Lianne kicks off our 2025 season with an in-depth chat about the books that fortify us. We also chat about how we find a lot of self-help feels like fast food ( we have opinions!), and the books that have nourished us in more satisfying ways.

We share fiction, podcasts and other sources of sustenance. We've included the books and podcasts we mention below:

Books

• Self-help by Gabby Bernstein
• Beyond Anxiety by Martha Beck
• No Bad Parts by Richard Schwartz
• Let Them by Mel Robbins
• An article about the Poem by Cassie Phillips that preceded Mel Robbins’ book
• Once and Future Witches by Alix Harrow
• The Courage to be Disliked Kishimi and Koga
• The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk
• When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron
• Let Your Life Speak by Parker Palmer
• The Courage to Teach by Parker Palmer
• The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer
• Ten Poems to Change Your Life by Roger Housden
• Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy

Podcasts

• ReThinking with Adam Grant
• The Handsome Podcast
• Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis Dreyfus
• Where Should We Begin? With Esther Perel
• All There Is with Anderson Cooper
• LITerally with Lacey Styles
• The Rest is Entertainment
• Kim Hill Wants to Know with Kim Hill
• Courage & Spice with Sas Petherick

Part two of our conversation moves to our predictions for the coaching industry next year.

Sparked by an Instagram post of Sas’ we talk about the following trends we are seeing:

• Growing preference for experiences over products
• Increased value placed on becoming vs consuming
• Decline of "vibes-based" coaching towards values-based coaching
• Return to local, in-person offerings
• Growth in private, contained spaces for community (like Substack)
• The role of AI
• Moving away from algorithm-driven socials
• Industry maturation
• More emphasis on depth of practice and expertise
• Greater focus on ethics and responsibility
• Why we need to pay attention to Soul Cycle!

📺 Watch on YouTube and share your thoughts in the comments!

Got a question for the OG’s?

If you have a question about your coaching practice, we’d love to help. You are warmly invited to submit a question to us for an upcoming Q&A episode. You might want us to weigh in on a topic about the industry generally or something specific to do with your client work or running your coaching business. Please send all the details to: asktheogcoaches@gmail.com

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Find us:

· Bridgette Boudreau: Website | Insta

· Lianne Raymond: Website | Insta

· Sas Petherick: Website | Insta

12. Planning & Predictions for 2025 (Part 1)

It turns out we had quite a lot to say about this topic and so we have created two episodes!

In part one, we share our different relationships with planning and goals. From "tumultuous" to having a "love affair", having a fluid emergent approach, to having a structured framework, we each have different preferences.

During our conversation, we discuss the importance of following intrinsic motivation rather than external "shoulds" and the value of staying in a relationship with goals/intentions over time.

Part two comes next week!

Mentioned in this episode:

· Bridgette’s Mosaic Framework

· Sas’ Courage-based Goals

· Lianne’s Mentoring programme


📺 Watch on YouTube and share your thoughts in the comments!

Got a question for the OG’s?

If you have a question about your coaching practice, we’d love to help. You are warmly invited to submit a question to us for an upcoming Q&A episode. You might want us to weigh in on a topic about the industry generally or something specific to do with your client work or running your coaching business. Please send all the details to: asktheogcoaches@gmail.com

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Find us:

· Bridgette Boudreau: Website | Insta

· Lianne Raymond: Website | Insta

· Sas Petherick: Website | Insta

11. Meeting the moment: after the US election

This episode is a break from our planned conversation to focus on the outcome of the US election: what we are experiencing, how we are supporting clients and most importantly, what we can do as coaches.

We talk about what this moment might be asking from us and how our skills, training and presence is ideally placed for this time.

Mentioned in this episode:

• Join or Die on Netflix
• The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk (she also has an excellent Substack)
• Ursula Le Guin
• Sarah J. Maas

📺 Watch on YouTube and share your thoughts in the comments!

Find us:

· Bridgette Boudreau: Website | Insta

· Lianne Raymond: Website | Insta

· Sas Petherick: Website | Insta

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10. Healthy Client Love + Attachment

Lianne leads a rich and nuanced conversation about love and attachment. We go beyond popular ideas of an attachment style to talk about ‘agape’ - a Greek word for the love of fellow humans – to go beyond loving personality or behaviour and to love a person’s soul.

When we think about the purpose of attachment – to grow us up into our human potential – how do we sit in this idea as coaches? What does love mean for us as coaches? Do we have a role to make our client’s feel loved? And if not, what does our role involve.

We talk about the ways our own unhealthy attachments get involved with our client relationships and what we can do to take care of ourselves and our clients.

📺 Watch on YouTube and share your thoughts in the comments!

Got a question for the OG’s?

If you have a question about your coaching practice, we’d love to help. You are warmly invited to submit a question to us for an upcoming Q&A episode. You might want us to weigh in on a topic about the industry generally or something specific to do with your client work or running your coaching business. Please send all the details to: asktheogcoaches@gmail.com

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Find us:

·      Bridgette Boudreau: Website | Insta

·      Lianne Raymond: Website | Insta

·      Sas Petherick: Website | Insta

Sas introduces the concept of parallel process – when our work with clients activates our growth.

Often, this isn’t pretty or easy—it’s the moments when we notice patterns we are engaging in as part of our work. Sometimes, clients' particular challenges or approaches can feel really uncomfortable - it might be something we share with our clients.

Coaching is relational, so parallel process is of course, inevitable. We will get entangled with clients - its part of the work. And our clients will project on to us all the time! Transference and counter-transference is part of the work.

Often, our experience is not helpful to share with our clients. When we are going through something that has not yet been processed, its probably inappropriate to bring into sessions.

So, how do we hold ourselves steady in these moments? What are the ethics and good practices that support us and our clients?

📺 Watch on YouTube and share your thoughts in the comments!

Got a question for the OG’s?

If you have a question about your coaching practice, we’d love to help. You are warmly invited to submit a question to us for an upcoming Q&A episode. You might want us to weigh in on a topic about the industry generally or something specific to do with your client work or running your coaching business. Please send all the details to: asktheogcoaches@gmail.com

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· Bridgette Boudreau: Website | Insta

· Lianne Raymond: Website | Insta

· Sas Petherick: Website | Insta

Bridgette introduces a rich conversation about both the helpfulness and the more problematic aspects of mindset-dominant coaching approaches.

We talk about what the effectiveness of this kind of coaching might really be down to and what to do if you want to broaden the scope of your practice.

If you’ve ever wondered if thought work, mindset, affirmations or cognitive behavioural approaches are all they are purported to be, this episode is worth listening to.

📺 Watch on YouTube and share your thoughts in the comments!

Got a question for the OG’s?

If you have a question about your coaching practice, we’d love to help. You are warmly invited to submit a question to us for an upcoming Q&A episode. You might want us to weigh in on a topic about the industry generally or something specific to do with your client work or running your coaching business. Please send all the details to: asktheogcoaches@gmail.com

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· Lianne Raymond: Website | Insta

· Sas Petherick: Website | Insta

In this episode, Lianne leads a conversation about the future of coaching.

Does coaching have a future? And if so what might it look like? We discuss alternatives to the creepier aspects of the industry and the hopeful ideas for the maturation and evolution of the industry.

Its a juicy one!

Got a question for the OG’s?
If you have a question about your coaching practice, we’d love to help. You are warmly invited to submit a question to us fro an upcoming Q&A episode. You might want us to weigh in on a topic about the industry generally or something specific to do with your client work or running your coaching business. Please send all the details to: asktheogcoaches@gmail.com

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Find us:
Lianne Raymond: Website | Insta
Sas Petherick: Website | Insta
Bridgette Boudreau: Website | Insta