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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 integrity#74: Mark Bixter – To See the True Value of Coaching, Look Beyond the Fees
Does the coaching industry privilege the boardroom over the community? And is the intrinsic value of our work reflected in our earnings? What is the potential…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrity#73: Jackee Holder – Trauma-informed Coaches Have Never Been More Needed
As the world untangles itself from the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic, there is important healing work to be done. In this episode of The Coach’s…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrity#72: Creating Clients and Cultivating Confidence: A Deep Dive into Coaching Business Growth - Robbie at the Henley Business School Coaching Marketing Group
In this episode, Robbie was hosted by the Henley Business School Marketing Group for Coaches, where he shares his personal transition from feeling like a…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrity#71: Marie Quigley – Living in Fulfilment is a Radical Act
Marie Quigley approaches coaching in much the same way as she does her passion for global travel: with curiosity, openness and an unquenchable desire to…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrity#70: What is the difference between coaching and psychotherapy? (TCJ Short with Mike Toller)
Mike Toller works as a professional coach and psychodynamic psychotherapist, supporting individuals privately and in organisations, and training people to…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrity#69: Myles Downey - What is effective coaching? Performance coaching, when to be directive, changing clients' maps of reality and more
Myles Downey has been practising coaching for more than 40 years. His book, Effective Modern Coaching, has sold more than 330,000 copies and is a recommended…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrityEpisode #68: Clare Norman – Glimmers of Hope, Structuring a Coaching Business and Unlearning Mindsets on the Journey to Coaching Mastery
Clare Norman is a master certified coach with the International Coaching Federation, whose latest book, The Transformational Coach, maps out a journey to…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrityEpisode #67: Tori Jeffers – Who Wins and Who Loses as Coaching Goes Mainstream?
Is the mass-marketisation of coaching de-valuing the practice? Or does widening access to coaching help everyone? Tori Jeffers is a Professional Certified…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrityEpisode #66: Ruth Saville – How to Be a Rebel, Misbehave More and Set Your Sights on Being a Master F***ing Coach!
Would you like to have more fun while still working in your zone of genius? Are you concerned you might need to shake things up to avoid becoming a boring…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrityEpisode #65: Chloë Garland – The Jam Donut Principle, Quarter-Life Crises and the Philosophy of Coaching
A quarter-life crisis is a period of intense soul searching that arrives when we are first confronted with the question of what to do with our lives. That’s…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrityEpisode #64: Alex Whitton – Balancing the Being and the Doing
The question of what makes a life well-lived is at the heart of Alex Whitton’s work, both as a coach and as the CEO of a charity that supports young people to…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrityEpisode #63: Jo Wright – We Can Make Things Better, But We Have To Do It Together
Jo Wright admits she had to get her dad’s permission before deciding on No More Sh*t Managers: Seven Steps to a Coaching Cultureas the title of her book…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrityEpisode #62: Alex Swallow – Life Is Better When We Choose
When Alex Swallow sees people doing great work, he experiences an almost evangelical urge to help bring others into connection with that work. His ability to…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrityEpisode #61: Samiur Rahman – AI, Heyday and the Quest to Capture Meaningful Moments
This episode is sponsored by Heyday: https://heyday.xyz/ New developments in artificial intelligence make the news headlines so often that many people –…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrityEpisode #60: Katie Harvey – Beyond the Binary Lies Balance
Despite being told that one day coaching would lead her to burn out, Katie Harvey has discovered that the opposite is true: coaching gives her energy. Now into…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrityEpisode #59: Joey Owen – You Never Know When the Value of a Coaching Session Ends
Joey Owen is a coach whose unique gifts allow her to connect with the humanity of her clients. Joey ’s formative training in drama and in theatre for…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrityEpisode #58: Julie Starr – The World Works from the Inside Out
Coaching found Julie Starr without her looking for it, and she started to practice coaching before she knew what it was. As a project manager of large-scale…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrityEpisode #57: Neil Mackinnon – When You Step Into The Hallowed Ground Of Coaching, Show Up
Neil Mackinnon describes himself as a curious human, and his curiosity has guided him throughout a remarkable career in which he has been immersed in creative…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrityEpisode #56: Introducing the New Hosts – Ushering In The Future of The Coach's Journey
What do we do when faced with big decisions about the future? How do we get in touch with our intuition and trust in the choices we make? The Coach’s Journey…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrityEpisode #55: Claire Pedrick and Lucia Baldelli – The Human Behind The Coach
Every coach has a human story, and these stories contain the wisdom, vulnerability and invaluable lessons that inform our work. In this episode of The Coach’s…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrityEpisode #54: Toku McCree – Zen and the Art of Coaching
When Toku McCree first learned his purpose, he wondered where it had come from and who had said it—even though he was alone with his thoughts when it came to…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrityEpisode #53: Sarah Fox – How to Do Good in the World and Do Well For Yourself
Imagine being able use your skills, expertise and resources in a way that makes the world a better place, while meeting all of your own needs as well. It is a…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrityEpisode #52: Susana Gonçalves – How an Introvert Engineer Became a Master Certified Coach
As a self-described introvert, it was a surprise to Susana Gonçalves when she found her calling in coaching. In our conversation in episode #52 of The Coach’s…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrityEpisode #51: Matt Thieleman – Mindful Leadership and Letting Your Hidden Side be Seen
Matt Thieleman admits that for many years he “wholeheartedly dismissed” the coaching industry. He also says he denied an important part of himself. Now, as the…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrityEpisode #50: Marie Reig Florensa – Lean Towards Love and Lead from the Heart
Heart-based leadership is an approach to solving problems, building relationships and creating flow that expert practitioner Marie Reig Florensa uses to…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrityEpisode #49: Ray Martin – How to Let Your Inner Voice Speak
Many of us live out our lives while tied to our careers, our homes, our families and our friends. This can be joyous, but for some it is stifling. Ray Martin…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrityEpisode #48: Bill Small – The Key to Creation is Dealing With Being Uncomfortable
Bill Small’s voice is a powerful creative tool that has been creating songs and conversations throughout his life as a professional musician, entrepreneur and…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrityEpisode #47: Lindsey Lewis – Turning Torment Into Talent
Lindsey Lewis was a sensitive child. “The one crying about the bird that fell out of the nest,” as she puts it. Her intimate connection to living things was a…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrityEpisode #46: Henrietta Nelson – Nobody Else Can Put a Feeling in You
Henrietta Nelson has always been interested in people’s minds. She describes how, during a decade spent working as a solicitor specialising in insurance…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrityEpisode #45: Doing the Right Thing Even When It’s Hard – Raquel Ark interviews Robbie
In this episode of The Coach’s Journey Podcast, I invited a true master of the art of listening to interview me about my own journey and the transformations…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrityEpisode #44: Claire Pedrick – Cutting Through Complexity and Simplifying Coaching
Claire Pedrick was speaking at the ICF Conference in 2019 when a publisher approached her and said: “Have you got a book in you?” That book is Simplifying…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrityEpisode #43: Allegra Stein – When is it Time to Quit the Business of Coaching?
How can we be free to do the work we love? This is the fundamental question at the heart of my conversation with coach, community builder and eternal…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrityEpisode #42: Jennifer Garvey Berger – The Necessary Terror of Our Growth
Jennifer Garvey Berger has a new book out, called Unleash Your Complexity Genius. It is the fourth published work by the co-founder and CEO of Cultivating…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrityEpisode #41: Robert Stephenson – The Scaffolding of Change (and When to Discard It)
Robert Stephenson no longer carries trinkets in his pockets. His need to wear crystals that represent his spirituality has lessened. This, he says, is because…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrityEpisode #40: Lucy Ball – How to Be What You Teach
When Lucy Ball found herself throwing golf balls into buckets at Deloitte in the mid-90s, she became caught up in the first sparks of the corporate coaching…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrityEpisode #39: John Monks – Closing the Circle and Becoming Closer Apart
"Working online is not the future; it's today." These words from John Monks, the co-founder of facilitation and coaching practice Curve, will resonate…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrityEpisode #38: Hell Yes! – An interview with Robbie on The Coach's Compass
Last year I was totally delighted to appear on a podcast called The Coach's Compass, giving me an opportunity to dive deep into all things coaching with host…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrityEpisode #37: How to Plant Seeds for the Long Term – An Interview with Robbie on the First 10 Podcast
Conor McCarthy is the host of the First 10 Podcast, where he interviews business builders on their first 10 customers, sparking valuable conversations about…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrityEpisode #36: Jean Balfour – From Spectacular Failure to Becoming a Master Certified Coach
To use her own words, Jean Balfour "spectacularly failed" the assessment of the Ashridge Accredited Coach Training programme. But this setback fuelled a…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrityEpisode #35: Robbie on The 12-Minute Method and the Gobsmacking Experience of Creating Something Worth Sharing
At the end of last year I published a book called How to Start When You're Stuck, and since then I have found myself seeing everything through the frame the…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrityEpisode #34: Anne Hathaway – The Thinking Environment and the Power of Being Heard
In a world where the attention we give people lasts just 11 seconds on average, Anne Hathaway is a believer in the transformative power of listening and being…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrityEpisode #33: Raquel Ark – Listening ALCHEMY and the Gold Beyond Words
The name listening ALCHEMY came to Raquel Ark in the middle of the night, evoking ideas of how art and science could combine to distil and purify the act of…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrityEpisode #32: Mike Toller – This Work, Coaching and Psychotherapy, is an Act of Care
Having achieved success running a popular clubnight in London and living his life by "trusting serendipity", Mike Toller wondered whether he could make more of…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrityEpisode #31: Myles Downey – There Is Genius In Everyone
Myles Downey has been playing tennis all his life. But now, at the age of 62, he is relearning to play the game in a way that’s aligned with his identity and…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrityEpisode #30: Phil Goddard – When You Speak From the Heart You Don’t Need a Script
It's surprising to learn that one of Phil Goddard's earliest memories is of standing on the fringes of a playing field, away from everybody else, on his first…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrityEpisode #29: Fiona Setch – The Freedom That Comes From Impossible Situations
Fiona Setch has faced seemingly impossible situations in her life. From caring for terminally-ill patients during the HIV/AIDS pandemic of the 1980s, to…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrityEpisode #28: Inga Umblija & Phil Bolton – Stepping Into Abundance and Taking Bold Action
When Inga Umblija received an innocuous email from a recruitment firm over 10 years ago, she could never have known the impact it would have upon her life. The…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrityEpisode #27: Robert Stephenson - How to Say Yes and Become a Conduit for Change
Saying yes has shaped Robert Stephenson's life. Accepting opportunities and seeing where they took him propelled Robert as he became a trained actor, a…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrityEpisode #26: Jacinta Jiménez - From Burnout to BetterUp: Making Room to Recharge in a World Without Pause
Coaching in your flow state is like playing jazz, according to Jacinta Jiménez, who has devoted herself to studying the psychology of performance and behaviour…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrityEpisode #25: Kim Morgan - Here You Can Just Be Who You Are: Glitter, Grief and Barefoot Coaching
Kim Morgan has a mantra for everything she does. It's about the learning space, and its power as a vehicle for change. That space is one she grew up in, with…
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Episode #24: Jeffrey Wotherspoon - If You Want to Know Something's Purpose, You Have to Ask Its Creator
Profound moments of connection and belief illuminate the story of Jeffrey Wotherspoon's life, which has taken him from a crossroads of uncertainty to becoming…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrityAn Introduction to The Coach's Journey Podcast
In the Coach’s Journey Podcast, host Robbie Swale speaks to coaches who are creating a business and life which fulfils them. Through these conversations, you…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrityEpisode #23: Daphna Horowitz - The Thrill-Seeking, Adventure-Loving CEO Coach
Daphna Horowitz gets bored easily. And it is boredom – or rather, the rejection of it – that has taken her to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro, helped her build a…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrityEpisode #22: Allegra Stein - How to Flourish as a Coaching Misfit
Described as "a breath of fresh air in the coaching industry", Allegra Stein is a self-styled coaching misfit. With a background in wildlife biology and a…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrityEpisode #21: Kala Flynn - The Power of Harnessing Your Energy
With over two decades of coaching to her name, Kala Flynn’s journey began in the early 90s long before the more recent rise of coaching. She trained in…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrityEpisode #20: Giovanna Capozza - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of the Coaching World
Giovanna Capozza is the co-founder of Blue Hive Health and a Master Life Coach, Spiritual Teacher, Mind/Body Expert and Podcast Host. She dedicated most of her…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrityEpisode #19: Chris Joseph - How to Become an Overnight Success in 10 years: From Ponzi Scheme Ruin to Six-Figure Coaching Months
Sat atop a Welsh mountain in 2007 in a moment of depression and despair, Chris Joseph had the first in a series of instances of clarity that would eventually…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrityEpisode #18: Robbie on... how I think about new work, group coaching programmes and the new Coach's Journey Community
Well, this is fun. Here’s another episode featuring me, Robbie Swale. No guests this time, and no content from the past, either: this all new and includes some…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrityEpisode #17: Cathy Presland - From Government Adviser to Three Principles Coach: The Search for Something More Human
Cathy is a former international economist and policy adviser turned three principles coach. For over twenty years she was an advisor to governments and…
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrityEpisode #16: Jamie Smart - How Having a 100% Belief in Your Clients’ Innate Capacities Can Transform the Way You Work
Jamie Smart, Sunday Times best-selling author, speaker, and coach, got to where he is today through a series of moments of profound realisation and insight…