Finding the Gold In Your Red Chair Moment with Chris Michel

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Today on the show we have Chris Michel. Chris is the author of The Red Chair Experience and he defines a Red Chair Experience as a powerful moment in your life, usually painful that inspires a very big shift.

We are going to hear from Chris about the many Red Chair Experiences that have defined him in the last few years and the legacy that he is leaving because of it. He has an incredible story and this is going to be a great one for many different leaders who are facing challenges right now.

We discuss:

[02:28] Chris shares his defining moment.
[03:36] Kyle shares a similar defining moment in his life.
[06:54] We always have those “what if” moments.
[08:32] “When you survive this, it will not be because someone said you could - although it’s good to be reminded from time to time. And when you survive this, it will not be because you had money in the bank or a roof over your head - because there may come a time when you have neither, and still, you will survive this.” -Peter Chiykowski
[09:04] When you survive this, what a great story you are going to have to tell.
[11:51] We are our own worst enemy and critic. If we talk to friends the way we talk to ourselves in our minds, we wouldn’t have any friends.
[12:56] It is focusing back on the little positives and it’s the little things that count. It is the little things that get us through to the next step.
[17:24] Everyone no matter how successful is dealing with the same things we all are.
[18:28] People get into these cycles in life where if we are not talking you see them start to spiral. Sometimes you can do something about it and sometimes you can’t.
[23:49] One of the biggest lies that most high achievers believe is that if we stop working hard enough everybody will leave them.
[26:41] Good leaders want to share their failures as much as their successes because there is a lesson to be learned from the failures.
[31:17] We all have a story. Just because you don’t write a book doesn’t mean you don’t have a story.
[33:16] Too often we think that we are too broken and we get focused on ourselves instead of looking at someone else and asking how we can help them.