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Your Coaching Journey

Your Coaching Journey

By: Tom Dillon & Helen Leathers
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A podcast for doctors about coaching. Whether you are a coaching doctor; a medic who is learning to coach; or a doctor who'd like to build coaching into your professional life, then this is the podcast for you. Each podcast episode will explore a different aspect of coaching that will be helpful for you as you integrate coaching into your work and life. You'll be able to explore different approaches to coaching, assess coaching tools and techniques, hear interviews with coaching doctors; and examine topics that coachees might bring to coaching. Join coaching experts and leaders on the Doctor's Transformational Coaching Diploma, Tom Dillon and Helen Leathers as they discuss the world of coaching and how, as a doctor, you might choose to continue on your coaching journey. Produced by MonkeyPants Productions. Find out how we can help you produce your podcast by getting in touch at pete@monkeypantsproductions.co.uk2023 Career Success Economics
Episodes
  • Episode 122: To interrupt or not to interrupt, that is the question.
    Aug 22 2025

    You may have heard us talk about interrupting coachees on previous podcasts, but we see and hear so much from other coaches talking about this topic online that we thought we’d set our stall out in a more thorough and robust way.

    We have also noticed an increase in very visible coaches rebadging interrupting as interjecting, and saying that it’s ok, even necessary. So, we thought we’d talk through what we see as the subtle differences between interrupting and interjecting and share our perspectives in this dedicated episode on the topic.

    In this episode, not only do we discuss interruptions and interjections, and the difference between the two, you will also get to hear a couple of Tom’s ‘dad jokes’, and bear witness to a couple of his incredible animal impersonations (although, actually, there are no bears).

    We could apologise for the extensive presence of laughter in this episode, but we won’t, because as we have said before, we take coaching seriously, and ourselves less so.

    Enjoy the podcast? If you’re enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review here or wherever you listen to your podcast.

    Contact Details

    Find out about our Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma

    Connect with the hosts:

    Tom:

    www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/

    Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk

    Helen:

    www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/

    Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk

    Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin:

    www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/

    www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/

    Do You Have a Question?

    From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching.

    If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode.

    (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

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    25 mins
  • Episode 121: Critical Thinking
    Aug 15 2025

    We believe that one of the most important aspects of coaching is the generation of new thinking on the part of the coachee. Before we get to focusing on the options that the coachee has, or how they might forward, we need to explore their situation with them and allow them to assess it in an objective and coherent way.

    In order to do that we will probably need to challenge the client to engage in some some critical thinking around the thoughts they have already had, what the reality of their situation is, and the viability of all of the options they have available to them. Only then is it going to be useful for the coachee to decide on a way forward.

    In this episode we explore the topic of Critical Thinking in the coaching room and give some thought as to how we might best facilitate the coachee engaging with this particular thought process.

    Enjoy the podcast? If you’re enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review here or wherever you listen to your podcast.

    Contact Details

    Find out about our Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma

    Connect with the hosts:

    Tom:

    www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/

    Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk

    Helen:

    www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/

    Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk

    Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin:

    www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/

    www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/

    Do You Have a Question?

    From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching.

    If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode.

    (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

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    23 mins
  • Episode 120: Easy Change and Hard Change
    Aug 8 2025

    Not all change is created equal. Some change is easy and some is hard.

    All qualified coaches should be well equipped to support coachees when they are contemplating easy change. When it comes to hard change, coaches adopting straightforward coaching approaches might not cope so well with facilitating this change for coaches who are finding change more of a struggle.

    What makes the difference between easy change and hard change is going to depend from coachee to coachee and we have to be agile when approaching the coaching room and what the coachee brings.

    Sometimes, we won’t know in the first session that hard change is going to be hard. It may not become apparent until a few sessions down the line, so we have to be ready for that and curious about how we might support the coachee through their difficulty with the change.

    In this episode, we explore the differences between easy change and hard change and the power of coaching in facilitating both. In our discussion you will find out why we believe that Transformational Coaching is such a powerful approach to helping coachees, whatever type of change they’re facing.

    Enjoy the podcast? If you’re enjoying the podcast it would be great if you left us a review here or wherever you listen to your podcast.

    Contact Details

    Find out about our Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma

    Connect with the hosts:

    Tom:

    www.linkedin.com/in/tomdillondoctorstranformationalcoachingdiploma/

    Email: tomdillon@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk

    Helen:

    www.linkedin.com/in/helenleathers/

    Email: helenleathers@yourcoachingjourney.co.uk

    Follow ‘Your Coaching Journey’ on Instagram or Linkedin:

    www.instagram.com/yourcoachingjourney/

    www.linkedin.com/company/your-coaching-journey/

    Do You Have a Question?

    From time to time we will have an episode where we answer listeners’ questions about coaching.

    If you have a question, please send it to us using one of our email addresses above and you may get a mention in a future episode.

    (If you want to remain anonymous, that's absolutely fine, just let us know)

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    30 mins
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