"The more I read and the more conversations I have, the further I seem from any form of answer. And perhaps that's a healthier place to be." - Anna-Marie, Rooted & Rising Podcast Host

In this first-ever solo episode of Rooted & Rising, Anna-Marie steps away from the interview format to share personal reflections on coaching, ecology, spirituality and the questions that she’s been musing over in her mind.

Set against the backdrop of a rapidly changing world, she explores observations from her coaching practice: exhaustion, uncertainty and the growing tension between human wellbeing, organisational demands and planetary health. There’re no easy answers, and instead invites listeners into a space of curiosity, asking what coaching is really for and whether it is evolving quickly enough to meet the challenges of our time.

Anna-Marie also reflects on her own journey over the past year navigating personal change, redefining spirituality beyond religion as a deep sense of relationship with the living world, starting to write a new book on ecospiritual coaching and creating her home in Somerset, England.

This is an honest, contemplative conversation about slowing down, embracing uncertainty, and remembering what it means to belong not just to our professions, but to the Earth itself.

About

Change agent, connector, coach, collaborator and podcaster Anna-Marie combines her passion and curiosity for peak performance across her work and life. She brings a wealth of over twenty-five years’ international experience to craft a portfolio career.

She is a self-certified learning junkie with a Post Graduate Certificate in Applied Coaching from the University of Derby and Master’s in Teaching from the University of Sydney; amongst other psychological and psychometric based coaching tools. Happiest outdoors Anna-Marie loves to escape the confines of four walls and co-create coaching conversations with nature.

Anna-Marie is on a mission to encourage a different approach to work where our natural environment is valued within the business world. She facilitates outdoor coaching supervision circles; co-hosted the biweekly ‘Coaching Outdoors’ podcast for five years; co-wrote chapters in ‘The Coaches Handbook’ and ‘Succeeding as a Coach’ on eco-coaching and co-edited 'The Outdoor and Nature Coaches Handbook'. She was a driving force behind the two successful Coaching Outdoors Podcast LIVE @ Henley Business School festivals.

Former British Army Officer, she has worked in challenging environments from snowy Arctic tundra to hot and sandy deserts though currently resides within the rolling countryside of Somerset. Alongside her passion for performance and coaching Anna- Marie has a severe ultra-running habit and has raced competitively at an international level.

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Resources

• Dan Burgess – Spaceship Earth podcast (becoming "crew" rather than passengers)
• Ali King-Smith – Rooted & Rising Podcast episode 16 discusses the commercial realities of coaching
• Alison Jones – book proposal writing programme and Bootcamp -
• Lesley Roberts – Coaching Outdoors: The Essential Guide to Partnering with Nature in Your Coaching Conversations
• Robin Wall Kimmerer – Braiding Sweetgrass and her work integrating Indigenous wisdom with Western science
• The Outdoor and Nature Coaches' Handbook co-edited by Anna-Marie Watson, Jonathan Passmore, Paul Lawrence and Alex Burn
• Coaching Outdoors Podcast archive

To find out more:

www.rootedrisingpodcast.com