One Foot in the Clinic, One in the Dream

🎧 Episode Title: One Foot in the Clinic, One in the Dream
🟡 Guest: Laura Mairesse, vet, conservationist, podcast host, and passionate advocate for animal welfare and sustainable ecotourism.

Description: In this first episode of Lead Without Losing Yourself, you're invited into a raw and real coaching conversation with Laura — a vet and visionary who finds herself pulled between the safety of her clinical work and the call of something more.

This isn’t an interview. It’s an unscripted, unpolished, real-time coaching session that explores what it means to honour your energy, identity, and purpose in the thick of modern veterinary life.

We explore:
🟢 What happens when your passion outpaces your capacity
🟢 The quiet toll of holding it all together
🟢 The tension between meaningful work and the need to earn a living
🟢 How to reconcile two powerful (but seemingly opposing) parts of yourself

Toward the end of the session, you’ll hear an NLP-based coaching intervention that helps Laura integrate these parts and access a new, more compassionate perspective.

🎙️ Laura is also the host of her own podcast, Vet Vibes — be sure to check it out!

Laura’s post-session reflection: After listening back, Laura said she felt deeply moved and finally understood what her body had been trying to tell her: that burnout was closer than she’d realised. This session helped her reconnect with self-compassion and recognise the importance of slowing down to truly lead herself first.

Want to be coached on the podcast? Email [email protected] for more info.

Explore 1:1 coaching, join the group coaching programme "Lead Without Losing Yourself", or take my free leadership scorecard at: simplyveterinarycoaching.com