Expand with Laura Poburan

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 through something we clearly haven’t found the answers to. But do you need to resolve everything in your life before helping a client with that same th...

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 moving through recently that I want to share with you from personal experience in hopes that it will allow you to explore this for yourself.I think...

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 discomfort of staying where we are… which sometimes just means “doing” unhelpful things like scrolling, unnecessarily working and keeping our m...

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 world...curiosity needs to come into play. In this episode, we're going to explore curiosity and awareness through the lens of coaching. Ta...

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 yourself holding experientially for your people, and creating an opportunity to experience what it might look like and feel like from the positi...

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 episode for the future. You will go through many phases on your journey, and as Laura gently reminds us in this episode, it's all about ho...

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 like we’re speaking to such a smaller group of people who are willing to raise their hand and admit they “have this problem” (more so than when...

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 space. We've all experienced these promises in different ways - sometimes they're helpful, and other times we learn that it's not for us.In this epi...

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 anytime you try to go deep with them. There are plenty of clients who are going to struggle opening up because their default is to protect thems...

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 how he found his way back to his purpose after feeling jaded by deceptive practices.You will also learn how to transition from a program or s...

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 activation can sometimes signal to our body that we are under attack, and that we are being threatened. When we can better understand this process ...

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 want to create change rapidly & efficiently, we actually don't want to try to remove their coping patterns immediately. She teaches us t...

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 served in a therapeutic environment. This line is going to be different for all of us depending on our formal training and the knowledge/expe...

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 the journey and offers us ways to confirm whether our client feels safe to be engaged in that type of relationship with us, and whether they are rea...

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 even sense a shift in their body language.Chances are, if what you offered was pre-planned, you may have been blocked from witnessing the subt...

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 it's meaningful to embrace spiritual practices in the coaching space, Laura shines a light on how we might be using this to avoid or ...

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 talked about what it's like to begin a coaching journey when you feel like you're different or you don't fit in with what you see other coach...

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 ones we can use inconspicuously right in a client session or on a sales call to stay grounded and open...or can be layered together to create ...

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, vulnerability, and showing ourselves to the world without a calculated outcome. She helps us to better understand when vulnerability is coming...

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 through a beautiful discussion on the illusion of control. If you've found yourself in a constant spiral of wanting to 'fix' your clients or have had d...

"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 our emotions, widen our capacity for intense energy, and respond intentionally and consciously to what's happening within us during session with o...

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 what it means to embody true leadership. Laura discusses the importance of creating an experience that goes beyond the program bones and what is requ...

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 pursuing for a lifetime. You'll hear more about the importance of compassion in leadership and how to navigate getting results while still having e...

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 & the rules that we set for ourselves as we move forward in our businesses...and in this clip in particular Laura guides Julia through a questi...

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 and 'proving' progress in this type of work.The truth is, the intangible, heart-centered path is not as easy to sell and requires a lot of patienc...

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 freely, be fully seen, and feel deeply understood.In these live sessions, which will be held a couple of times a month, Laura will be guiding us thr...

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 energy of your innate wisdom. As you move through this ritual, pay attention to the experience you're having with yourself. Laura brings us to ...

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' thing -but today, Laura is going to guide us through a new way to think about this exchange.What if the decision of how much to charge was rooted mo...

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 shift in the way she launched her most recent program after recognizing her ability to trust herself and her intuition over sales tactics and statistic...

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 fulfillment in their businesses, rather than just financial success. A few highlights of this episode are: The importance of find...

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 to create change in one area of their life (that they're coming to you for support with) is going to be influenced by other factors like relat...

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 ends and that as we evolve, we must be careful not to hold on to old identities and performative versions of ourselves.Creation is a way for us to op...

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 never been done before. This episode is for anyone who is on the brink of trying something new and wants to learn how to navigate the uncertainty an...

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 into something else that you think would be more desirable or more digestible to the people you're trying to access. In this practice, you will le...

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 limited by how much we feel safe to receive in return. What really makes us feel unsafe to receive? And what are all the things that we're doing o...

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 way that is mindful of the energetic exchange between you and your clients. She also discusses the importance of holding space for our clients...

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 pursuing our goals. Today, Laura speaks more into the powerful somatic experience she created for the workshop using breathwork and meditation and wh...

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 emphasizes the importance of taking action, but in a way that is aligned with our values and desires. She also explores the difference between manifesta...

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 when it comes to goals.In this conversation, we dive into making things happen vs allowing things to happen, pushing vs trusting, attachment vs acc...

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, and how she navigates the line between offering her perspective and holding space for her clients to express themselves.---A few beautiful ways to co...