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This episode is sponsored by Heyday: https://heyday.xyz/New developments in artificial intelligence make the news headlines so often that many people – including coaches and their clients – are wondering just how AI advances will affect their jobs, their careers and their lives.

In this sponsored episode of The Coach’s Journey Podcast, AI expert Samiur Rahman offers a rare insight into the way machine learning is shaping the future of coaching by fuelling the creation of tools that can save coaches time and improve their productivity.

Samiur is the co-founder of Heyday, an AI thought partner that helps coaches and other knowledge workers by generating automatic session notes, detecting patterns in client conversations, and aggregating information about clients.

In conversation with Robbie, Samiur opens up about the impact coaching has had on his journey through a career in which he has founded two start-ups and worked in others, and how he sought out the coaches who could bring out the very best in him.

He also describes the development process that led to Heyday’s creation, which involved careful consultation with coaches and produced revelations about the way practitioners work and their most pressing needs.

In this episode, Samiur and Robbie also talk about:

The power of coaching for new managers and founders alike

How the coaching we need changes at different stages of our careers

The ways AI and machine learning are likely to disrupt the world of work and the coaching industry (and the ways they aren’t)

What strange and admirable qualities coacheshave, from the perspective of someone who has studied them as customers.

Samiur also describes how Heyday, which offers a free two-week trial to all new sign-ups, has changed the lives and work of coaches who use it, and the impact upon their clients.
For links to many of the things mentioned in this episode, please visit: https://www.thecoachsjourney.com/podcast/episode-61-samiur-rahman-ai-heyday-and-the-quest-to-capture-meaningful-moments

Minor Arias is a Costa Rican coach and entrepreneur and the author of two forthcoming books: VIVE por DISEÑO (LIVING by DESIGN) and Ya soy Coach, ¿y ahora qué? (I’m a coach, now what?). After 17 years working, managing and leading in multinational corporations, Minor became the first Hewlett Packard employee to receive coaching training in Costa Rica and set off on a journey into the world of coaching. It wasn’t all plain sailing, though: at the end of his first year as an entrepreneur he had made less than he would have in a month at Hewlett Packard and was on the edge of bankruptcy. Then a chance encounter via Toastmasters set him off on a journey to the thriving coaching business he runs today.

In this episode, we talk about:

How Minor didn’t find coaching, coaching found him.

Why he chose to focus his work around coaching and not two other things he loves: speaking and training.

The simple calendar tool that his first coach taught him which led to turning his failing coaching practice around.

The origins of his new company, Vive Por Diseno (Living By Design).

What Minor has learned from founding that company: three key ideas for designing your own life.

Plus, listen out for my incredibly shaky Spanish and Minor’s beautiful English and wonderful accent.

For more information about Minor, visit www.lideresdeterminados.com or find him on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/minorarias/

For full show notes, an extended biography of Minor and more about the podcast’s host, Robbie Swale, The Coach’s Journey podcast as a whole and The Coach’s Journey group programme, visit www.thecoachsjourney.com.

For information about Robbie’s wider work and writing, visit www.robbieswalecoaching.com.

Music by My Good Man William: listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4KmeQUcTbeE31uFynHQLQg

Things and people we mentioned (that you might be interested in):

~22 - John Maxwell Team and Certification: https://johnmaxwellteam.com

~24 – The 360 Degree Leader by John Maxwell

~28 – Toastmasters: https://www.toastmasters.org/

~45 – Toastmasters Costa Rica: https://www.toastmasters.org/Find-a-Club/05159852-toastmasters-costa-rica

~51 – Jason Leonard: https://www.linkedin.com/in/%E2%98%85jason-leon-l-i-o-n-9k-followers-%E2%98%85-33594a32

~60 – The Prosperous Coach by Rich Litvin and Steve Chandler

~60 – The other podcast guest I mentioned, who read the Prosperous Coach and was relieved to find she was already doing it, was Katie Harvey. Listen to the full interview with Katie here: https://www.thecoachsjourney.com/podcast/episode-1-katie-harvey-14000-hours-of-coaching-being-part-of-the-uk-coaching-vanguard-and-being-a-generalist-coach

A couple of months ago, my friend and former client Adam Hulme asked me if we could catch up, as he was in the process of creating a new podcast. He wanted to ask me what I had learned from the first few months of The Coach’s Journey Podcast. I decided to record the conversation and release it as an episode, as I knew that Adam wouldn’t be the last person to ask how I made my decisions about creating a podcast.

So this episode is structured around the brilliant set of questions that Adam brought to me, about how I went about creating this podcast, what I have learned, what I would advise other people to do, and what I might do differently if I started again.

In particular, I talk about:

How I structure my interviews (and what I have done to try and make them as useful to listeners as possible).

Loads of the nitty gritty detail: RSS feeds, editing, hosting, gear/tech setup and more.

My three ‘must do’s if you are creating a podcast.

And you get to meet Adam, and great coach and dynamic entrepreneur, and hear about his new podcast (with co-host Kerry Hearsey), Two Coach Confidence.

Of course I’ve only made 13 podcast episodes to date, but I hope that at the very least what I have shared in this episode and via the links below will help some people shortcut the research they need to do and - even better - help people feel empowered to get out there and make something cool.

For information about my wider work and writing, visit www.robbieswalecoaching.com.

For more about Adam visit https://mycoachforlife.com/, and to listen to his podcast Two Coach Confidence (which he hosts along with Kerry Hearsey), visit: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1071241

Music by My Good Man William: listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4KmeQUcTbeE31uFynHQLQg

Things and people I mentioned (that you might be interested in):

~4: The Joe Rogan Experience: http://podcasts.joerogan.net/

~5: The Jordan B Peterson Podcast: https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/podcast/

~6: Squarespace and a discount code: https://www.squarespace.com/coupons

~9: Mums In Business Association: https://www.mumsinbusinessassociation.com/

~9: Kerry Hearsey from Two Coach Confidence: https://kerryhearsey.com/

~14: The Tim Ferriss Show: http://tim.blog/podcast

~26: Tim Ferris’s blog about building a podcast: https://tim.blog/2016/04/11/tim-ferriss-podcast-business/

~26: Tim Ferris’s page of podcast gear: https://tim.blog/podcast-gear/

~26: The video I mentioned (made by Pat Flynn) about how to edit a podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcUBZHOljzU

~27: The gear I bought: Audio Technica ATR2100-USB Cardioid Dynamic USB/XLR Microphone (not on Amazon.co.uk right now); mic covers (apparently help with sound): https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B019OO4IY6/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o07_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1; some wired headphones to plug into my mic (so you can hear yourself - I wanted to get some special ones for this): https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07Q724CXS/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1. Plus Audacity https://www.audacityteam.org/, Zoom (free for one-on-one conversations, including recording): https://zoom.us/ and Auphonic (https://auphonic.com/).

~28: Joel Monk, the podcast episode where I spoke to him: https://www.thec...

With over two decades of coaching to her name, Kala Flynn’s journey began in the early 90s long before the more recent rise of coaching. She trained in counselling and later coaching, NLP, and psychometric assessment tools and has since gone on to become a highly sought-after coach, author, mentor and speaker.

Kala was recruited to participate in Ashridge Business School’s first coaching masters course where she completed the five-year course in just two years. The course was a life-changer for her, opening her eyes to all there was to learn, and she knew she had found the vocation that makes her heart sing. Meanwhile, events in her personal life were challenging and a period of illness and recovery led her to compile much of the knowledge she had gathered over the years into a book - The Power of Human Energy. The book became a hit with 5-star reviews pouring in on Amazon, and today Kala’s programmes, sessions and masterclasses provide an introduction to these ideas and how they may be fruitfully applied within all sorts of settings. Kala is currently working on her next book provisionally titled The Power of Human Connection.

In this episode, we talk about:

Diving under the bonnet - the realisation that it's okay to challenge people and coaching isn’t about being nice.

Her journey through the publishing world - traditional publishing vs self-publishing, and where her book took her.

The ins and outs of team coaching - the importance of having fun and managing the energy of the session.

Her personal struggles - how adversity gave her strength and insight, taking her listening and inquiry into deeper places.

Plus, we discuss raising children alone and the joy of always being curious.

For more information about Kala, visit: www.inspirology.co.uk

For information about Robbie’s wider work and writing, visit www.robbieswalecoaching.com.

Music by My Good Man William: listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4KmeQUcTbeE31uFynHQLQg

To support the Coach's Journey, visit www.patreon.com/thecoachsjourney and to join the Coach's Journey Community visit www.thecoachsjourney.com/community

Things and people we mentioned (that you might be interested in):

~1: Robert Holden: https://www.robertholden.com/

~29: Relate: https://www.relate.org.uk/

~31: Transactional Analysis: http://www.ericberne.com/transactional-analysis/

~34: Saville and Holdsworth: https://www.shl.com/

~40: NLP: https://www.nlp.com/what-is-nlp/

~42: Ashridge Business School: https://www.hult.edu/en/executive-education/

~45: Eve Poole: http://evepoole.com/

~49: Bill Critchley: http://www.billcritchleyconsulting.com/coach-consultant-executive-london

~ 49: Charlotte Sills: https://www.metanoia.ac.uk/about/our-staff/faculty-1-psychotherapy-counselling/professor-charlotte-sills/

~1.03: Cambridge University Summer Programme: https://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/courses/international-summer-programmes

~1.06: Kala’s Book The Power of Human Energy: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Power-Human-Energy-Unlock-Control/dp/1999645588

~1.13: Waking Up The Workplace: http://wakinguptheworkplace.com/

~1.13: Tony Schwartz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Schwartz_(author)

~1.15: The Biology of Belief by Bruce H. Lipton: