{"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 the Topics Clients Bring","slug":"how-to-coach-the-topics-clients-bring","published_at":"2026-01-26T06:45:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-coaching-crowd-podcast-with-jo-wheatley-zoe-hawkins-4482084/how-to-coach-the-topics-clients-bring","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-the-topics-clients-bring","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/coachingcrowd2021/How_to_Coach_the_Topics_Clients_Bring.mp3?dest-id=3129767","summary":"What happens when a client walks into a session with an issue you did not prepare for, and you have to trust your presence rather than your plan? In this episode of the Podcast, we to explore one of the most real and sometimes unsettling parts of being a coach: not knowing what a client is going to bring, yet being fully responsible for creating a space that can hold it. We reflected on how often coaches ask questions like, how do I coach confidence, fear, conflict, burnout, overwhelm, or decision making. Beneath those questions is usually something deeper. A desire to feel competent. A wish to feel resourced. A fear of being caught out when a client arrives with something emotionally charged, complex, or unfamiliar. What struck us during the conversation is how much of coaching is about unlearning the need for control. In most areas of life, we walk into conversations with a sense of the agenda. Coaching is different. The agenda emerges. The topic may be named, but the real work often sits underneath in emotion, belief, identity, or uncertainty. We talked about how coach training gives us core skills that apply to any topic, yet many coaches still crave practical anchors. Questions, frames, observations, and ways of working that help them feel steady when a client says, I feel overwhelmed, I am stuck in fear, I cannot decide, or I have lost confidence. That is where topic based learning and community become powerful, not as scripts to follow, but as ways to deepen awareness and broaden choice. We shared how, as coaches, we can sometimes narrow in too quickly on the words a client uses, or unconsciously overlay our own relationship with that topic. When a client brings fear, uncertainty, or burnout, it can trigger our own stories and associations. Building familiarity…","meta_description":"What happens when a client walks into a session with an issue you did not prepare for, and you have to trust your presence rather than your plan? 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