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The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrity
Coach’s Journey founder Robbie Swale and a team of hosts interview coaches about how they created a successful business and how they create impact for their clients.
Through these conversations, you can learn how each coach came to coaching, grew their coaching practice and found their way to the successful business they have today. Each interview, like each journey, is different. But each is also packed with insights, tips, suggestions and ideas to grow your coaching business and have…
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The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrityNew to The Coach's Journey Podcast? Start Here.
How do you build a thriving coaching business without compromising who you are? Over seven years and 133 episodes, The Coach's Journey Podcast explored that…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrity#133: The Things We Make, the Paths We Don't Take, and the People We Become: Lessons from 7 Years of The Coach's Journey Podcast
After seven years, 133 episodes, and hundreds of hours of conversations with some of the world's most interesting coaches, The Coach's Journey Podcast is…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrity#132: Jennifer Garvey Berger – The Necessary Terror of Our Growth [REPOST]
As we wrap up The Coach’s Journey Podcast after seven years, we’re sharing some of our favourite episodes from the back catalogue… Unleash Your Complexity…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrity#131: Jamie Smart - How Having a 100% Belief in Your Clients’ Innate Capacities Can Transform the Way You Work [REPOST]
As we wrap up The Coach’s Journey Podcast after seven years, we’re sharing some of our favourite episodes from the back catalogue… Jamie Smart, Sunday Times…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrity#130: Claire Pedrick – Cutting Through Complexity and Simplifying Coaching [REPOST]
As we wrap up The Coach’s Journey Podcast after seven years, we’re sharing some of our favourite episodes from the back catalogue… Claire Pedrick was speaking…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrity#129: Ruth Rochelle – Insight Seminars, Systems Theory and the Path to our Current Truth [REPOST]
As we begin to wrap up The Coach’s Journey Podcast after seven years, we’re sharing some of our favourite episodes from the back catalogue… Ruth Rochelle’s…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrity#128: Chris Joseph - How to Become an Overnight Success in 10 years: From Ponzi Scheme Ruin to Six-Figure Coaching Months [REPOST]
As we begin to wrap up The Coach’s Journey Podcast after seven years, we’re sharing some of our favourite episodes from the back catalogue… Sat atop a Welsh…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrity#127: Julie Starr – The World Works from the Inside Out [REPOST]
As we begin to wrap up The Coach’s Journey Podcast after seven years, we’re sharing some of our favourite episodes from the back catalogue… Coaching found…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrity#126: Erek Ostrowski – The Capable Group Coach: If You Want People to Learn Quickly, Create Space for Reflection
For Dr. Erek Ostrowski, the quality of our reflection is the quality of our coaching. In this episode of The Coach’s Journey Podcast, he describes how…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrity#125: Helen ONeill – How to Publish as a Coach, Build a Portfolio Career, and Make Your Next Step Count
When five-time published author Helen ONeill entered the coaching space, she found that many coaches had misconceptions about writing and publishing. Some felt…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrity#124: Nishe Patel – Our Coaching Clients are More Capable Than We Ever Know
When we truly trust a client with our thinking, we can make space for them to use it in their own way. This trust is at the heart of Nishe Patel’s coaching…
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#123 - Why I'm Closing The Coach's Journey Podcast
After almost 7 years, I’ve decided to close The Coach’s Journey Podcast this autumn. As I have done throughout The Coach’s Journey, I want to share my thinking…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrity#122: Jenny Rogers – Why You Shouldn’t Be Afraid of Getting Coaching Wrong
Throughout a career spanning roles as a teacher, BBC television producer, coach and prolific author, Jenny Rogers has never been afraid of getting things…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrity#121: Myles Downey - The Sessions and Why Genius is Dangerous
Myles Downey’s new book, The Sessions, marks a transition, a metamorphosis in his influential body of work. And that becomes the theme of this, his third…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrity#120: Mel Sims – Neurodivergent Coaching, and How to be Unpolished, Scuffed and Brilliant
When Mel Sims discovered coaching, she was adamant that nobody could understand her life. Her journey into coaching allowed her to put down the mask, harness…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrity#119: Dorie Clark – Fear Not, Coaches! Dorie is Your Colleague, not Your Competitor
If coaching was a competition, Dorie Clark would be a truly fearsome competitor. A university graduate at the age of 18, she has since embarked on a unique…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrity#118: Anise Frost – How to Craft Presence and Ask Magic Questions
By studying Plato and Socrates for more than a decade, Anise Frost learned the art of asking questions that unlock the hidden parts of people. Her mastery of…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrity#117 - When Your Coaching Business Feels Too Hard (Part 2): Self-Doubt, Money, and Staying in the Game
When your coaching business feels too hard, it’s rarely just about strategy. In this conversation (a follow-up to Episode #115), Ruth Saville, Alex Whitton and…
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#116 - Why Hiring a Coach Is the Most Important Investment You’ll Make in Your Coaching Business
Why is it that so many coaches support others to grow… but hesitate to invest in support for themselves? In this episode, Robbie reflects on a simple but…
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#115: What Do You Do When Your Coaching Business Feels Too Hard?
What do you do in the moments - or seasons - when your coaching business feels too hard? In this episode, Ruth Saville, Alex Whitton, and Robbie Swale explore…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrity#114: Robbie Swale - The Power to Choose: Calm, Complexity, and the Courage to Be Fully Yourself
In this special episode, Alex Whitton and Alex Swallow take the reins to interview Robbie about the release of his new book, The Power to Choose: Finding Calm…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrity#113: Gareth Davies – Making Celebrities Shine (and What Coaches Can Learn!)
What can coaches and leaders learn from the people who have mastered the art of appearing on stage and screen? And what can coaching give back to the creative…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrity#112: Sam Isaacson – The Challenges Facing Coaching in the Age of AI
Sam Isaacson saw the rise of artificial intelligence coming, and he was ready for it. With his background in managing technology risk and change, he could see…
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#111: Ruth Rochelle – The Future of Coaching: Trust, Simplicity, and the Wisdom of Humanity
What does the future of coaching look like… and what can we learn from those who helped build it? Ruth Rochelle returns to The Coach’s Journey Podcast to…
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#110: The One Thing That Solves Most Coaching Problems: Contracting Well
What if almost every coaching challenge you face in your practice could be solved with better coaching contracts and clearer agreements? That’s what Robbie…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrity#109: Jenny Bird – The Joy of Sparkly New Things
Ever since she was a child, working in her father’s clothes shop in Derbyshire and standing on a box to see over the counter, Jenny Bird has spent her life…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrity#108: Shruti Sonthalia – Awareness Combined with Action is the Key to Creating Change
Shruti Sonthalia says purpose is her superpower. A strong sense of purpose helped Shruti to demolish seemingly insurmountable barriers to becoming a Master…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrity#107: Patrick Quinton-Smith – Clarity Reveals Itself in Momentum, so Build Momentum and Clarity Will Come
A commitment to “directional correctness” has helped Patrick Quinton-Smith solve existential questions on the way to becoming the co-founder of a…
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#106: How to Lead a Powerful First Conversation With a Potential Coaching Client
In this episode, Robbie walks you step‑by‑step through how he leads the first conversation with a potential coaching client - with authenticity, honour and…
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#105: Coaching From Anywhere: The Realities and Rewards of Being a Digital Nomad Coach
What does it really look like to take your coaching practice on the road? In this short episode, Robbie and Alex Swallow get together to explore the…
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#104: Why I Stopped Selling Coaching by the Session... And What I Learned When I Sold By Periods Of Time Instead
What if the way you sell your coaching is getting in the way of the coaching itself? In this solo episode, Robbie shares how his thinking and practice around…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrity#103: Bob Singha – Coaching Is Not Learning; It Is Remembering
Every village and every community throughout human history has relied upon people who can facilitate conversations, allowing sacred truths to be passed along…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrity#102: Ellie Scarf – Our Stories and Scars Can Be Points of Connection
How do we keep working when tragedy shakes our lives? If seismic events disrupt our foundations, is it possible to build something new with confidence? For…
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#101: Do I need a niche as a coach? (TCJ Short)
The question that new coaches ask most often: do I need a niche and how do I choose one? We don’t know why that idea is so pervasive among new coaches, but it…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrity#100 – How I Became a Full-Time Coach Less Than Two Years After Starting My Training
To celebrate the 100th episode of The Coach’s Journey Podcast, Robbie takes us back to where the whole Coach’s Journey adventure began: the story of how he…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrity#99: Robbie Swale – The Secrets to Meaningful Productivity, Honourable Leadership and Tilting the World Towards Heaven
In a world so focused on productivity, Coach’s Journey founder and host Robbie Swale is interrogating what this word really means. His work on the concept of…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrity#98: Ashana Crichton – The Potential for True Partnership if We Pay Attention to Power
Being made redundant 18 months after moving to America transformed Ashana Crichton’s life because, in her own words, when you take away the security blanket…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrity#97: Yannick Jacob – Going Beyond Blueprints to Challenge the Status Quo of Coaching
Growing up with a father and brother who were “never wrong” left Yannick Jacob seeking a life that wasn’t about right answers. That led him to coaching, and…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrity#96: Rebecca Norton – How Coaching Walks Can Guide Us To New Pathways Through Life
How do our surroundings affect our ability to think? And can we connect with our sense of place and purpose by immersing ourselves in nature? In this episode…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrity#95: Stephanie Hill from GiveDirectly - Empowering Through Trust: Coaching, Cash, and Lasting Impact
GiveDirectly is an extraordinary organisation, working to end extreme poverty through an idea that is simple but revolutionary: give cash directly to people in…
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#94: Practical Takeaways from 90+ Episodes: Structuring Engagements, Neuroscience in Sales, Creating Clients Using Napkins and more
In this episode of The Coach’s Journey Podcast, hosts Robbie Swale, Alex Swallow and Alex Whitton reflect on some of their most practical takeaways from over…
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#93: How Comparison Sets Us Up to Feel Awful About Ourselves (TCJ Short with Jennifer Garvey Berger)
So many coaches find themselves lost in comparison as they work on their coaching businesses. In this TCJ Short, an excerpt from Episode #42, you can hear…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrity#92: The Artful Coach and the Soulful Coaching Business: A Joint Episode with Clare Pedrick and Robbie Swale
In this unique crossover episode of The Coaching Inn and The Coach’s Journey Podcast, hosts Claire Pedrick and Robbie Swale come together for the first time to…
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#91: How to Create a Powerful Ending to a Coaching Engagement
This short episode contains Robbie’s answer to a question every coach should ask themselves, especially if they want a sustainable coaching business: how do…
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#90: The 6 Skills That Every Coach Needs To Have a Successful Business (TCJ Short with Lindsey Lewis)
In this TCJ Short, an excerpt from Episode #47, you can hear Lindsey Lewis describing the six key skills she had to develop in order to create a successful…
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#89: How to Choose a Coaching Training Programme
This short episode contains the answer to one of the questions Robbie gets asked the most, a question that is really hard to answer as you set out on your…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrity#88: Philip Crocker – Coaching is the Most Natural Thing in the World
Can coaching teach us to love ourselves more? Can it help us come to terms with injustice and pain? Does it offer a route towards peace? Executive coach…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrity#87: Amy Brann – Neuroscience For Coaches
Amy Brann has been studying neuroscience since she was 15. Now, as the founder of Synaptic Potential, she brings all that expertise to working with…
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#86: How to Manage Your Finances as a Coach (TCJ Short with Sarah Fox)
In this TCJ Short, an excerpt from Episode #53, you can hear Sarah Fox and Robbie outlining powerful and simple ways for a coach (and any freelancer or…
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#85 – Get More Referrals for Your Coaching Business (Coaching Business Fundamentals)
This is the sixth and final episode in a series diving into The Coaching Business Flywheel and the fundamental parts of a sustainable coaching business. In…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrity#84: Gary Buxton MBE – Get in There, Give It a Go and Find Your Own Coaching Style
Gary Buxton admits he spends his life stuck in rabbitholes. As a psychologist and executive coach, he loves nothing more than to geek out about the evidence…
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#83 – If You Want To Make More Money, Talk About Money More! (Coaching Business Fundamentals)
This episode is the fifth in a series diving into The Coaching Business Flywheel and the fundamental parts of a sustainable coaching business. In this episode…
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#82 – Want More Clients? Create More Insight! (Coaching Business Fundamentals)
This episode is the fourth in a series diving into The Coaching Business Flywheel and the fundamental parts of a sustainable coaching business. In it, Robbie…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrity#81: George Warren – The Coaching Industry is Ignoring Reality
George Warren describes “growth through discomfort” as a key theme in his life and in this episode of The Coach’s Journey Podcast, he lays down a challenge to…
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#80 – Don’t Wait For Coaching Clients: Create Them (Coaching Business Fundamentals)
In this episode, the third in a series diving into The Coaching Business Flywheel and the fundamental parts of a sustainable coaching business, Robbie and Ruth…
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#79 - From Zero Clients to Thriving Coaching Practice - Robbie on the A Listening Life podcast
In this episode, taken from Robbie’s appearance on Aly King-Smith’s A Listening Life podcast, Robbie gives one of his most most concentrated downloads ever on…
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#78: Ruth Rochelle – Insight Seminars, Systems Theory and the Path to our Current Truth
Ruth Rochelle’s life and career changed when, in 1979, she met Ariana Huffington and took part in the first Insight Seminar ever to happen in the United…
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#77 - How to Make Connections Who Become Clients (Coaching Business Fundamentals)
In this episode, the second in a series diving into The Coaching Business Flywheel and the fundamental parts of a sustainable coaching business, Robbie and…
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#76 - A Full Group Coaching Session - Listen in to The Coach's Journey Community
This episode is a unique chance to get inside a group coaching call with Robbie Swale. In it, you can hear Robbie coaching David Norris, Joey Owen, Hazel…
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#75 - How To Grow Your Coaching Business (Coaching Business Fundamentals)
The Coaching Business Flywheel is the culmination of Robbie Swale’s seven years of supporting coaches to grow their coaching businesses and five years of…