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Episodes
BONUS: The Body Stories 5 - Am I the Biggest Loser?
21 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Content note: This episode includes discussions around intentional weight loss and diet culture, and therefore contains swearing.This episode is part ...
Five Decisions I’m Making Right Now for an Abundant + Satisfying 2026 (steal these!)
15 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I've decided that 2026 is going to be my most abundant + satisfying year yet! As I wrap up 2025, I’m sharing the five decisions I’m making r...
Creating a Post-capitalist Future with Stephanie Mackinnon
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week I’m in conversation with one of my favourite humans, Stephanie McKinnon — certified life and liberatory leadership coach, community educ...
5 ways Planet Coach will change in 2026 (and how to flex towards them!)
30 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you’ve been sensing that the coaching industry is shifting - that clients are craving something deeper, the world feels more complex, and the glo...
Brave Action & Delulu Thinking (please don't wait for Self-doubt to evaporate)
23 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re in Season One of your coaching practice (the delicious, terrifying, uncertain beginning) this episode is for you.I’m taking you behind t...
How to be more Consistent (without forcing it) and finally experience the Payoff
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Consistency used to feel so blergh — all rigidity and rules that I wanted to rebel against! But these days it’s really about creating a rhythm tha...
Why NOW is the perfect time to visible (even when you have Self-doubt)
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If visibility feels tender — like ‘I want to share, but oof, my nervous system!’ — this one’s for you. In this episode, I offer compassion-l...
Coach of the Month: Carly from The Midas Coach + The Fulfillionare Collective
26 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I'm starting a new series where once a month I chat to a fellow coach to get behind the scenes (and screens!) of their business to see what'...
The Quiet Curriculum of Leadership: Responsibility, Receiving, and Rejection
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Leadership in your coaching business isn’t about confidence hacks or bigger goals - it’s about growing your embodied capacity to hold more.In this...
The Myth of The One Thing
13 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode - my last as a 51-year-old! - I’m reflecting on a big year of change, clarity, and calm, and busting the biggest myth in the coachin...
BONUS: Becoming high maintenance - The Body Stories 4 with Ali Shapiro
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Content note: This episode includes discussions around intentional weight loss and diet culture, and therefore contains swearing.This episode is part ...
The 4 Self-Doubt Patterns Holding Coaches Back (and how to shift them!)
05 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I’m exploring the four ways self-doubt tends to show up for thoughtful coaches and how to interrupt these protective patterns with ...
5 Things You Need to Sell Your Coaching Offer
29 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This was FUN to create! We're getting super dooper pragmatic with the five things that are essential to selling your coaching offer, including th...
Does Coaching even matter when the world is burning?
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The short answer is ABSOFUCKINGLUTELY YES! And in this episode, we explore why when the world feels increasingly dark, heavy, overwhelming and sad, ou...
5 Business Lessons from 100 Workouts
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Two years ago I couldn't put my coat on without help (frozen shoulder). Yesterday I completed my 100th strength training workout this year. I KNO...
BONUS: Energetic Forecast with Sarah Vermunt from Psychic Normies
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when we ask the spirit world for guidance on the season ahead for coaches? In this conversation, my lovely pal Sarah Vermunt - a fellow c...
How to AI-proof your Coaching Practice
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I'm sharing five things to consider when it comes to the rise of artificial intelligence. Including what it actually is, what it...
The Core Four: the foundations for a thriving coaching practice
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, I’m diving into the Core Four - the four simple, powerful foundations every coach needs to build a thriving practice. I’ll share how I...
Welcome to Courage & Spice for Coaches: How to get started
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Courage and Spice for Coaches! In this episode, I share the changes I'm making to focus my work (and the podcast) on holistic support...
Emotions, Embodiment & Protein Popcorn - The Body Stories 3 with Ali Shapiro
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Content note: This episode includes discussions around intentional weight loss and diet culture, and therefore contains swearing.This episode is part ...
Clairvoyance for Normies with Sarah Vermunt
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah Vermunt is a longtime pal, career coach and the founder of Careergasm. She's written books about careers and columns for Forbes, Inc., Entr...
Under nourished to moderately active - The Body Stories 2 with Ali Shapiro
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Content note: This episode includes discussions around intentional weight loss and diet culture, and therefore contains swearing.This episode is part ...
How to be Softly Successful with Samantha Dhu
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As a highly sensitive person, Sam Dhu believes it is possible to be deeply ambitious and successful AND soft and sensitive at the same time. Sam is a ...
Can you love yourself and want to lose weight? The Body Stories 1 with Ali Shapiro
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Content note: This episode includes discussions around intentional weight loss and diet culture, and contains swearing.This is the first in a new podc...
Women who do too much with Tamu Thomas
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tamu Thomas is a transformational somatic leadership coach, the eldest daughter of West African immigrants, a mother, a speaker, and now a published a...
Your Future Self
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever daydreamed about a different potential future for yourself? Perhaps your imagination offers you an entirely different job, country, or r...
A Portal through the Polycrisis with Sally Burns
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you love the idea of communal learning and connection, if you are looking for like-minded souls, if you have incomplete online courses on your lapt...
Your Superpower for building Self-belief
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Happy (lunar) New Year! It’s the first new moon of the year, which also marks the beginning of the Chinese and Tibetan year of the wood snake (nb: I...
Dressing from the inside out with Lizzie Parsons
05 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do you feel about what you wear? Shopping for clothes in our fast-fashion world, deciding what you like (colours, fabrics, makers), trying things ...
Five things to focus on for Coaching Success
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I’ve spent a lot of this year thinking about the Coaching industry. It is undoubtedly going through a somewhat sticky phase of maturing - for some o...
Quiet Mind, Safe Body with Olivia Mendoza
22 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
IMHO, the best kind of humans can access deep joy and light because they have sat in their darkness and shadows. Olivia is exactly that! We talk abo...
The five things that pretty much guarantee goal success
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In my former life, I was in the business of corporate goals - we called these projects - and I was responsible for some of the biggest, hairiest, risk...
Belonging to Yourself with Nici Wickes
26 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I’m so excited for you all to meet my newest friend: Nici Wickes. Cookbook author, beloved TV star, restaurant reviewer and food editor for various ...
After the Life Quake
10 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a delight to be back in your earholes after quite a long break since the last episode - SasIf you are experiencing a major change in your life,...
How to be Joyful with Karen Arthur
28 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
My brilliant guest today is Karen Arthur, menopause activist, campaigner, and host of the podcast Menopause whilst Black. She is also a teacher, a fas...
Welcome to the new world
14 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to a new season of Courage & Spice, and to the Age of Aquarius! For those less astrologically inclined, this means that 2024 has arrived w...
How to let go of the risk of failure (part 2)
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we’re taking a closer look at how to approach the fear of failure so that you can let go of it for good. The threat of failure brings up...
How to let go of the risk of failure (part 1)
23 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Are you afraid of failure? You are definitely not alone. The fear of failure is such a big reason for self-doubt to show up. To complicate it even mo...
Tending to wealth with Megan DeBoer
08 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Is you self-doubt tied up in your relationship with money? This week, I'm joined by the Founder of Tended Wealth, Megan DeBoer.Megan defines weal...
Five reasons biz feels hard (before you set your biz on fire: listen in!)
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Business ownership can be the most rewarding way to express who you are – you get to do meaningful work, live your values, and create beautiful thin...
How to cultivate a healthy body image with Prof. Phillippa Diedrichs
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode kicks off an occasional Courage & Spice series on body image, with my brilliant guest and dear friend Professor Phillippa Diedrichs!P...
The real reason you are waiting to feel ready (plus: Big News!)
27 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
One of the biggest ways that self-doubt holds us back is by telling us that we aren’t ready. This shows up differently depending on your specific s...
Two questions to ask yourself when everything is uncertain
13 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to Courage and Spice! As 2023 continues, today I'm sharing with you a compassionate and deceptively simple self-reflection process ...
2023: This is not what I ordered
20 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Believe it or not, we’re about half-way through the mystery magical adventure that has been 2023! Before we go on a podcast hiatus for the summer, I...
Cyclical Living with Jen Wright
05 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Are you feeling out of alignment with your natural rhythm? Maybe you don't even know if you have a natural rhythm? Perhaps you are searching for ...
Me and Ambition: It's complicated with Keri Jarvis
21 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re not following Keri Jarvis on Instagram @keri_l_jarvis, what are you doing?! Keri is a developmental coach, intersectional feminist, commun...
Unhinged Enthusiasm With Ellie Kime
07 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Ellie Kime, writer, founder of Enthusiast and Co. and publisher of Voracious Magazine. Ellie has a master’s degree in enthusiasm (...
The Shadow Side of Coaching with Bridgette Boudreau
24 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week I’m speaking with the brilliant Bridgette Boudreau! Bridgette is a master certified life coach; she has been a CEO to multimillion-dollar ...
I cancelled my biggest launch of the year
11 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If you’ve been following along on Instagram, you may have caught that a few weeks ago I posted about my decision to cancel my biggest launch of the ...
Ambition and Space Holders with Sammie Fleming
26 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is a little piece of magic brought to you live from Aotearoa, New Zealand. The day after I landed from the UK, I boarded a Very Tiny Plan...
How to go deeper with Coaching Clients
12 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we are addressing a topic that comes up all the time during Supervision sessions and in training coaches in the Self-belief Coaching ...
Your presence is your greatest Coaching tool with Kris Sheppard
29 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our coach training equips us with incredibly helpful tools, concepts and approaches, and client work provides the real-world experience of supporting ...
Why criticism is so crunchy
01 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Urgh criticism is The Worst, isn't it? Just the thought of it makes most of us clench up. So let's have a peek at what's actually goi...
Places, Poetry and Photos with Sophie Howarth
15 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week my guest Sophie Howarth and I are diving into what it really means to create your own pace in a culture that prioritises faster and more.Sop...
Recalibrating to life in third gear
02 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A huge 2023 welcome back to Courage and Spice! I took some time to reset over the Christmas holiday, a much needed step back that made me realise just...
A Surprising Source of Business & Personal Growth
07 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For my last episode of 2022, I’m talking about the number one action that I’ve taken to grow my business. Now stay with me, because I know this ca...
We are Stardust with Agnes Becker
24 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we are visiting our guest, Agnes Becker’s world.This is the world of we are stardust - a place where art and science collide to enrich your e...
Expectations and Unconditional Love
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you notice there are stories you are telling yourself like “If my partner was different, I would feel loved” or “If my boss was a whole other...
Every story has three narratives
09 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
I’m really excited to chat with you today about a concept that has been brewing for me over the last few months - that every single story we tell ab...
Trauma and Coaching with Katie Kurtz
02 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Folks I’m so excited to welcome Katie Kurtz to the podcast. Katie is a licensed social worker and trained trauma specialist, certified coach, consul...
RECAST: Behind The Scenes (Literally) Of A Conversation with 6 & 7 Figure Coaches
26 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
I’m really excited to bring you this episode today, especially for all the coaches in the house as I share an incredible conversation I had recently...
Big Birthday Thoughts - the glorious joy of being ordinary
19 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Last year I did a big birthday thoughts episode - just jamming on what's on my mind right now. So today it's my 49th birthday and these are ...
Community is Crucial with Mel Wiggings
12 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s episode is essential for all business owners. It can often feel very lonely when running your own business and it's difficult to fi...
How to be a Brilliant Course Creator
05 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There is NOTHING quite like the buzz of teaching a course you've created and the magic that happens as the group goes on a learning adventure tog...
Teenage Anxiety and Parental Self-doubt with Angela McMillan
28 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
I’m delighted to introduce Angela McMillan. She is the founder of Elemental Health and is an accredited counsellor and coach who works primarily wit...
Future Fantasies
21 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In today’s episode, we are talking about Future Fantasies.This is one of the most innocuous patterns of protection - one day I'll have this / d...
We need transformation not information
14 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you’ve ever worked with a coach in the past or you’re thinking about doing so, this episode will help you understand the difference between a “...
How to be a Brilliant Course Taker
07 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's September: back-to-school season. For me, lifelong learning is one of the great joys of being an adult - because we get to choose our experi...
10 Reasons Self-belief School is right for you!
31 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Self-Belief School is the program I’ve been dreaming about creating for a really long time. It’s the culmination of 10 years of work and it is fin...
Check-in on my Word of the Year: Disappointment
22 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is my last episode before a summer break with my lady friends so I thought it would be great for this episode to check in on my word of the year:...
Mothering and Friendship with Lisa Mabberley
15 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today's episode is in response to two listener letters on issues that affect so many of us, mothering and friendship. I have guest Lisa Mabberley...
Four Myths and a Truth about Self-compassion
08 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If there is only one idea that will help you navigate the path from self-doubt to self-belief – it’s compassion.It can feel so normal to criticize...
The Art of Tending with Penny Wincer
01 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Penny Wincer is an author, freelance writer, and book coach based in London. She writes about unpaid caring, raising a neurodiverse family, working li...
You can sit with us: Self-doubt and the Sisterhood Wound
25 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's solo episode, I wanted to share something that feels particularly alive to me right now: female friendships. I have just returned ...
From baker to nurse: the courage to change career with Zoe Berkeley
18 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
So many of us spend years as an employee, hankering to turn our passions into a business. But what happens when your longings are to give up the self-...
Self-doubt is an unreliable narrator and one question to turn it around
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's solo episode, we explore how Self-doubt shows up as an 'unreliable narrator'.This means it will offer us a lot of storie...
Reclaiming Creativity with Anna Lovind
04 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Anna Lovind is a writer, creativity teacher and mother living in rural Sweden. She is an introverted entrepreneur who helps feminist creatives & c...
Mushroom Medicine with Karen King
27 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hey folks, the episode contains references to drug use so please be mindful of where you are listening in.In this episode, I am sharing a very persona...
The four times Self-doubt comes up for Coaches (and how to navigate them)
20 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, I thought it would be super helpful for us, as practitioners, to talk through the evolution of our work: namely the 4 times self-doubt show...
Developmentally Minded: How Self-belief Coaching gets to the root causes
13 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's solo episode, I talk in-depth about Self-belief coaching and how it differs from mainstream coaching. When we first train in the f...
Coaching as Ancient Feminine Wisdom with Lianne Raymond
04 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It’s my delight to welcome this week's podcast guest, my wise, brilliant friend Lianne Raymond. Lianne is a coach, mentor and educator, who re-...
Scott Robson: the inside scoop on SBCA
30 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Scott Robson is my brother from another mother and my wingman, he is the head support coach of my Self Belief Coaching Academy - an entrepreneurial an...
Quantum Self-belief Codes with Pandora Paloma
23 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode, my guest is life and business coach, author and speaker Pandora Paloma. What Pandora does so beautifully, is combine spir...
Women of Substance: Liz, Susan + Marion
16 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
You are in for a treat folks - in this week's episode I am joined by not one, but three wonderful coaches: Liz Keifer, Susan Sutherland and Mar...
Brave Coach Week
09 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How do we as practitioners, work with our own self-doubt? After three rounds of the Self-Belief Coaching Academy, what I know is that coaches, therapi...
My dream come true: a decade long, wildly imperfect path to success
23 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's the 100th episode of Courage + Spice (how did that happen?!) so I’m sharing my 10 year business journey with you all this week. It starts ...
Being Anti-capitalist with Bear Hebert
16 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
I’m thrilled to be talking with Bear Hebert today. They are an anti-capitalist business coach and radical consultant and social justice educator. Be...
Making a healthy marriage with Maggie Reyes
09 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Maggie Reyes is a marriage coach who specialises in helping Type A women have better marriages - without waiting for their partners to do something an...
Listener letter: decision making and self-doubt
02 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve got something a little different this week - I’m thrilled to have a few letters coming in from you folks and these are both related to self-...
Teens and Self-belief with Maria Evans
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
I’m here this week with the one and only Maria Evans, a coach and mentor for teens, helping them to own their future, take on challenges in the time...
Word of the year (but make it disco)
19 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Word of the year but make it discoWelcome to 2022If you are tuning into this episode in real time I hope you got what you needed from the holiday brea...
Goodbyes are hard: grief, loss and endings
24 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As we come to the end of 2021, we have almost 150 thousand families in the UK grieving the loss of loved ones from Covid19, about 1 in 4 people are lo...
Sober Curious with Karen Johnston
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Content note: this episode contains a discussion about dysfunctional relationships with alcohol that may be difficult for folks new to recovery.Whenev...
Why your ducks aren't in a row with Pippa Parfait
10 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It was love at first sight with this weeks guest, the glorious Pippa Parfait. We met a dozen moons ago at a posh party in London and we have been fi...
Love, Self-doubt and Attachment
03 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is about, self-doubt, love, attachment theory and…burgers!If you're sad at the prospect of being alone forever, terrified of settl...
Tender-hearted Human Business with Suzy Darke
27 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Suzy Darke is a business coach like no other! I see her growing a quiet rebellion, inviting us to challenge the kinds of practices we all take for ...
Big Birthday Thoughts
20 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It’s my birthday week - I'm 48 - and I thought I’d share five big birthday thoughts for you. This episode is a bit sweary so one for your ea...
Being Audacious with Keri Jarvis
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hello folks if you aren’t following Keri Jarvis on Instagram then what are you even doing here?! Keri is an audacious feminist, a socialist, a speak...
Letting Go of Perfectionism
06 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Perfectionism is a protective belief that if you were perfect you will be safe. That's the bottom line. It can be any area of your life. It is al...
You Can't Polish a Turd with Ellie Swift
29 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I'm talking with Ellie Swift, Marketing and Mindset coach, who is also my business coach. We've been working together for a...