We recently connected with Jessica Karl Rice and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Jessica, thanks for joining us today. Who is your hero and why? What lessons have you learned from them and how have they influenced your journey?

I don’t have a single hero – I have many.

My clients are my hero. They boldly share their vulnerability, looking honestly at what changes they can make to create a greater impact and change. They dig deep within and put aside excuses to find their truth.

My mentors are my hero. They believed in me before I believed in myself, demonstrating the full impact of a being coach. They helped me to carve a path and find a way forward.

Fellow coaches are my hero. They show up everyday with empathy and love to help others achieve greatness. It is not through ego, but through joining in the journey with their clients.

Each of these people come from diverse backgrounds and careers and have chosen to do something for the betterment of themselves and humanity.

Whether client or coach, those bravely doing the inner work are my heros.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

My name is Jessica Karl Rice. I am an executive vision and transformation coach partnering with creatives, leaders, and entrepreneurs to expand their vision and align their purpose. Together we journey into your greatest passions, hopes, and fears to maximize your impact and reach new levels of growth and success.

Our coaching relationship is just that – a relationship. Together we co-create your vision and execute a plan to reach it – and know that what you have inside is possible.

Whether you are building a brand or running an established company, we work to break through barriers, map out goals, and strategize how to move from belief to expansion. Through transformative executive and business coaching, we work through your ideas so that can fluidly create and live an exponential life.

If you are a creative, visionary, or entrepreneur exploring your deeper calling, explore your BIG why and what you need to design your unique path as you embark on the most important journey of your life.

My clients are founders and visionary leaders. If you are looking to grow your vision and develop systems for up-leveling your impact and brand.

I have a background in web development and design, brand strategy, and leadership development with Fortune 500 eCommerce and high profile government.

My journey to coaching is where I found my greater purpose and calling in helping others empower themselves and expand in their careers, businesses, leadership and lives; to activate their vision and align with their higher calling.

Live your path, Love your journey.

Can you share a story from your journey that illustrates your resilience?

I had stopped attending college for a time due to becoming involved in a bad relationship. After managing to leave the relationship, my mom enrolled me back into college in a pre-calculus class she and I both attended. She had gotten into web design and decided she wanted to complete her degree. So, we embarked on the new path together, moving into attending the same university and major.

My senior year, I had started to experience medical GI issues. I had been working a few jobs while finishing up my degree and I was experiencing a lot of stress trying to complete my requirements and working late nights. My doctor wasn’t sure what was going on and after several tests I started feeling hopeless.

I finally became so ill, having lost extreme amounts of weight, my parents took me to the hospital after a conversation where my speech patterns were slurred from dehydration.

A week into my hospital stay my colon ruptured from having advanced stages of ulcerative colitis and was given an emergency ileostomy. It took six months to recover and become strong enough for my second surgery to reverse the colectomy.

School allowed for me to postpone my completion. After my second surgery, I was able to complete my capstone project for my major in web design and digital animation, a combination emphasis. I lined up my first job as a user-interface designer, and my mom, who had held off on getting her degree to wait for me, and I walked together at graduation.

How do you keep your team’s morale high?

Managing teams is all about service.

Leaning into what they are passionate about and drawing it out of them individually and collectively.

Transitioning from an IC to a leader requires you to step back from being in the spotlight to becoming the creative director of a theater production. You have the larger vision, but you shine the spotlight in the team members. You take the responsibility for when things fail and you give them credit when something succeeds.

Managing is all about being the person “behind the curtain” and working with members of your team to grow and expand both personally and within their roles for the betterment and health of the organization.

Leadership sounds glamorous, but it is all about humility, empathy, belief, trust, and empowerment.

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