The Coaching Lab: Health, Wellness & Performance! (Brad Cooper, PhD)

When we moved to Fort Collins, Colorado in 2021, a new tradition was created – fireside chats. Sometimes it involves a small group of students from the university nearby. Other times it might be friends, family or others pondering career or life changes. Suzanna & I enjoy the spot to discuss the latest book we’ve read and it’s a fun spot to get a little philosophical with anyone who might be staying the night with us. Obviously I can’t bring you the warmth of the crackling fire, views of the setting sun or the back-and-forth discourse we enjoy here. But I thought maybe I could help get you started with your own version of a fireside chats by simply opening up my journal, sharing a few open-ended thoughts about some of the things I’ve been pondering lately, and let you take it from there in whatever direction desired. If it’s your first time joining us here on the Catalyst 360 podcast, I’m Dr. Brad Cooper, CEO of Catalyst Coaching 360 and host of the podcast that has been bringing the very best in health, wellness & performance authors, researchers and others to listeners each week now for 295 consecutive episodes. Thank you for joining us for this special edition. We’ll be back with our traditional interview format next week or there’s a really big library of past episodes you can tap into anytime. Today we'll discuss spheres of control (along with influence and concern), the magic (or damage) of autopilot and the immense value of a personal pondering/planning retreat.Info re earning your health & wellness coaching certification, annual Rocky Mountain Coaching Retreat & Symposium & more via https://www.catalystcoachinginstitute.com/ Best-in-class coaching for Employers, EAPs & wellness providers https://catalystcoaching360.com/ Tap into the home of the (freely available) Not Done Yet! articles on unlocking life's 2nd half here. YouTube Coaching Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/CoachingChannel Contact us: Results@CatalystCoaching360.comTwitter: @Catalyst2ThriveWebsite: CatalystCoaching360.comIf you are a current or future health & wellness coach, please check out our Health & Wellness Coaching Community on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/278207545599218. This is a wonderful group if you are looking for encouragement, ideas, resources and more.

In a world where understanding oneself has become an elusive quest, the Enneagram emerges as a captivating tool of self-discovery. A symbol shrouded in mystery, this ancient system of personality typing invites individuals to explore the intricate layers of their inner psyche. Like a mirror reflecting the complexity of human nature, the Enneagram offers nine distinct archetypes, each representing a unique lens through which we view ourselves and interact with the world. Today we will be unraveling the tapestry of motivations, fears, and desires with one of the world’s top enneagram experts on our journey of self-discovery and movement toward Better Than Yesterday.Welcome to the Catalyst 360 podcast. Today’s guest is Dr. Beatrice Chestnut, one of the most authoritative voices and thought leaders in the modern Enneagram movement and author of multiple exceptional books on the subject, several of which we have in our home library and we’ll include links to both in the podcast description. She is a licensed psychotherapist, coach and business consultant and has been studying and working with the Enneagram for almost 30 years. As you’ll pick up in our discussion, she is also committed to “walking the talk” in her Enneagram work, using it as a tool for her own life-long inner work. Dr. Chestnut's resources available here.Info re earning your health & wellness coaching certification, annual Rocky Mountain Coaching Retreat & Symposium & more via https://www.catalystcoachinginstitute.com/ Best-in-class coaching for Employers, EAPs & wellness providers https://catalystcoaching360.com/ Tap into the home of the (freely available) Not Done Yet! articles on unlocking life's 2nd half here. YouTube Coaching Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/CoachingChannel Contact us: Results@CatalystCoaching360.comTwitter: @Catalyst2ThriveWebsite: CatalystCoaching360.comIf you are a current or future health & wellness coach, please check out our Health & Wellness Coaching Community on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/278207545599218. This is a wonderful group if you are looking for encouragement, ideas, resources and more.

Are you busy with work that matters? Or is your busywork running your life and distracting you from the things that matter most? By the end of our time together today, I think you’ll discover the often missing keys that allow us to turn our attention away from the busywork and toward those things we hold most dear – in both our personal and professional lives.Today we are honored to have Aytekin Tank, CEO of Jotform and the author of the best-selling book Automate Your Busywork. We consistently discuss the value of using autopilot to our advantage with our habits and today we’ll have the opportunity to dig into how that strategy can free us up to focus on what matters most. Read a free chapter of Aytekin's book "Automate Your Busywork" here: https://aytekintank.com/books/automate-your-busywork/Info re earning your health & wellness coaching certification, annual Rocky Mountain Coaching Retreat & Symposium & more via https://www.catalystcoachinginstitute.com/ Best-in-class coaching for Employers, EAPs & wellness providers https://catalystcoaching360.com/ Tap into the home of the (freely available) Not Done Yet! articles on unlocking life's 2nd half here. YouTube Coaching Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/CoachingChannel Contact us: Results@CatalystCoaching360.comTwitter: @Catalyst2ThriveWebsite: CatalystCoaching360.comIf you are a current or future health & wellness coach, please check out our Health & Wellness Coaching Community on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/278207545599218. This is a wonderful group if you are looking for encouragement, ideas, resources and more.

Are you at the end of your rope with some person or situation? Exasperated about the unfairness of a situation or circumstance in your life? Are anger, desperation, sadness or fear constantly invading your thoughts and affecting your health, wellness and even performance? What if there were some specific strategies you could tap into that would minimize those emotions and help turn your focus back to making the most of this life and its opportunities?Welcome to the Catalyst 360 Podcast. Today’s guest is Donald Robertson, cognitive behavioral psychotherapist and best-selling author of several books including Verissimus: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius You’ve likely read – or at least seen – the explosion of interest in Stoicism not only with Robertson’s books but others like Ryan Holiday’s Ego is the Enemy, The Obstacle is the Way and Stillness is the Key. We’ll be digging into the practical aspects of Stoicism and the role it can play in making our lives – and our world – a better place.Info re earning your health & wellness coaching certification, annual Rocky Mountain Coaching Retreat & Symposium & more via https://www.catalystcoachinginstitute.com/ Best-in-class coaching for Employers, EAPs & wellness providers https://catalystcoaching360.com/ Tap into the home of the (freely available) Not Done Yet! articles on unlocking life's 2nd half here. YouTube Coaching Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/CoachingChannel Contact us: Results@CatalystCoaching360.comTwitter: @Catalyst2ThriveWebsite: CatalystCoaching360.comIf you are a current or future health & wellness coach, please check out our Health & Wellness Coaching Community on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/278207545599218. This is a wonderful group if you are looking for encouragement, ideas, resources and more.

Welcome back. If this is your first time joining us on the Catalyst 360 podcast, you’ve caught an unusual episode to kick things off. A few months ago, I just opened up my journal and jotted down a few notes of things I’d been reading or thinking about recently, poured a cup of coffee and recorded some random thoughts about a wide range of topics. Based on the downloads, you seemed to find some value so we decided to continue doing these about once/month.Thanks for joining us. I’m Dr. Brad Cooper, usually your host of a podcast that brings the very best researchers, authors, athletes and coaches to you each week for the past 291 episodes. Today it’s just you and me, chatting about a few things I hope get you wondering, wandering and welcoming. What’s on the docket for today? How about overcoming gravity, why margins are so important, the power in a 17 year old book, and a plea to those in wellness world So let’s grab our coffee and let’s see where things lead. Again – no script – just a few notes from recent journal entries and an open mic…PS - Here's the link to the Redemption Road Coffee for the Soul if you'd like to take a closer look at this fun local company with a mission.Info re earning your health & wellness coaching certification, annual Rocky Mountain Coaching Retreat & Symposium & more via https://www.catalystcoachinginstitute.com/ Best-in-class coaching for Employers, EAPs & wellness providers https://catalystcoaching360.com/ Tap into the home of the (freely available) Not Done Yet! articles on unlocking life's 2nd half here. YouTube Coaching Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/CoachingChannel Contact us: Results@CatalystCoaching360.comTwitter: @Catalyst2ThriveWebsite: CatalystCoaching360.comIf you are a current or future health & wellness coach, please check out our Health & Wellness Coaching Community on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/278207545599218. This is a wonderful group if you are looking for encouragement, ideas, resources and more.

The television show about Ted Lasso, the college football coach from Kansas who suddenly finds himself coaching a sport he doesn’t understand – the other football – or “Soccer” here in the US – in a country he’s never visited – England – has taken the world by storm the past few years. It became Apple TV’s most popular show ever - by a longshot - and his unique approach to coaching and life has won the hearts of both sports and non-sports fans everywhere. Today you’ll get the very unique opportunity to tap into the wisdom of Coach Lasso in an episode that would not have been possible even just a year ago.Welcome to the Catalyst 360 podcast and today’s guest is Coach Ted Lasso. But of course, Coach Lasso is a fictional character, so we had to get a little creative. We initially spent a few hours interacting with a high level AI system, asking how Coach Lasso would answer a variety of questions related to health, wellness & life. Initially I approached this project as a fun little change of pace for our listeners, but was stunned by the outcome. The answers didn’t simply “sound” like Coach Lasso in terms of language and phrases. Rather – the advice given was truly exceptional guidance! Response after response left me thinking “wow – this is outstanding!”Then, Jeremy Albright, a long-time friend who grew up near Ted Lasso’s fictional home in Kansas, agreed to step in as the interviewee to bring this interview to life. He did a great job and we really appreciated his willingness to put himself out there on this creative project. Info re earning your health & wellness coaching certification, annual Rocky Mountain Coaching Retreat & Symposium & more via https://www.catalystcoachinginstitute.com/ Best-in-class coaching for Employers, EAPs & wellness providers https://catalystcoaching360.com/ Tap into the home of the (freely available) Not Done Yet! articles on unlocking life's 2nd half here. YouTube Coaching Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/CoachingChannel Contact us: Results@CatalystCoaching360.comTwitter: @Catalyst2ThriveWebsite: CatalystCoaching360.comIf you are a current or future health & wellness coach, please check out our Health & Wellness Coaching Community on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/278207545599218. This is a wonderful group if you are looking for encouragement, ideas, resources and more.

Data from Gallup tells us almost 60% of us read 5 or less books/year and the overall average is about 1 book/month, with half of those being fiction. To me, books are an opportunity to tap into the wisdom of some of the world’s brightest and most insightful people for little more than a cup of coffee. That’s a pretty good deal, but I also get it that time is an extremely limited resource and if we can provide you with the core elements of a life-shifting book via this podcast, there’s a real value there.This first ever "Book of the Year" episode starts with a book who’s timing is invaluable as we sit here in a world more polarized than ever: Adam Grant’s masterpiece: Think Again. I’ll hit the key takeaways related to the insights that will enhance our health, wellness and lives and then share some additional insights Dr. Grant provided during our email exchange on the subject. Info re earning your health & wellness coaching certification, annual Rocky Mountain Coaching Retreat & Symposium & more via https://www.catalystcoachinginstitute.com/ Best-in-class coaching for Employers, EAPs & wellness providers https://catalystcoaching360.com/ Tap into the home of the (freely available) Not Done Yet! articles on unlocking life's 2nd half here. YouTube Coaching Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/CoachingChannel Contact us: Results@CatalystCoaching360.comTwitter: @Catalyst2ThriveWebsite: CatalystCoaching360.comIf you are a current or future health & wellness coach, please check out our Health & Wellness Coaching Community on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/278207545599218. This is a wonderful group if you are looking for encouragement, ideas, resources and more.

What if you were to learn the key to eliminating bad habits or implementing good habits wasn’t willpower or determination? What if there were relatively simple steps any of us could take – or help our clients take – that would put positive habits on autopilot and eliminate those which drag us down?Welcome to the Catalyst 360 podcast. That’s precisely the focus of today’s discussion w/ Dr. Wendy Wood. Dr. Wood is a professor of psychology and business at the University of Southern California and the author of one of my favorite books on habits -  Good Habits, Bad Habits: The Science of Making Positive Changes that Stick. Clearly effective behavior change is at the very heart of health & wellness, so it was a pleasure to not only have Dr. Wood join us here on the podcast but also to be one of our keynote speakers at a prior Rocky Mountain Coaching Retreat & Symposium.Info re earning your health & wellness coaching certification, annual Rocky Mountain Coaching Retreat & Symposium & more via https://www.catalystcoachinginstitute.com/ Best-in-class coaching for Employers, EAPs & wellness providers https://catalystcoaching360.com/ Tap into the home of the (freely available) Not Done Yet! articles on unlocking life's 2nd half here. YouTube Coaching Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/CoachingChannel Contact us: Results@CatalystCoaching360.comTwitter: @Catalyst2ThriveWebsite: CatalystCoaching360.comIf you are a current or future health & wellness coach, please check out our Health & Wellness Coaching Community on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/278207545599218. This is a wonderful group if you are looking for encouragement, ideas, resources and more.

In the mood for some thought-provoking thoughts and ponderings with Catalyst Coaching 360's CEO, Dr. Brad Cooper? Fill up that favorite coffee cup and join us for an unscripted discussion covering free will (freed will!), why we experience letdowns after big events, how to enhance our creativity, how our interpretation creates a unique world for each one of us, and how two songs with the exact same title can provide opposite perspectives on life. Thanks for joining us for this special episode of the Catalyst 360 podcast!Info re earning your health & wellness coaching certification, annual Rocky Mountain Coaching Retreat & Symposium & more via https://www.catalystcoachinginstitute.com/ Best-in-class coaching for Employers, EAPs & wellness providers https://catalystcoaching360.com/ Tap into the home of the (freely available) Not Done Yet! articles on unlocking life's 2nd half here. YouTube Coaching Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/CoachingChannel Contact us: Results@CatalystCoaching360.comTwitter: @Catalyst2ThriveWebsite: CatalystCoaching360.comIf you are a current or future health & wellness coach, please check out our Health & Wellness Coaching Community on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/278207545599218. This is a wonderful group if you are looking for encouragement, ideas, resources and more.

What can we learn from the world of sport psychology that could be applied to the maternity journey? What if a top sport psychologist – and mother – was able to effectively bring the two worlds together in ways that would benefit the mother, child and family? That is exactly the focus of today’s discussion, as chartered sport & exercise psychologist, associate professor and author of the new book Empowered Birth, Dr. Carla Meijen joins us on the latest episode of the Catalyst 360 podcast. Dr. Meijen and I originally met when we presented our research together at an international sports psychology conference years ago and when I saw her new book hit the presses, I knew you’d want to hear from her. You can order her book or learn more about Dr. Meijen here -  https://www.carlameijen.com/my-book-empowered-birthInfo re earning your health & wellness coaching certification, annual Rocky Mountain Coaching Retreat & Symposium & more via https://www.catalystcoachinginstitute.com/ Best-in-class coaching for Employers, EAPs & wellness providers https://catalystcoaching360.com/ Tap into the home of the (freely available) Not Done Yet! articles on unlocking life's 2nd half here. YouTube Coaching Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/CoachingChannel Contact us: Results@CatalystCoaching360.comTwitter: @Catalyst2ThriveWebsite: CatalystCoaching360.comIf you are a current or future health & wellness coach, please check out our Health & Wellness Coaching Community on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/278207545599218. This is a wonderful group if you are looking for encouragement, ideas, resources and more.