The AC Podcast

Smaranda Dochia, Rob Lawrence, Miranda Woodhouse, and Darren Robson join Maxine Bell to celebrate our 100th podcast episode! Together we are the complete podcast team involved in the vision and creation of our great quality weekly episodes. Join us, to hear more about the values, ethos, and processes we use to create each episode. Enjoy listening to the passion behind the purposeful playfulness, the challenges, and the surprising depths and impact our podcast channel has had. Be inspired to be brave and join us as a host for a podcast series on a topic you love, from a professional team that supports and mentors you through the whole process. "We wanted to create a space for voices from our wonderful, eclectic community." For the episode resources and guest bio, please visit: https://associationforcoaching.site-ym.com/page/AC-at-20_podcast_series_Meet_the_Podcast_Team_Panel _Chat

Pamela Slim, business coach, entrepreneur and award-winning author, joins our host, Rob Lawrence to bring a fresh and human perspective to marketing your coaching business. She encourages coaches to do the foundational work based on self-reflection, authenticity, and integrity, rather than tactics. Pamela encourages coaches to experiment, test, try and refine their ideas. Learn how to ethically 'widen your net' and create an ecosystem that assists the marketing and growth of your business. "You do not have to be who you are not in order to market effectively." For the episode resources and guest bio, please visit: https://www.associationforcoaching.com/page/Make_Time_For_Marketing_series_Pamela_Slim

Dr Christine Li, the 'Procrastination Coach' and psychologist, joins our host Rob Lawrence, to share her insights on dealing with procrastination that might be slowing down your marketing efforts. She will inspire you to connect with your current audience and future clients in a way that aligns with your way of being and working. Learn about her 4F model for boosting productivity in any area and some of the most reliable ways to address fear and resistance. This lively, engaging and insightful conversation will put you at ease and help you spring into action when it comes to marketing your coaching business. "When you're stuck, that's where to begin, not where to end." For the episode resources and guest bio, please visit: https://www.associationforcoaching.com/page/Make_Time_For_Marketing_series_Dr_Christine Li

Jeremy Lazarus, Master Coach and NLP Master Trainer, joins our host, Rob Lawrence, to discuss how having a sales mindset helps you focus on serving your clients and translates into creating a marketing strategy for your coaching business. In this podcast, learn how to create powerful habits, including better time management and prioritization, as well as the importance of shifting your limiting beliefs to consider your purpose. Jeremy shares how focusing on the power of your coaching skills to help clients change their lives, rather than your insecurities or self-doubt, is the key to success. "If what you offer is going to serve someone, it's rude not to sell to them." For the episode resources and guest bio, please visit: https://www.associationforcoaching.com/page/Make_Time_For_Marketing_series_Jeremy_Lazarus

Donald Stojack, Entrepreneur and Business Strategist, joins our host Rob Lawrence for this insightful and inspiring conversation about developing the right attitude about your marketing, focusing on strategic planning and engaging your ideal clients in a way that gets them moving towards you. Donald shares that growing your business requires good marketing mindsets, insights, foresight and actions. Learn what you need to do, find out what you can do and then develop a strategy around what you will do. "Find what people are really looking for and attach that to your offer - that's the gold". For the episode resources and guest bio, please visit: https://www.associationforcoaching.com/page/Make_Time_For_Marketing_series_Donald_Stojack

Kim Arnold, Business and Marketing Consultant, joins host Rob Lawrence in a wonderfully practical conversation for coaching on the myths and truths about marketing your coaching business. Kim provides many handy tips and advice on what not to do and what to do to market your coaching business. She directly challenges the idea that marketing is 'hard' while demonstrating how essential it is to take your marketing seriously and absorb the truth that you are now a business owner. Coaches will learn much from this insightful, honest and pragmatic conversation. "You're a business owner, not just a coach". For the episode resources and guest bio, please visit: https://www.associationforcoaching.com/page/Make_Time_For_Marketing_podcast_series_Kim_Arnold

Geoffrey Matthews, HR Strategist and Coach joins host Sylvain Newton, for our first ever AC DACH region (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) podcast to discuss what employee engagement is, how it differs from motivation and the role coaches play. The 'Great Resignation' underlines how people are looking for more than just money when choosing a job, want purpose and meaning and how workplace culture is becoming more important. Given these changes in how people view their work, this podcast explores what it means for people to be 'engaged,' how leaders can foster an engaging workplace and what coaches can do to help foster better workplaces for the future. "It's that kind of strong emotional connection both with the job and the organisation which I think characterises engagement." For the episode resources and guest bio, please visit: https://www.associationforcoaching.com/page/DACH_podcast_series_Geoffrey_Matthews

Andréa Watts, Stephen Brown, Beth Clare McManus and Pearl Jordan, join our host Maxine Bell for the final episode of our "Let's Make Coaching Creative" podcast series in a beautiful, thought-provoking panel discussion. Together, they discuss the challenges they have faced in their coaching journey. They also share strong evidence that using creative tools and a creative approach has led to powerful results in coaching. Learn why they think there is a rise in creative techniques in coaching and what kind of future they see for creative coaches. "People come to coaching and ask more existential questions, and that's another reason why there is a rise in creative coaching." For the episode resources and guest bio, please visit: https://www.associationforcoaching.com/page/Making_Coaching_Creative_podcast_series_Panel_Discussion

Elaine Patterson and Karyn Prentice, Senior Faculty at the Coaching Supervision Academy International Ltd, join our host Maxine Bell to explore what it means and what it takes to be creative in a noisy world that needs creativity more than ever! They believe we are all naturally creative. Creating our own preconditions for our creativity to flourish is now mission-critical because it is how we put love into the world. Listen and learn how we must give ourselves and our clients permission to play, to get messy and to flow with what emerges, silencing our inner editors and critics. They ask: "What is possible, and what would it be like if we could all be just 5% or 10% more creative in our lives and work?" Encouraging us to have fun and be audacious in pursuit of our creative expression. "Creativity goes beyond our competencies – our capacity to create, our capacity to care, our capacity to be courageous." For the episode resources and guest bio, please visit: https://www.associationforcoaching.com/page/Making_Coaching_Creative_podcast_Patterson_and_Prentice

Pearl Jordan, Personal Development and Wellbeing Coach, joins our host Maxine Bell to share her inspiring personal story of suppression, discrimination, tenacity and resilience that brought her to use movement and dance with coaching, by creating The Rhythmic Remedy®. Her own personal story explains why she is so passionate about what she does and how it is that she created and now uses The Rhythmic Remedy® - a movement inspired approach to coaching beyond the spoken language and how this differs from other creative tools. It is an important holistic inside-out approach having great impact. "I help them see the mind-body connection because your body is speaking to you every day." For the episode resources and guest bio, please visit: https://www.associationforcoaching.com/page/Making_Coaching_Creative_podcast_series_Pearl_Jordan