In this episode, Sam’s guest is Paul Folan. After 20 years of working for a major UK high street retail bank, Paul jumped ship to retrain as a group fitness instructor, personal trainer, sports therapist, sports nutritionist...and other things! Specialising in Phase IV cardiac rehab and special populations, Paul developed his businesses, opening his own Personal Training studios with his then business partner. After 17 years together, Paul now has his own Personal Training gym, continues to run group exercise classes and personal training sessions online and uses his NLP skills to continue to support his clients both inside and outside of their training sessions.

Paul’s falling story is different from many previous guests as the ‘failure’ is not caused because he is doing anything wrong. In fact, he is doing everything right, to the letter. Paul beautifully articulates the difference between doing the thing right and doing the right thing – they can often be very different things. What we do with people is not the same as how we be with them and both are important for a coaching relationship to be successful.

In his flowing story, Paul reminds us of the power of an apology. He shares how a heartfelt apology demonstrated that he heard the other person which immediately took the heat out of a situation and enabled the relationship to continue and build.

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In this episode, Sam’s guest is Dr Jane Freeman Hunt. Jane is a specialist neurodivergence coach working in a variety of organisations to deliver one to one sessions, client/manager sessions and awareness presentations. She has an initial background working at senior levels in the IT industry before re-training in psychology and coaching. Her goal is to help neurodivergent clients achieve in the neurotypical world that dominates the workplace and to help this group realise their full potential and experience success.

In this episode, Sam’s guest is Jonathan Passmore.

Jonathan is professor of coaching and behavioural change at Henley Business School and Senior Vice President at EZRA Coaching. He is a chartered psychologist, coach, team coach and supervisor and holds five degrees He has published widely and is one of the most cited coaching researchers in the world, while also being listed as one of the world top coaches on several coaching lists.