Navigating Triggers: Insights from a Business Coach's Perspective

Navigating Triggers: Insights from a Business Coach's Perspective

In the whirlwind of emotional triggers, it's crucial to recognize that nobody can "make" us feel anything; they merely ignite the fuse. Join me in exploring the transformative power of understanding and navigating these triggers.

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Breaking the Chains: Exploring Modern Addictions Through a Business Coaching Lens
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Breaking the Chains: Exploring Modern Addictions Through a Business Coaching Lens

In "Hungry Ghosts," Gabor Maté explores his experience treating addicts, shedding light on his own battle with addiction: buying classical music CDs. His definition of addiction - craving relief from behaviors with negative consequences - prompts reflection. What grips you? Endless thinking? Smartphone scrolling? Coffee? Recognising our compulsions is the first step to understanding our underlying pain. It's time to break free.

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From Start-Up to Success: How Business Coaching Can Propel Your Business

From Start-Up to Success: How Business Coaching Can Propel Your Business

Whether you need assistance with strategy, leadership development, or simply a fresh perspective, a business coach can provide invaluable insights and support.

In this article, we will explore the impact of coaching and how it can help you achieve your goals.

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You don’t need a Coach if you can attune to this

You don’t need a Coach if you can attune to this

"Reality is always true to itself. When you’re in harmony with it, you experience bliss. As soon as you are not in harmony with it, you experience pain.

This is the law of the universe; it is the way things are. Nobody gets out of this law…

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Reflecting on Life: A Heartfelt Eulogy Turned Reminder – Insights from a Business Coach

Reflecting on Life: A Heartfelt Eulogy Turned Reminder – Insights from a Business Coach

I wrote this and put it on LinkedIn and Insta on 13th December 2022. My dad died on 26th March 2023, almost 10 months ago.

I sat down to write my dad's eulogy…

He’s not even dead.

Isn’t it strange that the most profound words we will ever speak about someone will likely be after they can’t hear them?

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Building a Strong Team: The Ultimate Guide to Team Development in Bristol

Building a Strong Team: The Ultimate Guide to Team Development in Bristol

As the heartbeat of innovation, team development plays a pivotal role in shaping a successful organisation. From harnessing individual strengths to nurturing a collaborative spirit, building a robust team forms the cornerstone of sustainable growth. In this comprehensive guide, we unravel the key strategies and insights to cultivate a cohesive team.

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Unlocking Success: The Power of Business Coaching in Bristol

Unlocking Success: The Power of Business Coaching in Bristol

Are you an entrepreneur hungry for success in Bristol? The key to unlocking your full potential might just lie in business coaching.

Through personalised guidance and questioning, business coaching paves the way for individuals to sharpen their entrepreneurial acumen while strategically overcoming hurdles.

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Founder, Career or Business Coaching Can Help You Get More of What You Want and Less of What You Don’t Want, Here’s One Way…

Founder, Career or Business Coaching Can Help You Get More of What You Want and Less of What You Don’t Want, Here’s One Way…

We don’t take in every car on the road – we see the cars that we are interested in.

We don’t see every person in the nightclub – we see the people we are attracted to.

We don’t see the abundance of Business or Career opportunities – we only see the ones we *think* are there.

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Is Coaching the New Love Drug?

Is Coaching the New Love Drug?

On a scientific level, through regular coaching sessions, your brain receives a healthy cocktail of dopamine, endorphins and oxytocin. During work, however, most of the time, our systems are flooded with stress, anxiety, adrenaline and cortisol. Action-based tasks drive us, and we forget or neglect the hormones required for things such as good decision-making, team building, trust and performance, confidence and happiness.

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Depression or a Dark Night of the Soul?

Depression or a Dark Night of the Soul?

A Dark Night of the Soul can look like Depression!

A Dark Night of the Soul is the progressive ‘emptying out’ of the ego. It is not a walk in the park!

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Business Coaching - what is it?

Business Coaching - what is it?

Some ‘Business Coaches’ belong more in the category of Business Mentors or perhaps even Business Trainers. The distinction is that Mentors and Trainers ‘tell’ or ‘sell’ ideas (primarily) and Coaches ‘elicit’ what the problem is, they bring focus to what isn’t working so that it can be examined together.

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* No, I don’t just coach Tech Founders & Entrepreneurs in Bristol!
Challenges — Essential for our Evolution

Challenges — Essential for our Evolution

Nobody wants an easy life, not really. Because that's not where the reward is.

Yet facing the confusion and uncertainty of a challenge in work can be isolating, it can be stressful and it can keep us busy.

We can get distracted and caught up in the grip of it all and become lost and stuck.

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The Best Way To Understand Your Strengths (And Weaknesses) Is To Work With A Coach

The Best Way To Understand Your Strengths (And Weaknesses) Is To Work With A Coach

The thing about strengths is that they can be hard to get a grasp on. Having been an entrepreneur for a while now you probably have a sense of what your strengths are but can you really get your hands around them and leverage them?

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If you’ve lost your Motivation… this’ll help

If you’ve lost your Motivation… this’ll help

From time to time I hear this –almost un-permissible– phrase from my friends and clients:

“I’ve lost my motivation” 

...or Drive ...or Passion

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