Episode 124: Challenges in Coaching: When is attention not attention?
Release Date: 09/05/2025
Episode 134: Coaching Topics: Boundaries Revisited
Your Coaching Journey
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 this as an area for coaching, and we said we would come back to it again, so here we are, this time hoping to help create a better understanding for our coaching doctors, and, in turn helping coachees to create better boundaries. In this episode we explore what various different coaching approaches have to offer when it comes to boundaries and how we might, as transformational coaches, demonstrate some agility in moving between the...
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Episode 133: Challenges in coaching: The Uncoachables
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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 that he would probably turn down the opportunity to coach the current American president, and that perhaps he is uncoachable. In this episode we explore this topic more deeply, looking at what might get in the way of someone being coachable at the time that we come to coach them. We also explore whether coaching is right for everyone and whether we can possibly be the right coach for everyone. We also explore whether Tom has...
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Episode 132: Coaching Tools - an overview.
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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 covered so far and where to find them. In this episode we will be refreshing our memories on some of the tools we’ve talked about already and signposting you to the relevant podcast where you find out more. If you would like to suggest any other tools you would like us to explore on a future episode, please do get in touch. Enjoy the podcast? If you’re enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review or...
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Episode 131: Interview: Paul Molyneux
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Paul Molyneux has been a consultant neurologist for over 20 years and was, until recently, also a Medical Director. Paul now supports senior doctors with their wellbeing through coaching and mentoring, helping them to thrive and find fulfillment in their working lives. Paul has a special interest in the organisational drivers of burnout and in supporting doctors in taking positive steps to reconnect with their professional roles. In this episode Tom catches up with Paul to find out how he has been using his coaching skills since he trained with us on the Doctors’...
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Episode 130: Introducing our Advanced Coaching Diploma
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This year we launched our Advanced Transformational Coaching Diploma programme and we’re now into our fourth iteration of the course. Although the Advanced Diploma programme is just for the graduates of our initial diploma programme, we thought it was worth letting our listeners know how they might move on with their learning once they have completed their first coaching training course with us. So, if you’ve studied with us in the past, are doing so currently or have an idea that you might wish to in the future, then this podcast episode is well worth a listen, to gain a flavour of...
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Episode 129: Having a Coaching Programme
Your Coaching Journey
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 coaching offer out there to the world and ready to take on clients. But what does your coaching look like? Do you take an emergent approach to your coaching or do you have a structured coaching programme to offer to potential clients. Whilst Tom is a very emergent coach, Helen offers a more organised approach to coaching out to the world in the form of a coaching programme. In this episode we share our thoughts on the benefits and...
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Episode 128: How Do Our Coachees See Us?
Your Coaching Journey
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 that makes sense for them. And whilst there may be some crossover in your perceptions, there may well be some differences. And with those differences may come differing expectations, or even challenges to look out for. Tom recently saw an article about how coachees might perceive their coach, and thought it would be an interesting conversation to share with you all. So listen in as we explore some interesting, and occasionally odd ideas about how...
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Episode 127: The Practice of Coaching
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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 is done, or even demonstrating it for you. Coaching is a practice and it takes practice to become a competent and confident coach. It’s also important that you receive regular feedback on your coaching. This will help you to improve your awareness of what you’re doing in the coaching room; both what you are doing well and where you can improve. In this episode we are talking about our coaching practice groups, what they entail...
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Episode 126: Coaching Topic: Lifestyle Medicine
Your Coaching Journey
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 event and it’s wonderful to meet so many doctors and other professionals who are wishing to make a difference by helping people bring about changes in their lives, health, and wellbeing using a Lifestyle Medicine approach. In this episode we thought we would privide a quick explanation as to why we are here in Brighton, and why our Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma fits so well with a Lifestyle Medicine...
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Episode 125: Interview: Introducing Dr. Sarah Coope
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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 enough to have chatted to Rachel Morris on their podcast. This week we returned the favour and invited one of their team, Dr Sarah Coope to have a conversation with Helen. Sarah, a former GP, is now an executive coach with a focus on conflict resolution and burnout prevention. She’s also now the head of live training at Wild Monday. Listen in to find out more about Sarah’s journey from doctor to coach and trainer, her favourite...
info_outlineIs 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 unnoticed objects and information.
Most certainly!
Does the Reticular Activating System guide our attention to the elements that are important for our lives.
Contrary to popular opinion, absolutely not!
In this episode Tom airs his frustrations about an often referred to part of the brain called the Ascending Reticular Activating System, or the RAS for short. This brain region that sits in the brain stem does have an important function when it comes to attention, but it’s often interpreted as a completely different function. We discuss the RAS, what it actually does for us and what people tend to suggest that it is doing, even though the neuroscience doesn’t back this up.
Tom loves a juicy bit of neuroscience, but does become slightly irritated by neuro-nonsense, so likes to set the record straight where he can.
Join us for this fascinating exploration of an important part of the brain, its function and the myth that is attributed to it.
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