The Bright Morning Podcast with Elena Aguilar

In this episode of our Try It On Challenge mini-series Elena shares a question that can support your coachee to make a choice to release a belief that isn’t serving them. Listen in to learn the power…

In this mini-episode of the Try if On Challenge, Elena shares a question that will help you and your coachees surface underlying beliefs. You’ll learn when you might want to use this question, what i…

In this Try it On Challenge mini-episode, Elena is sharing one of her favorite questions to ask a coachee. You’ll hear her model it, share how you might modify it, and be prepared to try it on in you…

In this episode of our current mini-series, the Try It On Challenge, Elena shares what you need to know to reduce the talk time you’re taking up as a coach in your conversations. She also provides a …

This week’s try it on challenge focuses on what you can learn from your client’s non-verbals. Listen in to hear Elena explore the strategy you can use and also model how you might respond in a few mo…

Welcome to the “try it on challenge!” This episode kicks off a new mini-series that will provide you with a tool or strategy in each episode guaranteed to improve your coaching. This first episode te…

What’s the purpose of taking notes in a coaching conversation? What notes should I take? Should I send notes that I take to my coachee? 

Elena answers these questions and more in this final episode of…

Elena shares a minute-by-minute breakdown of how you should spend the five minutes before you walk into a meeting where you will be coaching. These five steps provide you with the greatest potential …

In this episode, Elena shares the key to setting impactful goals with your coachees, and the secret to making goal-setting, and accountability, a healthy and productive approach. This is a must-liste…

In this episode, designed for new coaches at the beginning of the school year, Elena demonstrates how she introduces herself to new coachees and pulls back the curtain on the moves she makes. 

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In this episode, the third in a series designed to support new coaches in the beginning of the school year, Elena demonstrates how she introduces coaching to new coachees and then pulls back the curt…

Today’s episode is arguably the most important Bright Morning Podcast episode to date. Elena provides the foundational knowledge that you need if you aspire to be a Transformational Coach: the six el…

It’s back-to-school season so we’re kicking off a mini-series that will help new coaches have an excellent start to their coaching practice. In this episode, Elena shares the six most important thing…

How do you proactively mitigate harm being done in PD spaces, particularly harm experienced by people who identify with a marginalized identity? 

How do you respond when harm is done, including in bre…

The reflection you do after facilitating PD has the ability to transform your approach. In this episode, Elena walks you through the four sets of questions that have proven invaluable to her own prac…

In this first episode of a three-part series on designing and facilitating transformational PD, Elena “pulls back the curtain” and shares how she prepares to facilitate. Listen in for a detailed list…

Have you ever led a team meeting that got derailed due to emotional flair-ups?

Elena shares the specific prompts she uses in these daunting facilitation moments, and what’s led to the Bright Morning T…

In the first of this two-part series, Elena pulls back the “Bright Morning curtain” to give you an insider’s look into how we use purpose to drive our team meetings. From 1:1 check-ins, to monthly pr…

In this final episode of our Hot Topics of Coaching for Equity mini-series Elena shares seven things you can do when you are in a toxic culture, one where there is contagious negativity. 

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“What do you do if you’re coaching in a place where your values are misaligned?” 

In this episode of our Hot Topics in Coaching for Equity mini-series, Elena takes a coaching stance to help unpack thi…