3. The Life Coach

A Very British Cult

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, True Crime, News

4.8 • 867 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Catrin is quite cynical about the concept of life coaching. She’s now spent months speaking with people who signed up to it and ended up in a cult. So, she has a session with one of Ireland’s most in-demand coaches to see if he can change her mind.

Then Catrin meets Anthony, who found Lighthouse during a very dark time in his life. She’s shocked by what she hears about his mentor’s approach to Anthony’s mental health issues.

What happens when a life coach takes over your life? Catrin Nye and her team expose control, intimidation and fear at a sinister life coaching company.

Reporter: Catrin Nye Written by: Jamie Bartlett and Catrin Nye Producers: Osman Iqbal, Natalie Truswell, Ed Main & Jo Adnitt Researcher: Aisha Doherty Executive Producer: Ravin Sampat Sound Mixing: James Bradshaw Original Music by: Phil Channell Commissioner: Rhian Roberts

Transcript

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0:00.0	My name is Annie Matt Manus and my name is Nick Grimshaw. How long have we known each other babe?
0:05.1	Probably 20 years now and in that time we've always worked in and around music right?
0:10.6	We have. So it kind of makes sense that we do a podcast better.
0:13.4	It sounds like he's been 20 years in the making. It's not a avatar for podcasts, basically,
0:17.6	but it is good. So we put the world to rights with regards to music.
0:21.5	It's all the stuff that you'd want to chat to your mate about over a pint.
0:25.0	Sidetracked with us, Annie and Nick,
0:27.0	listen on BBC Sounds.
0:31.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:36.0	So much energy, so much a serial coming through me.
0:40.0	It's very powerful, man.
0:42.0	You know, people, they can't sit with that and so I don't even speak to people
0:46.7	that are no cons to receive it.
0:51.7	I have a confession.
0:53.0	Lighthouse International claims to be a life coaching company.
0:58.0	I hear the word coaching a lot.
1:00.0	It's all over my Instagram feed.
1:01.0	I even have a friend who recently became one of the estimated 80 to 100,000 life
1:07.0	coaches who work in the UK. It's a booming industry, but I don't really understand what it is or what it does.
1:15.0	Over the last year I've met people who all say they joined Lighthouse because they thought
1:20.0	coaching and mentoring could improve their lives, but it did the opposite.
1:24.7	So to help me get a better sense of what the industry is and why people would do it,
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