The Coaching Life

Surfing Wild Waves into Coaching In this raw and open conversation, with infectious enthusiasm Troy shares his journey from being a founder member of a super-successful clothing company, through some of life’s shit-storms, and into his first year in coaching. It’s been a wild ride, one that has had him listen to his heart and change completely how he shows up in the world. If you’re a relatively n...

Dropping the Mask to Wellbeing Emerging from a snotting-nosed pool of tears, Karen has realised the freedom of living life without a mask, in full integrity of showing up as herself in all circumstances, which has also brought some immense health benefits. In this wonderfully frank conversation Karen talks about play and experimentation, boobs and smoking, and gives us all a glimpse into the delig...

The Power of Connecting Author of the book ‘Look Inside:Stop Seeking Start Living’, that’s exactly what Michele did. Having come across an understanding of how life works that had her feel it was impossible to continue in her well-established therapy work, she has gone on to build a successful coaching practice by connecting, having fun, not taking things too seriously, and by relentlessly being o...

A Hypnotising Journey From Goroka in Papa New Guinea, Ryan’s journey has taken him to many parts of the world, including Europe, Bangladesh, Australia, the USA, Asia. Following his passion for music, an associated injury led him to Hypnotherapy, which he now practices in Barcelona, Spain. In this episode he gives us a valuable insight into how coaching and hypnotherapy can compliment each other to...

Trusting The Path Coming from a career in radio and leading-edge online video, Jo now coaches people and helps them get their authentic message out into the world. In this episode she shares how a life event set her on a path of exploration that helped her see life differently, and become much more trusting of the path of life, allowing it to unfold as she explored opportunities that have helped h...

The Punk Inspired Misfit Currently transitioning from a rich career with immense experience in senior leadership positions, and now described as a ginger, punk inspired, misfit Exec Coach from the Isle of Man, Carol shares where she is at in the relatively early stages of building an independent coaching practice. In owning who she is and what she does, in being a true advocate of the coaching pro...

Being Open To Possibility In this very open-hearted conversation, Jo gives us a glimpse of some of the magic of what’s possible when we start questioning our own personal conventions, take action in spite of our fears, and live in alignment with what is in our hearts. As someone who seems to love cake yet also manages to live a very healthy lifestyle, it has been her willingness to follow the path...

Allowing Simplicity In this episode Wyn shares his journey from being tickled by people waking up through the impact of a new understanding of how life and the human mind works, leading to him seeing everything differently, despite much of it looking the same from the outside. Living a life that now feels as cool on the inside as it looks on the outside, Wyn shares how he has effortlessly connecte...

Relaxing Into Wisdom What has someone choose to close down their existing business without knowing at all what they’ll be doing next? What’s the secret to being married for over forty years and creating a sustainable coaching business over twenty two years? In this delightful episode, Molly shares some of her insights that have helped her develop and grow her coaching business, continue to be of s...

This one is as real life as it gets, with mentions of dog poo and genitalia mixed amongst the insights and business of coaching. Jacquie brings a beautifully warm blend of humour and wisdom, and shares her journey from a technical career to a life of love and ease, revealing how she has connected and developed professional relationships with people in government by simply being herself. Here’s a l...

Exploring Possibility with Action What’s possible when you take action without credence to the fearful noise that we all have in our heads? What’s possible when you reach out and connect with people, embracing the big breaks that show up when you relentlessly look for opportunities to connect and serve? Melissa shares with us how she reached her goal of transitioning from full-time employment in I...

Loving Out Loud Deanna shares her journey from being an over-achieving, happy-faced, straight-A student, perpetually chasing perfectionism, through having a wake up call from anxiety and being guided by some realisations that had her relocate across the country, and immerse in a spiritual and loving exploration of being of service to others. By embracing her natural ability to love out loud, being...

Honouring the Path of the Heart Having your world crash down around you can be wonderfully liberating, particularly if you are willing to explore and, eventually at least, see something new. In this episode Philippe shares how a deeper understanding of how we experience life has had an impact on his coaching, and all areas of his life, and reveals his story of how he has persistently honoured what...

Haircuts, Recovery & Clothes Dryers There was only ever one person I wanted to help me celebrate this milestone 50th episode of this podcast. Someone who inspires, who is always super fun and loving, who keeps it real and is a dear friend. JG and I talk haircuts, Mad Men, breakups, recovery, boners, clothes driers, and a game of fave & crave. This is a slightly different format to the other episod...

Opening Up The Empty Toolbox As a former habit and strategy junkie, Antti noticed that none of the tools and techniques he was trying seemed to bring the long-term results he was seeking. An insight into the nature of our human experience opened up a world where Antti simply gets on with living life in his own style, and he gets to help others do the same. Considering the human tendency to make th...

Investing in the Unknown It takes quite an investment and leap of faith to spend over fourteen hours on an airplane to travel to an event from which you don’t really know what you’ll get. Brenton shares his journey from the other side of the coaching relationship - as a client and avid explorer of personal development. He also shares how he has caught himself living a double life, continues to shi...

Allowing the Ease of Nature In his typically candid yet insightful manner, Richard shares his journey from lawn gardener, to gardener of the human spirit, from rampant convincing to simply embracing and loving, from a quest of endlessly searching to open-minded curiosity and exploring. In this conversation you’ll also discover just how ‘selfishly’ Richard is always looking to bring joy and fulfilm...

Emerging from a Cave, a sledgehammer in one hand and a pen in the other. What do you do when you wake up one morning to see the world isn’t what you thought it was and it was your fault that you didn’t know more. What do you do when you realise your work and spiritual exploration had enabled you to isolate yourself in a bubble of omm from the world, and you could no longer not pay attention to wha...

Previously working in government dealing with economics and European issues, Cathy followed her interest and curiosity about how we interact as people, how we are influenced and what contributes to human performance, and chose once and for all to jump into a career in coaching, with a commitment to give it her best shot. She now has an established business doing what she enjoyed - contributing and...

Adam shares his journey from practicing lawyer to being an executive leadership coach, revealing moments of shame, stubborn self-opinion, and what it was like to reveal aspects of himself he had been trying to hide whilst also wanting to be seen. Having invested in a lot of work on himself, Adam has an important message for aspiring coaches, as well as bringing his humour and humility into a wonde...

What looks and even feels like failure may well be exactly what needs to happen to move you towards what you really want. In this episode John shares how going back into his I.T. work helped him become much more free as a coach and helped him increase his impact on his clients. And how those clients are showing up from seeds he has been planting for a very long time, often without even realising i...

The power of shifting to being of service. After twelves years of failing to fill workshops, Melissa hired a coach who helped her shift her focus, and since then she has continued to expand, grow and evolve. This episode gives us all an insight into the journey of an extremely experienced coach, someone who has invested significantly in her own development and whose clients continue to benefit fro...

Money, insecurity and freedom are just a few of the emotive subjects explored in this episode with Marina Pearson. In a wonderfully honest conversation, Marina reveals what had her go into hibernation, what happens when things go wrong, and how she has discovered what she really wants to do. Here’s a little more about Marina: Marina is a mum, investor, business owner, and adventurer of life. For t...

Annie is a straight-talking, loving advocate of being yourself, and she certainly gives us an insight into life as Annie in this very open and honest conversation. Annie is in a position of freedom with her practice, she is able to be free, expressive, playful and experimental, and it’s amazing to see what being that way has brought to her and her clients… Here’s a little more about Annie: From he...

In a delightful revisit to the podcast, Lian shares, with her usual effervescence, what’s changed in her business and in herself, how her business partner Jonathan and her are running the business they want to run, as well as discussing why we do what we do, what is true, and her strategy of exploration and test. Here’s the link to Ankush Jain’s Coaching Group on Facebook, and the post referred to...