When Jesse Janelle was in elementary school, she experienced a lot of anxiety. When feeling panicked, she went to the nurses' office, visiting there regularly. Jesse didn’t know it then, but this is where her personal and professional development journey began. One day, 11-year-old Jesse was in the nurse's office having a particularly bad panic attack. The nurse called in the guidance counselor, who was asked to help sometimes. Jesse must have been extra anxious this time because the guidance counselor shook her by the shoulders and yelled, “Stop it right now,” in her face. At that moment, Jesse became disassociated from her body. Her thoughts separated from her ‘felt sense’: her ability to know what was happening in her body. Jesse later understood this to be her sense of self-trust.

Going into high school and then college, Jesse was high-performing. Attending Boston College, she got straight A's. Because she wasn't feeling connected to her body, she intellectualized many of her struggles. Jesse studied psychology and meditation, attaching deep academic and intellectual perspectives to those arenas. Around her graduation from college, Jesse began to connect with those areas in a felt way, enabling her to be more in touch with who she really was.

Jesse's professional career began as an intern at Harvard Medical School's Institute of Coaching in its founding years, where she got immersed in evidence-based coaching research. As her experience and expertise grew, she consulted and coached leaders in top organizations such as McKinsey, Mass General Hospital, The Walt Disney Company, and Amazon.

Today, Jesse is the founder and CEO of Gemini Leadership. She is an ICF-certified transformational coach and speaker. Jesse has distilled her learnings from her work in leadership development, psychology, ontology, somatics, and spirituality into a coaching method she calls Soul Sessions. This method is grounded in metaphor coaching and intuitive inquiry. This method can be learned and applied independently of a professional coaching session. Using a surprising tool, tarot cards, Jesse helps professionals access and unlock the power of their intuition to make better decisions faster.

In this week’s Work From The Inside Out podcast, learn more about Jesse’s journey:

• Jesse was selected in 2022 for the inaugural cohort of Forefront, powered by Marshall Goldsmith and the 100 coaches, for her impact on the field of leadership development.
• In 2023, she delivered her TEDx talk, The Power of Self-Trust.

Learn more and connect with Jesse here:

www.geminileadership.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jesjanelle

https://www.facebook.com/Jes30se/

https://www.instagram.com/jessejanelle

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