Your Coaching Journey
A podcast for doctors about coaching. Whether you are a coaching doctor; a medic who is learning to coach; or a doctor who'd like to build coaching into your professional life, then this is the podcast for you. Each podcast episode will explore a different aspect of coaching that will be helpful for you as you integrate coaching into your work and life. You'll be able to explore different approaches to coaching, assess coaching tools and techniques, hear interviews with coaching doctors; and examine topics that coachees might bring to coaching. Join coaching experts and leaders on the Doctor's Transformational Coaching Diploma, Tom Dillon and Helen Leathers as they discuss the world of coaching and how, as a doctor, you might choose to continue on your coaching journey. Produced by MonkeyPants Productions. Find out how we can help you produce your podcast by getting in touch at pete@monkeypantsproductions.co.uk
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Episode #173: Who Moved My Cheese?
08/14/2026
Episode #173: Who Moved My Cheese?
We know our coaching doctors love a good read, as do we. And there are some books that one or both of us have returned to several times, which is often a good indicator that it holds, not just a passing interest for us, but some deeper insights that are useful in our personal development and growth. In this episode we discuss one of Tom’s recommended reads, Who Moved My Cheese?’ by Dr Spencer Johnson. WMMC is a short, easy to digest story that acts as a modern day parable and illustrates the different responses that people have towards change. WMMC offers us a lesson around how complacency and a sense of entitlement can lead to inertia whilst change is going on all around us, and Tom reflects on how his own learnings from reading the story informed his response to the pandemic, back in 2020. Join us in this episode as we seek to find out who did move the cheese and what happened once it was moved. Enjoy the podcast? If you’re enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review or wherever you listen to your podcasts. You can find 'Who Moved My Cheese?' here: Contact Details Find out about our Connect with the hosts: Tom: Email: Helen: Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)
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Episode #172: Helen talks about embodiment, confidence, and more with You Are Not a Frog’s Rachel Morris
08/07/2026
Episode #172: Helen talks about embodiment, confidence, and more with You Are Not a Frog’s Rachel Morris
This week we thought we’d share something a little different. Just over two years ago Helen was invited on to Rachel Morris’ ‘You Are Not a Frog Podcast’ and had a thoroughly enjoyable conversation with Rachel. In this extended podcast Helen and Rachel talk about confidence, embodiment, overwhelm, top tips on connecting more with your body, and a dubious metaphor about dogs on leads. Settle in for a good listen! Enjoy the podcast? If you’re enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Contact Details Find out about our Connect with the hosts: Tom: Email: Helen: Email: Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)
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Episode #171: Who Are The Neuromajority
07/31/2026
Episode #171: Who Are The Neuromajority
In previous episodes we have started to explore neurodiversity, and some of the language around it. In this episode we are discussing who are the neuromajority against which neurodivergence might be assessed. It’s not as straightforward as you might think. Enjoy the podcast? If you’re enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Contact Details Find out about our Connect with the hosts: Tom: Email: Helen: Email: Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)
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Episode #170: Coaching Topic: Limiting Beliefs
07/24/2026
Episode #170: Coaching Topic: Limiting Beliefs
When a deeply held belief limits our choices, or our capacity for change or growth, coaching can be a wonderful space to explore and challenge it. In this episode we talk about how to spot limiting beliefs and which tools we have in our transformational coaching toolkit to explore and unpick them in order to help our coachee find new ways to be. Enjoy the podcast? If you’re enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Contact Details Find out about our Connect with the hosts: Tom: Email: Helen: Email: Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)
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Episode #169: Polyvagal Theory
07/17/2026
Episode #169: Polyvagal Theory
In this episode we are dissecting a concept that has quietly infiltrated the coaching space: Polyvagal Theory. Marketed as the ultimate framework to map our emotional reactions and "hack" the autonomic nervous system, understand stress, and work with trauma, it is often quoted as fact. Listen in as we explore what the compelling vocabulary like "ventral vagal states" means, and whether the scientific evidence backs up the theoretical claims? Enjoy the podcast? If you’re enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Contact Details Find out about our Connect with the hosts: Tom: Email: Helen: Email: Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)
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Episode #168: Every Coach Needs a Coach - or do they?
07/10/2026
Episode #168: Every Coach Needs a Coach - or do they?
‘Every coach needs a coach’ is one of those statements that does the rounds from time to time. It is frequently seen on social media feeds and is more often than not asserted as an absolute truth. Obviously, coaches who coach coaches have a vested interest in spreading this view and so we thought we would explore the notion, give the topic a good airing and share our thoughts on the podcast. Have a listen to the conversation and decide for yourself whether this is something that, as a coach, you should take to heart. If you’d like to contribute to the conversation, do drop us a message. Enjoy the podcast? If you’re enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Contact Details Find out about our Connect with the hosts: Tom: Email: Helen: Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)
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Episode #167: Working with Drivers
07/03/2026
Episode #167: Working with Drivers
We have explored the theory of Transactional Analysis (TA) in a previous episode, and have also spent time on other episodes discussing the Drama Triangle and the Parent, Adult, Child models that stem from TA. In this episode we dive a little deeper into another theory that stems from the world of TA, the theory of Drivers. You will already be familiar with a couple of the psychological drivers that we will be discussing. We have previously recorded episodes on People Pleasing and Perfectionism, which both sit within this theory. We’re going to round things off in this episode, taking a look at all five drivers, providing an explanation of what they are, where they come from and how they might show up in the coaching room. Enjoy the episode! Resources: Previous podcasts relating to this topic: Episode 30: Transactional Analysis Episode 91: Perfectionism Episode 17: People Pleasing Enjoy the podcast? If you’re enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Contact Details Find out about our Connect with the hosts: Tom: Email: Helen: Email: Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)
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Episode #166: And now for something completely different!
06/26/2026
Episode #166: And now for something completely different!
This week, we’ve taken the opportunity to share a podcast that was recorded 3 years ago, when our own podcast was still a gangly youth. Tom was invited on to the marvellous Rachel Morris’s ‘You Are Not a Frog Podcast’ and had a conversation with Rachel about the different coaching approaches that exist. In this hour-long episode Tom and Rachel explore the benefits of coaching and how wonderful it is to be truly listened to. They also take a look at how different approaches might be useful in working with different topics and with different clients. Tom provides a whistle stop tour of the coaching approaches that we teach on our Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma and even engages in a couple of brief coaching demonstrations to help generate some new thinking for Rachel. Settle in for a good listen! Resources: Listen to the You Are Not a Frog Podcast: Subscribe to the podcast on YouTube: Enjoy the podcast? If you’re enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Contact Details Find out about our Connect with the hosts: Tom: Email: Helen: Email: Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)
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Episode #165: The difference between coaching and executive coaching
06/19/2026
Episode #165: The difference between coaching and executive coaching
What sort of coach are you? Whether it’s your marketing, how you describe yourself on your website, or applying for personal accreditation, we thought it might be useful to understand the term ‘Executive Coaching’. In this episode we explore executive coaching from a couple of perspectives, what it entails and why you might want to engage with it as a title. Enjoy the podcast? If you’re enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Contact Details Find out about our Connect with the hosts: Tom: Email: Helen: Email: Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)
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Episode #164: Finding Practice Clients
06/12/2026
Episode #164: Finding Practice Clients
An essential part of learning to coach is practicing the skills of coaching. Delegates on our Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma often ask us how they can find some practice clients. We have ways of attracting practice clients for our students, but when they’re looking to boost their hours, we offer our advice on finding their own. In this episode,we thought we would share this advice with you, plus we will have a discussion about the potential problems of coaching someone too close to you. Resources: To apply for three free one hour sessions from one of our trained but not yet qualified coaches, the form is at the bottom of this page: Enjoy the podcast? If you’re enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Contact Details Find out about our Connect with the hosts: Tom: Email: Helen: Email: Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)
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Episode #163: Five Years of the Your Coaching Journey Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma
06/05/2026
Episode #163: Five Years of the Your Coaching Journey Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma
Join us for a celebratory conversation in which we share our reflections on the last 5 years of engaging with our wonderful coaching doctors on the Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma programme. We have much to celebrate, although there won’t be any fanfares, party poppers or marching bands. Sorry to disappoint. There’ll Just be a celebratory cup of tea and a good old chat about what running the programme has meant for us. We’re very proud of the coaching community that we have built and we hope you’ll join us to share in our origin story and hear our thoughts on all that has happened over the last 5 years. Enjoy the podcast? If you’re enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Contact Details Find out about our Connect with the hosts: Tom: Email: Helen: Email: Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)
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Episode #162: ADHD
05/29/2026
Episode #162: ADHD
We began our exploration of Neurodiversity in Coaching in episode 146, with a bit of an introduction to the topic and the terminology around both neurodiversity and neurodivergence. Today we want to venture a little deeper into one particular neurodivergence - ADHD or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder to give it its full title. ADHD is a phenomenon that is receiving increasing attention within the coaching world and it is very likely that you will come across coachees that identify as living with ADHD. In this episode we take a look at some of the nuances of ADHD and Tom shares his own personal journey to gaining a better understanding of the topic and trying to sort out the facts from the theories. Enjoy the podcast? If you’re enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Contact Details Find out about our Connect with the hosts: Tom: Email: Helen: Email: Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)
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Episode #161: Deeper Coaching Presence
05/22/2026
Episode #161: Deeper Coaching Presence
We have discussed both presence and absence in the coaching room in previous episodes, and today we want to venture a little deeper around the concept of presence in coaching. We all know when we have experienced someone who is fully present for us; someone who has listened and allowed us to feel heard and understood. Presence makes a difference. We will all have also experienced times when our coach has been a little distracted or not fully engaged. Coaching presence is such a powerful phenomenon and at the same time, something quite intangible, so we thought we’d try and define it for our listeners. Join us for this episode as we explore what coaching presence is, why it’s important, and some ways in which you can cultivate a more powerful presence in your coaching sessions. Resources: Questions asked in this podcast: What prevents you from being fully present? What pulls you out of presence? How/What do you notice when your presence has slipped? Journaling Prompts: What pulls you out of presence? How is your Coaching Presence now? What supports and nourishes it? How do you want your presence to be? How do you know when you’ve slipped out of presence? What’s the gap you are bridging? What gets in your way of being present? How do you want to be with yourself as you practice becoming more present? Enjoy the podcast? If you’re enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Contact Details Find out about our Connect with the hosts: Tom: Email: Helen: Email: Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)
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Episode #160: Coaching Tools: Questions from Stoic Philosophy
05/15/2026
Episode #160: Coaching Tools: Questions from Stoic Philosophy
What have the Stoics ever done for us? Well apart from aqueducts, wine, irrigation, sanitation, the roads, medicine, public order and the baths, the Stoics also gave us a few different ways of thinking about events that we have no control over. The Roman stoics, Seneca and Marcus Aureleus and the Greek stoics, Zeno of Citium and Epictetus, along with a few other philosophers, used their ancient wisdom to unlock what was going on for their contemporaries. That same wisdom may provide novel ways of viewing our own environment and provide us with some alternative perspectives that could benefit us in our modern world. In this episode we explore three stoic questions that could help our coachees to move forward in their thinking. Join us as we explore a little stoic philosophy that we might choose to bring into the coaching space. Enjoy the podcast? If you’re enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Contact Details Find out about our Connect with the hosts: Tom: Email: Helen: Email: Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)
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Episode #159: Coaching Tools: Positive Psychology Interventions
05/08/2026
Episode #159: Coaching Tools: Positive Psychology Interventions
Positive Psychology is a popular coaching approach with the doctors on our transformational coaching diploma. It feels uplifting to coach using positive psychology, but there is much more to the approach than just inviting people to smile more and see put a more optimistic spin on events. We’ve talked about Positive Psychology in previous episodes, and in this episode we dedicated to explore in more detail some of the research backed tools that are known as Positive Psychology Interventions or PPIs, and consider how they might be of use in the coaching room. Resources: For more information on PPIs visit: Enjoy the podcast? If you’re enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Contact Details Find out about our Connect with the hosts: Tom: Email: Helen: Email: Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)
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Episode #158 - Coaching Topic: Work-Life Balance
05/01/2026
Episode #158 - Coaching Topic: Work-Life Balance
A topic that is frequently brought to the coaching room in one guise or another is work-life balance. So, we’re questioning to what extent work-life balance really exists and if we’re working with someone who brings this to coaching, how do we support them in moving towards achieving more balance in their life. Join us in this episode as we explore what approaches and which tools could be useful to help your clients work towards a better work-life balance. Enjoy the podcast? If you’re enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Contact Details Find out about our Connect with the hosts: Tom: Email: Helen: Email: Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)
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Episode #157: Some Psychological Terms To Help Raise Awareness of Your Coaching
04/24/2026
Episode #157: Some Psychological Terms To Help Raise Awareness of Your Coaching
In this episode we are exploring four different psychological phenomena that might just show up in the coaching room. They are concepts that originate in the world of psychoanalysis and therapy, and whilst their presence may well have been seen as problematic, they are also commonly occurring phenomena for ordinary people and information for us in the coaching room. The four concepts that we discuss in this episode are transference, counter-transference, projection, and parallel processing. Join us for this fascinating dive into some often mentioned, but poorly understood, concepts. Enjoy the podcast? If you’re enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Contact Details Find out about our Connect with the hosts: Tom: Email: Helen: Email: Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)
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Episode #156: Coaching face to face versus online
04/17/2026
Episode #156: Coaching face to face versus online
Whether you are with your coachee or not when you’re coaching them will depend on a number of variables, but there’s a good chance these days that you are more likely to be in a virtual coaching room than sitting face to face with your coachee. Some telephone coaching still happens but not so much, these days. In this episode, we discuss the pros and cons of both ways of working, and some things to consider as a coach. Whether you prefer to be in the room where it happens or you embrace the efficiency of being coaching online this conversation provides you with the opportunity to reflect on the different ways of working as a coach. Enjoy the podcast? If you’re enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Contact Details Find out about our Connect with the hosts: Tom: Email: Helen: Email: Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)
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Episode #155: Belbin Team Roles
04/10/2026
Episode #155: Belbin Team Roles
If you’re talking to coachees about their role, their career or their work colleagues, you may find that they have quite narrow ways of viewing what works and what doesn’t work in their team. They may view the way they go about things as the right way and can’t understand why other team members don’t just behave in the way that they do. They may express concern, or frustration, at their team members’ varying attitudes towards the work that needs to be done. In this episode we explore why it’s important to have some diversity of thought and behaviour within an effective team. Tom shares his knowledge of Belbin Team Roles, a concept and a tool that helps individuals and teams better understand how they might work more effectively together. The conversation highlights the need for complementary skillsets and different ways of individual team-members operating in order to develop a team that is both cohesive and performing well. Resources: Find out more about Belbin here: Enjoy the podcast? If you’re enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Contact Details Find out about our Connect with the hosts: Tom: Email: Helen: Email: Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)
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Episode #154: Topics for Coaching Goalsetting and Planning
04/03/2026
Episode #154: Topics for Coaching Goalsetting and Planning
As transformational coaches we very much focus on self-exploration and self-acceptance for the coachee; challenging their current thinking and helping them explore new perspectives; supporting them in finding new ways to go about doing things and encouraging them to become more who they really are. That said, sometimes coachees may want to work towards a specific tangible goal, develop a realistic strategy or map out a practical plan, and, of course, we will look to coach them in planning and actioning their project and achieving their goal, whilst also inviting them to step back for a while and consider what the goal or plan means to them, and their future self. In this episode we explore where we might start working with a coachee’s goals and share some tips on how you might support a coachee who is presenting with this kind of coaching scenario. Enjoy the podcast? If you’re enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Contact Details Find out about our Connect with the hosts: Tom: Email: Helen: Email: Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)
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Episode 153: Hope
03/27/2026
Episode 153: Hope
Hope is one of the 24 VIA Character Strengths identified by Martin Seligman and Chris Peterson back in 2004 and included in the Values in Action inventory that they created. In this episode we explore how Seligman and Peterson defined Hope. We also introduce Rick Snyder’s ‘Hope Theory’ and discuss other ways that we might consider the concept and how it relates to coaching. Tom provides a very personal account of his own relationship with Hope and his VIA Character Strengths report as life has unfolded over the last 7 years. We hope that our conversation on the topic will spark some ideas for you around the benefits of discussing Hope, along with other Character Strengths in the coaching room. Enjoy the podcast? If you’re enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Contact Details Find out about our Connect with the hosts: Tom: Email: Helen: Email: Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)
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Episode #152: A Review of Coaching Tools #2
03/20/2026
Episode #152: A Review of Coaching Tools #2
Back in Episode 132 we revisited some of the tools that we had already explored on earlier episodes of the podcast. That episode went down very well, particularly among our own alumni, who found the episode to be a wonderful reminder of some of the tools that they learned on our Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma. In looking back we realised that we’ve explored around 30 different tools on the podcast in the last 3 years. So we thought we’d have a conversation about another batch of the useful coaching tools that we’ve explored on the podcast. In this episode you’ll hear a quick review of: Conflict Styles Matrix Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs PERMAH & The PERMAH Wheel And we will be signposting you to the full podcast episode dedicated to each one. Enjoy the podcast? If you’re enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Contact Details Find out about our Connect with the hosts: Tom: Email: Helen: Email: Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)
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Episode #151: The Four Discourses of Coaching
03/13/2026
Episode #151: The Four Discourses of Coaching
When it comes to the way that coaching is approached and then discussed, there have traditionally been four different discourses that have become embedded in the coaching world. Simon Western, a leadership and coaching academic, identified the four discourses back in 2016 as being: - The Managerial approach The Psychological approach The Soul Guide approach The Network approach In this episode we explore the advantages and disadvantages of each approach and consider what other discourses have arisen in the last decade since Simon Western identified these four ways of seeing coaching. Resources: Enjoy the podcast? If you’re enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Contact Details Find out about our Connect with the hosts: Tom: Email: Helen: Email: Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)
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Episode #150 - Coaching Topic: Time Management
03/06/2026
Episode #150 - Coaching Topic: Time Management
It is said that you can’t manage time, you can only manage yourself, but we know that some topics brought to the coaching room, like overwhelm, making difficult decisions, unrealistic expectations, and boundaries, can often look like a time management issue. In this episode we talk through how we might help someone in the coaching space, and explore two activities that might be useful to undertake with our coachees. Hopefully, investing your time in listening to the podcast will be a worthwhile enterprise and leave you feeling more equipped to have time-management conversations in the coaching room. Resources: To see a visual of the Eisenhower matrix, visit our website: Enjoy the podcast? If you’re enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Contact Details Find out about our Connect with the hosts: Tom: Email: Helen: Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)
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Episode #149: Coaching Doctors: Introducing Dr Lisa Clift
02/27/2026
Episode #149: Coaching Doctors: Introducing Dr Lisa Clift
We love the broad spectrum of doctors that come through our coaching programme. In this episode, Helen is chatting to Dr Lisa Clift who has a background in Paediatrics and General Practice. Lisa now splits her time between roles as a doctor in adult prisons and children’s secure homes, and her work in a private Lifestyle and Obesity Clinic. Join Helen and Lisa on this episode of the programme as Lisa shares how she came to join our coaching diploma, and how she is utilising her coaching skills now. Enjoy the podcast? If you’re enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Contact Details Find out about our Connect with the hosts: Tom: Email: Helen: Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)
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Episode #148 - Coaching Tools: The ABCDE Model
02/20/2026
Episode #148 - Coaching Tools: The ABCDE Model
Coaching conversations are a great space in which to support individuals in engaging in a spot of meta-cognition; doing a little thinking about their thinking. With a little help, our coachees can explore their potentially unhelpful thinking around a scenario that is proving difficult for them. There are different ways of approaching such situations and various tools that we can utilise, as coaches, to support our coachee’s thinking. One such tool is the ABCDE model, which has its origins in the work of one of the founders of the Cognitive Behavioural Therapy approach, Albert Ellis. In this episode, we explore the ABCDE model, which allows the coachee to take any given event; consider what beliefs they have about that event; explore what the consequences of their belief and their thinking have, for themself and those around them. Then, with the help of their coach, the coachee can dispute their own beliefs and reach a better emotional understanding and perspective. Join us, on this week’s podcast, as we take a deep dive into the value and utility of the ABCDE model in the coaching room. Resources: To see a visual of the ABCDE model, visit our website: Enjoy the podcast? If you’re enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Contact Details Find out about our Connect with the hosts: Tom: Email: Helen: Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)
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Episode #147 - Coaching Approaches: Strengths Coaching
02/13/2026
Episode #147 - Coaching Approaches: Strengths Coaching
When coachees are facing difficulties in their work or home lives it’s easy for them to spend their time in the coaching room in problem-talk. They often speak from a place of helplessness and a lack of resources. Using a strengths based approach can allow a coachee to connect with their own inner resources, and some external resources too, to allow them to think through their situation, find their own solution and move forward. In this episode we explore what a strengths approach looks like, what tools are useful in drawing out someone’s strengths and when it might be useful to engage with this approach. Resources: VIA Character Strengths: Strengths & Values Cards: Enjoy the podcast? If you’re enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Contact Details Find out about our Connect with the hosts: Tom: Email: Helen: Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)
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Episode #146 - Understanding Neurodiversity in Coaching
02/06/2026
Episode #146 - Understanding Neurodiversity in Coaching
In this week’s episode we begin what will be a much wider exploration of neurodiversity in the coaching arena and will start with some basics. Join us as we explore some of the history of the concepts of neurodiversity and neurodivergence and the evolution of the nuanced terminology that can lead to some confusion around the topic. We also start to think about what neurodiversity means to us as coaches. Enjoy the podcast? If you’re enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Contact Details Find out about our Connect with the hosts: Tom: Email: Helen: Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)
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Episode #145: Coaching Model: Egan’s Skilled Helper Model
01/30/2026
Episode #145: Coaching Model: Egan’s Skilled Helper Model
A model from the 1970s, Egan’s Skilled Helper Model (ESHM) is often taught on mentoring training courses, and many of our coaching doctors have come across it from such training. Having evolved from the therapeutic space ESHM sits well within the coaching environment and has some interesting elements to explore. Join us in this episode as we explore the ESHM model, its benefits and its limitations. Resources: To take a look at the visual model please visit our webpage: https://yourcoachingjourney.com/project/145-coaching-model-egans-skilled-helper-model/ Enjoy the podcast? If you’re enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Contact Details Find out about our Connect with the hosts: Tom: Email: Helen: Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)
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Episode #144: Coaching Doctors: Introducing Dr Montio Morgan
01/23/2026
Episode #144: Coaching Doctors: Introducing Dr Montio Morgan
Whilst many of our coaching doctors are GPs, the students on our Transformational Coaching Diploma come from all areas of medicine. In this episode Helen catches up with Dr Montio Morgan, a consultant ENT surgeon who is a part of the coaching network within her trust. Montio has been a doctor for 35 years and a consultant ENT surgeon for 23 years. A mum of two adult children, she is thoroughly enjoying being a grandparent. Listen in to Helen’s chat with Montio to find out about how she is using her coaching skills. Resources: Unheard: The Medical Practice of Silencing Enjoy the podcast? If you’re enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Contact Details Find out about our Connect with the hosts: Tom: Email: Helen: Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin: Do You Have a Question? From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching. If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode. (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)
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