Meet Routh Chadwick

We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Routh Chadwick. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Routh below.

Hi Routh, appreciate you sitting with us today to share your wisdom with our readers. So, let’s start with resilience – where do you get your resilience from?
I am a firm believer that resilience is inborn in all of us, and it is really a matter of learning how to tap into greater reservoirs of it. I have definitely had struggles along my career path – a failed acting career, going back to school in my mid-30s for a career change, and then the arduous tasking of starting and building a business. Along the way, I have had innumerable setbacks. There were periods of unemployment or barely making enough money to pay rent. But over the years I learned a lot from my experiences and from working with amazing mentors. Ultimately I realized I could either buy into the worst case scenarios in my head and be totally derailed by them, or I could ground myself in the present moment, let go and trust in life. And always I have been ok. The more I have learned to trust in myself and in life, the more I have thrived. My mind will still try to convince me at times that things are not going to be ok, but after practicing letting go and trusting over the years, it is so much easier for me to recover from failures and mistakes and move forward again.

Thanks for sharing that. So, before we get any further into our conversation, can you tell our readers a bit about yourself and what you’re working on?
After years of struggling as a performing artist, I finally surrendered to the fact that I needed a more stable lifestyle. As my other second passion in life was personal development, I went back to school and earned my Masters in Clinical Social Work. After graduating, I went through rigorous training in various mental health settings in New York City. As soon as I could, I opened a private psychotherapy practice.

A few years in I stumbled on the field of transformative coaching, and this cutting edge field really resonated with me. I spent the next few years training with the leaders in the field and cultivating my own toolbox. I feel my background in the creative arts and my clinical foundation are both important aspects that I bring to the coaching framework. I am passionate about this approach because it offers a total paradigm shift to those who want to level up in their lives.

My specialty is helping burnt out professionals bounce back from daily exhaustion and stress to finding the spark in their work lives again as well as greater health and wellbeing in their lives as a whole. I help people recognize their blindspots and become aware of imbedded beliefs that have been keeping them from finding success and fulfillment. We also engage in a powerful dialogue about the current culture of work in the U.S. and how each of us can be agents of change. All in all, nothing brings me greater pleasure than seeing people who are frustrated and stuck bounce back to their highest states of vitality.

My flagship program is a 12-week intensive coaching course called the Work-Life Playbook. During our time together I guide participants in accessing greater resilience and harnessing their energy optimally in their work lives (which translates into higher performance) and which has a ripple effect through every aspect of their lives. It is always a powerful process that I am privileged to be a part of.

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?
Three things that I believe really helped me along my journey were: 1. The creative process – As a person who spent years learning to harness the creative process, I think it is so invaluable to get into the flow state and let ideas and insights come through. The creative process isn’t just for artists – it is the energy of creative solutions. So I urge anyone early in their journey to engage in creative pursuits in order to keep that area of their mind open, or simply set aside time to do free form writing or brainstorming. 2. Thinking outside the box – We can call get stuck in our habitual thinking patterns, but it has been so important for me to learn to step back and really question my assumptions, especially when things aren’t working.  And then experiment, throw out the rule book and start throwing things at the wall to see what sticks. 3. Long range thinking – It’s easy to think that the way things are going now is the way they will go forever, especially during times of struggle or stagnation. When something is taking a longer time to come to fruition than I would like, I have to summon patience (which I had to learn over time) and remind myself that anything worth having takes time and investment. I also remind myself that things can change quickly, and I don’t know what might be right around the corner.

Okay, so before we go we always love to ask if you are looking for folks to partner or collaborate with?
I am looking for joint venture partners to do workshops, webinars, podcasts or other collaborative projects with. Other people in the creative fields, the personal development fields, social impact fields or holistic wellness fields could be potentially great JV partners for me. To contact me, feel free to go to my website and find my information on the contact page.

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