High Impact Coaching: Diana Murphy's Guide to Adapting and Thriving

Diana Murphy returns to the microphone after time away, sharing that she has been deepening her work through major personal transition.

She explains that many client challenges are not solved by mindset alone, and she is relaunching with an integration of coaching modalities, real-life stories, and high-impact conversations aimed at leaders, entrepreneurs, and high-integrity, high-capacity people making big moves while being "rocked" by life circumstances.

She introduces an interview clip with her personal coach and colleague Caryn Gillen (from the same coaching school), which followed a retreat where Diana clarified her niche and chose to build her business in a way that aligned with her values rather than high-volume, pitchy scaling models. Diana appeared on Caryn's podcast, Coach Business and the full conversation is here.

Caryn described Diana's business as a "powerful locomotive." In the clip, Diana describes her niche as supporting high-capacity leaders and business owners when "shift hits the fan," acting as an "ER coach" for people navigating crises (divorce, death, health diagnoses) or major chosen pivots (new roles, leaving corporate), helping them regulate anxiety, access wisdom, and regain confident leadership.

Diana then outlines how to niche powerfully by studying what you love in your work, analyzing client impact, giving yourself permission to do it differently, and creating safety and white space in schedule and business to get out of reaction mode.

She emphasizes nervous system regulation practices and frames supportive containers, solo retreats, and consistent reflection as key to accessing one's genius.

Diana closes by thanking another mentor, Trudi Lebrón and reaffirming the podcast's purpose: helping listeners create the business and life of their dreams no matter what is happening.

The book Diana mentioned is Burnout by Emily Nagoski, Ph D