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Empower World: The Coaching and Leadership Podcast

Empower World: The Coaching and Leadership Podcast

Jeanine Bailey & Marie Quigley 256 Episodes Oct 12, 2026

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.

Episodes

Ep. 265 - Beneath the Stories: When Partners Push Back and Coaches Hold Back
Ep. 265 - Beneath the Stories: When Partners Push Back and Coaches Hold Back Oct 12, 2026 20:01 What happens when a coaching conversation reaches the edge of something deeper, and either the coaching partner pushes back and/or the coach decides the client isn't ready? Jeanine and Marie discuss how clear contracting can create a brave space for discomfort, why a client's hesitation is valuable data to explore, and how getting curious about the protective "parts" that show up can open new awar
Ep. 264 - Fierce Love: How Coaches Can Hold Compassion and Challenge Simultaneously
Ep. 264 - Fierce Love: How Coaches Can Hold Compassion and Challenge Simultaneously Sep 28, 2026 25:36 Jeanine Bailey celebrates the launch of Fierce Love with author Marie Quigley, Empower World co-founder and Coaching and Leadership podcast co-host. Marie shares her inspiration for the book and how coaches can hold compassionate space while still challenging clients boldly. Marie draws on her challenges and lessons learned from coaching, explaining why compassion and courage are most powerful tog
Ep. 263 - Coaching the Living System Embracing Complexity and Emergence
Ep. 263 - Coaching the Living System Embracing Complexity and Emergence Sep 14, 2026 41:48 What if the need to know, plan and control is getting in the way of your most powerful coaching? In this episode, Andra Marosi - executive and team coach and supervisor shares her experience with the challenge of working within increasingly complex and unpredictable human systems. Discover how letting go of certainty, cultivating trust and responding courageously to what is emerging can create the
Ep. 262 - When Your Client Wanders - Is It Them or Is It You?
Ep. 262 - When Your Client Wanders - Is It Them or Is It You? Aug 31, 2026 19:10 Every coach has probably been there at some point in their coaching practice. The client wanders, the session drifts and perhaps neither the coach or partner is quite sure why that happened or how to manage those uncomfortable conversations. Jeanine Bailey and Marie Quigley focus on those times in a coaching session when a client loses their way and the coach can perhaps see it happening, but not
Ep. 261 - Burnout Is Not a Badge of Honour - The Cost to Organisations Is Real
Ep. 261 - Burnout Is Not a Badge of Honour - The Cost to Organisations Is Real Aug 17, 2026 38:30 For every $1 an organisation invests in employee wellbeing, the return is almost $5. Yet most organisations are still trying to fix one of the most costly challenges in the modern workplace with simple initiatives like a yoga class and a bowl of free fruit - which are healthy initiatives, but not enough. Nicola Spencer-Perera - a professional coach, burnout specialist and founder of Reset Wellness
Ep. 260 - Fifteen minutes. One metaphor. A life shifted.
Ep. 260 - Fifteen minutes. One metaphor. A life shifted. Aug 3, 2026 35:04 Most coaches hear their client's words. Very few hear what those words are actually doing. In this episode, Jeanine Bailey is joined by Lyssa deHart MCC - author of Light Up: The Science of Coaching with Metaphors - where Lyssa reveals why metaphors are not decoration in a coaching conversation but idea containers - each one lighting up the brain and revealing the landscape of a client's inner wor
Ep. 259 - The Sponsor Conversation Nobody Prepares You For
Ep. 259 - The Sponsor Conversation Nobody Prepares You For Jul 20, 2026 23:23 The sponsor relationship is one of the most underestimated dynamics in professional coaching. Get it wrong and even the most skilled coaching can unravel before a single session begins. In this episode, we get honest about what really happens when organisations, HR teams, line managers and families enter the coaching equation. Not every coaching opportunity is the right one for a coach. Knowing th
Ep. 258 - The Belief That Changes Everything About How You Coach
Ep. 258 - The Belief That Changes Everything About How You Coach Jul 6, 2026 17:09 What if the biggest obstacle to your most powerful coaching sessions is not your skills, but your beliefs? In this Podcast episode, Jeanine Bailey and Marie Quigley explore what it truly means to believe that your clients are Naturally Creative, Resourceful and Whole, and why so many coaches abandon this principle the moment things get uncomfortable. Through real mentoring room stories and hard-wo
Ep. 257 - Your Body Knows: How to Heal Stress and Burnout From the Inside Out
Ep. 257 - Your Body Knows: How to Heal Stress and Burnout From the Inside Out Jun 22, 2026 37:57 What if your anxiety is not a life sentence, but a message your body is desperately trying to send you? Somatic coach and nervous system educator Hind Taychouri was told to take pills forever - and she said no. In this Podcast episode 257, she shares why stress gets trapped in the body, and how - little by little - we can learn to ride the wave of discomfort rather than be swept away by it. Trauma
Ep. 256 - The Coaching Habit Nobody Talks About - And How It's Hurting Your Sessions
Ep. 256 - The Coaching Habit Nobody Talks About - And How It's Hurting Your Sessions Jun 8, 2026 18:52 What if your well-meaning habits are getting in the way of your client's growth? In this honest conversation, Jeanine Bailey MCC and Marie Quigley MCC explore the unconscious coaching pattern of cheerleading - the over-championing, the enthusiastic "that's wonderful," the nodding and yes-yes-yessing that feels supportive but can cut your client's thinking. Research shows that staying silent allows
Ep. 255 - What a Camera Lens Teaches You About Coaching - And Why Presence Is Everything
Ep. 255 - What a Camera Lens Teaches You About Coaching - And Why Presence Is Everything May 25, 2026 42:41 What does headshot photography have to do with coaching? More than you'd think. Executive coach and photographer Andy Robbins joins Co-Founder of  Empower World Marie Quigley to explore the surprising parallels between capturing someone's true presence through a lens and unlocking it in a coaching conversation - from reading micro-expressions, to building trust with a resistant client, to why AI c
Ep. 254 - The Skills Are for Life: How One Coach Rebuilt Everything - Twice.
Ep. 254 - The Skills Are for Life: How One Coach Rebuilt Everything - Twice. May 11, 2026 24:28 Monia Pyraki, a professional coach, left a corporate career when she knew something was missing in her life, created a successful coaching practice, then moved to Switzerland with six-month-old twins, and had to start over in a new country, a new culture, with no community around her. By blending her coaching skills with her background in events and wellness, she built a new successful practice wo

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