Multi-faceted coach Lindsay McKinnon talks with Melinda about the importance of a support network, practicing self-care, and the unique roles coaches play in their clients’ lives. They also explore the art of bragging to foster confidence and positive energy by focusing on one’s achievements.

Lindsay McKinnon is a holistic healer, teacher, massage therapist, bodyworker, and wellness coach.

In this episode Melinda and Lindsay talk about:

• The importance of having a personal support network and how self-care practices contribute to it  
• The role of coaches in providing a support system and creating safe environments for clients  
• The significance of allowing clients to experience vulnerability and teaching them to handle it  
• The differentiation between bragging and boasting and how bragging can elevate the collective experience  
• The practice of “living into the question” as a metaphor for embracing uncertainty and growth
• The concept of a “dojo” for practicing skills in small, manageable steps to build confidence  
• Creating a safe and structured journey for clients through listening, clear communication, and incremental steps  
• Trusting the coaching process and respecting the client’s timeline for growth and development
• Empowering clients by helping them see themselves as whole and celebrating their achievements  
• Using bragging as a transformational tool to reinforce self-identity and raise positive energy

“Take it one digestible step at a time. And as you have success with each of those steps, then guess what? Cortisol in the brain lowers. You’re feeling better; you’re feeling more confident”

— Lindsay McKinnon

Lindsay McKinnon is a Midwife of Souls and a Vessel for holistic healing, guiding individuals and communities through inspiration and action to connect, heal, and amplify their lives. She has an extensive background and uses all of her experience and tools to meet her client’s needs. As a Youth Minister she led classes, retreats and pilgrimages to create personal encounters with Spirit through rituals, service opportunities, workshops and intentional conversations. As a Massage Therapist, Bodyworker, and Childbirth Doula for over twenty years, Lindsay passionately stands for the human spirit’s capacity for creation and having the courage to heal and expand, literally and metaphorically, while working with our bodies as Vessels.

As a Qoya Teacher, she has led retreats around the world. She loves connecting women to their body-temples through movement, allowing space for the full expression of the Divine living inside each and every one of us, while infusing ritual and ceremony into a celebration of the sacred feminine. As a trauma-informed, neuroscience-trained, Holistic Healing and Embodiment Coach, she meets her clients where they are and creates openings inside themselves they never even knew existed. Using the exact recipe that fits for their unique circumstances, clients become empowered, begin to manifest their desired outcomes, heal, and transform. Her writings and lectures offer both wisdom to soothe the aching soul, and empowerment to take action in our lives and communities.

You can find Lindsay gathering with friends to take in the sunset, swinging and climbing with her daughter on the playground, dancing on beaches, hiking in mountains, kayaking in rivers, and marinating in the people, animals, and landscapes… always spreading love, and being of service wherever her wanderlust takes her.

Resources or websites mentioned in this episode:
Mirasee
Coaches Console
Melinda’s book: The Confident Coach
Lindsay’s website (and her “Resiliency Toolkit”): SoulBodyConnect.com

Credits:
Host: Melinda Cohan
Producer: Michi Lantz
Editor: Andrew Chapman
Audio Editor: Marvin del Rosario
Executive Producer: Danny Iny
Music Soundscape: Chad Michael Snavely
Making our hosts sound great: Home Brew Audio

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Music credits:
Track Title: Clouds
Artist Name: Acreage
Writer Name: Marshall Usinger
Publisher Name: BOSS SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTIONS

Track Title: Coastline Dream
Artist Name: Wild Sky
Writer Name: Adam Simons
Publisher Name: BOSS SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTIONS

Track Title: Coo Coos
Artist Name: Dresden, The Flamingo
Writer Name: Matthew Wigton
Publisher Name: A SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTION

Track Title: Stars & Trees
Artist Name: Outside The Sky
Writer Name: Dustin Ransom
Publisher Name: A SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTION

Special effects credits:

24990513_birds-chirping_by_promission used with permission of the author and under license by AudioJungle/Envato Market.

Episode transcript: Living Into the Question and the Art of Bragging (Lindsay McKinnon).