Most of the powerful, unguarded conversations we have as practitioners happen behind the scenes. This podcast was created to bring those conversations forward. It’s a space for real talk about client work, presence, creating powerful containers for waking others up, embodied change, and the ways we continue to grow and meet our edges as we guide others.
27. The Practitioner Is the Practice: Inside Our New Academy | Aila & Barb
What makes a practitioner truly effective? In this episode, Barb and Aila share the vision behind their new six-month Practitioner’s Academy and explore why the practitioner’s own presence, capacity, self-understanding, and relationship with life are inseparable from the work they offer others. They talk about moving beyond tools and rigid methodology, meeting the full range of human experience, deepening client work, building a sustainable practice, and creating from greater freedom, aliveness, and trust.
Thank you for listening! For more information and resources, visit Barb's (https://barbarapatterson.com/) website and Aila's (https://www.ailacoats.com/) website.
SHOW LINKS
Visit Aila's Website (https://www.ailacoats.com/)
Follow Aila on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/ailasierra/) and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/aila.hale)
Follow Barb on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbpatterson/) and Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/barb_p/)
HAVE QUESTIONS FOR AILA & BARB? Send Your Question Here (mailto:insidethepractitionerspath@gmail.com)
SHOW NOTES
[01:13] - Introducing the Practitioners Academy
[02:33] - The Practitioner as the Instrument
[07:34] - Building Capacity for Life and Work
[10:10] - Why We Created the Academy
[14:16] - Optional Certification Path
[16:44] - Reigniting Your Coaching Practice
[19:15] - Wisdom Beyond Methodology
[22:31] - Letting Go of Practitioner Identity
[28:28] - What the Academy Offers
[31:32] - A Transformative Space for Practitioners
[33:23] - How to Learn More
28 Jul 2026
26. My Kids Make Me A Better Coach | Aila
Coaches like to imagine they can meet any emotion in a session without flinching. But what happens when someone else's anger, tears, or big feeling makes you want to leave your own body?
In this episode, Aila traces how becoming a mother, especially raising her six-year-old and now her three-year-old, gave her a real-time master class in presence that years of her own therapy hadn't reached. She shares what it's actually taken to meet her kids' outbursts without contracting or shutting down, and how that daily practice has changed the way she shows up with clients too.
This isn't about tolerating real danger, or being endlessly calm. It's about the more common moment when someone else's big feeling pulls you out of your own, and the safety and presence that becomes available when you learn to meet it instead.
Thank you for listening! For more information and resources, visit Barb's (https://barbarapatterson.com/) website and Aila's (https://www.ailacoats.com/) website.
SHOW LINKS
Visit Aila's Website (https://www.ailacoats.com/)
Follow Aila on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/ailasierra/) and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/aila.hale)
Follow Barb on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbpatterson/) and Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/barb_p/)
HAVE QUESTIONS FOR AILA & BARB? Send Your Question Here (mailto:insidethepractitionerspath@gmail.com)
SHOW NOTES
[01:09] - The Unexpected Lessons from Parenting
[04:09] - Navigating Emotions: A Journey of Self-Discovery
[07:21] - Building Capacity: The Impact on Coaching
[10:12] - Finding Safety Within: Empowerment Through Presence
14 Jul 2026
25. Eating disorder or Thinking disorder? Or Neither? | Aila
Eating disorders, body image, restriction, bingeing. These come up often in Aila’s work with teens and young adults. In this solo episode, she asks a different question: is it an eating disorder, a thinking disorder, neither, or both?
Aila shares her own story as a competitive athlete sidelined by injury, and the disordered eating that followed. She traces the moment everything shifted: the realization that none of it was really about her body at all. It was pointing to something deeper.
This episode is an invitation to see disordered behavior, and the thinking that drives it, not as something broken, but as a system reaching for wellness, however misguided the reach. Aila shares how this lens shapes her work with clients today, why the support around a young person matters as much as the inner work, and why she believes every symptom is, at its root, an impulse toward health.
Thank you for listening! For more information and resources, visit Barb’s (https://barbarapatterson.com/) website and Aila’s (https://www.ailacoats.com/) website.
SHOW NOTES:
[00:00] - Welcome to Inside the Practitioner's Path!
[01:11] - Exploring Self-Love and Its Implications
[04:17] - The Inquiry of Lovability and Worthiness
[07:06] - Personal Story: A Journey to Self-Love
[13:20] - Activating Inner Love and Guidance
[20:19] - The Essence of Our Nature and Vitality
[22:40] - Thank you for listening!
SHOW LINKS:
Visit Aila’s Website (https://www.ailacoats.com/)
Follow Aila on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/ailasierra/) and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/aila.hale)
Follow Barb on Linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbpatterson/) and Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/barb_p/)
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