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Justin Gordon (@justingordon212) talks with Amy Eliza Wong (@amyelizawong), the founder of Always On Purpose®. She is an executive leadership coach, author, speaker, and facilitator working with organizations such as Airbnb, Salesforce, Roku, LinkedIn, Facebook, and more. Amy offers transformative leadership development and cutting-edge communication strategies to executives and corporate teams around the world, as well as institutions including Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley. She pulls from various disciplines, studies, and practices to find a consilient approach to achieve flow and create profound impact through the three lenses of Self, Relationships, and Results. As a certified executive coach with expertise in transpersonal psychology, design thinking, interpersonal neurobiology, and Conversational Intelligence®, Amy has catalyzed transformative growth for hundreds of executives and teams. She has a passion for helping leaders identify blind spots, reclaim precious time, energy and creative bandwidth, and create next level impact. Her new book, Living On Purpose, was released in March of 2022.Website: https://www.alwaysonpurpose.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amyelizawong/Twitter: https://twitter.com/amyelizawongShow Notes:0:00 How Amy became an executive coach2:57 Amy’s North Star of feeling it out instead of figuring it out, and how she has put it into practice to build her business8:31 How Amy defines who is a good fit for her work 11:55 The process of enabling people to get unstuck15:08 Self-worth as the common theme Amy sees her clients struggle with17:30 The question to ask to understand exactly how you’re holding yourself back20:40 Amy’s constant evolution as a coach and how she defines her work24:42 Amy’s system approach and how she equips teams for better communication30:17 Indicators of when to work with an executive coach33:30 How Amy came to write her book, Living on Purpose36:42 The challenging jump from coaching individuals to writing a book for a wide audience38:44Where to connect with Amy and buy her bookMore about the show:The Vitalize Podcast, a show by Vitalize Venture Capital (a seed-stage venture capital firm and pre-seed 300+ member angel community open to everyone), dives deep into the world of startup investing and the future of work.Hosted by Justin Gordon, the Director of Marketing at Vitalize Venture Capital, The Vitalize Podcast includes two main series. The Angel Investing series features interviews with a variety of angel investors and VCs around the world. The goal? To help develop the next generation of amazing investors. The Future of Work series takes a look at the founders and investors shaping the new world of work, including insights from our team here at Vitalize Venture Capital. More about us:VITALIZE Venture Capital was formed in 2017 as a $16M seed-stage venture fund and now includes both a fund as well as an angel investing community investing in the future of work. VITALIZE has offices in Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.The VITALIZE Team:Gale – https://twitter.com/galeforceVCCaroline – https://twitter.com/carolinecasson_Justin – https://twitter.com/justingordon212Larissa – https://twitter.com/LarissaInsognaVick – https://twitter.com/vahram_sfVITALIZE Angels, our angel investing community open to everyone: https://vitalizeangels.com/