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- Trusting Your Intuition & Finding Your Purpose with Alan Seale
How do you learn to trust your intuition, and recognize when life is calling you toward something new?
In this episode, Alan Seale shares the personal journey behind Transformational Presence, his approach to coaching, leadership, and conscious living.
An author of seven books and founder of the Center for Transformational Presence, Alan began his career as a professional singer and voice teacher. He shares how helping people find their voices grew into helping leaders and coaches discover their purpose and the presence they bring to the world.
Together, we explore coming out within a Christian family, his mother’s journey toward acceptance and advocacy, spiritual belonging, and creating the conditions for transformation.
At the heart of Alan’s work are three questions:
What wants to happen?
Who is that asking me to be?
What is mine to do?Whether you’re a coach, a leader, or navigating a transition in your own life, this conversation offers an invitation to listen more deeply and discover your next step.
⏰ Timestamps
- 00:00 Introduction
- 02:58 Early Intuition Awakens
- 08:27 Coming Out and Family Shift
- 14:46 Faith Beyond Christianity
- 17:01 Building Transformational Presence
- 33:16 Defining Transformational Presence
- 36:57 Leaders Without Answers
- 38:53 Who Be Do Framework
- 41:16 Follow the Energy
- 42:32 Creating Discovery Spaces
- 54:52 Conscious Living Defined
- 58:19 Collective Breaking Open
🔗 Connect with Alan
Website: https://transformationalpresence.org/
Alan’s books: https://transformationalpresence.org/books/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CenterforTransformationalPresence
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alansealeLearn More About Our Work At the Center:
- Website: https://www.centerfortransformationalcoaching.com/
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thedeepcoach
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/thedeepcoach
➡️ Download our Free Guide: "How to Make a Living as a Transformational Coach"
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1 hr 5 min - What Does Integration Look Like After Awakening? | Joel Monk
At 24, Joel Monk was DJing in Manchester when he woke up one morning in tears. He realized he had lost touch with himself. Soon after, he sold his records and left for India.
In this episode of The Deep Coach, Joel joins Jonathan Hermida to explore what happened next—and the years of awakening, difficulty, and integration that have shaped how he lives and coaches today.
Joel is the co-founder of Coaches Rising, a coaching education platform that trains thousands of coaches each year and brings together leading teachers in human development and transformation. He also hosts the acclaimed Coaches Rising podcast and is a transformational coach whose clients have included media personalities, heads of banks, serial entrepreneurs, and Zen masters.
Joel shares an unexpected awakening experience in Dharamsala, the questions it left him with, and how he eventually found his way into coaching. He also speaks openly about a much more difficult period in his early forties—a dark night of the soul—and how the love of his family, support from teachers, and everyday responsibilities helped him through it.
Throughout the conversation, Joel describes how his relationship with the spiritual path has changed. He speaks about enjoying being himself, feeling more deeply, and becoming more available to the people and life around him. His ongoing integration has brought a simpler question into focus: Is he becoming more caring and generous?
Joel and Jonathan also explore how these experiences inform transformational coaching, including the shift from self-improvement to unfoldment, meeting someone without an agenda to change them, and paying attention to the relationships and environments that shape their life. They discuss the realities of running organizations while staying connected to the inspiration that brought them to this work.
⏰ Timestamps:
- 02:47 Before the Turning Point
- 04:57 Tears and Pilgrimage
- 10:23 Direct Path Breakthrough
- 25:41 Dark Night at 42
- 36:36 Simplicity in Integration
- 38:25 Sutric vs Tantric Paths
- 40:19 Non Duality and Humanity
- 46:39 Practice Meets Healing
- 47:47 Coaching in Context
- 55:30 Unfoldment and Trusting Emergence
🔗 Connect with Joel
Website: Coaches Rising
LinkedIn: Joel MonkLearn More About Our Work At the Center:
- Website: https://www.centerfortransformationalcoaching.com/
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thedeepcoach
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/thedeepcoach
➡️ Download our Free Guide: "How to Make a Living as a Transformational Coach"
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1 hr 14 min - Leading in Chaos: Healing, Consciousness & the Future of Leadership with Amy Elizabeth Fox
What if many of the challenges we face in our organizations and our world are fundamentally problems of consciousness?
In this episode of The Deep Coach, Jonathan sits down with Amy Elizabeth Fox, co-founder and CEO of Mobius Executive Leadership and co-author of Leading in Chaos, for a deeply personal conversation about healing, leadership, trauma, spirituality, and human transformation.
Amy shares how fear and difficult experiences in childhood sparked an early spiritual search, how music became a portal into experiences of the divine, and how facing cancer in her twenties brought profound clarity to the purpose of her life.
From there, they explore Amy’s journey into leadership development and her pioneering work bringing deeper healing into organizational settings. Amy explains why changing behaviors and mindsets alone often isn’t enough, how unresolved trauma can shape the way executives lead and relate, and what becomes possible when leaders begin addressing the deeper material they carry.
They also explore vertical development, embodiment and somatic practice, collective trauma, the importance of integration after transformational experiences, and the surprising kinds of organizations embracing this work.
Ultimately, the conversation widens beyond leadership itself into what this moment in history may be asking of us: greater interdependence, surrender, service, and a willingness to become what Amy calls an “instrument of repair.”
In This Episode- 02:43 Childhood Fear And Control
- 04:40 Music As Divine Portal
- 06:43 Grace And Spiritual Teachers
- 10:37 Cancer And Life Purpose
- 13:33 From Cathedral To Mobius
- 16:31 Faith Meets Climate Action
- 20:41 Beyond Behavior Change
- 22:31 Trauma In The Workplace
- 27:23 Executive Healing Outcomes
- 31:49 Integration After Breakthrough
- 33:56 Synchronicity And Seeking
- 35:06 Heart Opening Group Alchemy
- 36:29 Vertical Development Defined
- 37:34 Embodiment Somatic Practices
- 40:21 Organizations Ready For This
- 46:38 Repair Bowing Down Conclusion
Connect with Amy Elizabeth Fox- Website: www.amyelizabethfox.com
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/amyelizabethfox/
Learn More About Our Work At the Center:
- Website: https://www.centerfortransformationalcoaching.com/
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thedeepcoach
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/thedeepcoach
➡️ Download our Free Guide: "How to Make a Living as a Transformational Coach"
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1 hr 4 min - From Seeker to Guide: The Next Stage of Your Journey
There comes a point on every transformational journey when our attention begins to shift—from healing and understanding ourselves to feeling called to serve others.
In this solo episode of The Deep Coach Podcast, Jonathan Hermida explores three stages of this journey: healing, learning, and serving. He looks at what happens when we get stuck in endless learning, the temptation to compare ourselves to more polished voices, and why stepping into service doesn’t require becoming an influencer or having everything figured out.
Ultimately, the transition from seeker to guide begins with something much simpler: connecting with others, trusting what has been cultivated within you, and finding the places where you feel genuinely called to serve.
Learn More About Our Work At the Center:
- Website: https://www.centerfortransformationalcoaching.com/
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thedeepcoach
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/thedeepcoach
➡️ Download our Free Guide: "How to Make a Living as a Transformational Coach"
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8 min - The Healing Power of Breathwork, Ego & Trauma with Christian de la Huerta
Most of us spend our lives trying to fix ourselves.
But what if healing isn’t about becoming someone new—it’s about remembering who you’ve always been?
In this episode of The Deep Coach Podcast, Jonathan Hermida sits down with internationally renowned breathwork teacher, author, and TEDx speaker Christian de la Huerta for a profound conversation about healing trauma, understanding the ego, reclaiming personal power, and awakening to our deeper nature.
Christian shares his remarkable journey from depression and self-hatred to decades of guiding transformational experiences around the world through breathwork. Together, they explore why trauma lives in the body, why awareness alone isn’t enough for lasting change, and how conscious relationships become one of our greatest paths for healing.
Whether you’re a coach, therapist, leader, or simply someone committed to your own growth, this conversation offers practical wisdom alongside deep spiritual insight.
In this episode:- 01:57 – Early Life and Turning 30
- 06:01 – Finding Breathwork
- 07:35 – Ego Explained and First Session
- 16:23 – Trauma Healing and Ripple Effects
- 31:50 – Reclaiming Personal Power
- 33:28 – Ego Power vs. Soul Power
- 36:15 – Breathwork and Healing Past
- 38:11 – Persistence in Service Business
- 41:22 – Hope and Common Humanity
- 46:31 – Healing Ego and Conscious Love
- 50:49 – Conscious Relationships in Practice
- 54:28 – Victimhood to Choice
- 57:01 – Change Starts at Home
- 58:28 – Advice for Transformation
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Connect with Christian de la Huerta- Website: https://soulfulpower.com/
- Christian's Books: https://soulfulpower.com/shop/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/unleashyourinnerhero
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/christiandlh/
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4hOzeGdhkTcRxOHkV9tfbQ
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christiandelahuerta/
Learn More About Our Work At the Center:
- Website: https://www.centerfortransformationalcoaching.com/
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thedeepcoach
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/thedeepcoach
➡️ Download our Free Guide: "How to Make a Living as a Transformational Coach"
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1 hr 2 min - Nicholas Janni: Why Awakening Alone Isn’t Enough | Healing, Leadership & The Future of Conscious Business
What if awakening isn’t enough?
In this profound conversation, Jonathan sits down with transformational leadership pioneer Nicholas Janni to explore the intersection of healing, awakening, and conscious leadership. Nicholas shares his extraordinary journey—from London’s underground music scene, to Tibetan Buddhism, radical theater in Poland and Switzerland, drumming in West Africa, bodywork in Hawaii, and ultimately into the boardrooms of some of the world’s most powerful organizations.
Together they unpack why so many leaders are unconsciously driven by deficit, how trauma shapes performance, what it means to become a “Leader as Healer,” and why humanity may be standing at the edge of an entirely new paradigm. This is a conversation about flow, presence, enoughness, and the deeper intelligence that emerges when we get out of our own way.
If you’re a coach, leader, entrepreneur, or seeker, this episode will challenge how you think about success, healing, and transformation.
⏰ Timestamps
- 02:52 London Subculture Awakening
- 05:43 Buddhist Breakthrough
- 09:48 Theater as Spiritual Path
- 21:27 From Flow to Healing Work
- 37:23 Healing Base Camp Rises
- 38:57 Leader as Healer Origins
- 44:36 Bringing Healing to Executives
- 48:43 Enoughness and Awakened Economics
- 58:10 New Paradigm and Closing Advice
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🔗 Connect with Nicholas:
- Website: https://www.nicholasjanni.com/
- Leadership Work: https://www.thematrixdevelopment.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholas-janni/
📘 Books:
- Leader as Healer: https://a.co/d/0fX2GxY2
- Leading in Chaos: https://a.co/d/0hn4f2xw
Learn More About Our Work At the Center:
- Website: https://www.centerfortransformationalcoaching.com/
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thedeepcoach
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/thedeepcoach
➡️ Download our Free Guide: "How to Make a Living as a Transformational Coach"
💡 Please subscribe to get updates on the latest episodes. Thank you for listening!
1 hr 13 min - From Monkhood to the Real World | The Illusion of Transformation, Money, and Letting Go with Nithya Shanti
What if the journey of transformation isn’t a journey at all, but actually a distraction from what's really here?
In this expansive conversation, Jonathan sits with Nithya Shanti to explore the tension between seeking and surrender, monkhood and worldly life, silence and expression. Nithya shares his path from childhood loss to monastic devotion, and the eventual unraveling of the very ideas that once shaped his spiritual identity.
Together, they unpack the paradoxes of growth, the complexity of money and relationships, and why true wisdom may lie in loosening our concepts rather than refining them.
In this episode:- 01:38 – Questioning the idea of transformation
03:08 – Childhood loss and the shaping of identity
05:22 – Meditation at 16 and the first seeds of awakening
08:06 – Leaving corporate life to become a monk
09:02 – Family resistance and inner certainty
11:05 – The beauty and simplicity of monastery life
13:32 – When the cracks began to appear
18:56 – Leaving monkhood behind
20:34 – Starting over and learning the value of pricing
22:58 – Translating spiritual wisdom into the corporate world
25:41 – Navigating money, relationships, and contradiction
32:09 – From seeking happiness to spreading happiness
35:36 – How his teachings have evolved
37:34 – Why naming creates separation
46:25 – Trusting the process, not your ideas of it
50:13 – Life as practice and building community
52:28 – Walking away from social mediaKey Takeaways- Transformation may be less about change and more about dis-identification
- The desire for enlightenment can itself become an obstacle
- Money is deeply relational and reveals unconscious patterns
- Contradiction is not a flaw—it’s part of being human
- Life often supports us most when we loosen control
- Presence isn’t something to achieve—it’s what remains when striving softens
Connect with Nithya- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spreadinghappiness/
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/nithyashanti
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nithyashanti/
Learn More About Our Work At the Center:
- Website: https://www.centerfortransformationalcoaching.com/
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thedeepcoach
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/thedeepcoach
➡️ Download our Free Guide: "How to Make a Living as a Transformational Coach"
💡 Please subscribe to get updates on the latest episodes. Thank you for listening!
1 hr 1 min - 01:38 – Questioning the idea of transformation
- The Hidden Resistance to Our Full Potential
Why do we so often resist the very things we say we want most?
In this solo episode, Jonathan explores the subtle and deeply human tendency to resist joy, love, abundance, and our own potential. Drawing from personal experience, transformational work, and the concept of the “upper limit problem,” this conversation dives into the unconscious ways we self-sabotage when life begins to feel too good.
Jonathan reflects on healing, gratitude, embodiment, emotional capacity, and what it truly means to expand our ability to hold light — not just pain.
This episode is an invitation to stop shrinking, stop dimming, and begin stepping more fully into the fullness of who you are.⸻
⏰ Timestamps
- 00:00 Why We Resist Joy
- 00:49 Upper Limit Self Sabotage
- 03:18 Practices To Hold Light
- 06:27 Embodied Love And Influence
- 08:49 Step Fully Into Your Light
Learn More About Our Work At the Center:
- Website: https://www.centerfortransformationalcoaching.com/
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thedeepcoach
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/thedeepcoach
➡️ Download our Free Guide: "How to Make a Living as a Transformational Coach"
💡 Please subscribe to get updates on the latest episodes. Thank you for listening!
14 min - From Numb to Alive: The Real Path to Healing & Emotional Freedom with Anamargret Sanchez
What happens when you stop running from your pain, and finally turn toward it?
In this episode, transformational coach, ketamine facilitator, and longtime yoga teacher Anamargret Sanchez shares her deeply personal journey from loss and disconnection to embodiment, healing, and purpose.
What you’ll learn:
- Why emotional numbness blocks both pain and joy
- How yoga became a gateway to deeper healing
- What ketamine therapy actually does (and doesn’t do)
- How to move through grief instead of around it
- Why you’re not meant to do this work alone
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⏱️ Timestamps
- 02:01 - Who Was Anamargret Before
- 03:45 - Origin Story and Loss
- 07:37 - Miami Move and Contraction
- 11:20 - Yoga and Healing Path
- 29:54 - Beyond Antidepressants
- 31:00 - Healing Outcomes Witnessed
- 32:09 - Holding Space & Self-Care
- 34:35 - Full Circle Yoga Reunion
- 37:15 - Retreat to Deep Coaching Dive
- 40:53 - Legion Park Yoga Community
- 43:47 - Miami’s Ripple Effect
- 45:37 - Purpose as Conduit
- 46:42 - Life “Through Me” Framework
- 49:23 - Welcoming Darkness
- 50:18 - Transformation Needs Support
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🔗 Connect with Anamargret
- Website: https://anamargret.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anamargret/
Learn More About Our Work At the Center:
- Website: https://www.centerfortransformationalcoaching.com/
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thedeepcoach
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/thedeepcoach
➡️ Download our Free Guide: "How to Make a Living as a Transformational Coach"
💡 Please subscribe to get updates on the latest episodes. Thank you for listening!
53 min - Why Success Alone Will Never Fulfill You with Patrick Boland
What happens when you do everything “right”… and still feel empty?
In this episode of The Deep Coach Podcast, I sit down with Patrick Boland—executive coach, author of The Contemplative Leader, and former high-achiever who hit a breaking point early in life.
At just 16, Patrick experienced a profound existential crisis. Despite excelling in academics, sports, and music, he found himself asking a deeper question:
“What is it all for?”
What followed was a journey through depression, spirituality, mentorship, and ultimately, a radical shift in how he relates to success, meaning, and leadership.
📝 Key Themes
- The illusion of success as a path to fulfillment
- Existential crisis as a gateway to transformation
- Mentorship and inner healing
- Letting go of control and walking the “pathless path”
- Navigating uncertainty and liminal space
- Contemplative leadership in a changing world
- Fatherhood, legacy, and meaning
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⏰ Timestamps
- 01:44 Teen Pressure and Emptiness
- 03:17 Loss Sparks the Spiral
- 04:49 Ecclesiastes Awakening
- 06:23 Rejecting the Scripted Life
- 08:32 Prayer and Inner Shift
- 09:51 Mentors and the Enneagram
- 14:45 Why Mentorship Matters
- 18:31 Pilot Dream Shattered
- 21:37 Sailing and Letting Go
- 25:51 Richard Rohr Connection
- 29:15 Credentials and Calling
- 32:40 Lifes Work Quote
- 33:17 Walking the Pathless Path
- 35:15 Listening Beneath Fear
- 36:56 Culture and Consciousness Stages
- 41:59 Contemplative Leadership Explained
- 52:39 Fatherhood and Facing the Future
- 57:54 Doing Whats Yours to Do
- 01:02:19 Go Through the Storm
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🔗 Connect with Patrick Boland
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-boland-9546048/
- Website: https://www.conexus.ie/
- Book: https://www.thecontemplativeleader.com/
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📖 Resources Mentioned- The Contemplative Leader – Patrick Boland
- Everything Belongs – Richard Rohr
- Ecclesiastes (Hebrew scriptures)
Learn More About Our Work At the Center:
- Website: https://www.centerfortransformationalcoaching.com/
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thedeepcoach
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/thedeepcoach
➡️ Download our Free Guide: "How to Make a Living as a Transformational Coach"
💡 Please subscribe to get updates on the latest episodes. Thank you for listening!
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About The Deep Coach
From the publisher's feed
The Deep Coach Podcast explores the transformational journeys that shape us—and that propel us to change the world. In each episode, host Jonathan Hermida sits down with those who have journeyed into…
the depths of spiritual transformation and who are now reshaping the world through their presence and their work. Rooted in the principles of Deep Coaching, these intimate conversations reveal the pivotal moments, insights, and practices that have marked each guest’s path. Whether you’re a coach or a seeker, you’ll find inspiration, practical tools, and soulful wisdom to support your own unfolding journey toward living as your highest, truest self.