Your Coaching Journey

Episode #138:A Model: Life Positions - The Okay Corral

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We love an exploration of the world of Transactional Analysis and this is our fourth episode that attempts to explain some of the concepts that have e...

Episode #137: Reflection

05 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Reflection is an essential aspect of any coaching practice and something that we actively encourage all of our students to do from the start of their ...

Episode #136: Interview: Dr Ira van der Steenstraten

28 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode Tom catches up with Dr Ira van der Steenstraten, one of our alumni, who completed the Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma back ...

Episode #135: Challenges in Coaching: Absence

21 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Presence is a topic that is often talked about in coaching and we shared our thoughts on the subject in podcast episode 107.    Hopefully, if you li...

Episode 134: Coaching Topics: Boundaries Revisited

14 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A topic that comes up time and time again in coaching is boundaries. And it is making a return to the podcast this week. Back in episode 5 we covered ...

Episode 133: Challenges in coaching: The Uncoachables

07 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Is anyone really uncoachable?   You may recall Tom saying on a previous podcast that he could have a good coaching conversation with Barack Obama but...

Episode 132: Coaching Tools - an overview.

31 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is our 20th episode focussing on coaching tools, and we thought it would be a good point to have a bit of a review of some of the tools we've cov...

Episode 131: Interview: Paul Molyneux

24 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Paul Molyneux has been a consultant neurologist for over 20 years and was, until recently, also a Medical Director. Paul now supports senior doctors w...

Episode 130: Introducing our Advanced Coaching Diploma

17 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This year we launched our Advanced Transformational Coaching Diploma programme and we're now into our fourth iteration of the course. Although the Adv...

Episode 129: Having a Coaching Programme

10 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

So, you've learnt to coach, you've got some tools and techniques under your belt, and you have some experience of coaching. You are putting your coach...

Episode 128: How Do Our Coachees See Us?

03 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How do you see yourself as a coach? A newbie? Experienced? Professional? However you see yourself, it is likely that your coachees see you in a way th...

Episode 127: The Practice of Coaching

26 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Coaching is not something that can be learned by reading or talking about it. Coaching is not something that can be learned by us telling you how it i...

Episode 126: Coaching Topic: Lifestyle Medicine

19 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week we are at the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine's annual conference in Brighton: Cue noisy seagulls.   This is our third year at the ev...

Episode 125: Interview: Introducing Dr. Sarah Coope

12 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We often collaborate with the team at Wild Monday, the organisation responsible for the 'You Are Not A Frog' podcast. Both of us have been lucky enoug...

Episode 124: Challenges in Coaching: When is attention not attention?

05 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Is the universe conspiring to bring us what we want in our lives? Probably not! Are we able to focus our attention so that we notice previously unnoti...

Episode 123: Coaching Approaches – Parts Work

29 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Having different internal parts of our psyche has been provoking interest in great thinkers for thousands of years. The Greeks and the Romans had the ...

Episode 122: To interrupt or not to interrupt, that is the question.

22 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

You may have heard us talk about interrupting coachees on previous podcasts, but we see and hear so much from other coaches talking about this topic o...

Episode 121: Critical Thinking

15 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We believe that one of the most important aspects of coaching is the generation of new thinking on the part of the coachee. Before we get to focusing ...

Episode 120: Easy Change and Hard Change

08 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Not all change is created equal. Some change is easy and some is hard.   All qualified coaches should be well equipped to support coachees when they ...

Episode 119: 360 Degree Feedback

01 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What is 360 Degree Feedback and how might we use it in the coaching room?   In this episode, Tom shares his wisdom and experience of 360 Degree Feedb...

Episode 118: 4,000 Weeks is a Short Time in Which to Live Well.

25 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

According to the author Oliver Burkeman we each have approximately 4,000 weeks to run around on our planet.   Some people will get a few more weeks a...

Episode 117: Time to Say Goodbye

18 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We know that contracting at the beginning of a coaching relationship is vital and an integral part of our coaching. It sets the parameters within whic...

Episode 116: Interview with Dr. Hannah Coysh

11 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Tom was delighted to have the opportunity to interview Dr Hannah Coysh, who completed our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma a couple of years...

Episode 115: What do coaching doctors do after completing the Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma?

04 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We often get asked how doctors use their new coaching skills once they've completed our Transformational Coaching Diploma programme.   This is obviou...

Episode 114: Challenges in Coaching: When is a law not a law?

27 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 114: Challenges in Coaching: When is a law not a law?   Is a certain amount of stress good for you? Definitely! Is there a point at which the...

Episode 113: Episode 112: Topic: Leadership Coaching Part 2

20 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Episode 113: Episode 112: Topic: Leadership Coaching Part 2   In our last episode we explored how leadership might show up in the coaching room, even...

Episode 112: Topic: Leadership Coaching Part 1

13 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If you've coached an individual within the NHS there is a good chance that you have been called upon to have a conversation around leadership.   Not ...

Episode 111: Coaching Topics: Difficult Conversations - How to have good ones.

06 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Following on from our previous podcast episode where we discussed why people might choose to avoid difficult conversations, in this episode we talk ab...

Episode 110: Coaching Topics: Difficult Conversations - Why do we avoid them?

30 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Your coachees may tell you about a sticky situation or problematic people that they have in their lives, and talk about the stress that this is causin...

Episode 109: More Love in the Coaching Room

23 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If you listened to Episode 108 you will have heard Tom discussing the ways in which we might show up in the coaching room.   Tom made the point that ...

Episode 108: Love in the Coaching Room

16 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Just to avoid any confusion, we are not addressing the topics of romantic love, sexual attraction or attachment in the coaching room in this episode, ...

Episode 107: Coaching Challenge – Presence

09 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We consider the coaching space a sacred one. It is a safe, welcoming, confidential and non-judgemental space that allows the coachee to engage in conv...

Episode 106: Interview – Dr. Jo Hacking

02 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It is always wonderful when we hear about the different ways in which our coaching doctors are using their skills, so when Dr Jo Hacking told us about...

Episode 105: Coaching Topic – Emotional Intelligence

25 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Emotional Intelligence is a relatively new phrase but not a new concept. The Greeks and the Romans were giving thought to the problems we all have wit...

Episode 104: Coaching Tool – Transtheoretical Model of Change

18 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Transformational Coaching is all about helping our coachees achieve a change in their lives, whether that be in terms of making lifestyle changes, cha...

Episode 103: Coaching Approaches – Systemic Coaching

11 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

To borrow some words from a famous philosopher, 'No coachee is an island'.   We all exist within some kind of system, whether it's in the workplace, ...

Episode 102: Coaching Challenge – The Grey Space Between Coaching And Therapy

04 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Do you worry about your coaching crossing over in to therapy? We tend to find that our coaching doctors worry about this, perhaps more so than non-med...

Episode 101: To Celebrate or reflect? That is the question

28 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the last episode we were celebrating our first 100 podcast episodes with some reflections on the coaching tools that the coaching doctors we have i...

Episode 100: A Bit of a Celebration of our first 100 episodes

21 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We're pretty amazed that we have managed to produce 100 episodes of this podcast, and even more impressed that so many of you are listening to us ramb...

Episode 99: Interview with Dr. Becky Howie

14 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We're delighted that our Transformational Coaching Diploma for Lifestyle Medicine has resonated with so many doctors that have an interest in bringing...

Episode 98: Recommended Read for Coaches

07 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We fully recognise that you don't learn to coach by reading a book; you have to practice coaching to improve your craft. However, we have both read a ...

Episode 97: Coaching Topics – Confidence

28 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Issues around confidence come up in the coaching room regularly. And it's a common topic that new coaches want to understand more about working with. ...

Episode 96: Coaching Tools – The SPACE model

21 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We have previously discussed Cognitive Behavioural Coaching (CBC) on the podcast and touched on a couple of the useful coaching models that originate ...

Episode 95: Coaching Approaches – Coaching Outdoors

14 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From a 'walk and talk' in nature to the metaphors of the landscape, coaching outdoors means many things to many coaches. In this episode Helen intervi...

Episode 94: Coaching Challenge – Intuition

07 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Many coaches consider themselves to be intuitive coaches? We see it quite a lot in marketing literature and on social media. But what does it really m...

Episode 93: Interview – Dr. Rosie Khan

31 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode Helen will be having a chat with Dr Rosie Khan.   Rosie is a G.P. and lifestyle, perimenopause and wellness expert who helps high-ach...

Episode 92: Listeners' Questions #12

24 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It's time for another set of questions sent in to us by listeners. In this episode we are going to be talking about helping clients to move on from pa...

Episode 91: Coaching Topics – Perfectionism

17 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Perfectionism is a phenomenon that can easily get in the way of our progress, and can certainly impact our sense of achievement, satisfaction and over...

Episode 90: Coaching Tools – Six Thinking Hats

10 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In a bid to help our coachees generate new thinking, it might be useful to introduce them to a coaching tool called 'The Six Thinking Hats', which was...

Episode 89: Coaching Approaches – Narrative Coaching

03 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We believe that coaching is all about helping our coachees to generate new thinking. However, in order to generate new thinking, it's useful for our c...

Episode 88: Coaching Challenge – Unconscious Bias

27 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We love that coaching helps our coachees to generate new thinking. If you're self-aware as a coach and continue to engage in reflective practice your ...

Episode 87: Interview – Dr. Jo Watkins

20 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode Tom will be chatting with Dr Jo Watkins.   Jo is a portfolio GP, adventure-loving mum of four, co-founder of an organisation supporti...

Episode 86: Listeners' Questions #11

13 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Whether you're at the beginning of your coaching journey, or are a more experienced coach, there are always questions to be asked and answers to explo...

Episode 85: Coaching Topics – Social Health

06 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Our social connections are vital to our wellbeing as human beings. Every model of wellbeing has relationships as one of its components but it very rar...

Episode 84: Coaching Tools – Meditation and mindfulness

29 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Mindfulness has been a bit of a buzzword in recent years, however, the idea of mindfulness and the practice of meditation has been around for thousand...

Episode 83: Coaching Approaches – Transpersonal Coaching

22 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Transpersonal Coaching, which is often referred to as Spiritual Coaching, sits on the periphery of mainstream coaching, and is often regarded as a lit...

Episode 82: Coaching Challenge – Common Themes and Challenges

15 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Having trained over 250 doctors to coach and with another 50 or so currently participating in our training programmes, we have noticed that they do ha...

Episode 81: Interview – Dr. Jo Hartley

08 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode Helen chats with Dr Jo Hartley, a delegate on one of our early Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma courses. Jo is a former Emer...

Episode 80: Listeners' Questions #10

01 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It's listeners' questions time again, and thank you for sending yours, and thank you again to those listeners who have taken the time to get in touch ...

Episode 79: Coaching Topics – Values

25 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Values are an important aspect of coaching and integral to increasing a coachee's self awareness and sense of identity.   When responding to question...

Episode 78: Coaching Tools – Psychometrics and Personality Profiling

18 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It's easy to think that everyone views the world in the same way that we do. Understanding that people have different aspects to their personality tha...

Episode 77: Coaching Approaches – Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP)

11 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We sometimes get asked if we teach NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) on our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma and the answer is mostly no, a...

Episode 76: Coaching Challenge – Ethics

04 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As coaches we are having conversations that matter, and discussing topics that are important to our coachees. With any conversations of importance tho...

Episode 75: Interview – Dr. SaraLou Wylie

27 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode Helen will be chatting with Dr SaraLou Wylie. A G.P. interested in a more holistic approach to wellness, SaraLou joined our diploma pr...

Episode 74: Listeners' Questions #9

20 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

From time to time we devote an episode to questions about coaching that have been asked by our listeners. And this episode is one of those, with a dif...

Episode 73: Coaching Topics – Wellbeing

13 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On our podcast we regularly explore topics that coachees might bring to a coaching conversation.   One such topic is 'Wellbeing'. In the last 10 year...

Episode 72: Coaching Tools – The Drama Triangle

06 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Back in episode 30 we spoke about using Transactional Analysis (TA) in the coaching room, and in episode 31 we explored one of the TA models, the Pare...

Episode 71: Coaching Approaches: Somatic Coaching

30 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Our bodies provide the perfect vessel in which to hold our stress and we will feel all sorts of indications that this is happening for us when we're i...

Episode 70: Supervision

23 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What is coaching supervision and why would I want to engage with it as a coach?   Coaching is an unregulated industry and, as we have discussed on pr...

Episode 69: Listeners' Questions #8

16 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

From time to time we devote an episode to questions about coaching that have been asked by our listeners.   In this episode we are discussing the dif...

Episode 68: Interview – Dr. Liz Donovan

09 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we are joined by the delightful Dr Liz Donovan who has had a stellar career as a paediatric consultant and neonatologist, as well as b...

Episode 67: Coaching Topics – Burnout

02 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On our podcast we regularly explore topics that coachees might bring to a coaching conversation.   One such topic is 'burnout' and as with many topic...

Episode 66: Coaching Tools – How do we use them in the coaching room without being directive?

26 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Here at Your Coaching Journey we believe that the primary role of a coach is to facilitate the coachee's own thinking around their situation, allowing...

Episode 65: Coaching Approaches: Clean Language

19 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In Episode 52 of the podcast, we talked about using metaphor in coaching and briefly touched on the coaching approach known as Clean Language.   In t...

Episode 64: Transformational Coaching for Lifestyle Medicine. What is it all about?

12 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Here at Your Coaching Journey, we have been training doctors to be transformational coaches on the Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma for the ...

Episode 63: Challenges in Coaching: Accreditation - 'What is it?' and 'Why would I want to apply for accreditation?'

05 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Accreditation - 'What is it?' and 'Why would I want to apply for accreditation?'   These are questions that we are asked from time to time, and so we...

Episode 62: Listeners' Questions #7

28 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

From time to time we devote an episode to questions about coaching that have been asked by our listeners.   In this episode we are discussing the req...

Episode 61: Interview – Dr. Nikki Paul

21 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Join us today as we have a fascinating conversation with coach and paediatrician, Dr Nikki Paul. We caught up with Nikki to find out what she had been...

Episode 60: Coaching Topics – Change

14 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On our podcast we regularly explore the topics that coachees might bring to a coaching conversation. One such topic is 'change'; a huge topic that enc...

Episode 59: Coaching Tools – Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

07 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"It's like Maslow's 'Hierarchy of Needs', isn't it?" is a rhetorical question often posed in discussions around human needs. Maslow's model of behavio...

Episode 58: Coaching Approaches: Time To Think

31 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For us, coaching is all about allowing our coachees to have time to think about their situation, their desired outcomes and their ideas for achieving ...

Episode 57: Challenging Coaching: How much should I charge for my coaching?

24 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"How much should I charge for my coaching?"   This is a common question that we hear from new coaches and sadly, there isn't a succinct answer. It ca...

Episode 56: Listeners' Questions #6

17 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

From time to time we devote an episode to questions about coaching that have been asked by our listeners.    In this episode we've been asked about ...

Episode 55: Interview – Dr. Natasha Holmes

10 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We do like to catch up with doctors who have been through our programme and to find out how they are using coaching in various ways in the real world....

Episode 54: Coaching Tools – The Johari Window

03 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Coaching often revolves around helping someone to raise their self-awareness, and really start to understand their personality, their values, their pa...

Episode 53: Coaching Topics – Motivation

26 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On our podcast we regularly explore the topics that coachees might bring to a coaching conversation.   One such topic that shows up a lot in our coac...

Episode 52: Coaching Approaches: Using Metaphors In Coaching

19 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Metaphors are an aspect of language that most of us will happily use until the cows come home. However, because we are so used to building metaphor in...

Episode 51: Challenging Coaching: The Kubler-Ross Change Curve

12 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We regularly see psychological and coaching models being shared on social media, in blogs and discussions, and sometimes the sharing sets our teeth on...

Episode 50: The Transformational Coaching Diploma

05 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We can't quite believe that we've arrived at the milestone of recording 50 episodes of the Your Coaching Journey podcast! We thought we might run out ...

Episode 49: Listeners' Questions #5

29 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

From time to time we devote an episode to questions about coaching that have been asked by our listeners.   In this episode we explore whether, as a ...

Episode 48: Coaching Topics – Finding Meaningful Purpose

22 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If you're a regular listener to our podcast you will have noticed that we regularly discuss how we might deal with different topics that show up in th...

Episode 47: Coaching Tools – Journalling

15 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Whilst journalling isn't a tool that you would necessarily wish to use in the coaching room, it can still be a useful concept to introduce to your coa...

Episode 46: Coaching Approaches: Transformational Coaching

08 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In our journey through the different approaches to coaching, we'd like to introduce you to Transformational Coaching.   Transformational Coaching is ...

Episode 45: Challenging Coaching: Is Ikigai A Myth?

01 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We regularly see psychological and coaching models being shared on social media, in blogs and discussions, and sometimes the sharing sets our teeth on...

Episode 44: Listeners' Questions #4

23 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

From time to time we devote an episode to questions that our listeners have asked about coaching.    In this episode we explore how to handle a coac...

Episode 43: Coaching Topics – The Inner Critic

16 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If you're a regular listener to our podcast you will have noticed that we regularly discuss how we might deal with different topics that show up in th...

Episode 42: Coaching Tools – The SCARF Model

09 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Following on from our episode about neuroscience in coaching in this episode we focus on the SCARF model, which has its origins in social neuroscience...

Episode 41: Coaching Approaches: Neuroscience in Coaching

02 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Firstly, just to be clear, we are not neuroscientists! However, we do know that having some awareness of key elements of neuroscience can help us to s...

Episode 40: Challenging Coaching: Do we have to have goals in coaching?

26 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Coaching is so often seen as an intervention that supports the achievement of goals, and in this podcast we would like to challenge this belief. We wi...

Episode 39: Interview with Dr. Amy-Jo Farrow

19 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode we are interviewing a coaching doctor, Dr Amy-Jo Farrow.    Amy-Jo Farrow is an Occupational Health Physician and a Coach for Doctor...