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Secrets From a Coach - Debbie Green & Laura Thomson's Podcast
Ideal for your commute, lunch break or even a well-deserved moment of self-care and development, our 25 minute episodes focus on positive actions to help you thrive and maximise your potential in the ever-evolving workplace, and in life. Join Debs and Lau, your positive cheerleaders bursting with energy and insight to maximise your confidence and success in the changing workplace. Each episode aims to leave you feeling motivated, supported and armed with the tools and practical skills you need to maximise success as we experience the biggest shift in how we work in our lifetimes.
We lift the lid on the real foundations for success in this new world of work. Our weekly episodes remain current and up-to-date and we frequently welcome high-profile guests to keep things fresh and diverse and to tackle topics like leadership, mindset, success, confidence, motivation, team engagement, mental health, self-care, time management, career development, life-work balance and thriving in the newly AI-enabled workplace.
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Episodes
294 episodes
293. Rebuilding Professional Confidence After Kids
In this final episode of our 4-part mini-series well about Working Parents we focus on the big topic of confidence. Confidence doesn’t usually disappear overnight, but parenthood can make it feel that way. One day you’re the organised, high-per...
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292. Returning To Work - What Leaders Need To Understand About Returning Parents
Returning to work after parental leave can feel like stepping onto a moving treadmill while everyone else acts like nothing changed. We hear that quiet panic all the time: Can I still do this? Will people see me differently now? What happens wh...
291. From Colleague to Parent - The Work Home Switch
In this second in our Working Parent mini-series we explore how to navigate the move from colleague to parent. Because… you can love your job and love your kid and still feel like you’re failing both by lunchtime! We g...
290. Who Am I Now? Navigating the Working Parent Identity Shift
In this first in our 4-part focus on Working Parents - Making The Balance Work, we explore how to navigate the shift in identity when first becoming a parent. Debs has been a parent coach for many years, working with organisations to help peopl...
289. Team Resilience and Staying Well Under Continuing Pressure
In our final of our 5-part focus on Healthy Coping Mechanisms, David Stokes, Network Delivery Manager for Network Rail’s control centre, shares how teams cope in a high-pressure operational environment where they never know what will happen nex...
288. Leading a Team Confidently Through Stressful Moments
In this fourth in our 5-part focus on healthy coping mechanisms, we explore how to cope in the moment when things get stressful. We explore the impact of our physiological response and instinct in these moments: You can’t “time manage” your way...
287. Beyond the Day Job: Hobbies as Healthy Coping Mechanisms
In the third episode of our Healthy Coping Mechanisms mini-series, Debs is joined by railway operations professional and radio presenter Lee Everest to explore how hobbies can help us cope, recover and reconnect with ourselves.Lee works...
286. The Coping Reframe: Trust, Grief and Healthy Coping
Content note: This episode includes references to suicide bereavement and grief.In the second episode of our Healthy Coping Mechanisms mini-series, we are joined by rail incident controller Tom Curcher for a powerful and honest co...
285. Healthy Coping Mechanisms
In this first in our 5 part mini-series looking at healthy coping mechanisms, we explore a practical proactive wellness toolkit for coping in the moment, recognising stress and making sensible choices under pressure.
284. Team Performance Under Pressure
In this third episode in our miniseries looking at Powerful Presence we are thrilled to be joined by performance coach Tony McAllister who unusually, was the coach for both the Olympic and Paralympic Skiing Teams. He shares his perspecti...
283. Effortless Presence - Poised to Perform
Welcome to our second episode in our Powerful Performance mini-series and this one is all about staying calm, getting into flow (not fluster) state and shifting from anxiety into anticipation. We share simple tools for keeping on the front foot...
282. Anatomy of Confident Presence
Confidence isn’t about being louder, bolder or more polished. It’s about being so rooted in who you are that your presence speaks before you do.As Lau works in Montreal for the week, in this episode Debs is joined by Karl for a rich and ...
281. Locking In: 1-1 Presence in the Attention Economy
In a world of constant notifications, endless scrolling and AI-generated everything… what makes someone truly stand out?In this episode, we kick off our Powerful Presence mini-series by exploring what it really means to 'lock in...
280. Future Proof With a Mentoring Culture
In the final in our 4-part focus on Mentoring, we dig into why mentoring is a serious advantage in a world where roles are changing fast and teams need to adapt without losing hard-won practical wisdom. We share how mento...
279. How to Be an Extraordinary Mentor
As part of our focus on mentoring, we explore what separates an extraordinary mentor from someone who simply gives advice. We hear from real voices and practical tips from people who have mentored and been mentored. We keep coming b...
278. Unlocking Talent Via Early Career Mentoring
In the second episode of our Extraordinary Mentors mini-series, we explore how early-career mentoring turns talent into traction by building confidence, clarity, and judgment.We hear real stories and practical insights from a range of co...
277. Maximising Success Through Mentoring
In this first episode in our 4-part focus on the Magic of Mentoring, we unpack why mentoring is the fastest, most human way to close skills gaps, transfer culture, and build confidence in a time-poor, AI-shaped workplace. We define ...
276. Performing Teams: Maintaining Excellence - Preventing Complacence
In our fourth and final episode of our Incredible Teams mini-series we explore how to inspire a team to perform - and most importantly maintain high standards of excellence as the default.
275. Team Norming - Establishing Etiquettes and Rules of the Road
What if the real unlock for high performance isn’t a big idea… but a steady beat?This 4-part mini-series is all about Incredible Teams, using the Tuckman Team Dynamics model as inspiration for creating or sustaining great teamwork.
274. Storming: Resolving Conflicts and Bringing Teams Along the Journey
What happens when tension rises in a team? Do you address it directly, or hope it blows over?This 4-part mini-series is all about Incredible Teams, using the Tuckman Team Dynamics model as inspiration for creating or sustaining great tea...
273. Forming Teams - Set a Success Satnav
How quickly do you trust new colleagues? Do you start at 100% trust and let it erode, or at zero and build it over time?This 4-part mini-series is all about Incredible Teams. Using the Tuckman Team Dynamics model as inspiration for creat...
272. Getting Into High Performance Mode
How do we motivate ourselves in a healthy, sustainable way: and is pushing harder really the answer?In this final episode of our Fresh Starts mini-series, we’re joined by sports scientist Danielle Peters, who shares insights fro...
271. Defining the Give and the Get - Creating the Life/Work Balance You Want
What does balance really look like when life feels busy, full and always 'on'? In this third episode of our Fresh Starts mini-series, we reframe work–life balance as life–work balance: because life comes first. Using the reality...
270. From Chaos to Calm: Creating Space for What Matters
In the second episode of our 4-part Fresh Starts mini-series, we explore how to navigate the setbacks, incidents, challenges and never-ending task lists that can, at times, tip us into overwhelm and reactivity.We share simple bu...
269. Set Intentions, Not Resolutions: Get Vision-Ready for What’s Next
Welcome to Part 1 of our four-part Fresh Start mini-series - a companion episode to Ep. 268 where we invite you to get vision-ready with us.Whether you’re stepping into a new year, a new team, a new financial real...