Mastering Coaching Skills

I've noticed recently that many coaches tend to fall into the trap of overlapping their personal growth with their coaching businesses. This can turn your healing into a double-edged sword. If you've noticed that your goals are attached to your worth as a human, or if how you show up in business is dependent on how your life is going, listen in.   Discover how you might be unintentionally turning...

I recently received a question that I'll be offering my full answer to in a few weeks, but it included a thought I felt compelled to address today. The question I received was this: "With so many new coaches entering the industry every day, what is one thing you can do to gain and maintain clients?" The concern that so many coaches experience regarding new individuals joining this industry is some...

Tune in this week to get your coaching questions answered. If you want to know about charging your friends for coaching when you're first starting out, how to structure your consult calls, how you can start transitioning from one-on-one to group coaching, or how you can grow in terms of sales and marketing, this episode is for you.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.linds...

Maggie Reyes is a marriage coach who has made it her mission to save the world one marriage at a time. She has a ton of experience working with women who want more fulfilling relationships, and she's giving us a candid insight into her journey as a coach, how she picked her niche at the very start of her business, and so much more. I'm sharing how Maggie has helped me as my personal coach, and we'...

Depending on where you learned your trade as a coach, you may already be familiar with self-coaching. But whatever kind of exposure you've had to self-coaching before, you'll learn something today because, as I found out recently, I have an approach to self-coaching that is different than what's already out there.   Discover everything you need to know about self-coaching. I'm sharing how I choose...

This summer, I've noticed that people are rebelling. After COVID, people have been isolated for a long time, and they have heavily adjusted to operating in those environments. I've noticed a rebellion against structure, introspection, and healing. Instead, people are really looking for connection and freedom.   Discover how to talk about coaching in a world where people are tired of being with the...

As coaches, especially if you're a mindset coach, something we don't talk about enough is what to do when our clients come to us with objectively bad circumstances and thought work doesn't seem to be helping. While it's true that you can change your thoughts, no matter how bad the circumstance is, it's not always helpful to approach your clients with this message.   Discover how to help your clien...

David Vox is a spiritual business coach who helps his clients with marketing and branding, but also with healing and transformational work. David has a story of a difficult upbringing and childhood trauma. However, working through all of that trauma as an adult led him to coaching, and it has helped him become a phenomenal coach.   Discover what spiritual business coaching is and how David helps h...

I'm bringing back one of my most important episodes because I've been getting a ton of questions about this topic lately. This is all about checking in with how you feel and reacting to those feelings when you coach your clients.   Discover why some of the emotions that come up on your client calls are really not serving you. I'm discussing why you might not have realized this was happening before...

Decisions about significant changes are something every coach has to deal with at some point. In fact, I recently made a major pivot in my business. I'm taking this episode to explain how I made this tough decision and how this pivot is impacting what I offer as a coach.   Discover the changes I'm making to my business and the decision-making process behind this pivot. I'm going through some of th...

Being able to take time off work is one of the beautiful aspects of being an entrepreneur, and something I've been hearing frequently among my clients, friends, and colleagues in the industry is the notion of pausing. This may involve pinning an idea or project for the fall or avoiding big commitments due to the fear of overcomplicating things.    Whether you feel the desire to put your work on th...

Over the next couple episodes, I'm sharing the story of my journey through coaching, discussing my decision-making, and giving you super-specific timelines of different decisions and milestones in my business.    I'm sharing what is currently going on in my business, how it has evolved over the years, my thoughts every step of the way, and my process for bringing my clients as much value as possib...

As a coach, there are going to be people out there who disagree with the work you're putting out in the world, or who just don't like you as a person, and they have no problem expressing their opinions. I personally have been doing some work in this area lately, so I'm giving you the exact process I use when I receive hateful comments.   Discover how to deal with haters. I'm sharing a bunch of com...

While having someone else watch your coaching sessions and offer honest feedback can lead to positive outcomes, there are numerous factors that make this approach ineffective for improving your coaching. Instead, there are better methods for examining and analyzing a coaching session, and that's what I'm sharing with you today.   Explore the concept of peer supervision in coaching and learn how it...

I'm diving into something that is essential for all coaches at all levels to consider this week: the difference between being an expert at what you do versus thinking that you have to solve every problem your client brings you.   Hear why it's enough to be an expert at one thing, and how believing it's not enough takes you out of the expert energy. I'm sharing common examples of what it looks like...

If you've been to coaching schools, trainings, or gone through coach certification, you've likely been taught some form of coaching that often looks like an equation. These tools are amazing, and there's a reason we use them. However, when we use tools like this to pick out one single thought or emotion at any given time, it can get a little messy and sometimes isn't actually useful. This is what...

Who comes to mind when you think of an icon? What is it about that person that makes them an icon in your eyes? How can becoming an icon be translated into the coaching industry, and what might that look like for you?    Hear my equation for what creates iconic work, and how you might be preventing yourself from creating coaching mastery. I'm showing you what becoming an icon means and doesn't mea...

Deb Malkin is a feminist mind/body coach, specializing in using the tools of neuroplasticity, bioplasticity, and consciously curious hypno-coaching to help her people unlearn pain and emotional stress symptoms. She works with her clients to act with their human experience and transform their lives so they can feel better and pursue their amazing lifestyles.   Discover the magic that happens in my...

Christine Stuart helps folks do what they love the way they love doing it and works with creatives with disparate skills and experiences that fit perfectly together. Christine is a life coach, herbalist, and lover of the outdoors, and she teaches marketing and selling through the lens of nature.    Christine shares how her love for childhood summer camp inspired her to develop a coaching offering...

You might think coaching coaches is taking the easy route, that too many coaches are doing it, or that coaching coaches is the only way to make money in this industry.    Whatever your thoughts are in this area, I'm discussing how these beliefs might stop you from showing up as the best possible coach for your clients, whoever they are. Tune in this week to get clear on your thoughts about coaches...

No matter where you are in your coaching journey or what kind of coaching you provide, this episode is packed with useful tips to help you with your coaching process especially if you have some clients that aren't getting results yet.   Discover what to do when your clients aren't getting results. I'm sharing how to dig in and figure out how to solve this problem without making it mean anything ab...

My clients recently shared that one of their favorite things about working with me is my calm energy and the ease with which I coach them, and it got me thinking about the skill of being calm as a coach.   I share five thoughts that keep me in a calm mindset while I'm coaching and how you can implement these in your coaching sessions to cultivate a calm energy.   Get full show notes and more infor...

What thoughts do you have about yourself as a coach? Getting clear on how you think about yourself as a coach is a super simple way to improve your coaching skills because whether you notice them or not, these thoughts are always reflected in how you coach your clients.   Discover the thoughts that are currently holding you back from showing up as the best coach you can be. Learn how to use these...

I'm excited to bring you another episode with a couple of my students from The Coach Lab!    Chelsea Simone is a general life coach who partners with humans and their spirits to cocreate different realities through clarity and embodiment. Jolene Hermanson is a life and health coach for women that are in sciences, engineering, and tech, and she helps them with everything from confidence and finding...

Something I see come up in my communities of coaches is this belief that we always need to be changing and evolving our coaching styles or as I call it: transformation chasing . Trust me, you don't want to miss this one.   I'm sharing everything we get wrong about transformation, showing you how to recognize where your thoughts about transformation are preventing you from being the best coach poss...