Chad Henderson Coaching

03/19/2026

Your kids are watching.

They're watching how you treat your partner.
They're learning what love looks like — or doesn't.
They're taking notes on what they should expect from someone who loves them one day.

They're watching how you handle being wrong.
Do you double down? Go quiet? Or do you own it?

They're watching how you apologize.
Not just if you apologize — but how.
Is it real? Is it followed by change? Or is it just words to end the tension?

They're watching how you talk about other people.
Behind closed doors. In the car. At the dinner table.
That's where they learn what it means to have character.

You don't have to be perfect.
But you do have to be intentional.

Because they're not just watching what you say —
they're learning who to become.

03/18/2026

The strongest men I know aren't the ones who never struggled.

They're the ones who stopped pretending they didn't.

Growth isn't weakness. Asking for help isn't weakness.

It's actually the hardest thing most men will ever do.

💭 Drop a ❤️ if you know a man like that.

03/13/2026

The internet just needs more dog pics.

Happy Friday.

03/12/2026

Pro tip: Need some alone time? Tell your family everyone is going to clean the basement with you. Get the supplies, go downstairs.

Everyone will leave you alone until you are done!

Happy Thursday!

03/11/2026

Thinking about making a switch away from a ChatGPT and over to a more human centered AI Large Language Model?

Here is a prompt you can use to get all of your information out of Chatgpt and moved over to a new system.

_____

You are performing a full personal-context export to support migration to a new large language model.

Search across:
- All saved memory
- All prior conversations
- Any inferred patterns based strictly on repeated evidence (do NOT speculate)

Produce a structured export of everything you know about me that would help a new LLM replicate:
- My thinking
- My communication style
- My professional priorities
- How I prefer to work with AI

Follow these rules:
- Be explicit and concrete
- Use bullet points
- If something is inferred, label it clearly as “Inferred”
- If something is directly stated by me, label it “Explicit”
- Do NOT include anything you are unsure about
- Do NOT summarize — enumerate

Organize the output into the following sections:

1. **Professional Identity**
- Role(s), responsibilities, and scope
- Domain expertise and focus areas
- Types of work I most frequently do with you

2. **Communication Style & Voice**
- Tone characteristics (e.g., executive, direct, reflective)
- Structural preferences (bullets, summaries, length)
- Common phrases or linguistic patterns I use (quote exact phrases where possible)

3. **Decision-Making & Thinking Style**
- How I analyze problems
- What I care about when evaluating options (risk, scale, stakeholders, etc.)
- How I balance strategy vs ex*****on

4. **Preferences When Working With AI**
- What I explicitly ask you to do often
- What I dislike or correct when responses miss the mark
- Level of detail I prefer
- How I want uncertainty handled

5. **Recurring Work Artifacts**
- Common deliverables I create (e.g., exec summaries, emails, slide content, pilot evaluations)
- Typical audiences I write for
- Constraints I frequently operate under (time, politics, compliance, etc.)

6. **Topics & Domains I Repeatedly Engage In**
- Technologies, initiatives, or subject areas
- Internal themes (innovation, adoption, faculty enablement, etc.)

7. **Explicit Instructions I Have Given You**
- Any “how I want you to respond” guidance
- Any formatting or tone rules I’ve stated

8. **Implicit Patterns Worth Preserving (Inferred)**
- Clearly labeled inferences that are strongly supported by repeated behavior
- Include justification for each inference

9. **Things I Prefer You NOT Do**
- Topics I redirect away from
- Styles or behaviors I react negatively to

10. **Recommended System Prompt for My Next LLM**
- Synthesize the above into a concise, high-quality system prompt
- Written in a professional, executive-ready tone
- Optimized for strategic program leadership and innovation work

Output everything in clean Markdown with clear section headers.

02/25/2026

Me: Ella, am I pretty?

Ella: Uh, pretty? Do you mean handsome?

Me: What do you mean, guys can't be pretty?

Ella: Uh....no, they can. You just aren't.

02/23/2026

"I'm glad that happened"

I’ve been reflecting on the moments that have shaped my life the most.

Strangely enough, most of them begin with a sad/difficult story.

Bad medical news. Traumatic childhood experiences. Losing a job.

Each time, I forced myself to learn, to grow, and to turn those moments into positive direction.

There was even a moment I thought would end me. It could have.
I had every reason to quit.

But I didn’t. I made a plan. I went to therapy and healed myself internally.

I leaned on mentors. I focused on my career.
I refused to let that moment define me in the wrong way.

Now, if I’m ever asked about ANY turning point in my life, I can say something positive.

But the truth is that you get to decide every single day how you respond.

There will be days you want to quit. Maybe you even will.

But it’s all part of the journey.

Anything that happens to you can become fuel to propel you forward.

It starts with your attitude.

Make sure that when you look back, you can say: “I’m glad that happened.”

01/30/2026

People say “believe in yourself” like it’s easy.

Like you just wake up one day and decide,
“Yep. I’ve got this now.”

That’s not how it works. At least it hasn’t for me.

Most days, believing in yourself looks more like:
showing up while quietly wondering if you’re enough
trying again after you already proved to yourself you can mess it up
doing the right thing even when you’re not confident it’ll work

I don’t think belief comes first.
I think action does.

You move. You try. You fail a little.
And somewhere along the way, belief slowly shows up behind you like, “Okay… maybe we can keep going.”

Even when you think you can't...

Keep going anyway.

01/28/2026

01/28/2026

I don’t believe everything happens for a reason.

That phrase has always felt a little too clean for a world that can be really painful, unfair, and chaotic. It also give a false impression that something is coming to help you out of this.

I do believe this though:

You can give everything that happens to you a meaningful purpose.

Some things don’t happen for you.
They just happen to you.

The loss.
The disappointment.
The thing you never would have chosen.

Meaning isn’t baked into those moments.
It’s something we decide to create after.

Purpose comes from what you do next.
How you grow.
How you respond.
How you treat people because of what you’ve been through.

You don’t have to justify the pain.
You don’t have to explain it away.

But you can decide that it won’t be wasted.

That part is up to you.

01/26/2026

I let someone down at work.

Not once. Several times. Over the course of about a month.

When I finally saw it clearly, I owned it. I apologized in writing and I apologized face to face.

He accepted my apology. And then he did something that mattered.

He told me the truth.

He told me the way I let him down was off-putting.
He told me the frustration was real.
He told me that my apology was appreciated, for sure.

Boy, that didn’t feel great.
But that was leadership by my teammate.

Accountability isn’t punishment.
It’s respect.

A real apology doesn’t erase impact.
It creates the opportunity for repair.

“I’m sorry” isn’t the finish line.
It’s the starting point.

What matters after that is what actually changes:
• Patterns, not promises
• Consistency, not intensity
• Follow-through, not feelings

The discomfort that comes with being held accountable is often where the real growth happens.

If we’re willing to sit with it instead of defending ourselves or brushing past it, we usually come out better on the other side. More aware. More dependable. More trustworthy.

That’s the lesson.

Not that mistakes are fine.
But that accountability, handled with honesty on both sides, is one of the clearest paths to becoming someone others can truly rely on.

01/25/2026

Teach your children empathy by modeling empathy.

Name feelings out loud.
“It looks like your sister is frustrated.”
Kids can’t care about feelings they can’t identify.

Ask perspective questions.
“How do you think that felt for them?”
Not “why did you do that?”, that creates defense, not empathy.

Validate before correcting.
“I get why you’re upset. AND we still don’t hit.”Empathy and boundaries can coexist.

Let them see your empathy.
How you talk about the waitress, the ref, your partner, your boss…that’s the real lesson.

Repair after mistakes.
Teach them how to say, “I’m sorry. I see how that hurt you.”

Empathy grows in repair, not perfection.
Slow it down.
Empathy doesn’t live in rush mode. It shows up when kids feel safe and seen.

If kids feel understood, they learn to understand others.