Highlights:

• 7 years at a Buddhist meditation center
• Software tester at intel
• Coaching was always inside of her
• Somatic is important part of her coaching
• Seeing clients too much in their heads, spinning
• Light bulb moments
• Brief discussion about neuro science of habits
• Struggle with challenging the client
• Being a helper and NOT being confrontational
• Locking into a persons needs
• America is ready for coaching and mindfulness
• Helping people find purpose in their work
• Honing in on being more empathetic
• Massive trouble with the favorites section of this podcast

Highlights:

• Coming to us from Yorkshire in the UK
• Coaching starting in 1996 in Hong Kong for Russell
• External Virgin Company Training session that sparked him inside
• Discovering Executive Coaching was like finding a drug
• Being the resilience coach
• Coaching aligns to his purpose positively affect 100,000 people by 2025
• Avoiding toxic positivity
• Focus on being optimistic
• Modeling being resilient
• Being made redundant 6 times prior to going out on his own
• Listening to the Universe on what to do next
• What are your natural energizers
• I've come home
• Russell is always himself all the time
• David Bowie is the sound track to his life

Highlights:

• Living in and loving Cleveland
• Life Long learner
• Integral Coaching in Canada
• We are all works in progress and being a life long learner
• Loving philosophy and psychology early on 
• 2 day intensive coaching training
• Seeing Divine intervention first hand
• You know when you know
• Getting his clients to run experiments, a MUST HAVE in his practice
• Creating coaching space with your boss
• 2 Day intensive coaching session
• Trust is imperative
• Patricks coaching style
   
  • Playful but direct 
  • Supportive buy challenging 
  • Deeply curious 
  • Thinking creatively 
  • Persistent 
• Corner of his monitor 
  • Heard and say more 
• On a good day we are partially right
• Good Coaches don't have a conflict of interest

Highlights:

• Getting into coaching to align self and build a career
• What we put out there, we get back, just like a mirror
• Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) instructor
   
  • Understanding the language and programs in your mind 
• Picking up limitations over time
• We all enough, we just need to be reminded sometimes
• Listening to the language of your client
• Plans to write a book every couple of years
• Following the lead of your client to connect more deeply
• Coaching without video
• Not many Tesla's in Greece, however in Norway . . .  

Highlights:

• Two great friends that met through Hudson
• Leveraging each other to support their coaching practices
• Talking useful tools
   
  • Wheel of Life 
  • The Lifeline in real time 
  • Value Exercise 
• Following your clients lead
• Listening to your body prior to upcoming calls
• Setting intentions prior to calls
• Somatics in coaching and clients that might have an allergic reaction
• 5 areas of coaching focus
   
  • Thought Partner 
  • Job change or onboarding support 
  • Relationship Management 
  • Health 
  • Uncertainty in the environment 

Highlights:

• Engineer to finance to Executive Coaching
• Having deep meaning conversations through coaching
• When you realize that you're not that good of a listener
• Managing expectations
• Early on in coaching we move at the speed of light to reach a conclusion
• Shout out to Julie Hess and Laura Daley "Do your best coaching"
• Being connected to his purpose
• Getting better as we get older as a coach
• What to do when you dread an upcoming coaching session
• Fighting being a "Pleaser" and reconciling this with coaching
• Seeing the sense of relief from our clients

Highlights:

• Client is the tree
• Invisible to Visible is where the coach works
• Visible to Obvious is the clients work
• Understanding the rear view mirror will support forward movement
• Our minds are like the surface of a lake, try to get that still as a coach
   
  • As coaches we try to create moments of stillness 
  • Bringing tough topics to the surface 
• Having difficult conversations with our clients
• The window vs the mirror analogy
• Coaching someone in a foreign language
• Coaching the person not the problem
• Limiting beliefs as layers of clothing
• Coaching is like a jigsaw puzzle

Highlights

• Boundaries 
  • Breaking them 
  • Not being fair to your client 
  • Make choices that work for you 
  • Boundaries evolve 

• What is your Niche 
  • Having a bullseye 
  • Coaching is Coaching 

Some Highlights:

• 32 years in HR and then turning to coaching after being exposed to it
• Seeing the benefit of Executive coaches
• Being an internal coach within an organization
• Getting goose bumps during a chemistry call
• Have multiple calls with potential coaches, increase your options and choose the best coach for you
• The power of assessments and the overall impact, especially the 360 degree interviews
• Working with coaches in our practice
• Let the client figure it out for themselves
• Embedding coaching into MBA programs
• Coaching isn't like work it's a privilege
• Coaching showing up without even thinking about it

 Highlights: 

• Growing her business & getting comfortable with her coaching business
• Lining up corporate clients
• Using your coaching skills to sell more effectively
• Selling to individuals vs companies
• Massive technology event in Lisbon to Present Coaching