Former Google Sales Leader, Author & Coach Chris Woods Talks Courage & Leadership

Welcome to a new edition of the Famous Interviews with Joe Dimino series. On this episode, we talk with certified professional coach, leadership expert, former Google sales leader, and author of Balls & Brains, Chris Woods. His powerful book delivers a practical framework for living your best life by overcoming fear, maximizing strengths, and stepping beyond self-imposed limitations. Combining personal storytelling, psychological insight, leadership wisdom, and actionable exercises, Balls & Brains challenges readers to stop playing small and start leading with courage, clarity, and confidence. Chris brings decades of real-world experience to the conversation as a four-time global C-suite executive and former sales leader at Google. His approach to coaching and leadership development focuses on helping individuals unlock their full potential, embrace discomfort, strengthen mindset, and create meaningful transformation in both life and business. In this interview, we discuss personal growth, executive leadership, mindset, overcoming fear, confidence, coaching, emotional intelligence, success habits, business leadership, resilience, entrepreneurship, courage, self-awareness, and the inspiration behind Balls & Brains. From his home in South Carolina, Chris shares hard-earned wisdom, practical advice, and inspiring stories from his personal and professional journey. This is an insightful conversation for entrepreneurs, executives, leaders, and anyone looking to live with more purpose and boldness. Enjoy this interview. More Chris Woods: https://chriswoodscoach.com/ For More Famous Interviews: Subscribe via Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgi6GpDDDrc_PgOzaERGbLQ Subscribe via iTunes/Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/famous-interviews-with-joe-dimino/id1660256991 Subscribe via Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7j92QDS13LXgajPt80X2dh The Home of Famous Interviews: http://famousinterviewswithjoedimino.blogspot.com/ Contribute to Famous Interviews via PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_b Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.