What drew Bryony Rowntree to coaching? In particular, what led her to coaching women making the transition from maternity leave back into the workplace?

Join Geoff in conversation with Bryony as she shares her story of parenting, living in Zambia, working as a live-in carer, to developing expertise in safeguarding, coaching, and mental health first aid.

Bryony talks about how she was drawn to coaching, the difference she wants to make in the world, and her particular desire to support women juggling the multiple priorities of parenting, work - sometimes additionally looking after older relatives - and the need to look after themselves. We explore the family and cultural influences on her view of the world and how these impact on her coaching practice, commitment to the safety and care of her clients, and the different perspectives she is able to draw on.Hear stories of what it’s like to work with Bryony and the impact she has made in the life of her clients.

The podcast also explores Bryony’s strapline - Root Deep, Stand Strong, Branch Out, and join her and Geoff in with one of her guided visualisation exercises.

For more details about Bryony’s wider work in:

• Coaching
• Back to Work Programme
• Mental Health First Aid Training; and
• Extensive range of resources

Go to Bryony’s website bryonyrowntree.com and sign up for her newsletter.

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Overcoming Your Inner Saboteur Part 2

With Alex Patient and guest host Mike Hickman

Your inner hyper-critic may have been really helpful in motivating you to achieve some of your life and career goals. But is there a better, healthier, and psychologically safer way of achieving those goals? What would life be like if there was?

In this podcast we continue our conversation with Alex Patient as he explains further his coaching approach to dealing with imposter-like feelings - taming our inner saboteur.

In the last episode Alex explained how he works with clients to identify and describe the characteristics of the saboteur. He now develops his approach to combatting it by:

• Identifying the triggers that lead to the imposter coming out.
• Acknowledging that whilst your imposter will never go away, it can be managed in increasingly better ways.
• Understanding where trying conform to the expectations of other people can inhibit your own preferred working style.
• Recognising the impact of your working environment.
• Shaping your own working culture - you may have more power to do this than you realise, by clear what you stand for as a colleague or leader.

In our final section we explore what clients take with them out coaching sessions with Alex that help in their day to day lives. Alex outlines a number of practical steps that you can take.

Alex leaves us with the following challenge. Since we can disempower imposterism by speaking about it, which one person in your network would benefit from a conversation about the subjects raised in these podcasts? You may be giving them the opportunity to start the journey of dealing with their own imposter.

Contact Alex

Find out more about Alex’s work on his website PatientMind.

Contact Alex at patientmindcoach@gmail.com.

You can book a free one hour taster catching conversation with Alex, and enquire about his other services here.

Community First Yorkshire

We are pleased to welcome back Mike Hickman from Community First Yorkshire as our guest co-presenter.

About Coaching York and the Podcast

Coaching York is a community of coaches serving various communities businesses and organisations, especially in York and North Yorkshire. The Coaching York Podcast is curated and edited by Geoff Ashton in support of Coaching York’s mission to extend the reach of coaching, to enable more people to live its benefits.

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Overcoming Your Inner Saboteur

With Alex Patient

and guest host Mike Hickman

How often do you feel that you don’t really belong in your role - your self-evaluation is “I’m just rubbish; my reputation is undeserved; any day now they will find me out. ”Do you still feel this, even in the face of evidence that you really can perform the role you are in? Who is this saboteur who is seeking to undermine you? What does it say, feel like or look like? What name do you give it?

Alex Patient formerly led the Performance Insight Division at Nat West. He describes himself in that role as “feeling a fraud everyday.” Two years ago he began his own business as a coach to individuals and groups, a leadership trainer and facilitator. Alex works mainly with analytically minded people in middle and senior management.

Drawing on his own experience as an analyst and manager, and from his practice as a coach, Alex describes the lived experience of imposter-like feelings including:

• Why “imposters” seek to hide what’s really going on under the surface.
• How wanting to show that he always had “all the answers” made him a less effective leader.
• The false idea that reaching out for help is weakness.
• How liberating and catalysing it is for a senior leader to say “I don’t know.”

Whilst we explore some of the social, family and structural factors that contribute to people experiencing imposter-like feelings, Alex is clear that more important than understanding the drivers to imposterism is what we do about it. With that in mind, Alex goes on to describe strategies for dealing with these inhibitors including:

• Replacing a default attitude of being defensive with one of being curious.
• Using his coaching skills to help clients “separate out this imposter-like character from who they really are” to make space for more positive aspects of someone’s character to take the lead.
• How to see, at a granular level, what this internal imposter says about you, using visualisation to form a rounded picture of this saboteur to describing in detail situations in which the saboteur shows up.
• What it’s like to experience coaching around exposing your saboteur and the immediate benefits clients experience in doing it.
• We conclude this podcast with Alex describing an approach he uses to allow him, in real time, to put his inner saboteur in its place, subordinating its power to his inner leader.

Tune in to our next podcast as Alex describes the other aspects of his approach to helping people address their inner saboteurs.

Contact Alex

Find out more about Alex’s work on his website PatientMind.

Contact Alex at patientmindcoach@gmail.com

You can book a free one hour taster coaching conversation with Alex, and enquire about his other services here.

Community First Yorkshire

We are pleased to welcome back Mike Hickman from Community First Yorkshire as our guest co-presenter.

Community First Yorkshire

About Coaching York and the Podcast

The Coaching York Podcast is curated and edited by Geoff Ashton in support of Coaching York’s mission to extend the reach of coaching, to enable more people to live its benefits.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.