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Wanda Brown grew up around the corner from where The Wire was filmed. When her boss publicly humiliated her in front of eight colleagues, her brain did what Southwest Baltimore taught it to do. She wanted to take the earrings off. She didn't. What she did instead changed her career.
She and Nathalie get into the difference between being overlooked and being invisible at work, how to reclaim your voice when someone talks over you, why feedback delivered in public isn't feedback, the Sunday scaries as a sign you've crossed into burnout, and the five-minute Friday practice that builds confidence that sticks.
Ready to start your coaching journey? Learn more at canadacoachacademy.com.Connect with Wanda Brown
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Dr. Pat Williams was in the room when Carl Rogers taught and Joseph Campbell lectured. Coaching didn't exist yet as a profession. Four decades later, he's one of the people who helped build it.
In this conversation he and Nathalie get into what it actually takes to start over when no one knows you, why getting certified is just the beginning, the one phrase that changed how he responds to people's emotions, and why the people who already know you are your most overlooked opportunity.
Ready to start your coaching journey? Learn more at canadacoachacademy.com.
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What's the difference between leading from the heart and leading from fear? Nathalie Blais has been sitting with that question for weeks — doing a full self-audit on her own leadership style, looking for the signals, and mapping what she found.
In this episode she covers what your job as a leader actually is, why she'd be a fraud to say she has it figured out, the moment a leader loses the room without knowing it, why fear disguises itself as high standards, two questions that instantly reveal which lane you're in, why courage is a skill anyone can develop, and why withholding is a form of control.
This is an invitation to experiment. Use the conversations you have this week as your laboratory.
Ready to start your coaching journey? Learn more at canadacoachacademy.com.
#leadershipcoaching #heartledleadership #fearbasedleadership #coachingpodcast #CanadaCoachAcademy #executiveleadership #growthmindset #selfawareness #leadershipdevelopment #coachingcommunity #psychologicalsafety #managementcoaching #becomingacoach #ICFcoach #mindsetshift -
Lisa Rotstein is a Professional Certified Coach with nearly three decades of experience working with healthcare systems and nonprofit boards. She coaches executives and leadership teams through organizational change and facilitates at Canada Coach Academy.In this episode, she and Nathalie cover what it actually feels like when a room breaks open, why people form a judgment about you within seven seconds, what to do before any difficult conversation, and why the problem you're brought in to solve is almost always a symptom of something else.
Ready to start your coaching journey?
Learn more at coachacademy.com.
Connect with Lisa Rotstein: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-rotstein-pcc-8409a91a/
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In university, Nathalie Blais read every course syllabus before registering for a class. She was checking for oral presentations. If she found one, she dropped it.
Thirty years later she stood on a TEDx stage in Washington DC and went completely blank.
It turns out the stories you tell yourself long enough start to feel like facts. She gives you one exercise to test that.
Ready to start your coaching journey? Learn more at canadacoachacademy.com.#selfawareness #impostersyndrome #leadershipcoaching #coachingpodcast #CanadaCoachAcademy #growthmindset #personaldevelopment #innerwork #mindsetshift #coachingcommunity #becomingacoach #fearofbeingseen #connectionskills #limitingbeliefs #selfdoubt
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Gina Perrault is the founder and CEO of a multidisciplinary health clinic near Calgary — a business she started in her basement with a three-year-old, a six-month-old, and a husband on parental leave upstairs. Within three years, her team of two had grown to ten, the clinic had moved into a 2,000 square foot building on her acreage, and a non-profit had moved into the basement. Then COVID hit. And so did a rare lymphoma diagnosis.
In this episode, Gina talks openly about imposter syndrome and what it took to step into her identity as a CEO, why she finally left a secure career to start over, what coaching changed about how she asks questions — both as a leader and as a clinician — and why she believes the most important shift an entrepreneur can make is learning to lead from worth rather than from the need to prove it.Connect with Gina Perrault: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gina-perrault-00ba5768/
Ready to start your coaching journey? Learn more at canadacoachacademy.com.
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Stacey Kravitz has spent over 20 years building her career in food and grocery, moving from sales rep to the president of a national distribution company. She is decisive, results-driven, and self-described as someone who always had the answers. Then she took a coaching certification and discovered that having the answers was exactly what was holding her back as a leader.
In this episode, Stacey is candid about the struggle of wearing a leader hat and a coach hat at the same time, the coaching session from 15 years ago she can still recall word for word, why she was once passed over for a promotion because a boss couldn't deliver an honest conversation, and what she means when she says coaching gave her leadership more substance. It's a rare look inside what happens when a senior executive becomes a genuine student again.
If you're a leader who's wondering what coaching could unlock for you, visit Canada Coach Academy at https://canadacoachacademy.com/
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Kris Mahler has spent nine years on the Canadian national ski cross team, survived three major injuries including a broken neck, and is now building a performance coaching business alongside his athletic career. He's one of a rare group of people who can speak to the mental side of high performance not as theory but as lived experience — including winning a World Cup on a hamstring that tested at double the acceptable deficit.
This conversation moves through what actually separates athletes at the highest level, why the most effective coaching sessions are often the quietest ones, what it means to have people who genuinely believe in you standing at the bottom of the course, and why the question you're starting from — why versus what — shapes everything that follows.Connect with Kris Mahler: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kris-mahler-canada/
Ready to start your coaching journey? Learn more at canadacoachacademy.com.
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Lisa Anna Palmer has worn a lot of hats — HR executive, VP advisor, published author, NGO co-chair, and now a PCC-track coach who works with some of the most under-supported people in any organization: the ones at the very top. But the thread running through all of it is the same question she's been asking since she was a kid trying to make people feel included in a town where her family didn't quite fit: how do we bring out the best in people without burning them out — or ourselves?This conversation moves through burnout (three of them), the moment four words from a coach changed her life, the real difference between coaching and mentoring, what it actually looks and feels like to hold space for a senior leader who has never once been truly listened to, the five-year journey of writing a book, and the Kenyan NGO she co-chairs in memory of a friend who believed that doing good didn't have to wait until you were a billionaire.
Connect with Lisa Ann Palmer: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisaannapalmer/
Ready to start your coaching journey? Learn more at canadacoachacademy.com.
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In this episode of The Connection Experiment, host Nathalie Blais sits down with Alex Green, CMO at Butterfield and Robinson, a Canadian active luxury travel company, and a recent graduate of Canada Coach Academy's executive and performance coaching program. Alex opens up about why a busy senior executive with two decades of career momentum decided to invest in coach training, what surprised him most about the experience, and how the skills have shown up almost immediately in a brand new role he started just six weeks before this recording.
Throughout the conversation, Alex shares his honest take on the hardest part of shifting from a fixer mindset to a coach mindset when you have built an entire career on having answers and moving fast. He talks about the unexpected depth of connection that formed within his cohort, the surprising amount of work the program required, and why he still considers it more transformational than he ever anticipated. He also offers sharp, practical advice for coaches building their brands, drawn from his own experience as a senior marketer, including why your niche matters more than your logo, and why the referral will always be your best marketing. Whether you are a senior leader exploring coaching as a career accelerant or someone wondering if the program is worth the commitment, Alex gives you the unfiltered version.
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In this episode of The Connection Experiment, host Nathalie Blais sits down with Tychon Carter-Newman — Big Brother Canada winner, mental health ambassador, keynote speaker, and founder of the men's wellness brand MindStateU. Tychon shares a candid and compelling journey that began in corporate urban planning, took a wild detour through reality television, and ultimately led him to confront a truth many high-achievers avoid: external wins don't fill internal voids. He opens up about the profound anxiety and heaviness he felt the moment he won $125,000 on national television, and how that contradiction became the spark for everything he's building today.Throughout the conversation, Tychon breaks down the specific challenges men face in building emotional honesty and authentic community, why the language you use to market to men matters enormously, and how coaching gave him a science-backed framework for skills he always intuitively had. He also shares the two biggest personal obstacles he's still working through — self-doubt and letting go of relationships — and why telling yourself the truth is the most powerful tool available to any of us. Whether you're a man looking for deeper connection, a coach working with male clients, or anyone who has ever moved the goalpost on happiness, this episode will resonate.
Connect with Tychon Carter Newman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tychon-carter-newman/
Ready to develop the coaching skills to create real change — in yourself and others? Learn more at CanadaCoachAcademy.com
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Are you a leader, or are you an "advice monster"? Many high-level executives pride themselves on being fast problem-solvers , but constantly stepping in to provide all the answers might actually be holding your team back and creating dependency.
In this episode of The Connection Experiment, Nathalie sits down with Julie Drapeau, the VP of Sales and Marketing at Purity Life Health Products, to discuss a profound leadership paradigm shift. After realizing that her "consultant" mindset was preventing her team from growing, Julie completely changed her approach. We dive deep into the uncomfortable reality of learning to hold space (and enduring the "blank stare" from your team) , why putting your phone away is the ultimate modern luxury , and how genuine curiosity can save relationships both in the boardroom and at home. We also explore the practical implementation of tools like "The Working Genius" and why human, energetic connection will always outpace AI.
Connect with Julie Drapeau: https://www.linkedin.com/in/julie-drapeau-26146915/
If you are ready to step out of the problem-solving trap and start empowering the people around you, this episode is a must-listen. Ready to transform your leadership skills and build deeper connections? Learn more about our programs at https://canadacoachacademy.com/
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Celebrating a decade of connection, Coach Academy, CEO Nathalie Blais reflects on how Coach Academy has been her unofficial “connection experiment” the last 10 years.
Nathalie shares how her personal journey is a first hand testimonial on how coaching can change a life. From couch, to an academy, and all the growing pains in between, she wants you to know, that if she can do it, you can to!
Nathalie also provokes deeper thought with challenging questions:
What is the impact when connection is outsourced to technology?
What happens when people replace humans with AI?
We are the most informed generation in history, and the loneliest. We have AI that will talk to us all day and fewer people we can call at midnight. What will become of the next generations?
Nathalie shares what ten years of building Coach Academy has taught her about connection: from cold-emailing 120 strangers a day on her couch, to scaling through COVID, to facing a two-year legal battle for the company she poured her heart into, to the realization that coaching isn't career advice or therapy: it's the most concentrated training we have in being human with each other.
This episode culminates in the announcement of an exclusive 10-Year Anniversary Summit in Toronto on February 1, 2027. This episode is an invitation to find your people, put them in a room, and practice connection on purpose. -
In this episode of The Connection Experiment, host Nathalie Blais sits down with Tarik Ali, a Toronto-based executive coach who works closely with founders, CEOs, and senior leaders. Tarik opens up about his transformative journey from climbing the corporate ladder and assuming the "next promotion" would automatically bring him joy, to completely redefining his personal metrics for success. He shares how facing his own internal barriers and partnering with his own coach allowed him to build a thriving executive coaching practice where he now creates safe, confidential spaces for leaders who are celebrated publicly but often feel deeply isolated privately.Throughout the conversation, Tarik reveals the exact frameworks he uses to help high-achieving executives step out of burnout and perform at their peak. He breaks down his "Outcome vs. Values" model for evaluating performance, explains why you should treat your fears like members of a mental "board of directors" rather than fighting to eliminate them entirely, and shares practical advice for new coaches looking to build unshakable confidence and a clear niche. Whether you are a corporate leader feeling the weight of the daily grind or an aspiring coach ready to take messy action, this episode offers a masterclass in leading with authenticity and purpose.
Connect with Tarik Ali: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alitarik/
Ready to start your own coaching journey and make a real impact? Learn more at Canada Coach Academy.
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On this episode of the podcast, host Nathalie Blais sits down with Morgan Patzelt, a tech industry leader with a decade of experience in education tech, to explore her transition from a Director of Product at Shoby to an entrepreneur. Morgan shares how completing a 28-week coaching program gave her the courage to start her own business focused on team coaching and upskilling everyday people managers.Morgan recounts her journey of growing alongside an ed-tech startup, rising from an individual contributor to a director overnight. She discusses her philosophy that corporate reviews shouldn't focus on fixing weaknesses, but rather on "10X-ing" the skills that bring joy and make individuals stand out. Through her own experiences, she realized that building strong, autonomous teams requires a foundation of trust, transparency, and the vulnerability to admit when you don't have all the answers instead of simply faking it.Morgan highlights the power of team coaching in bridging the disconnect between management and individual contributors to create true alignment. She advocates for her mission to "make work not suck" by recognizing that people management is not a one-size-fits-all approach and requires active, present listening rather than a default sympathetic response. She also shares her practical insights on change management, emphasizing that while adopting new operations or tools cannot be optional, they must be fully supported with training and resources to truly succeed.Whether you are a seasoned executive, an unexpected people manager, or someone curious about the future of work and entrepreneurship, this episode offers actionable tools for building resilient teams and becoming a more authentic leader.
Connect with Morgan Patzelt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/morganpatzelt/
We believe coaching is a connection skill — practiced on purpose, it changes everything.
This podcast is produced by Coach Academy www.coachacademy.com
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On this episode of The Connection Experiment, host Nathalie Blais sits down with Stephen Hurworth, Deputy Head Teacher of Secondary at Bangkok Prep and international educator — to explore how coaching is transforming school systems from the inside out.Stephen recounts his journey as an aspiring cricket player in Australia to becoming a leader in international education, explaining how his background in sports coaching shaped his philosophy of positive professional relationships. He discusses how his time in Beijing and Bangkok led to a realization that true leadership requires moving beyond "curing" problems to a state of deep curiosity.Stephen highlights the power of the "pause" and introduces how his school has integrated a coach-like approach into everything from staff meetings to student leadership programs. He advocates for the use of "tiny habits"—like asking open-ended questions and listening to understand—as a way to build psychological safety and agency within the school community.Whether you are an educator, a leader, or someone interested in the power of human connection, this episode offers actionable tools for slowing down to think more deeply and creating a culture where everyone feels they belong.
Connect with Stephen Hurworth: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-hurworth-8972b880/
We believe coaching is a connection skill — practiced on purpose, it changes everything.
This podcast is produced by Coach Academy
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On this episode of Coach Academy’s Connection Experiment, founder Nathalie Blais reconnects with John Edward McGraw — human connection speaker, intercultural coach, and founder of Hiyaku Coaching — to explore how coaching can bridge cultural divides.
John recounts his journey from teaching English in Japan to becoming a leader in intercultural coaching and explains why true cultural adaptation requires moving beyond surface assumptions toward curiosity and psychological safety.
John introduces his LEAP framework (Let go of assumptions, Engage with curiosity, Assess possibilities, Perform with insight) as a practical tool for navigating unfamiliar social dynamics.
Whether you work across cultures, lead teams, or want clearer interpersonal connection, this episode offers actionable coaching tools and fresh perspectives to strengthen communication and belonging.
We believe coaching is a connection skill — practiced on purpose, it changes everything.This podcast is produced by Coach Academy www.coachacademy.com
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On this episode of Coach Academy’s Connection Experiment, founder Nathalie Blais talks with Penny Kaplan — a Master Certified Coach (MCC), mentor, and Coach Academy Learning Leader — about the link between coaching and authentic human connection. Penny shares her personal journey and explains how her work as a sex, love, and relationship coach deepens leadership presence, joy, and intuition.
Penny discusses why our economy benefits from disconnection, how habitual thinking separates us from ourselves, and the transformative power of "the pause". Whether you’re an experienced coach, a new entrepreneur, or anyone seeking to reclaim pleasure and presence, this episode offers practical insight and wisdom that can help you reconnect with your inner spark.
We believe coaching is a connection skill — practiced on purpose, it changes everything.
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In this episode of Coach Academy’s podcast Connection Experiment, Founder Nathalie Blais sits down with Nirra Fields, a three-time Olympic basketball player, WNBA player and current Coach Academy student, to explore the journey from achievement to wholeness.
Nirra recounts growing up with struggle, using basketball to escape childhood trauma and reclaim control - and how reaching the pinnacle of success (including Olympic gold) left her feeling hollow rather than fulfilled. She shares the pivotal decision to pursue therapy and coaching, and how deep inner work transformed her motivation from fear-driven drive to love-centered purpose. Nirra discusses practical ways athletes and high performers can integrate healing practices to sustain mental well-being alongside peak performance.
Join Nathalie and Nirra as they map the terrain between elite achievement and emotional health, offering coaches and leaders tools to hold space, foster real belonging, and help clients move from winning at all costs to thriving together.
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In this episode of Coach Academy’s Connection Experiment, Founder Nathalie Blais sits down with her daughter, Devan, to explore what connection means for Generation Z and why connection training matters now more than ever. They explore the pressures shaping young people today and how those pressures affect belonging, mental health, and the need for relational skills.
Devan and Nathalie dig into how the internet has shifted our moral compass around success, the power of therapeutic conversations that center connection, and practical ways individuals and coaches can pay connection forward. They share concrete habits and conversational practices that help restore empathy, create safer spaces, and rebuild meaningful rapport across generations.
Join Nathalie and Devan as they investigate connection as a teachable skill—curious, candid, and actionable.
We believe coaching is a connection skill — practiced on purpose, it changes everything. - Visa fler
