Coaching with Catrin Mac: Recent Episodes
Catrin MacDonnell
Insights, tools and techniques that will move you from stuck to unstuck, unknown to known, bring positivity and motivation to overcome obstacles and find your success.
Catrin MacDonnell is a professional coach and trainer who works with all sorts of people who feel stuck, frustrated, want to find ways of working better, being happier, improve relationships, make better decisions (or make any decisions at all, really!). She has a background in marketing and food (is co-owner of Papadeli in Bristol) and has a perfume start up Jones & Modha.
There are so many benefits to spending time asking yourself who you are. What you want, what you like, what's important. You can then start choosing who you want to be. You can grow in confidence, find ease with decision making, stop people pleasing. This podcast suggests questions to work through (which are also on my website https://www.catrinmacdonnell.co.uk/who-am-i-and-why-does-it-matter/
Even the most outwardly confident, self assured people tell me they lack in confidence. It can really make everything seem like such hard work and often means you hold yourself back from finding ease and success. Here are some tips for finding the confidence you need.
Coaching conversations often highlight how our beliefs, that can be held over many years, often shape our behaviours and attitudes negatively. Challenges these beliefs can be a game changer in life and work.
Asking yourself “what do I want” and putting a plan together to make it happen can bring purpose, clarity and confidence. Work through this simple model to create a plan to achieve what you want. You’ll find decision making is easier, you’ll be clearer about what’s important. Spend some time planning and make it happen.
It’s normal and inevitable that sometimes people wind you up, irritate, anger you even but it’s important to not let them impact you and spoil your day ( or week! ). It’s useful to explore the emotional hooks to gain insight into why you’re reacting like this and find ways of lessening the impact.
What can you do to reduce misunderstandings and conflict with others? Keep talking! Avoiding that person and not wanting to hear about their issue just makes things worse. Here are some pointers on how to build trust and reduce misunderstandings.
Inertia, lack of energy, frustration or boredom can affect us all. It’s that feeling that you’re not reaching your potential, that there’s nothing to look forward to. The good news is that you can choose to change this. As a coach I work with so many people feeling like this and they always find a way to change and find their motivation. If you’d like to read this, check my website or email me with questions catrinmac@gmail.com.
Most of us have to work with others be it as a colleague, manager or employer and we all want to make it work as smoothly as we can. As a coach, I hear so often about the frustrations that people experience working with others. There are so often misunderstandings that make work less enjoyable. You might be a manager or a business owner who wants to get the most out of your team but struggle with communication, with creating a good team dynamic. These 9 tips will give you some insights into how best to manage others.
Do you feel you’re not achieving your full potential? Do you feel stuck in a rut and know what you need to do to get out, but just never do it? You’re sabotaging your own success and you feel you’ll regret this in the future. I’ve worked with so many talented people who felt exactly like this. Through coaching, they worked through what to do and found ways of becoming unstuck - whether in business or in a large organisation, they changed their behaviour and finally started feeling motivated and excited about their achievements. Remember to follow for future podcast and email me catrinmac@gmail.com to discuss how coaching can help you.
So many people I work with experience Impostor Syndrome - no matter how outwardly successful. It can make work really stressful with the need to constantly question yourself and feel you’re not doing a good enough job. You might feel you should really give up and do something easier or less challenging. The good news is that it’s possible to change this with some effort - and working with a coach can help. If you’d like to read this, visit my website www.catrinmacdonnell.co.uk or email me catrinmac@gmail.com and don’t forget to subscribe!
You might really want to achieve something, feel you’re not reaching your full potential and get frustrated that something is holding you back. It could be that you have limiting beliefs that make you think you’re not good enough, don’t deserve a place at that table. It’s so important to challenge these beliefs as that is just what they are - beliefs and not facts. Listen to hear more about what they are and how to change them to more constructive beliefs that enable you to move forward. To work with me email catrinmac@gmail.com or visit www.catrinmacdonnell.co.uk
Have you noticed what your internal script is saying? We all have one, but some can be really unhelpful - destructive even and hold us back from achieving all sorts of things, making life and work more stressful and overwhelming. In this podcast, I step through how you can start changing the script with coaching techniques. Get in touch if you’d like to work with me. Catrinmac@gmail.com
Having clear goals for business or career is essential if you want to be sure to achieve what you want. As a coach and mentor I work with people who want to make changes and being clear on what they want is the first step. Then you can put a plan together with milestones and timings to make sure you get there. This is all on https://www.catrinmacdonnell.co.uk/goal-setting-for-business-or-career/
As a coach I hear a lot about relationships getting difficult. Don’t give up! If a relationship whether at work - a colleague or business partner, or a friend outside of work starts to turn sour, they wind you up, get on your nerves - it’s worth trying out a few things before giving up. You get out of something what you put in and this is SO true with relationships. Listen to this to get some ideas of what to do if things are getting difficult. You can read this on my blog too.
In my work as a Leadership and business coach the subject of difficult or challenging conversations comes up a lot. There are many tools and techniques for making them less challenging, but the most powerful thing we can do is to change our own behaviour. This episode is an introduction to this idea. See my website for more information on coaching and how it can help.
So many coaching clients speak about lacking confidence - wanting to find ways of increasing their self belief and feeling confident. Even seemingly confident people tell me that they still criticise themselves and beat themselves up and that it's a daily struggle to feel OK in terms of confidence levels.
So in this podcast I look at ways of challenging the inner narrative and finding a version of confidence that works for you.
Call me on 07785 996917 or email catrinmac@gmail.com if you'd like to chat about coaching for confidence.
Decision making is an essential part of everyday life and work and as a coach I work a lot with people who make decisions to change their career, business direction - decisions that can impact their own lives and those of others. In this podcast, I look at some helpful pointers on how to trust yourself to make decisions.
You can read this on my blog at catrinmacdonnell.co.uk
Few of us realise it, but boundaries are an integral part of healthy relationships, work life balance and self esteem.
Working as a coach, much time is spent discussing boundaries and how to set them. From people pleasers feeling the need to say yes to everything to stressed business leaders not looking after themselves, most of us could do with a few changes to our boundaries.
Do you ever find people speak disrespectfully to you? But you never speak up and stop them? Do you feel constantly put upon but never voice your true feelings?
Listen to this podcast if you'd like some ideas on how to get started with boundaries.
As a coach, I am privileged to be able to hear people's stories and what makes them do what they do - as well as hearing about the obstacles they encounter on the way and how they overcome them.
In this episode I chat with Lorraine Cairney who went from a very successful career of over 25 years to changing direction completely and becoming self employed. She gives tips on what has worked for her and what she thinks is important to consider when you're setting up on your own.
Check out her website here if you'd like to know more about her work.
If you'd like to know more about how coaching might help, you can visit my website here.
Going from employed to self employed is a big step - and a liberating one! Here I step through what you need to do to get yourself off to a flying start - setting firm foundations, identifying your why and your what and your how, so that you can be clear about your message when it comes to marketing. I look at tips for making things easier, creating a network or people around you so you don't feel isolated, being clear why you chose to do what you do, so that you feel a sense of purpose.
Have a listen - keep a notebook at hand so you can write down ideas that will help you establish yourself successfully in the world of self employment.
What gets in the way of you doing what you dreamt of? Us humans beings are extremely good at putting up obstacles to stop us from working in a job we love, living how we'd like, starting a business, making changes to an unhappy existence. We'll continue with the status quo, no matter how unsatisfactory just to avoid facing what's on the other side.
From conversations with coaching clients, I've noticed many commonalities when it comes to what holds us back and one big obstacle is the. fear of the unknown. It can be paralysing and many of us will avoid at all costs.
In this podcast I step through techniques for overcoming this fear and finding ways of making the unknown a little less daunting and a little more 'known'.
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Following the theme of what gets in the way of us achieving what we want, I look at the theme of self confidence and how a lack of it can really hold us back. From working with individuals and hearing what really works, I look at simple things we can all do to build confidence and self belief. Stepping out of your comfort zone can be reframed and by hunting the good stuff, we can reprogramme our minds to see the positive, good things that we can do as opposed to constantly focusing on the negative stuff and our weaknesses.
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What gets in the way? What stops you getting started? You might be wanting a new job, you might be a senior leader, looking to make your mark or you've got a business idea but just can't take the first step into making it a reality. So many people I coach struggle with worrying about what people will think.
Listen to my observations from coaching sessions with people who stope pursuing what they want because they fear being judged and of others criticising them. It might just get you started.
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What gets in the way? What stops you getting started? You might be wanting a new job, you might be a senior leader, looking to make your mark or you've got a business idea but just can't take the first step into making it a reality. Fear of Failure is a common theme when it comes to wanting to start something or do something different from the norm. Often challenging our assumptions on the meaning of failure is a great place to start and we can slowly reframe our way of thinking and find courage to make changes.
Listen to my observations from coaching sessions with people who experience fear of failure. It might just get you started.
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Visit my website here.