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#036 – MASTERCLASS: Finding your bearings in turbulent times – Get Clarity Podcast

Released 30th March 2020 Subscribe: iTunes | Stitcher

I’m Jamie Smart – welcome to the podcast. You don’t need me to tell you that, as I record this, we’re living through a time of extreme volatility and uncertainty. One aspect of that is the coronavirus and its health impacts. Another aspect is the societal and economic impacts of our response to the pandemic. But the third, and for many people the most troubling aspect is the psychological and emotional distress that people are dealing with in relation to all this.

This week’s podcast is a recording of an online masterclass I did recently called “Finding your bearings in turbulent times.”

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FSOC – Finding insight in the face of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity

Released on March 20th, 2020

Former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson famously said, “A week is a long time in politics.” He was referring to how much a volatile domain can change in a very short period of time.

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FSOC – Blowing your client’s mind (and why it’s not necessary)

Released on March 8th, 2020

A couple of years ago, I was demonstrating a simple approach to enrolling high-value clients in front of a group of my students (mostly coaches and aspiring coaches). I worked with the prospective client for 15-20 minutes and got their permission to come back to them with a proposal.

After the client sat down, another member of the group commented that the session had seemed pretty ‘low-key’. He said, “I thought that if you want a client to sign up with you, you need to blow their minds in that initial session.”

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#032 – TCP INTERVIEW: The Coaching Show – Thriving Coaches Podcast

Released 27th February 2020 Subscribe: iTunes | Stitcher

This episode is a re-release of an interview from last summer, but as you’ll hear, it’s a conversation with a difference, because rather than me interviewing someone, it’s me *being* interviewed for The Coaching Show, by ICF Master Coach Christopher McAuliffe and his colleague Alex Terranova.

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FSOC – Not obvious until you know it: solving the money-mystery

Released on February 21th, 2020

There are some conversations that change your life.

One of mine happened while I was on a training course in 1999.

At the time, I was still working as a project manager, but I was ‘in transition’. I had a dream of becoming a coach, trainer and speaker, but it seemed a long way off.

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FSOC – Could self-doubt be brilliant news in disguise?

Released on 10th February 2020

This week’s ‘Friday Shot of Clarity’ is running a little late – apologies!

One of the things almost everyone runs into sooner or later is feelings of ‘self-doubt’, often taking the form of a kind of ‘who am I to do this / say this etc’.

It often comes up shortly after someone gets fresh inspiration about a direction they’d like to move in, or something they’d love to create.

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FSOC – Is it always wrong to give people advice?

Released on 24th January 2020

Question: Is it always wrong to give people advice?

(Or ‘the promise that’s like crack cocaine to our insecurities’)

I just learned a new word (with thanks to Justin Owings)…

“Verschlimmbesserung” – a noun, German – for when an attempted improvement ends up making things worse.

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FSOC – Are your feelings a reliable guide to what you should do?

Released on 17th January 2020

One of the biggest areas of confusion I see when people start exploring principles-based coaching is the area of feelings.

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FSOC – Closing the Year: Looking Back, Looking Forward, Being Present

Released on 03rd January 2020

Every year, I go through a simple process to ‘close’ the year gone by and to embrace the new year. This year I thought it might be fun to do it for the whole decade, but if that seems a bit much, you can just do this for the year.

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#034 – Addiction, Compulsion and Habits (and the solution to all of them) with Dr Mark Howard – Get Clarity Podcast

Released 19th December 2019 Subscribe: iTunes | Stitcher

The conversation you’re about to hear is one I had with my dear friend and colleague, Dr Mark Howard just before we recorded an ‘Impact Kit’ for my ClarityPro members.

Mark is a licensed psychologist who’s spent *decades* sharing the principles with people to help them recover from addictions.

As such, he’s probably the most experienced person on the planet when it comes to sharing the principles to help people break free from life-damaging habits and compulsions.

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