Guest Emma O'Brien: The Freedom Framework

Every Day Genius Podcast with Guest Emma O'Brien

My guest Emma O'Brien has created a framework that she uses for her clients, called the Freedom Framework®, represented by the letters ABBA. In the following episodes, we have a sing and a laugh at the 80s band whose name she creatively borrow.

Emma also explains how she coaches with Gallup Strengths, while clarifying that some things we focus on, like confidence, require more clarity in what that thing can give us in order to get the impact we're looking for.

Emma O'Brien - she prefers Em - helps ambitious professionals and rising leaders move beyond inner blocks like impostor syndrome into bolder, more confident versions of themselves using her Freedom Framework®.

Find Em on LinkedIn at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.linkedin.com/in/em-obrien⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and on her website at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.emobrien.co.uk⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Ep 81 Impostor Syndrome

Today I'd like to introduce you to my guest, Emma O'Brien. We'll get into who she is and what she does. And following that, she talks about imposter syndrome and two different narratives surrounding it. Have you ever felt like an imposter? I invite you to listen to Emma's wisdom today.

Ep 82 Impostor Syndrome Part 2

Em O'Brien and I continue our discussion of Impostor Syndrome. Em explains how it shows up most often in her clients and she talks about how she works with them.

Ep 84 The Futuristic Strength

My guest, Em O'Brien, is a certified Gallup Strengths Coach. In today's episode, I talk to her about her strength, futuristic, one that is characterized by being inspired by the future and the possibility of what could be. This is probably most akin to the Hope strength in the Via Character strengths. Tune in to find out more about what Em has to say about her futuristic strength.

Ep 85 Crystal Balls and Curling

Continuing our earlier conversation, I jump on Em's mention of crystal balls and woo, or woo woo and I propose that crystal balls are not about fortune telling and future telling, but about the ability to peer into possibility. Listen as she responds and adds in a curling sport metaphor for how she works with her clients.

Ep 88 The AHA of Strengths

(Notice the rebranded colors. New music and intro too!)

Today I talk with Emma O'Brien about how she felt when she first discovered her strength, futuristic, from the Clifton strengths, also known as the Gallup strengths. She talks about it as an aha moment and then goes on to share a few of her other strengths and how those strengths help her in her business and how your strengths can help you.

Ep 89 The Freedom Framework®

In today's episode, I share a metaphorical image that came to me as Emma and I were discussing her work. She responds to my image and explains how it actually relates to the work she does with her clients, including her development of what she calls the Freedom Framework. In a nod to one of her and my favorite bands of the 80s, the acronym for her freedom framework is ABBA. Tune in and find out more.

Ep 91 ABBA and Impostor Syndrome

In episode 91, Emma talked about an idea set forth by Maxwell Maltz, author of Psychocybernetics, the idea that self-image prescribes the limit of what's possible, specifically in the accomplishment of goals. In this episode, Emma goes deeper with her own philosophy and how she translates this concept to her practice, personally and professionally.

Ep 92 Self Image as Container for Possibilities

In episode 91, Emma talks about an idea set forth by Maxwell Maltz, author of Psychocybernetics, that self-image prescribes the limit of what's possible, specifically in the accomplishment of goals. In this episode, Emma goes deeper with her own philosophy how she translates this concept to her practice with her clients.

Ep 95 Turning Weaknesses Into Strengths

Today, Emma O'Brien talks about wielding what we perceive as weaknesses as superpowers! She ties it into the Brilliance part of her Freedom Framework®.

Ep 96 From Brilliance to Belief

Going from Brilliance to Belief means getting specific, says Emma O'Brien, and it also means adding to your Belief bank account with your thoughts and habits.

Ep 98 Going Fearwards, the Power of Inspired Action

In this episode I ask Emma what catalysts present themselves when people are ready for transformation. She talks about the signs she sees and how she completes the Freedom Framework® with the final A for Action, about going what she calls Fearwards, moving through fear with inspired action.

Ep 99 Impostor Syndrome and Burnout

In this, the final episode of this series with my lovely guest Emma O'Brien, I ask her about the relation between Impostor Syndrome and Burnout. She dives deep into the many faces of burnout and notes that it isn't always time spent because sometimes we can be deep in flow for a period of time where otherwise that time may contribute to burnout.

We end spiraling up, and you don't want to miss it.