Bill O’Herron: Standing in the Fire

2018-05-23

When Bill O’Herron isn’t raising money for a money management firm in Austin, TX, he can be found teaching and counseling youths, adults and couples. Bill is passionate about and focused on learning and studying how people become more self-aware. It has been the driving force and theme of his work with clients. Bill’s career spans 25+ years in the financial field as a research sales trader and director of capital markets, having worked in New York, London, Stamford, CT and Austin, TX. Bill is currently finishing up a book about relat...

Bill’s career spans 25+ years in the financial field as a research sales trader and director of capital

markets, having worked in New York, London, Stamford, CT and Austin, TX.

Bill is currently finishing up a book about relationships, more specifically on how to better

understand the unconscious patterns of behavior that we all bring into our relationships. It is

called The Space in Between: Why Great Marriages Thrive, Others Fail.

Bill has been married to his amazing and exceedingly patient wife Linda for 20 years. They have

3 teenage daughters and 2 male dogs. He has traveled 46 countries and has lived in a couple of different countries and states, but now calls Austin, TX his home.

Bill graduated from Middlebury College, VT in ’86 with a BA in English and earned his MSW from Columbia University.

Today’s Subjects:

How to build relationships and happiness
How to embrace the emotional challenges naturally generated by relationships, and to use this discomfort as a catalyst to turning inward and working on oneself.
Why relationships fail: emotional dissidence
Why do men & woman cheat; what’s underneath the cheating
How your DNA & genetics can be changed
How you came to become the person that you are:
Why 90% of your daily life is lived unconsciously
Simple tips on how to get in touch
Generational emotional planning
Son/mother dynamic and how it’s a broken model
The power of vulnerability and the benefits of being real, especially in relationships
Why being present for your children is arguably the best thing you can do for your children
Why people drink and do drugs:
How he stays in touch with people that are important to him and wants them to know they matter
Why relationships dissipate