A Listening Life

Helen Isacke founded the Trusted Coach Directory and is the author of Soft Skills for Strong Leaders as well as a Master NLP practitioner, and has trained in a wide range of psychometric profiling tools. Helen is also a Leadership Coach and qualified Supervisor.I'm really grateful to have Helen Isacke as our guest on the podcast to talk about all the great work she's doing to support the coach community. Helen's site provides stacks of development opportunities for members, so its benefit stretches way beyond an internet search. Visit www.trustedcoachdirectory.com for more information.Thank you so much Helen and welcome to returning and new listeners. You can connect with Helen here:Website: www.trustedcoachdirectory.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/helenisacke/Mentioned resources within this podcast -www.coachesofcolour.comwww.worktripp.comhttps://www.lifecoach-directory.org.uk/If you enjoy this podcast you can help! Please tell another coach about us; share our content online or kindly leave a review. You can subscribe too, which will help us get found.Thank you to the team at Psysoft who are supporting Season 2 by offering 10% off the certification programme for the EQi 2.0 Certification and EQi Extra. Quote LISTEN10 on your email for 10% off. You can contact them about their discount for coaches on query@psysoft.com.

Yannick Jacob is an Existential Life and Leadership Coach (MA), a Positive Psychologist (MSc), a Coach Trainer & Supervisor (DIP) and a Mediator (SPCP Dispute Resolution). He’s the Program Director of the Accredited Certificate in Integrative Coaching (ACIC) at the School of Positive Transformation (for which he’s gathered many of the world’s most influential coaches and pioneers) and he was the Programme Leader of the MSc Coaching Psychology at the University of East London (2015-18). Yannick is part of the teaching faculties at The School of Life, Animas Centre for Coaching and the International Centre for Coaching Supervision. His love for coaching, positive existential philosophy and personal development is contagious and he loves to challenge people to think, learn & grow, to explore the BIG questions and to appreciate the whole spectrum of what life has to offer.It’s my great good fortune to have chance to chat to Yannick about his commercial journey in building his coaching practice. I’d love a whole second episode about the actual WORK of existential coaching, but for now, I’m grateful to be able to share this episode with you to enjoy. Thank you so much Yannick and welcome to returning and new listeners. You can connect with Yannick here:Web https://gocoachinglab.com/Book https://www.routledge.com/An-Introduction-to-Existential-Coaching-How-Philosophy-Can-Help-Your-Clients/Jacob/p/book/9780367139995LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/yannick-jacob-3524461a/If you enjoy this podcast you can help! Please tell another coach about us; share our content online or kindly leave a review. You can subscribe too, which will help us get found.Thank you to the team at Psysoft who are supporting Season 2 by offering 10% off the certification programme for the EQi 2.0 Certification and EQi Extra. Quote LISTEN10 on your email for 10% off. You can contact them about their discount for coaches on query@psysoft.com.

Ngozi Weller is a distinguished mental health & wellbeing expert, an accredited coach and the founder and director of culture change consultancy, Aurora Inc. With a passion for promoting positive workplace wellbeing, Ngozi has dedicated the latter part of her career to empowering individuals on their journey to optimal mental health in the workplace. Through engaging talks and workshops, Ngozi inspires and encourages her audience to cultivate healthy changes in their work environment & unlock their full potential.She talks with such warmth and openness about her own crisis moments that have led her tobuild atruly purpose-led business, aiming to stop other people having to suffer the same experience with burn out that she had. She talks about finding that purpose, and then finding exactly the right person to co-found with – a trusted cousin with a shared set of values. There’s also some lovely focus on perfectionism and its inherent risk in self-employment.Thank you so much Ngozi and welcome to returning and new listeners. You can connect with Ngozi here:Web www.aurorawellnessgroup.co.uk   Email Ngozi@aurorawellnessgroup.co.ukPodcast https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-wellbeing-rebellion/id1675517581Linkedin https://uk.linkedin.com/in/ngozi-weller-auroraIf you enjoy this podcast you can help! Please tell another coach about us; share our content online or kindly leave a review. You can subscribe too, which will help us get found.Thank you to the team at Psysoft who are supporting Season 2 by offering 10% off the certification programme for the EQi 2.0 Certification and EQi Extra. Quote LISTEN10 on your email for 10% off. You can contact them about their discount for coaches on query@psysoft.com.

Lucy Widdowson is an accredited executive and team coach, director of Performance Edge, a lead tutor on team coaching at Henley Business School, a UK board member for team coaching for the ICF, and a published author. Lucy is what I would describe as a real grown-up, research-based, accredited, established organisational coaching professional. She writes books based in research and produces tools and data to back up her work.She's a great example of a coach who goes first for the long-term quality of the coaching and the relationships, and this leads to business growth. The rigour and robust attachment to the calibre produces a deep competence and trust for her growing long -term business success.Lucy focuses on doing a great job first, then the clients keep coming. Here she is, the fabulous Lucy Widowson.Find Lucy online here:https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7155875600581214208/https://www.icfaustralasia.com/product/icf-australasia-southern-states-team-coaching/ https://ukicf.regfox.com/uk-icf-systemic-team-coaching-series If you enjoy this podcast you can help! Please tell another coach about us; share our content online or kindly leave a review. You can subscribe too, which will help us get found.Thank you to the team at Psysoft who are supporting Season 2 by offering 10% off the certification programme for the EQi 2.0 Certification and EQi Extra. Quote LISTEN10 on your email for 10% off. You can contact them about their discount for coaches on query@psysoft.com.

Kirsty Lewis, creator of the School of Facilitation - the SOF Collective, a space for global facilitators and trainers to come together to connect, learn, share and inspire. Kirsty’s keen to point out that she’s not a coach, but I felt certain her story and brand has massive overlaps to the world of coaches and coach facilitators, so I hope you enjoy her take on things. I’ve followed Kirsty online for quite some time and meeting her did not disappoint. She has so much wisdom to share about how to brand up and make our offers easier to find and buy. Kirsty' corporate background in PR & Marketing for a global drinks brand has served her well in bringing those skills to her School of Facilitation. She describes the brave steps she took with relatively little drama..(relative to my tentative steps, that is). This episode is particularly useful if you're imagining an associate style business, and if you're interested to think about brand, in your coaching practice. Look up her lovely brand and connect with her on Instagram. You'll find information about her own podcast and courses there too.The School of Facilitation - Welcome to School of FacilitationInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/schooloffacilitationLinkedin - Kirsty Lewis - Founder - The School of Facilitation | LinkedInIf you enjoy this podcast you can help! Please tell another coach about us; share our content online or kindly leave a review. You can subscribe too, which will help us get found.Thank you to the team at Psysoft who are supporting Season 2. You can contact them about their discount for coaches through A Listening Life on query@psysoft.com. All info contained within this episode, for 10%% off the certification programme for the EQi 2.0 Certification and EQi Extra. Quote LISTEN10 on your email for 10% off.

Robbie Swale is a leadership coach, author and podcaster whose work focuses on creativity, leading with honour and the craft of coaching. Alongside his direct client work, he has run coaching, training and facilitation for organisations including Moonpig, Deutsche Bank, 64 Million Artists and the University of Edinburgh. He is the host of two podcasts – The Coach’s Journey Podcast and The 12-Minute Method Podcast – and the author of The 12-Minute Method series of books, including How to Start When You’re Stuck and How to Create the Conditions for Great Work.Welcome to this conversation where I have the privilege of picking Robbie's brains about how he got going in his business, and how he continues to grow. Robbie is a prolific writer and producer of content and yet he says that content creation is a terrible way to grow a business. Have a listen to understand how he sees that - and what keeps him writing and recording. I love Robbie's reframing of the proposals and pitching to "an opportunity to practice". Every pitch we submit is another chance to practice, he says. So let's get practicing. This is such a powerful way to chase away fear of selling.  Learn more about Robbie at www.robbieswale.com and www.thecoachsjourney.com.Buy the 12-Minute Method Books at: https://geni.us/12minutemethodseries Find him on Social Media: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robbieswale/