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The Impactful Coach: Learn Coaching Skills & Coaching Demos (formerly: The Making of a Coach)Coach-Trainer-FAQ: A Masterclass in becoming a coach with Lucy HigginsOn this 'Making of a Coach', Tobi meets Lucy Higgins to unpack real "Frequently Asked Questions" from aspiring coaches wanting to become a coach. Drawing on her work training cohorts of new coaches at Animas in the UK and her own practice, Lucy digs into client acquisition strategies, whether to niche, and the true timeline of coaching business building. They also explore coaching pricing models, the balance between directive and non‑directive work, why supervision matters and when ICF/EMCC accreditation helps (and when it doesn’t).Key Learnings:Define a prec...
2025-11-0745 min
Thriving not SurvivingEp15: Crystal’s Story – A Courtesan’s Path to EmpowermentSummary In this bold and beautiful episode of Thriving Not Surviving, Helen speaks with Crystal Powers, an Elite Courtesan, content creator, and advocate for ethical tech. With honesty and heart, Crystal shares her journey from childhood trauma and emotional struggle to personal liberation, growth, and thriving in her truth. Together, they explore the power of therapy, the importance of forgiveness, and how transformational coaching helped her build emotional resilience and self-worth. Crystal speaks openly about her work, challenging outdated myths about sex work and shedding light on the emotional connection, care, and deep personal boundaries it requires. She also...
2025-06-181h 04
The Impactful Coach: Learn Coaching Skills & Coaching Demos (formerly: The Making of a Coach)Becoming a Coach with Todd Roach: From Musician to Transformational Energy Work and CoachingIn this episode of "The Making of a Coach," we delve into the journey of Todd Roache, a UK-based practitioner specializing in energy work coaching and mentoring. Todd shares his transition from a musician to a coach, highlighting his experiences with the Animas Coach Academy and his unique approach to transformational coaching. The conversation explores Todd's diverse roles, including his private practice, corporate coaching, and his work as a Coach Development Facilitator. Listeners will gain insights into Todd's methods, including his use of energy work and his philosophy on pricing and client acquisition.Key...
2025-05-0244 min
The Impactful Coach: Learn Coaching Skills & Coaching Demos (formerly: The Making of a Coach)Coaching Demo with Todd Roache: Navigating Inner Journeys and Energy WorkIn this episode of "The Making of a Coach," Todd Roache, a practitioner and coach from the UK demos his coaching and energy work with Tobi from metaFox. They explore the nuances of energy work and inner journeys. Todd shares his experiences and insights into how energy work can reveal deeper truths about one's self, emphasizing the importance of self-acceptance and the balance between light and dark. The conversation delves into the role of suffering in self-discovery and how coaches can support clients in navigating their inner journeys. Todd's unique approach combines traditional coaching with energy work, offering a...
2025-04-2559 min
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrity#81: George Warren – The Coaching Industry is Ignoring RealityGeorge Warren describes “growth through discomfort” as a key theme in his life and in this episode of The Coach’s Journey Podcast, he lays down a challenge to the coaching industry to step out of its comfort zone and explore questions that might challenge the very foundations of our work.While many of us place the principles of being client-led and non-directive at the centre of our practice, George views coaching through a lens of universal interconnectedness where there is always more than one voice to consider.Drawing upon Gestalt psychology, Eastern mysticism and his ex...
2024-10-171h 52
Coaching UncagedPower and Partnership in Coaching: An Interview with Claire PedrickI think it's a fantasy that we add value by trying to add value, because trying to add too much value impacts partnership.
I'm discovering more and more that there's no end to the work that we can do and the work we can let go of to be fully working in partnership.
Claire Pedrick.
Join coach, author and coaching supervisor, Claire Pedrick, in conversation with Coaching Uncaged host, Yannick Jacob.
As the author of Simplifying Coaching, Claire is passionate about helping coaches achieve more by doing less...
2022-09-171h 21
Lifting the Lid on Coaching SupervisionLifting The Lid - Episode 91 - The one where empathy runs into collusionClare and Steve, inspired by the Animas blog post of Nick Bolton, explore the place where empathy meets collusion. We seek to be empathetic as coaches, but when might that cross the line and become collusion with our clients? And collusion of course doesn't have to be expressed (even inadvertently), it can be implied by what we don't say or indeed by a smile, a facial movement or a shift in our posture. Our podcasters conclude that coaches should be reflecting on their work and any propensity to get this balance out of kilter is probably a trip to supervision.
2022-07-1234 min
The Wonder Dome#72 The Theater of Our Lives (with Robert Stephenson)Robert Stephenson is a coach, trainer, mentor, and inspirational speaker. For a number of years, he was the director for coaching at Animas, one of the most diversified and impactful coaching schools in UK and Europe. He has a deeply humanistic approach to his work that's grounded in his clear love of human beings and the ways in which we can engage with all aspects of ourselves to write and rewrite the stories of our lives.Before arriving to the world of coaching and human development, Robert devoted years of his life training...
2021-09-301h 15
Coaching UncagedExploring the Shadow: A discussion with Nick ThorpeIn this fascinating episode of Coaching Uncaged Animas Centre Director Robert Stephenson is joined by coach, trainer, author and facilitator of our upcoming masterclass Nick Thorpe to explore his work around coaching the shadow.
Nick shares the background that brought him to coaching, and his current work, and touches on what is meant by ‘coaching the shadow’, with reference to Carl Jung’s original ‘shadow’ concept. Offering examples from his own journey, he highlights the benefits of truly understanding the shadow for our own self growth, as well as being able to bring it into the space with the c...
2021-09-0950 min
Coaching UncagedExploring Time to Think Coaching and Thinking Environments: A Discussion with Lucy GourlayIn this episode of Coaching Uncaged Animas Centre Director Robert Stephenson is joined by Time to Think and Transformational Life Coach Lucy Gourlay as they dive into Nancy Kline’s Time to Think approach to coaching, as well as sharing some information around the upcoming Animas one day ‘Thinking Environment Masterclass that Lucy is delivering on 18th September.
Lucy shares more about the Time to Think approach, what sits behind it as a coaching concept and shares her background around this fascinating work, as well as her journey as a coach. She shares some more detail around the...
2021-08-0339 min
Coaching UncagedExploring Social Impact and the Creating Space Programme: A Discussion With Head of Social Impact Emma KoubayssiIn this captivating episode of Coaching Uncaged Animas Centre Director Robert Stephenson is joined by Head of Social Impact at Animas Emma Koubayssi as they dive into all things social impact and explore the new Creating Space initiative that is poised to roll out its second wave shortly.
Emma details her background around social impact, sharing some of the big campaigns and projects she worked on around the world. Projects often focused on making an impact on young people, health and education. Emma also shares her own definition of Social Impact and the work being done around...
2021-07-1340 min
The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrityEpisode #27: Robert Stephenson - How to Say Yes and Become a Conduit for ChangeSaying yes has shaped Robert Stephenson's life. Accepting opportunities and seeing where they took him propelled Robert as he became a trained actor, a narrative coach, and the director of Animas Centre for Coaching - one of Europe’s largest coaching schools.While this optimistic disposition has guided him through a career that he thinks of as "a quest", he has not shied away from difficult conversations around diversity, inclusion, and even climate within the coaching space.He shares his own experiences to help create vital dialogue that is free from shame and emb...
2021-07-012h 15
The Transformative Leader Podcast: Culture Transformation | Corporate CoachingTTLP 160 : "Mastering the Craft of Coaching" - An Interview with Robert StephensonIn this episode, Amir talks with coaching expert, Robert Stephenson, about the craft of coaching, the art of listening, and what each of us can do differently to be better coaches to those who rely on us for guidance. For more: theghannadgroup.com/blog/ttlpodcast-160Guest LinksWebsite: animascoaching.com/Podcast: Coaching UncagedLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/robert-stephenson-2491a21/, linkedin.com/school/animascoaching/Twitter: twitter.com/CreativeRobertFacebook: facebook.com/animascoaching/YouTube: youtube.com/user/animascoachingInstagram: instagram.com/animascoaching/——————————The Transformative LeaderWebsite: theghannadgroup.com/Buy the book...
2021-04-2238 min
Coaching UncagedExploring Group Coaching: A Discussion With Emma DempseyIn this episode, Animas Centre Director Robert Stephenson is joined by coach, trainer, supervisor, facilitator and trainer of the Animas Accredited Certificate in Group Coaching, Emma Dempsey.
Emma shares her background that brought her to coaching, touching on the previous work that she did with groups around community development, bringing people together and nurturing groups within communities.
Emma and Robert also share what it means to be a group coach, and coach a group, and what we mean when we talk about group coaching. Emma also touches on how coaching skills show up in the gr...
2021-03-3035 min
Coaching UncagedUsing Mindfulness in Coaching: A Discussion With Emily JohnstonThis is a conversation that actually took place before the relaunch of Coaching Uncaged earlier this year, but it has so much valuable information around mindfulness and what it can bring to our practice as coaches that we thought with our Mindfulness CPD coming up this weekend (28-29 November), it’s a great time for it to debut on the podcast!
In this engaging conversation Animas Centre Director Robert Stephenson explores the concept of mindfulness with Animas Trainer and Wellbeing Practitioner Emily Johnston .
Emily shares what mindfulness is, her own mindfulness practice, and how practicing mi...
2020-11-2454 min
Coaching UncagedBringing Positive Psychology Into Coaching: A Discussion With Yannick JacobIn this conversation Animas Centre Director Robert Stephenson is joined by Positive Psychologist, Existential Coach, Trainer, Supervisor Yannick Jacob to dive into the world of positive psychology, and its relationship to coaching.
Yannick shares how he works with positive psychology, some of the benefits of bringing positive psychology approaches into the coaching space, and how you can begin to think about integrating it into your own coaching.
Yannick also touches on flow state, and explores some of the positive psychology informed approaches that coaches can work with to create conditions for people to be more...
2020-11-1040 min
Coaching UncagedExploring Youth and Education Coaching: A Discussion With Emily JohnstonIn this episode, Animas Centre Director Robert Stephenson is joined by coach, Animas trainer, author and mindfulness and wellbeing practitioner Emily Johnston as they explore Youth & Education Coaching.
Emily shares the work she does in this area, some of the things she brings to the space that makes her work so tangible and relatable for the young people she works with and her background working with young people.
Emily also touches on why working with young people in education sector is hugely needed at this time, the differences in coaching young people both inside and o...
2020-10-2042 min
Coaching UncagedExploring Existential Approaches to Coaching: A Discussion with Sasha van Deurzen-SmithIn this episode of Coaching Uncaged Animas Centre Director Robert Stephenson is joined by Existential Coach, Trainer and Author Sasha van Deurzen-Smith to explore what we mean by existential coaching, and what existential approaches bring to the coaching dynamic.
Sasha shares the work that she is currently doing around existentialism, and neurodiversity, touching on her co-authored project which shines a light on existential coaching for adults with an autism spectrum condition. Sasha also shares exciting news around her work on the intersectionality of the LGBTQ+ community that also have an autism spectrum condition, and...
2020-07-281h 07
Coaching UncagedExploring Cultural Diversity in Coaching: A Roundtable With Salma Shah, Saima Butt & Bob SinghaIn the first episode of the new Coaching Uncaged podcast Animas Centre Director Robert Stephenson is joined on a roundtable discussion by Executive and Systemic Coach Salma Shah, Executive Coach Saima Butt and Master Youth Coach Bob Singha to explore the lack of cultural diversity in the coaching industry and the things that we might all do to change this.
The panel share their personal experiences and journeys around diversity in the world of coaching, drawing on their own backgrounds, insights and observations to create a fascinating discussion on an incredibly important topic.
Using the cu...
2020-06-2351 min
Ignite Your MindRobert Stephenson - Coach, Facilitator, Teacher, Opportunistic, Mime artistWelcome to another episode of the Ignite Your Mind podcast
A safe place for real talk on discovering powerful stories, talking about mental health, real business journeys and hearing inspiring stories.
My names Sanjay Patel and I’m a transformational life coach.
And this week I have another, special guest that is Robert Stephenson from Animas Centre of Coaching.
Robert talks us through his younger years growing up in the east end of London and the transition to the world of dance, ballet and miming and in his words ‘it was like...
2020-06-0557 min
Expert To Authority With Simone VincenziEpisode #182 Explode Your Coaching Business Part 2Welcome to episode #182 of Explode Your Expert Biz Show, brought to you by http://gtex.org.uk/, I am your host, Simone Vincenzi, The Experts Strategist, and this is the podcast for experts who want to become the ultimate authority in their niche while making an impact in the world. To learn more about our exclusive 100k Retreat in Thailand in January 2019 click here >> Today I have the pleasure to Interview Nick Bolton Nick is the founder and CEO of Animas. An existentially-oriented coac...
2018-11-141h 25
Expert To Authority With Simone VincenziEpisode #181 How To Live The REAL 4-Hour Work WeekWelcome to episode #181 of Explode Your Expert Biz Show, brought to you by http://gtex.org.uk/, I am your host, Simone Vincenzi, The Experts Strategist, and this is the podcast for experts who want to become the ultimate authority in their niche while making an impact in the world. Today I have the pleasure to Interview Nick Bolton Nick is the founder and CEO of Animas. An existentially-oriented coach and supervisor, Nick has created Animas to embody the qualities of unknowing with an emergent approach to coa...
2018-11-0752 min
Coaching UncagedThe Future of Coaching: Nick Bolton & Hetty EinzigTwo of the coaching industries most progressive thinkers sit down together to discuss some of the concepts from Hetty's recently released book, 'The Future of Coaching'.
Here are some of the question raised in this interview...
Leadership, Where is coaching going? What role does it play in a VUCA world? (volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity), What does this all mean for the coaching profession?
Nick Bolton is the CEO and founder of the UK's leading transformational coaching school, Animas centre for coaching:
https://www.animascoaching.com/
Buy Hetty Einzig's book: The Future of...
2018-01-2943 min