Practical Wisdom with Nicky Dyal

Today, I'm interviewing an exceptional person who I've gotten to know for the past few years, Nicky Dyal. She is a coach and a rock climber. She has taken what she has learned as an extreme athlete and being a professional in that area and channeled it into this transformative work that she does with her clients. Very interesting to learn about how she's channeled her life into her business. So I was so excited to bring her on the show and I know you'll take away a lot from this conversation. Enjoy...<br />  <br /> Nicky shares her insights: <br />  <br /> Especially outside of established structures, like you were saying, outside of a corporate structure that's reinforced and backed up by society and taxation systems and just like everybody is supposed to get an office job you know. And for me as an athlete just being swept up in the tide of able bodied people who like can perform and push their body to do whatever they want seemingly with like a magic wand. Know it's really the only path and it looks different for everyone, it could be a death, it could be the end of a relationship. Again, not many people choose to leave behind the thing that's giving them so much validation, you know, ego validation that's making them feel so good. Not many people make that choice, and I think entrepreneurs are people who are doing that. And to me, that's leadership is doing something different from what other people are doing and having that those humbling experiences that connect you ultimately to more people and open your heart to the experiences of more people. And yeah, what a gift to like have had to have experienced both sides of that.<br />  <br /> Well, I think I just care about people I care about. My experience and he care about the experience of other people. And starting from that point, I then had to realize there's lots of people in the world, I, myself included, who have experienced pain, because of society. And you know, being enabled-body, college-educated Ivy league white person I had a lot of access to comm