Three OG Coaches Talking Shop

Hello! You haven’t heard from us for a while, as our respective energy has been pulled down different roads.

We wanted to record a farewell episode to conclude this ongoing and much-enjoyed conversation.

And we are returning full-circle! Our first episode was about The Rise of the Coachfluencer - where lifestyle content, product placement, and aspirational horseshit were masquerading as coaching. In this episode, we address the fall of so many characters from the coachfluencer pyramid.

As we see more and more “guru's” being named in The Files, being sued, or hanging up their shingle, we chat about what this means for our work, our industry and for us as practitioners. Spoiler: it’s really bloody hopeful.

Thank you for listening - we appreciate spending time with you, we are always cheering you on.

Lianne, Bridgette, + Sas xx

Resources:

Brene Brown NYT interview

Sas leads our conversation about Artificial Intelligence and the future of Coaching.

We reflect on what this technological shift might mean for human connection, professional identity, and how we make sense of ourselves and each other through the lens of coaching.

Both sas and Bridget have built custom GPTs, and Bridget is leading the way in terms of how AI can enhance and complement coaching.

Rather than presenting AI as something to fear or blindly adopt, our aim is to open up the conversation for curiosity, nuance, and possibility. Coaches are invited to consider how AI might reshape not just the industry, but their own practices — whether that’s in creating content, supporting clients, or redefining what it means to hold a human conversation in a tech-saturated world.

For You to Reflect On

* How are you feeling about AI right now - excited, cautious, overwhelmed, curious?

* Where do you see opportunities for AI to support your coaching practice, and where do you want to draw clear boundaries?

* What values or principles do you want to hold onto as this technology continues to evolve?

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Find us:

* Bridgette Boudreau: Website | Insta

* Lianne Raymond: Website | Insta

* Sas Petherick: Website | Insta

Lianne hosts us to chat about coaching as an aspect of the feminine principle – Sophiac wisdom – part of what has been devalued and lost in our wider culture.

We explore both where we are – with women over-represented as coaches, but under-represented in leadership and visibility in our industry. And the limits of working with individuals in a time of systemic change.

We also explore the alternatives as the old structures begin to collapse – ideas of reciprocity, communal care, and the rhythms of nature.

Enjoy!

 
 📺 Watch on YouTube and share your thoughts in the comments! 
 

Got a question for the OG’s? 

If you have a question about your coaching practice, we’d love to help. You are warmly invited to submit a question to us for an upcoming Q&A episode. You might want us to weigh in on a topic about the industry generally or something specific to do with your client work or running your coaching business. Please send all the details to: [email protected] 

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If you enjoy these conversations, please do offer a review on Apple podcasts and subscribe wherever you listen in. We appreciate your support and look forward to continuing these conversations with you. 

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· Bridgette Boudreau: Website | Insta 

· Lianne Raymond: Website | Insta 

· Sas Petherick: Website | Insta 

19. How do you know if your coaching is going well? 

Sas hosts a conversation about how we know when our coaching is going well (and when it's not landing). 

We explore the importance of self-reflection in coaching practices, with a mentor or supervisor. We also chat about the trickiness of assessing our own effectiveness, particularly if self-doubt pops up!

Enjoy.

 
📺 Watch on YouTube and share your thoughts in the comments! 
 

Got a question for the OG’s? 

If you have a question about your coaching practice, we’d love to help. You are warmly invited to submit a question to us for an upcoming Q&A episode. You might want us to weigh in on a topic about the industry generally or something specific to do with your client work or running your coaching business. Please send all the details to: [email protected] 

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If you enjoy these conversations, please do offer a review on Apple podcasts and subscribe wherever you listen in. We appreciate your support and look forward to continuing these conversations with you. 

Find us: 

· Bridgette Boudreau: Website | Insta 

· Lianne Raymond: Website | Insta 

· Sas Petherick: Website | Insta 

18. Opening to The Mystery in your coaching

Bridgette opens by asking us how we work with The Mystery—the ineffable, divine, soul, and spirit—in our work. 

We discuss how this shows up for each of us, the difference between coaching mastery and allowing the mystery to work through us. We also cover projection and entanglement with clients, spiritual maturity and Sophiac wisdom. Such a rich chat!

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Got a question for the OG’s?

If you have a question about your coaching practice, we’d love to help. You are warmly invited to submit a question to us for an upcoming Q&A episode. You might want us to weigh in on a topic about the industry generally or something specific to do with your client work or running your coaching business. Please send all the details to: [email protected]

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·      Bridgette Boudreau: Website | Insta

·      Lianne Raymond: Website | Insta

·      Sas Petherick: Website | Insta

Lianne hosts this episode's discussion about whether anyone is cut out to be a coach.

This turns out to be a rich conversation in which we share and disagree on many aspects of the qualities we each believe coaches need to do this work effectively.

What do you think? Can you get really great training and then do this work? 

 
📺 Watch on YouTube and share your thoughts in the comments! 
 

Got a question for the OG’s? 

If you have a question about your coaching practice, we’d love to help. You are warmly invited to submit a question to us for an upcoming Q&A episode. You might want us to weigh in on a topic about the industry generally or something specific to do with your client work or running your coaching business. Please send all the details to: [email protected] 

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If you enjoy these conversations, please do offer a review on Apple podcasts and subscribe wherever you listen in. We appreciate your support and look forward to continuing these conversations with you. 

Find us: 

· Bridgette Boudreau: Website | Insta 

· Lianne Raymond: Website | Insta 

· Sas Petherick: Website | Insta 

Sas hosts a conversation about the place of politics in our coaching work. Does it have a place? How do we navigate marketing our work in these times? Should we be? How do political, social, and economic contexts show up in our client work?

If you've ever felt a bit 'crunchy' about sharing your work in an increasingly uncertain world or discussing these topics with clients, listen in!

Resources for you:

Calling In by Loretta Ross

Pulling the Thread podcast: Elise Loehnen interviews Loretta Ross

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Got a question for the OG’s?

If you have a question about your coaching practice, we’d love to help. You are warmly invited to submit a question to us for an upcoming Q&A episode. You might want us to weigh in on a topic about the industry generally or something specific to do with your client work or running your coaching business. Please send all the details to: [email protected]

Find us:

·      Bridgette Boudreau: Website | Insta

·      Lianne Raymond: Website | Insta

·      Sas Petherick: Website | Insta

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A return to our spicy roots! One of our founding ideals is to equip coaches and travellers in the self-help and coaching worlds, to be discerning. There IS snake oil and problematic practices that seek to exploit the vulnerabilities of this work.

Bridgette hosts this discussion prompted by the recent death of James Arthur Ray, who rose to prominence in The Secret and was then convicted of negligent homicide after three people died at a sweatlodge ritual he ran. We start with Ray, and dive into other 'gurus' in the self-help world, what to look out for, and what you will never see ethical practitioners do or say. 

📺 Watch on YouTube and share your thoughts in the comments!
 

Got a question for the OG’s?

If you have a question about your coaching practice, we’d love to help. You are warmly invited to submit a question to us for an upcoming Q&A episode. You might want us to weigh in on a topic about the industry generally or something specific to do with your client work or running your coaching business. Please send all the details to: [email protected]

Rate, Review and Subscribe!

If you enjoy these conversations, please do offer a review on Apple podcasts and subscribe wherever you listen in. We appreciate your support and look forward to continuing these conversations with you.

Find us:

·      Bridgette Boudreau: Website | Insta

·      Lianne Raymond: Website | Insta

·      Sas Petherick: Website | Insta

Lianne kicks off our 2025 season with an in-depth chat about the books that fortify us. We also chat about how we find a lot of self-help feels like fast food ( we have opinions!), and the books that have nourished us in more satisfying ways.

We share fiction, podcasts and other sources of sustenance. We've included the books and podcasts we mention below:

Books 

• Self-help by Gabby Bernstein
• Beyond Anxiety by Martha Beck
• No Bad Parts by Richard Schwartz
• Let Them by Mel Robbins
• An article about the Poem by Cassie Phillips that preceded Mel Robbins’ book
• Once and Future Witches by Alix Harrow
• The Courage to be Disliked Kishimi and Koga
• The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk
• When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron
• Let Your Life Speak by Parker Palmer
• The Courage to Teach by Parker Palmer
• The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer
• Ten Poems to Change Your Life by Roger Housden
• Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy

Podcasts

• ReThinking with Adam Grant 
• The Handsome Podcast
• Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis Dreyfus
• Where Should We Begin? With Esther Perel
• All There Is with Anderson Cooper
• LITerally  with Lacey Styles
• The Rest is Entertainment
• Kim Hill Wants to Know with Kim Hill
• Courage & Spice with Sas Petherick

Part two of our conversation moves to our predictions for the coaching industry next year.

Sparked by an Instagram post of Sas’ we talk about the following trends we are seeing:

• Growing preference for experiences over products
• Increased value placed on becoming vs consuming
• Decline of "vibes-based" coaching towards values-based coaching
• Return to local, in-person offerings
• Growth in private, contained spaces for community (like Substack)
• The role of AI 
• Moving away from algorithm-driven socials
• Industry maturation
• More emphasis on depth of practice and expertise
• Greater focus on ethics and responsibility
• Why we need to pay attention to Soul Cycle!

📺 Watch on YouTube and share your thoughts in the comments!
 

Got a question for the OG’s?

If you have a question about your coaching practice, we’d love to help. You are warmly invited to submit a question to us for an upcoming Q&A episode. You might want us to weigh in on a topic about the industry generally or something specific to do with your client work or running your coaching business. Please send all the details to: [email protected]

Rate, Review and Subscribe!

If you enjoy these conversations, please do offer a review on Apple podcasts and subscribe wherever you listen in. We appreciate your support and look forward to continuing these conversations with you.

Find us:

·      Bridgette Boudreau: Website | Insta

·      Lianne Raymond: Website | Insta

·      Sas Petherick: Website | Insta