Do you find yourself getting lost in your clients story? Getting hooked on the details which stops you listening deeply to what is happening underneath the client's story - forgetting to ask them thought provoking and powerful questions? We share our thoughts about how and why this may happen and strategies to keep you in presence so you can do the powerful work of a professional coach.   Listen to Jeanine and Marie in Empower World Coaching and Leadership Podcast Episode. 178   ...

Tim Collings - professional coach, leader and founder of 4i Leadership - shares his experience of how he brought what he is passionate about: supporting the health of our lands and developing leaders to bring out their best - do the inner work in support of living, healthy and generative systems. Listen to Jeanine and Tim in Empower World Coaching and Leadership Podcast Episode. 177   #icfdohachapter #ICF #coaching #coach #mastery #newperspectives #skils #presence #fulfillment...

Often when we have a goal we want to achieve or we feel stuck or have a decision to make, we can experience internal conflict and hear ourselves saying “part of me wants this and a part of me wants something else”. In this episode, we discuss parts work and how, as coaches, we can support our clients - and ourselves - to get curious about the learning that our internal parts are offering us. When we can integrate our parts we become more whole and connected to our wisest self. Listen to...

Giving and receiving effective feedback means opportunity for growth! Engaged feedback is an important leadership skill that leads to powerful, inclusive connections with people. The more we are willing to stretch into the skills of feedback - as both the provider and acceptor of - the greater our self-development and the development of others in professional and personal lives.

We believe to be truly effective as a leader is very interlinked with coaching. The ability to be coached, coach others and coach self can create deep and powerful connections to self and others which leads to empowering behavioural transformation. Listen to Jeanine and Marie in Empower World Coaching and Leadership Podcast Episode. 174 to find out why.

If you find you are coming out of sessions, tired and exhausted you may be doing the work for your client. Masterful coaching is enabling the client to do their own work. In this podcast we share reflections, thoughts and ideas about how to support your clients to do their own heavy lifting.

With strong Māori genealogy to her tribal lands and people of Waikato-Tainui, Rachel Petero is an advocate for gender equity, diversity and inclusivity in her various roles as an professional coach, entrepreneur, consultant and author. In this podcast Rachel shares her journey of traveling, finding meaning in her life and returning to her homeland to create a legacy to support indigenous leaders, who in turn create and enhance their legacies for the good of the people and the planet.

Mental health awareness is increasing - and perhaps there is still much more to do to shine light on women's health issues such as infertility, miscarriage and menopause. Michelle Arscott and Karenna Wood - both award winning coaches, share some of their experiences and expertise in some of these areas that are often hidden and not spoken about in support of creating more awareness and how to get support.

Closing a session is just as important as creating awareness in a session - in fact - it creates even more awareness by supporting our clients to step into who they want to be and what they are committing to doing going forward so they step into their compelling future immediately. There are many powerful components to support our client's brilliance and desired future and in this podcast we share some of those ways of closing a session in a way that supports a client's behavioural...

There is an art in setting a goal with our clients - and when we do support our client to create a clear and 'deeper' goal - it can set a solid foundation for creating transformational conversations. Listen to Jeanine and Marie in Empower World Coaching and Leadership Podcast Episode. 169

Coaching with loving presence is perhaps one of the most powerful ways we can be of service to our clients - and be in service of ourselves to support whatever needs to emerge in the system of coaching. Nadim Bitar (ACC credentialed coach) shares his insights about the power of love, presence and spontaneity in coaching. Listen to Nadim in Empower World Coaching and Leadership Podcast Episode. 168

Mental Health Nurse and founder of Keith's Closet (a free boutique for outgoing mental health patients) Keith Donnelly shares how learning the skills of coaching have supported his effectiveness both personally and professionally - through the challenges and opportunities that have arisen in recent times. Listen to Keith in Empower World Coaching and Leadership Podcast Episode 167,

The International Coaching Federation says coaching is based on the principle our clients are naturally creative resourceful and whole. When we work with our clients on this basis, we don't see them as 'broken', and therefore, we don't rescue or do the work for our clients. This empowers and frees them to do their own work in their own time.

Just like Stephen Covey, author of 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, said in relation to the seventh habit - Sharpen the Saw - coaching super-vision also supports coaches to 'preserve and enhance the greatest asset you have – you.' Supervision provides a safe place to reflect, renew and develop as coaches and who we are being first and foremost. Lily Seto, an ICF PCC coach and an award-winning supervisor as recognised by the EMCC in 2021 explains what supervision is and isn't and the...

Coaches often look at ways to increase their reach and their capabilities. In this episode Marie and Jeanine talk about volunteering and the various opportunities available to enhance the coaches reach. Growing not just themselves and their businesses but also having an impact on people and the world as a whole. Listen in to hear how volunteering is a win win for everyone involved. Listen to Jeanine and Marie in Empower World's Coaching and Leadership Podcast Episode 164 here.

Neil Scotton shares a simple, yet very powerful coaching conversation tool to support clients to realise what is most important to them - beyond themselves - yet intrinsically connected to who they truly are. Neil's wheel opens up systemic coaching conversations related to the environment, sustainability, financials, economics, legacy, purpose, fulfilment, human connection and so much more.

Often coaches omit to set a clear goal for the coaching session, which means both the client and coach might get lost during the session - not really sure what was agreed and where they are heading towards. This also means neither have a way to clearly measure the success or not of the conversation. In this podcast we provide tips and clues as to how to set a SMART goal for the coaching session. Listen to Jeanine and Marie in Empower World's Coaching and Leadership Podcast Episode 162

We share our experiences for setting up our coaching business for success: what were the keys to our success, what we did specifically, what we learned through successes and 'falling over', what we decided to do differently and what we are celebrating in Your Onion's podcast. This recording was made and shared with the permission of Ginger Camel's Founder Stefan Lindberg-Jones.

Who we are as a coach will impact our results. In other words, who we attract into our business and how we support our clients in terms of how brave, vulnerable, open, compassionate, daring, loving, curious, connected and so on - will also impact our client's ability to make the change they desire. Our client's will be responding to how we are being as an instrument or pathway of change for them. The more energy, love, passion, trust and dedication we put in, the more that will come back to...

International women's day celebrates the steps women have taken to obtain the freedoms and opportunities we have today! And we are grateful for those incredible sacrifices made that have opened up doors for Empower World and the work we do. Listen to Jeanine and Marie in Empower World's Coaching and Leadership Podcast Episode 159

In Empower World's Coaching and Leadership Podcast Episode 158 Marie and Jeanine share how there is much research and our own experiences which supports how we all express our emotions in unique and different ways through our physiology and the words Using intuition is one of a coach's most powerful ways of supporting their clients to create new perspectives about what they are experiencing or what might be possible. Tapping into our own intuition as a coach as to what to ask, what to reflect...

In Empower World's Coaching and Leadership Podcast Episode 157 Marie and Jeanine share how there is much research and our own experiences which supports how we all express our emotions in unique and different ways through our physiology and the words we use - which means when we make assumptions about someone's experience using our own personal experiences - we can be off track with what our client or the person we are communicating with is attempting to convey. This can possibly lead to...

What are your reflections upon the year 2020 and your work as a coach? In Empower World's Coaching and Leadership Podcast Episode 156 Marie and Jeanine share how impactful not only formal but also informal reflection has been on their life and work. They share simple reflection practices to enhance the coaching experience which in turn create deeper growth and learning for both the coach and the client.

Michelle Arscott shares how living her life according to her purpose, values, and passions has lead to creating her dreams which is bound to create a beautiful legacy.

In Empower World's Coaching and Leadership Podcast Episode 154, listen to Helen Isacke founder of the Trusted Coach Directory as she shares some of the mistakes to avoid when setting up your coaching practice.. and so much more.