Coaching to Flourish

Why do so many talented new coaches hesitate to charge for their work? Social psychologist Meagan Yarmey, PhD, MSW, RSW joins John Andrew Williams to explore impostor syndrome, or as she prefers to call it, impostorism, as a question of identity. She explains the gap between who we are, who we want to be, and who we think we ought to be, and why that gap shows up as self-doubt and hesitation to speak up.

Meagan also widens the lens from the individual to the organization. She sees anxiety, depression, and burnout as normal outcomes of dysfunctional situations, and she uses the same model with one client or a whole company: identify what’s driving the outcome, then change it. Wellness practices like meditation and yoga help, but the data keeps pointing to organizational change as the bigger lever. She and John talk about why leaders resist that change even when they know what needs to happen.

They also cover why insight alone doesn’t change behavior, how confidence gets built one small step at a time, what it took for Meagan to move from academia into public work, and learning to sit with discomfort before rushing to fix it.

What you’ll hear:

• Why burnout is a systems problem as much as a personal one
• What holds leaders back from making the organizational changes that reduce burnout
• Why the value of a coach is in the substance of the question
• How to access what you know when the pressure is on
• Why selling can feel “icky” and how to do it with integrity
• Meagan’s advice for anyone early in their career

About Meagan YarmeyMeagan Yarmey, PhD, MSW, RSW, is a Toronto-based Registered Social Worker with a PhD in social and personality psychology. Her work examines how performance pressure, perfectionism, identity, and organisational systems shape burnout, self-doubt, and capability in high-performing professionals.Learn more about Meagan’s work at meaganyarmey.ca

Most people use "burnout" to describe anything from a hard week to a career in crisis. Kathy Caprino thinks that's a problem.In this episode of Coaching to Flourish, John and Raj sit down with Kathy, a global career and leadership coach, Forbes senior contributor, and host of the Finding Brave podcast, to pull the term apart. Kathy spent eighteen years climbing to VP in corporate publishing before a series of crises, capped by a layoff one month after 9/11, sent her into therapy, then into coaching. That path shapes how she works: she looks at who you were as a child, not just the problem in front of you today.The conversation covers a lot of ground. Kathy explains why she sees burnout less as an occupational condition and more as an "identity clash," the exhaustion of using hard-won skills that were never your natural talents. She lays out the seven power gaps from her book The Most Powerful You, and why women so often reject the idea of wanting power in the first place. She's candid about AI, both as a believer who built her own trained clone and as a former therapist watching it give advice with no guardrails. And she gets practical about recovery: boundaries, saying no, and the daily walk she takes even when she's too tired to want to.Along the way, Kathy coaches Raj live on her own drive and boundaries, and the episode ends with a genuine disagreement about directive coaching that's worth the price of admission for any coach.Guest linksKathy Caprino: https://kathycaprino.com/Finding Brave podcast: https://findingbrave.org/The Most Powerful You (book): https://www.amazon.com/Most-Powerful-...Kathy's career assessment: https://kathycaprino.com/assessmentsKathy on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/kathycaprino  

Most coaching models were built on Western assumptions: that the individual is free to choose, and that coach and client meet as equals. Nick Wright has spent fifteen years testing those assumptions in NGOs, charities, and communities across seventeen countries and five continents, and he has watched them break down in real time.In this conversation with Raj Anderson and John Andrew Williams, Nick shares the mistakes that taught him the most, the words of wisdom an international group of coaches gave him about how to work across cultures, and the three principles that now anchor his practice. It is a practical, honest look at what changes when you stop trying to master every culture and start showing up with humility and curiosity instead.Whether or not you coach across cultures, the core of this episode applies to every coaching relationship you have.What you'll learnThe two Western assumptions baked into most coaching: individual autonomy and equality between coach and client, and why both can fail outside a Western context.Why direct, goal-first coaching questions can feel blunt or even like a test in cultures where relationship and trust come first.Five practical principles for coaching across difference: relationship, intention, values, openness, and congruence.How to recover when you get it wrong, and why the courage to try and ask forgiveness beats the paralysis of trying to be perfect.Nick's three anchors for every session: prayer, presence, and participation, and what it means to treat coaching as a genuine human encounter.About the guestNick Wright is a cross-cultural coach and organizational development consultant based in the UK, with fifteen years of experience across the NGO sector, charities, and churches. He holds a postgraduate qualification in coaching psychology and has worked in more than seventeen countries across five continents.Connect with Nick at https://www.nick-wright.com/Want to build coaching skills that hold up in any room? Explore our ICF-aligned programs at https://www.coachtrainingedu.com.

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Marketing can feel like a black box. Justin Tidmarsh spent more than 20 years building brands like Nike, Best Buy, and Starbucks, and he says it comes down to three things: know who you are, say it clearly, and show up where your people are. Justin joins Raj Anderson and John Andrew Williams to talk about how coaches build a brand that sounds like them, how to pick a niche without feeling like you're leaving money on the table, and how to put a real price on your time. He also shares a sharp reframe on burnout, applying the customer lifetime value model he used in corporate to his own life.

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Dr. Zarya Rubin trained for fifteen years to become a doctor, then walked away from medicine at the height of her career. On this episode of Coaching to Flourish, the Harvard-educated former neurologist known as "The Burnout Doctor" tells hosts Raj Anderson and John Andrew Williams what it took to recognize her own burnout, and why so many high achievers miss the signs until a crisis forces the issue.

Zarya breaks down the three pillars of burnout first defined in the 1970s: exhaustion that sleep and vacation cannot fix, cynicism, and a drop in professional efficacy. She explains why calling burnout a "workplace problem" puts too much of the burden on the individual, how moral injury and compassion fatigue build in caring professions, and why we treat exhaustion like a badge of honor until our bodies force a reckoning.

The conversation covers the antidotes too: giving people more control and clearer decision rights, recognition over criticism, putting the right people in the right seats, and Zarya's own TEDx mantra, "do one thing less." The episode closes with a candid look at "AI fry," the new mental fatigue that comes from processing information faster than our brains were built to handle.

If you lead a team, coach high performers, or you have ever said "I'll sleep when I'm dead," this one is for you.

Connect with Dr. Zarya Rubin:

• Website: https://drzarya.com

• Free Outsmart Burnout Toolkit: https://drzarya.myflodesk.com/outsmartburnouttoolkit

• Book a 1:1 SOS Session: https://drzarya.myflodesk.com/

• Watch her TEDx talk: https://bit.ly/TEDxBurnout

• Instagram: @drzaryarubin and @theburnoutMD

• Her podcast, Outsmart Burnout, on Apple Podcasts and Spotify

Coaching to Flourish is hosted by Raj Anderson, founder of Coachability, and John Andrew Williams, founder of Coach Training EDU and creator of Top Coach.

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The Coaching to Flourish podcast is back. John Andrew Williams, MCC, and Raj Anderson, MCC, return to reconnect and set the tone for a new season of conversations with people worth listening to.

In this episode:

- Why they stepped away, and what brought the podcast back

- Coaching as genuine curiosity, and how to create a space where people feel safe being themselves

- How status, comparison, and a fixed mindset keep us guarded

- Physical outlets and well-being as a counter to stress and burnout

- What's ahead this season: leaders, entrepreneurs, CEOs and interesting people doing interesting things.

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Coaching to Flourish is co-produced by Coach Training EDU and Coachability

Tune into part two of this concise laser coaching session! Host Raj Anderson, MCC, and John Andrew Williams, MCC, dive further into the nuances of going from idea to implementation for Andrew’s coaching program, plus have a very candid discussion about self-reflection and growth as a coach. Discover practical insights on managing expectations, asking the right questions, and turning coaching challenges into growth opportunities.

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Tune in for this concise laser coaching session focused on motivation, vision recordings, and finding clarity! Host Raj Anderson, MCC, and John Andrew Williams, MCC, review a coaching session between John and his client Andrew, in an exploration of Andrew’s emerging coaching business, following your passion, and achieving financial success. You’ll walk away with a refreshed perspective on how to address client challenges and leverage tools like vision recordings to drive progress and success for your clients. Tune into part 2 of this session in the next episode!

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This special episode is a recording of the Future Self Guided Visualization exercise, created by CTEDU graduate Nasheya Peracha. This tool is so impactful that we just had to share it here, as a practice to use yourself and as a tool for coaching clients!

Find a comfortable seat and enjoy this impactful exercise.

Thank you to Nasheya Peracha for permission to use and share this recording. Nasheya is a Life Coach who focuses on self love and spirituality. You can connect with her on Instagram @nasheyaperacha, and by email: [email protected].

Join Raj Anderson, MCC, and John Andrew Williams, MCC, for this episode of exploring sample coaching sessions and the overall dynamics with potential clients. Join us for practical tips and discussions of intake forms, sample sessions, setting client expectations, and the psychology within signing new clients. This episode provides fresh insights and perspectives for how you approach prospective clients and foster meaningful relationships.

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