Master Coach Collection

"I get myself into this discipline of slowing down. When I started to talk slower — just be with people, instead of having to do something — even if we didn't say much, that whole being there has a new dimension. It's made me realize the importance of presence, the importance of just going with a breathable space, where the breathing is deep and fulfilling. It's giving your lungs a chance to reall...

"Be very appreciative of what is different in your thinking that has value, because we need the outsiders. Outsiders may bring the value that the insiders don't see. It's invisible. My work sometimes is to make visible what is right under people's noses. And they go, 'Are you kidding? I didn't see it.' I go, 'I know. Now what? Now that you see it, you can't unsee it.' " — Dorothy Siminovitch

"The symbolic world is like language. We start more to feel the world. For example, the painting: When we visit an exhibition, mostly we see, 'This is this painter; how old it is; how much does it cost?' We judge in our outside world with facts and figures. And if we go to an exhibition and ask, 'How does it affect me, this painting? How I feel with this painting? And what would I like to do if I...

"I'm 50 and the thought of leaving my job and a secure income brings up these deep waves of insecurity that were probably seeds planted when I was four or five years old, living on bologna sandwiches, with two unemployed parents. That's the legacy all of us have, as human beings. That's how we're built. These seeds get planted and we have to do the work of processing those." — Craig Stanton

"Vulnerability: Most of the people would understand it as a type of weakness, especially in the corporate world; while you have a completely different connection to it when you dive into the coaching field, where you can see vulnerability as a main source of power that will allow you more resilience as you go because you are able to accept what's going on." — Ihab Badawi

"I was feeling sorry for myself one day and my dear, strong, tough cellmate slams me against the wall and says, ' You have no idea who you are. Oh, you are so strong, you are so smart, you care about people so much, there's so much you can do that we can't do. You need to get all that here so you can get out there and do something. ' And she was right." — Marcia Reynolds

"When I think about the people that have come back to me or have developed a relationship with me, it usually is because they said they felt seen and heard. The people that I am thinking about most when I say that are people who don't look like me. They say to me, ' You saw me. ' The emotion is about people not experiencing that in their lifetime." — Halli MacNab

"I love lawyers. It's so funny. I said, 'I'm not sure if I liked people that much.' I'm not sure about people, but I love lawyers. They're my people. I kind of love their cynicism and their skepticism, and their ability to make it all work." — Whittney Beard

"An experiment I love to do to is: I just smile at people. And the reactions you get when you smile at strangers are hilarious. Like, maybe one in ten people will just smile back. The rest look behind them. They're like, ' Are you smiling at somebody else? ' They look really uncomfortable. They look away. They don't know what to do — just somebody smiling at them. And it cracks me up." — Brittany...

"What I find most important is that the life I live is congruent; the inside and the outside is congruent; what I believe, think, feel is congruent with what I actually put out there in the world, to the best of my ability. And I know where I'm not congruent." — Carly Anderson

"When I look at mastery, I still have more to go. I mean, mastery? I am not there. I continue to develop my skills. Think about it. I can't imagine any coach working with a client that is not striving for self-mastery, at any level. It might not even be in their, their scheme or their vocabulary. However, the ultimate is self-mastery, and it's ever-expanding." — Connie Kadansky

"What I'm doing a lot of right now is I see you . And I say that in a thousand different ways. But what I'm saying is I see you ." — Vernice Jones

"Everything you've always known and always felt and have learned? Now throw it all out the window. And then trust. Just trust yourself and trust the process, and then see what happens." — Hayden Lee

"Who or what supports you? Because there's a lot of people who feel that support is selfish, but you're supposed to put your own oxygen mask on first. And when I was a kid, I didn't understand. I was like, ' That sounds selfish, right? ' But now I understand because the martyrs don't have any air and they just pass out in the aisles." — Diana Ideus

"I grew up thinking I was stupid. I thought I was stupid, because that's what happened. Now I did really well in school, because I got very good at reading between the lines and using powers of intuition. According to their scales, I did fine. I did well enough to go to college and grad school. But it was super hard. And I felt like I was stupid the whole time." — Jan Rybeck

"I simply got the message: Which is taking the work of coaching out into the world more and more, and actually taking action in our commitments to diversity and taking action to bring coaching to places where it is currently not, because either people are marginalized or oppressed or simply don't have access. And now I've got this huge new dream-vision-excitement thing, and it's cliche to say but...

"I could tell you about toys or childhood experiences that I had that still inform my hobbies and my interests. Whether it was the plastic playset kitchen in the corner with all the plastic playset food, and how, whenever anyone came to the house, I made them a meal for years, or whether it was the Fisher Price tool belt and my continuing love of tools and working with my hands, it's all there. I...

"I am me. And there's a full awareness of that. Now if I wanted to label that, one could say that I'm a unique expression of divine diversity. Or if one was more scientific, you could say I'm a non-recurring biological entity. But the bottom line is I'm me. But it's not an assertion as much as it is a cellular-level recognition: I'm me." — Michael Stratford

"I want to be the voice of optimism. And I have been. I bought an actual pair of rose-colored glasses. When I was younger, I always said, ' I don't care if people think I'm an ostrich with my head in the sand, Pollyanna. ' I've been called all of that. And when I was younger it kind of bothered me a little bit. And now I just really wear that badge very proudly." — Karen Cappello