Coaching Uncovered Podcast: Recent Episodes
Emily Hodge
A podcast for and about coaches as well as those looking for and working with a coach;
I uncover the questions many coaches are asking behind closed doors - about themselves and the coaching industry, as well as questions prospective and current coachees are thinking but are wary to voice.
So that we can improve standards across the coaching industry for its reputation, and to continue to have impact well into the 22nd century.
In this episode of the coaching uncovered podcast I want to talk about whether or not you should be friends with someone that is also a coaching client.
I've personally recently turned away a client because I actually wanted to be her friend and in this episode we will be talking about personal and professional boundaries when it comes to friendships and how you can maintain those boundaries in a few different scenarios including:
- Old friends who want to become your client
- New friends who want to become your client
- New connections who want to be-friend you
- New connections who want to be your client (clearly) then friend you after
- Friends of friends who want to pick your brain and be in informal contact with you to learn more about what you do
- New connections of coaches whos content you resonate with
ConnectYou can email me at: emily@coachingemily.com
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In this episode I'm going to explore whether or not you CAN run your online coaching business without needing to be on social media 24/7. I have personally recently been a little less active on social media because I have been focusing on delivering content to my clients and of course doing the podcast, so this week I want to share 3 tips on HOW you can run your business and be on social media a little bit less. I will cover 3 main area:
- Just being on social media for less time, batching content and scheduling ahead of time
- Interacting and sharing in more personal ways (without actively posting all the time)
- Leverage other methods to get in front of potential clients
Listen to the episode to learn more about how you can reduce your time spend on social media for your business with these 3 tips.
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In this special episode recorded and released on Maternal Mental Health week 2021 (10th - 14th May) I wanted to share some of the recent, and past, mental health struggles I've been experiencing to highlight the complexity of maternity mental health.
Please note there's a trigger/content warning for mental health, trauma and baby loss.
Highlights of the episode include:
13:54 - It doesn't matter really what it is (the reason), it matters that it's happening
15:11 - I expected myself to be very anxious as a parent, and to my surprise that hasn't happened
13:25 - It also helps of course...Hope is such a happy baby, it makes me want to cry
16:08 - if you've ever wanted a baby full-stop, and if you've ever wanted one and gone to hell and high-water to have one, it's a joy to experience
17:02 - I would probably say my mental health support is the least (professionally) it's ever been
17:26 - I'm actually on the cusp of that (finding the right support again) - this is very fresh for me
1936: In my experience, maternal mental health issues haven't come in isolation
19:55 what I'm experiencing now IS as a result of my history and my IN ability and ABility to cope - both of those things...in addition to a heavy bought of lack of self-compassion
20:39 - this is tough because none of it's very easy to pick apart and separate
21:26 This is selfishly a place that I wanted to share some stuff that's been happening to me
In the episode I made reference to:
All in the Mind Podcast - memory during the pandemic
Resources for support:
https://maternalmentalhealthalliance.org/news/maternal-mental-health-awareness-week-2021/
https://www.catstrawbridge.com/ (support with pregnancy/motherhood after infertility)
https://www.menopausedoctor.co.uk/ (support with peri- and menopause symptoms and treatment)
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You can email me
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If you have ever launched something online or tried to sell your product/service or program to someone, then you know that it’s not as easy as we think it is. In this episode I will be sharing my top mindset tips so that you can sell online with ease.
Personally I love looking at evidence of what works in my business and what doesn’t work so that I can make good decisions on what to do next. Listen to the episode to hear more about what type of evidence I consider and how I use it in my business.
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In this episode I talk to Leadership Coach for change makers Katy Murray about launching with more ease and a little bit less formality.
We dive into the interview by discussing the tendencies for women to dive into changing the world without bearing in mind whether or not that is actually sustainable. We then move on to talking about how Katy’s methods for coaching are different when she is speaking to people within an organisation vs. individuals outside of a fixed system and the different factors that impact her work here.
We then get into the meat of the episode where Katy shares her personal approach to launching her Mastermind Program ‘Change Making Women’ and how important the personal touch is to her. We touch on the importance of launching feeling easeful (which is NOT the same easy) and making sure that we are comfortable with what we’re doing.
Katy then shares one of her favourite power practices: Setting intentions. To learn exactly how Katy sets her intentions, listen to the full episode. Here are the 3 questions:
- How do I want to feel today?
- How do I want to show up today?
- What’s one thing I want to progress today?
To learn more about Katy and her work, check out the links below and if you enjoyed this episode let me know by leaving a review or a comment on social media.
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Katy Murray coaches change makers to step up without burning out.
Find Katy on Linked In and Instagram.
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If you lead DEI work in your organisation sign up for Inclusion Essentials here.
Find out about Katy’s mastermind Change Making Women here.
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In this episode I’m going to share with you four elements that most of us already have and can use in order to grow a more gentle, profitable coaching business. Our mission is always to find something that we think is missing but during this search, we forget to apply the valuable stuff that each of us already owns.
These 4 elements are:
1.Resilience and ability to adapt
2.Having a true purpose and being aligned with your values
3.Having self awareness and embracing who you are
4.Reminding yourself that you are an expert
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In this episode, I got the chance to discuss with the amazing wedding business coach Faye Cornhill. She opens up about the struggles that the wedding industry faced during 2020. Faye explains especially how her community was affected and the wonderful motivation and positivity that she managed to give to everyone in order to get through this hard time. She also shares her journey from photography to being a photography teacher, then moving on to the coaching and lastly starting her own coaching business that she is so proud of.
Faye emphasizes that focusing on your niche and specializing to help a certain group of people, is going to make you happier, more confident and have a certain special place in the industry.
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https://www.instagram.com/fayecornhill/
https://www.fayecornhillcoaching.co.uk/
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In this episode I talk with health coach Vicci Albury of Victoria Albury Health Coaching.
We discuss the role of health coaching in the coaching industry and how it differentiates itself from other similar jobs such as a therapist, nutritionist etc. She shares how her eczema and other health struggles of her family sparked her interest to become a health coach.
As an Ambassador for the UK Health Coaches Association, Vicci shares her thoughts and beliefs about its future
development and what it takes to become a successful health coach.
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You can find Vicci on Instagram, the UK health coaches ambassadors team and also her website:
https://www.instagram.com/victoriaalburyhealthcoaching/
https://www.ukhealthcoaches.com/ambassadors
https://victoriaalburyhealthcoaching.com/
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In this episode I’m going to discuss the differences between online courses. In particular, I go in depth on what each of them offers and help you choose the one that benefits the growth of your business the most. But another equally important aspect during this process is the transparency that we as coaches must provide to our clients. We need to give a clear picture about what our online programs offer and what works best for both when creating these courses. There are different levels of them which include:
- Totally passive - no interaction, downloadable self paced modules / or even 'just' e-book style, no live guidance. Email help for administration perhaps not your answers and development
- Passive = not the income but how much interaction with host and or their team you get
- Next level = same as above but with email support attached
- Next level = less passive = same as above but with FB group for live questions to be answered - either by an admin or sometimes live by the host themselves, either as Q+A style in a post or LIVE in the group on a fixed day and time, provides accountability and site of other course members
- Moving onto more interactive with host / their team = modules to complete, self paced OR tapered to the live sessions, Q+A around the modules and live sessions - teaching or support
- Same as above with all the elements but ALSO includes coaching sessions which are different to Q+A because they're developmental, growth opportunities, reflective
- Most interactive (Mastermind) = same as previous but with 121 elements included
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The link to my live video on "Reasons why people would rather have 121 coaching support":
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CL4U5twDdWz/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
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In this episode I’m going to talk about how to articulate and share your client outcome. The majority of coaches struggle with confidence in sharing their client outcomes and this can be a big obstacle in their business. That’s why I want to share with your four ways that can help client outcome sharing be more clear and effective. So four useful tips are:
- Stop holding yourself back from sharing your most powerful outcomes
- Look at the evidence of your past clients outcomes and where you help them go from and to.
- Make sure to find something that can help them feel, know or believe and want in the future.
- Ask them about success criteria and help reach that.
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In this episode I’m going to talk about how to generate leads in a strategic way and with so much more ease and freedom. For me successful lead generation is about your mindset but not only that. There are also a few tips that I think are going to help you with fixed mindset and insecurities during this process such as:
1.Think about why you are doing this
2.Think about the way that YOU want to run your business and not in a comparative way
3.Generate leads with consistency and quality
4.Reach out to your audience without "spamming"
5.Keep your boundaries but be open minded so that the right people become your clients
6.Trust the process
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In this episode I’m going to talk about consistency in the coaching business. When I say being consistent, what I refer to is mainly your niche and the habits that help you achieve that with confidence. This means that you need to go through what works for you and what doesn’t and definitely stick with what does. I also emphasize that there is nothing wrong with undergoing changes and double checking; as long as you stay true to your thoughts, beliefs and most importantly your message.
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In this episode I’m going to discuss how to find “the golden mean” of sharing the right amount of personal information without feeling vulnerable. Here I cover four main parts that I think would help you be in touch with your audience about your personal life and not make you feel like you’ve overshared. That means you should:
- Share when you feel ready to
- Think about what your audience wants to hear
- Look at what the focus of your business is
- Check what your need is in sharing personal information
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In this episode I’m going to share with you four main steps that help you choose and deliver a better service to your clients. Here I try to emphasize that by adding new things or improving old ones and still staying true to who you are, you’re going to achieve a happy, gentle and profitable business.
The 4 tips that you should apply are:
1.Review your top clients and the best programs for them
2.Choose your favorite program
3.Apply the first and second tip combined
4.Put numbers to all of it
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In this episode I will be sharing how to build a happy, gentle and profitable coaching business in 2021.
The four main issues that I will discuss are related to what you face in the coaching industry. We will be reconfirming who you work with and learn how to communicate that with clients. Then I will help you to choose your most impactful and profitable service before answering some of your questions about the coaching mastermind and online course. All of this is going to give you actionable steps to improve your business or build a new one.
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In this episode Liz and I got the chance to talk about our experiences in the coaching industry. We discuss how she started out as a coach and being coached. Liz shares how she initially decided to become a lawyer but then realised it was not what she wanted to do and how she learned how to let go.
As a cancer survivor, she explains how the illness shifted her perspective on her career and life as a whole. At this point she is having a much needed break after being in a challenging mental and physical state, but she is very optimistic for the future and everyone dealing with the same issues in the industry.
By sharing her struggles as well as the insecurities she once had, Liz manages to give you a sense of freedom and a major boost of confidence to do what you enjoy most.
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https://www.instagram.com/lizpeelyates/
https://www.facebook.com/liz.peelyates
https://lizpy.com/?fbclid=IwAR1eldgzpa8_sQzLO_982vTaaZCsECVqqNNKzqzoBOB7bh_Y5ZnCMjmjQCA
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In this episode I’m going to share with you the seven ways in which YOU can run a more gentle business in 2021 and STILL make a profit.
When I talk about running a more gentle business I’m often met with the assumption that running a business more gently means NOT aiming for success, not aiming higher - and in this episode, I want to emphasise that it doesn’t HAVE to mean that at all.
The 7 steps I go into are:
- Stop doing so much
- Double down on the things you love
- Know your numbers
- Outsource where you can
- Feel free to express yourself
- Forgive yourself
- Let go of the past
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Clare Seal - My Frugal Year
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In this episode I discuss something that I’ve been seeing in the coaching industry for a while and it’s making me think deeply about how I coach, how I market, how I sell myself and what I offer - and how to do so in the most transparent and ethical way possible. This episode is inspired by an email I sent to my list just the other day that has generated a lot of conversations with you - so I know that I am not the only person who is affected by and reflecting on this.
I first start by sharing the trigger for this episode. Something that has happened in our industry over the Summer and I genuinely open up about how this has made me feel about the industry as a whole. I then dive into my thoughts specifically around marketing and sales techniques that are so commonly used and how important it is for us to be more transparent about what we’re selling.
Here I take a deep dive into my thoughts on coaching vs. mentoring vs. teaching and how we can be more accurate in labelling the transformation we are going to help our clients achieve - and HOW.
I then finish off by questioning the ‘pyramid scheme’ of coaches coaching coaches - and if it really IS a pyramid scheme.
If you’re a coach or you’re looking to hire a coach yourself, then you may find my thoughts on this interesting. If you’d love to talk more about this you can find me @gentle_life_mindful_business
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Welcoming Creativity Coach Cat Hase onto the podcast to hear about her journey from corporate facilitator to creativity facilitator. Her experience in supporting people to think differently about potentially dry information has seen her creating many different ways to share messages and information for others.
Cat helped me to develop the coaching decision tree that we discuss in detail in this episode too, how it came to be and what I would love to have happen with it.
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To find out more about Cat, head here
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In this episode I share the 7 things to consider when you're looking for the right coach for you and your business.
If you're a potential client of a coach you'll find this helpful.
If you're a coach selling your services, or looking for a coach, you'll also find this useful to know what clients will be looking for in finding you.
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In this episode I talk with Coach Karen Skidmore about the 6 (and 7) figure business messages - whether they're helpful and what we can do about understanding our own goals and markers for success.
We discuss money mindset, how the coaching industry overlaps with marketing and more.
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You can find Karen at https://karenskidmore.com/ and https://www.linkedin.com/in/karenskidmore/
Janine Esbrand is a Career Change coach and Ex-City Lawyer who moved into coaching 4 years ago and has built up a successful flagship online career change academy.
She lives in the same - very white middle-class Surrey - town as me. In this episode we discuss diversity and race within the coaching industry and its inevitable white privilege.
We cover:
- How race plays a vital role in our beliefs
- How white coaches need to have done anti-racist work to ensure non-white clients feel supported
- Whether we can claim we provide safe spaces for discussion around race - that don't cause more trauma - if we haven't done any race or diversity work (and not as a tick box exercise)
- How lack of diversity leads to further lack of diversity
- How our social circle might impact how diverse our business is
- How this is a movement, and anti-racism work needs to be sustainable and long term
- Janine's guidance for new coaches - beautifully simple and easy to implement
You can find Janine on LinkedIn, Instagram and her Career Change Academy:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/janineesbrand/
https://www.instagram.com/careersbeyondmotherhood/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1661452927501524/
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In this episode, published end of March 2020, I talk about 5 ways coaches can show up to best support their audience, clients and business during the pandemic, that will also help them through the pandemic.
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In this episode I'm joined by Janine Coombes, Virtual Head of Marketing for Business Owners, to dissect the differences and overlap between two types of coaches that can have confusion around them: Business and Marketing Coaching.
We discuss:
- Her title and how she came to create it alongside her 'secret marketing show'
- The differences and similarities in Marketing, Business and Mindset Coaching - what they offer and who they are
- How to define the overlap between these roles - see venn diagram (1)
- How our clients can work out what we do from our titles
- How to help coaches define their roles for clients
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I reference Janine's Secret Marketing Show (2) and you can find her on LinkedIn (2)
To get in touch about this episode and future Coaching Uncovered Podcast episodes find me on Instagram (5) and the website (6)
(1) https://www.coachingemily.com/your-ideal-business-coach-venn1/
(2) https://janinecoombes.co.uk/virtual-head-of-marketing/
(3) http://www.linkedin.com/in/janinecoombes
(4) https://www.instagram.com/gentle_life_mindful_business/
(5) https://www.coachingemily.com/press-podcasts
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Coaches and coach-like people are routinely saying they're embarrassed to use the title. Why is this and what can we do to change it, if we need to?
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Is everyone really a coach, is that a bad thing, and what to do about it if it's true.
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In this episode I cover:
- What the Coaching Uncovered Podcast is about
- Why I’ve decided to do this series now and why I’m doing it specifically
- Who this podcast is for and who needs it most
- The three parts to the podcast across series
- My caveats for the podcast
References
Coaching industry stats reference: https://blog.marketresearch.com/us-personal-coaching-industry-tops-1-billion-and-growing
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