• Episode #164: Finding Practice Clients
    Jun 12 2026

    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: https://yourcoachingjourney.com/coaching-for-doctors/

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    Contact Details

    Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma

    Connect with the hosts:

    Tom:

    www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/

    Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk

    Helen:

    www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/

    Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk

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    18 mins
  • Episode #163: Five Years of the Your Coaching Journey Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma
    Jun 5 2026

    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 here or wherever you listen to your podcasts.

    Contact Details

    Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma

    Connect with the hosts:

    Tom:

    www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/

    Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk

    Helen:

    www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/

    Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk

    Follow 'Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin:

    www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/

    www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/

    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.

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    18 mins
  • Episode #162: ADHD
    May 29 2026

    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 here or wherever you listen to your podcasts.

    Contact Details

    Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma

    Connect with the hosts:

    Tom:

    www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/

    Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk

    Helen:

    www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/

    Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk

    Follow 'Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin:

    www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/

    www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/

    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.

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    33 mins
  • Episode #161: Deeper Coaching Presence
    May 22 2026

    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 here or wherever you listen to your podcasts.

    Contact Details

    Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma

    Connect with the hosts:

    Tom:

    www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/

    Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk

    Helen:

    www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/

    Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk

    Follow 'Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin:

    www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/

    www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/

    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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    28 mins
  • Episode #160: Coaching Tools: Questions from Stoic Philosophy
    May 15 2026

    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 here or wherever you listen to your podcasts.

    Contact Details

    Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma

    Connect with the hosts:

    Tom:

    www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/

    Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk

    Helen:

    www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/

    Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk

    Follow 'Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin:

    www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/

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    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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    28 mins
  • Episode #159: Coaching Tools: Positive Psychology Interventions
    May 8 2026

    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:

    https://positivepsychology.com/positive-psychology-interventions/

    Enjoy the podcast? If you're enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review here or wherever you listen to your podcasts.

    Contact Details

    Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma

    Connect with the hosts:

    Tom:

    www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/

    Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk

    Helen:

    www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/

    Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk

    Follow 'Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin:

    www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/

    www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/

    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.

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    20 mins
  • Episode #158 - Coaching Topic: Work-Life Balance
    May 1 2026

    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 here or wherever you listen to your podcasts.

    Contact Details

    Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma

    Connect with the hosts:

    Tom:

    www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/

    Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk

    Helen:

    www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/

    Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk

    Follow 'Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin:

    www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/

    www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/

    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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    18 mins
  • Episode #157: Some Psychological Terms To Help Raise Awareness of Your Coaching
    Apr 24 2026

    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 here or wherever you listen to your podcasts.

    Contact Details

    Find out about our Doctors' Transformational Coaching Diploma

    Connect with the hosts:

    Tom:

    www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/

    Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk

    Helen:

    www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/

    Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk

    Follow 'Your Coaching Journey' on Instagram or Linkedin:

    www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/

    www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/

    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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    27 mins