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.
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Episode 133: Challenges in coaching: The Uncoachables
Episode 133
Friday, November 7, 2025 • Duration 23:02
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 softened his stance on coaching the current president or whether he really is uncoachable.
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From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners' questions about coaching.
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Episode 132: Coaching Tools - an overview.
Episode 132
Friday, October 31, 2025 • Duration 21:55
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.
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Having different internal parts of our psyche has been provoking interest in great thinkers for thousands of years. The Greeks and the Romans had the theory of us all having different humours
Freud had his id, ego and superego, and psychologists ever since have been playing with different theories about the different parts that we may possess and how best to integrate them into our overall identity.
In this episode we explore what Parts Work is, the journey that it has travelled over the last 50 years and the different ways in which we might approach the concept.
Tom has been working with his own version of Parts Work for a decade now, so has an interest in shedding some light on the topic.
Join Tom for this short solo episode of the podcast where he will be revealing his own thinking on the subject of parts in coaching,
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If you've ever looked for demonstrations of coaching online you may have noticed that there aren't many particularly good ones out there.
When looking for great examples of coaching, the two of us are always looking to see exquisite attention and lots of lovely space. We're hoping to hear crisp open questions, accurate summarising and reflecting back and the coach resisting being directive. We'd like to observe the coachee being supported in making sense of their own world and generating some new thinking.
Tired of searching for the holy grail we thought we'd create our own demonstration and so, in this episode, we engaged in a genuine coaching session.
During the coaching Helen gave some thought to a dilemma that had been on her mind for some time. The conversation resulted in Helen making a decision, which she has now taken action on, allowing her to move towards her desired objective.
During the coaching session Tom utilises the TOM'S CODE model to guide the coaching process. This is the model that we introduce everyone to at the beginning of our Transformational Coaching Diploma training.
TOM'S CODE provides a framework to hang the coaching on. It's not meant to be prescriptive and, at times, the coach will flex their use of the model in order to respond to the coachee.
We train coaches to work in a transformational way, looking to bring about awareness, empowerment and autonomy. TOM'S CODE focuses on bringing about the change that the coachee wants to see.
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If you'd like to find out more about, or remind yourself of TOMS CODE, the framework we are using, you can listen to our podcast episode about it here.
Episode 32: Coaching Topics: Do Relationships Belong in the Coaching Room?
Season 1 · Episode 32
Friday, December 1, 2023 • Duration 31:32
Some coaches are more comfortable with addressing relationship issues with coachees than others, but the topic is bound to come up eventually in the coaching room.
Whether it's managing a tricky relationship at work, or navigating our communication with those around us, relationships will surface in the coaching room and it's useful to think about how we will handle them as a coach.
We are all social creatures and none of us live in isolation. Our coachee's relationships are an enduring feature of their life journey and they are going to hit some bumps in the road. As coaches it is important that we recognise that being able to hold the space for coachees as they discuss their relationships is an essential part of our role in working holistically.
In this episode we discuss what coaches might choose to do when relationships are at the centre of a coaching conversation.
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Episode 31: Coaching Tools – The Parent – Adult – Child Model
Season 1 · Episode 31
Friday, November 24, 2023 • Duration 30:17
Following on from our last episode on Transactional Analysis, this episode focuses on the key model from the Transactional Analysis approach to coaching; the Parent – Adult – Child Model.
This is a model that will help us, as coaches, to understand the ego states that our coachee might be entering into at certain times during interactions with others.
It may also help us to talk to coachees about whether they are responding in an adult way to the here and now or are drawing on old, learned, patterns of response.
In addition, using the Parent - Adult – Child model might allow coachees to gain a different perspective on the behaviour of those that they interact with.
In this episode we look at the model in more detail and discuss how and when you might introduce it your clients.
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Transactional Analysis is a psychological theory that can help us to understand and explore human interactions and relationships.
In this episode we explore, what it is, where it comes from, and how it can be a useful approach to use in the coaching room. We also share two models, The Parent - Adult - Child model, and the Drama Triangle, that might prove useful in the coaching room. Both models can be introduced to coachees to encourage them to reflect on their relationships and to allow them to gain new perspectives around the ways that their interactions with others play out.
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Episode 29: Challenges in Coaching: Challenge in the coaching room
Season 1 · Episode 29
Friday, November 10, 2023 • Duration 24:59
We will regularly be devoting a podcast episode to discussing some widely held coaching beliefs, common coaching practices and coaching challenges that are often pondered and debated.
Today we are talking about challenging our coachees. Coaching is a supportive space and we engage with our coachees with empathy and positive regard. So, what place does challenge have in the coaching room? Should we ever challenge our coachees? If we do challenge them, what might we challenge them about and how might we go about doing that. What are some of the potential risks of challenging a coachee?
Join us to find out what we think and once you've listened in let us know your own thoughts.
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Mindset is a term regularly used within coaching but what exactly is it? How might we encourage someone to reflect on their own mindset in the coaching room? How might we work with coachees to adapt fixed ways they have of thinking about certain areas of their life and allow them to develop and grow.
In this episode we explore the work of Carol Dweck and her Growth Mindset theory. Complete with a brief example of a coaching conversation around a mindset issue, we think you'll enjoy this episode and hope that it will provide you with some food for thought.
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Following on from our podcast episode about Positive Psychology (Episode 25) we thought it would be helpful to introduce you to a model created by Martin Seligman, the grandfather of Positive Psychology; The PERMA Model
Since its original creation PERMA has been expanded by other positive psychologists to create the PERMAH model, and in this episode we'll be exploring a tool based on this model; The PERMAH Wheel.
If you're looking for a way to help your clients feel more content with their lives; have a sense of subjective wellbeing; improve their relationships; find more meaning in their life and work and focus on improving their health, this is a great tool.
From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listener 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.
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