Courage and Spice for Coaches: build your Self-belief and Business in under 30mins a week

You are in for a treat folks - in this week's episode I am joined by not one, but three wonderful coaches:  Liz Keifer, Susan Sutherland and Marion Langford. They work with leaders, midlife people and people who want to show up as their true selves. Liz, Susan and Marion are are effervescent, laugh out loud funny, and full of wisdom and experience. They are also Self-belief Coaches who gradua...

How do we as practitioners, work with our own self-doubt? After three rounds of the Self-Belief Coaching Academy, what I know is that coaches, therapists, counsellors and mentors experience a lot of Very Understandable self-doubt. We are always learning the craft of coaching while building a business - these are bot complex tasks and most of us feel like we are constantly on our 'growth edge&...

It's the 100th episode of Courage + Spice (how did that happen?!) so I’m sharing my 10 year business journey with you all this week. It starts with a poem that I wrote one Sunday night with the Monday dreads and brings us to today with the fourth class of the Self-belief Coaching Academy opening for enrolment, and Self-Belief School about to run for the first time. So what’s this episode real...

I’m thrilled to be talking with Bear Hebert today. They are an anti-capitalist business coach and radical consultant and social justice educator. Bear also has a side hustle teaching men how to unlearn patriarchal bad behaviour. I just love Bear’s work, I am so glad they are here. Last year I purchased Freely – Bear’s anti-capitalist guide to pricing and it was SO helpful and educational - I learn...

Maggie Reyes is a marriage coach who specialises in helping Type A women have better marriages - without waiting for their partners to do something and without adding to their already jam-packed lives. I’ve known Maggie for years and years and this is the second time we’ve chatted, talk about the OG’s of the coaching world! I really hope you enjoy this episode, there’s almost too much goodness ins...

We’ve got something a little different this week - I’m thrilled to have a few letters coming in from you folks and these are both related to self-doubt and decision making. Thank you so much for trusting me with your questions! I just want to re- assure all my listeners who are grappling with a specific decision like my listener Rosie, or you resonate with Mel’s overthinking and second-guessing, i...

I’m here this week with the one and only Maria Evans, a coach and mentor for teens, helping them to own their future, take on challenges in the times ahead as well as making sense of the ones they are dealing with now. I’ve been so excited to talk with Maria because if there is one thing I get asked all the time it’s: ‘how do we install self-belief in our kids?’ I’m not a parent and I don’t really...

Word of the year but make it disco Welcome to 2022 If you are tuning into this episode in real time I hope you got what you needed from the holiday break. I actually rested - last summer i practiced rest and slowing down with mixed results. My over functioning self that spent decades finding safety in doing was not very good at not doing. Over Christmas I found it much easier, for a start I was wa...

As we come to the end of 2021, we have almost 150 thousand families in the UK grieving the loss of loved ones from Covid19, about 1 in 4 people are looking to change their job in the next 12 months and divorces and separations have massively increased over this pandemic period. I know for many of us there is grief, loss and endings in many shapes and forms. It doesn’t seem to matter if endings are...

Content note: this episode contains a discussion about dysfunctional relationships with alcohol that may be difficult for folks new to recovery. Whenever I talk about my sobriety on Instagram I get a tonne of DM’s, so I’m overjoyed to have the wonderful Karen Johnston, champion of self-love, self-care and self-compassion, on the podcast today. Karen Marie Johnston is an advocate of women who are s...

It was love at first sight with this weeks guest, the glorious Pippa Parfait. We met a dozen moons  ago at a posh party in London and we have been firm friends ever since. Pippa has had decades of experience before she retrained as a coach, leading big teams and sorting out big companies. This super resourceful lady now runs Disobedient Business, is a strategy whiz who totally gets systems and tec...

This episode is about, self-doubt, love, attachment theory and…burgers! If you're sad at the prospect of being alone forever, terrified of settling for someone you don’t really like anymore, if you are convinced that there is only one true soul mate out there for you, if you are dating complete arses, or Insta stalking your ex, if you feel like the entire model of coupledom forever is just no...

Dr Suzy Darke is a business coach like no other! I see her growing a quiet rebellion, inviting us to challenge the kinds of practices we all take for granted as business owners. Suzy is a coach, a mentor, a writer and she’s also a graduate of the Self-Belief Coaching Academy! Having spent six months in her company I’ve found her to be deeply empathic, she has an enormous heart, but she also has a...

It’s my birthday week - I'm 48 - and I thought I’d share five big birthday thoughts for you.   This episode is a bit sweary so one for your earphones if you have little ones around. So what's this episode really about? Life is RIDICULOUS - and we are constantly making this up. We are in this super interesting time of trying to identify ourselves - all of us yelling at each other: THIS IS...

Hello folks if you aren’t following Keri Jarvis on Instagram then what are you even doing here?! Keri is an audacious feminist, a socialist, a speaker and leader of courses and business masterminds and a self belief coach. But more importantly, she a coach who is hear to answer, ‘who do you think you are?’ We have just spent the last six months together in the Self Belief Business Academy and Keri...

Perfectionism is a protective belief that if you were perfect you will be safe. That's the bottom line. It can be any area of your life. It is also one of the most subtle and sophisticated forms of self-doubt. In this episode, we are going to talk about what perfectionism actually is in relation to self-doubt, but also a little bit about how this shows up for you, particularly in that protect...

In this episode, I'm talking with Ellie Swift, Marketing and Mindset coach, who is also my business coach. We've been working together for almost a year and in that time my business has completely changed. I was really ready for things to shift when we started working together and I would never have believed it would look the way it does today! Ellie is a triple threat of strategy, marke...

Welcome back! If you enjoy a bit of ‘behind the scenes’ details, I’m sharing what we’ve been up to over the Summer: a brand new website, a bespoke learning platform, sorting out our back-end systems, new team members – its been a fun time. I share the three key questions I’ve been asking to help guide our approach to shorter and more focused work weeks.  Plus: if you are looking for some simple wa...

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So fun to be in conversation with Rae McDaniel!  Rae is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor,  a Gender and Certified Sex Therapist and Coach who works with folks feeling anxious and lost about a transition they’re experiencing in sex, gender, sexual identity, or relationships.   Having been raised by travelling puppeteer missionaries, Rae also has the most incredible story of becoming who t...

Thinking in binaries – it's this or it’s that, I’m a success or a failure; emotions, entire food groups, people are either good or bad – is a massive part of how our self-doubt holds us back. The sneaky thing is that all or nothing thinking can feel necessary and legitimate! But it is always an illusion of safety. In this eisode we explore how all or nothing thinking might be showing up for y...

Two 'Listener Letters' for you today on what to do when you are feeling disappointed in other people.  Our first letter is from Joanne who writes one of the funniest letters I’ve received – about her sister-in-law who won’t get a Covid vaccine. And another letter from a trainee coach who is feeling disappointed and disillusioned by her teacher and is wondering if the whole coaching indus...

For all you self-employed folks out there, who feel a bit confused, hesitant, and maybe a bit anxious about legal compliance, this episode is for you. Ingrid Fernandez of Dec + Dash Legal Consulting joins us to chat about all things legal for your business. Ingrid is a lawyer, parent, small business owner – she aces! She knows how hard it can be to wear all the hats and be all the things when you...

This week we are opening up the mailbag for a couple of Listener Letters about self-doubt and social media. Shannon is getting stuck in comparison and Mariki is feeling uncomfortable with her constant checking habit. If you find your self-doubt is activated by social media (in other words if you have a human brain) then this episode is for you.  We talk about what might be going on underneath thes...

So excited to share this episode with you! Self-belief Coaching is about understanding the root causes of the doubts, worries, and fears that hold you back.  It’s not your mama’s life coaching! We don’t sugar coat the muck and bullets of life, offer Captain Obvs advice and we sure as s**t don’t ‘do’ manifesting. Instead we explore the very good reasons why self-doubt is showing up, how to have you...