The Coaching Podcast

Simon interviews Shelley Flett, Melbourne based leadership development coach and consultant. Shelley provides tremendous insight and value with highlights including her take on what makes a great coach and a stand-out, controversial question for Emma and Simon to debate and ponder.

Emma Doyle interviews Gigi Fernandez, tennis coach and winner of 17 Grand Slam doubles crowns & two Olympic Gold Medals. Gigi reveals how she once got on the wrong side of Billie-Jean King and learnt an important lesson for the rest of her career. Simon and Emma explore the importance of instruction and method, the credibility of coaches and maintaining positive psychology when confronted with negative coaching experiences. Make sure you listen to the end of the episode where Simon surprisingly nails a succinct summary of a passionate discussion led by Emma around what's needed to address the male/female imbalance in coaching numbers.

Gigi Fernández is the Founder and Owner of the GiGi Method. She is considered to be one of the best doubles players of all time. She is a Hall of Famer, winner of 17 Grand Slam doubles titles with various partners and 2 Olympic Gold Medals with Mary Joe Fernandez. In 2000 Gigi was named Puerto Rican Athlete of the Century. In 2011, she started coaching recreational players. Gigi is the founder and creator of Gigi Fernandez Tennis. Gigi now spends her time coaching adult players on how to excel at doubles. She travels the country doing clinics and camps and host The Gigi Method Tennis Camps for enthusiasts that want more in-depth instruction from Gigi.

Travis Bell, 'The Bucket List Guy' is interviewed by Emma Doyle. With an episode chock full of interesting discussion and moments, including Simon revealing his musical 'talents' and Emma providing a fascinating insight to her previous adventures into the world of competitive dance. Trav Bell also turns the tables on The Coaching Podcast by asking 'What makes a great coach?' as his question for the show.

Trav Bell is The Bucket List Guy...The Worldʼs #1 Bucket List Expert.

As a self-appointed ʻBucket Listologistʼ, Trav has obsessively studied the Bucket List

phenomenon & blended the worldʼs best Positive Psychology principles to create his own

unique Bucket List Life Philosophy. He has designed his life around his Bucket List and

now he helps Bucket Listers all over the globe create and cross off theirs.

A Bucket List is a tangible reason ʻWhyʼ. A Life Plan that has the power to transform every

area of your life. It will help to decrease lifeʼs distractions & increase your focus on what

truly makes you happy. But this is way more than just writing a simple list. This is about the

journey youʼll experience in the process of achieving your list & about the person you

become in the process.

Trav says he has a special super-power! His super-power is to stop people just existing,

stop ʻground-hogʼ days, stop waiting for ʻsomedayʼ or ʻthe perfect timingʼ to come around.

He wakes people up, gets them off the treadmill of life & helps them to start living life on

purpose.

Before Trav became ʻThe Bucket List Guyʼ, he built a chain of personal training studios

across Australia. Starting with 1 client, he & his team went on to do over a million personal

training sessions & motivated 10's of 1000's of clients. This is the foundation for why Trav

is now regarded as one of Australiaʼs foremost Personal Development Speakers & Life

Coaches.

Described as "infectiously motivating", Trav always brings fresh stories to each seminar &

event he does because heʼs out there practising what he preaches. His ʻcrazyʼ Bucket List

adventures are hilarious & truly inspirational.

Emma Doyle interviews the most famous tennis mum in the world and a champion of girls and women's tennis, Judy Murray. Judy and Emma have a wonderful friendship and coach relationship focusing on empowering the next generation of women in coaching.

Scottish tennis coach and motivational speaker, Judy Murray OBE, is no stranger to cultivating success in others. The mother of Andy and Jamie Murray, two incredibly successful tennis players, Judy is an expert in inspiring greatness in others. As a motivational speaker, she discusses her experience of tennis growing up, from playing outside in the summer to Badminton in the winter because there was no outside tennis court. In her personal sporting career, Judy earned over 60 titles before retiring to study French and Business Studies at the University of Edinburgh, graduating in 1981. Judy was famed for her calculated, quick thinking playing style, easily outwitting her competition.

After representing Great Britain at the 1981 World Students Games, Judy turned her talent to coaching her sons. Once she established a foundation of skill, Andy and Jamie transferred to a professional coach - but their mother was never too far away, on the sidelines offering inspiring and supportive comments. Judy continues to coach future tennis champions, at both regional and national level.

As a testament to her coaching ability, Judy was chosen to lead the British Fed Cup team as their captain. Judy flourished in this role, but she also had another incentive - to raise awareness of female coaches. Commonly unrepresented, Judy tackled sexism in sports head-on by proving that female tennis coaches are just as capable as male coaches.

In recognition of her contribution to tennis, female empowerment and charity fundraising, Judy was appointed OBE in 2017. An advocate for the power of sport, she founded the Judy Murray Foundation, a charity that improves the opportunities for tennis in Scotland. As a speaker, Judy is an expert in high-performance teams so can motivate positive workplace culture for her audiences.

Also, check out her program (Tennis for Girls) called 'Miss Hits' - https://www.miss-hits.co.uk/

And her book called 'Knowing the Score' - https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/1080490/judy-murray.html

Simon interviews Claude Silver, Chief Heart Officer for Gary Vaynerchuk's company VaynerMedia. Early in the interview, Claude reveals her worst coaching experience which somehow combines climbing a mountain and Nine Inch Nails! Claude reveals the essence of what makes her, and VaynerMedia tick and how through her coaching she strives to help people light up and bring their best to work every day. This is a must-listen, creating incredible topics for Simon and Emma to explore with gusto...and they do!

Claude Silver is VaynerMedia's Chief Heart Officer, the capstone of a career focused on guiding client relationships, global brand strategies, operations, and management. An abiding passion for creating spaces in which people can thrive defined her previous leadership positions at J. Her life's purpose is to be of joyful service and unlock emotional optimism in all.

Check out her amazing Podcast called: Emotional Optimism - Living in the Silver Lining

https://anchor.fm/eoandthesilverlining/episodes/Ep-33-Having-courageous-conversations-e9vid8/a-a18rutb

Simon interviews business coach Ali Minbashian from ActionCOACH. Ali reveals insights into a particularly challenging week early in his career that was certainly bittersweet. He also details his 3 elements of 'What makes a great coach?' in a uniquely visual way which stimulates Emma to create a test for our audience. Simon and Emma have a great debate over what's more important to motivation and achieving goals, facing up to and avoiding fear versus ambition and focusing on what you want to achieve.

Emma interviews world-leading sports performance coach, Allistair McCaw where he reveals how failing every day is a major weapon in his own coaching success and the satisfaction that comes when those he coaches reach out with gratitude. Both Emma and Simon reveal quite a number of stories from their own coaching experiences that is sure to both entertain and inform.

Allistair McCaw is an internationally recognized leader in the field of athletic performance enhancement. His well-proven method of athlete training, 'The McCaw Method', has set the standard for providing world-class athletes and coaches with cutting-edge training techniques, products and knowledge.

A fitness expert with over 17 years of experience, Allistair has trained a host of world champion athletes including Grand Slam Tennis champions, PGA Golfers and Olympians. Allistair's expertise in movement & agility training has seen both the world number 1 player's in Tennis and Squash seek his guidance. He also contributes articles to various magazines on performance enhancement training, motivation and mindset. Allistair McCaw website: http://www.themccawmethod.com/

Tim Simons from Build Coaching is interviewed by Simon Blair and he reveals a challenging story of a major incident in his first year as a professional coach and gives us the 3C's of coaching success.

Emma interviews Jeff Salzenstein, former top 100 ATP and founder of tennisevolution.com.

Emma and Simon discuss some great concepts thrown up by Jeff including the importance of the coaches search for those 'aha' moments and in having a 'growth mindset'.

Jeff's question for the 'The Coaching Podcast' provides the chance for Emma and Simon to delve deep into personal insights and methods they use for themselves and as coaches to create good daily routines and to manage stress.

Jeff Salzenstein is the founder of Tennis Evolution, Former Top 100 ATP singles and doubles player, 2 time All American and national champion at Stanford, USTA High-Performance Coach, and USPTA elite professional.

Simon interviews his first business coach, Dr. Steve Barlow from 'The Change Gym'. Steve specialises in helping individuals and teams with their change fitness and change readiness. As an experienced consultant and published author on organisational change management, Steve throws up plenty of great topics for Emma & Simon to sink their teeth into.