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I'm DR CHANDRA ERDMAN,

but you can call me  Chan.

I help high-potential humans create and live their next-level vision.

At Google, I help teams clarify their values, vision and mission, and then bring those visions to life. As a Life Coach, I help high-potential humans do the same.

I’m a master goal-getter and Statistics PhD.

My colleagues at Google call me an inspiration, a force multiplier, and the person who gets everyone to actually do the things they say they want to do.

Whether you already have clearly-identified goals or are feeling like it’s time to address that nagging feeling of discontent and lack of purpose, Chandra's course will plant seeds of motivation and provide practical tools for working toward living your life by design and intention rather than by default.
Katie Lukas
Katie Lukas
Chandra has helped my teams create clear, ambitious goals, develop action plans that allow us to see a path to the finish line, and instill the structure and diligence to actually get there.
Adam Gabai
Adam Gabai
As a Yale graduate student, I've gone to a lot of seminars. Chandra's story was one of the most inspiring I've heard in years! I was so inspired after hearing her talk that I reached out to her for some guidance and advice. In one session, she helped me think through different possible paths in my future based on what would best match my passions. We discussed how to best achieve those goals, and she motivated me into immediate action!
Ivy Zhang
Ivy Zhang
I kept hearing my colleagues say they wanted to complete a specific course to deepen their knowledge in our area, but people were struggling to follow through on it. Chandra created the structure, motivation, and accountability that got people across three teams at Google (myself included) to actually start and complete the 13-week course (in just 9 weeks)!
Kelly Helmreich
Kelly Helmreich
Chandra’s course is inspirational, thought provoking, and transformative. Chandra has a unique ability to inspire and encourage you to not only dream big, but to transform your dreams into actions, conquer them, and enhance your overall quality of life. This course pushed me to dig deep and identify my individual goals and dreams. All while providing me with key tools to live out my life’s purpose and succeed in the goals I set out for myself.
Maia Jackson
Maia Jackson
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I found this work because of my own torment…

I thought I was gonna die.

Even though I was just chillin’ at home, my heart was pounding like I had just sprinted. 

I couldn’t breathe. So I thought, “I’m gonna die.”

And then I blacked out.

This happened several times before I went to see a physician. 

I walked in and told the doctor, with certainty, that something was wrong with my lungs.

After an exam, the doc told me, with certainty, that my lungs were fine. I was having panic attacks. 

Oh.

I wasn’t gonna die. (At least not then. 😉 )

I had panic attacks for years after that visit to the doctor. But each time it happened,
instead of thinking “I’m gonna die,” I thought, “I’m having a panic attack.” 

And I never blacked out again. 

Amazing. 

If I was literally suffocating myself by believing I was gonna die,
what other life-giving experiences were my beliefs keeping me from?

What could I accomplish in this world if I didn’t believe my brain each time it said “I can’t.”?

10 THINGS I DID BECAUSE I BELIEVED (after a lot of work in some cases) I COULD

  1. I’m the first Black person to earn the PhD in Statistics from Yale.
  2. I created software that’s been cited by hundreds of scientists across the globe and used to make advancements in everything from climate change to cancer and Covid-19 research.
  3. I’ve met and partied with Beyonce. (I got two separate invitations to her birthday party! And am still working on the belief that I’m nowhere near as cool as this makes me seem 😉 )
  4. I won a Google Global Business award for Thought Leadership and Problem Solving.
  5. I won an amateur stand up comedy contest in DC.
  6. I’ve been to ~25 countries, about half of which I got to travel to for speaking engagements.
  7. At age 15, I enrolled in college full time and skipped my junior and senior years of high school.
  8. I worked up to a 200-pound squat.
  9. As a grown adult, I used floating devices to teach myself to swim and then completed a triathlon (finishing dead last in the open-water swim 😉 ) I was so slow that rescuers brought a boat out to take me back to shore. I declined the ride.)
  10. And most impactful, I’m no longer flooded with anxiety the second I open my eyes each morning.

Even though my panic attacks were less severe after I learned that they were “just” panic attacks, for a long time I couldn’t figure out why I had such pervasive anxiety. 

And even though I realized that when I believed I could do something I was always right about it, I still didn’t know how to get myself to believe I could do the things I wanted to do but didn’t think I could. The things that felt too scary. Or not meant for someone like me.

I tried to figure these things out with talk therapy, CBT, EMDR, support groups…

I took medication. 

I used alcohol to give me “courage” and ease my worries.

It wasn’t until life coaching that I learned tools that do both of those things, never make me numb or hungover, and keep me focused on the present and future rather than the past. 

Therapy was helpful (and is necessary) sometimes, but I left so many sessions feeling sad because I thought I was broken, and overwhelmed because I thought I had a lifetime of badness to work through before I’d be “better.” “Fixed.”

Life coaching acknowledges my past experiences, but keeps me in the possibility of what I’m capable of right now, despite, or even because of them.

What could you accomplish if you believed in the possibility of it?

If you didn’t think you needed fixing before you could move forward?

If you could get a clear picture of what you want, and no longer believe your brain when it says “I can’t”? 

Could

you…

Start a business?

Write a book?

Have a career you love?

Beautiful relationships?

Make more money? 

Stick to a workout routine?

Love your body?

Focus?

Calm your anxiety?

It’s my mission to help you find out.

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