STaR Coach Show

What if five minutes of reflection each day could help you become a better coach, leader, and human being? Experience alone doesn't lead to improvement. Without reflection and intentional adjustments, we risk repeating the same patterns instead of growing. In today's episode of the STaR Coach Show, Meg Rentschler welcomes Jeff "Bones" Bonner, former combat fighter pilot, current airline pilot, key...

What if public speaking could become one of the most effective ways to attract your ideal coaching clients? You don't need a huge audience, a fancy stage, or years of speaking experience to get started. Sometimes, the best opportunities are much closer than you think. In today's episode, Meg Rentschler welcomes Leisa Reid, speaking strategy mentor, founder of Get Speaking Gigs Now, and CEO of the...

What if you could spend less time managing your coaching business and more time doing the work you love? Between client sessions, scheduling, marketing, and admin, it's easy to feel overwhelmed and wonder where your time went. What if AI could help you get that time back? In today's episode, Meg Rentschler welcomes Kalyca Zarich, business strategist, AI educator, and founder of highMpact. Kalyca e...

Ten years. More than 500 episodes. Countless conversations, connections, and growth opportunities. What does it take to build something meaningful that lasts? And what can ten years of podcasting teach us about building a successful coaching business? As the STaR Coach Show celebrates its 10th anniversary, Meg Rentschler reflects on the journey that began on October 16, 2016. What began as a desir...

What if the most powerful coaching tool isn't the next question you ask, but the words you choose to use? As we celebrate the 10th anniversary of the STaR Coach Show , I'm delighted to welcome Dr. Haesun Moon, a communication scientist, educator, author, and executive director of the Canadian Center for Brief Coaching. Her research on coaching conversations shows how ordinary words can create extr...

What if your client’s resistance isn’t something to overcome—but valuable information about what they need in order to move forward? As coaches, it can be frustrating when a client says they want change, then suddenly pulls back just as real transformation is within reach. In today’s conversation, Meg sits down with Travis Hahler, author of Rethink Resistance: Embracing Neuroscience to Lead Transf...

If you’ve spent months building the curiosity muscle, how do you answer when asked, “So, what do you do?” The quiet skills that make you a great coach can work against you when it comes to marketing. Meg Rentschler shares a candid confession about her early years as a coach, when she found herself rambling, hedging, and accidentally coaching people at dinner parties. She introduces the “two rooms”...

Today’s guest shares his journey into “fixer” coaching, which later developed into ICF-style curiosity-based coaching. This switch transformed his approach and the performance of Team USA’s Olympic swim coaches as he prepares them for the highest levels of international competition. Our conversation moves from the mechanics of high performance under pressure to the vulnerability of unlearning the...

Today’s episode explores a backdoor path to visibility that most coaches overlook. We explore backlinks, guest blogging, and directory listings as low-lift ways to build credibility and domain authority. Our expert guest, a self-styled “joyologist,” helps us reframe the core purpose of marketing: coaches aren’t pitching themselves; they are pitching the coaching profession. Ready to build your “co...

Today’s guest has focused her life’s work on closing the leadership gap for women. She spent years as a CEO in the corporate world, always trying to make herself fade into the background instead of letting herself shine. She shares what it took to overcome a multitude of limiting beliefs and how she finally realized that her methodology works—100% of the time. She shares a real-client example of a...

What guidelines should coaches follow in using (and not using) AI? AI is here to stay, and we have to adjust. Coaches who niche down to one specialty become replaceable, while those who bring their full constellation of experience become irreplaceable. In this episode, you’ll learn three waves of AI use for coaches, along with the practical AI tools she has created to perform specific tasks on her...

Today, host Meg Rentschler dives into the idea of “the thing beneath the thing,” those deeper beliefs and stories that are really driving our clients’ surface-level issues. Meg talks about some common traps coaches can fall into, like jumping too quickly into action steps, assuming “I don’t know” means a client is being resistant, or relying too much on spotting patterns. She also shares some down...

The biggest changes in decades are coming to mentor coaching. Today’s show walks you through the research behind the new Mentor Coaching Competencies, explains the brand-new Mentor Coach Specialization (MCS) credential, and lays out exactly what mentors and mentees need to do before the January 1, 2027 deadline. We also discuss the bigger shift coming in April 2027, when the portfolio path perform...

What is your top leadership challenge? A recent informal study gathered data from 23,000 HR professionals, and they identified difficult conversations and feedback as their top leadership challenge. Today’s guest walks us through each of the 5 C’s of difficult conversations. Join us to learn how to ready your mindset for difficult conversations so you can thrive as a coach and leader! Maren Perry...

Metaphors matter and, whether intentional or not, they exist in every coaching conversation. The metaphorical images we use have a strong impact on our clients’ brains, and we need to understand the neuroscience behind this power. Today’s guest explains how we work with the client’s own metaphor rather than quietly replacing it with our own, and we explore a simple shift in language that can chang...

Do you feel pressured to post on social media daily to keep your coaching business alive? Visibility in coaching doesn't depend on daily social media posts. There is an alternative: collaborative visibility strategies that create evergreen, compounding results instead of content with a 24-hour shelf life. Today’s conversation draws a clear line between marketing and coaching, unpacking a full visi...

“Organizational culture doesn’t come from words on the wall, but culture depends on what gets rewarded, what gets tolerated, and what gets quietly punished when nobody is watching the wall.” In this solo episode, Meg Rentschler explores why organizations often act against their stated values when under pressure. Meg defines culture through practices that are modeled and measured, offering coaches...

Today’s guest introduces us to the concept of capacity: the gap between the effort someone puts in and the impact they get out. You’ll learn why capacity isn’t a fixed container, like a gas tank or battery, but a nervous-system bandwidth that is completely trainable. You’ll discover how a coach’s own dysregulation bleeds into the coaching relationship through nervous system co-regulation, and why...

What a magnificent milestone for the STaR Coach Show as we arrive at our 500th episode! Today’s wide-ranging conversation covers community and membership models, with a specific focus on the unusual shift from one-on-one consulting to a membership-based business. You’ll learn practical strategies coaches can use to launch and personalize a membership. This episode blends business strategy with hea...

A lot is going on here as we gear up for our 500th episode! Today’s episode is a replay of a favorite that deserves more attention. Please listen and enjoy! What do you tell yourself about what you’re worth? This is a major obstacle for many coaches, and we covered this important topic in one of the most talked-about episodes in recent STaR Coach Show history. Meg Rentschler sat down with John Ray...

Today’s episode will teach you about loneliness—and it’s not what you would expect. “America’s Loneliness Coach” joins Meg for a rich and inspiring conversation. You’ll learn why we need a systemic cultural shift from a “me” world to a “we” world. We will explore the loneliness epidemic, how the “we” coaching mindset changes the way we show up, and how group coaching can become one of the most pow...

Understanding the distinction between change and transition is one of the most powerful things a coach can realize. Drawing from a milestone moment in her own life (her husband’s retirement), Meg shares how transition is reshaping the way she sees her work, her coaching community, and the urgency of showing up fully right now. Meg walks coaches through a practical framework for helping clients nav...

As we celebrate our 10th anniversary season of the STaR Coach Show, we welcome returning expert guest Mary Henderson. She challenges coaches to move beyond the traditional “find a niche, build an offer” model to build a coaching business around a structured, intellectual-property-based asset–one that delivers consistent outcomes, results, and transformation. She walks us through a checklist coache...

I’m thrilled to welcome back a previous guest today! Her first appearance was in Episode 232 back in 2020. She helps us get clear on something that confuses many coaches: What does it mean to be “trauma-informed,” and why does it matter for every single one of our clients? We will uncover the neuroscience, practical moves, and the truth about what’s happening in the nervous systems of the people w...

Building a coaching business when the world is unstable is hard enough; doing it in isolation is exponentially more difficult. In this solo episode, Meg Rentschler addresses the real pressures coaches are facing in an unstable world: longer client acquisition cycles, economic anxiety, and the emotional weight of building a business amid global chaos. The world needs coaches right now more than eve...