{"podcast":{"title":"The Coaching Crowd® Podcast with Jo Wheatley & Zoe Hawkins","slug":"the-coaching-crowd-podcast-with-jo-wheatley-zoe-hawkins-4482084","podcast_index_feed_id":4482084,"rss_url":"https://coachingcrowd2021.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://www.igcompany.com/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/7/0/4/b/704b9c0998d8dddde5bbc093207a2619/Main.jpg","author":"Jo Wheatley and Zoe Hawkins","episode_count":249,"summary":"The Coaching Crowd® Podcast is a weekly podcast for compassionate, courageous leaders, HR professionals and high achievers who are passionate about helping others to find alignment in their lives through coaching, and who are thinking of training and developing as a coach. Hosted by Zoe Hawkins and Jo Wheatley, Founders of Global Coaching Training Company \"In Good Company\", based in the UK, (https://www.igcompany.com). Zoe and Jo are Master Accredited, Award Winning and Multi Award Nominated coaches, coach trainers and coach supervisors. They are authors of the best selling book 'Deciding to Coach: The Mindset & Business Strategy For Aspiring Coaches'. Each episode focuses on a different element of what it is to be a coach and you'll listen in as Zoe and Jo discuss the topic through different lenses. You'll discover practical tools and resources you need to support your coaching as you learn all about becoming a qualified and certified coach. This podcast is a go-to resource for learning more about coaching and the mindset needed to be a world class coach. You'll learn how to enable clients to truly know who they are, what their hearts call for and how to understand their values,…","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-coaching-crowd-podcast-with-jo-wheatley-zoe-hawkins-4482084"},"episode":{"title":"How to Coach Nervous Clients","slug":"how-to-coach-nervous-clients","published_at":"2026-02-09T07:00:27+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-coaching-crowd-podcast-with-jo-wheatley-zoe-hawkins-4482084/how-to-coach-nervous-clients","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-coaching-crowd-podcast-with-jo-wheatley-zoe-hawkins-4482084","url":"https://coachingcrowd2021.libsyn.com/how-to-coach-nervous-clients","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/coachingcrowd2021/How_to_Coach_Nervous_Clients.mp3?dest-id=3129767","summary":"What happens in the coaching space when the body tightens, the breath shortens, and the words become careful because something meaningful is at stake? In this episode of the podcast, we explored what it truly means to coach nervous clients and why nervousness is far more than a surface emotion. From our perspective, nervousness is both physiological and psychological, a temporary state that signals uncertainty, risk, and often the presence of something deeply important to the client. We reflected on how nervousness can show up even in highly capable, articulate, and senior leaders. It may appear as guarded language, rehearsed responses, or subtle somatic cues such as shallow breathing or tension in the shoulders. As coaches, we often sense it before it is ever named. We spoke about how nervousness can magnify automatic behaviours, pushing clients into protection strategies such as intellectualising, closing down emotionally, or striving to perform rather than authentically explore. During our conversation, we noticed how easily a coach's own nervous system can become activated in response. When this happens, there is a risk of rushing, over reassuring, or moving too quickly into goals and action. We reflected on the importance of co regulation, slowing the pace, and allowing the client to arrive fully into the session before asking for depth, vulnerability, or clarity of outcomes. We also shared personal experiences of nervousness within coaching and supervision, recognising how being seen in a new way can create an edge that feels exposing. This led us to discuss how ethical emotional coaching is not about fixing nervousness, but about staying with it, being curious about it, and allowing it to be explored as meaningful information rather than something to remove. A k…","meta_description":"What happens in the coaching space when the body tightens, the breath shortens, and the words become careful because something meaningful is at stake? 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