Are you a coach who secretly wonders if you’re “doing it right”? You’re not alone, and this episode is for you.

In this episode we unpack a topic that nearly every coach wrestles with at some point: CONFIDENCE.

Whether you're just starting out or years into your practice, it's normal to question yourself, "Am I doing this right?" "Could I be better?" We see it time and again in our training rooms and our own journeys, that shaky moment when you step into the coaching seat and doubt creeps in.

In this episode we cover:

1. Confidence is fluid: It changes over time and across clients; uncertainty may stem from the coaching dynamic, not just your ability.
2. Lean on trusted peers: Having another coach to talk to is invaluable, especially when supervision isn't immediately available.
3. Acknowledge competence gaps: Confidence and competence go hand in hand; recognise where you need to grow your skills and take action.
4. Choose aligned training programmes: Confidence flourishes in learning environments that align with your values, energy, and coaching style.
5. Know and own your coaching style: Understanding your natural style helps reduce comparison and builds authentic confidence.
6. Stretch yourself with CPD and variety: Try different coaching formats, durations, and approaches to expand your ability and confidence.
7. Seek intentional feedback: Ask for meaningful, specific feedback to grow in areas where you feel uncertain.

This episode is full of lived experience, reassurance, and practical steps. Confidence doesn’t arrive all at once, it’s grown, session by session, conversation by conversation.

If you're feeling unsure or stuck in self-doubt, you're not alone. Confidence is something we build through the work, not before it. Whether you need CPD, supervision, peer support, or just a community of coaches who get it, we’re here for you.

Explore more at https://igcompany.co.uk

And if this episode helped, drop us a message. We love hearing from you.

Timestamps:

• 00:00 — Introduction: Why confidence matters for coaches
• 02:10 — Feeling confident with some clients but not others
• 06:15 — The power of coaching peers and quick support
• 09:20 — Contracts, competence, and admin: the hidden confidence killers
• 13:35 — The importance of choosing coach training aligned with your values
• 20:50 — Stop comparing: Know and own your coaching style
• 24:10 — CPD, supervision, play, and expanding your skills
• 30:35 — Intentional feedback and how to ask for it

Keywords:

how to grow confidence as a coach, coaching confidence tips, building coaching skills, coaching supervision for new coaches, choosing the right coach training, peer support for coaches, reflective practice coaching. coaching style self-awareness, CPD for coaches, coaching feedback techniques

Links:

• All coaching programmes mentioned (Emotions Coaching, Neurodivergent Inclusive Coaching, CPD, Foundations to Masters):
  https://igcompany.co.uk

Have you ever wondered what truly makes coaching one of the most rewarding careers you could pursue?

In this episode we take a heartfelt wander through what we believe are the very best things about being a coach. Spoiler alert: we didn’t stop at five!

This conversation is all about celebrating coaching, not just as a profession, but as a way of living that aligns with our values, passions, and purpose.

The 5 things we believe makes coaching the best profession:

1. Combining passion and talent
2. Meeting incredible people and joining a supportive coaching community
3. Flexibility and autonomy in designing your own hours and environment
4. Authenticity; being your own kind of coach
5. The human connection and deep fulfilment coaching brings

This episode is a celebration of everything coaching can be. And if you’re new to coaching or wondering if it’s “your thing,” we hope this opens a door for you.

If you’re new to coaching or rediscovering your purpose as a coach, this episode is for you. If it sparked something in you, let us know! We love hearing how the podcast lands, what it catalyses, and what you'd love us to talk about next.

Explore our coach training programmes at https://igcompany.co.uk or simply get in touch and say hello.

Timestamps:

• 00:00 — Why celebrate coaching?
• 01:10 — #1: Combining passion and talent
• 03:15 — #2: Meeting amazing people around the world
• 06:40 — #3: Flexibility, autonomy, and designing your own life
• 10:20 — #4: Being your authentic coaching self
• 13:30 — #5: A humbling, deeply human profession
• 17:50 — Parallel process, systemic thinking, and intergenerational insight
• 21:15 — Broader impact: on family, life, and values
• 24:30 — Working outdoors and location freedom
• 27:40 — Coaching as personal choice and alignment
• 30:00 — Final thoughts: Coaching gives us joy, meaning, and community

Key Lessons Learned

1. Coaching is not just a job, it’s a calling.
2. You can align your work life with your values through coaching.
3. Coaching offers flexibility, autonomy, and location independence.
4. The coaching community is warm, supportive, and collaborative.
5. You get to be yourself, and support others in being themselves.
6. Coaching teaches you about the world, humanity, and your place in it.
7. The ripple effect of coaching touches your clients, family, and future.

Keywords:

Best things about coaching, Why become a coach, Benefits of coaching as a career, Coaching flexibility, Coaching community, Coaching lifestyle, Coaching impact on family, Coaching self-employment, Working as a coach, Life as a professional coach,

Links:

• All coaching programmes mentioned (Emotions Coaching, Neurodivergent Inclusive Coaching, CPD, Foundations to Masters):
  https://igcompany.co.uk

NDI Coaching Programme & Resources https://igcompany.co.uk/ND

Is kindness enough when it comes to creating inclusive coaching spaces, or do we need something more intentional, informed, and powerful?

In this episode we explore something that sits deeply in our hearts and runs through our work: neurodivergent inclusive coaching.

As coaches, we often say we're inclusive. We’re empathic. We care deeply. But as we discovered through both personal experience and professional insight, good intentions aren’t always enough. Kindness can’t replace knowledge and inclusion doesn’t happen by accident.

Many of our clients are neurodivergent. Some know it. Some don’t. But all of them deserve a coaching space where they can be who they are, without masking, adjusting, or feeling “too much.” That’s the space we’re committed to helping others build.

We talk about how neurodivergent inclusive coaching isn’t just about working with those who are autistic or have ADHD. It’s about setting a tone in our language, our websites, our chemistry calls, and our sessions that says; “You are safe here.”

We break down why language matters so much. For instance, referring to someone as “a person with autism” versus “an autistic person” may seem like a detail, but it can reflect respect or a lack of understanding. These nuances define how welcoming our spaces feel.

We dive into strength-based coaching, trauma-informed practice, sensory sensitivity awareness, communication differences, and how to adapt your coaching rather than expecting clients to conform.

So often, neurodivergent clients have lived through trauma, especially from workplaces or education systems that weren’t built with their needs in mind. These layers show up in coaching, and we need the skills to recognise, honour, and support that.

From eye contact and body language to executive functioning and stimming, we explore practical ways to create a truly inclusive space, and challenge the assumption that neutrality equals inclusivity. It doesn’t.

Creating neurodivergent inclusive coaching isn’t optional if you care about inclusion. It’s not just about adding a string to your bow. It’s about making your coaching safer, deeper, and more human.

Timestamps:

• 00:00 — Why this topic matters so much to us
• 01:30 — What it means to be neurodivergent inclusive
• 03:50 — The power of language and identity
• 06:15 — Strength-based coaching, masking, and belonging
• 10:00 — Trauma and internalised neuro-negativity
• 13:50 — Creating space for unmasking and authentic presence
• 17:30 — Sensory sensitivity, communication preferences & micro-adjustments
• 23:40 — Why inclusion must be intentional, not assumed
• 27:00 — What’s in the NDI Coaching Programme and how to join

Key Lessons Learned:

1. Inclusion isn’t passive: it requires education, intention, and effort.
2. Neurodivergent clients have often experienced trauma: understanding that changes the way we coach.
3. Language and labels matter: small shifts can build or break trust.
4. Masking is exhausting: coaching should be the space where people can unmask safely.
5. Strength-based approaches honour neurodivergence instead of trying to “fix” it.
6. Your job as a coach is to adapt: not to expect your client to adjust to you.
7. Kindness is not enough: inclusion takes ongoing learning and humility.

Keywords:

Neurodivergent inclusive coaching, Coaching for neurodivergent clients, Inclusive coaching environments, Trauma-informed coaching, Coaching and masking, ADHD coaching strategies, Autism friendly coaching, Neurodiversity in coaching, Strength-based coaching, Sensory sensitivity in coaching,

Links:

• NDI Coaching Programme & Resources
  https://igcompany.co.uk/ND
• All coaching programmes mentioned (Emotions Coaching, Neurodivergent Inclusive Coaching, CPD, Foundations to Masters):
  https://igcompany.co.uk

FREE ACCESS to Introduction to Group and Team Coaching – Group & Team Coaching: https://igcompany.co.uk/GTC

Have you ever wondered if coaching could be the missing piece to thriving and not just surviving in your HR role?

In this episode we take a heartfelt look back at our own HR roots and how those experiences eventually led us to embrace coaching not just as a skill, but as a calling.

Back when we were in HR, we wore every hat going. One minute we were leading disciplinary meetings, the next we were guiding people through career development plans, followed by workforce planning and trying to boost team morale, all while being the go-to for engagement and wellbeing. Sound familiar?

We talk about how HR professionals are often expected to magically facilitate group dynamics or support complex team conversations, not because they've been trained to do so, but because they're "good with people." And while those talents are real, the demand can feel overwhelming without the right tools.

That’s where coaching started to show up in our world, quietly, in feedback calls, tricky line manager conversations, or wellbeing chats that left us emotionally drained. We didn’t know it yet, but we were already coaching, we just didn’t have the language or training for it.

The emotional demands of HR can be enormous especially when you're holding space for others while secretly needing someone to hold space for you. When we trained as coaches, not only did it sharpen our skillset, it also gave us community, clarity, and confidence.

Coaching also helps you step back and de-personalise what can feel like daily emotional battles in HR. It rounds your edges, helps you reflect, and puts your professional growth into perspective.

And sometimes, coaching isn’t just an enhancement, it’s a doorway. A path out of corporate life into consultancy, freedom, creativity and impact. That was our journey, and maybe, just maybe, it could be yours too.

Timestamps:

• 00:00 — Our personal journey from HR to coaching
• 01:50 — The unrealistic expectations placed on HR professionals
• 03:15 — The hidden coaching already embedded in HR roles
• 04:40 — Coaching skills HR people already have (and can enhance)
• 07:24 — Holding space for others when you're depleted
• 11:06 — Why training in coaching helps you lead better in HR
• 14:23 — Depersonalising the emotional weight of HR
• 20:00 — The creative and freeing side of coaching careers

Key Lessons Learned:

1. HR professionals are natural coaches; they just don’t always realise it.
2. Coaching enhances confidence, resilience, and relational skills in emotionally intense roles.
3. Holding space for others is valuable; but you must also be held.
4. Developing coaching skills isn’t just for coaches, it benefits every HR decision and conversation.
5. Personal development and professional growth go hand-in-hand in HR.
6. Coaching can be both a career evolution and an exit strategy.

Keywords:

Coaching for HR professionals, HR coaching skills, Career change from HR to coaching, How to become a coach from HR, Building a coaching culture in organisations, Emotional intelligence in HR, Leadership development HR, Group and team coaching, Neurodiversity and inclusive coaching, Personal development for HR teams,

Links:

• Free Intro Lesson – Group & Team Coaching:
  https://igcompany.co.uk/GTC
• All coaching programmes mentioned (Emotions Coaching, Neurodivergent Inclusive Coaching, CPD, Foundations to Masters):
  https://igcompany.co.uk