Introduction

Welcome to Episode 3! I am your host, Dr. Moira. I hope you are enjoying our month of podcasts on focus and efficiency. If you missed the first two podcasts this month, that is ok, they are ready and waiting for you on behealthyhive.com and all of your favorite podcast providers.

For those of you just tuning in, the Coaching Hive podcast looks at topics and concerns that impact health coaches along their business journey to guiding clients to improved health and wellness. The Coaching Hive empowers coaches to be focused with their learning intentions while maintaining forward business momentum.

Here at the Coaching Hive, our mission is to be effective, efficient, and have fun so that work becomes a joy, and you have dedicated time for the important things in life like your family, friends, and hobbies.

This podcast is rooted in learning and efficiency. In fact, to be more effective and efficient, each month we will focus on a single topic. That means 12 new learning topics a year AND time to dig in without feeling overwhelmed.

Let’s review a little bit about how the podcast works. At the start of the month, we will introduce our topic and learn a bit about why it is important to you as a coach. In the second and third weeks, we will dive a little deeper and explore the opinions and ideas of other coaches as well as the research on the topic. In the last week of the month, I’ll offer you a chance to challenge yourself. This challenge encourages you to experiment and put into practice what we have been talking about throughout the month in a very specific and detailed way. I’ll even include a PDF to walk you through the “Put It Into Action” process. You may be thinking, “But, Moira some months have 5 weeks” and you are absolutely correct! We will always end our month with the Put It Into Action challenge. When there are five weeks, we will tuck in a book discussion just before the challenge.

I love hearing about your successes and helping you find solutions when you get stuck. I’m always here to offer ideas and encouragement every step of the way.

Just like me, you might be busy; you’re listening to this podcast as you take care of other tasks. These podcasts will always be child friendly, so go ahead and play it through your speaker while you fold clothes, prep your dinner, or make the bed.

Now that we have those details and reminders out of the way and you know where we’re headed, we can continue with our topic!

The Topic

Many times, in the coaching world we can become overwhelmed, we are taking on additional clients, thinking about marketing, juggling a day job while growing a coaching business, and all while trying to be present for our family and friends. It is difficult and without being efficient, overwhelm creeps in.

I was talking with a group of coaches just this week about how important it is to stay on the lookout for signs of burnout and overwhelm. It is a topic that I often discuss and for the past two podcasts, we have been talking about building efficiency in our business and our life. By letting go of multi-tasking and narrowing our focus to specific and meaningful tasks we get more done in a smaller time span and that overwhelm that we feel diminishes.

When we are focused, efficient, and less distracted by the things that don’t require our attention, we also become good role models for our clients. Over the past few weeks, I have been gathering ideas and tips for being focused and efficient from a variety of coaches. In this podcast, I’m going to share some of their best ideas with you.

We are all different though and what works for one person may not work for you. It is im