Dr. Wayne Pernell grew up in a traveling commune and learned to question society's scripts for how to live. After 25 years as an executive coach, he realized he was just repeating the same work and needed something more authentic, even if it meant leaving a successful career behind.
Chapters
For other people it may be. But then again, remember I was raised in a traveling commune. So my idea of the script is real different from theirs. But the people who had lives that seemed to be extraordinary, which I really just define as being willing to step outside the script and do the things and build the life that you want as opposed to the life that other people want for you. And by the way, that life might be. Might look a lot like other people's. It might involve being an executive vice president. It might involve starting businesses which, you know, most of my coaching has all been my over the way I market have marketed. My coaching up until now has all been about executive coaching. Let me help you be a better business person, you know, but, but so how did I make the transition? So what happened was that I was an executive coach. I've been since. Since 1999. So long time now. And I've really decided in many ways it wasn't fulfilling and satisfying for me. You know, after a certain amount of time I just, I got tired of doing the same things over and over.