The Coaching Happiness Podcast with Kathi Rañeses

After coming out of the pandemic, people have become more mindful of their health and staying healthy for longer - mind, body, and spirit - which is always a good thing! Coach Kathi explores the wellness trends from this year, how you can incorporate them into your wellness routines, and her recommended spots in Metro Manila for getting them.

It's been a long two years, but welcome to Season 3! It's been a busy couple of years, so before we kick things off I'd thought a little life update would be in order of what I've been up to and and how I'm moving forward in 2024. There are a few changes, a new partnership with old friends, learning a new skill (which feels like I've accidentally enrolled in medical school...

For this season ender episode, Coach Kathi reflects on the biggest humbling life lessons she learned looking back at most of 2021, pulling from her own experiences and how she'll be applying them to her new year, setting her up to win!

November is Gratitude month, and Coach Kathi talks about why having an attitude of gratitude - always being grateful for everything and expressing it - is important and how it corresponds to happiness and our overall wellbeing. Gratitude is the cornerstone of happiness, and is such an important skill to build for better relationships, learned optimism, and a thriving life!

Coach Kathi explains the concept of the Future Self and dives into how you can use it as a powerful tool to change your life completely. Participate in the exercise for building a rock solid relationship with your future self and how gifting yourself today will help set your future self up for so much success.

In this episode, Coach Kathi goes into what it takes to be a badass and how to generate BAE (badass energy) on a daily basis. Being strong and successful isn't the same as being arrogant - it's about being consistent and willing to feel all the feelings, and making decisions regardless of the outcome.

How do we manifest things, people, and opportunities into our lives? After 'The Secret' launched in 2006, people have gotten more comfortable around the idea of co-creating their goals, dreams, and desires with the Universe. Coach Kathi teaches her formula for mastering manifesting and you can take easy steps to apply it to your life right away.

Are you religious, spiritual or both? Coach Kathi explains the difference between the two, why some people prefer to explore spiritual practices rather than keep to the dogma and ceremonies of their religious beliefs, how to deepen their spiritual practice, as well as tools to  help get you started.

Working from 9 to 5 before going home and shutting off seems to be a thing of the past. And with more and more people working from home without time boundaries, we seem to be working more than we're living. Coach Kathi explores the myth that is the 'work-life balance' and how to better look at how we can shift our mindset for the betterment of our work and personal life for better overall wellbein...

We've learned how to beef up our physical boundaries during the pandemic - wearing masks, social distancing, and limiting physical contact. But what about our personal boundaries? Coach Kathi talks about the benefits of beefing up our personal boundaries, what happens when we lack boundaries, and her own experiences of when people have crossed hers. DISCLAIMER: The views and opinions expressed by...

Toxic positivity has become so ingrained in our culture, which is a big problem for a variety of reasons. Coach Kathi talks about the problem with toxic positivity, how to recognize the signs of toxic positivity, and what you can do in order to not be the victim or perpetrator and that this cycle can finally stop with you. DISCLAIMER: The views and opinions expressed by the podcast creators, hosts...

There are various reasons to start the habit of a morning routine, but for Coach Kathi, the intention behind having one is a practice of is self-love and self-care. Create a morning ritual that honors you, grounds you, and fills up your own love tank, so you aren't looking for other people to fill it up and feel resentful and empty at the end of the day when you don't get what you want.

Even in the 21st century, many Filipinas still believe that, when it comes to your sexuality, you can only be one of two things - the virgin Mary or Mary Magdalene. There is no in between, and many of us carry the guilt and shame with wanting to explore and educate ourselves around our sexuality. In this episode, Coach Kathi shares what she discovered about her sexuality while collaborating with t...

With more and more people struggling with feelings of anxiety, coach Kathi opens up an talks about how she deals with living with general anxiety disorder, as well as the wellness tools she has in place that works for her for coping with hers. DISCLAIMER: The views and opinions expressed by the podcast creators, hosts, and guests do not necessarily reflect the official policy and position of Podca...

We're at the last quarter of 2021, and are still stuck in the longest lockdown in the world. While vaccine rollouts are slowly coming along, a lot of us don't pay enough attention on working on our body's natural immune system as well - one is more effective with the other. In this episode, Coach Kathi shares her biggest learnings while talking to her colleagues at Centro Holistico - integrative a...

How are you doing on a scale of "Ok lang," to "Ok pa?" Coach Kathi explores the cultural and generational limiting beliefs behind our struggle with emotional literacy, shining a light on how we've normalized them and how they're holding us back from flourishing as a people. DISCLAIMER: The views and opinions expressed by the podcast creators, hosts, and guests do not necessarily reflect the offici...

Cancel Culture has become such an ugly part of our online experience - the digital equivalent of a mob with pitchforks. Coach Kathi digs into how cancel culture had worked to create powerful movements, but at the same time a green flag for online bullying, giving her perspective on what to you if you were the one being cancelled, what you may want to consider before cancelling anyone, and how to s...

Coach Kathi addresses how not being able to actively socialize because being stuck indoors for the past two years has taken a toll on our self-esteem as well as our social skills, and how we're now more in our own heads more than ever. She gives her perspective on the importance of confidence, how to build it back up again, and how to take the courage to take up space once again.

For this Workplace Wellbeing episode, Coach Kathi talks about abundance - whether in terms of time, finances or other valuable resource you feel is in short supply - and how to see and create opportunities for yourself to step into abundance that aligns with your passions and brings you joy.

Why would anyone want to be selfish? Probably because we aren’t selfish enough. Coach Kathi discusses why we should have stronger boundaries and be pickier of who we give our time, talent, and treasure to and why “healthy selfishness” is something we should have more of coming out of 2020.

On this Workplace Wellness episode, Coach Kathi shares the other half of the 24 VIA Character Strengths - a positive psychology tool the she uses when working with teams and organizations and how to maximize them, going through the core virtues of justice, temperance, and transcendance. DISCLAIMER: The views and opinions expressed by the podcast creators, hosts, and guests do not necessarily refle...

It’s usually after Christmas that we start beating up on ourselves for overindulging over Christmas and adding, “Lose x amount of weight” into our new year’s resolutions looking to start strong with out #ballikalindog2021 programs. Coach Kathi goes into her journey of loving the skin she’s in and her tips on how to be body positive, embracing and honoring the journey our physical bodies are on, wh...

For this episode of Workplace Wellness, Coach Kathi shares a positive psychology tool that she applies to the workplace when working with teams - VIA character strengths - and goes through three core virtues and 12 character strengths on how to maximize them if you have them and how to maximize the natural signature strength of your team, startinng with the core virtures of wisdom, courage, and hu...

For this episode, Coach Kathi talks about how to change perspective about the crisis that crop up in our lives - whether it be a global pandemic or one that could be relational, psychological, or emotional - and how to see the silver lining and build on that. DISCLAIMER: The views and opinions expressed by the podcast creators, hosts, and guests do not necessarily reflect the official policy and p...

As managers, most of the time it feels easier to just tell our team what needs to be done, which in the short term delivers faster results, but in the long terms makes people too dependent on you for everything, which is exhausting! Coach Kathi lays out some powerful coaching questions to get your team accountable for the results they want to create in the workplace, creating a team or organizatio...