In Week 5, we’re talking about personal accountability, your personal brand and the personal impact “of faking it” it in your job, career and life. It can be very easy to slip into habits and patterns that are not aligned with our authentic selves, and as a result, get ourselves stuck.In this episode, Amelia catches up for coffee with Dave Lourdes, to talk about these topics on a personal level. Dave is a renowned corporate coach in Australia and he’s a trainer, leader and conference facilitator. Dave has enjoyed over 25 years of experience, with 700 workshops, seminars and events under his belt and he's the founder of his company Evolving Human Potential. In his experience, he's come to know and see the experience of feeling stuck. He knows when he is feeling stuck, he recognises it, knowing that it will motivate him internally to face into the “stuckness” and go to the next level. Dave is deeply reflective in his life purpose and work, and he regularly anchors himself back to his stated and written goals, crediting this approach to overcoming crippling social phobias that he had in his early life. Dave shares the observations of the physical impacts of being stuck in his clients and believes that your physiology drives your neurology. His advice for people who are feeling stuck is to first acknowledge it and be brutally honest with yourself, think about where you are in your current aspirations and ensure alignment with your blueprint. If your aspirations don’t fit with your blueprint than you are going to start to feel unhappy and this leads to unnecessary suffering. To reach the “point of enough” he says, we have to have - awareness, accountability and confidence. Dave also believes that in order for us to stop “faking it” at work, and in life – we need to starting facing it till we make it.Dave is big on personal brand and he believes that it, our reputation, is the most important personal asset we own. He says, our personal brand is about what contribute and it shows up at the extremes of emotions and experiences. In this episode, Dave also gives an overview of the HBDI® assessment profile tool, our 'thinking preferences' and how they can give you new perspectives on how you: think, communicate, collaborate, and solve problems. He reminds us that any strength overused will become a weakness.Here are the research links referenced throughout this episode: Forbes (May 2017) - "If you fake your emotions at work, research shows you're probably going to be miserable" https://bit.ly/36bnSb5 Lucy Gower, Lucidity - https://bit.ly/2pYbECo  The HBDI® - Hermann Australia - https://www.herrmann.com.au/And, if you would like to connect with Dave, you can contact him directly via:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davelourdes/Email: [email protected] Website: davelourdes.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dave.trusted.leader.influence/ If you have a question that you would like answered, or you would like to connect with Ann and Amelia directly, you can email: [email protected] can also join our Career and Coffee community on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/career-and-coffee-podcast/And find us on Instagram for bonus content: instagram.com/podcastcareerandcoffee