The Thriving Coaches Podcast

In this episode, I'm speaking to a good friend and colleague, Simon Ong. Simon's focus is on inspiring people to see their world differently and igniting their imagination of what is truly possible so that they can lead an extraordinary life doing that which makes them feel most alive. And as you'll hear, he's got a gift for distilling his insights into powerful lessons that can be easily understo...

In this episode of the Thriving coaches podcast, you're going to be hearing a re-release of  a conversation I had with a good friend and colleague, Clarity Coach Ankush Jain. Ankush is a successful coach and a leader in the coaching community. He's spoken at conferences in the USA and Europe, and works with clients from around the world, helping them achieve extraordinary results. And one of the i...

Today, I'm going to introduce you to one of my favourite people. She's a master of having a flash of inspiration and then running with it.   She's got a deep understanding of the principles behind clarity, and at the start of this year, she found herself wondering...   "What would it be like to live in in a town where we had the time and energy to connect with friends, and family and the wider com...

Welcome to the podcast. And in this episode you're going to hear a coaching demo I did with a client who was completely stuck following a series of catastrophes.    First, she was hit with the deaths of both her parents within the space of a couple of years. Then her husband became seriously ill.    She told me that during this period, her work as a coach kept her going.    But then, the UK corona...

In this episode, you're going to hear me being interviewed by Billy Mann. In fact, it's a conversation as much as it is an interview. Billy is a coach, and entrepreneur and an absolutely lovely human being. And one of the things that's interesting about Billy is that he's been deeply impacted by the single paradigm as articulated by Keith Blevens and Valda Monroe, so that's one of the areas we exp...

The 9 minute clip you're about to listen to is an excerpt from an interview where I was asked the question, "What are the 3 principles." As you'll hear, my response started in somewhere that's probably pretty familiar to most people and ended up somewhere much deeper. In fact, by the time we'd reached the end of my answer, the feeling was so deep and profound that my interviewers (Lea Wernli and S...

  I'm Jamie Smart, and welcome to the podcast. We're many weeks into lockdown as i record this, so I hope this finds you and yours safe and well. One of the things I've been doing is having a look at ways to introduce people to my work, and so I was looking through our most popular podcast episodes. I've got some great new episodes lined up for you, but this week I'm going to share one of our most...

This episode is a 10-minute clip taken from the first module of this year's Clarity Certification Training. I'd been exploring the notion of 'true identity' with the members of the group, when I was asked this question: "True identity is consciousness itself; I'm very happy with that. The question is, when we move beyond that, into defining that consciousness as having characteristics (such as sti...

I'm Jamie Smart - welcome to the podcast. You don't need me to tell you that, as I record this, we're living through a time of extreme volatility and uncertainty. One aspect of that is the coronavirus and its health impacts. Another aspect is the societal and economic impacts of our response to the pandemic. But the third, and for many people the most troubling aspect is the psychological and emot...

This episode is a re-release of an interview from last summer, but as you'll hear, it's a conversation with a difference, because rather than me interviewing someone, it's me *being* interviewed for The Coaching Show, by ICF Master Coach Christopher McAuliffe and his colleague Alex Terranova.    And this was an interesting one. As you'll hear, it was pretty fast-paced, and I really enjoyed the cha...

The conversation you're about to hear is one I had with my dear friend and colleague, Dr Mark Howard just before we recorded an 'Impact Kit' for my ClarityPro members.    Mark is a licensed psychologist who's spent *decades* sharing the principles with people to help them recover from addictions. As such, he's probably the most experienced person on the planet when it comes to sharing the principl...

In this episode you're going to hear a coaching demo I did in front of an audience with a client suffering from what she described as narcissistic abuse. She sometimes felt overwhelming fear of rejection, and wanted to start living with more peace and freedom. The client had trained extensively as a therapist, and was convinced her present-day problems were rooted in her past. And she'd tried lots...

What you're about to hear is a recording of a brief but powerful coaching demo I did with a Certified Clarity Coach, Trainer and Speaker, Clesia Mendes.  Clesia starts out by saying she wants to take things to 'the next level' as a public speaker. She's doing lots of public speaking, and learning a lot in the process, so she's looking for opportunities to make things even better. So she was a litt...

Do the principles represent the the future of psychology? I'm Jamie Smart, and what you're about to hear is me being interviewed by the author Amir Karkouti, the creator of the  What The F*#$ Are The Principles?  group -  https://www.facebook.com/groups/299806010361726/   In this conversation I make the case for why the principles behind clarity (as realised & articulated by Syd Banks) represent t...

This episode is something I'm really excited to share with you. It's an excerpt from a one-off event I ran two years ago, called "The 1:1 Coaching Intensive Unpacked". Here's the backstory: As you may be aware, one of the way I love to work with my clients is by doing a 3-day, 1:1 coaching intensive. I find that the intensive format means you can achieve in a few days what would previously have ta...

What you're about to hear is an excerpt from a Masterclass I did a few years back during the Clarity Certification Training. You're about to discover something mind-blowingly weird: it's quite literally the strangest fact about your perception, and it blows me away every time i think of it. And it's going to be particularly useful to you if you've ever said, "I know it's just my thinking but…" - I...

This episode is a brief coaching demo. In fact it got turned around in under 7 minutes. Basically, a few weeks ago I did a coaching demo with one of my clients, Mary, around what she described as 'impostor syndrome'.   She told me that whenever she started to make progress, she'd get to a certain point, then fall back.   She wanted to be able to 'put herself out there'…   She wanted to be able to...

This episode is a little different, because rather than me interviewing someone, it's me *being* interviewed for  The Coaching Show , by Master Coach Christopher McAuliffe and another coach, Alex Terranova. And this was an interesting one.  As you'll hear, it was pretty fast-paced, and I really enjoyed the challenge of making the value and approach involved in principles based coaching explicit to...

A few weeks ago, my good friend Charli Wall invited me to do a talk and some coaching demos for a group of people on one of her programmes. 💜 I love doing coaching demos (it's one of my top skills), so I happily agreed 😀 Then Charli told me the subject…  She wanted me to talk about body image.  I explained to her that I'd never really given 'body image' much thought, but that I'd be happy to sha...

in this episode of the get clarity podcast, you're going to hear a conversation I had on the subject of relationships with two of my dear friends and colleagues, Jan and Chip Chipman. I recorded this interview with Jan and Chip at the same time as we were recording material for ClarityPro. Claritypro is our low-cost membership programme for people who want to share the principles like a pro with a...

This episode features a coaching demo I did with Clarity Coach Trevor Hartwick. And here's one of the interesting things about it: We did the demo at the end of a virtual session where we only had 7 minutes left. What you're going to hear is just how quickly it's possible for someone to experience a profound shift when you're working with an understanding of the principles behind clarity.   Trevor...

In this episode of the podcast, you're going to be hearing a conversation I had with a good friend and colleague, Nick Bottini. Over the past couple of years he's gone from being the music teacher in a school to being a bestselling author, speaker and coach who's passionate about sharing the inside-out understanding with musicians. And while hundreds of thousands of people are now exploring and ha...

A simple solution to stress, pressure and burnout in the NHS. this episode is one we've been trying to organise for a while, because it's with Louise O'Dalaigh, a woman who's been working to introduce the principles behind clarity into he National Health Service (NHS).    As you may know, the issue of stress and burnout is pretty much an epidemic in the world of healthcare, so it's one of the plac...

A conversation with a good friend and Clarity Coach Christine Mitchell.  In this episode of The Thriving Coaches podcast, you're going to be hearing a conversation I had with a good friend and colleague, Clarity Coach Christine Mitchell. Christine works with people who arrive with a variety of challenges and objectives, particularly around anxiety, stress and OCD. And one of the interesting things...

Are formless principles too 'woo-woo' for a corporate lawyer? In this episode of the get clarity podcast, we're going to be answering this question about subtractive psychology: are formless principles too 'woo-woo' for a corporate lawyer? Here's the back story. You may recall that I conducted a 3-day Clarity 1:1 Coaching Intensive with a corporate lawyer named Andy, in front of a live audience of...