Take Care Radio

A podcast for coaches, trainers, teachers, and consultants to help others change. We’ll talk motivation, psychology of change, connection, influence, and communication. Ultimately, it’s a podcast to learn how to work with people.

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65. The Cycle of Change with Kaycee Thompson

It’s been a minute since I’ve had a guest on the pod, so I’m more than a little excited to have Kaycee Thompson on Take Care today. Kaycee isn’t a coach, but she has an expertise I think we can all benefit from—Kaycee is a therapist. Just like so many people in the coaching industry, Kaycee always wanted to be in the industry of helping people, and with a rise in mental illness occurring on a large scale, its our job to be there for our clients during the highs and lows of their lives. Coaching ...

Oct 06, 2023•57 min

64. Build Your Coaching Honor Code

So many of our struggles in life come from a lack of certainty—in who we are, and what we want. Clarity allows us to move forward with purpose and conviction, and one of my favorite tools to achieve clarity in life is creating your Honor Code. An honor code is your set of guiding principles, a road map for when life gets chaotic and we’re not sure which step to take next. You Honor Code leads us to being the person we want to become, and having the life we want. If you’re not sure how to get whe...

Sep 29, 2023•23 min

63. Reacting vs. Responding: The 4P Process

One truth about life is that everything is always changing; we’ll never be in the same moment twice. Change can be many things—good, bad, and in-between—but when we resist change, we start to run into problems. In every moment we have a choice: we can react, or we can respond. Life needs a thoughtful, deliberate approach and when we choose to respond calmly rather than flying into a reactionary rage, it makes us better coaches, clinicians, managers. With the 4P’s, you can practice your respondin...

Sep 22, 2023•24 min

62. My Coaching Philosophy: The 3R Model

I’ve wanted to do this episode for a while now, all about my entire coaching framework. This is something I’ve developed over thousands of hours spent researching, reading, and coaching and I believe that if you can operate with this method, you will help people perform at a higher level, comply better, and get better results. There are 3 components to this philosophy and you can use it in any leadership role in your life, be it coaching, managing, in your personal relationships, and everything ...

Sep 15, 2023•29 min

61. My Favorite Clinical Tool

Today’s pod is a quick one, but I wanted to share a method I use both personally and clinically. It’s a tool with benefits across the board—it improves mood, lowers feelings of depression and anxiety, improves physical metrics like blood pressure and immune function, and even improves relationships, memory, and career success. Must be pretty complex to have all those benefits, right? It’s actually incredibly simple: just writing for 20 minutes every day. Use it for yourself, recommend it to your...

Sep 08, 2023•10 min

60. The Problem with the "Cheerleader Coach"

As a coach, you’ll tend to fall into one of two categories: the Drill Sergeant or the Cheerleader. As listeners of this podcast, you’re most likely the Cheerleader—I am too! Positivity is an effective way to help our clients make change, but there is such a thing as giving too much praise, and that’s where most Cheerleader Coaches can go wrong. It comes from a good place: not wanting to hurt feelings, pass judgements, or deal with conflict and discomfort. But if everything is all-good all the ti...

Sep 01, 2023•27 min

59. Stop Being A People Pleaser

My siblings recently called me out for being a “people pleaser” and while my first instinct was to deny it vehemently, that defensiveness was a sign for me to investigate why they might think that. Sure, I’m a sensitive and caring guy, but people pleasers are known for putting everyone else’s needs above their own, and I don’t want to be that person. It’s been shown that people pleasing leads to increased anxiety, burnout, codependency, feelings of powerlessness… the list goes on. So if you’re a...

Aug 25, 2023•28 min

58. Coaching Without Body Shaming

This episode is more geared towards my health and fitness pros out there, but it’s something everyone could learn from. There’s a lot of talk in the world about words like “lean” and “healthy” and whether or not those descriptors promote body shaming. And while that seems a little ridiculous at first, as health is something that can be objectively measured, it’s an important topic to be discussed. By now you know that shame is one of the least motivating factors for lasting change, and as health...

Aug 18, 2023•20 min

57. 6 Principles to Make Your Ideas Actually Stick

There’s a phenomena that occurs whenever we learn something new, where once we’ve learned something, we can’t un-know it. Not only that, but we have a hard time remember what it felt like not to know it at all. As coaches and leaders, this leads us to a big problem—we need this knowledge and expertise to help our clients, but we can’t always get our message across in a way that lasts. If you want to impact your clients’ behavior in a meaningful way, you have to speak their language and understan...

Aug 11, 2023•29 min

56. The "What the Hell?" Effect

Most behavioral problems we see our clients struggle with aren’t behavioral at all—they’re emotional problems. The science behind weight loss or strength training doesn’t really matter much if your client just doesn’t care, or if they’ve got bigger problems at home to worry about. These emotional problems often lead to a cycle known as the “What the Hell Effect,” but you might recognize it by the phrase, “I’ll just start again on Monday.” The WTH cycle is driven by the shame of “messing up,” and...

Aug 04, 2023•23 min

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