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 meaningful productivity explores up questions like: “What do I need to do in order to be at peace with myself?” And: “Do I want to be more productive or simply not feel like I’m failing all the time?”
In this episode of The Coach’s Journey Podcast, Robbie joins Joey Owen for a conversation that gets to the very heart of Robbie’s work as a leadership and careers coach with over 2000 hours’ experience, and as an author whose decade-long writing practice has led to valuable contributions to the field, such as The 12-Minute Method and The Coaching Business Flywheel.
Robbie and Joey tackle fundamentally important questions about how coaches can make a difference in a world ravaged by conflict and division, how to stay humble in our work, and how to ensure we feel at peace with ourselves.
You will hear Robbie and Joey speak about the importance of living and working with a code of honour, about learning to trust the strange and unexpected things that arise in coaching sessions, and how to integrate spiritual practices into your life through the rituals, hobbies, passions and habits you already do.
If you would like to be doing more of what really matters to you, feeling better about the work you are doing, and living a rich life regardless of your financial situation, this episode is for you.
Robbie and Joey also talk about:
- How to cultivate a practice of trust that conversations happen at the right time
- Not lying to ourselves about what we “have” to do
The places in our lives where we can practise presence and connection
- How to manage your focus, attention and attitude in order to actively work towards the goals that matter most to you
- The power of telling a story twice to embed an idea in your memory
They also explore practical ways to keep yourself in the energy possibility, and Robbie shares the story of how “crashing and burning” while running a coaching event taught him powerful lessons about group dynamics, scapegoating and the importance of contracting.
THINGS WE TALKED ABOUT THAT YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN:
- Episode 45 of The Coach’s Journey Podcast, with Raquel Ark https://www.thecoachsjourney.com/podcast/episode-45-doing-the-right-thing-even-when-its-hard-raquel-ark-interviews-robbie
- Rich Litvin https://richlitvin.com/
- The 12-Minute Method https://www.robbieswale.com/the12minutemethod
- Workshop with Robbie and Claire Pedrick https://www.3dcoaching.com/artful-coach-soulful-business/
- Robbie’s article about leading with honour (A Man Got to Have a Code) https://www.robbieswale.com/writing/2024/10/11/a-man-got-to-have-a-code-leading-with-honour-iii
- The Meaningful Productivity Blueprint https://www.robbieswale.com/meaningful-productivity-blueprint-download-page
- Gay Hendricks, Zone of Genius https://www.robbieswale.com/the-12-minute-blog/2022/2/3/the-zone-of-genius-the-most-powerful-thought-experiment-for-personal-transformation
- Robert Holden, questions about purpose https://www.robertholden.com/blog/9-questions-help-find-purpose/
- A Warren Buffet story about how he helped the pilot of his private jet prioritise more https://passionateaboutoss.com/the-story-of-mike-flint
- Seth Godin on setting fees https://seths.blog/2024/11/understanding-pricing/
- Parkinson’s law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law
- Douglas Hoffstatter’s law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstadter%27s_law
- Ramit Sethi’s podcast https://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/podcast/
- Ffelyn Uchaf https://www.felinwales.org/
- Jim Dethmer and Joel Monk on Coaching from Sourcehttps://www.coachesrising.com/podcast/jim-dethmer-coaching-from-source/
- Frank Turner, The Way I Tend to Be https://frank-turner.com/tracks/the-way-i-tend-to-be/
- Frank Turner, The Gathering https://frank-turner.com/tracks/the-gathering/
- Frank Turner, Journey of the Magi https://frank-turner.com/tracks/journey-of-the-magi/
- Internal Family Systems (IFS) drama triangle https://www.stroudtherapy.com/news/2024/02/25/dramatriangleifs
- David Gemmell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gemmell
- The Wheel of Time novel series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wheel_of_Time
- The ‘Yes, And’ teambuilding exercise https://openpracticelibrary.com/practice/yes-and/https://www.radicalagreement.com/post/yes-and-and-improv-teamwork
- David Deida https://deida.info/
- Freedom to Learn https://freedomtolearn.org.uk/
- An Introduction to The Coach’s Journey Flywheel https://www.thecoachsjourney.com/the-coaching-business-flywheel