Espresso with Coops

Welcome back to another episode of Espresso with Coops, and this season I’m chatting to a brilliant guest in each episode about a belief they have changed their mind about, and the wider impact that’s had in their lives. As ever we’re focused on… ☕ Small sips. Big shifts. My guest this week has another interesting and varied background, and so once again we could have spent all afternoon chatting...

Welcome back to another episode of Espresso with Coops, and this season I’m chatting to a brilliant guest in each episode about a belief they have changed their mind about, and the wider impact that’s had in their lives. As ever we’re focused on… ☕ Small sips. Big shifts. My guest this week is U.S. Marine Corps veteran turned technology executive, Tony Crescenzo. I could have spent the whole afte...

Welcome back to this new season of Espresso with Coops, where I’m chatting to a brilliant guest about a belief they have changed their mind about, and the wider impact that’s had in their lives. As ever we’re focused on… ☕ Small sips. Big shifts. My guest this week is the wonderful best-selling author Jane Green , whose books I devoured in the late 90s and early 00s, during my early corporate car...

Welcome back to this new season of coffee with coops, where I’m chatting to brilliant guest about a belief they have changed their mind about, and the wider impact that’s had in their lives. As ever we’re focused on… ☕ Small sips. Big shifts. My guest this week is Martyn Davies, who I’ve had the pleasure of crossing professional paths with a few times this year through his entertainment business,...

Welcome back to a new season of Espresso with Coops! As I’ve been hinting at, we’re back with a twist this time, as each episode I’ll be interviewing a guest about a belief they have changed their mind about, and the wider impact that’s had in their lives. So our intention here is till the same… ☕ Small sips. Big shifts. My first guest is the brilliant Clive Leach, international organisational an...

Where in your own life are you waiting for permission - logic, evidence, certainty - before you let yourself trust what you’re already feeling? That question sits at the heart of this finale, and if you’ve been with me this season, you might already recognise it. It’s turned up again and again, in different shapes, without me ever planning it that way. If any of these episodes gave you something t...

The penultimate episode of this season!! I keep noticing something I can’t quite explain. Everything feels hard at the moment, big things that need sorting, on the world stage and closer to home. And yet, absolutely underneath all of it, I feel, dare I say it, a little bit of hope. Unexplained. Uninvited. In this episode, I sit with the confusion of feeling hopeful without a reason, including the...

This week I’ve just got back from the European Conference on Positive Psychology, deep in talks on character strengths. Somewhere along the way I retook my own VIA profile. My new top strength: Love. Not what I expected. Take the free VIA Character Strengths Profile here . In this episode of Espresso with Coops: Freshly Ground, what a room full of psychologists from many different countries taught...

I recently had the pleasure of sharing a wonderful conversation with Jessica Tefenkgi Ruelle 🌸 for her podcast over at Whispers of Inner Power . We originally recorded our conversation via Substack Live, and if you’d like to tune in to more live conversations, as well as access all the articles and podcasts from Coffee with Coops whenever you like, you can find more on the Substack app. But don’t...

This week the word was metaphor, because the day after I did a Coaching Psychology CPD on using metaphor in coaching, I found myself testing it for real, dipping in the sea, asking my friend Jo a question I’d normally save for a coaching room. I asked her what the sea was telling her about her life right now. What came back stopped me, and it’s the cleanest example I’ve ever heard of why an image...

This week's word was loneliness because it’s Loneliness Awareness Week , and this year’s theme is Giving Loneliness a Voice. Not the lonely-because-you’re-alone kind. The quieter kind, the fog that rolls into a full, vibrant life and makes you feel like you’re the only one. In this episode of Espresso with Coops: Freshly Ground, I share where it crept up on me, plus three voices from Who’s Hungry?...

This week, the same word kept showing up; in a training room, on a walk with female founders, and in something I wrote in Coffee with Coops at the weekend. Expectations. Not the big dramatic kind. The quiet ones. The invisible standards we hold ourselves to. The scripts we write in our heads before life even shows up. The gap between what’s happening and what we decided should be happening. In thi...

Welcome back to my podcast, Espresso with Coops . Season 3, baby! If you’ve listened to previous seasons, you’ll know I’ve often touched on grief, sometimes directly, sometimes at the edges. This season, I wanted to slow it down and sit with it properly. Because grief doesn’t just arrive through bereavement. It shows up in break-ups, in diagnoses, in identity shifts, in the losses we don’t always...

Welcome back to my podcast, Espresso with Coops . Season 3, baby! If you’ve listened to previous seasons, you’ll know I’ve often touched on grief, sometimes directly, sometimes at the edges. This season, I wanted to slow it down and sit with it properly. Because grief doesn’t just arrive through bereavement. It shows up in break-ups, in diagnoses, in identity shifts, in the losses we don’t always...

Welcome back to my podcast, Espresso with Coops . Season 3, baby! If you’ve listened to previous seasons, you’ll know I’ve often touched on grief, sometimes directly, sometimes at the edges. This season, I wanted to slow it down and sit with it properly. Because grief doesn’t just arrive through bereavement. It shows up in break-ups, in diagnoses, in identity shifts, in the losses we don’t always...

Welcome back to my podcast, Espresso with Coops . Season 3, baby! If you’ve listened to previous seasons, you’ll know I’ve often touched on grief, sometimes directly, sometimes at the edges. This season, I wanted to slow it down and sit with it properly. Because grief doesn’t just arrive through bereavement. It shows up in break-ups, in diagnoses, in identity shifts, in the losses we don’t always...

Welcome back to my podcast, Espresso with Coops . Season 3, baby! If you’ve listened to previous seasons, you’ll know I’ve often touched on grief, sometimes directly, sometimes at the edges. This season, I wanted to slow it down and sit with it properly. Because grief doesn’t just arrive through bereavement. It shows up in break-ups, in diagnoses, in identity shifts, in the losses we don’t always...

Welcome back to my podcast, Espresso with Coops . Season 3, baby! If you’ve listened to previous seasons, you’ll know I’ve often touched on grief, sometimes directly, sometimes at the edges. This season, I wanted to slow it down and sit with it properly. Because grief doesn’t just arrive through bereavement. It shows up in break-ups, in diagnoses, in identity shifts, in the losses we don’t always...

Welcome to Espresso with Coops ☕️🎧. After an autumn of brewing, Season Two is finally here — and this is our closing episode. Espresso with Coops is short, sharp, and made for curious, thoughtful minds. In under 15 minutes, I’ll serve you a shot of wellbeing, stories, insights, and reflections = no fluff. Across the season, we’ve explored themes like burnout recovery, ADHD, joy guilt, movement,...

Welcome to Espresso with Coops ☕️🎧. After an autumn of brewing, Season Two is finally here. This podcast is short, sharp, and made for curious, creative minds. In under 15 minutes, I’ll serve you a shot of wellbeing, stories, insights, and reflections, no fluff. Every week, we’ll dive into themes like burnout recovery, ADHD, joy guilt, movement, creative courage, and post-traumatic growth. If yo...

Welcome to Espresso with Coops ☕️🎧. After an autumn of brewing, Season Two is finally here. This podcast is short, sharp, and made for curious, creative minds. In under 15 minutes, I’ll serve you a shot of wellbeing, stories, insights, and reflections, no fluff. Every week, we’ll dive into themes like burnout recovery, ADHD, joy guilt, movement, creative courage, and post-traumatic growth. If yo...

Welcome to Espresso with Coops ☕️🎧. After an autumn of brewing, Season Two is finally here. This podcast is short, sharp, and made for curious, creative minds. In under 15 minutes, I’ll serve you a shot of wellbeing, stories, insights, and reflections, no fluff. Every week, we’ll dive into themes like burnout recovery, ADHD, joy guilt, movement, creative courage, and post-traumatic growth. If yo...

Welcome to Espresso with Coops ☕️🎧. After an autumn of brewing, Season Two is finally here. This podcast is short, sharp, and made for curious, creative minds. In under 15 minutes, I’ll serve you a shot of wellbeing, stories, insights, and reflections, no fluff. Every week, we’ll dive into themes like burnout recovery, ADHD, joy guilt, movement, creative courage, and post-traumatic growth. If yo...

Welcome to Espresso with Coops ☕️🎧. After an autumn of brewing, Season Two is finally here. This podcast is short, sharp, and made for curious, creative minds. In under 15 minutes, I’ll serve you a shot of wellbeing, stories, insights, and reflections, no fluff. Every week, we’ll dive into themes like burnout recovery, ADHD, joy guilt, movement, creative courage, and post-traumatic growth. If yo...

This podcast is short, sharp, and made for curious, creative minds. In under 15 minutes, I’ll serve you a shot of wellbeing, stories, insights, and reflections, no fluff. Every week, we’ll dive into themes like burnout recovery, ADHD, joy guilt, movement, creative courage, and post-traumatic growth. If you’re seeking clarity, healing, or simply a reset, pour yourself a sip of espresso wisdom, and...