Episode 26: Gerdi Verwoert

by | Jan 17, 2022 | Coaching outdoors, Highlights

“The work that I do, is in the large part, reconnecting people with themselves, through reconnecting them with nature”

Gerdi Voerwoert, is a Self-Leadership Coach from ‘Dare Greatly Coaching, a Hiking Guide, Ski Instructor and Host of ‘Daring Self-Leadership and the Nature Connection’ podcast.

She joins us to talk about the impact of the corporate world on her own personal health and her daring decision to shift her world from the Netherlands to Austria to live amongst the mountains

Gerdi talks about the concept and importance of self-leadership, the differences of being a coach and/or guide, reconnecting clients with themselves through nature and the need for safety when taking people into the mountains.

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Our guest

Gerdi Verwoert is a Dutch former project manager and consultant forced to reconsider how she lived life when she went through a major burnout.

While hiking in the Austrian Alps she had the life-changing experience of knowing with every cell in her body that she had come HOME.

4 Years later she quit her successful career, moved to Austria and started working as a certified mountain hiking guide.
Because many of the conversations with her guests turned into coaching conversations she also became a certified coach.

Though connecting people with Nature has and always come first for Gerdi, supporting her clients as they find answers they didn’t know they were looking for has become an important part of her work.

Elle Smith