CoachMe Podcast

Our guest this week is certified Personal Transformation Coach, Emilia D’Aversa (CPCC).

With Emilia, you can expect an authentic, energetic, and down-to-business coaching approach.

She believes that, just like you flex muscles in the gym to achieve the desired effect, your mindset is also something that must be worked out in order to see the bold, transformative, and lasting change you want to create in your life.

Key Takeaway Summary from Season 2, Episode 04

We learn about how important it is to recognize how far you’ve already come on your success journey.

Find out why it’s important to not become stagnant, and how you can, with the right mindset, keep building on your success.

Emilia shows us how to re-assess our goals and guides us through some hands-on coaching exercises, reflecting on positive mindsets, gratefulness, and many other aspects of reaching your goals in a positive way.

Visit our site for two, free, downloadable documents for the coaching exercises mentioned during the podcast, provided by Emilia:

Wheel Of Life | Big Picture Thinking Worksheet

Questions In A Bag – Find out Emilia’s answers to these random questions:

“What’s on your mind?”

“Describe yourself in three words.”

“Tea, coffee, or hot chocolate?”

Book a free initial consultation session with Emilia D’Aversa now at CoachMeVancouver.com/book

Quote: “I have 100% faith in people. They all know the answers to what they want, and I believe in their abilities 100%.”

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Our guest this week is Ingrid Timmermans, Co-Active Life Coach.

Ingrid believes that your dreams and life goals are way too important to be ignored. Your life is far too meaningful for you to take a passenger seat on this journey.

Success in life requires you to be in the driver’s seat. Not tomorrow or next year, but right now.

Key Takeaway Summary from Season 2, Episode 03

We learn about sabotaging our own success and what profound impact it has on our lives.

Find out who is self-sabotaging themselves, for what reasons, and what that looks like in everyday life.

Ingrid walks us through coaching techniques and a visualization exercise on how to stop self-sabotaging.

We also hear about Beyonce, bears, and Ingrid’s dance moves. Check out the official guidelines about what to do when you encounter a bear by BC Parks here.

Questions In A Bag – Find out Ingrid’s answers to these random questions:

“What are you currently learning?”

“What is your dream?”

“When I dance, I look like…”

Book a free initial consultation session with Ingrid Timmermans now at CoachMeVancouver.com/book

Quote: “You better make sure you’re not the passenger in your own life, you have to be the driver.”

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Our guest this week is Life ‘Makeover’ Coach, Betty Lam (CPCC, ACC).

Do you crave new and unique life experiences? Are you open-minded, creative, committed, and up for a challenge to achieve your life goals? You may not be quite sure where or how to begin. What you do know is that you want to thrive in life, not just survive.

As your Life “Makeover” Coach, Betty helps you do just that. She is a certified coach in Vancouver with 10 years of coaching experience. She also brings her own personal experience in thriving, having gone through life makeovers herself after discovering the power of coaching.

Key Takeaway Summary from Season 2, Episode 02

We talk about life’s curveballs, and one particularly impactful one that Betty had experienced and led to her own life makeover.

We learn about different life ‘makeover’ scenarios.

Find out how you know you’re ready for your own life ’makeover’, and what some of the risks and benefits are of going through this change.

We learn who a life ‘makeover’ is for, and how you can set yourself up for success long term.

Betty walks us through several coaching questions that she typically asks her clients, so you can learn while listening.

We also learn what you can expect Betty’s coaching style to be like.

Questions In A Bag – Find out Betty’s answers to these random questions: “What is one of your quirks?” “What’s your favourite place in Vancouver?” “Netflix? The movies? Or a book?”

Book a free initial consultation session with Betty Lam now at CoachMeVancouver.com/book

Quote: “Once the life ‘makeover’ is complete, the participant will feel emotionally charged and become alive!”

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Our guest this week is Debbie Jones (CPCC), certified Career and Leadership Coach.

Debbie’s extensive experience in corporate Human Resources, combined with formal coach training, position her as an ideal coach in the areas of career and leadership development.

As we spend a large part of our waking lives at work, she believes that it’s so important to ensure that we are spending that time doing something that fulfills us. And Debbie’s here to help us achieve that as well as overall career success.

Key Takeaway Summary from Season 2, Episode 01

We talk about finding our ideal career through coaching.

We learn about how we can find ourselves in the wrong career, and what effect a wrong career choice has on our life, health, and the people around us.

Find out a creative way to identify our ideal career.

Debbie walks us through a visualization exercise. Get your note book and pens ready to either write along or look for a quiet place to do the exercise while you’re listening in.

We’ll learn how Debbie uses the visualization information to identify next practical steps to get to your ideal job.

Questions In A Bag – Find out Debbie’s answers to these random questions:

“Car, Transit, Bike or Walking?”

“What’s on your mind?”

“What would you like to remembered for?”

In today’s show, Debbie takes us through a visualization exercise and outlines how this fits in with the overall coaching approach to identify our ideal career.

Book a free initial consultation session with Debbie Jones now at CoachMeVancouver.com/book

Quote: “Coming from this place of excitement as opposed to a check box list, I think that makes it easier…. You need that excitement and energy to make big changes.”

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Hello and welcome to the CoachMe Podcast!

My name is Nadine Stille, Founder of CoachMe, and I’m proud to announce the start of Season 2 on International Podcast Day!

I’ll be your host for all episodes and am super excited to learn alongside you and get inspired as I’ll interview this season’s coaches and guests.

We’re recording live from Downtown Vancouver.

Season 2 of our CoachMe Podcast will have all of the established best bits of Season 1 and some amazing new additions - all with the focus to help you thrive, reach your amazing goals, live a more fulfilling life, have the career of your dreams, and the right balance for you.

You’ll get to know global coaches who will help you take your life, career, or business to the next level.

The coaching podcast will be concentrating on very specific topics and you will learn valuable insights from our qualified coaches simply by tuning in. Topics will include career and leadership, wellbeing, achieving your life goals, mastering times of transition, being clearer about what you want, and so much more.

You’ll get to know the coaches through the interview, find out how they can specifically support you, and experience what coaching with them will be like.

In addition, we’ll cover topics related to personal and professional development by featuring experts and specific topic enthusiasts.

While we’re kicking off Season 2 on International Podcast Day, going forward you’ll find our new episodes every second Tuesday.

So, make sure to subscribe to our CoachMe Podcast via your preferred podcast provider and be notified automatically when we have a new episode available. We’re now featured on over a dozen different platforms.

Check out all the amazing episodes of Season 1 and subscribe to your preferred provider by heading over to coachmevancouver.com/podcast.

That’s coachmevancouver.com/podcast.

Until the next podcast episode - Stay curious!

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Hello everyone!

Welcome to the CoachMe Podcast! My name is Nadine Stille, and we’re recording live from downtown Vancouver!

This is a celebratory podcast!

Our very 1st season of the CoachMe Podcast is coming to an end. I can hardly believe how fast time has passed!

You know, in coaching we work with a lot of visualization techniques and metaphors. Right now, I’d love to share a quick story with you. A story about racing cars. Racing cars?

Yes!

Specifically Formula 1 cars - the best and fastest in the world.

I’ve been a fan for many years! I love watching the drivers, teams, and racing activities on tv. I’d get up at 5am on Saturdays to watch the qualification races from wherever around the world the actual race was going to be the following Sunday. I loved watching the best of the best, the excitement, the team work, the discipline, the absolute motivation of each driver to study the track, weather conditions, the software, tires, every aspect of the car, and on top of that be fit for a 2h mentally and physically challenging race at 35degrees Celsius. It’s awe-inspiring!

For the last 3 months, as the founder of CoachMe, I’ve felt like an F1 driver for the very first time, and with CoachMe as my performance vehicle, I still feel super excited!

I sat behind the steering wheel, and went from Zero to 250 in no time. Woohoo! What an exhilarating drive! I took in my surroundings, studied the conditions, learned about the soft-and hardware, worked with truly outstanding people, and took to the track while continuing to learn, and REALLY enjoyed the fast ride.

Now, I’ll be heading to the garage and for a brief pit stop. With the end of Season 1 of the CoachMe Podcast, I’ll evaluate all the data, come up with a plan to get faster and better, get fitter, be more strategic, and come back with new parts and upgrades.

So, while you may not see or hear me out on the track with the podcast, I’ll still be hustling, bustling, strategizing, meeting and onboarding new coaches, coordinating events so we can all meet again face-to-face, and much, much more.

In the meantime, you can get your daily dose of CoachMe on your Instagram account, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube.

One of the best ways to keep up to date is via our newsletter. Please join our growing newsletter community to stay in the know: CoachMeVancouver.com/newsletter

It’s been a pleasure having you tune in for Season 1! A huge, appreciative THANK YOU to everyone who helped make this journey possible.

Until sometime soon!

Stay curious!

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Do you feel as if you are never “enough”, no matter how many milestones you’ve achieved? Let Faris Khalifeh, Joanna Li (CPCC, ACC), and Lara Marchionni Jones, take you through what their experiences are in empowering clients to overcome this notion about themselves and feel that they are “enough”.

Our guests this week are:

Joanna Li (CPCC, ACC) – Certified Professional Co-Active Coach & Talent Development Coach

Lara Marchionni Jones – Leadership, Career & Life Coach

Faris Khalifeh – Coach for values-driven Introvert Entrepreneurs

Key Takeaway Summaries from this week’s podcast

We find out that everyone has at least one (!) Inner Critic.

We learn how we can identify our Inner Critic and what roles it plays in everyday life.

We chat about different examples of how Inner Critics can hold us back.

We also focus on solutions during coaching, like using different perspectives, both physically and mentally.

“Imagine what’s possible.”

“How is your belief holding you back?”

“What would your Inner Leader (opposed to your Inner Critic) do?”

We chat about us being in charge and in the driver’s seat in everyday life.

We learn several great ways of how to keep our Inner Critic at bay and why those tips work. This includes self-awareness exercises, meditation, physical reminders, embodiment of Inner Critics & Leaders, and practicing self-compassion.

Book a free initial consultation session with Joanna, Lara, or Faris now at CoachMeVancouver.com/book

Links mentioned on the show

Meet Your Inside Team: How to turn internal conflict into clarity an move forward with your life by Cynthia Loy Darst (Book)

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This is a special podcast focussing on wellbeing & wellness through coaching.

Our guests this week are:

Dana Smith – Life and Success Coach

Mina Phaisaltantiwongs – Personal and Professional Development Coach

Hellen Yang – Professional Life & Financial Wellness Coach

Key Takeaway Summaries from this week’s podcast

3 of the top 6 results surveyed Canadians experienced as a result of coaching, relate to a wellbeing aspect. So, through coaching, clients would experience:

Increased Self-Confidence/ Esteem

Improved Work-Life-Balance

Increased Well-Being

We learn about wellness & wellbeing coaching, including financial wellness, health, happiness, fulfillment, purpose, personal development, growth and learning.

We find out the most common topics our coaches support with, including finding clarity and direction both in life and career, financial wellness, and self-confidence.

We also discuss work-life balance and read out comments from CoachMe Social Media followers about their views on work-life balance: Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn

We chat about different ways to address work-life balance and exchange “balance” with words like “flow” and “harmony”

We get a reminder that it’s important to know we’re not helplessly exposed to our situations, but can make informed decisions from the driver’s seat.

We acknowledge the difficulties of saying “no”, setting boundaries, and asserting ourselves.

We learn common things that keep people from achieving wellness/ wellbeing including:

Low self-awareness which oftentimes leads to accommodating others over our own needs

Negative self-talk “I can’t do this. I shouldn’t do this.”

Fears and limiting beliefs.

We get clarification on how coaching can help with wellbeing and wellness both in life and career.

Book a free initial consultation session with Mina, Hellen, or Dana now at CoachMeVancouver.com/book

Links mentioned on the show

Social Media posts with comments from listeners and followers Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn

3 of the top 6 results surveyed Canadians experienced as a result of coaching

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Our guest this week is Iris Cai - Professional Career Coach

We learn about reinventing your career in very creative ways

We find out how Iris uses positive psychology for her coaching clients

We also discover that she can coach in English, Cantonese and Mandarin

… and that Iris takes her clients on an exploratory treasure hunt

Links mentioned on the show

Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success - Adam Grant

Room to Read charity who supports literary and girls’ education

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Key Takeaway Summary

We learn about Iris’ personal journey to coaching and the various areas she supports her clients with, such as career reinvention for a more fulfilling career, development of leadership skills, higher confidence and resilience, overcoming limiting beliefs and barriers, etc.

Iris fills us in on how she helps her clients with creative ways to reinvent their careers and lives:

Business Model Canvas approach - “You’re the CEO of your own start-up”

Design Thinking – Thinking of your own strengths as if you’re a product/ service you’re designing for others

As a student of positive psychology, Iris focusses on the positive and strengths, rather than the negative.

Iris can coach in several languages: English, Cantonese, and Mandarin

3 coaching questions/ approaches to help us listeners Thrive:

Take a good inventory of what you really enjoy and look for a common theme.

If money, time, and other resources were not a problem, what would you do to dedicate your time and talents to?

What would you do if you weren’t afraid?

Iris particularly enjoys working with clients who want more out of life, are ready to step out of their comfort zone and take risks, as well as willing to give back to the community.

Clients will be taken on a treasure hunt: “My job is a treat...I get to explore their lives with them… It’s like a treasure hunt. Drawing maps with them together…carry a lamp… and lighting up that path to help them realize there’s such a bigger horizon out there to play and make a difference in.”

We talk about one of Iris’s favourite books Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success by Adam Grant about collaborating in win/ win situations and that you don’t need to “have” a lot in order to give. One of the organizations Iris supports is Room to Read who helps girls with literacy and their education.

Questions In A Bag – Find out the answers to these random questions: “What are you learning right now?”, “Would you rather be able to speak every language in the world or be able to speak to animals?”, “What’s your favourite place in Vancouver?”

Book a free initial consultation session with Iris now at CoachMeVancouver.com/book

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Our guest this week is Mina Phaisaltantiwongs – Personal and Professional Development Coach

We learn that Mina is infusing her clients with positivity and all the other ways she’s helping her clients as a Personal and Professional Development Coach

We find out what it feels like to be really listened to and feel validated

We also discover the many different ways Mina helps her clients become unstuck, owning their progress both in life and career

Links mentioned on the show

Book Paulo Coelho – The Alchemist

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Key Takeaway Summary

We learn about Mina’s personal journey to coaching

Mina explains what a Personal and Professional Development Coach is and that she’s helping clients who feel stuck or unmotivated, clients who want to be healthier, live more in balance, want to find their direction in life, and absolutely owning the changes they want to make.

3 coaching questions to help us listeners Thrive:

What is so important about that?

What’s the good in the situation?

What can be celebrated about you in the situation?

Who do you want to be going forward?

We hear about two transformative coaching experiences Mina had with her clients

Mina covers the question “What is coaching” and clarifies when clients should seek out counselling or therapy instead of coaching

Mina particularly enjoys working with coachees who want to make a change, and are ready to take action

We learn what you can expect from Mina as your coach as she’ll bring kindness, compassion, and a safe environment, while she’ll also be motivational, encouraging, and hold you accountable.

We hear Mina’s love declaration to her clients

We talk about Mina’s favourite quotes and how they reflect aspects of her life and coaching:

“And when you want something all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” - Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting” - Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“In the end only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things that were not meant for you.” – The Buddha

Questions In A Bag – Find out the answers to these random questions: “What is one thing you’ve always wanted to do?”, “What do you love about Vancouver?”, “What is your dream?”

Book a free initial consultation session with Mina now at CoachMeVancouver.com/book

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