Episode #60: Katie Harvey – Beyond the Binary Lies Balance

Despite being told that one day coaching would lead her to burn out, Katie Harvey has discovered that the opposite is true: coaching gives her energy. Now into her third decade as a coach, Katie has carefully honed a practice that enriches her life and allows her to express her core values through her work, and in this episode of The Coach’s Journey Podcast, she explains how she did it. Katie reflects on how coaching has helped her to move beyond a binary view of the world in order to sit more comfortably with seemingly conflicting truths, such life being both painful and beautiful, or people being both loveable and difficult. This is Katie’s third time as a guest on the podcast, and host Joey Owen helps her unpack the story of the years since her first appearance, over four years ago, and her second, which came at the height of the coronavirus pandemic. Alongside her work with individual clients and with leaders, and the coaching she delivers at Coach U and London Business School, we were excited to hear Katie is finally writing the book she speaks about in her first appearance on the podcast, which she hopes will bring her into more connection with coaches and help them achieve a sense of integration. In this episode, Katie and Joey also talk about: Optimising energy for coaching by paying attention to the four pillars of self-care Supervision, listening partners, and the tools and aids that help coaches develop space, time and improvements in their practice The ways in which coaching is shaping the future in educational spaces The love that runs through our work, and the boundaries that allow us to work with love How to identify our core values, through the activities that express our essence Katie also generously shares the changes she has made to her pricing structure and the rationale that has helped her reach a place of comfort and fulfilment. For links to many of the things mentioned in this episode, please visit: https://www.thecoachsjourney.com/podcast/episode-60-katie-harvey-beyond-the-binary-lies-balance