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We struggle to identity ourselves, but what is the real truth about our Identity?
Today Dustin is talking about Identity with David Sachsenmaier, a trained and certified executive coach whose identity was challenged by a family crisis as a child and now focuses on identity as a cornerstone in his work with others.
Dustin and David discuss the Three Lies we tend to believe about who we are:
1. I am what I do: Our job defines us, we find worth/identity in our work.
2. I am what I have: Identity is wrapped around what we have and own. “I brought nothing into this world, and I will take nothing with me when I leave this world”.
3. I am what others think of me: Our view of ourselves is being shaped the day we are born, by our interactions with others, and especially our relationship with our parents.
David is a trained and certified executive coach with over ten years coaching corporate and non-profit executives and has 30 years of international experience working with US and European business executives and managers in both the corporate banking and nonprofit world.
David’s greatest passion is helping business and nonprofit leaders find maximum fulfillment, integration and engagement with their total work-life journey. He is highly trained and skilled at seeing into the lives of leaders and executives.
David has a Masters in Divinity with a concentration in counseling. This graduate degree and continued coaching training provide critical foundations that enable David to see deeply into the lives of business executives. Undergraduate degree in international business and French from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
David and his wife Margaret and their six children moved to Colorado in 2009 after working in Hampshire, U.K. for several years.
Moment to Breathe - Empty Me: A Prayer by Ted Loder
Gracious and Holy One,
creator of all things
and of emptiness,
I come to you
full of much that clutters and distracts,
stifles and burdens me,
and makes me a burden to others.
Empty me now
of growing dissatisfactions,
of anxious imaginings,
of fretful preoccupations,
of nagging prejudices,
of old scores to settle,
and of the arrogance of being right.
Empty me
of the ways I unthinkingly think of myself as powerless,
as a victim,
determined by sex, age, race,
as being less than I am,
of as other than yours.
Empty me
of the disguises and lies
in which I hide myself from other people
and from my responsibility
for my neighbors and for the world.
Hollow out in me a space
in which I will find myself,
find peace and a whole heart,
a forgiving spirit and holiness,
the springs of laughter,
and the will to reach boldly
for abundant life for myself
and the whole human family.
From Guerillas of Grace: Prayers for the Battle, by Ted Loder.
Here’s a hymn by the Getty’s titled “My worth is not in what I own”. We hope you will enjoy!
We want all our Podcast family to know about the release of “Soul Tending” the dramatic sculpture showing the story of our lives in clay and the hands that shape us. You can listen to the podcast, Episode 22 where Steve talks to Scott Stearman, who sculpted this wonderful piece of art.
Learn more about the "Soul Tending" Sculpture
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