The Coaching Hub Podcast

How do we make sure that our new year's resolutions and goals actually stick? Let's be honest. I think that most of us, after 2020, when we were all saying a year ago, "Let's make 2020 the best year. Yeah, I can feel this next decade is going to be amazing, blah, blah, blah," I think that maybe it may have changed some of our mindset on this best year ever dialogue.

However, we still see the same things. We see the articles in the magazines and hear this idea of having new year's resolutions, and we often think, maybe this is going to be the year we've finally do the thing we want to do.

So in this episode, I'm going to talk about how we can make our resolutions, or in other words, our focus and our intentions for the new year, actually stick and how we can do things that work for us, not against us, so that we feel more aligned with what we want to create.

Here are the highlights from this episode:

{2:40} Resolutions focus on the behaviours

{3:21} Making the foundations of the change we want to make, solid.

{4:52} The inside out approach

{6:18} Looking at what's underneath the changes we want to make

{7:51) What's really important to you?

{9:01} Layering your beliefs and values onto your resolutions

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Can you really make a living out of being a coach?

I'm not talking online here, guys. I'm talking generally, I'm talking about making a career out of being a coach. Being a professional coach and actually making this your job. 

We might think that there are only online coaches and I'm very aware that we see this model a lot. It isn't always coaching where we see coaches, coaching coaches who coach coaches. And it's not surprising that people can be wary and think, it looks like some glorified pyramid scheme! 

I am here to say unequivocally yes. Of course, you can make a career from being a coach. I'm going to talk a little bit today about how you can not only have a career but how you can have a thriving career and how you can do that without even having a Facebook profile. 

Here are the highlights from this episode:

{0:49} Can you really make a career out of being a coach?

{5:20} Coaching is not just a career you can have online

{7:36} Option for after you qualify as a coach

{11:05} What to do if you want to train as a coach

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It is a brilliant time to train as a coach. Why? Well, it seems increasingly likely that the coaching industry is going to become regulated at some point in the future. So, training now can enable you to future proof your career in your business, because you don't want to be scrambling about when the industry is regulated. 

Here are the highlights from today’s episode:

{0:58} How the coaching industry is changing

{2:16) How coach training helps you to put your clients first

{4:09} How coach training helps you as a business owner

{5:04} Coaching in the public or third sector as well as corporate

{7:01} The coaching qualifications that corporate and the public sector are looking for

{7:12} Reasons to get your coaching qualification now

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If you went online you would think that the reason people became coaches was to have a super yacht, travel to 5 star destinations and rake in the cash!

As the industry is unregulated anyone can say they are a coach: and many do without even picking up a book on coaching! Or they have done some online training which gives them a foundation without going deeper. 

The issue I see here is that we are working with people and especially if we are moving into the mindset space, there is a lack of understanding about how the brain works and how to identify when people need additional support. 

Impact over income and clients over cash are two sayings that are important here: when we centre our business around client outcomes and delivering we are building a sustainable business without the obsession with being insta famous!

I would love to know your thoughts!

Here are the highlights from today’s episode:

{2.42} The why of becoming a coach

{4:03} The importance of having a contract in place

{8:25} Prioritise individuals over money

{12:00} The meaning of making an impact and centering the business around the clients

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This is a question that many of my clients and trainee coaches ask me. 

One of the simplest answers is that if we do the work on ourselves and really focus on our mindset and energy as coaches so we can show up and be fully present with our clients, we are already one step closer to making more impact.

In this episode I delve into the science behind behavioural change and how understanding the science and how our brains work we can help our clients make more impact and get results. 

I would love to know how you have done this. 

Here are the highlights from today’s episode:

{2.05} Make clear with your clients what they want to achieve

{3:51} Uncover your limiting beliefs

{7:47} The importance of our own development as coaches

{9:42} Holding a clear and safe space for your client

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In this episode I talk about the different coaching models and modalities that you see and how they can be used in isolation or combination to get our clients results. 

Last week we looked at pure coaching as a paradigm and today I am exploring different modalities that we can explore which are widely seen under the umbrella of coaching. From normative models such as GROW to relational coaching to transactional analysis to NLP to energy-based approaches to neuroscience, we uncover what these offer and the positive and negative elements of each approach.

This is about helping you to consider what approaches you are interested in (and remember my coach training offers a whole host of approaches to give you that diversity of experience).

Here are the highlights from today’s episode:

{2:16} The normative models

{3:26} The relational coaching

{5:12} Transactional analysis

{6:17} NPL based approaches

{8:29} Understand your expertise and combine different approaches

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In this episode I explore what coaching is and what coaches do.

The word coach is ubiquitous online and as the word is used widely it can describe a whole host of approaches and modalities, many of which borrow from the principles of coaching although are not pure coaching.

I dive into what coaching is and how pure coaching looks, and what a coach will do in sessions and how this can help their clients make lasting transformational change. 

If you are considering adding coaching into your toolkit this is an episode that you need to listen to!

Here are the highlights from today’s episode:

{1:51} What does it mean to be a coach

{4:02} The difference between mentor and coach

{7:39} What we do in a coaching session

{11:10} Pure coaching and blended approaches

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The online world is awash with gurus sharing the one way to build your business - some of these gurus are truly amazing at what they do and will show you exactly how to create the course / program / membership site that you want.

The issue is that we can be sucked into marketing and can create businesses which are not aligned for how we want to work and how we want to show up in the world. 

In this episode I share how it is important that we go back to basics when we look at our business model: what are our strengths? What do we enjoy? Where do we get our energy? What are our values and how do we want our life to look? 

Some of my clients work 1:1 and do some teaching, training or speaking, others run memberships and group programs, others combine corporate work with 1:1, others run courses and workshops. There is no right way: the important thing is that you do what you want to do rather than what you think you should and it works for you.

Here are the highlights from today’s episode:

{2:08} A business model that works for you

{3:33} Consider your strengths

{4:39} What you enjoy 

{6:23} What is important to you: values

{10:36} Be clear on the life you want

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As a coaching mindset becomes a distinct ICF competency what does it actually mean? 

I believe that as coaches our mindset is one of the most important things we can work on between client sessions to deliver great results.

Some of my top hacks, alongside the exercise / journaling / reading / silence / diet / sleep list that we all know so well are shared in this podcast, I include: having time off social media every week, switching off from our phones, either having someone else answer my emails or having the apps off my phone, reading fiction and doing other things which stimulate my brain which aren’t coaching. 

Alongside this it is hugely important as a coach that we continue developing our knowledge, skills and experience through training, reading, coaching practice AND that we have safe spaces to talk about coaching for example in supervision (or in my new coaching hub membership).

Here are the highlights from today’s episode:

{2:14} A brief talk about energy hygiene

{4:24} The importance of performing cognitively at our best

{7:32} Tune in to what you find enriching 

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In this episode, we will talk about the new membership we will open from the 1st of November, and why I’ve decided to close two solid memberships to open a new one.

I will go through the different aspects we will look at in the membership and how you can develop yourself to become a great skilled coach and to build the business you love.

Here are the highlights from today’s episode:

{01:18} The decision behind the Coaching Hub

{02:34} Personal development

{04:30} Coaching skills and live coaching

{5:02} Business development

{6:17} The membership’s weekly agenda

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