🌟 Inside Coaching Minds—Monthly Newsletter
June 2025 in Review
Can you believe we are already halfway through 2025? At Coaching Minds it has been a busy 6 months preparing and gearing up for all the changes this year is bringing and we hope you are equally excited about what has arrived and what is yet to come. This month was special for us as we marked our 5th Anniversary. Find out more below.
This sixth edition of ‘Inside Coaching Minds’ contains:
Our Coaching Academy Spotlight
Book Club - New Dates and Proposal
5 Years at Coaching Minds
Coachology in Practice
Q3 Plans: Whats coming this quarter?
Spark Your Magic - CM's 5th Global Summit
🎓 Our Coaching Academy Spotlight
It has been wonderful to welcome so many new coaches into our academy this June, and we’d love to extend a warm welcome to each of you on your journey towards EMCC accreditation here with Coaching Minds. Please note, if you need anything, we are here to support.
Speaking of celebrations, we also want to take a moment to applaud all our coaches who successfully passed their Ethics Exam this month! As part of our comprehensive Level 5 coaching programme, this online exam is a key milestone, and we’re incredibly proud of your dedication and commitment to upholding the highest ethical standards in coaching.
Well done to Kevin Vingoe, Richard Feurstein, Cindy Blekaitis, Talas Riina Spitz, Mike Morgan, Anastasia Oles, Ruth bidmead
To keep the celebrations going, we’re thrilled to congratulate both Frances Gertler and Abz Salloum who graduated on from our Level 5 Programme last month, obtaining accreditation with the EMCC! We are so excited to see where both Frances and Abz, take their coaching journey! 🎉👏
To keep the celebrations going, we would like to talk about our incredible Coach of the Month— Anastasia Oles ! 🎉
Anastasia has been excellent this month at Coaching Minds, active daily in our hub, engaging and supporting other coaches in our sessions, and making progress towards establishing her coaching practice. She was nominated by a number of our coaches for the award this month following all of her wonderful contributions.
Anastasia - Congratulations and thank you for being part of our mission. 👏✨
📚 Book Club: New Updates and Proposal
We had another wonderful Book Club Coffee & Chat, led by our coach, Frances Gertler this month with a great turnout. We discussed a number of books and topics and voted to make some slight changes to how we run our book club. This is what was decided:
☕ Our Book Club Coffee Chats have moved - Now on the final Thursday of each month at 5pm UK.
☕ Our format will remain open to bring your own book - However, you can group together with people to have a deeper discussion if you wish in a breakout room each month.
Our book lists continue to grow, and we are excited for next month! 📖☕
We love seeing the variety of books and ideas that emerge—so why not bring your latest read and join the discussion? ☕📖😊
🌟 5 Years at Coaching Minds
This month we celebrated 5 years at Coaching Minds. We held an informal chat live across social media, for those that missed it, you can access the replay HERE. Our Managing Director, Paul Smith also wrote the following article on LinkedIn:
When I left my career within the UK water sector in 2019, I never imagined my life as it is today. I had spent two years gaining reputable qualifications in coaching and building up a side practice before taking the leap to pursue my own business. Anglian Water treated me well, paid me well, and helped me develop many skills within the 5 years of my service. However, managing contracts on pipe networks, calculating maximum daily demand, and learning MOSL codes left me feeling unfulfilled. No salary, position, or personal achievement can come close to how good it feels to truly help someone transform their life. So I entered the world of coaching full-time.
After a spiral of events including COVID, working within an unethical coaching school, and personal circumstances, I set a mission to make coaching affordable and accessible across the globe. In June 2020 the seed of Coaching Minds was planted, and last month we celebrated 5 years of making a difference. The truth: I have never felt so fulfilled in my life.
🏆 Our Biggest Achievements over 5 Years
The journey with Coaching Minds has been a roller coaster, and on numerous occasions we came close to giving up. However, despite our challenges, the setbacks, and the struggles, we pushed forward, bounced back, and thrived. We don't always get things right the first time, but we always do everything in our power to improve, actively seeking feedback from all of our coaches.
Here are some of our biggest achievements:
Awarded multiple accreditations with the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) and the CPD Group UK. We gained EQAs at Practitioner Level 5 and Senior Practitioner Level 7.
We have been nominated for multiple awards, winning three over the past two years.
We have designed a business model that demonstrates high-standard coach training does not need to be expensive. Breaking down financial barriers to enter our industry.
Designed an interactive and modern online hub that is user-friendly with built-in gamification, AI, and cultural software.
We opened a Pro-Bono Coach Centre, that allows those that need coaching (and maybe can't afford it) to access coaching with one of our trainee coaches.
Zero complaints. Every coach that has joined us is satisfied with the standard of training at our academy, and we receive consistent praise for the service we provide.
We have held 4 successful Global Summits (the 5th launching in September).
Took a lead on ethics by integrating it as a fundamental part of our coach training and publishing our 'Coaching Ethics' book, which is unique to our industry.
This is just a small caption that reflects the hard work and success of our team, our coaches, and our community. I am so grateful to each and every member that has played a part in shaping Coaching Minds and helping us deliver our mission.
🎓 Learn From Our Mistakes
It is easy for us to talk about our wins; very rarely do businesses open up about their struggles. As a company that advocates for collaboration, I would like to highlight some lessons that we learned so you can avoid making the same mistakes.
Never give others your eyes. Don't let anyone else define, shape, or lead your vision. Seek support but limit it to the how, not the what and why.
Your vision needs to be bigger than yourself. If it isn't, you will have a hard time battling with your ego.
Be careful who you bring on board. One bad apple can spoil the whole barrel. Challenge, test, and research everyone you plan to bring on your journey. From the great book 'The Energy Bus', get the right people in the right seats.
Don't fall into Digital Marketing traps and false promises. Invest your marketing budget wisely. Focus more on ROI than on increasing your social media metrics.
Not every 'opportunity' that comes your way is an opportunity. Don't catch 'shiny object syndrome'. 'Opportunities' will only pull your focus. Stay focused on the vision and what really matters.
Learn to manage the critics. Some pose valuable feedback in an unconstructive manner, take a lesson from it. Some try to pull you down, ignore them. Your personal belief needs to be bigger than everyone else's doubt.
Not everyone that follows you, supports you. You have people close to you hoping that you will fail and you have strangers you've never met praying for you to succeed. Be careful who you trust.
In the words of Denzel Washington 'Don't confuse movement with progress.' We can run on the same spot for hours and achieve nothing in distance. Make sure the action you take, is moving your mission forward.
We have learned a lot on this journey and each mistake has shaped us into a better version. Here is to more mistakes and successes in the future as we gear up for the next 5 years at Coaching Minds.
A huge thank you to everyone who truly supports us. 🥂
🪄 Coachology in Practice
In June we launched our LinkedIn newsletter aimed to educate the general public on coaching. After just 3 weeks, we hit 100 subscribers. You can find all articles in the 'Coachology In Practice' section of our hub or on LinkedIn.
Thank you to everyone who has subscribed so far. We really appreciate you.
💫 Coachology: The interactive and rewarding experience of receiving, learning, and engaging in the magic of coaching.
🛣️ Q3 Plans: What are we going to deliver?
This year, we’re finalising major projects to further our mission of making coaching affordable and accessible worldwide. Your feedback is invaluable - please let us know how we can improve!
🔥 Key Q3 Milestones:
📌 The Coach Cast - a brand new coaching podcast that discusses and tackles top trends, challenges, and issues in our industry. Expect a casual and relaxed discussion on important professional topics.
📌 Launch of Hardcover Books - a Bite-Sized Coaching Educational Series of hardcover books that teach coaching. Learn more about our curriculum here at Coaching Minds and how to become a professional coach.
📌 Official Launch of our AI Power-Up Course - Learn how to build your own private online AI Coaching Room with Coaching Minds. Built in gamification, courses, communities and much more.
📌 Launch of our Level 7 Senior Practitioner Programme - A 180 hour course on Organisational Coaching delivering Senior Practitioner Level 7 accreditation with the EMCC.
💫 Spark Your Magic - Our 5th Global Summit
Our 5th Global Summit will be launching this September. As always, we are open for applications. If you would like to speak at our summit, please complete the application form below.
Note: We always get a high demand for speaking slots, so please do not leave it too late to apply. We are acting on a first come, first serve basis if all requirements on the application form are completed.
📆 Deadline to apply: 31st July 2025
