The Wellness Coaching Conversation

Tune in for a heart to heart about what's next for Brian and Lori. We see you coaches, and we appreciate you immensely!

How do we build confidence in our coaching when confronted with difficult or uncomfortable situations? Brian and Lori discuss this!

Brian and Lori talk about how to harness motivation in our clients, and ways in which we can do a better job.

Season 3 begins! Todays topic revolves around ambivalence when our clients need to make a change. Challenge, transformation, change, oh my!

In the ever changing coaching career world, how can coaches diversify their skills to be marketable, seek interesting new positions or to have a different niche coaching career or side hustle? Brian and Lori offer some possibilities.

Brian and Lori discuss a tool Brian received recently which is called Ikigai. Together they dissect how to use this Okinawan tradition in coaching others and use themselves as examples. Brian and Lori do a little role-playing using this tool as well and go off on some tangents (as usual). Below is a link to the video they talk about. YouTube video: How to Ikigai Tool for using Ikigai

Brian and Lori talk about possible ways to include old dreams in our coaching with clients as we ring in the new year, bringing back regrets that no longer have to be in the rearview mirror but that can maybe be brought back into light and can help inspire current goals. Go down the rabbit hole with Brian and Lori, it will be fun!

Brian and Lori talk about the new year, new goals, and connections with others. We talk about how we can and must take time to process our own feelings and emotions and how that work translates to the work with our clients; the thought of embodiment in change in the year ahead. Brian has a message to all coaches, see if you can tell what that message is * hint , he says it a few times.

The holidays are a time of fun and excitement but they can equally be a time of loneliness, stress and chaos. How can we better help our clients cope this this. Lori and Brian unpack this a bit to be helpful.

In the last episode we talked about how to discuss the difficult things going on in the world with our clients and have compassion for them in these tumultuous times. In this episode we turn it back to us as coaching and how we take care of ourselves in tumultuous times.

What can we say during coaching sessions when clients say they are upset with the news of the nation and world? Brian and Lori brainstorm ways to talk with clients in thoughtful ways.

Brian and Lori talk through some great questions you can ask clients during sessions that can really dig deeper toward greater development in sessions. We 'crack open' some more provocative questions and go in depth as to why you may want to do this more often. Get ready to get excited about coaching conversations and asking amazing questions that deepen your practice.

This episode takes a look at what is and what could be. We interview a professional unicorn.....not really, but when you hear her bio you will see why we call her this. We talk with Dr. Uta Bellin MD, NBC-HWC, and ACC; how and why she decided to integrate wellness coaching into her practice, and what she sees as the future of coaching in medicine. You will certainly gain insight from this podcast...

Brian and Lori are back on the first episode of the season talking about why coaches matter more than ever! We keep it real, discussing what's important in our conversations with our clients and how we best can offer that.

We asked Mark Douglas back on the show again to gain his thoughts and expertise about a current hot button topic! Special guest Mark Douglas along with Brian and Lori, share thoughts, benefits and concerns about the integration of AI into healthcare, coaching, and the world in general. It's always an interesting and thought provoking experience to conversate about different aspects that are affect...

Brian and Lori interview Mark Douglas, a longtime digital health and healthcare senior executive and consultant, who takes us on a deep dive into the world of startups. From the meaning of often-heard but not always-understood terms, to the lifecycle of the start-up itself, Mark helps us understand this confusing landscape from an insider's point of view. He also answers questions relevant to the...

Lori and Brian discuss how confidence plays into nearly all client coaching conversations, and how we weave in skills and tools to support the client in the increase of theirs.

In this episode, Brian and Lori discuss how wellness topics weave into all parts of a client's life, and cannot be easily separated. Lori and Brian break down the wellness thread/components of conversations in coaching and how barriers to success can be opened up, even if it's a little bit out of our scope of practice, and how to listen and redirect back to coaching.

In this episode, Brian and Lori gleefully discuss the "practicality of the artful interruption" when you need to interrupt a client during a coaching session. When is this the right thing to do? How do we do it? Why do we do it?

Brian and Lori talk through the difficult situations coaches find themselves in during real world conversations. Brian and Lori geek out on what happens and some possible ways to deal with clients who don't seem to stay on task working towards progress, and won't stop talking.

In this episode, Brian lends his knowledge of the ways in which coaches, including Lori, could be proving their worth and why that's important. Brian provides excellent information to allow each coach to think about how you will track your progress, and be able to provide 'demonstrable evidence' and value as a coach.

Most people currently coaching didn't start off as a coach. In this episode we learn how and why Brian and Lori individually got into coaching. We each share our stories of the individual and unique path to coaching, how we did it, and our ideas and opinions about it.

What happens when you don't want to have your own coaching business? How can one look for a coaching job in your niche that will allow you to get experience and not feel you have to hustle to get work? Lori tells the story of how she obtained her current position at a University and offers some perspective and ideas for what she did to integrate coaching more into her job that started off part-tim...

Hello Wellness Coaching Corner Listeners! I have recruited a new host, Brian Douglas to co-host with me. We introduce Brian, explain how and why this has happened, and begin the transformation from The Wellness Coaching Corner to....the Wellness Coaching Conversation. Please join us on this exciting journey in 2023!!!