Defining Successful Personal Relationships with Hunter Phoenix

Personal Relationships matter more than ever as we live in a more hyper connected world. Yet most of us place little emphasis on their value and health as it relates to our own goals for personal change and growth. In this eye opening be Expert Interview, Certified Professional Coach Hunter Phoenix shines a spotlight on why your relationships and the state of them can have a major impact on the personal success you wish achieve. Hunter builds on the commonly held wisdom in the self development realm that “we are the sum of our 5 closest relationships” delineating how to assess whether you have the right relationships in place and if not, what need to do to make effective, yet graceful changes.

Kicking off our year long “Be Your Best 365” self improvement series Hunter discusses how to improve personal relationships in this candid and insightful interview by covering:

• The importance of understanding the depth of your personal relationships before you attempt to make personal change (03:29)

• The necessity of knowing how supportive those closest to you are when you undertake major personal change in your life (04:45)

• Ways to asses whether relationships around you are worth keeping in the long term or if you need to let them go (05:49)

• The importance of writing down the 5 people you spend the most time with (06:34)

• Reconciling for yourself if your closest personal relationships are standing in the way of your goals, and what to do about it (07:52)

• Why you need to make sure you aren’t hugging someone with “emotional measles” (11:38)

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Hunter Phoenix is a Certified Professional Coach & Mentor, specializing in Complete Integrative Coaching. Her formalized coaching training was primarily completed at The Ford Institute for Integrative Coaching at JFK University in Berkeley, California. She provides personal and performance oriented guidance and coaching to individuals and major corporations as a life/business success coach through her consultancy, Inspired Solutions Coaching, working with clients in North America, Europe and Asia. You can follow her inspired thoughts on personal relationships and other matters on Twitter @Hunter_Phoenix.