By Gemma Bailey
Coaching Extraordinary People & Alternative Psychology Podcast
Nicole grew up in a hyper-religious family – except, as her parents were from different religious factions there was no agreement about which was the right one to follow or the right way to live life. This created a great...
My Missing Pieces: David Richman – ExtraOrdinary People In his late 30’s, David was a stressed-out, overweight, smoker. He married an abusive alcoholic, with 4-year-old twins. Domestic violence is often thought of as something that men perpetrate and women are victims of....
Gemma Bailey is an entrepreneur, franchisor, trainer, therapist, author and podcaster who specialises in NLP and Hypnotherapy as the primary modalities of her work. For the last 2-years, she was secretly embarking on a new venture that not only stretched her...
After developing a successful business and living in a long marriage, Bill Heinrich walked out on his life. Expecting a journey of self-discovery, he found himself crying in the foetal position on the floor for 3 days. Bill realised his life...
Matthew is a man with a moral compass that has caused him to become an advocate for others in challenging circumstances. Following a difficult upbringing with alcoholic parents, Matthew was homeless by the age of 17. This caused a revaluation of...
Caroline has always identified as a drinker of alcohol. She was not only the one who rallied everyone to have shots, she was the one who got everyone at the bar to begin with! In 2013/2014, her husband had a...
Michael Herst always knew he would work in law enforcement. It wasn’t just a job, it was a way of life that fully underpinned his identity. He was drawn to this by way of positive rebellion – he came from...
Elena Perella began to change as a teenager. Whilst this is not uncommon the change in her was not a good one. She began to feel internal discomfort and began a destructive eating disorder. Then, at 19 years old her...
Ryan Lindner had some challenges around anxiety and OCD as he was growing up. Being an introvert meant that the road to becoming a coach was an unlikely path but one that helped him develop himself as well as others. After...
Sara Im is the author of How to Survive the Killing Fields; a story of hope, love and determination. It follows Sara’s own, true story that begins in tranquil Cambodia in the 1970s. Studying to become an engineer, Sara had no...
After not getting the grades he would have liked (and that would have been expected of him), Jerry handed the reins of his life over for other people to set the standards and decide where he should go next. Whilst...
Trudy Hindmarsh trained as a Samaritan, making her a through and through make a difference person! She went on to become a secondary and primary teacher, making her way to senior leadership team and working as a SENCO. In her later...
Ruth is a person who has studied success, written about success and achieved a great deal of success herself. This isn’t a lady who has some fluffy personal-development theories of her own, she is a Doctor who has studied the...
Stuart Falconer is an entrepreneur, father, qualified counsellor, fundraiser, charity founder and HR expert. As a baby Stuart was given up for adoption and grew up as an only child to a disabled parent. This formed his early attachment style and...
Ashlee Braxton was born into a family of fame and fortune as the niece of Toni Braxton, singer of hit 1990’s songs such as unbreak my heart. However, the circumstances in which she grew up are far from the all-American dream. Abandoned...
Jon Mclernon did just wake up one day and decide to be a health coach. He was lead there by a series of significant events that involved attempted murder and addiction. In this podcast you’ll not only get fully engaged with...
I’m very excited to tell you about the launch of my brand new series on the People Building Podcast; ‘ExtraOrdinary People’. Firstly, let me explain why I want to interview people who have had life-altering circumstances and study their psychology and success...
Links from today’s show: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_and_secondary_gain https://www.researchgate.net/publication/7591455_Secondary_gain_as_hidden_motive_for_getting_psychiatric_treatment https://www.unk.com/blog/how-to-deal-with-secondary-gains Secondary gain is often unconscious and the patient is unaware that they are capitalising on the benefits of having a problem. If it is a benefit that the patient is aware of (and deliberately fabricating or creating...
The Trolly Problem: The Trolly Problem Wikipedia Page Are there any firm rules on how to do the right thing? Does it come down to considering the ecology of a situation and continuing to do right even if it feels wrong? Perhaps...
Do you struggle to stop yourself from taking things personally? Here is the Ted Talk by Frederik Imbo: https://youtu.be/LnJwH_PZXnM Sometimes it’s difficult to shake off the feeling that it’s about you – even when you logically know it’s not! Today we’re going to...
This Big Five assessment measures your scores on five major dimensions of personality: Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism (sometimes abbreviated OCEAN). Check out your scores on each of the five dimensions and learn what each score means. I’m sharing...
Advice can be pretty cheap a lot of the time but now and again some really good, life-altering advice comes along. If you are the giver of good advice, it’s important to offer it in a way that allows the...
In this podcast we explore whether there are core principles that help to increase a person's feelings of hopefulness and how cognitive behaviour strategies such as NLP can help us to develop more hope. Using real-life examples I have come across...
Around 25% of people will suffer from some kind of mental health problem in their life. That means there is a strong likelihood that we will all come into contact with someone who is experiencing a problem at some point...
Here are my tips on dealing with annoying people. This is a new show format with a longer podcast - just like the good old days! Right now, it’s easier than ever to get annoyed and frustrated. Covid is certainly testing...
If you are feeling overwhelmed with the amount responsibilities you have on your plate at the moment then this is the podcast for you. First, we take a dive into why having responsibilities can be a good thing for helping you...
Reducing stress and anxiety in yourself and others can be a simple thing to do when you are aware of and make adjustments to the type of language you use. At times, giving lots of detail helps us to avoid generalising...
Is there a place for humour in therapy or any workplace for that matter? And if so, when is it appropriate? Is laughter always the best medicine? In this podcast, we explore the right ways to tickle someone’s funny bones and...
In NLP we have convent beliefs or ways of thinking about the world called ‘presuppositions’. One of these presuppositions is ‘You already have everything you need to succeed and to achieve your desired outcomes’. This one smacked me in the face...
In NLP there is a technique we use for categorising the levels of specificity of our language that we use, called chunking. A question for chunking up ( the process of becoming more abstract in subject matter) is “For what...
Ever had a head funk that you couldn’t shift? Today we do some strategy elicitation to figure out how I got mine on the move…
In this podcast, we explore what drives you and what inspires you. I’m sharing with you tips on tapping back into feelings of motivation. As well as practical everyday solutions, we’ll look into the psychology of completion to get you motivated...
There are times when making a decision gives us certainty and clarity and a path to begin working towards. And there are times when making a decision is a very bad idea. Sometimes our emotional state can get in the...
Take control of your thoughts and emotions.
We all like to think we are good at listening but there is an art to become a master at this skill. Not only does it take practice, but the correct levels of concentration and engagement. Perhaps you are someone who...
It’s easy to assume that there are both ‘good’ and ‘bad’ emotions and of course, we would want to spend our time in the positive emotions rather than the negative feelings. However there is some weight to having an open...
Join me for this free NLP training webinar to discover how you mind processes information to shape your beliefs; how language affects your experience of the world and how you can adjust your own unique coding to get better results...
Is it ever really possible to change or are you stuck with your current psychology? If change is possible, is it only ever to be found via conventional methods or is there a chance of change from venturing down the...
Death is something that will eventually come to us all so when we get there, wouldn’t it be nice to be able to look back on our lives and notice that we lived our lives in the fullest possible way...
So this one is controversial but work with me here. There’s a lot of downside to becoming a goal-setting junkie. If you’ve ever set a goal and fallen into the trap of living in the future illusion of what your...
Everyone is Doing Their Best - Or are they? This is one of the NLP Presuppositions that can appear a little ‘sticky’ at times. If you’ve even seen someone you know behaving in a way that you know is not...
Feeling of shame can hold us back in life, not just in terms of having the confidence to step out in life and achieve our goals, but also in the context of our relationships. Imagine attempting to engage with someone...
Snap out of it! Ok, it can be easier said than done, I appreciate that. That’s why I’ve put together 4 simple things that you can do to gradually move yourself away from a state of mind that is making you...
Is there a key to clear communication? Well, there’s a few actually so in this podcast we’ll take a look at just a few of them to help you get and gain the best communication with others for greater clarity,...
Can you really ‘be, do and have’ all that you want in life or should you just accept that it is what it is? Can NLP help? Maybe there is a realistic weird grey area in the middle, where there...
Are we too keen to get the highs of powerful emotions such as love, happiness, peace and joy? Is our quest to avoid powerful negative emotions such as fear, anxiety and depression so intense that we leap to the other...
The biggest problem with experiencing internal chaos is it limits our ability to find ways to solve the problems we have. So here in this podcast, I’m sharing with you several different strategies that you can use in the moment...
Internal Representations in NLP is the content of our thinking or the confirmation of information which includes Pictures, Sounds, Feelings, Tastes, Smells, and Self Talk – So basically just what goes on inside your head! It is how we view...
https://youtu.be/V13QNgWoZK4 The idea of giving up seems like a failing in hope, positivity and motivation. What happened to “never give in”? and “don’t stop until you get what you want”? Well, let me tell you, keeping on at keeping on...
Fear can hold you back in life but even more so when the one thing scarier than the scary thing, is the fear of the scary thing! Often our perception of fear is far greater than the challenge itself but...