Empower World: The Coaching And Leadership Podcast

Want to know how going through a door will support you to have even more powerful coaching conversations? We often find ourselves coaching in a world focused on action which limits us to problem-solving on the surface and to short term change. But, if we consciously look for it, we can find a door that leads us to the client’s inner world. Lori Shook Master Certified Coach, Trainer, coach, speaker, author shares her “Through the Door” coaching model which acts as a pathway to create greater internal awareness.

What are personal values? How can they empower us to make clear choices when faced with challenging decisions? How can understanding your top values empower you to live a fulfilling life? Listen as Marie Quigley and Jeanine Bailey - co founders of Empower World - discuss the importance of understanding values and how focusing on their own personal values have supported them throughout the difficult times in their lives.

What were the learning's from the challenges that occurred in 2015 and how can they  empower you to lead a more fulfilling life now and in the future. What you do want to let go of and what do you want to hold onto?  What was fabulous and what could you do even more of? What advice would you give the person that you were on 1 January 2015? Empower world co founders Marie Quigley and Jeanine Bailey talk about the lessons of 2015 and how they will use these lessons for their personal and  professional life growth in 2016.

How can a simple practice make a difference in your life? Empower World co founders Marie Quigley and Jeanine Bailey talk about gratitude and how it can impact life in a positive way. They look back at the opportunities and challenges over the past year and give thanks for all that life and work has presented to them in 2015.

Rachel Petero, talent expert, HR professional and ICF credentialed coach recently launched #rise2025 - a global leadership and coaching programme designed to develop indigenous women to support communities, corporates and countries using the leadership skills of coaching. Rachel and Empower-World co-founder Jeanine Bailey began the programme's 10-year vision of supporting 100,000 indigenous women and girls around the world on December 9, 2015 in Wellington, New Zealand with 16 Māori women. This initiative is also in partnership with Māori Women's Development Inc. 

Are you curious about discovering what extended D I S C means and how knowing this information can support you and the people you live and work with to create better relationships? Sharon Hudson, Accreditor and Managing Director of Talent Tools Australia has been delivering Extended DISC Accreditation Training along with other psychometric testing tools since 2004. Sharon recently came to Doha to deliver accredited DISC live training to a number of professionals in HR, learning and development and the coaching field. In this episode Sharon shares her vast knowledge of the DISC tool and how to put it into practice for both yourself and others. 

How does giving up stability enable you to live an inspiring life supporting and empowering others? Layla Saad , Soulful Confidence Coach for visionary women entrepreneurs shares her personal story about the lessons she learned from suffering from depression and how now she is on a mission to empower women with the confidence to create the soulful businesses and lives of their dreams, by teaching them how to reclaim their inner power.

Nathan Cham is Publisher and Editor of Foundr Magazine (link it), a hugely successful magazine for entrepreneurs on Google Play and App Stores. He launched Foundr from his bedroom in 2013 and is now a top 10 ranked 'Business & Investing Magazine' on the App Store. He has interviewed accomplished entrepreneurs and leaders around the world, namely Sir Richard Branson, Arianna Huffington, Tony Robbins and other world change makers. He shares his key to success in this week's interview.

Taki Moore is regarded by many as the world’s #1 business & executive coach lead generation expert. Since 2004, Taki has been the go-to-guy for coaches when they need/want to sign clients quickly. In this podcast, he shares his insights into what makes a highly successful, effective and heart-centred business.

Sue Knight is a renown Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) expert and coach working globally with individuals and organisations. Sue shares with us that one of the elements she likes to bring into her coaching is the use of humour to create - often - very significant change to someone's perspective. Find out more about how Sue uses this effectively to support her clients create positive change.

Siimon Reynolds is a multi award winning entrepreneur, mentor and coach to some of the most successful business leaders in the world focusing on top performance. He also writes for Forbes.com, the world's leading business website. In this week’s podcast, Siimon shares insights as to how he has achieved huge success from age of 21 appointed as Creative Director for a leading international advertising firm to founding a highly successful business based in New York in his twenties and starting a business listing on the Australian Stock Exchange to where he is today.

Experience the wisdom and playfulness of master certified coach Cynthia Loy Darst as she shares how listening to or not listening to our positive and negative internal voices can affect our everyday choices and so much more  Cynthia is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach and a Certified Relationship & Systems Coach, Cynthia is also recognized as a Master Certified Coach from the International Coach Federation and a Board Certified Coach from CCE.  She is on the faculty of  CTI (The Coaches Training Institute) and CRR Global (The Center for Right Relationship).and one of the founders of ICF. In 2006, she developed “The Inside Team” a powerful one-on-one coaching tool, inspired most directly from working with people and  relationships.

How does a coach who is naturally disorganised end up being a productivity coach for leaders in some of world's well known organisation's? Discover how Colin Boyd, who describes himself as being creative versus orderly, learnt and practiced powerful strategies to empower himself and the creative leaders he has worked with to become highly effective and productive across all the areas of their lives. Colin Boyd works with a number of large organisations such as Hewlett-Packard, Alliance, and Fuji/Xerox to support their leaders to achieve great performance.

How can the simple questions of a child enable you to get curious about who you are are what you want out of life? Listen to Gonan Premfors - author, speaker, founder of Gozamm and co owner of the Coaches Training Institute, as she shares how her daughter's questions proved to be a powerful catalyst for developing a hugely successful coaching business which in turn also created balance and fulfillment for her and her family.

What can you do if you are surrounded by health issues - including your own - and when someone you've worked closely with and admired has suddenly passed away from heart failure? Find out how Nicole Van Hattem - health and wellness personal and corporate warrior - took matters into her own hands by firstly leading the wellness shift in her own life to inspire others to make the change in themselves.  

What does feeling like a ram versus a sheep have in common with talent development and leadership? Find out what it means to Rachel Petero, talent transformation expert and coach, and how she has utilised this understanding to shape her unique and successful offering to blue chip and entrepreneurial organisations across her native New Zealand, as well as Qatar and the UK.

How does cartoon character Rin Tin Tin and finding a chick egg shell as a child shape a highly successful journalistic career? Find out more about award winning Al Jazeera International news anchor and correspondent Nick Clarke, whose role has taken him on many world-wide adventures to places not many would go. Find out how he has lived according to what he is passionate about, creating much awareness about environmental issues to support positive and sustainable change on a global level.  

How do expeditions to wild and far-flung places in the world contribute to our health and leadership development? Julie Lewis proved how it supports our well-being, especially after leading over 50 expeditions in over 20 countries, including journeys to the Arctic and Antarctica, most notably with groups of female cancer survivors. Find out more about how she has taken men and women on life-changing challenges and transformation.

  Rachel Anastasi started a number of successful businesses and established a wellness centre well before the age of 30 whilst also significantly contributing to charitable organisations as a founder, event manager and provider of services. Find out what drives Rachel to live a courageous and purposeful life as a coach, trainer, author, mentor, speaker and trailblazer on a mission.

  Ben Croft is the president of the World Business and Executive Coach Summit and co-founder of the Coach Master toolkit as well as the CEO of the Executive Coach MBA. He is also an award-winning marketer.  Ben has over 4,000 coaches as clients from 149 countries and his annual event in 2014 attracted over 14,500 business and executive coaches. Ben works firsthand with the world’s leading experts in the coaching industry including Marshall Goldsmith, Seth Goden, John C. Maxwell, Brian Tracey, David Allen, Karen Kimsi-House, Vern Harnish, Sir John Whitmore, Michael E. Gerber and heads of the largest coaching organisations in the world.