

Coaching and Mentoring Best Practice - Both Sides of the Coin
IAPC&M - International Authority for Professional Coaching & Mentoring
The IAPC&M podcast offers rare, dual-perspective conversations with accredited coaches and their clients. You’ll discover: - How real transformations happen behind closed doors - What clients truly need — and what coaches often overlook - Practical, ethical tools to improve your coaching or mentoring immediately.✨ Quick tips, deep impact🎤Current Host, Catalina Flore, Accredited Fellow Coach🎤Previous Host, Jenny Butter, Accredited Fellow Coach🎵 Music composed by Anne-Marie Firmin🛑 Disclaimer: Guests do not represent IAPC&M views
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Nov 28, 2023 • 23min
Learn about systemic coaching, a method that delivers value to all stakeholders of the coachee
Today we find out about systemic coaching and how it can help our clients. In essence, systemic coaching delivers value to all the stakeholders of the coachee, these include those they lead, colleagues, investors, customers, partners, family as well as their local community.
Joining podcast host, Jenny Butter, are Marina Anchevska and her client Meglena Dimitrova.
Marina is an Accredited Fellow Coach, an Accredited NLP Master Trainer, a Systemic Coach, a Holistic therapist, a Somatic Coach, and a Yoga teacher and Trauma healer. She is based in Macedonia and founded the first accredited systemic and NLP centre in South East Europe. Through her coaching, she works hard to ensure her clients are able to use the tools learned to ensure success in both their personal and professional lives.
Her client Meglena, has over 10 years of experience in the field of human resources and currently works in the biggest bank in North Macedonia as an HR Officer. She has been a coaching client of Marina’s for around two years and feels it this time was pivotal for her transformational journey.

Oct 26, 2023 • 21min
How to help clients identify and clear stuck emotions and limiting core beliefs
Do your clients need to identify and clear stuck emotions and limiting core beliefs? In this month's podcast, we get some top tips on how they can do this by using words. Host, Jenny Butter, is joined by Amanda Peet and her client Mandi Simms. Amanda is the founder of ‘Mind Your Mind’ a technique that provides the words you can say - to yourself - out loud - to instruct the subconscious mind to release old emotions and outdated limiting beliefs. Her client, Mandi has been featured on the Channel 5 TV programme 'Hoarders: Buried Alive' where she spoke about how her hoard has taken over her house. Amanda is helping Mandi release stuck emotions and limiting beliefs so that she can move forward with changing her house from a hoarded house to a happy home.

Sep 27, 2023 • 23min
How to bring emotional awareness into your coaching sessions
The importance of Emotional Intelligence in achieving success at work and in our day-to-day lives has been discussed in many books over the past twenty-five years however, few of the books have shown how to actually develop your skills so you can become more Emotionally Intelligent. In this podcast we get some top tips on how to develop our own skills and how to bring emotional awareness into our coaching sessions. Podcast Host, Jenny Butter, is joined by John Parr and his client Geanina Rindasu. John has developed seminars and training for people who desire to live an emotionally fulfilled life and his organisation teaches coaches and professional trainers who want to help people to become more assertive. Geanina is an HR consultant, trainer, and coach and has been John’s client for around 18 months. She has trained in the process communication model and uses this in her coaching so her clients can achieve a deeper self-awareness, and belief, in their own capacity and potential.

Aug 24, 2023 • 33min
How to allow clients to experience the whole spectrum of what life has to offer
Do your clients, choose to live? Life can be beautiful, exhilarating, and full of possibilities; yet it’s also complex, challenging, and inherently uncertain. In this podcast, we get some top tips on how to allow our clients to experience the whole spectrum of what life has to offer, not merely endure life, but enjoy it in all its facets. Joining podcast host, Jenny Butter, are Yannick Jacob and his client Jane. Yannick is an existential life and leadership coach, a coach trainer and supervisor, and a mediator. He works with people who choose to step out of their comfort zones and make the most out of life. His client Jane is based in London and wanted some coaching to support her in her leadership position in the education sector.

Jul 27, 2023 • 21min
How to bring religious faith into career coaching
The podcast explores bringing religious faith into career coaching. The hosts discuss the importance of incorporating clients' beliefs, and a career coach specializing in Christianity shares her experience. They delve into exploring career goals and finding direction with faith, and emphasize listening to clients' passions. The chapter concludes with a book recommendation and advertising a coaching authority.

May 24, 2022 • 23min
How to best coach clients with creative brains
Do you or any of your clients have a creative brain? Those of us with ‘creative’ brains, when in full flow, can be intuitive, instinctive, quick, and brilliant. But on the flip side, sometimes the simplest of things just seem to overwhelm us and can be debilitating. In this month's podcast, we get some top tips on how to coach creative brains. Joining host, Jenny Butter, are Julia Caddick and her client Rebecca Duckworth. Julia is an accredited coach and specialises in coaching creative brains. Her client, Rebecca is a professional musician, choir trainer, and vocal coach.

Apr 27, 2022 • 24min
Coaching clients with suicidal thoughts, learn best practices
As a coach, how aware are you of the signs that a client may be considering suicide? Do you know what to ask and, what not to say? In this month's podcast, we get insight and top tips. Joining podcast host, Jenny Butter, are Dr Michael J Marx and coach Donnalea Barber. Michael is an ICF Professional Certified Coach and he has founded a non-profit called Coaching Suicide Awareness. Donnelea Barber has trained under Michael and specialises as an ADHD coach.

Mar 29, 2022 • 22min
Top Tips for leadership, executive and corporate coaches
To stay ahead, todays’ leaders at all levels of an organisation find they must do all they can to develop high-performing workforces who deliver world-class products and services, and that is where coaching has proved to be vital. Today, we get some top tips on executive, corporate and leadership coaching. Joining podcast host, Jenny Butter, are Monica Jonsson and her client Alberta Brusi. Monica is the author of a recently published book called: The Complete Corporate Coaching Toolkit - The Quintessential Guide for 21st Century Business Coaches and Leaders. Her client Alberta Brusi is Country Head for Citibank Luxembourg.

Feb 28, 2022 • 22min
Top tips on coaching mid-career professionals
Do you work with clients who feel unseen, stuck or are no longer advancing at work? How as coaches can we help them take positive steps career-wise? In this month's podcast we get some top coaching tips. Joining host, Jenny Butter are Hulya Kurt and her client Jane. Hulya is a career coach based in Geneva who works with her clients who want to get promoted or make a positive change. Her client Jane has been working for the same corporation for several years and wanted some coaching to help her find a new role and direction.

Jan 28, 2022 • 26min
Top tips on coaching clients with perfectionism
Are you a perfectionist? What about some of the clients you work with? How much of their judgment by the inner critique or overwhelm comes from perfectionism? Today, as coaches and mentors, we get some top tips on how to coach people who are perfectionists. Joining host, Jenny Butter, are Aylin Webb and her client Elizabeth. Aylin combines Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), EMDR Therapy, NLP and Coaching to enable her clients to learn to trust themselves once again. Her client, Elizabeth, is a teacher and over the last 9 months has felt anxiety on a variety of scales.


