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Flagstaff Business News // JANUARY 2022 flagstaffbusinessnews.com
Working with thousands of high achievers, author and executive coach Shasheen Shah has noticed the shared inner struggles that thwart the ability of successful people to reach their next level. He offers emotional mastery guidance in his new book, “The Kid and the King.” Courtesy photo
Minimizing Workplace Drama in the New Year Executive coach Shasheen Shah offers steps to approach triggering events with intended outcomes
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hile skiing at Alta Ski Area, Shasheen Shah found himself caught in a small avalanche caused by a skier-released snowslide that funneled through the chute he had just skied. “I never saw it coming. It launched over the rockface and landed on me like wet concrete. Within seconds, it felt like I was buried alive and then swept me down the slope. I was disoriented. I didn’t know which way was up or down. I didn’t have light and I couldn’t breathe. Panic.” In his new book, “The Kid and the King: The Hidden Inner Struggle High Achievers Must Conquer to Reignite and Reengage with Life,” Shah compares this real-life physical experience with how we feel when we experience an emotional avalanche. “The amygdala gets hijacked and the kid takes over,” he writes. “The goal here is to develop the presence of mind and become an observer during the real-time event as the king so that you can take appropriate action that’s consistent with a desired outcome rather than doing something that would move you closer to danger.” In the case of the avalanche on a mountain in Utah, Shah was able to move past the panic to a calmer place where he could figure out that he was on his side and could pop his head out of the snow in the right direction to find oxygen. As CEO of Coherent Strategies Consulting
“The Kid and the King: The Hidden Inner Struggle High Achievers Must Conquer to Reignite and Reengage with Life” is available in paperback and audiobook through Amazon. Courtesy photo
and Coaching, Shah helps high achievers reach business and personal goals by helping them through the emotional mastery process. He maintains that we all have this duality with the “kid” and the “king” inside us. The goal of developing emotional mastery, he says, is to acknowledge both personalities, understand how they’ve helped us arrive at our current level of success and then use tools to move ourselves to a better quality of life, professionally and personally. He says when we, associates or employees become “triggered,” our kid takes over, which can wreak havoc on the situation, get in the way of productivity and resourcefulness and cause us to lose sight of our intended outcome. Continued on page 42
