{"id":24120,"date":"2016-11-01T18:22:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T22:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/creator\/?p=24120"},"modified":"2020-04-03T16:08:25","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T20:08:25","slug":"40-40-gene-monterastelli-finds-ways-forge-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/ideas\/community-stories\/member-spotlight\/40-40-gene-monterastelli-finds-ways-forge-connections","title":{"rendered":"40 over 40: Gene Monterastelli finds ways to forge connections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Gene Monterastelli hails from Casper, Wyoming, which, with its long roads, has a \u201creally strong sense of interconnectedness throughout the whole state.\u201d Similarly, his work over the last 20 years focuses on connecting with others, helping them move past crippling hurdles, and becoming the strongest versions of themselves personally and professionally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gene<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

All of my clients have some sort of genius, but they don\u2019t have the infrastructure to share that genius with the world in the most efficient way. So when I do a good job helping them, I set them up to be a greater agent of change in the world.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After getting a computer science degree (\u201cI wrote up my first lines of computer code in 1986,\u201d he says. \u201cI was that dorky kid\u201d) and working for the large consulting firm Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), Monterastelli quit his day job\u2014on October 3, 1997 to be exact\u2014and has been self-employed ever since. As one-half of the APeX Ministries<\/a> duo, the 42-year-old evangelist travels all over the U.S. and Canada with his friend Brad Farmer, using sketch comedy and storytelling as a way of entertaining and enlightening middle school and high school students. (He\u2019s even freed himself from a straitjacket in the process.) When not on the road, the Brooklyn resident is at WeWork Williamsburg<\/a> heading Tapping Q & A<\/a>, where he helps small business owners \u201celiminate self-sabotage.\u201d In other words, says Monterastelli, \u201chalf of the work I do is just traditional business coaching, and half is figuring out the emotional reason why they\u2019re not taking the action they\u2019re taking.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gene Monterastelli hails from Casper, Wyoming, which, with its long roads, has a \u201creally strong sense of interconnectedness throughout the whole state.\u201d Similarly, his work over the last 20 years focuses on connecting with others, helping them move past crippling hurdles, and becoming the strongest versions of themselves personally and professionally. 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