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

Self-doubt is often characterised as an inner-critic or self-saboteur, but its SO much more sophisticated than that! In this episode, I introduce the concept of The Protector: a characterisation of self-doubt that you can meet with creativity and compassion. I share five key aspects of this part of your psyche including ideas for how to develop your relationship. This is a public episode. If you w...

A personal episode for me this week. I share how I have come to really own my preferences: from NOT camping to learning how to say a clean and boundaried 'no'. Twas not always thus! I sometimes joke that I am a Recovering People Pleaser, but I don't want to make light of what has been a huge developmental process. To own our preferences we must make peace with the possibility that w...

In this episode, I share why it's easy to get confused between your gut feeling and your self-doubt. This is particularly tricky when we are learning something new! Using Broadwell's model of competence we explore when your gut feeling is most reliable and how to tap into what it's telling you. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get...

It's episode 50 and two years since beginning the podcast! I thought it would be fun to revisit the very first episode: The Five P's of Self-doubt. In the first episode, I (somewhat tentatively!) shared my framework for how self-doubt works - how it responds to psychological risk and how we use the Five P's to keep ourselves safe from that risk. In this episode, I share how my theor...

If you have a vociferous inner-critic, this episode is for you! Everything outside of you, is neutral. It just IS. How you experience the world, is how you interpret it. Usually, we don't just have an experience, we have a lot of thoughts, feelings, judgements about the experience! In this episode, I share how most of us were never taught to be consciously aware of how we interpret neutral re...

The question I am asked The Most about my work is ' how can I feel more confident right now? ' And in this episode, I'm answering the question! Most of us want to feel confident so we can do and say what we want to do and say. We have some imaginary version of what would be possible if we had more confidence: who we would be, much more awesome our lives would be. But what most of us...

In this episode, we explore a concept from developmental psychology that our growth as adults is partly about increasing our capacity to understand, reflect on and respond to two key psychological states: sameness and difference. I see the infinity loop as symbolic of this process that we are always moving through: one loop is sameness which represents safety, stability and peace; this is where we...

Julie Parker is the Founder of The Beautiful You Coaching Academy where she passionately trains and supports heart centred people to become life coaches. Julie has inspired thousands of people on stages all over the world and is the recipient of numerous leadership and women’s business awards.    Julie is also the Co-Founder of Priestess Temple School and host of the top ranking Priestess Podcast....

Sarah Vermunt is the founder of the career coaching company: Careergasm. She is the author of two books Careergasm and Career Rookie: A Get-It-Together Guide for Grads, Students & Career Newbies . She helps people figure out what the heck they want so they can quit jobs they hate and do work that feels good. In this conversation we talk about the courage it takes to admit when your work feels...

Mary Beth LaRue is a yoga teacher, mentor, writer, and the co-founder of a yoga-inspired coaching company, Rock Your Bliss. MB has been a yoga teacher for over a decade teaching thousands of people on stage at Wanderlust Festivals as well as designing custom yoga programs for rehabilitation centers, homeless shelters and the Down Syndrome Association of Los Angeles.  Originally from Iowa, MB lives...

Jessie Harrold is a women’s mentor, wilderness quest guide, doula, and author of the book Project Body Love: my quest to love my body and the surprising truth I found instead. We talk about Jessie's quest to reclaim her identity after her big dream of becoming a doctor didn't pan out, how she has since carved out work of real meaning, and how she has learnt to be in her body. This is a p...

Mike Aspinall is craft fanatic. You might know him as The Crafty Gentleman - his website was recently named one of the UK’s most popular DIY sites, you may have also seen him hanging out with the likes of Kirstie Allsopp or at a craft event across the UK. I love his enthusiasm for crafting and his belief that making should be open and accessible to everyone. We talked about following your curiosit...

When she was 4 years old Sylvia Mac suffered 3rd and 4th degree burns over my back and various parts of her body. She was put on life support and was not expected to live. But she pulled through only to face years of surgeries and skin grafts as her body healed. The unseen scars of PTSD took much much longer to recover from. These days Sylvia campaigns for those with body disfigurements by raising...

Maliha Abidi is the artist and author of ‘Pakistan For Women: Stories of women who achieved something extraordinary’. Pakistan For Women shares more than 50 real stories of amazing women who belong to Pakistan and have achieved something extraordinary while making a difference. Maliha celebrates women from mountaineers to astrophysicists to educators, and advocates for the idea that if these Pakis...

Ruth Allen is a counselling psychotherapist, outdoor therapist and writer interested in solitude, silence, movement and narrative. She is also an organisational trainer, endurance runner and mountain addict. Last year Ruth ran the entire 350 km length of Bosnia and Herzegovina across the mountains. Solo and unsupported, wild camping across the country. One woman, with a tent and stove. Ruth’s stor...

I first discovered Kat Goldin through Instagram. I could scroll through Kat’s images of Scottish sunsets, comedic goats and Major Tim the dramatic peacock all day. And then last year she taught me how to make sourdough bread and in no small way changed my life. Kat lives at Gartur & Stitch farm, on the edge of Loch Lomond with her family of human, feathered and furry beings. The tagline on the...

On the 20th of December 2018, my heart stopped working. I collapsed on the kitchen floor. 36 hours later, I was having emergency surgery to repair my heart which was completely blocked. I want to reassure you that as I record this episode almost three months later, I feel very very well. I know for a lot of us navigating through self-doubt, its the things we are fearful of - the thing we are most...

Paul Jarvis is the author of Company of One: Why Staying Small is The Next Big Thing In Business. He also makes software, teaches popular online business courses and for the last two decades has been a web designer. Paul has worked with professional athletes like Steve Nash and Shaquille O’Neal, corporate giants like Microsoft and Mercedes-Benz, and entrepreneurs with online empires like Danielle...

Lottie Storey has spent the last 15 years as a writer. She is currently the editor for the Beano Parents website, contribute regularly to magazines like Mollie Makes, Project Calm, Simply Vegan and In the Moment, and she has a podcast in development coming out in 2019. We talk about the process of finding your writing voice, what it means to be a writer, how Lottie first got published and what fre...

Rabya Lomas takes play really bloody seriously. She is a multifaceted woman who happens to be of dual British and Pakistani heritage, working full time as a project manager with an enthusiastic interest in Playful Living. Rabya's instagram feed is one of joyous fun - from pancakes and bubbles, a stairway of dreams, to imaginative ways with coffee beans - she is always looking to share and hel...

Beth Kempton is one busy woman! She runs three different businesses all of which offer tools, resources and online courses for living an inspired life. Earlier in her career Beth worked with UN agencies, global brands, and NGOs all over the world, advising on corporate social responsibility and instigating projects that have raised over $10 million for charity. She also earned a Master’s degree in...

Ngaio Anyia is a singer, songwriter, DJ, writer, poet, a columnist @bristol247 and leads inclusion and social justice projects in Bristol. Ngaio closed the Shangri-la stage at Glastonbury in 2017 and is a Jill Scott, Erykah Badu mashup for the #metoo generation!  Ngaio’s music is an expression of her advocacy work - she helped organise the black lives matter march in Bristol in 2016 and is current...

Jen Carrington is a creative coach, writer, and podcaster from Manchester, UK. Jen hosts the Make it Happen podcast and co-hosts ‘Letters from a Hopeful Creative’ with Sara Tasker. Jen is passionate about helping us to live life and run creative businesses on our own terms, choosing more than feeling overwhelmed, overworked, and burned out in our careers. Its been a pleasure to admire Jen’s work e...

There will never be an end to suffering and there will never be an end to personal pain, growth and evolution, but Loving Kindness offers us a practice where we can sit down in our bodies and feel our way into our hearts.   A Heart of Gold: lessons on the path of loving kindness is the culmination of a lifetime of teachings and personal practice of Loving Kindness. Author Jane Reeves has spent mor...

Heather Plett’s work is about holding space, for ourselves and for others. After years of work as a coach and writer, in March 2015 Heather wrote a blog post about what she learned about holding space by witnessing the palliative care nurse who supported her mom in her final days on earth. This post went crazy viral. Read by millions of people and translated into many different languages, Heather...