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Coaches Rising Podcast

Guided by the belief that these times demand new ways of being, leading, and collaborating, the Coaches Rising podcast explores the very fabric of coaching — diving deep into how we as coaches can contribute to the evolution of human consciousness.

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Joel Monk Co-founder Coaches Rising

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Geoff Graber

AI, Coaching & Evolutionary Business

episode 289 | May 22, 2026 | 91min
In this episode we speak with Geoff Graber about the evolving role of coaching in a world shaped by systemic disruption, exploring how business can become a vehicle for service, humanity, and deeper purpose. Together we unpack the transformative potential of AI, looking at how it can help us improve our coaching and our businesses, as well as the deeper invitation for humanity in a world where tech is doing most of the work.
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Paul Austin

Paul F. Austin

Coaching & Psychedelics

episode 145 | Oct 5, 2022 | 84min
In many places in the US, psilocybin is being legalized and a new industry is booming - with good reason; research suggests psychedelics can have a highly beneficial impact on our psyches. In this conversation with Paul F. Austin, founder of The Third Wave, we explore the therapeutic use of psychedelics and how it can be merged with coaching to increase the potency of our work, the different ways of working with psychedelics, the neurological and emotional changes stimulated, and the importance of safety, personalization and integration.
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Sean Wilkinson

Circling & the Power of Connection

episode 144 | Sep 27, 2022 | 94min
Circling is a modality that exists somewhere on the spectrum between meditation and coaching and highlights the healing power of deep connection. In this conversation with Coach and Circling Europe co-founder Sean Wilkinson we explore the relational meditation tool of Circling, accessing a place of deep presence and aliveness with clients, the role of coaching, potential pitfalls when including our own experience in the connection and navigating cross-paradigmatic coaching.
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Gaston Schmitz

The Vibration of Leadership

episode 143 | Sep 22, 2022 | 76min
Start-up founders are a powerful force for change in a time when radical innovation is crucial, but they inhabit a particularly fast-paced and highly demanding work environment. How can we best support them? In this conversation with Executive Coach Gaston Schmitz we dive into the particular challenges faced by Asian founders and the coaching approaches that support their growth, the vibration of leadership, how coaches can train their vibrational perception, and the foundations of intuitive coaching.
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Dave Snowden

The Problem with Developmental Models

episode 142 | Sep 13, 2022 | 46min
Lately various voices have been raised in critique of adult development models, and the way coaches implement them in their work with clients. In this conversation with management consultant and researcher Dave Snowden we explore some of the fundamental issues with models of adult development, how more fluid stories of self can be more constructive in facilitating change and Dave’s complexity science-based approach to coaching.
Jeremy Johnson

Jeremy Johnson

Jean Gebser’s Work & Evolving Integrality

episode 141 | Sep 5, 2022 | 86min
The conversation around adult development and integral consciousness continues to expand and evolve. In this conversation with author and philosopher Jeremy Johnson we explore Jean Gebser’s notion of development, temporics, the unperspectival, the perspectival and the aperspectival, the move from sense-directed thinking to “senseful awareing”, the magic and the mythic and the invitation of this moment.
Zak Stein

Zak Stein

Cycles of Growth in a Time Between Worlds

episode 140 | Aug 26, 2022 | 87min
Taking a broader view of personality that includes more abstract layers of selfhood means navigating a more complex perspective on development. In this conversation with writer and futurist Zak Stein we explore the challenge of our time in metabolizing tragedy and complexity, the post-tragic and post-traumatic growth, the difference between ensoulment and transcendence growth, and three streams of personal development and how they can impact a coaching approach.
Indra Adnan

Indra Adnan

How Do We Transform Society

episode 139 | Aug 5, 2022 | 85min
In this moment of systemic chaos, how do we attract a new world into being? In this conversation with writer and psycho-social therapist Indra Adnan we explore what we’re being called to in this evolutionary moment, soft and hard power, community development, how human needs shape society, alternatives to our broken systems, multiple forms of agency and how we transform society.
Jacinta Jiménez

Jacinta M. Jiménez

Karim Hirani

Karim Hirani

The Contemporary Edge of Effective Coaching

episode 138 | Jul 31, 2022 | 63min
The world is changing - fast - and people and organizations are needing something different from coaching than they did ten years ago. In this conversation from the Coaches Rising Sumit 2022 with Jacinta M. Jiménez and Karim Hirani we explore the current crisis in mental health and the role of coaches in addressing it, the shifting values in the workplace and coaching in organizations, the fine line between coaching and therapy and the future of effective coaching.
Jeremy Johnson

Jeremy Johnson

Spring Cheng

Steve March

Transformation in a Meta-Modern World (& the stage theory debate)

episode 137 | Jul 22, 2022 | 85min
As we participate more and more consciously in our own unfolding, we need to ask what is working, what is holding us back, and how can we develop as individuals and collectively in a way that is in harmony with the wider ecosystem? In this conversation with Spring Cheng, Steve March and Jeremy Johnson we explore the concept of liminality, animated intelligence, constructive and destructive developmental methods, two key pathways to creating change, our relationality and connection to the ecosphere, and embracing diversity within and between us.

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Tom Murray

Tom Murray

The Descending Path

episode 135 | Jul 1, 2022 | 69min
In many developmental movements there is a strong emphasis on so-called “ascendent” practices, which can lead to issues in the maturation process of the individual. In this conversation with Spring Cheng and Tom Murray we explore the descending path and how it relates to the ascending path in development, the role of grief, learning and unlearning, how one direction influences the other and encountering and deconstructing complexity.

Jerry Colonna

Modeling Wholeness

episode 134 | Jun 24, 2022 | 75min
Many coaches are plagued by a sense that they have to “get it right” - a mindset that is counterproductive to great coaching. In this conversation with executive coach Jerry Colonna we explore the essence of coaching, coaching in the crisis of modernity, spirituality in coaching, modeling wholeness, trusting our intuition and authenticity in coaching.
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