
everybody can name himself a coach yeah so for the customer I think it would be
a good idea to, just to check a certain amount of education, from my perspective,
every serious coach is seeking for a quite a solid education in that area
maybe from recognized companies or universities, for example like
University of Cambridge or other institutions and associations, so I
think quite helpful is to check out any memberships of coaching associations or
International Coaching Federation, so like bigger organisations, that's kind of
given a certain proof of experience and education for coaches. I think the third
area you could take a look at is to reach out to the coach and talk to the
coach because it's a question of chemistry, because it's a very intimate
work and you need to understand each other and you need to, I
would say, have kind of a natural connection to each other.
Yeah and because it also, as you said, it's intimate and people are also coming
with very intimate problems to you and I know that often times they even, the
problem they're actually coming to you may not even be the problem they're
facing so you need to dig deeper to find out what is it actually about. That's quite
normal because people never come with their, with the main issue. That's
always, it's like an iceberg, it's something on the surface and you
always need to look under the water because the issue, the root
of the problem is under the water and so if you are coming with one topic, you,
most of the cases, you end up somewhere else because it is indeed another
another problem, the root of all this was showing on the surface because
it just a result, what you see is a problem as a result of something else.
I really like the example with the iceberg, because it's exactly the same
with misunderstanding between cultures, so you have a behavior on
the top, it might even be similar, but there is a different value behind it. What might be
even some misunderstandings that you have experienced or something that you were
confronted with, that you maybe even didn't like? In terms of cultural differences
I struggle I think the most with time issue, so in some countries I am working
with, the time is very, I would say, fast, the response time for emails is
faster, you get a reply between one or two days and in my home country, for
example, everything takes time and if you go a bit more south it even takes
a bit more time and honestly I prefer to, just to get things done
and I appreciate a lot when countries are more into
replying fast, because you can just yeah,
go with the next step much quicker and I'm struggling sometimes with this
time delay and just to spend so much time for waiting on things.
It's quite difficult for me because I'm a very quick person. And so how
do you deal with that? I just have to try to learn it and I'll try to accept it
because it doesn't make any sense for me if I'm getting angry or upset or
whatever, so I just try to reflect with whom I'm dealing at the moment
so which country is it, with which person, is it a government office or is it a
private person or whatever and then I just try to to understand and if it
takes too long for me I just yeah maybe reconnect and try to get my answer a bit
faster then usually. So how did coaching change your life and what might
be the one thing that you've learned in the course of the last years, even maybe
since you made this huge change in your life? I came across
coaching a couple years ago because I was just searching for my yeah
perfect career maybe and struggling with some other things in my life and it
helped me a lot because it helped me to grow, it helped me to develop a life
I like, yeah step by step and I use coaching a lot even for myself, so I do a
lot of self coaching and of course if I feel the need of talking to someone
because of a certain issue or certain problem, because we all have our thoughts
about something or concerns, then I just seek out to someone and go through it
and I discovered that I can overcome certain things quite quicker with the
help of an external professionist. Thank you so much. Thank you so much for having
me. Iam so glad we did this. Now Marina and I would love to hear from
you, so what is the one thing that you've learned today? Now if you liked our video
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