Hosted by Aila Coats and Barbara Patterson · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 24 episodes
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Most of the powerful, unguarded conversations we have as practitioners happen behind the scenes. This podcast was created to bring those conversations forward. It’s a space for real talk about client work, presence, creating powerful containers for waking others up, embodied change, and the ways we continue to grow and meet our edges as we guide others.
Aila Coats and Barbara Patterson hosts Inside the Practitioner's Path, a business show with 24 episodes published.
Many coaches, practitioners, and helpers genuinely love the work itself, but somewhere along the way, forget they’re also building a business. In this conversation, Barb and Aila explore the identity shift that happens w
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In this conversation, we explore the identities we hold about ourselves, including the ones we value most. From being a “good parent” or a “loyal friend” to a “strong leader,” these identities can feel grounding. And yet
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Self-love is often held up as something we need to learn, build, or strengthen. But what if the deeper shift isn’t about creating self-love at all, but reconnecting with something that’s already here? In this episode, Ai
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In this episode, Aila & Barb explore the role mentorship and apprenticeship have played in shaping our work, our businesses, and who we’ve become as practitioners. They talk about what happens when you stop trying to fig
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What happens when a client’s world shifts in an instant? In this episode, Barb explores how to meet clients in moments of shock, loss, and unexpected change. Through real examples, she walks through the immediate afterma
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What does it look like to partner with others in co-creating transformational spaces and groups? Is it different than doing it alone? In this episode, Aila explores the experience of co-creating containers and facilitati
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What if becoming a coach doesn’t start with learning techniques… but with how you live your own life? In this solo episode, Aila explores a question she hears all the time: “I want to be a coach. Where do I begin?” And i
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Collaboration has been one of the most meaningful ways I’ve grown personally and in my business. It's been a meaningful way I've co-created with others. In this episode, Barb shares real examples of how collaboration has
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In this episode, Aila shares a personal story from a time when she was pregnant, extremely sick, and unsure how she would continue serving clients or supporting her family. What unfolded became a powerful reminder of som
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In this episode, Barb explores what it really means to make yourself available inside a session. There is preparation, yes. There is experience, skill, and intention. But the deepest impact rarely comes from sticking tig
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In this solo episode, Aila explores the subtle ways identity shapes how we show up in life and in our work. Starting with a simple moment about her son and a spider, she opens a deeper inquiry: What happens when we stop
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Over time, I’ve come to see that insight alone doesn’t always create new movement. Something in the body has to feel safe enough to move. In this episode, I share how my understanding of the nervous system has quietly re
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There’s a way of working that doesn’t come from certifications, scripts, or perfect techniques. In this conversation, Barb and Aila explore the invisible path practitioners inevitably walk. The one where your impact can
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In this conversation, we slow down and speak directly to the ground we stand on as practitioners. We explore the understanding that informs how we meet clients, how we listen, and how we decide what to offer in any given
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This week's episode is a honest reflection from Aila on what it means to truly know ourselves beyond form, roles, thoughts, and personality. In this solo episode, she explores our essential nature, the deeper intelligenc
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When clients want you to be more structured, more forceful, more directive, or simply someone you’re not, what do you do? In this candid conversation, Aila and Barb explore the moments when clients want accountability, p
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What happens in between sessions can quietly shape the entire coaching relationship. In this episode, Barb reflects on how she listens to what’s unfolding for clients between sessions, and how she listens to herself. Fro
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In this solo episode, Aila shares a real client moment that beautifully illustrates how easily self-judgment can masquerade as truth. An 18-year-old client comes to a session convinced she’s “made a mess”, only to discov
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We all know that moment, the sinking feeling when something doesn’t go the way we imagined. The launch that falls flat. The client who doesn’t sign. The program that gets two registrations instead of twenty. In this epis
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In this solo episode, Barb takes you behind the scenes of the team retreats she’s been leading across organizations, not to share agendas or flip charts, but the deeper architecture of what actually makes a retreat impac
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Inside the Practitioner's Path is hosted by Aila Coats and Barbara Patterson. The show is categorised under business (education) and has published 24 episodes.
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