#10Years10Stories | Mike Clouse | Story #5

2025-11-16

In this special 10-year anniversary series celebrating Figure That Shift Out, we’re sharing ten stories of transformation, moments when leaders figured it out not by pushing harder, but by seeing more clearly. In this episode, Mike shares what happens when a coach realizes he needs a coach. By the time we met in 2016, Mike was already years into executive coaching. He’d found the work he was made to do and had just launched his own practice. The goal wasn’t to build an empire, it was to st...

In this special 10-year anniversary series celebrating Figure That Shift Out, we’re sharing ten stories of transformation, moments when leaders figured it out not by pushing harder, but by seeing more clearly.

In this episode, Mike shares what happens when a coach realizes he needs a coach.

By the time we met in 2016, Mike was already years into executive coaching. He’d found the work he was made to do and had just launched his own practice. The goal wasn’t to build an empire, it was to stay close to the work that mattered most. But there was one problem: he jumped in before he had a framework.

He didn’t want formulas that told people who to be; he wanted something deep enough to meet leaders where they are and help them discover who they are. A few weeks into Figure That Shift Out, something clicked. This wasn’t another tool, it was the work itself.

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