Executive Coach Offers Steps to Reduce Drama in the New Year

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Flagstaff, Arizona 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

“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

Minimizing Workplace Drama in the New Year

Executive coach Shasheen Shah offers steps to approach triggering events with intended outcomes

By Bonnie Stevens, FBN

While 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 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.

Babbitt Ranches Being Inducted into Hall of Fame

By Bonnie Stevens, FBN

Marking 136 years in operation this spring, Babbitt Ranches is being celebrated by the Arizona agricultural community and inducted into the Arizona Farming and Ranching Hall of Fame.

“Babbitt Ranches is legendary in Arizona ranching history,” said Historian Janice Bryson, who nominated the pioneering land company. “Their story follows our state’s history from Territorial days to the present. They have been leaders and innovators in conservation on their ranches.”

“This acknowledgement of leadership and commitment to the agriculture industry is so very meaningful to the Babbitt family, the Babbitt Ranches board of directors, owners and employees,” said Babbitt Ranches President and General Manager Billy Cordasco. “There have been many herculean efforts by visionaries and determined individuals who persevered through difficult conditions, market swings, disappointments and hard work to keep the business going through now six generations. In all these years, the support and participation from the broader community has always been key to Babbitts’ longevity and success.”

“If you look back historically through Coconino Sun clippings and NAU’s Cline Library, you’ll find that the Babbitts were always very ecologically responsible, especially when it came to wildlife populations. And that continued through the more than 100 years of their presence,” said retired Arizona Game and Fish Department Region 2 Supervisor Tom Britt, who worked with both John Babbitt and then Billy Cordasco. “In terms of the amount of country that they had an impact on, the Babbitts were and still are extremely responsible for taking care of the land. I remember John Babbitt said he always managed for drought. I was impressed by that.”

“Babbitt Ranches is an Arizona icon,” said Steve Brophy of the Aztec Land and Cattle Company, in support of the nomination. “Over the generations since its founding, its standing and achievements in the cattle industry, the horse business, in land management and conservation, in the examples of the Western way of life set by its leadership and cowboys, are second to no other ranching outfit in the state, nor for that matter, the West.”

The Babbitt story began in Arizona in 1886 when five brothers from Cincinnati, Ohio, took the daring action to risk everything and move across the country to become cattle ranchers. After hearing stories of wide-open spaces, adventure and opportunity out West, two of the brothers, David and Billy, were sent to scout potential locations. When they stepped off the train in Flagstaff on the chilly morning of April

ABOVE LEFT: One of the original Babbitt brothers, C.J. Babbitt, is shown here lying on the ground. ABOVE: Horses and wagons with bedrolls, food and other supplies helped Babbitt cowboys run cattle across the Arizona Territory in the late 1800s. Courtesy photos

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