How to Build Optimal Leadership Teams

Hey, I'd like to welcome you to another episode of mission matters. My name is Adam Torres, and if you'd like to apply to be a guest in the show, just head on over to mission matters. com and click on be our guest to apply. All right. So today's guest is Sarah Sabin and she is CEO over at Sarah Sabin executive coaching. Sarah, welcome to the show. Hi Adam. It's a pleasure to be here. All right, Sarah, so we have kinds of great things to talk about today. So we're gonna talk about how to build optimal leadership teams. There's lots of business owners, entrepreneurs, executives, leaders that watch this program and I, I know they're excited to get your take on this as I am as well. But to start this episode, we will start the way that we start them all with what we like to call our mission matters minute. So Sarah, we at Mission Matters, we amplify stories for entrepreneurs, business owners, and executives. That's what we do. Sarah, what mission matters to you? So at Sarah Sobin Executive Coaching, we create exceptional leaders. Who run thriving, profitable companies and create a really positive impact on their employees, their customers, and the world at large. It's great. Love bringing mission based individuals on the line to share why they do what they do, how they're doing, and really what we all learned from that. So we grow together. So great, great stuff there. I guess just to get us kicked off here, how did you get obsessed with this concept of leadership and starting to, and developing leaders and like, where'd all that begin for you? So all of that began Well back in my corporate career. I was leading a team within a multi family office. So we were Looking after the portfolios of high net worth individuals and families But where it really went to the next level was during my entrepreneurial journey. So I left the corporate world back in, I think it was the end of 2015 now, lose track of time. I've co founded one startup. I've founded another startup. I was leading teams there and, you know, I've made a lot of mistakes around leadership myself. So, you know, Haven't we all haven't we all anyone that says they haven't not being entirely honest. There you go. Go ahead. So I personally found it difficult to emotionally regulate at work. And I don't mean that I was crying all the time while leading teams. What I mean is That when I was triggered by a particular behavior Or someone not doing something in the right way or to a high enough level My default response would be anger Now that is ultimately destructive not constructive so to fast forward in my journey How I came to be doing what i'm doing today You When I walked away from my second startup, I actually discovered transformational coaching for myself. And it was so life changing for me that I knew that I wanted to Build a business around doing that. And it became was that like a, was that like an epiphany? Like one of these moments, did it strike you? Was it a buildup? Like, how did that part happen? I was interested in like what that spark was. So essentially I was on a break at the time that I discovered transformational coaching. So I said to myself, I'm not going to found anything else for a period of two months. This is going to be a reflective period for me. I'm quite honest. I did not know what I was going to do next, but I knew that what I would do next would be something that was purposeful and meaningful to me and having experienced transformational coaching for myself and. Come across some truly exceptional coaches. It was literally a download. This is what I want to do. This is the work that I want to do. This is the business that I want to do. Being a pragmatic person, I went out to do proof of concept. So I wanted to answer three questions. Am I good at doing this? Do I love doing this? Can I make money doing this? Because obviously it's not a business if you're not making money doing it. And I answered yes to those three questions relatively quickly. And then off I went because I take action and I just get on with things. That was actually Adam nearly five years ago now that occurred. And you know, my first year I was experimenting, seeing what type of people that I really loved to work with. And then I niched into executive coaching. So working with leaders of companies and their teams. What what drew you to pick that particular niche? Like what drew you to that piece? Because obviously you were you were exploring. So again, I am someone that follows my intuition. And I'm happy to explain all the neuroscience But behind intuition, it's not just a sort of we were a concept, but it was something that I felt pulled towards doing again. I experimented with that. Okay, let's work with leaders and let's see if this really appeals to me. And it did. And the reason why it does is because I love working with high performers. Because they, you know, they don't need me, right? Their life is not going to fall apart if I'm not in it, but they wa

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