The Coaching Life

What looks and even feels like failure may well be exactly what needs to happen to move you towards what you really want. In this episode John shares how going back into his I.T. work helped him become much more free as a coach and helped him increase his impact on his clients. And how those clients are showing up from seeds he has been planting for a very long time, often without even realising it… Here’s a little more about John: John El-Mokadem is a Breakthrough Coach based in the UK with 14 years’ experience, providing both personal and corporate coaching, training and mentorship services. John works with a Three Principles grounding to share a deeper understanding of how the mind works that can enable clients to experience a healthier, happier, more successful and creative life. The transformations John witnesses are often life changing as clients settle down into a space of ease and possibility. Most recently John has conducted an academic research study to demonstrate the transformative effects of this approach on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. A large part of his client work is now health focused and helping clients to access their own innate wellbeing. John has in recent years also worked on the faculty of Michael Neill’s Supercoach Academy and developed his own programme teaching coaches how to create Breakthrough results with their own clients. For John, this work is a more of a passion to serve and help others as the understanding he now shares had such a profound impact on so many areas of his own life. http://breakthroughthat.com/

The power of shifting to being of service. After twelves years of failing to fill workshops, Melissa hired a coach who helped her shift her focus, and since then she has continued to expand, grow and evolve. This episode gives us all an insight into the journey of an extremely experienced coach, someone who has invested significantly in her own development and whose clients continue to benefit from that investment. This one is all about service, service, and being of service. Here’s a little more about Melissa: Melissa Ford is a seasoned business and life coach. Her experience shows us that we can change our passions into thriving careers, allowing us to do what we love and be paid well to do it. Early on she struggled with the same fears and self-doubts that keep so many from being successful. But that changed when she finally learned how to master sales through profound service, allowing her to build a prosperous business and live a more loving and inspired life. Today, she uses her knowledge and experience to powerfully coach entrepreneurs and coaches, helping them increase their incomes and grow their businesses by making sales exciting, genuine and profitable. www. melissafordcoaching.com melissa@melissafordcoaching.com

Money, insecurity and freedom are just a few of the emotive subjects explored in this episode with Marina Pearson. In a wonderfully honest conversation, Marina reveals what had her go into hibernation, what happens when things go wrong, and how she has discovered what she really wants to do. Here’s a little more about Marina: Marina is a mum, investor, business owner, and adventurer of life. For the last 14 years she has coached overwhelmed and busy women to light up with insight and joy so as to be a fully self expressed version of who they are. When she isn’t coaching and running workshops she is cooking, singing, podcasting and enjoying the delights of Spain and her son. www.marinapearson.com/scorecard

Annie is a straight-talking, loving advocate of being yourself, and she certainly gives us an insight into life as Annie in this very open and honest conversation. Annie is in a position of freedom with her practice, she is able to be free, expressive, playful and experimental, and it’s amazing to see what being that way has brought to her and her clients… Here’s a little more about Annie: From her little corner of the globe which is New Zealand, Annie works with ambitious female entrepreneurs from around the world to turn their ordinary into extraordinary. She cuts through the lies of their inner critic so they can see their brilliance, uniqueness, value, and power, to grow phenomenal businesses which are 100% them. Her latest project is Start With Who™, as well as a podcast called The Business of You. She has a cat, 3 kids and a husband, lives by the sea, and regularly tries to not put her back out in yoga by competing with her yoga teaching sister. http://www.annieromanos.com/

In a delightful revisit to the podcast, Lian shares, with her usual effervescence, what’s changed in her business and in herself, how her business partner Jonathan and her are running the business they want to run, as well as discussing why we do what we do, what is true, and her strategy of exploration and test. Here’s the link to Ankush Jain’s Coaching Group on Facebook, and the post referred to in the conversation: https://www.facebook.com/groups/coaching3ps/permalink/617190311954142/ And the Steve Chandler Elvis post, also mentioned: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1577403675710426&id=130573737060101 Here's a little more about Lian: Lian is a co-founder of the education platform Primal Happiness and the host of the weekly top 10 ranked iTunes happiness podcast The Primal Happiness Show. Lian was lucky to have had an amazingly happy upbringing, bursting with love and adventure. And she was attacked which resulted in chronic facial pain, massive panic attacks and anxiety. That started a 15 year search for relief from her emotional and physical pain... she tried traditional medicine and then most types of self-help and woo that you can think of. Nothing helped. Until she discovered the true nature of happiness and then in an instant, her anxiety, fears, limitations, and even the chronic pain dropped away! Her life is now ridiculously happy and her mission is to share the fundamentals behind reclaiming happiness and thriving in all areas of life… with the world! Lian lives in cottage in England, with her husband, their two young children, and a triple helping of ginger goodness: their cat Beatle and their two Hungarian Vizsla dogs Laszlo and Mabel. Her passions are baking, writing, hosting parties, making and drinking cocktails, and watching wonderful people wake up to a life without limits. Links: Primal Happiness: http://primalhappiness.co/ The Primal Happiness Show: http://primalhappiness.co/podcast_list/

‘My mouth just started saying different things.’ In his second appearance on the podcast, Piers talks in depth about the impact of understanding ‘The Three Principles’ on his coaching, his business, and his life, and offers much insight into how coaches with a grounding in this understanding can be of service to clients, irrespective of the past experiences. And how coaching is similar to being a midwife… Piers has been coaching for 18 years, and works with both private one-to-one clients and many commercial organisations. He has two children, loves cycling, running and technology. You can find out more about Piers at www.piersthurston.com

In this episode Damian gives a very candid view into his coaching life, including his biggest struggles, in spite of which how he has always managed to create and succeed, and his absolute clarity of what’s true and what’s opinion. This one’s not for the faint of heart. Here’s a little more about Damian: Damian Mark Smyth is a TEDx speaker, author, podcaster, blogger and Three Principles coach. He works in the field of mental health and addictions and is currently working on his new venture: www.vetshealth.co.uk taking the Principles into the veterinary profession where there is between 4 and 10 times the national suicide average. He also works with entrepreneurs and business owners as well as addiction and suicide clients and his first book Do Nothing! was the first Three Principles book to be released in the UK. His website is www.rethinkingbusiness.biz and he can also be found being disruptive and cheeky on Quora https://www.quora.com/profile/Damian-Mark-Smyth and Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/damianmarksmyth His Rethink Everything Podcast is available here: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/rethink-everything/id1203901025?mt=2

In this special monologue episode, Phil spills the beans on the real reasons he created this podcast, why you should ignore all embellishment and what anyone else is doing, and also forget about yourself being a coach. Here’s a little more about your host, Phil Goddard… (oh, that’s me!): Phil Goddard is an internationally renowned coach, author, speaker, leadership trainer, and lover of life and humanity. He is a published author and the host of The Coaching Life Podcast. His work centres around transforming relationships through a deeper understanding of love and the nature of how our experience of life is created. With humour and sincerity, he combines over twenty-one years in I.T. and Telecoms corporate leadership with twelve years as a professional coach, to help organisations build harmonious teams utilising the most potent force in leadership - love. He also works with individuals to help them develop a deeply grounded understanding of the principles behind our human experience and live wonderfully productive, happy lives, connected to love, ease and compassion for humanity. He has coached Hollywood actors, international models, journalists, artists, authors, film directors, corporate executives, and numerous business owners, leaders and entrepreneurs. He challenges his work on happiness by following a few English sports teams. Phil can be contacted via philg.com and Facebook via fbphil.com and can often be found on the Greek Island of Zakynthos.

Your enthusiasm alone cannot carry you. Catherine is devoted to her spiritual beliefs and practice in a way that plays out in all she does, and is the foundation of her work as a radical love and empowerment coach. In a beautiful conversation she shares her story of burnout and refocusing on being a business owner, and gives us an insight into the fundamental message of all of her work. Here’s a little more about Catherine: Catherine Hummel is a Love Coach, Healer, Spiritual Teacher and your guide to love over at http://Catherine-Hummel.com She helps women heal their fear based relationship patterns so that they can experience radical self love and attract the relationship they deserve and dream of. She not only cares about helping women find love but learn the skills and tools to make love last. Using spiritual principles and practical skills she supports women in rewriting their love stories. She believes healthy relationships are what will heal the world. When she's not helping others find love, she's living her own epic love story living with her husband Andrew in Scituate, MA.

Not so much an exclusive peek behind the curtains of Shanti’s life, because anyone who follows her on Facebook will already have a sense of who she is and what’s she’s up to. But it is a lovely conversation with someone who embraces her humanness to the full, and is deeply committed to loving and serving her clients. There is a beautiful simplicity in how she does that. Here’s a little more about Shanti: “I remember the days I would cry in the bathroom so that my family wouldn’t see my tears, because at the time, I didn't think they were allowed. I had to hide them. I had to hide me. I had to be safe. I live in the opposite of what many people would think looks like safety now, because it is the opposite of what I thought was safety then. Sharing everything and your mother’s butt on the interwebs, for all the see. Feeling all of my emotions right out in public, at the dining room table, in front of my family and my preciousness boobies. I feel. I feel it all. I feel ME. Living this work is my deepest commitment to myself, as much as it is to you and BeingShanti. Fullfilling my purpose as an Emotional Advocate for Authenticity and Genuine Interactions and Ending Violence In My Lifetime. Which means, I refuse to do, preach, teach, or advocate for anything that I do not live. Living in Emotional Authenticity is the very foundation on which allows me to stand, fall, crawl, yell, snort laugh, and snotty sob without apology. It is my birthright, my internal wealth, my compass to freedom each and every moment. It is my truth, extended to you and held with tender care by me. Known with every cell, and treasured with every fiber.” Continued on Shanti’s website at https://www.being-shanti.com/ You can follow Shanti on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/simplybeingshanti/ and https://www.facebook.com/shanti.zimmermannBeingShanti