The Coaching Life

Bootcamp for the Soul In this in-depth and moving conversation Harry and Phil explore: * What blocks us from expressing our deepest desires? * A process of dissolving old neurobiological patterns * Living & Coaching as an instrument of intuition * Musical success & excellence, losing it all and the shear joy of playing * The contradictions of democracy & racial injustice * Avoidance of inequality, awareness & willingness for a solution * Harry’s most difficult phase as a caregiver & becoming a bringer of joy * Becoming a successful coach & unhooking the human potential Harry Pickens gives us a sense of the essence of his profound work in living as an instrument of love and awakening a new world. Here’s a little more about Harry: Harry Pickens is an award-winning performing artist, educator, composer, author, workshop facilitator and life transformation coach. His career as a jazz pianist has taken him to 17 countries throughout Asia, Europe and the Americas, featuring collaborative performances with many of the world’s brightest jazz stars, including Dizzy Gillespie, Joe Henderson, James Moody and more. As a composer, Harry has produced works for the likes of Wendell Berry and StageOne Family Theatre, and his composition “The Awakening Heart” was featured in a personal performance for the Dalai Lama. As a life transformation coach, he develops and shares practical applications of cutting-edge research in the science of well-being, helping his individual and organizational clients learn how to rewire their brains for less stress, more joy, greater productivity, and more ease. Through his work he helps people awaken to their own intuitive potential and the dissolution of racial injustice. Harry is the author of the books Fifteen Minutes To Freedom: The Power and Promise of Havening Techniques, and In Tune: Lessons In Life From A Life In Music You can find out more about Harry at facebook.com/harry.pickens and email him at harrycpickens@gmail.com

In this 3rd episode of the Coaching Life Revisited series, Karen Davis looks back at her coaching life since her first appearance on the podcast in episode 002, October 2016. With a grounded presence and deep love for the coaching profession, Karen shares her devotion for ceaseless learning, growth and impacting her clients’ lives. Phil and Karen explore: * Continuous development & passionate service * Karen’s experiences attending Steve Chandler’s ACS 9 times * Clients becoming dear friends & the social vs professional distinction * Karen’s forthcoming book and other future creations * Ever more impact from a deep love for your clients * Building a successful practice from understanding, curiosity and generosity. Here’s a little more about Karen: After 25 years in leadership roles in the business-to-business technology and services space, Karen changed her life by serving and guiding the transformation of others. She became a Professionally Certified Coach (PCC) through the International Coaching Federation and she’s been coaching, consulting and facilitating leadership workshops for organizations such as Pfizer, Cisco Systems, Hewlett Packard, as well as many other small businesses since 2008. Today, her practice focuses on one-on-one deep coaching with high-performing executives, entrepreneurs, and executive coaches who are committed to their success, ready to uncover their hidden potential and make their own unique difference in the world. Karen is the co-author of two books, Unconventional Wisdom: Stories Beyond the Mind to Awaken the Heart and a book on coaching, When All Boat Rise: 12 Coaches on Service as the Heart of a Thriving Practice. Her forthcoming book, How to Be a Great Coaching Client, will be co-authored with Alex Mill. Karen loves to travel, study people and learn about other cultures. You will often find her coaching her clients at her studio on an urban farm or on a walk out in nature. Best of all, Karen has two fascinating adult children, Dustin and Alexa, a wonderful life partner, Alex Mill and an office dog, Jax—all of whom serve as her inspiration each and every day! You can find out more about Karen at KarenDavisCoaching.com or through email at Karen@KarenDavisCoaching.com

A Coaching Life Revisited: Straight Talking Success Over 3½ years after being the very first guest on the podcast in 2016, with his usual candour Kevin reflects on what has changed and reveals very simply what it takes to be a masterful coach building a sustainable practice. Without any sugar-coating, Kevin and Phil explore: * Relaxing into being yourself & the power of curiosity * The importance of your coaching impact on client acquisition * What makes for an impactful coach * What a masterful coaching practice can look like, including fees * What it means to ‘do the work.’ Here’s a little more about Kevin: 

Kevin Waldron is the founder of Waldron Leadership, a business coaching and consulting company, that helps business owners get to that next level of performance. 

An experienced entrepreneur, Kevin started and grew a $24M a year disaster restoration company with over 200 employees and 5 offices, before selling his business to a national franchise. Based in Novato CA, Kevin now works with business owners around the world to grow their results. In 2015 he pioneered the Kilimanjaro Project, a life leadership program, that had him take a client to the top of Mt Kilimanjaro in Africa. Kevin is also the author of the upcoming book “Real Time Leadership”… How high performers change how they see their world to create a life worth living.” Meet him at www.waldronleadership.com

A Coaching Life Revisited: Evolving Mastery John was first on the podcast in episode 10, released in February 2017. In this conversation, as we look back on those three years, John shares with his usual candid openness and honesty, revealing what was going on for him back then, what he’s learning from his son, how he creates his income in details now, and the power of being. He continues to demonstrate his commitment to mastery in all aspects of his life. If you listen through the end music you’ll also get to hear the 5 minute conversation we had before we recorded the episode, including chatting about my 50lb weight loss… Here’s a little more about John: John Patrick Morgan is a philosopher, teacher and coach for individuals intent on living a beautiful life. For two decades, he has been supporting entrepreneurs, athletes and artists in growing their peace, joy and success through growing themselves. Students of his work share an obsession with self-mastery and a deep value of freedom, love and personal power. Through hundreds of his free videos, online classes and confronting, yet compassionate dialogue, John helps people to discover how their mind creates their reality and how through opening their heart they can access deeper fulfillment, more power and exponentially greater material results in their life and work. You can find out more about John at: Social Media Instagram https://www.instagram.com/jpmorganjr/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/jpmorgancreating YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/jpmorganjr Sign up to receive John's Creating Insight emails and gain instant access to his Creating members area, which contains masses of in-depth audio and video lessons https://jpmorganjr.com/

20 Years of Learning Nikki has been an executive coach for 20 years and in this gem-ridden conversation shares some of her intuitive, heart-centred lessons around working with clients in corporations, coaching leaders, dealing with potential conflict, her continued journey of learning, and reveals how life can throw you a curveball, even after two decades in the profession. Here’s a little more about Nikki Nikki Carpenter is an ICF professional certified coach; facilitator and teacher who is passionate about helping leaders discover and maximize their strengths and creativity, so they can do the same for those they lead. She believes that leadership is a powerful opportunity to embrace challenge and change as paths to personal and organizational growth and service. Nikki helps pave the way for leaders to speak more confidently, give more effective feedback, create stronger, more dynamic teams and realize their vision for leadership excellence. In her first career, Nikki was a Clinical Nutrition leader in a large healthcare organization. She had the good fortune to transition roles and provide leadership and team development across many hospitals and cultures. For the past twenty years, Nikki has provided coaching and facilitation services to a variety of organizations and industries with an emphasis on healthcare. You can find out more about Nikki at www.presentleader.com

Episode 074 - Nicole Barton Creating with Fun Wisdom has ways of telling us to be kinder to ourselves. Of course, we don’t always listen, until we have to. Nicole shares her story of reaching burnout and subsequently dropping the pressure of working hard and shifting to simply having fun. Now creating in whatever feels fun to do while deeply listening to what moves her, she is enjoying a much more prosperous coaching life dancing in a blend of wisdom and playful humanness. Here’s a little more about Nicole Life Mentor, Nicole Barton, is something of a unicorn within the self-help industry for her candid notion that nobody needs self-help. She is a breath of fresh air in her admission that while playing and dancing in anything that leads us into soul-led expression is beautiful to shift us from our heads and into our hearts, none of these practices are prerequisites to peace. Nicole supports people to embody their own wisdom through embracing self-rediscovery, via her online summit, group programs, one-to-ones, events and retreats, and is working on her first book. You can find out more about Nicole at Website – https://www.nicolebarton.co.uk Self-Rediscovery Summit - https://www.nicolebarton.co.uk/online-summit Self-Rediscovery School - https://www.nicolebarton.co.uk/programs Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wellbeingwriter/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/TheWellbeingWriter/

The Simplicity of Service Can a simple smile and letters of appreciation really be part of service that leads to the creation of a prosperous coaching life? What of the relationship between being an entrepreneur running a business and actually being a coach? Can you show your faith in coaching in a way that enrols clients with no risk to them? In a typically open and honest conversation, Tiago shares what he has seen on his journey from struggling coach to living a prosperous coaching life, create a successful coaching practice among chaos with consistency. Here’s a little more about Tiago By age 17, Tiago had founded his first company, growing from zero to 700,000 followers in two years. At 19, he sold it and began traveling the world. After five and a half months backpacking, he moved back to his home country Brazil and after a few business attempts, got clear on his values and started a coaching practice. He has received coaching from some of the top coaches in the world, and now helps entrepreneurs, leaders and coaches who want to create a big impact in the world. They are ambitious, and want to use wealth creation and business building as a way to get connected with their loving and powerful version of themselves. Tiago now resides in Florianópolis, Brazil, where he hosts VIP Days for his clients and helps them design their business to support a lifestyle of ease, fun and profitability. Find out more at tiagobuhr.com or through Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/tiago.buhr

Episode 072 - Peter Sleigh Being Lived Having built a very successful accountancy business over the last 12 years, Peter transitioned to full-time coaching in 2019. His dedication to being of service is both compelling and inspiring, and he shares with much enthusiasm and openness how his journey is unfolding right before his eyes… Here’s a little more about Peter Peter Sleigh is a transformational coach having graduated from Michael Neil’s SuperCoach Academy in 2019. Peter’s route to transformational coaching came via more traditional coaching through NLP and Diplomas in Personal Performance Coaching and Small Business Coaching with The Coaching Academy. Peter is a Chartered Certified Accountant and has grown an accountancy practice from his back bedroom to a business which employs 10 people in the UK and 15 people in a processing unit in Asia. Peter loves the impact that transformational coaching has on practically everyone’s life and has a real passion for coaching. He is no longer involved with the accountancy business on a day to day basis and dedicates his time to help as many people as possible benefit from seeing the inside out nature of life through coaching and teaching. Peter is married with a 17 year old son. He enjoys working out with his Personal Trainer and watching his football club, Leeds United. You can find Peter on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/peter.sleigh.77

Episode 071 - Regina Kleinhenz Experimenting with Fun If you would like to turn your Podcast idea into a reality, check out how I can support you at philg.com/launchpod Just how much fun can you have building a coaching practice? Is following your joy really a fruitful strategy? Should we listen when we think we won’t enjoy doing something? Do you need to figure out who your ideal client actually is? In this delightful episode my previous client Regina reveals her answers to these questions, shares some of her insights and the impact of our time together on her journey in building a Coaching Life. Here’s a little more about Regina Regina Kleinhenz is a heart-centered coach, speaker, Yoga teacher, former Systemic therapist and teacher. Before she came across the 3 principles in 2017, she thought being a comedienne would be a dream come true, only to find out that that desire had been a coping mechanism owed to a misunderstanding of who she thought she was or needed to be. She likes connecting and working with other people in a humorous way and what she’s most passionate about is seeing the sparkle in people’s eyes (re-)appear, when they get in touch with who they really are. Regina works with individuals but also speaks in organizations, pointing people towards the source of clarity, wellbeing and ease. She particularly enjoys working with entrepreneurs and leaders. The focus of her work lies in - 1:1 coaching for entrepreneurs and leaders - keynotes and workshops pointing towards the inside-out understanding and mental health for companies and institutions - transformational retreats and intensives for individuals and groups She recently became a member of Business Network International (BNI) and is very much looking forward to becoming a certified Clarity Coach through Jamie Smart’s Clarity Academy in 2020. Regina loves Yoga, comedy and improv theater. She now lives in Stuttgart, spending her leisure time with her partner Matthias and his children Jana and Alina. You can find out more about Regina at www.reginakleinhenz.de and https://www.linkedin.com/in/regina-kleinhenz-54b502123/

Being Human It was Amy’s book ’Being Human’ written over six years ago, that introduced me to her work, and whilst she has published another great book since then, her willingness to show, explore and share what it is to be human remains. It seems Amy was destined to be in this work, reading spiritual literature during childhood and being introduced to coaching methodologies in her teen years. In a typically warm, humble and very human conversation, Amy shares the story of her evolution through Psychology training, her own personal challenges, authoring three books, into coaching and running the Little School of Big Change. Here’s a little more about Amy Amy Johnson, PhD is a psychologist, coach, author, and speaker who shares a groundbreaking new approach that helps people find true, lasting freedom from unwanted habits via insight rather than willpower. She is author of Being Human (2013), and The Little Book of Big Change: The No-Willpower Approach to Breaking Any Habit (2016). In 2017 she opened The Little School of Big Change, an online school that has helped hundreds of people find freedom from anxiety and habits and live a more peaceful life. Johnson has been a regularly featured expert on The Steve Harvey Show and Oprah.com, as well as in The Wall Street Journal and Self magazine. Learn more at www.DrAmyJohnson.com.