What can you do when you find yourself in a position where a client presents something they’re struggling with that you haven’t come close to resolving within yourself?At some point we all arrive in this uncomfortable place with a client. At first, we may straight up avoid poking that bear because we feel too unqualified to support our clients thro…

Something that feels really alive within me right now and I've witnessed being mirrored back to me from many of you is this longing for space.......this craving for presence within that space, and the permission to take up space without feeling guilty for what we're not doing with that time.There are many layers to this that I have personally been …

We’ve all experienced those periods of painful disinterest, lack of desire to work towards what we say we want and overall discomfort with our present situation without the “energy” we think is required to escape it.Especially as business owners, it’s easy to fall victim to the pressure to push forward and do something (literally anything) to numb …

The moment you decide as a coach that you are no longer okay skirting along the surface, offering your clients the expected external result that they've come to crave, and you actually want to take them beneath the surface to better understand the inner workings of their mind, the inner workings of their emotions and how they're orienting to the wo…

This is a clip from our new workshop inside The Secret Garden. This month we explored strengthening our business through building community. In this episode, Laura takes us on a journey through a visualization practice that she guided us through in the workshop. This visualization is designed to tap into your value system, what you envision yoursel…

In today's episode, Laura takes us through a journey of common, relatable experiences we have when we're seeking alignment in our coaching business, both internally & externally. If you've gone back and forth between striving for growth in your business and wanting to find more internal peace and space within yourself, listen to and save this episo…

This is a clip from one of our weekly live coaching calls from inside The Secret Garden. Inspired by questions + themes from inside our community, these rooms are designed to guide your exploration of new ways of being, thinking & leading.This week, we explore what happens within us as we start going deeper and more niched in our work. It can feel …

When it comes to hiring a business mentor, so many of us are used to searching for someone who we think can give us the outcomes we think we need to be successful.Maybe that's a promise to grow our business, make a certain amount of money, or automate things so that we don't need to be 'in the weeds' and can work on other things or have more free s…

This is a clip from one of our weekly live coaching calls from inside The Secret Garden. Inspired by questions + themes from inside our community, these rooms are designed to guide your exploration of new ways of being, thinking & leading.This week, we jam on our experiences + learned techniques for supporting clients who put up a stone wall anytim…

Today on EXPAND, we're joined by a special guest, Jonah Richman, who is best known for his expertise in compassionate marketing for coaches & wellness practitioners. Laura & Jonah discuss the ins-and-outs of business trauma and what trends they're seeing in the coaching space when it comes to marketing our services. Jonah shares his insights and ho…

Download Power Questions Here 🌹In this episode, we take a deeper dive into our bodies ability to constantly take in information from our environment through our senses and how it naturally orients us based on what it perceives to be safe or unsafe. When we are in session with clients, it is normal for our stress response to be activated. This activ…

Download Power Questions Here 🌹The 'patterns' that our clients come to us with and are wanting us to help them change are often the same coping patterns that they're using in their day-to-day life to help them manage their feelings. In this episode, Laura leads us through a beautiful lesson that even though there might be an expectation that we wan…

Download Power Questions Here 🌹As we begin to deepen our coaching practice and invite our clients into conversations that involve emotional awareness or exploration of their thought patterns, it's really important that we also invite in the conversation with ourselves around the line between our scope of practice as a coach and what would be better…

Download Power Questions Here 🌹Today, we chat through the importance of obtaining consent from clients before delving into deep, unconscious work. As coaches, we cannot assume that just because we desire our clients to move through deeper work, that they are ready and willing to engage in that kind of work.This episode teaches us how to pre-frame t…

Download Power Questions Here 🌹Have you ever experienced a moment with a client where you offered a solution, idea, or action item...& they agree to give it a try, but somehow you sense that they aren't fully onboard with what you're offering? Perhaps it's something in the tone of their voice, or their facial expression changes suddenly...you might…

In this episode, we explore the concept of spiritual bypassing, a phenomenon that was first introduced in the 1980s by Buddhist teacher John Welwood. Throughout this discussion, Laura helps us to better understand the ways in which we might use spiritual practices to avoid facing the emotional undercurrents that are taking place within us. & while …

In this episode, Laura coaches listeners of the show through questions that they've been coming up against over the last month. Today, we cover topics from listeners about their morning routines and how to create an adaptable practice so that they can meet themselves with the demands of their day, regardless of how much time they have. We also talk…

This month, Laura guides us through a practice of presence. Simple in theory, presence is one of the most challenging states to consistently live inside of. It asks us to learn how to stay WITH the full experience of a moment that would previously cause us to unconsciously react or mentally spiral.The techniques Laura teaches us in this ritual are …

There has been an ongoing conversation around authenticity circulating the greater coaching community. What it means to be authentic, what authenticity looks like in practice, how to build an authentic business, realigning with what feels authentic to us...sound familiar?In this episode, Laura offers us a beautiful & hard truth around authenticity,…

This is a clip from our new workshop this month inside The Secret Garden. In this workshop we explored creating an experience where our unique energy guides our creation. Where we ascend from being a coach to being a leader for our people. Where we create intimacy, connection, potency, and transformation from within.In this clip Laura leads us thro…

"Our capacity to hold a space for our clients to feel safe, to transform, to access their innate capacity to heal, to shift perspectives and to open themselves up to a new way of engaging with the world is dependent upon our ability to hold that same space in ourselves, first."In this episode, Laura invites us to explore our own ability to regulate…

This is a clip from one of our monthly coaching calls from inside The Secret Garden. In these hot seat style sessions, Laura answers your questions + guides you through your friction points so you leave feeling deeply aligned with your path, connected to yourself and held by each other.In this discussion, we explore the definition of 'coach' and wh…

On today's episode of EXPAND, we're joined by Lucas Rubix - Lucas is a creator, a freedom-fighter, and an entrepreneur who is obsessed with helping others live in their full potential. Laura & Lucas invite us into a conversation around the struggles of finding a balance between being tough and being a ball of love, and how the journey is worth purs…

This is a clip from one of our monthly coaching calls from inside The Secret Garden. In these hot seat style sessions, Laura answers your questions + guides you through your friction points so you leave feeling deeply aligned with your path, connected to yourself and held by each other.This month our conversation was based around creation, systems …

In today's episode, Laura leads us through a discussion around the challenges we face when working with clients beyond the outcomes they are often expecting when they begin their journey with us.If you've found yourself in a position of feeling hesitant to dive deeper with your people, it's likely that you've experienced the difficulty in measuring…

We've got a special, bonus episode for you today, loves 🌹If you've been listening to EXPAND for awhile, you know that behind every episode there are moments to dig deeper...to explore further..and to meet yourself and your clients in a new way. Because of this, Laura is feeling called to host live, podcast community sessions where we can interact f…

Welcome to our February Ritual 🌬️In this session, Laura guides us through a playful, explorative & expansive practice that teaches us how to feel into our intuition while separating the thoughts of our mind from the experience in our bodies. Through a little bit of play, movement, sound + breath, you will be led through an experience to unlock the …

In this episode of EXPAND, Laura is diving into a question that comes up for every coach creating a new program, offer, or experience for their people: "How much should I charge?!"If you've ever felt stuck setting a price for the program you're creating or coaching services you're offering...you're not alone. It often feels like a 'make or break' t…

This is a clip from one of our monthly coaching calls from inside The Secret Garden. In these hot seat style sessions, Laura answers your questions + guides you through your friction points so you leave feeling deeply aligned with your path, connected to yourself and held by each other.Today, we're celebrating Wanda, who experienced a profound shif…

In this episode, Laura is joined by an EXPAND favorite, Jon McLernon, to discuss what might really be going on at the deepest of levels when we hire a business mentor. Together, Jon & Laura tease apart the toxicity that can occur within the coaching industry and come to the conclusion that ultimately, people are looking for a sense of purpose and f…

This is a clip from one of our weekly live coaching calls from inside The Secret Garden. Inspired by questions + themes from inside our community, these rooms are designed to guide your exploration of new ways of being, thinking & leading.This week, we spoke about how the areas of our lives are interconnected in some way, and how a client's ability…

Welcome to our final segment in January's 3-Part Creative Ritual Series. In today's episode, Laura invites us to notice how we may be complicating creation and adding in performative layers that no longer need to be present for us to thrive.Laura leads us through the process of understanding that finding our truest selves is a journey that never en…

In Part 2 of this 3-Part Creative Ritual Series, Laura dives into the messiness of creating something new and the struggles of finding clarity when we have a new idea or direction we want to move in.She encourages us to let go of the need to have all the answers and instead, trust the fire within us and allow ourselves to birth something that has n…

In Part 1 of this 3-Part Creative Ritual Series, Laura leads us through a sequence of breath work, sound healing + a closing meditation designed to access a new depth of our self-expression, unlocking our creative sovereignty. The purpose of this ritual is to learn how to trust what's coming through without trying to control it, or to manipulate it…

This is a clip from one of our weekly live coaching calls from inside The Secret Garden. Inspired by questions + themes from inside our community, these rooms are designed to guide your exploration of new ways of being, thinking & leading.This week, we jammed on how our success isn't actually as limited by how much we give/do... as much as it’s lim…

In this episode, Laura leads us through a meaningful discussion to explore the way that we have traditionally defined boundaries within our relationships, while offering us her unique perspective on why having less 'rules' might feel more aligned. She speaks specifically to the importance of self-regulation and framing difficult conversations in a …

In this episode, Laura drops-in to expand on our discussion of body-based goals and mind-based goals from Episode #144. If you haven't listened to that episode yet, we recommend going back to immerse yourself in that experience before entering this one 🌹In the Workshop Sneak Peek, we explored the interplay between moving intuitively and actively pu…

In this episode, Laura discusses the concept of moving away from traditional, ego-driven goals and instead focusing on unlocking the abundance and potential already within us. She touches on the idea that traditional goal setting can sometimes lead to pain and the need to hide or abandon parts of ourselves in order to meet expectations. Laura empha…

This is a clip from one of our weekly Bloom Rooms, our Wednesday morning live calls where we explore and create deep clarity around student inspired questions from inside The Secret Garden each week.A theme we've been noticing in our community is the rumination we experience around goal setting and how to navigate the space between DOing and BEing …

This is a clip from one of the weekly coaching calls inside of The Secret Garden. This week our conversation was based around being a patient, loving mirror for our clients and why the ability for us to be their space often means more than having them follow a 'strict plan'. Laura also discusses the delicate balance between coaching and therapy, an…

This is a clip from one of our monthly workshops held inside of The Secret Garden 🌹This month our conversation was based around the benefits of TriggerMapping...and in this clip in particular Laura explores how coaches who don't work directly with nutrition can still use the foundation of TriggerMapping as a base for their own personal and professi…

In this episode, Laura discusses the importance of addressing trauma in the coaching + business space. She shares her own experiences with business-trauma and how it has impacted her journey as an entrepreneur and leader. She also touches on the issue of shame surrounding business-trauma and the negative impact it can have on us as coaches. While o…

In this episode, we hold a conversation around the seasons of healing and growth that we are moving through ourselves. How do we know when it's safe to use our own real-time experiences to support our clients or to guide the work that we do?So often we hold ourselves back from sharing the vulnerabilities of our own journey until we have a clearly d…

The conversation around self doubt and wanting to give up in our industry needs to change. After a disheartening experience with a past mentor around this ^ topic, I vowed never to make someone else feel alone & never to put myself above another. From that place, I really committed to a new depth of vulnerability with you and with myself. In this e…

I hope you enjoy this beautiful interview I had with my friend Tasha on her podcast, Your Expansive Self: Laura Poburan is a mentor, a guide, & a teacher who's focus is truly on some of the most fundamental things that many people bypass like anchoring into inner safety, trusting yourself, knowing yourself, living according to what YOU need, taking…

If you've been here for awhile, you've heard this very, very special guest on our behind the scenes episodes & I couldn't be more honored and excited to introduce you to her in a more profound way today. Kelly is our head coach within The Secret Garden and has been an absolute gem for every single person who has crossed her path. She leads our ‘Doi…

In this episode, you'll hear a 2-part conversation based around one of my students, Max, who is in the process of creating a coaching business that supports his role in the world as a nurse and leader. If you’ve desired to create an in-person workshop or consider yourself a heart-led coach who wishes to create change in the deeper parts of yourself…

I attended a new yoga class recently where the instructor presented us with a quote that I felt so connected to that I couldn't help but bring it forward to you. He said, "Alignment is awareness in action"...The truth is, alignment is not the absence of discomfort...alignment is intentionally choosing even when we're uncomfortable. It's not chasing…

In this episode we're exploring how to know when it’s time to make an aligned push. Allowing ease in business means having the patience to choose the pieces that feel right for you in this moment, knowing that will always evolve based on your capacity to give and receive combined with the seasons you’re in.---A few beautiful ways to continue journe…

In today's episode, I'm excited to open up a conversation where we explore the ways in which I observe myself, my own behaviors, my emotional patterns, and my thought patterns...and how that directly influences the way in which I observe those things in my students and in all of you...the people that I feel the most intimately connected to. We're g…