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 more information about Katie, email her at katie@katieharveycoaching.co.uk.
For more information about this episode’s host, Joey Owen, visit www.joeyowencoaching.com.
Read more about The Coach's Journey at www.thecoachsjourney.com.
Music by My Good Man William: listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4KmeQUcTbeE31uFynHQLQg
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Things and people we mentioned (that you might be interested in):
- Katie’s previous appearances on The Coach’s Journey Podcast
https://www.thecoachsjourney.com/podcast/coaching-during-coronavirus-katie-harvey
- Thomas Leonard https://thomasleonardphotos.wordpress.com/about/#:~:text=Although%20Thomas%20has%20been%20called,put%20coaching%20on%20the%20map
- The podcast we mention with Brené Brown and Barack Obama
https://brenebrown.com/podcast/brene-with-president-barack-obama-on-leadership-family-and-service/
- Indra’s web/net https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indra%27s_net
- Torres del Paine National Park https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torres_del_Paine_National_Park
- Ken Broeren https://www.instagram.com/kenbroeren/?hl=en
- The impact of being in nature on our cognitive abilities https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0963721419854100
- London Business School https://www.london.edu
- Coach U https://www.coachu.com/Home/
- Brené Brown’s Dare to Lead list of values https://brenebrown.com/resources/dare-to-lead-list-of-values/
- Katie’s appearance on Joss Stone’s podcast, A Cuppa Happy https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a-cuppa-happy/id1524278339?i=1000492774997
BIOGRAPHY FROM KATIE
Katie has worked as a professional coach for the last 22 years, following a background in psychology and mental health research. The 14,000+ hours of one-to-one coaching she has amassed during those years have been through working with a wide range of clients and topic areas.
Katie coaches executives and leaders of all levels, in areas such as career progression, leadership development and work-life balance, and has throughly enjoyed working with organisations as diverse as Hiscox, Hurstpierpoint College, BT, Disney, Christian Aid, Amex, EE, Vodaphone, and the BBC.
Over the last 10 years, Katie has gained enormous pleasure working within coaching. She is a faculty member at CoachU and has trained internal coaches in partnership with Corporate Potential in companies such as Coca-Cola Hellenic, NAK and BSI.
Katie lives in Brighton with her husband and three children and loves coaching as she look out at the sea!