Connection Experiment by Coach Academy

Nathalie Blais, CEO and Founder of Coach Academy
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The Connection Experiment is all about human connection - and how everyday people are using connection to change the world. Join Nathalie Blais, ICF Master Certified Coach and Founder of Coach Academy as she dives into deep conversations about the importance of connection, community, and coaching with guests exploring what's possible when we are open to connection.

  1. 3d ago

    Heart vs. Fear: What Kind of Leader Are You Really?

    What's the difference between leading from the heart and leading from fear? Nathalie Blais has been sitting with that question for weeks — doing a full self-audit on her own leadership style, looking for the signals, and mapping what she found.In this episode she covers what your job as a leader actually is, why she'd be a fraud to say she has it figured out, the moment a leader loses the room without knowing it, why fear disguises itself as high standards, two questions that instantly reveal which lane you're in, why courage is a skill anyone can develop, and why withholding is a form of control.This is an invitation to experiment. Use the conversations you have this week as your laboratory.Ready to start your coaching journey? Learn more at canadacoachacademy.com.#leadershipcoaching #heartledleadership #fearbasedleadership #coachingpodcast #CanadaCoachAcademy #executiveleadership #growthmindset #selfawareness #leadershipdevelopment #coachingcommunity #psychologicalsafety #managementcoaching #becomingacoach #ICFcoach #mindsetshift

    55 min

  2. Jun 17

    The 30% Rule: What Actually Creates Change

    Lisa Rotstein is a Professional Certified Coach with nearly three decades of experience working with healthcare systems and nonprofit boards. She coaches executives and leadership teams through organizational change and facilitates at Canada Coach Academy.In this episode, she and Nathalie cover what it actually feels like when a room breaks open, why people form a judgment about you within seven seconds, what to do before any difficult conversation, and why the problem you're brought in to solve is almost always a symptom of something else.Ready to start your coaching journey? Learn more at coachacademy.com.#leadershipcoaching #executivecoaching #coachingpodcast #CanadaCoachAcademy #organizationalchange #growthmindset #selfawareness #coachingcommunity #feedbackculture #psychologicalsafety #leadershipdevelopment #coachingskills #becomingacoach #ICFcoach #managementcoaching

    1h 12m

  3. Jun 10

    Who Do You Think You Are: The Story That Almost Stopped a TEDx Talk

    In university, Nathalie Blais read every course syllabus before registering for a class. She was checking for oral presentations. If she found one, she dropped it.Thirty years later she stood on a TEDx stage in Washington DC and went completely blank.It turns out the stories you tell yourself long enough start to feel like facts. She gives you one exercise to test that.Ready to start your coaching journey? Learn more at canadacoachacademy.com. #selfawareness #impostersyndrome #leadershipcoaching #coachingpodcast #CanadaCoachAcademy #growthmindset #personaldevelopment #innerwork #mindsetshift #coachingcommunity #becomingacoach #fearofbeingseen #connectionskills #limitingbeliefs #selfdoubt

    35 min

  4. Jun 3

    Basement to CEO: How Better Questions Built a Better Business

    Gina Perrault is the founder and CEO of a multidisciplinary health clinic near Calgary — a business she started in her basement with a three-year-old, a six-month-old, and a husband on parental leave upstairs. Within three years, her team of two had grown to ten, the clinic had moved into a 2,000 square foot building on her acreage, and a non-profit had moved into the basement. Then COVID hit. And so did a rare lymphoma diagnosis.In this episode, Gina talks openly about imposter syndrome and what it took to step into her identity as a CEO, why she finally left a secure career to start over, what coaching changed about how she asks questions — both as a leader and as a clinician — and why she believes the most important shift an entrepreneur can make is learning to lead from worth rather than from the need to prove it.Ready to start your coaching journey? Learn more at canadacoachacademy.com.#entrepreneurship #leadershipcoaching #coachingpodcast #CanadaCoachAcademy #impostersyndrome #womeninbusiness #growthmindset #selfawareness #coachingcommunity #resilience #smallbusiness #becomingacoach #ICFcoach #personaldevelopment #mindsetshift

    1h 7m

  5. May 27

    Best of Revived | The Leader Who Had All the Answers: What Happened When She Stopped Giving Them

    Stacey Kravitz has spent over 20 years building her career in food and grocery, moving from sales rep to the president of a national distribution company. She is decisive, results-driven, and self-described as someone who always had the answers. Then she took a coaching certification and discovered that having the answers was exactly what was holding her back as a leader.In this episode, Stacey is candid about the struggle of wearing a leader hat and a coach hat at the same time, the coaching session from 15 years ago she can still recall word for word, why she was once passed over for a promotion because a boss couldn't deliver an honest conversation, and what she means when she says coaching gave her leadership more substance. It's a rare look inside what happens when a senior executive becomes a genuine student again.If you're a leader who's wondering what coaching could unlock for you, visit Canada Coach Academy at https://canadacoachacademy.com/#leadershipcoaching #executivecoaching #coachingculture #coachingpodcast #CanadaCoachAcademy #leadershipdevelopment #growthmindset #coachingcommunity #selfawareness #feedbackculture #coachmindset #becomingacoach #ICFcoach #careertransition #leadershiplessons

    58 min

  6. May 20

    Broken Neck, World Cup Win: What Elite Sport Taught Me About the Mental Game

    Kris Mahler has spent nine years on the Canadian national ski cross team, survived three major injuries including a broken neck, and is now building a performance coaching business alongside his athletic career. He's one of a rare group of people who can speak to the mental side of high performance not as theory but as lived experience — including winning a World Cup on a hamstring that tested at double the acceptable deficit. This conversation moves through what actually separates athletes at the highest level, why the most effective coaching sessions are often the quietest ones, what it means to have people who genuinely believe in you standing at the bottom of the course, and why the question you're starting from — why versus what — shapes everything that follows. Ready to start your coaching journey? Learn more at canadacoachacademy.com.

    47 min

  7. May 13

    Best of Revived | Three burnouts and a dream that became a book — the truth about leadership

    Lisa Anna Palmer has worn a lot of hats — HR executive, VP advisor, published author, NGO co-chair, and now a PCC-track coach who works with some of the most under-supported people in any organization: the ones at the very top. But the thread running through all of it is the same question she's been asking since she was a kid trying to make people feel included in a town where her family didn't quite fit: how do we bring out the best in people without burning them out — or ourselves?This conversation moves through burnout (three of them), the moment four words from a coach changed her life, the real difference between coaching and mentoring, what it actually looks and feels like to hold space for a senior leader who has never once been truly listened to, the five-year journey of writing a book, and the Kenyan NGO she co-chairs in memory of a friend who believed that doing good didn't have to wait until you were a billionaire. Ready to start your coaching journey? Learn more at canadacoachacademy.com. #leadershipcoaching #executivecoaching #burnout #coachingpodcast #coachingvsmentoring #ICFcoach #becomingacoach #selfleadership #coachingcommunity #CanadaCoachAcademy #lightayearleadership #womenleaders #givingback

    1h 8m

  8. May 6

    Best of Revived | The Career Accelerator Nobody Told You About: Coaching Skills for Executives

    In this episode of The Connection Experiment, host Nathalie Blais sits down with Alex Green, CMO at Butterfield and Robinson, a Canadian active luxury travel company, and a recent graduate of Canada Coach Academy's executive and performance coaching program. Alex opens up about why a busy senior executive with two decades of career momentum decided to invest in coach training, what surprised him most about the experience, and how the skills have shown up almost immediately in a brand new role he started just six weeks before this recording.Throughout the conversation, Alex shares his honest take on the hardest part of shifting from a fixer mindset to a coach mindset when you have built an entire career on having answers and moving fast. He talks about the unexpected depth of connection that formed within his cohort, the surprising amount of work the program required, and why he still considers it more transformational than he ever anticipated. He also offers sharp, practical advice for coaches building their brands, drawn from his own experience as a senior marketer, including why your niche matters more than your logo, and why the referral will always be your best marketing. Whether you are a senior leader exploring coaching as a career accelerant or someone wondering if the program is worth the commitment, Alex gives you the unfiltered version.Ready to find out what coaching skills can unlock in your career and your life? Learn more at Canada Coach Academy.

    51 min
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The Connection Experiment is all about human connection - and how everyday people are using connection to change the world. Join Nathalie Blais, ICF Master Certified Coach and Founder of Coach Academy as she dives into deep conversations about the importance of connection, community, and coaching with guests exploring what's possible when we are open to connection.

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  • Creator
    Nathalie Blais, CEO and Founder of Coach Academy
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    116
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © Nathalie Blais, CEO and Founder of Coach Academy
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    Connection Experiment by Coach Academy

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