What Flips Your Switch?

Two coaches. One question. More honesty than either of them planned for.In Episode 3 of Let’s Play, Derrick brings the topic, and it sounds deceptively simple until it isn’t. What turns your power switch on? What turns it off? What separates showing up at full wattage from flickering at a fraction of your actual light?What follows is one of the most personal episodes yet. Two coaches who help others reclaim their power for a living, sitting in the honest and sometimes uncomfortable territory of where their own power dims, and what it actually takes to flip it back on.It’s rarely what you think.In this episode:* The “on position”: what it feels like to be fully seated in your power, and why it tends to show up somewhere you weren’t expecting* Artistry versus technique: why the coaches with magic often can’t name it, and why that inability is precisely the point* The light analogy: what happens when you spend your energy trying to glow at someone else’s frequency instead of your own* Why inviting your clients to challenge you might be the single most powerful move you can make in a session* The choreographer’s secret: how importing steps onto someone kills the dance, while drawing out their own goods sets it free* Alessandra’s switch-off: the belief that what comes effortlessly to others simply isn’t available to her* Derrick’s switch-off: “I don’t know how,” and the eight-year-old version of himself standing in front of a book he was certain he couldn’t read* The parkour girls: how breaking a movement into smaller and smaller pieces changes everything about what feels possible* South Africa: Derrick announces he’s leaving August 31st, with live Let’s Play episodes in Cape Town and Johannesburg, and what it looks like to plan the thing before you’ve sorted the logisticsHomework, self-assigned:Derrick: Announce the South Africa plan to his men’s group Tuesday night. Ask for help with booking. Let people serve him.Both: Plan the thing. Set it up completely. You don’t even have to follow through on the plan, just plan it.The question for you: Where does your light go dim, and you want it so badly that you know, when it’s on, something close to magic happens? That’s the place. Plan the thing. Start there.Let’s Play is a podcast for serious and not-so-serious people doing big things.Hosted by Alessandra Wall & Derrick Yanford.Where to find Alessandra | Where to find Derrick Get full access to The Power Pause at drwallsays.substack.com/subscribe