Some highlights:

• 🏢 Immersing in an organization to understand its dynamics before coaching individuals.
• 🧭 Pinpointing where coaching fits within the organization (HR / L&D / Business Unit).
• 📜 The journey leading up to contracting the coaching engagement.
• 🔄 Establishing a consistent approach to succession planning through coaching.
• 📈 Developing a maturity model for coaching, from performance to succession planning.
• 💪 Doing your upfront work—trust us, it pays off in the end!
• 🔗 Ensuring alignment within the organization on the required leadership skills.
• 🧩 Mastering the best ways to align and sell your coaching services to an organization.
• 🧠 Adapting to the client's unique thinking—our job is to align with them.
• 📏 Measuring the tangible impact of coaching.
• 🌍 Understanding how the buyer views the world—seeing through their eyes.

Highlights:

• 🌟 Discovered the power of coaching in high school, empowering others from a young age.
• 📚 As an Executive and Professor, Nada identified critical gaps in skills and knowledge.
• 🚀 Founded "Rise Up For You," inspired by her dad's strong influence.
• 💵 Started with just $100 and built a 7-figure business spanning 50 countries.
• 🧠 Placed a heavy focus on Emotional Intelligence.
• 🛠️ Providing solutions for companies to better support their people.
• 🌍 Embracing Daniel Goleman's perspective on the 18 components of Emotional Intelligence.
• 🏅 Proud of overcoming immense hardships and challenges throughout her life.
• 🔥 Believes in the mantra: "Don't waste your pain."
• 📉 83% of professionals identify "Self Confidence" as their top challenge.
• 📝 Encourages everyone to "Take the quiz!", found on her website (It's free)
• 🎭 Balancing the roles of performer and observer.
• 🔄 Not afraid of uncertainty—able to pivot and adapt instantly.
• 🏆 Exuding Macro Confidence in every aspect of her work.

Highlights:

• 🌟 Discovered the transformative power of coaching during a tough time.
• 📚 Battled with editors over her book's unique style—she stood her ground!
• 💭 Always asking, "How do I want this person to feel?"
• 💼 Empowering coaches to confidently sell their services.
• 🔄 Changing the game by shifting perspectives on selling.
• ❌ Don’t just give it away—know your worth!
• 🔍 Selling the process vs. selling yourself—what's the secret sauce?
• 🎉 Celebrating when clients resonate with her book's stories—she nailed it!
• 🤝 Highlighting the surprising similarities between coaching and sales calls.
• 🤔 What’s crucial about selling? Always start with the “why.”
• 🎓 Leveraging her coaching faculty experience to shape her unique viewpoint.
• 🚧 Embracing boundaries as a powerful positive force.
• 🚀 No one-size-fits-all in sales—find what clicks for you!
• 📈 Prepping you for success with winning sales calls.
• 🧠 Checking in on your emotions during sales calls—mindset matters!
• 📚 Mastering sales skills right from your coach training days.
• 🔀 Distinguishing the roles of marketing and sales—know the difference.
• 🔄 Most coaches have a built-in pipeline—do you?
• 🎭 Channeling Jim Carrey’s authenticity from "Liar Liar"—keeping it real!

Highlights

Getting into coaching from an Entrepreneurial perspective and Overcoming some downfalls / Experiencing the power of coaching / Clients love Danielle's Engineering background / Coaching connects to the human side / Lead Authentically works with clients / Be yourself and still get what you want / How she helps clients and her style, great stuff / "running through your head" point of view / The stories going through your mind may not be true / What is the evidence around the Story / When you know better . . . you do better / Recognizing your Triggers / "Hey, what is that" funny moment / Starting of with advisory / coaching now it's 100% coaching / When coaching "Clicked" for Danielle / Tough questions / You don't have to answer the question to me, but answer it to yourself / Science Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Focus / Being challenging as a coach

Highlights

Being in a toxic situation and struggling to get out / Completing a "Value" Exercise that was extremely helpful / Coaching got a little bit uncomfortable / Wanting to leave her job and wanting to control all elements of leaving / Coaching helped Sarah get to a place she had struggled to get to for years / Working together to reframe her goals and define a meaningful career transition  / Challenging at times to reset thoughts and goals / "What's wrong with that?" / Resigning prior to having everything figured out / A value of a coach is NOT knowing all the players and pieces / Taking time out to evaluate her dreams and goals / Being in the Hamster wheel / Don't "Should" yourself

Highlights

Never planned to be an Executive Coach / Abrupt ending and had to Re-think a new role in the world / LOVED to hold people up and informal coaching / Being a woman in an industry of the Boy's Club / Figuring out how coaching fit into her life / Finding a coach to help "vocalize" her thoughts / Changing her identity and starting over / Workaholic background and fitting into Coaching / Bringing successful career to her coaching practice / Her philosophy on coaching her clients / Helping woman take up space similar to the way men do and taking credit / Being team oriented and still take credit for YOUR role / Coaching is a team approach / Having a less than positive initial coaching approach / Doing and initial Value Assessment / Coaching is a lot about marinating and allowing time for it to "sink in" / Mom influencing coaching and Coaching influencing Mom / Standing behind the leader now

You can find Victoria here - http://www.exceptionalfutures.com/

Highlights

• The Salt Lake city bookstore epiphany / What made people tick / No marriage and family therapist, career counseling emphasis was the focus / Coaching the whole person / Advice on group coaching, start with the most challenging group first / Coaching during the Global financial crisis / Global job 1,500 Executives and 200 coaches to manage / The fit between a coach and a client / Clients sometimes want to be challenged / Assessing when to move on from a client / Recommending other coaches to assess fit / Book working title - The Slingshot Quest - Discover your identity to design your destiny / What is the story behind the work / Sometimes we are conditioned / Coaching can and perhaps should be uncomfortable / Getting your Hours "gifted" / With her kids leaning towards asking instead of telling 

Hear Victoria's complete story on my "Wish I knew podcast . . ." Episode # 40

Highlights

• Found Rita on Linked In based on her tag line of "I help successful women professionals in male dominated industries"
• Feeling stuck in her career 
• Had mentors and curious about coaching
• Results
   
  • Increased awareness 
  • Limited beliefs 
  • What narrative do you tell yourself 
  • Language you use
• Be that person that you want to be
• Great use of reframing
• Great impact story for other areas of her life

 https://www.linkedin.com/in/ritahausken/
Featured on my "Wish I Knew . . . " podcast episode #44

Highlights

• 2003 coaching started when her son lost his ability to speak
• Started with using coaching in her career not AS a Coach directly
• Asking questions to her customers to gain loyalty
• In a team meeting asking "What else, what else, what else . . "
• Teaching clients to be able to coach their own team
• Creating space to allowing people to think
• Let all thoughts come out to open up for silence
• Being more human driven NOT number driven during her corporate career
• Growing during a crisis, using the human approach
• Coaching women in a masculine world
• Living in her genius zone
• Who are being rather than what are you doing?
• Using Visualization
• What do they really NEED, not just about the want
• Self sabotage
• Do you believe in it
• Do you trust yourself
• Shifted from being a provider to being a giver
• Having deep conversations at age 13

Highlights

• Understanding the impact of coaching
• Directing less and asking more
• Having the power
• CFO example on softening communication skills
• The "fluffy" email and seeing progress
• Watching the mindset shift
• Building trust
• Courage to gently challenge your clients
• Listening in an unbiased way
• The unexpected benefits of couching outside of a coaching session
• Helping others to be their best

Highlights

• Coaching vs therapy vs mentoring
• Coaching is all about growth
• Mentoring is all about guidance
• Coaching is about what you want to "Be"
• Coaching is about the why and the how
• Don't need to be an Executive to get Executive Coaching
• Becoming the 2.0 version of yourself
• Pausing in coaching can be great
• Finding your goal, this can take time
• Gravitas, do I have it?
• Being coached by someone with a different background
• Mentality about getting out of the Projects - Saying Yes to everything
• Clustering up your arrows
• Having some Grit

I love coaching and I love talking about coaching just as much.  Coffee House Coaching was created for a couple of reasons, to connect with other Coaches and their clients and also provide a space to better understand what coaching is and how impactful it can be to you and your career.  

I'm your host Gary Nowak and today I had the please of speaking with another "Podcaster" about her professional Executive Coaching Career with Elissa Kelly

You can Find Elissa on 

Her website - https://elissakelly.com/

Linked In - https://www.linkedin.com/in/elissalkelly/

Podcast "My Professional Pivot" -  https://elissakelly.com/podcast/

Highlights

• Coaching is a great investment in yourself
• Reasons for working with a coach
• Being the guide on the side
• Your coaching goal may not be your coaching goal
• Changing her own career focus
• Elissa's Niche
   
  • Career Transitions and progressions 
  • Reframe success in their careers 
  • Perfection and Imposter syndrome
• Finding a coach
• Being the roller coaster ride
• Converting from corporate to being an entrepreneur
• Coaching clients that can be similar to you
• Coaching goal in 2022
• Data Driven coaching
• Your mind has multiple tracks
• Reading 65 books in a year

I love coaching and I love talking about coaching just as much.  Coffee House Coaching was created for a couple of reasons, to connect with other Coaches and their clients and also provide a space to better understand what coaching is and how impactful it can be to you and your career.  

I'm your host Gary Nowak and today I had the great pleasure of speaking with Joe McCaughy about his coaching practice from the South of France (you are going to love his accent).

Highlights

• Playing on his strengths as an Executive Coach
• Never be surprised by what people bring to a coaching session
• Comparing sports vs executive coaching
• Getting to the Intimate area of work
• Building trust in coaching
• Can a Manager play the role of Coach as well
• Ask genuine questions, it's not a list of coaching questions
• Having a greater impact on people through coaching

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Highlights:

• 🌏 Embracing life Down Under early on, feeling truly at home in her own skin.
• 👨‍👩‍👧 Born into a lineage of coaches—it's in her DNA!
• 🧘‍♀️ Mastering the somatic approach before most kids could spell "somatic."
• 💡 The epic battle of "I think" vs. "I feel."
• 🧘‍♂️ Convincing her dad to meditate with her at just 16—family goals!
• 🧠 Battling mental chaos and finding sanctuary in the body's wisdom.
• 🚀 The universal urge to escape our bodies.
• 🌍 Inherited collective trauma—navigating life's heavy baggage.
• 🐠 Realizing she's swimming in the water of her experiences.
• ⏳ When it comes to the body, slow your roll—less is more!
• 🧬 The profound impact of our lineage.
• ⏳ The past isn't dead; it's influencing the present.
• 🧠 Deep dive expert—not just a dabbler, but a lifelong learner.
• 🔄 Adapting her coaching method to countless perspectives.
• 🎨 We're all unique tapestries woven from our experiences.
• 😵 At one point, she was drowning in experiences, education, and knowledge.
• 🤝 Immersing herself in the dynamic dance of the client-coach relationship.
• 🕰️ Slowing down to truly understand where the client wants to go.
• 🚪 You can only guide clients to places you've comfortably explored yourself.
• 🚫 Clients won't venture where you haven't gone yourself.
• ❓ The million-dollar question: Where does your client WANT to go?
• 💃 The intricate Tango of boundaries between coach and client.
• 🙏 Always posturing with positive regard and genuine curiosity.

I love coaching and I love talking about coaching just as much.  Coffee House Coaching was created for a couple of reasons, to connect with other Coaches and their clients and also provide a space to better understand what coaching is and how impactful it can be to you and your career.  

I'm your host Gary Nowak and we are introduced to Clare Tyndall who is the client of my previous guest Kate Hill.  Clare shares her story about the work they did together and the fantastic results.

Highlights

• Preparing for a big role got her in to coaching
• Using coaching to get a Senior Mngt position
• How she chose Kate Hill
• Setting up structured sessions to tackle areas to work
• Very supportive "System" to support Clare's coaching
• Coaching isn't all "Blue Sky", it's about a took kit and a plan
• Being available between session for some spot coaching
• The complete confidentiality component of coaching
• Setting here agenda based on reality
• Constantly saying yes to everyone and everything
• Honesty and procrastination
• Getting some tools out of coaching to use time and time again
• Coaching advice - be honest with yourself and your coach

I love coaching and I love talking about coaching just as much.  Coffee House Coaching was created for a couple of reasons, to connect with other Coaches and their clients and also provide a space to better understand what coaching is and how impactful it can be to you and your career.  

 I'm your host Gary Nowak and I popped over the pond to have an insightful conversation with @Kate Hill about her coaching practice, You can find Kate @

Instagram = @katewaterfallhill 

Facebook = Kate Waterfall Hill

Highlights

• Driven to work with smaller companies
• Niche is working with Organizations and Mid Life consideration with mostly women
• You are not broken if you get coaching
• Don't feel guilty about getting coaching, self investment perspective
• Client perspective 
  • Clear on the outcome
  • Feeling a bit more lost
• Strong process to work with her clients
• Imposter syndrome discussion
• Stop talking and just sit back and listen
• Not having to accept what is happening
• The 16 year old heartwarming story

Highlights:

• 💞 The inspiring story of Amy and Heather and their profound connection.
• 🌟 Despite vastly different backgrounds, they found so much in common.
• 🤔 Amy kept "bumping up against herself" and was on the hunt for a solution.
• 👀 Sometimes, all it takes is paying close attention.
• 🌱 Altus began with just 2 or 3 people, unsure of what they were building.
• 🧩 Groups are intricate and complex; recognizing the power of Altus to unite like-minded individuals for success.
• 😱 Experiencing the thrill and terror of building something new.
• 🤝 Learning to be a cohesive team at Altus with intentionality.
• 💬 Mastering "breakdown" conversations with teammates.
• 🔧 Teams and trust: the ongoing work of establishing and repairing.
• 📚 Their book:
• 📖 A collection of diverse chapters from various voices within Altus.
• 📚 Can be read independently.
• 🔬 Encourages experimenting.
• 📘 Doesn't need to be read cover to cover.
• ⏲️ Perfect for quick 5-minute reads.
• 🗣️ They start with teams through deep, deep listening.
• 🏆 Their proudest moments with Altus.
• 🔄 Achieving perfect sync while working together.

Highlights:

• 🕰️ First experienced the magic of coaching later in my career—better late than never!
• 🔄 Reflecting on boundaries in my consulting career vs. now with coaching.
• 🏆 Proud of my unwavering commitment to the world of coaching.
• 🎙️ Thrilled to host two successful podcasts, each boasting over 100 episodes!
• 🧠 On a continuous journey of self-discovery.
• 🐢 Embracing the mantra: slow down to speed up.
• 🔍 Always on the hunt for my ideal clients—those eager for transformation.
• ✨ Achieving more for clients by mastering the art of doing less.
• 📚 Receiving coaching just the way I love it—personalized and impactful.
• 👂 Truly listening to my clients and weaving their insights together.
• 🌟 Connecting with fellow Executive Coaches—there’s nothing better!
• 🇦🇺 Leaving Australia in 2019 turned out to be a true blessing.
• ⏳ Taking the time to learn and figure things out in 2020 —worth every moment.

Highlight:

• Friend indicated that she would be a great coach
• Good blend of positivity, grounded pragmatic, get it done attitude led her to coaching
• Getting a coach to learn more about coaching
• The courage to start new careers after the Global Financial Crisis
• Feeling gratitude with her coaching career
• Helping others to help herself
• Going into coaching with a willingness and wonder
• Having an awareness in a conversation about herself
• Coming out with a new book
   
  • Called "Meaning Indicator" 
  • Going on a writing retreat 
  • What were your three most significant life experiences 
  • Creating a sustainable future for all of us through this book

• In service of what . . . 

Highlights:

• Seeking coaching while feeling stuck with a bit of anxiety
• Trying all avenues to improve self
• You are in the place where we should be and learning to accept this
• Learning coaching to learn about self and increase business skill set
• First call with Jennifer Reitz and noticed how calm she was
• There is a power in knowing
• Coaching can be redirecting the clients attention to gain insight
• Powerful somatic exercise around anxiety - where is it / what is the shape / explain the texture / does it move?
• Some of us learn in the moment and some of us learn in the reflection
• Making an immediate connection post session
• Conrad has two settings either on or off, commitment to experiments
• A capable coach doesn't linger in the past
• If I don't feel heard, I'm going to "Check Out"
• A good coach helps you walk more quickly to your goals
• When others experience you different than you see yourself
• Good management is like good coaching "Less is More"
• Believing in the resources of the person in front of you

Highlights:

• Being very well read and bringing so much interesting reading to the podcast
• Discovery coaching through the ROTC 
• Being known for coaching early on in his career
• Bringing leadership development and coaching to Indiana University
• Liking strategy work, but loving the leadership coaching role he played
• The courage to move from an Executive role at P&G to Academia
• Reinforcing the decisions that you've made
• The person most likely to take the advice is the one giving it
• Creating the MBA leadership academy 
• Having 2nd year MBA students coach their 1st year MBA students
• Using reflective exercises to learn and grow
• Self Leadership program his favorite class to teach
• Self Coaching is a Social activity
• What is your Value and understanding what this is in a coaching session
• Creating much more self awareness and helping people to build it up
• Understanding working in a way that aligns with your values

Highlights:

• Being asked to teach a high profile leadership program at her company
• Being coached on learning how to pause and see more than currently seeing
• Getting a pair of glasses when you didn't realize you needed them
• Need to be open to coaching - Is your client ready
• Finding the ideal client
• Reaching back to previous clients to connect - it's magic
• We are in a "helping Profession" and being aware of burning out
• Building up a strong network of people for coaching
• Shing a light where the person hasn't looked before
• Helping our clients to pause in the moment, creating that safe container
• The client may not know what they need, we help them access their own tools
• Being able to "Right Size" to your clients
• Great coaching book "The Coaching Habit"
• Having a richer life by being a coach and an amazing support network

Highlights:

• Working with Jennifer Reitz
• Loved Jenn's approach around somatics
• Seeking out individual coaching to focus growth and learning
• Working at the C Suite HR level with large organizations
• Supervision and being nervous about it
• Jennifer has warmth & wisdom stood out during the session
• Coming around on being coached somatically
• Constantly bringing Shannon back into her body
• Feeling into your height, width and depth
• Getting the perspective "Shannon, you're not going to solve this in your brain"
• Your body is your brain
• What would life be like if we didn't wait for anything?
• "Why" doesn't matter
• Change your body and change your mood
• Body awareness has stuck with Shannon all along
• All we are trying to do is defend ourself from feeling ourself
• Noticed today that Shannon is creating more space
• Big leap from feeling to articulation

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 Highlights from my Conversation with Julie and Laura

Gasp not going back to the conference after the break, instant chemistry / Sharing a brain / The concentration of covid, green shoot / Writing a book for newer coaches / The target audience / What the data had to say, fascinating / Fall into habit / Writing a book is a team effort / Using coaching skills while writing the book together / The book Cover / What they love about the book / Marketing the book / Finding the Easter egg about Linus, Moose and Noodle

Elissa Kelly 

www.elissakelly.com 

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LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/company/elissa-kelly/ 

Instagram: @elissacoaches 

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Elissa Kelly is a Solopreneur Business Coach who guides experienced business leaders as they transition from corporate roles into thriving, strategic, risk-savvy solopreneurs.  She is also the Founder and CEO of Surya Partners, a successful professional development firm focused on elevating diverse talent, as well as a mother of two amazing kids, bookworm, avid hiker, and reformed Fortune 100 Risk Executive.  Learn more and subscribe to her risk-savvy solopreneur newsletter at www.elissakelly.com.  

Elissa holds the PCC certification from the ICF, as well as an MBA from W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. She earned her coaching certification from the Hogan Institute in Santa Barbara, California, and another from Team Coaching Studio in the UK. 

Highlights:

• 🎙️ Featured as a guest in Episode 6, April 2022— go back and have a listen!
• 🚀 Launched 2 companies, both laser-focused on the world of coaching.
• 🔄 Navigating the B2B and B2C landscapes with distinct focus areas.
• 🧑‍🏫 Empowering corporate executives with top-notch coaching skills.
• 🏢 Guiding professionals as they transition from corporate roles to executive coaching.
• 🧪 Always in experimentation mode—embracing new ideas and approaches.
• 📅 Dedicating 1 day per month solely to strategic alignment—prioritizing clarity.
• 🌌 Realizing the need for more space, not less—making room for growth.
• 🧩 Figuring out what works best for you—personalized strategies for success.
• 🏋️‍♂️ Mastering the skills required to thrive as a solopreneur.
• 🌍 Exploring where you want to work and what feels natural for you.
• 🏘️ Discovering the wonderful world of community spaces filled with coaches.
• 💸 Understanding how monetization influences your future decisions in this profession.

Highlights

• Helping clients with their brands
• Finding the right metaphor for your client
• What is your Super Power
   
  • Untangling necklaces 
  • Parallel Parking 
• Humans have complicated life stories, it's our nature
• 3 things that come up in her practice
   
  • Clarity 
  • Confidence 
  • Community 
• Having gone through the hard work herself to be great at what she does
• Hiding who you are isn't good hygiene for your soul
• People really do struggle with how to explain what they do
• Modulating with each and every client
• Using Collage session in details to help others describe themselves
• Creativity - Making connections between to seemingly disparate things
• Loves to help people express themselves as the Big Purpose
• Finding your purpose is your Life's work
• The Brand is a relationship
• My view was Purpose is internal to YOU and Branding is external to you want others see you
• Understanding your values
• How do your values show up for you today?

Some Highlights:

• Leaving a cushy high paying job for Google in 2006
• Another Covid coaching opportunity, great time to go to The Hudson Institute to become a coach
• Being a vulnerable leader = a great coach
• The layoff from google kicked Jaybird unlimited
• Getting Executive Coaching at Google, was extremely valuable
• Your Network is your Net Worth - Linked In story
• People are genuinely good and kind
• North Star is freedom, doing something that you like
• Signing on with Fast Forward Group
• Using vulnerability to instill confidence
• Have a Pointy Point of View
• W-A-I-T acronym
• Finding your happiness - Arthur Brooks new book
• "Happiness is the feeling I get when I need more happiness"
• Be yourself sooner

 Highlights:

• 7 years at a Buddhist meditation center
• Software tester at intel
• Coaching was always inside of her
• Somatic is important part of her coaching
• Seeing clients too much in their heads, spinning
• Light bulb moments
• Brief discussion about neuro science of habits
• Struggle with challenging the client
• Being a helper and NOT being confrontational
• Locking into a persons needs
• America is ready for coaching and mindfulness
• Helping people find purpose in their work
• Honing in on being more empathetic
• Massive trouble with the favorites section of this podcast

Highlights:

• Coming to us from Yorkshire in the UK
• Coaching starting in 1996 in Hong Kong for Russell
• External Virgin Company Training session that sparked him inside
• Discovering Executive Coaching was like finding a drug
• Being the resilience coach
• Coaching aligns to his purpose positively affect 100,000 people by 2025
• Avoiding toxic positivity
• Focus on being optimistic
• Modeling being resilient
• Being made redundant 6 times prior to going out on his own
• Listening to the Universe on what to do next
• What are your natural energizers
• I've come home
• Russell is always himself all the time
• David Bowie is the sound track to his life

Highlights:

• Living in and loving Cleveland
• Life Long learner
• Integral Coaching in Canada
• We are all works in progress and being a life long learner
• Loving philosophy and psychology early on 
• 2 day intensive coaching training
• Seeing Divine intervention first hand
• You know when you know
• Getting his clients to run experiments, a MUST HAVE in his practice
• Creating coaching space with your boss
• 2 Day intensive coaching session
• Trust is imperative
• Patricks coaching style
   
  • Playful but direct 
  • Supportive buy challenging 
  • Deeply curious 
  • Thinking creatively 
  • Persistent 
• Corner of his monitor 
  • Heard and say more 
• On a good day we are partially right
• Good Coaches don't have a conflict of interest

Highlights:

• Getting into coaching to align self and build a career
• What we put out there, we get back, just like a mirror
• Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) instructor
   
  • Understanding the language and programs in your mind 
• Picking up limitations over time
• We all enough, we just need to be reminded sometimes
• Listening to the language of your client
• Plans to write a book every couple of years
• Following the lead of your client to connect more deeply
• Coaching without video
• Not many Tesla's in Greece, however in Norway . . .  

Highlights:

• Two great friends that met through Hudson
• Leveraging each other to support their coaching practices
• Talking useful tools
   
  • Wheel of Life 
  • The Lifeline in real time 
  • Value Exercise 
• Following your clients lead
• Listening to your body prior to upcoming calls
• Setting intentions prior to calls
• Somatics in coaching and clients that might have an allergic reaction
• 5 areas of coaching focus
   
  • Thought Partner 
  • Job change or onboarding support 
  • Relationship Management 
  • Health 
  • Uncertainty in the environment 

Highlights:

• Engineer to finance to Executive Coaching
• Having deep meaning conversations through coaching
• When you realize that you're not that good of a listener
• Managing expectations
• Early on in coaching we move at the speed of light to reach a conclusion
• Shout out to Julie Hess and Laura Daley "Do your best coaching"
• Being connected to his purpose
• Getting better as we get older as a coach
• What to do when you dread an upcoming coaching session
• Fighting being a "Pleaser" and reconciling this with coaching
• Seeing the sense of relief from our clients

Highlights:

• Client is the tree
• Invisible to Visible is where the coach works
• Visible to Obvious is the clients work
• Understanding the rear view mirror will support forward movement
• Our minds are like the surface of a lake, try to get that still as a coach
   
  • As coaches we try to create moments of stillness 
  • Bringing tough topics to the surface 
• Having difficult conversations with our clients
• The window vs the mirror analogy
• Coaching someone in a foreign language
• Coaching the person not the problem
• Limiting beliefs as layers of clothing
• Coaching is like a jigsaw puzzle

Highlights

• Boundaries 
  • Breaking them 
  • Not being fair to your client 
  • Make choices that work for you 
  • Boundaries evolve 

• What is your Niche 
  • Having a bullseye 
  • Coaching is Coaching 

Some highlights:

• 🐇 Feeling unhappy and going down a rabbit hole, reaching out for coaching as a lifeline.
• 🎈 Stuck in a bubble with limited career opportunities—time to break free!
• 💖 Absolutely loving where she is in her career right now.
• 💪 Proud of every risk she took throughout her career journey.
• 🦸‍♀️ The courage to seek coaching and question her career path—bravery at its finest.
• 🤝 Connecting deeply with her clients because Rebecca faced the same struggles.
• 💡 Realizing she wasn’t broken—just dealing with chronic stress.
• 🧘‍♀️ Mastering stress from the inside out.
• 🛠️ Doing the inner work herself before introducing it to her clients.
• 🧠 Gaining a deep understanding of our nervous system.
• 📡 Remember: 80% of communication is body-to-brain!
• 🫀 Using the Tragus pull technique to lower heart rates like a pro.
• 🔓 Unlocking our potential by truly understanding our bodies.
• 🎤 Discovered for broadcasting talent while calling out BINGO—what a story!
• 💥 Navigating and understanding stress responses.

Some Highlights:

• 32 years in HR and then turning to coaching after being exposed to it
• Seeing the benefit of Executive coaches
• Being an internal coach within an organization
• Getting goose bumps during a chemistry call
• Have multiple calls with potential coaches, increase your options and choose the best coach for you
• The power of assessments and the overall impact, especially the 360 degree interviews
• Working with coaches in our practice
• Let the client figure it out for themselves
• Embedding coaching into MBA programs
• Coaching isn't like work it's a privilege
• Coaching showing up without even thinking about it

 Highlights: 

• Growing her business & getting comfortable with her coaching business
• Lining up corporate clients
• Using your coaching skills to sell more effectively
• Selling to individuals vs companies
• Massive technology event in Lisbon to Present Coaching 

Highlights:

• Talking the ins and outs of the Hogan assessment
   
  • What it does 
  • How it is used 
  • Using effectively as a coach 
  • Incorporating with other 360 tools or as a standalone tool 
  • How to interpret and share with your client 
  • Sensing your clients self awareness 
• Advice on picking out a couple of assessment tools to incorporate into your coaching practice

Highlights

• Assessments
• Enneagram
   
  • Self Awareness 
  • Understanding 
• Articulating self to others
• Many wonderful nuances to the tool and descriptions and personality types
• Multiple ways to assess the tool
• Nature vs nurture
• You have Wings with Enneagram
• Heaps of self assessment
• Where are you at on a given day
• Great example of using the tool to understand significant people in their lives
• Assisting with the framework of coaching
• The $12 investment
• The enneagram panel conversation
• Massive overall impact in Nikki's life

Some Highlights:

• Trying to figure it all out by  moving around a bit in her corporate job
• Planting seeds for years within her organization
• She had a team coach Helen / when Helen wasn't around Sarah as called Mini Helen 
• Seeing coaching transformation right in front of you
• Tools are complimentary to our practice
• The year of experimentation
• Using immediacy and understanding it early on
• There are no "Dead Ends" in coaching
• Being curious is reinforced by having a 1 year old
• The "Pet Rock"
• Steve Jobs "Simple can be harder than complex"
• The importance of contracting in coaching
   
  • Go slow to go fast 
  • Trusting the process 
• Talking things out while still being a solopreneur, the network she has and leverages
• How do you want your week to look?
• Having dinner with her 1 year daughter when she is in her 40's

Highlights

• Hitting a wall and finding coaching
• Gave herself a grown up gap year
• Starting a coaching and consulting career
• Taking a leadership role at Rice University
• Trinkle down affect of coaching leaders
• Leadership coach that specializes in early intervention
• Great work at Rice University with MBA Students
• Current generation connect more with Coaching and a change in leadership
• The 18 to 30 year old and the next generation
• Coaching has always been in her DNA
• Coaching is important to organizational change
• Getting Masters at NYU in Organizational Consulting and Executive Coaching
• Managing her own fear
• Giving yourself grace
• The day you plant the seed isn't the day you eat the fruit

Highlights from my conversation with Phil

Getting into coaching due to early dyslexia / 21 years of working with professionals globally / Our brains don't like change all that much / Being a teacher as much as a coach / Stop giving away your energy, you unconsciously do it / Keeping your Ego in check / Must have an urgent desire for better results / Connecting to either pain or passion to progress in coaching / Your amygdala is like a 4 year old child that needs guidance / Thinking of your habits as lanes on a highway / His Master of Business Leadership habit / Not what you say but what you do / Seeing results

I love coaching and I love talking about coaching just as much.  Coffee House Coaching was created for a couple of reasons, to connect with other Coaches and their clients and also provide a space to better understand what coaching is and how impactful it can be to you and your career.  

I'm your host Gary Nowak and today I am honored to share with you a legend in the Executive Coaching world Kathryn Downing.

Highlights

• Finding career calling in the hills of North Carolina
• How Kathryn works with her clients
   
  • Tailored 
  • Accountability Partner / co creating 
  • Intuitive Mirroring
• Meeting the client where they are at
• Checking in with her clients to make sure they are on track
• Asking questions that serve the client NOT the Coach
• How important the coaching relationship is
   
  • Stewarding and cultivation 
  • Building up the strong connection
• Most people are unfamiliar with the coaching profession
• Avoiding advice and offering resources 
• Teaching the client to be resourceful
• The subtle approach to coaching
• Unconditional positive response Carl Rogers

If you enjoy this episode I featured Kathryn on my "Wish I Knew . . . " podcast #48 where we talk about her entire career, I encourage you to check it out.  

Highlights:

• Quote "Half of the work that is done in the world is to make things appear what they are not."
• Can't stop thinking about this quote
• The façade or reflection on our emotions
• Setting Intention prior to a conversation and not working out according to the intention
• You need to be you
• Accepting who you are, building confidence in yourself
• Going from Invisible to Visible to Obvious
• Trust / Faith / Courage

Highlights:

• Coaching early but now knowing it
• Helping someone up the physical mountain
• Being a cheerleader
• "I See you" Seeing the client
• We need to remember and bring back previous sessions
• The work between sessions
• Box out time to think of our clients outside the session
• Unattached intimacy
• Thinking like a coach
• Great place with her coaching practice
• Core value is connection
• Supportive and challenging - are they the same thing?
• Nothing to do nowhere to go
• Trust yourself

Some Highlights:

• 🧠 Learning psychotherapy in his 20s—mastering the mind early on.
• ⏳ Returning to the world of coaching in the early 2000s—coming back stronger!
• 🛠️ Early days at BP—everyone had a coach until they didn't.
• 🚔 Working in the prison system early on, aiding in rehabilitation efforts.
• 🎲 Throwing something in the middle of the room and seeing what happens—embracing spontaneity!
• 🤐 Hates when things are left unsaid.
• 🗣️ "When I feel something, I need to say something"—the motto to live by.
• 💬 Often telling clients, "Just so you are aware..."
• 🧘‍♂️ Cultivating self-awareness and awareness of one’s impact on others.
• 🔍 Fascinated by discovering the edges of people.
• ✨ It's the edges that define the shape of who we are.
• 🔎 Understanding your core self and recognizing when behaviors help or hinder you.
• 📝 Advice to a younger self: keep trying and embrace mistakes.
• 🤝 Great coaching is a co-creation process.
• 🛟 Using the gold Rolex as a life preserver—finding value in unexpected places.
• 🥊 Sometimes, when you're struggling, you have to "Pick a fight."
• 🧘‍♀️ Approaching clients without memory or desire—pure, unbiased guidance.

Highlights:

• 12 years active duty Air Force
• Burned out during Covid, need something else
• The Hudson Life Forward Impact
• How being a physician has impacted her coaching
• Staying in a place of curiosity
• Loving using analogies in her coaching
• Getting a bit uncomfortable with our coaching
• The feeling of being unteathered
• Loving being present with somebody
• The coaching community is her tribe
• Being playful with clients

I love coaching and I love talking about coaching.  Coffee House Coaching was created for a couple of reasons, to connect with other Coaches and their clients and also provide a space to better understand what coaching is and how impactful it can be to your career.  

I'm your host Gary Nowak and today I had the pleasure of connecting with @jason Daily who in addition to being an executive coach is also a trained pathologist and Public speaking trainer.

You can find Jason Daily at:

www.anchoredleadership.com

Jason@anchoredleadership.com

Happy clients include:

• ESPN
• Addidas
• PWC
• Slack
• Nationwide

Highlights

• Taking a system approach to supporting his C-Suite clients
• How best to understand the clients system
• Working with clients for a minimum of 6 months because change takes time
• Real time pop quizzes the universe sends out way
• Coaching can be about individuals feeling uncomfortable
• Taking a birds eye view to coaching and providing the client with a different perspective
• Noticing patterns
• Using a golf analogy around coaching (Driving Range Practice)
• "My presence is an intervention"
• Being the lowest heart rate in the room

Highlights:

• Pairing with a 360 feedback tool
• Helps to find an individuals core beliefs
• Great tool to start the coaching journey
• It's easy to take and to understand from the Coachee perspective
• Both forward and backward looking 
• 42 page report that you can utilize with your clients
• Helps you understand YOU
• Very rich with coach / coachee relationship
• How they deliver the results 
• Request the coachee read and provide their perspective
• Great lens to learn about yourself and those around you
• Understanding your wings
• Enneagram is consistent over time