The Bright Morning Podcast with Elena Aguilar

By Elena Aguilar

What's The Bright Morning Podcast with Elena Aguilar about?

Best-selling author and coaching expert Elena Aguilar shares weekly tips, tools, and wisdom about coaching, leading teams, and designing and facilitating professional development. 

For more transformational resources, visit http://www.brightmorningteam.com. 

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The Bright Morning Podcast with Elena Aguilar episodes:

05.13.2024
Ep 199: How to Coach Towards Agency
Do you struggle to coach disempowered clients? Do you have teammates who often feel like things are happening to them? In this episode, Elena shares how coaching ways of being, and in particular, coaching agency is the skill a Transformational...
05.06.2024
Ep 198: How to Curb Your “Fix It” Tendency
Many of us respond to problems by attempting to solve them. Doing so in coaching conversations undermines our client’s agency. In this episode, Elena shares what causes a fix-it tendency and five steps you can take to resist it in...
04.29.2024
EP 197: Core Human Needs and Coaching Conversations
The Core Human Needs is a thinking tool that has had the biggest impact on Elena’s coaching practice over the past 20 years. In this episode, Elena explains what the core human needs are, what you might hear in coaching...
04.22.2024
Ep 196: How to Coach Ways of Being
Coaching a way of being is a crucial distinguisher of Transformational Coaching. If you want to be a Transformational Coach, this is something you must know how to do! This is the first episode of a 5-part series that will...
04.15.2024
Sneak Peek #4: Inside Elena’s Newest Book!
The final sneak peek inside Elena’s newest book, Arise: The Art of Transformational Coaching. In this episode, Elena shares what you need to know about coaching emotions–and why you don’t need to be a therapist to do so. Mentioned...
04.08.2024
Sneak Peek #3: Inside Elena’s Newest Book!
We’re interrupting our regular programming to bring you the third exclusive look inside Elena’s newest book, Arise: The Art of Transformational Coaching. In this episode, Elena shares what you must do to build trust in your coaching relationships–a non-negotiable...
04.01.2024
Sneak Peek #2: Inside Elena’s Newest Book!
Surprise! We’re bringing you another exclusive look inside Elena’s newest book, Arise: The Art of Transformational Coaching. In this episode, you’ll be the first to hear Elena speak about the power of Transformational Listening and what it requires of...
03.25.2024
Sneak Peek #1: Inside Elena’s Newest Book!
We’re interrupting our regular programming to bring you an exclusive look inside Elena’s newest book, Arise: The Art of Transformational Coaching. Overwhelmingly, educators are not thriving. This book will help change that reality. Listen in to hear Elena read...
03.18.2024
Ep 195: Building Strong Coach/Admin Relationships
Are you a coach who feels like you’re “between” different groups in your building (admin, teachers, etc.)? Are you trying to navigate an “us vs. them” mentality at your site? Are you wondering what your role is in facilitating relationships...
03.11.2024
Ep 194: What to Do When You’re Not Feeling Compassionate or Curious
We all experience moments in our conversations where our compassion and curiosity reserves are low. We also know that compassion and curiosity are core dispositions for a Transformational Coach. In this episode, Elena tells you exactly what you need to...
03.04.2024
Ep 193: What You Need to Know about Classroom Walkthroughs
Do your classroom walkthroughs and data collection lead to empowered teachers and stronger relationships? If not, this is the episode you need. Elena shares what you need to consider and specific steps to take in order to make these (potentially)...
02.26.2024
Ep 192: How to Set Up Meeting Process Observers
Are your team meetings working for you? If you’re experiencing…Underlying tensionThings that are not being saidPeople not listening to each otherTopics that go way off the agendaPeople dominating the conversation …a process observer might be what you need. In this...
02.19.2024
Ep 191: Coaches of Color, It’s Time to Honor Your Needs
Are you a coach or leader of color working across lines of racial difference? If so, this episode is for you! Elena shares what you need to know and have in order to thrive in your role. Mentioned on this...
02.12.2024
Ep 190: How to Use the Ladder of Inference in Your Coaching Conversations
The Ladder of Inference is a powerful coaching tool…if you know how to use it. In this episode, Elena demonstrates how to use the Ladder of Inference in a coaching conversation where a coachee has shared a problematic belief. Listen...
02.05.2024
Ep 189: I Don’t Want to Co-Sign THOSE Feelings
Have you ever found yourself on the receiving end of feelings that make you feel some kind of way? In this episode, Elena walks you through five steps to respond compassionately and productively without co-signing anything. Mentioned on this episode:...
01.29.2024
REPLAY: Ep. 147: What is Resistance?
Elena hasn’t experienced resistance in her coaching conversations in over a decade. In this episode, she shares her five step process to eliminate resistance in your coaching conversations (...and really, in any conversation). This is the first in a three-part...
01.22.2024
REPLAY Ep 125: Attend to the Details
Details can make or break a learning experience, yet are too often overlooked or deprioritized as “logistics.” It’s time for that to change. In this episode, Elena shares why attending to the details is one of the 7 habits that...
01.15.2024
REPLAY Ep 124: When Things Don’t Go According to Plan
There are 20 minutes left in your session, and you have an hour's worth of content. What do you do? Adaptive facilitation is the key to staying calm and skillfully adjusting course when things don’t go according to plan. On...
01.08.2024
REPLAY Ep 123: Powerful Facilitation Starts and Ends With You
If you want to lead transformative learning experiences, you must tend to your own transformation. In this episode, Elena dives into one of the 7 habits that transform professional development: knowing yourself as a facilitator. Mentioned in this episode: Blog...
01.01.2024
REPLAY: 146: How to Set Yourself Up For a Great Year
Resolutions don’t work for the overwhelming number of people, but we know what does! Today we’re replaying one of the most listened-to episodes in 2023 to help you kick off 2024. In this episode, Elena shares the simple, research-based strategy...
12.18.2023
Replay: The End of Month Routine You Need
Here’s the secret to ending the year feeling fulfilled and accomplished: reflect and adjust along the way. Today we’re replaying a listener favorite episode, The End of Month Routine You Need, in which Elena shares what you can do at...
12.18.2023
REPLAY: Ep 160: The role of "self-care" for educators
This week the Bright Morning Podcast is on break so we’re replaying timely episodes. Today we’re replaying the first episode in a four-part mini-series on cultivating emotional resilience and coaching emotions. In this episode, Elena is sharing four things that...
12.11.2023
147: Coaching Resistance: Part 1 - What is Resistance
Dreading some of your potential holiday conversations? If you’re anticipating resistance to your ideas, activities, or beliefs, this is an episode for you! Today we’re replaying the first episode in our 3-part mini-series on coaching resistance.Listen in as Elena shares...
12.04.2023
REPLAY: Preparing for Break
In today’s episode replay, Elena once again becomes the coach in your ear, providing some guidance for how you can think about winter break to ensure it serves you and your needs. Prioritize learning with a Bright Morning membership!Visit https://brightmorningteam.com/podcasts/...
11.27.2023
Ep 188: Try It On: Supercharge Your Learning
In this final episode of our Try it On Challenge mini-series, Elena shares the three questions you need to engage in a 10-minute post-coaching conversation reflection that will supercharge your learning. Mentioned on this episode: Become a Friend of the...
11.20.2023
Ep 187: Try It On: Let Your Coachee Lead
In this episode of our Try it On Challenge mini-series, Elena shares the coaching question you need if you’d like to trust the coaching process and more fully center your coachee and let them take the lead in your conversations....
11.19.2023
Thank You for One Million Downloads!
We are popping up on your feed to share some exciting news and a special giveaway that we will run for the next two weeks to thank all of your for helping us hit this milestone.Mentioned on this episode: Special...
11.13.2023
Ep 186 Try It On - The Power of Silence
In this episode of the Try It On Challenge mini-series, Elena shares about the power of holding silence in a coaching conversation and provides you with the tips you need to do so with confidence. Mentioned on this episode: Become...
11.06.2023
Ep 185: Try It On: A Question to Unlock Our Power
In this episode of our Try It On Challenge mini-series Elena shares a question that can support your coachee to make a choice to release a belief that isn’t serving them. Listen in to learn the power of the sentence...
10.30.2023
Ep 184: Try It On: A Question to Surface Underlying Beliefs
In this mini-episode of the Try if On Challenge, Elena shares a question that will help you and your coachees surface underlying beliefs. You’ll learn when you might want to use this question, what it sounds like in action, and...
10.23.2023
Ep 183: Try It On: A Confidence Building Sentence Stem
In this Try it On Challenge mini-episode, Elena is sharing one of her favorite questions to ask a coachee. You’ll hear her model it, share how you might modify it, and be prepared to try it on in your coaching...
10.16.2023
Ep 182: Try It On: Less Talking, More Impact
In this episode of our current mini-series, the Try It On Challenge, Elena shares what you need to know to reduce the talk time you’re taking up as a coach in your conversations. She also provides a few key sentence...
10.09.2023
Episode 181: Try It On: Learn from Your Coachee’s Non-Verbals
This week’s try it on challenge focuses on what you can learn from your client’s non-verbals. Listen in to hear Elena explore the strategy you can use and also model how you might respond in a few more challenging situations....
10.02.2023
Ep: 180: Try It On: Improve Your Communication with Non-Verbals
Welcome to the “try it on challenge!” This episode kicks off a new mini-series that will provide you with a tool or strategy in each episode guaranteed to improve your coaching. This first episode tells you what you need to...
09.25.2023
Ep 179: What You Need to Know About Taking Notes During Your Coaching Conversations
What’s the purpose of taking notes in a coaching conversation? What notes should I take? Should I send notes that I take to my coachee? Elena answers these questions and more in this final episode of our beginning-of-the-year mini-series designed...
09.18.2023
Ep 178: How to Prepare for a Coaching Conversation in Five Minutes
Elena shares a minute-by-minute breakdown of how you should spend the five minutes before you walk into a meeting where you will be coaching. These five steps provide you with the greatest potential for that meeting to be transformative for...
09.11.2023
Ep 177: How to Set Goals with Your Coachees
In this episode, Elena shares the key to setting impactful goals with your coachees, and the secret to making goal-setting, and accountability, a healthy and productive approach. This is a must-listen episode for every coach, and anyone who is responsible...
09.04.2023
Ep 176 - How to Introduce Yourself as a Coach
In this episode, designed for new coaches at the beginning of the school year, Elena demonstrates how she introduces herself to new coachees and pulls back the curtain on the moves she makes. Opportunities for continued learning: Become a Friend...
08.28.2023
Ep 175: How to Introduce Coaching to New Clients
In this episode, the third in a series designed to support new coaches in the beginning of the school year, Elena demonstrates how she introduces coaching to new coachees and then pulls back the curtains on the moves she makes....
08.21.2023
Ep 174: The Six Elements of Transformational Coaching
Today’s episode is arguably the most important Bright Morning Podcast episode to date. Elena provides the foundational knowledge that you need if you aspire to be a Transformational Coach: the six elements that define her approach to coaching. Mentioned in...
08.14.2023
Ep 173: The Six Most Important Things to Know If You're a New Coach
It’s back-to-school season so we’re kicking off a mini-series that will help new coaches have an excellent start to their coaching practice. In this episode, Elena shares the six most important things to know if you’re a new coach. Veteran...
08.07.2023
Ep 172: Proactively Mitigating and Responding to Harm in Group Spaces
How do you proactively mitigate harm being done in PD spaces, particularly harm experienced by people who identify with a marginalized identity? How do you respond when harm is done, including in breakout spaces where you might not be present?...
07.31.2023
Ep 171: Facilitating PD: Post-Event Reflection
The reflection you do after facilitating PD has the ability to transform your approach. In this episode, Elena walks you through the four sets of questions that have proven invaluable to her own practice. Mentioned in this episode: Artful Design...
07.24.2023
Ep 170: Designing PD: Reflection Before the Event
In this first episode of a three-part series on designing and facilitating transformational PD, Elena “pulls back the curtain” and shares how she prepares to facilitate. Listen in for a detailed list of reflection questions that will help you feel...
07.17.2023
Ep 169: Designing & Facilitating Team Meetings - Part 2
Have you ever led a team meeting that got derailed due to emotional flair-ups?Elena shares the specific prompts she uses in these daunting facilitation moments, and what’s led to the Bright Morning Team no longer facing this common team challenge....
07.10.2023
Ep 168: Designing & Facilitating Team Meetings: Part 1
In the first of this two-part series, Elena pulls back the “Bright Morning curtain” to give you an insider’s look into how we use purpose to drive our team meetings. From 1:1 check-ins, to monthly presenter team meetings, you’ll get...
07.03.2023
Ep 167: Navigating Contagious Negativity
In this final episode of our Hot Topics of Coaching for Equity mini-series Elena shares seven things you can do when you are in a toxic culture, one where there is contagious negativity. Mentioned in this episode: Free Community WebinarsEpisode...
06.26.2023
Ep 166: Can I Coach Here?
“What do you do if you’re coaching in a place where your values are misaligned?” In this episode of our Hot Topics in Coaching for Equity mini-series, Elena takes a coaching stance to help unpack this question and support you...
06.19.2023
Ep 165: When Someone Is “Too Far Gone” for Coaching
“Is there ever a time when we should consider that someone shouldn't be working with kids…and should we advise supervisors to let them go versus continuing to coach them?” Elena unpacks this question and provides four potential steps to take...
06.12.2023
Ep 164: When “Equity” is Prohibited
This is the first of a four-episode Hot Topics in Coaching for Equity mini-series. In this episode, Elena is joined by Bright Morning teammate, Nick Cains. The two discuss how you coach for equity, when even using the word “equity”...

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The Bright Morning Podcast with Elena Aguilar episodes:

Ep 199: How to Coach Towards Agency

Ep 198: How to Curb Your “Fix It” Tendency

EP 197: Core Human Needs and Coaching Conversations

Ep 196: How to Coach Ways of Being

Sneak Peek #4: Inside Elena’s Newest Book!

Sneak Peek #3: Inside Elena’s Newest Book!

Sneak Peek #2: Inside Elena’s Newest Book!

Sneak Peek #1: Inside Elena’s Newest Book!

Ep 195: Building Strong Coach/Admin Relationships

Ep 194: What to Do When You’re Not Feeling Compassionate or Curious

Ep 193: What You Need to Know about Classroom Walkthroughs

Ep 192: How to Set Up Meeting Process Observers

Ep 191: Coaches of Color, It’s Time to Honor Your Needs

Ep 190: How to Use the Ladder of Inference in Your Coaching Conversations

Ep 189: I Don’t Want to Co-Sign THOSE Feelings

REPLAY: Ep. 147: What is Resistance?

REPLAY Ep 125: Attend to the Details

REPLAY Ep 124: When Things Don’t Go According to Plan

REPLAY Ep 123: Powerful Facilitation Starts and Ends With You

REPLAY: 146: How to Set Yourself Up For a Great Year

Replay: The End of Month Routine You Need

REPLAY: Ep 160: The role of "self-care" for educators

147: Coaching Resistance: Part 1 - What is Resistance

REPLAY: Preparing for Break

Ep 188: Try It On: Supercharge Your Learning

Ep 187: Try It On: Let Your Coachee Lead

Thank You for One Million Downloads!

Ep 186 Try It On - The Power of Silence

Ep 185: Try It On: A Question to Unlock Our Power

Ep 184: Try It On: A Question to Surface Underlying Beliefs

Ep 183: Try It On: A Confidence Building Sentence Stem

Ep 182: Try It On: Less Talking, More Impact

Episode 181: Try It On: Learn from Your Coachee’s Non-Verbals

Ep: 180: Try It On: Improve Your Communication with Non-Verbals

Ep 179: What You Need to Know About Taking Notes During Your Coaching Conversations

Ep 178: How to Prepare for a Coaching Conversation in Five Minutes

Ep 177: How to Set Goals with Your Coachees

Ep 176 - How to Introduce Yourself as a Coach

Ep 175: How to Introduce Coaching to New Clients

Ep 174: The Six Elements of Transformational Coaching

Ep 173: The Six Most Important Things to Know If You're a New Coach

Ep 172: Proactively Mitigating and Responding to Harm in Group Spaces

Ep 171: Facilitating PD: Post-Event Reflection

Ep 170: Designing PD: Reflection Before the Event

Ep 169: Designing & Facilitating Team Meetings - Part 2

Ep 168: Designing & Facilitating Team Meetings: Part 1

Ep 167: Navigating Contagious Negativity

Ep 166: Can I Coach Here?

Ep 165: When Someone Is “Too Far Gone” for Coaching

Ep 164: When “Equity” is Prohibited

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