The Curious Coach Podcast

Are you trying to focus on too many things at once? Then this week's challenge is just what you need! Full details at: https://stephenclements.ie/podcast-106/

Whilst it's great to have a dream about your goals and aspirations for 2021, who do you need to become in order to achieve them? This is my challenge for you this week as we set off with hope into 2021! More details at https://stephenclements.ie/podcast-105/

Whilst you might be tempted to write off and try to forget 2020 - don't! Let me try to convince you to look back and reflect on the growth you've still managed to achieve! Full details: https://stephenclements.ie/podcast-104/

This week’s reflective challenge is about minimising and discounting our own achievements and successes. For full details and more information, please check out the episode homepage at: https://stephenclements.ie/podcast-103

In this interview edition, I got to spend time talking with Michael Cahill, a coach, trainer, facilitator and someone who’s gone on, and continues to travel on, a journey filled with curiosity, learning and understanding – not only about us as humans but also a deep exploration of himself. In this interview, we discover how Michael went from staring out as an equity analyst and then set off another journey. We covered a range of topics that went from different coaching modalities, coaching...

This episode is something very different. It's a voice guide for doing an activity called Balanced Breathing. Balanced breathing is where we focus on making our inhales and exhales of equal duration. Ideally aiming for breaths of 5-6 seconds in duration. When doing this activity, breath in and out through your nose. Aim to make your transitions from inhale to exhale as smooth and gentle as possible. Doing this for even a couple of minutes, causes our autonomic nervous system to reach a point...

Welcome to the 100th Episode of The Curious Coach Podcast. A massive thank you to all those loyal listeners for making this such a labour of love for me! This week's reflective challenge is about coherence. Given that the world is currently full of so much separation and division at the moment, where could you benefit from thinking about coherence instead? Full details: https://stephenclements.ie/podcast-100/

Do you believe that your should find your passion so that you never have to 'work a day in your life'? Or is that something that works for other people? In this mini reflective episode, my reflective challenge is about refraining how your view work, purpose and passion - so that you free yourself from the pressures of trying to align all these things. For full details: https://stephenclements.ie/podcast-099

Using the metaphor of a car... this week's reflective challenge is about reflecting on how you're currently travelling the highways of life and inviting you to take a pit stop! For full details, see https://stephenclements.ie/podcast-098

In this mini episode, I incorporate one my hobbies into this mini reflective challenge – photography! And no, my challenge isn’t about asking you to go out and take a stunning picture. Rather, it’s about using the metaphor of photography as a model to reflect upon what’s going on for you. Further details can be found at https://stephenclements.ie/podcast-097/

In this mini episode, I invite you to do a force field analysis on a project or life goal, reflecting on what might be within your control to change or influence as well as gaining more insight into the forces at play! Further details can be found at https://stephenclements.ie/podcast-096/

In this full-length interview episode, I had the pleasure of talking with Sonya Shellard, a UK based executive coach, trainer, supervisor, Managing Director, and co-founder #RideTheWave – a professional coach training provider with a coaching model built around the wave metaphor. And you’ll hear that metaphor bubble up all the way through this wonderful conversation. Aside from discovering more about #RideTheWave, we also explored how she left the corporate world and continued her own...

This week's episode is about unleashing your inner scientist to move from simply reflecting to forming theories, creating experiments and having new experiences.... otherwise known as Kolb's experiential learning theory! Further details can be found at the showpage: https://stephenclements.ie/podcast-094

This week's mini reflective challenge is about a psychological concept called the locus of control and noticing whether you're internally or externally oriented and what this might mean for you. Full show notes can be found at htttps://stephenclements.ie/podcast-093

This week's challenge is about two thoughts: Doing the same things over and over again and getting the same results, and experiential learning and doing something new! Find full details at https://stephenclements.ie/podcast-092

This week's episode is about minding your language! No, it's not what you might think - it's about noticing whether you're using rigid or flexible language... listen to find out more and for full show notes please visit https://stephenclements.ie/podcast-091

This week's reflective challenge is about ANTS! And no, I don't mean those amazing little insects... Full details can be found at https://stephenclements.ie/podcast-090

In this week's episode my challenge is about reflecting on whether you're surviving or thriving! Full details at https://stephenclements.ie/podcast-089/

This week's reflective challenge is about the learning experience and recognising those times when we might have forgotten that we're still learners and then beat ourselves up for not getting it right! Full details can be found at https://stephenclements.ie/podcast/088

This week's mini episode is challenging your to be aware of where you are putting your focus... Details and show notes at https://stephenclements.ie/podcast/087