About the Guest:
Claudia Bement is an executive coach, mentor, and friend with over 30 years of experience coaching women leaders. She specializes in helping women develop their vision and lead from a place of deep inner and outer alignment. Trained in somatics, Claudia focuses on helping leaders move past burnout by getting out of their heads and into their bodies to navigate today's tumultuous world.
Claudia Bement is an executive coach, mentor, and friend with over 30 years of experience coaching women leaders. She specializes in helping women develop their vision and lead from a place of deep inner and outer alignment. Trained in somatics, Claudia focuses on helping leaders move past burnout by getting out of their heads and into their bodies to navigate today's tumultuous world.
Claudia identifies self-awareness as the crucial first phase of the journey toward transformation. She often uses a "Life Line" exercise on a whiteboard to help clients identify the highs, lows, and patterns that have shaped their leadership style.
Drawing from her background as a gymnast and her training at the Strozzi Institute, Claudia uses somatics to help leaders become literate with their "sensing body". She shares a centering tool that focuses on three dimensions: length (dignity), width (boundaries and relationships), and depth (past experience and future commitment).
Claudia shares insights from a recent conference featuring experts like Bessel van der Kolk and Gabor Maté, emphasizing that trauma is pervasive and not comparative. She highlights the hope found in neuroplasticity, noting that the brain's pathways can be shifted at any age through consistent focus and commitment.
Having been one of the first women hired in certain professional environments, Claudia reflects on how women previously felt forced to adopt male characteristics to succeed. She now advocates for women to lead as their authentic selves, integrating their sensing side and nurturing connection rather than competition.
Claudia advises listeners to manage their energy because it fluctuates daily. She notes that burnout is often the result of doing "too much of the wrong work" rather than simply having too much to do.
(Somatic Coaching)
by Poppy Delbridge
by Patrick Lencioni
by Jim Collins
by Michael Singer
This episode explores the deep human need to feel seen and heard. Claudia and Kelsey discuss how finding your authentic self is the ultimate key to both personal and professional success, providing practical tools to move from burnout to empowerment.
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Find Claudia Bement
For more on her executive coaching and mentorship work, please refer to the show notes or visit her website at claudiamurphy.com to connect directly.
