Get ready for a ‘riff’ session ahead from the couch on the podcast today as host Julie Parker shares her experience of (with her elderly mother) being a patron of a local cafe in the town where she lives. Julie shares this story to specifically highlight how powerful it is when a business fully owns and embraces their niche and ideal client - and stays in a clear zone of supporting them as their best customers. Why share this? Because it highlights how important niching is to client attraction and success - something we know is important to all coaches. 

Website: https://www.beautifulyoucoachingacademy.com/  

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bycacademy/ 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BeautifulYouByJulie 

We love presenting to you at Inspired Coach Podcast success stories of coaches who are working in a wide variety of niches. We want to bust wide open the myth that you can only have a successful coaching business if you are a business coach - because that simply is not true. Case in point is our wonderful coach today - Lavinia Brown - who works with mothers to help them become the most conscious parents they can be and then in turn show up in the world as the woman they most long to be. Lavinia is experiencing an incredible level of success in her coaching business with a widening impact around the world. 

Website: www.laviniabrown.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.innerchild.healing.expert

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/the.innerchild.healing.expert/

Make no mistake about it - AI is here and here to stay. The question of whether it is or not or if we can benefit from using it as a tool in our lives and businesses has been answered. It can and it is. This does not however mean it’s an easy or straightforward tool to start using and there are many ethical considerations that we must traverse as we do. Dr Nici Sweaney - an expert AI consultant - is here to help us with the navigation of AI and how it can support us as coaches. 

 Website: www.aiherway.com.au

Instagram: www.instagram.com/ai_herway

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AiHerWay

We live in a really fast paced world. We know you know this and that’s nothing new or revelatory. However the power of slowing down in such a fast paced world can be - particularly when you are a coach. On the Coaches Couch today host Julie Parker shares her biggest tips for how consciously slowing down not just your coaching practice but your coaching business can support you. None of us have to move at lightning speed to be successful. Marketing messages and pressure may be trying to convince us otherwise - but you and we together can create a different reality for ourselves and our clients.

Website: https://www.beautifulyoucoachingacademy.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bycacademy/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BeautifulYouByJulie

We begin the 2025 Inspired Coach Podcast year by bringing you a divine success story - that of Fionnuala Wylie. Hailing all the way from Ireland, UK and living in Sydney, Australia, Fionnuala has turned her passion for yoga and personal development into a thriving six figure coaching business with multiple diverse offerings and a clientele from around the world. In this episode Fionnuala shares her journey with us including her love of hosting retreats and how she is now supporting others to host successful retreats too!

Website: https://infinniteyou.mykajabi.com/coaching

Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/fionnualawylie/

Coaches are of course human like everyone else. This means that they experience life related ‘issues’ like all other people - divorce, grief, losing their sense of self, financial stress and mental health concerns. Just because someone is a life coach does not somehow make them immune to such things - and neither does it for any other space holder too such as a doctor or therapist. Our guest on the show today is the amazing Di Braybrooke. Di has been coaching mums who have anxiety for more than a decade - and she also has anxiety herself. This is an amazing conversation for anyone who thinks having a mental health diagnosis precludes them from being a coach and the power of being open and releasing shame about our mental health needs. 

Website: www.dianabraybrooke.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/diana.braybrooke/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DianaBraybrookeAnxietyLifeCoach/

Starting a business as a life coach can feel and even be quite overwhelming. We get it! And it’s understandable with such a big undertaking that any new and emerging coach may make some ‘mistakes’ along the way - that hopefully are lessons in disguise! Today on the Coaches Couch we share the top five most prominent mistakes we see emerging coaches make so you can be forewarned or change course now for the better!

It’s a joy for us to bring you as our latest Success Story - Enda Gilbert - who is also our current Beautiful You Coaching Academy Emerging Coach of the Year. Enda has a thriving coaching business within the niche of parental burnout and support and she came to coaching never having done it before. You will learn from this interview Enda’s journey with burnout, her decision to train to become a coach, how important she feels Black women are to the coaching industry and her ‘gold’ thoughts on the power of collaboration for coaching business success. 

Website: https://endagilbert.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/endagilbertcoaching/

Many people who come to studying life coaching do so with a lot of other life, study and work experience behind them. This is an amazing thing! How though can life coaching be combined with the skills, qualifications and career experience we may already have? Is it even possible? Bianca Marics, our Beautiful You Coaching Academy Health Coach of the Decade, is here today to talk to us about these very things and how she has successfully combined life coaching with her naturopathy and nutrition qualifications.

Website: http://www.biancamarics.com

Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/bianca_marics_naturopath

The myth or belief that we or others hold that to be a great (and even safe) life coach your life must be perfect, exemplary or exceptional harms us all. Today on the Coaches Couch Julie talks about where this myth comes from, the damage it does or can do to our coaching, clients and sense of self and how to move beyond it so we can show up as imperfectly perfect in all we do.