The Coaching Lab: Evidence-Based High Performance & Wellbeing

Today we discuss the potential influence of dreams in our lives and the role of deliberate reflection in bringing those dreams to the forefront. Info re earning your health & wellness coaching certification , annual Rocky Mountain Coaching Retreat & Symposium & more via https://www.catalystcoachinginstitute.com/   Best-in-class coaching for Employers, EAPs & wellness providers http...

Less than 2 years ago, you’d likely never heard of GLP-1 mediations. Today, it’s on the tip of everyone’s tongue as the solution to weight management, has longstanding organizations like Weight Watchers on the verge of bankruptcy and is making employee benefits coverage for employers more difficult than ever due to the cost. How does it work? Why are so many people talking about it? What are the p...

Missed an episode of The Coaching Lab in September? CC & the Coach provide a brief overview of the previous month's episodes! Info re earning your health & wellness coaching certification , annual Rocky Mountain Coaching Retreat & Symposium & more via https://www.catalystcoachinginstitute.com/   Best-in-class coaching for Employers, EAPs & wellness providers https://cataly...

Welcome to this special episode of The Coaching Lab podcast, where we discuss shifting out of autopilot, the negative side of tribes and what we can do to break the algorithm driving our lives. Info re earning your health & wellness coaching certification , annual Rocky Mountain Coaching Retreat & Symposium & more via https://www.catalystcoachinginstitute.com/   Best-in-class coaching...

To celebrate the launch of our 7th year, we're thrilled to announce a new name and look for the #1 podcast in health & wellness coaching. The Catalyst 360 podcast, your source for engaging, evidence-based insights, will now become THE COACHING LAB: Health, Wellness & Performance! Thank you so much to everyone who has been on this journey with us over the years, the incredible support...

Today’s guest, clinical psychologist Dr. Ross White, is author of “The Tree that Bends” – an intriguing book that helps us elevate our performance without burning out – or breaking – in the process. Professor White has spent his career supporting the mental health & wellbeing of high performers across a range of athletic and professional settings as well as being a professor of clinical psycho...

Thank you for joining us for this special boost episode of the Catalyst 360 podcast, exploring how to identify our own unique responses to the things that improve our health, wellness and performance. Info re earning your health & wellness coaching certification , annual Rocky Mountain Coaching Retreat & Symposium & more via https://www.catalystcoachinginstitute.com/   Best-in-class co...

This special episode features a real, live coaching session with NBHWC nationally board-certified coach Sabryna Liddle, who has also earned her specialty certification in functional mental toughness & resilience (fMTc). Following the coaching session (session #2 with this client), Sabryna and Dr. Cooper will provide a debrief discussion for coaches who are curious about some of the specific el...

Special boost episode of Catalyst 360 Podcast, taking a closer look at the longevity craze and the impact of the 88-Year Mentality! Info re earning your health & wellness coaching certification , annual Rocky Mountain Coaching Retreat & Symposium & more via https://www.catalystcoachinginstitute.com/   Best-in-class coaching for Employers, EAPs & wellness providers https://catalystc...

In case you haven’t noticed, wellbeing and wellness have been hijacked by those selling the modern-day version of snake oil. Pseudoscience – social media’s candy - is winning the clicks game over actual science and your friends are more likely to send you a Youtube video as “proof” of their claim than a credible, peer-reviewed research study. Enter Dr. Jonathan Stea, author of the new book MIND TH...

Using the Theory of Constraints to permanently move the dial in the ways that matter most. Info re earning your health & wellness coaching certification , annual Rocky Mountain Coaching Retreat & Symposium & more via https://www.catalystcoachinginstitute.com/   Best-in-class coaching for Employers, EAPs & wellness providers https://catalystcoaching360.com/ Tap into the home of the...

Please enjoy this special Best Of episode with the co-creator of Motivational Interviewing (MI), Dr. Stephen Rollnick!! Info re earning your health & wellness coaching certification , annual Rocky Mountain Coaching Retreat & Symposium & more via https://www.catalystcoachinginstitute.com/   Best-in-class coaching for Employers, EAPs & wellness providers https://catalystcoaching360.c...

On the afternoon of August 28, 1963, with a quarter million people in attendance, Dr. Martin Luther King was working his way through the speech he’d composed with advisor Clarence Jones when everything changed. African-American gospel singer Mahalia Jackson, sitting just a few yards to his left, shouted “Tell them about the dream, Martin!” Dr. King took note, paused, slid his notes on the podium t...

The number of cancer survivors in the US alone exceeds 15.5 million—a figure expected to double in the coming decades. The general role of exercise for our health & wellbeing, but what about for the individual in the midst of or the tail end of the cancer journey – does it play an important role there? If so, in what ways? Why isn’t it generally emphasized as part of the treatment protocol? An...

What role does anchoring play in your life? Info re earning your health & wellness coaching certification , annual Rocky Mountain Coaching Retreat & Symposium & more via https://www.catalystcoachinginstitute.com/   Best-in-class coaching for Employers, EAPs & wellness providers https://catalystcoaching360.com/ Tap into the home of the (freely available) Not Done Yet! articles on un...

Delayed gratification. When it comes to health, wellness and high performance, it’s the holy grail, right? Well, not so fast.      Back in 1970, psychologist and Stanford professor Walter Mischel (‘mishel”) performed the marshmallow study. It purported to show that children who were able to delay gratification by choosing not to eat a marshmallow when left alone in a room in order to earn 2 marshm...

We face a tough, but potentially life-shifting question in this week's special episode! Info re earning your health & wellness coaching certification , annual Rocky Mountain Coaching Retreat & Symposium & more via https://www.catalystcoachinginstitute.com/   Best-in-class coaching for Employers, EAPs & wellness providers https://catalystcoaching360.com/ Tap into the home of th...

Today’s interview w/ authors and emergency room physicians Dr. Adaira Landry and Dr. Resa Lewiss focuses on the concept of Microskills, which are built on a singular principle: Every big goal, complicated task, healthy habit, and even what we think of as character traits can be broken down into small, learnable skills that can be practiced and incorporated in real-time. They’ll share why success d...

Isaac Newton might just have been the world's first health & wellness coach! Info re earning your health & wellness coaching certification , annual Rocky Mountain Coaching Retreat & Symposium & more via https://www.catalystcoachinginstitute.com/   Best-in-class coaching for Employers, EAPs & wellness providers https://catalystcoaching360.com/ Tap into the home of the (free...

5% of the US population will have a total hip replacement by age 80 and an additional 10% will have a total knee replacement. Those are big numbers that influence both athletes and non-athletes alike and creates natural curiosity on a number of fronts: Is it inevitable? Are there things we can do to reduce our odds? How quickly should we move forward when experiencing pain? How active can we be po...

David Goggins is an incredibly fascinating individual, with a life story that reads like the script from a Rocky film. The retired Navy Seal, best-selling author and YouTube no-nonsense motivator endured an abusive childhood and a learning disability early on. At age 19 he spent 4 years in the Air Force but struggled after being discharged, as his weight ballooned from 175 to 290 and he felt he wa...

3 Big Ideas from Dr. Carlson: Identifying with/as someone else (e.g., Batman) improves impulse control in children. Psychological distancing, either via time (e.g., delaying email response 24 hours) or space (considering what someone else might do - including Batman!) can minimize the negative effects of emotions in both our personal and professional lives. Reflection about our futures enhances ou...

In this, our latest Bite-sized Boost special episode, Dr. Cooper takes a closer look at a discovery that has changed his life across a multitude of fronts. If you'd like to take a deeper dive into the process of creating a clear, personal vision, you can access that special episode with details here . Info re earning your health & wellness coaching certification , annual Rocky Mountain Co...

 It wasn’t all that long ago – 2016 – when you and I could sit down over a cup of coffee, decided becoming a health & wellness coach sounded like a cool idea, and then walk out of the coffee shop calling ourselves exactly that. Or, organizations posing as “wellness coaching companies” could hire nice people, give them a script about eating kale and exercising 3x/week and market it as such. Tho...

Today’s guest is Dr. Brent Ruby, Director of the Montana Center for Work Physiology and Exercise Metabolism. What that really means is he specializes in studying free-range humans – not in the lab like most researchers – but in the wild, where real life is happening. This has involved chasing fire crews up and down mountains and trailing ultra-athletes through Badwater, along the Race Across Ameri...