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The Connection Experiment is all about human connection - and how everyday people are using connection to change the world.
Join Nathalie Blais, ICF Master Certified Coach and Founder of Coach Academy as she dives into deep conversations about the importance of connection, community, and coaching with guests exploring what's possible when we are open to connection.
Join Nathalie Blais, ICF Master Certified Coach and Founder of Coach Academy as she dives into deep conversations about the importance of connection, community, and coaching with guests exploring what's possible when we are open to connection.
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English
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135 episodes
since Aug. 24, 2023
episodic
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Career changes rarely go as planned. Simon Levin lost three businesses, started over every time, and is now running a successful coaching practice at 62.
In this episode, Simon shares what he learned from building a garment business from scratch, how he handled major setbacks, and why early busine…
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PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
"Just be yourself" sounds like the safest advice there is. Nathalie hears a version of it all the time, from executives with 25 years of experience and from new coaches: "I just want to be myself."
For most of us, being yourself means falling back on your default communication s…
Julian Treasure has given five TED talks on listening with a combined 170 million views, and every one of them comes back to the same uncomfortable point: most of us think we're good listeners, and most of us aren't.
Julian makes the case that not listening has a real, measurable cost: an estimate…
Every week, someone calls Coach Academy's admissions team with the same handful of questions, the ones that actually matter before making a decision like this.
In this episode, Nathalie Blais answers five of them directly: when to refer someone to therapy, whether tools like DISC or Hogan are worth…
Most leaders assume they are good listeners because they can hear. Listening asks much more of us.
In this episode of The Connection Experiment, Nathalie sits down with Kelly Wood, Coach Academy faculty member, to challenge what we think we know about listening.
These two passionate “coach nerds” e…
What most people who walk into coach certification believe about themselves is wrong: they think they're already good listeners. Nathalie Blais and Kelly Wood, Coach Academy's lead facilitator, spend this episode taking that apart: the real difference between hearing and listening, why silence is o…
Nathalie Blais built Coach Academy with a business partner for 12 years. Then one week, she was planning the company's next phase. The next, she was talking to lawyers.
In this solo episode, she walks through the legal battle that nearly broke her, the research-backed tools that got her through it,…
What does it actually take to grow a company from two customers to 170 people, and then walk toward something else entirely? Jesse Schuhlein spent over two decades building Zabre Technologies before training as a coach through Coach Academy. In this episode, he and Nathalie get into staying comfort…
What does it actually take to leave a 20-year legal career and become an executive coach?
Jonathan Cullen spent two decades as in-house counsel, including at Pfizer, before making that shift, a decision driven primarily by his son Tristan's Down syndrome diagnosis.
In this episode, he and Nathali…
Originally Aired: April 15 2026Ten years ago, Coach Academy started on a couch with a single question about human connection. Today, more than 4,000 graduates carry those coaching skills into their work and lives.In this republished episode, founder Nathalie Blais reflects on building this communit…
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