Paul Glover

Welcome to Embers and Wind!

Guest Paul Glover states “I’m an acquired taste. Only about 20% of those leaders who come to me through referrals actually become clients. Most of the time my approach, by the way I bill myself as the no BS workplace performance coach because I really believe that it is difficult to change. And when leaders come to a coach, they’re looking to improve, to get better, to change. But it’s a hard process and harder than most leaders expect. And I tell everyone that the most difficult person to coach is a person who’s successful. They go ‘You want me to do what and it's going to hurt? Well I’m not so sure that I want to do that. ’ Well that requires commitment. So when I engage in a coaching relationship, there has to be commitment on both sides. I expect the person who I’m going to be coaching to commit to the process. But I also believe that I need to commit, not just my time. So I decided that the way I approach coaching is that my compensation is based on results.”

I'm your host, Keith Weedman. In each podcast episode, you will hear stories. These stories will feel like a tender wind blowing on the embers of service that glow within you. In this weekly show, you will learn ideas, kindling for your embers. It will be your choice to utilize the gentle wind to ignite the kindling. 

In this episode, Paul Glover shares his mistakes that landed him in federal prison. He recounts how his hubris resulted in him spending 18 more months in prison. He talks about his journey to own responsibility for his past criminal acts and how it began while incarcerated with time to reflect on his past actions. He shares how coaches helped him to see his blind spots and asserts every leader ought to have a coach, someone to help them see their blind spots. He talks about his choices after being discharged from federal prison. He shares how easy it would have been to let his to leave his criminal acts as his legacy. He owns that his past criminal behavior closed the door on his law career. He explains why he chose to become a coach to utilize his strengths as a persuasive communicator to help small business owners and their leadership teams build persuasive communications skills.  He talks about  antifragility, the ability to use adversity to leap forward, that he discovered in his own journey and how he helps small business owners to use adversity to leap forward. He shares his 3 blind spots that were involved in his criminal acts which led him to prison: the need to belong, the need for approval and hubris. He stresses the importance of employee engagement and the book he wrote ten years ago, Workquake that he is pleased with now because he believes business leaders are ready, thanks to the tsunami of employee resignations, to confront the need to engage employees, a step toward employee ownership he wrote about in his book.