The Holistic Physician Coaching Podcast
The Holistic Physician Coaching Podcast is dedicated to making physician coaching more accessible for physicians and those who coach them by featuring real coaching engagements.
Each season features one physician being coached by host Jessica Singh, MD, NBC-HWC, ACC, through specific topics, challenges, and life situations. These coaching conversations give listeners insight into the complex, evolving, and deeply personal experiences of physicians. The podcast explores what supports us, what challenges us, and what helps us live and work in greater alignment.
Dr. Singh is a Yale-trained emergency medicine physician who became the first to complete a one-year physician wellness fellowship at Stanford University, before transitioning her career to pursue holistic health and wellness. Through her own healing journey from burnout, she gained experience in yoga, Ayurveda, mind-body medicine, and coaching, bringing that depth to discussions on physician coaching, professional fulfillment, integrative health practices, and advocacy for physician well-being.
This podcast is for physicians, physician coaches, and all who care about the well-being of those in medicine. Just as in medicine, where a single interaction can transform a life, this podcast is grounded in the belief that one conversation can have immense power to inspire, heal, and bring about change.
Subscriber-only episodes include physician coaching sessions, exclusive debrief episodes for each coaching session with Dr. Singh, and coach mentoring sessions where Dr. Singh receives support in her own coaching practice. Free episodes feature physician experts discussing themes and topics related to the coaching journey.
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The Holistic Physician Coaching Podcast
Clare Norman, MCC, Mentors Dr. Jessica Singh on Coaching Session #1 with Dr. Mary
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Support the show & get subscriber-only content.In this insightful episode of The Holistic Physician Coaching Podcast, Dr. Jessica Singh is mentored by Clare Norman, MCC, during her first coaching session with Dr. Mary, a family medicine physician navigating the transition to motherhood. Clare Norman, founder of Clare Norman Coaching Associates, is a Master Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation, an author, mentor coach, and coach supervisor.
Together, they revisit the opening of the session, the coaching agreement, and the early exploration of what matters most in the first coaching session. As the mentoring unfolds, Clare offers thoughtful feedback on the coaching process, following the thinker’s language more closely and creating space for emotions, beliefs, and values to emerge without overguiding. Dr. Singh also reflects candidly on self-management as a coach, growth edges, and the questions that arose for her while relistening to the session.
The episode closes with mentoring on how to end an initial coaching session effectively, including takeaways, accountability, and ways to support reflection between sessions while keeping ownership with the coachee. This conversation offers practical insight for physician coaches and for anyone interested in how coaching can support transitions, cognitive shifts, shifts in perspectives, experiences, and well-being in medicine.
For physician coaches, coaches who work with physicians, and listeners interested in coaching in medicine, this episode offers practical insights into how coaching can support transitions, shifts in perspective, deeper self-awareness, and enhanced well-being during demanding seasons of training and practice.
Timestamps
0 - Introduction: Setting the Focus for Mentor Coaching with Clare Norman, MCC
6:59 - Reflecting on Strengths and What Could Have Been Done Differently in Session 1 with Dr. Mary
11:48 - Mentoring with Clare Norman on the Coaching Agreement and Early Exploration in Session 1 with Dr. Mary
39:47 - Mentoring with Clare Norman on the Closing of Session 1 with Dr. Mary and Takeaways
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The podcast is dedicated to making physician coaching more accessible while offering meaningful support to physicians and those who coach them.
Resources:
1. Norman, Clare. Cultivating Coachability: How to Leverage Coaching Readiness So Thinkers Can Optimise Value. Right Book Press, 2024.
2. Norman, Clare. Mentor Coaching: A Practical Guide. McGraw-Hill Education (UK), 2020.
3. Norman, Clare. The Transformational Coach: Free Your Thinking and Break Through to Coaching Mastery. Right Book Press, 2022.
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The podcast is provided by the Center for Health and Wellness Coaches.
