The Coaching Inn

If you missed the live launch of The Human Behind The Coach at The Coaching Inn last week, here’s your chance to catch up. This week’s host is Alan Gyle - the voice of The Coaching Inn credits! Karen Foy interviews Claire and Lucia about the book.   This episode is also available in full on our YouTube channel   Check out www.thehumanbehindthecoach.com   And you can buy a signed copy - with a pers...

Today, Jamie Fiore Higgins joins Claire at The Coaching Inn.  Jamie worked as a Managing Partner in Wall Street for 20 years. After she left, she wrote: Bully Market - My story of money and misogyny at Goldman Sachs .   Jamie is now establishing herself as a coach. We talk about working with integrity and being human. We also notice a connection with William Bridges book Creating You and Company ....

"Give the world your message, and the right people come back to you. You'll be a magnet for the right person, the right clients."   This week, Claire talks with new coach and long time marketer Keeley Vuong White. Claire and Keeley first met on a coaches walk in the Malvern Hills**. Keeley talks about her year of experimenting and how you’re the brand and it doesn’t have to be corporate because br...

Sandhya Bhat  has come to coaching from an HR background. She lives in Pune in India and, having come from a structured background,  is interested in the role of not knowing in coaching.   We think about the common question: Why would I listen if I don’t need to understand? and recognise that there is a lot of magic in not knowing   Contact Sandhya through Linked In    Takeaways Embracing the unkn...

This week, experienced coach, coach trainer, and Shakespeare enthusiast Emily Walker joins Claire at The Coaching Inn after they had had an earlier conversation about the sound of coaching.  If dissonance and resonance matter in coaching, and if Shakespeare uses them well, what more useful stuff is there for us to learn as coaches? They explore the connection between coaching and Shakespeare's use...

"It's not about a destination. It's about how can you set yourself up for success in order to really be able to continue to show up as a founder, as an entrepreneur in the day-to-day grind of building a business." Today Claire is talking to Katie Lewis who, with Matthew Stafford, founded 9 others. They host dinners around the world asking people : what’s keeping you up at night?    We talk about w...

Long time friend of 3D and coach Rachel Erasmus joins Claire at The Coaching Inn this week to talk about being a coach and being a midwife. Lots of connections - sensing, walking, breathing. Find out more about coach as midwife. And midwife as coach.  And in the same way that not everyone women needs a midwife to birth a baby, not everyone needs a coach to birth their thinking.   Takeaways The con...

Just over a year ago, Katie Muldoon came to The Coaching Inn to talk about what she did in her first year of coaching. Listen back here .  And we agreed to do another episode a year on about what she did in her second year.   This is worth a listen and is full of surprises! Hear about being a body and having a mind, and lots about learning and integrating learning.   Takeaways The importance of in...

Improv Your Life is one of the top 3 coaching books we recommend because it gets into not knowing - and it’s SIMPLE. Pippa Evans has done something huge for the coaching profession without knowing it. We talk about offering something to another person to do with what they will; being in relation to another without losing yourself. And don’t judge a scene until it’s finished - or you have checked o...

Lucy is training with 3D to be a coach and was instrumental in helping Claire deepen connections between music and coaching. Today Lucy and her daughter Amy join Claire Pedrick MCC at The Coaching Inn. Amy is studying Music at university. On ancient improvised music ‘unless you’re immersed in it, you can’t do it’ ‘It has to go wrong - that’s where the best learning has taken place’ Coaching ‘is a...

Kirstie Drummond Papworth comes to The Coaching Inn today to talk with Claire about her new book Compassionate Leadership . We have a wide ranging conversation: What makes compassion powerful? We hear a lot about empathic leadership - how does compassionate leadership connect to this? Aren’t coaches already compassionate? Depth, research, wisdom and tips...   Takeaways Compassion has a powerful im...

Today Claire is joined by Claire Davies, Cat Gray and Zane McCormack  who share personal stories of chronic fatigue and how that informs their coaching.   Contact: Claire Davies Cat Gray Zane McCormack And Claire Pedrick   Takeaways Coaching can help individuals with long COVID and chronic fatigue find purpose and navigate the uncertainties of their condition. Healthcare professionals with long CO...

Meet Lucia Baldelli as she and Claire remember their favourite parts of the book writing process, and share a few nuggets of what’s coming. UPDATE: Books is now available - order here   Takeaways Coaching is not just about mastery, but about cultivating qualities and being present in the coaching room. 'The Human Behind the Coach' focuses on the importance of humanity and connection in coaching. O...

Why accredit as a coach? And what three coaches who have accredited with the International Coaching Federation have learned along the way. Start early Research the process Start recording early Plus lots more… Takeaways Accreditation is a valuable stamp of approval that demonstrates a coach's commitment to professional standards and ethics. The accreditation journey takes time and requires patienc...

When Claire met Teri-E a few months ago, and found out she was the world’s first ICF MCC coach, she knew that Teri-E would make a great guest!   Listen to Teri-E re-remember some of the insights and events on the way. This is worth listening to - Teri-E’s recollection is that coaching began worldwide and then went to the US.  Some great insights in here… as the question has changed from ‘what is a...

Claire Pedrick MCC talks to Physiotherapist and author Kevin Hunt about his new book: Pain: The Ultimate Mentor - when our body has wisdom to share with us and how the health hexagon helps us calibrate. Useful for coaches and for people living with persistent pain.   Takeaways Persistent pain is often a signal that something in our lifestyle is unsustainable and needs to change. Understanding the...

"When I put away checking the boxes, I just dived into their eyes and let their eyes take me wherever it needed to go." This week Claire is in conversation with coach and psychiatrist Dr Mark Goulston. Mark is co-founder of the Deeper Coaching Institute and specialises in unblocking, unlocking and freeing high potential executives to reach their full potential when other conventional coaching appr...

One of the chapters in The Human Behind The Coach is The Dance of Coaching. What does that mean? What is dancing in the moment? Today Claire is in conversation with coach and former professional dancer Dr Gary Crotaz. Hear Gary’s story on The Unlock Moment . Here we talk about partner dancing, connection and flow in coaching.   Some questions we are taking away:  What are the 5 points of connectio...

An open table this week: What got you started and what keeps you coaching? A great conversation bringing a wide variety of experiences.   takeaways Coaching is a purposeful and rewarding profession that allows coaches to help others achieve things they may not think are possible. The coaching process is key, and coaches should focus on facilitating insights and empowering clients to find their own...

"We get daily drowned with other people's idea of success." Today Claire is talking with coach and author Ed Haddon about his book The Modern Maverick . We talk about B-Corp, success, community and establishing a life that works for you, your family and friends, your work, community and the world.  Here’s Bronnie Ware’s book which inspired Ed’s work: The Top Five regrets of the Dying Contact Ed th...

3D’s Rebi Hedger is back from maternity leave (congratulations). Today Rebi is talking with Claire about the gift to an organisation of returning to work after a long break, why filling in the back story isn’t necessarily the most useful thing after a break.  And she talks about her experience with maternity coach Rachel Erasmus ( rachelsusanerasmus@gmail.com )   Takeaways Coaching can help indivi...

As Claire and Lucia were finishing T he Human behind the Coach , Kim made a comment on a Linked In post that connected with what we were thinking.  Kim is a linguist and a coach - what’s the connection?   So we said come along to The Coaching Inn and let’s talk about the sound of coaching.   Contact Kim through LinkedIn or her website http://www.witten.kim/    Keywords coaching, linguistics, commu...

After a LinkedIn about poetry, we simply had to bring people together to go deeper! Today Claire is in conversation with Cristina Matei James Allport Lisa Di Matteo Naomi Ward Ross Nichols   Offering poetry in coaching allows people to make their own meaning. It’s a canvas for the human experience. Some of the writing we refer to is Catherine Rundell : Super Infinite David Whyte: Start Close In Lo...

Today Claire is joined by coach and business psychologist William McKee to talk about psychometrics and coaching - the psychometrics industry, the popular nonsense and how to be wise.   Here is the Open Table Claire and William hosted after this episode.   Big Five Research   Contact William McKee   If you like this episode, subscribe or follow The Coaching Inn on your podcast platform to hear new...

If you heard Claire’s interview with Ruth Davey you’ll know that they talked about feeling heard and feeling seen. There was plenty of chat about it on our social media so today, Claire is in conversation with Nicola Peers - Instagram peers.n Simon Foster Paula Smith Kim Witten   We talk about the Zulu greeting Sawubona: All my attention is with you. I see you and I allow myself to discover your n...