I'd love your feedback, send me a message How often have you given yourself permission sit in silence and take stock? In the latest episode of the Simple Reflections Podcast with my guest, Aila Coats, we kept coming back to this idea. Aila is a colleague and teacher of mine from Mississauga the idyllic Tahoe National Forest in California. Aila is a professional coach who mainly works with teens and coaches looking to grow their businesses. I just love hosting this podcast. I get to hang out with...
Jul 13, 2025•41 min•Ep. 62
I'd love your feedback, send me a message How often have you given yourself permission to notice moments in time? This was something that came up in the latest episode of the Simple Reflections Podcast with my guest, Greg Fisher. Greg is a good friend and colleague from Mississauga in Ontario, Canada. Hi is a Coach, “Chief Potential Officer” and the author of a couple of books (details in the show notes). During the episode my conversation with Greg ranges from adventures to forgiveness, from pa...
Jun 29, 2025•39 min•Ep. 61
I'd love your feedback, send me a message Have you got lost in the details and lost sight of the direction you originally set off in? That is something my latest guest, Vanessa Rubera, and I regularly see with our clients and is the topic of the latest episode of the Simple Reflections Podcast. Vanessa isa good friend and mentor from Vermont in the USA. She is a Clarity Coach and the author of “Conversations with a Camel”. During the episode Vanessa and I touch on the power of coaching and that ...
Jun 15, 2025•36 min•Ep. 60
I'd love your feedback, send me a message I love creating this podcast. I get to have conversations with some amazing people who I haven’t crossed paths with and that I would be unlikely to without it. This episode is no exception. Lily Sais is a Transformation Coach from Los Angeles, working with people with anxiety. Lily and I share an understanding in the Three Principles and have a number of close shared connections. I was interested in understanding Lily’s capacity to create and share what ...
Jun 01, 2025•38 min•Ep. 59
I'd love your feedback, send me a message You are in for a treat! In this episode of the Simple Reflections Podcast I am joined by my dear friend and colleague Dr Bill Pettit. Bill turns 83 later this month but in the last 18 months or so he seems to have developed a second wind, and I wanted to ask him about it and his upcoming courses: · Witnessing Miracles · One Cause, One Cure For those that don’t know Bill, he has been practicing Psychiatry for 53 years, the last 43 of which have been with ...
May 18, 2025•57 min•Ep. 58
I'd love your feedback, send me a message As ever, this is an episode where I was learning as I went… something I will be forever grateful for and is a completely unexpected gift from hosting this podcast. In this episode I’m, joined by ĐƠN GIẢN (pronounced Dunzan) an American coach living in Ho Chi Min City in Vietnam. ĐƠN GIẢN changed his name from Dave Berman a few years ago because of ĐƠN GIẢN’s meaning in Vietnamese: Simple. Like me ĐƠN GIẢN has a fascination with Simplicity: mine being the...
May 04, 2025•43 min•Ep. 57
I'd love your feedback, send me a message I had so much fun with Chris Dorris making this episode! Chris is a highly sought after coach and speaker working with some seriously big organisations. He is also a generous and fun loving guy. My coach, Shazia Govindji [ episode 32 ], recommended a book to me a couple of months ago – The Book of Mental Toughness Mantras – and Chris is the author. I really enjoyed it and wanted to create posts about some of them – my usual mix of rough sketch by me and ...
Apr 20, 2025•56 min•Ep. 56
I'd love your feedback, send me a message In this episode of the Simple Reflections Podcast I’m joined by Alf Pille from Bavaria. Alf is the CEO of Naturschutzverband LBV, Bavaria’s oldest conservation association. In this episode Alf and I talk about how developing his own understanding of the Three Principles has transformed his life and really shaped the way he leads LBV. I hope you’ll find Alf’s approach to leading a large team of employees and volunteers interesting, thought provoking and p...
Apr 06, 2025•39 min•Ep. 55
I'd love your feedback, send me a message This episode of the Simple Reflections Podcast is very special to me. In it I’m joined by Sarah Anderson. Sarah is part of the RIFLES Regimental family (my old Regiment) and she’s kindly offered to share her family’s experience of navigating Post Traumatic Stress. Sarah is a trained counsellor, a mum of five, a volunteer with the Always a Rifleman Programme (as I am) and the wife of a former Rifleman, now Member of Parliament for South Shropshire, Stuart...
Mar 23, 2025•52 min•Ep. 54
I'd love your feedback, send me a message I am delighted to be sharing this episode of the Simple Reflections Podcast: 1. Because it’s with Dr Mark Howard… more on that in a minute 2. Because this is the 53rd episode… an odd number to celebrate but it marks the start of the third year of the podcast 3. The podcast has been listened to 6,800 times, across 6 continents (I have no data on Antarctica) and in 59 countries! Thank you all for your support! I’m thrilled that Dr Mark Howard was able to j...
Mar 09, 2025•42 min•Ep. 53
I'd love your feedback, send me a message In this episode of the Simple Reflections Podcast I’m joined by Rose Latham, a Leadership and Life Coach from Salisbury in Wiltshire. I hardly know Rose, but from what I’ve experienced, she is a lady on a mission. She has immersed herself in her pursuit of her own personal growth and that of clients and it’s infectious! I this episode we flit between the structure of our former careers to the openness of creating coaching experiences be that one-to-one o...
Feb 23, 2025•55 min•Ep. 52
I'd love your feedback, send me a message In this episode of the Simple Reflections Podcast I’m joined by Denise Holland, a Performance Consultant and speaker from Kent. I really enjoyed hearing about Denise’ journey from having to walk away from a dream role as Scotland’s Netball Coach in the run up to the Commonwealth Games, feeling lost and asking the universe for inspiration... and heading off in a completely new direction. Denise and I talked about having fun, “Playing Freely”, the title of...
Feb 09, 2025•36 min•Ep. 51
I'd love your feedback, send me a message The latest episode of the Simple Reflections Podcast is with my good friend Al Milledge, a Coach who lives on the South Coast, near Eastbourne! This was a beautiful conversation that gently meanders through a number of topics but starts with Al’s experience of loss in 2024. He shares his experience, his realisations and the things he’s continuing to learn as his experience unfolds. I love creating this podcast, I never know where the conversation will ta...
Jan 26, 2025•42 min•Ep. 50
I'd love your feedback, send me a message You’re going to love this conversation with Dr Johannes Metzler, an Executive Coach from Berlin! Johannes and I had quite a laugh creating this episode... While we knew about each other we hadn’t actually met until 5 mins before we hit record. What followed was everything I thought it would be and more and fits neatly with the idea of “creating impossible futures”. I knew before we started that we’d have fun and I wasn’t disappointed. In this episode we ...
Jan 12, 2025•47 min•Ep. 49
I'd love your feedback, send me a message I’m excited to introduce you to Ankush Jain today! Ankush and I first met 6 years ago when we were both speaking in a breakout session at the 3PUK conference in London. Since that point I’ve been watching Ankush’s career go from strength to strength. While that in itself has been something to behold, it’s his passion and driver behind that that I’ve become more interested in: his mission to raise the consciousness of the planet by up-levelling the coachi...
Dec 29, 2024•38 min•Ep. 48
I'd love your feedback, send me a message I have a treat for you today… Nick Bottini is a coach and author working with high performing members of the music industry. Nick is a jazz musician himself and obviously brings his musical experience into his coaching… but what’s interesting is the parallel we can all draw in life that fix our views in certain areas. What I enjoyed most about our conversation is that Nick and I did not know each other before we hit record but we both felt like we’d pick...
Dec 15, 2024•43 min•Ep. 47
I'd love your feedback, send me a message Today I want to introduce you to Matt Roberts, a coach and former British High Jumper. I’ve got to know Matt over the last 6-9 months and I just love the way he sees the world and his wish to share what he’s seen with his clients. Matt mainly works with elite sports people outside of his main employment in events management. I think you’re going to really enjoy his take on life. In this episode we play with the ideas of being caught up in our heads, our ...
Dec 01, 2024•38 min•Ep. 46
I'd love your feedback, send me a message Harriet Hancock is a senior leader in the justice and immigration sector who has found that coaching from a Three Principles based perspective has enabled her to be a more grounded, capable and supportive leader. Harriet and I have known each other for a few years now, having crossed paths through One Thought. We’ve always found it interesting that as leaders with fairly complex and hostile working environments that we’ve both been drawn to look in the s...
Nov 17, 2024•42 min•Ep. 45
I'd love your feedback, send me a message Lynne Brannigan is a coach based in Spain with over 20 years’ experience, who has relatively recently discovered the Three Principles. I had the absolute pleasure of being paired up with Lynne during a coaching course we did together last year with Jamie Smart. During the 9 months and beyond we have had regular, light hearted and fun catch ups and I wanted you to be able to experience some of that. In this episode our conversation ranges from Lynne’s fea...
Nov 03, 2024•47 min•Ep. 44
I'd love your feedback, send me a message Jen Elleray is Three Principles Coach based in Cumbria in the UK. You may recognise the name after last episode with Dave Elleray because Jen is the other half of a coaching practice called Freedom Thinking. Jen was an very shy, anxious 23 year old when she came across the Principles in 2005. Since then she’s gone on to train 100's of people, speak at conferences and help in troubled parts of the world. In this episode Jen and I discuss how our role as c...
Oct 20, 2024•43 min•Ep. 43
I'd love your feedback, send me a message Dave Elleray is Three Principles Coach based in Cumbria in the UK. Dave and his wife Jenny run a coaching practice called Freedom Thinking. Dave has had a colourful life, some of which you’ll hear about in our conversation. What’s amazing is how the discovery of who he actually is and how he operates allowed him to settle and turn his life around. In this episode Dave and I don’t talk about Celine Dion’s song the power of love but we do look at this incr...
Oct 06, 2024•43 min•Ep. 42
I'd love your feedback, send me a message ChiDubem Menakaya is a Transformative Leadership Coach, speaker, poet and bubbly bundle of energy! His enthusiasm for life and exploring new ideas is infectious and I think you’re going to love our conversation. ChiDubem is from Grays In Essex and mainly works with young professionals with a tendency to have self-sabotaging thinking. In this episode ChiDubem and I discuss how exciting it is to watch things being created from nothing other than a fresh th...
Sep 22, 2024•44 min•Ep. 41
I'd love your feedback, send me a message Masha Liashenko is a transformative coach, mentor and speaker living in Warsaw, Poland. I have known about Masha's work for a couple of years and I've always wanted to learn more. Masha is a Ukrainian and Russian speaker and has been instrumental in the creation of the 3PGC (Three Principles Global Community) Ukrainian and Russian speaking international communities. In this episode we talk about the journey Masha has been on to create helpful resources a...
Sep 08, 2024•45 min•Ep. 40
I'd love your feedback, send me a message Sheela Masand is a coach, mentor and author based in Albir, Spain. I’ve been keen to speak to Sheela for some time: we’ve crossed paths on the Heartfelt Presence platform as we have handed over the reins and I’ve been keen to ask her about her work. In this conversation, Sheela and I discuss the genesis of her book, “Inside Out Transformation” and the Viva Event, a conference she co-founded in Albir, that runs every November. I love the enthusiasm, passi...
Aug 25, 2024•33 min•Ep. 39
I'd love your feedback, send me a message Anna Keeble is London based State of Mind Coch and Nutritional Therapist. I have known Anna for a couple of years through a mutual friend and former podcast guest, Nici Butchart, and through the three of us being alumni of One Thought. In this conversation, Anna and I discuss our mutual fascination for seeing how things are going to unfold, not only for ourselves but also for our clients. We also touch on Anna’s “soft spot” for working with teens and ear...
Aug 11, 2024•35 min•Ep. 38
I'd love your feedback, send me a message Dr Linda Pettit has a wonderful way of describing herself, she’s a professional listener. Linda lives in Phoenix Arizona with her kind hearted husband, Dr Bill Pettit (who you may remember from Episode 7 ). To add some colour to Linda’s “professional listening”, she is also a mentor, speaker, podcaster and author. In this conversation, Linda and I discuss her recent book “Leaning into Curves”, an open and moving account of her life as she wrestled with t...
Jul 28, 2024•47 min•Ep. 37
I'd love your feedback, send me a message Debbie Fisher is a Lead Facilitator and Lead Trainer for iHeart Principles in London. I first met Debbie when she was on the faculty of One Thought when I was training with them in 2017. She has been involved with the iHeart Principles Charity for a number of years delivering training to children and young adults. At the time of writing, iHeart have trained almost 900 facilitators across 22 countries and delivered the programme to almost 34,000 people! I...
Jul 14, 2024•35 min•Ep. 36
I'd love your feedback, send me a message Chana Studley is a coach, living in Jerusalem, who has spent the last 30 years helping others recover from trauma, addictions, and working with all kinds of clients; adults, children and organizations. She has spent the last 5 years helping people with physical issues including chronic pain, allergies, migraines, skin problems and IBS etc., and more recently hormone problems and Long Covid. In this conversation Chana and I discuss her latest book, Beyond...
Jun 30, 2024•44 min•Ep. 35
I'd love your feedback, send me a message Dr Ally Jaffee is a young NHS doctor based in London who is just starting her training to become a Psychiatrist. Ally is also a co-founder of Nutritank; a not for profit created to help educate the medical profession about nutrition. I’ve had the pleasure of getting to know Ally during Jamie Smart’s current Clarity Certification Training Programme which we finish in July. In this conversation Ally and I discuss why she co-founded Nutritank, her own journ...
Jun 16, 2024•38 min•Ep. 34
I'd love your feedback, send me a message Devon Webster is a lively young man from Massachusetts. We met through an amazing resource called Heartfelt Presence; a free 24 hour Zoom room where people can drop in and find a 3 Principles based coach. I’ve been volunteering my services in there as a host twice a week for the last couple of years. In this conversation Devon and I share some of the things we have enjoyed about the power of showing up and connecting with other people. It was really inte...
Jun 02, 2024•43 min•Ep. 33
