Empower World: The Coaching and Leadership Podcast

Jeanine Bailey & Marie Quigley
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Are you ready for positive change and to see things from a different, powerful perspective? Are you ready to be inspired by people who make a difference and overcome life's challenges? Listen to leaders from all walks of life from around the globe sharing their secrets to living a fulfilling life. Leading with mind, heart, and soul.

  1. 1D AGO

    Ep. 248 - Why it's important to do our own work first - as coaches

    In this episode of the Empower World podcast, therapist and executive coach Karen Ledger explores why coaches must continually do their own inner work. Grounded in person-centred principles and the influence of Carl Rogers, she emphasises that genuine relationship - built on congruence, empathy and self-awareness - matters more than any model. She also stresses that ongoing reflection through mentoring and supervision enables coaches to support clients with integrity, courage and care.

    39 min

  2. FEB 2

    Ep. 247 - Coaching in Complexity: Why Maturity, Systems & Presence Matter

    Coaching and leadership aren't 'simple' anymore. Many leaders and teams are wrestling with uncertainty, pressure, and imposter syndrome, while coaches find yesterday's models don't stretch far enough (especially with AI now replicating process coaching). In this episode, coaching pioneer David Clutterbuck shares why the future is coach maturity: moving from doing coaching to being a coach. Deep impact and effectiveness comes from coach maturity: the ability to work systemically, and create the conditions where individuals, teams, and whole systems can think for themselves and understand the wider implications. The differentiator in an increasingly AI world becomes presence, wisdom and the courage to hold what cannot be neatly solved.

    47 min

  3. JAN 19

    Ep. 246 - What Makes Coaching Human in an Age of AI

    As AI and digital platforms reshape coaching, the key question becomes: what still makes human coaching irreplaceable? Jonathan Passmore highlights that while AI can do things well, such as summarising and reflecting on what has been shared and asking questions, it cannot replicate lived experience, identity, humour or emotional attunement. The future is not human versus AI, but human with AI. When coaches consciously amplify their humanity and use AI as complementary support, coaching becomes more accessible, flexible and impactful without losing its soul.

    32 min

  4. JAN 5

    Ep. 245 - What If Love Isn't Soft? Instead, Brave, Clear, Transformative

    In this rich and deeply human conversation, Christy Byerly, MCC and coach educator, mentor and thought leader explores what it really means to bring brave, powerful love into coaching and leadership. Love is not sentimentality, but an active, grounded practice which requires clear boundaries, honest contracting and the courage to invite dissent. Christy shares vivid stories from her work, parenting, teaching and leadership experiences, illustrating how connection without structure collapses, and structure without connection disconnects. And how love with structure creates the foundation for empowering conversations.

    37 min

  5. 12/22/2025

    Ep. 244 - The Coaching Leader: Navigating Complexity with Vulnerability and Challenge

    Ian Day, Expert in Coaching and Leadership Development, highlights the crucial shift leaders and coaches must make to thrive in a VUCA world. As co-author of Challenging Coaching, he emphasises that true leadership effectiveness comes from blending support with courageous challenge, all grounded in unconditional positive regard. In a landscape of volatility and need for adaptability, leaders can no longer play the lone rainmaker. Instead, they must embrace core coaching behaviours: asking real questions, listening deeply, and modelling vulnerability. His provocation is simple and powerful: "Who am I being as a leader?"

    44 min

  6. 12/08/2025

    Ep. 243 - Beyond Doing: The Power of Truly Seeing, Hearing and Experiencing People

    In this podcast, Sunni Smith reveals how profound transformation happens through simple human presence: not techniques, not effortful doing. This episode highlights challenges coaches and leaders face today: so busy doing means we miss the deeper human connection that unlocks insight, creativity, and trust. The solution: create connections which can bring people back to who they choose to be by seeing the person beyond labels, roles, and identities. Sunni shares vivid stories demonstrating that when a coach or leader truly sees another person, something shifts, resistance softens, insight emerges, innovation becomes possible, and relationships transform.

    39 min

  7. 11/24/2025

    Ep. 242 - From Ego to Ecosystem: Peter Hawkins on Beauty, Coaching and the World of Tomorrow.

    Professor Peter Hawkins invites us as a profession to rethink coaching and leadership as deeply systemic, relational and ecological work - away from an individual focus. He explores how moving beyond IQ and EQ into WeQ - collective and collaborative intelligence - can support us meet the complex challenges of our time. Through insights on beauty all around us, purpose and our interconnectedness with nature, Peter offers a new lens for creating meaningful, future-shaping change. The episode closes with one powerful question: What do you uniquely do that the world of tomorrow most needs?

    38 min

  8. 11/10/2025

    Ep. 241 - Team Coaching, Outdoors: Reconnecting People, Purpose and System

    What happens when you take a team out of the boardroom and into the woods Coach and ex-corporate leader Paul Jefferies shares how coaching in nature restores attention, lowers defenses, and sparks fresh thinking. He provides practical ways to work outdoors: constellations, reflective walks, and nature-based metaphors. The results: deeper connection, clearer purpose, better outcomes.

    54 min
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Are you ready for positive change and to see things from a different, powerful perspective? Are you ready to be inspired by people who make a difference and overcome life's challenges? Listen to leaders from all walks of life from around the globe sharing their secrets to living a fulfilling life. Leading with mind, heart, and soul.

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