Craft of Coaching Podcast: Recent Episodes

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Learn about the craft and skill-set of life coaching through the Craft of Coaching podcast, which is hosted by Kate Swoboda, aka Kate Courageous, Director of the Courageous Living Coach Certification at https://TeamCLCC.com

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Most time management advice for coaches assumes your life stays predictable.

--> It doesn't.

In this episode, we're breaking down the time management strategies for busy life coaches that actually hold up when things go sideways — not the productivity hacks that work fine until they don't. Let's go through 4 practical systems that aren't about doing more, but instead builds a coaching business that can flex when your life does—because it will.

If you've ever felt like your business only works when everything else in your life is going right, this episode is for you.

Coaching + Courage + Community = CLCC.

We're a life-changing program, for you to become a life-changing coach. Our Level 1 ICF-Accredited program has worked with graduates from around the world. The first life you change? It'll be your own. We're the Credentialed Life Coach Collective, or CLCC, and we're here to give you a powerful coaching skill-set mixed with profound personal and professional growth.

Head to https://TeamCLCC.com to get our catalogue and the free "Become a Coach" video series to learn more about becoming a life coach, choosing a coaching niche, how coaches make money, and more.

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It's exceedingly common for coaches to finish coach training, go all-in on building a business, and then...something happens. A loss, a partner's unexpected layoff, an illness, or burnout from trying to hard to make the business happen. The coach takes a step back, thinking it's just a pause--and then it's longer. The thought of returning feels awkward. So how do you come back to your coaching business after a break?

That's exactly what we're exploring in today's episode, where we talk about not just the actions to take but the mentality to adopt when you're wanting to come back to coaching, especially after you've navigated a difficult life experience. It's okay to have taken a step back--and it's also okay, and very doable, to return to coaching and create the work from a different place.

Coaching + Courage + Community = CLCC.

We're a life-changing program, for you to become a life-changing coach. Our Level 1 ICF-Accredited program has worked with graduates from around the world. The first life you change? It'll be your own. We're the Credentialed Life Coach Collective, or CLCC, and we're here to give you a powerful coaching skill-set mixed with profound personal and professional growth.

Head to https://TeamCLCC.com to get our catalogue and the free "Become a Coach" video series to learn more about becoming a life coach, choosing a coaching niche, how coaches make money, and more.

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At some point, we all face loss--which means that at some point, you'll have coaching clients who are facing grief and loss. Because grief and loss experiences can vary so significantly from person to person, it's important that life coaches understand the terrain that their clients are walking through and best practices to help clients navigate grief and loss while the coach maintains an ethical stance within the scope of coaching.

That's exactly what we're getting into in today's episode--with a personal lens, as I (host Kate Swoboda) am navigating the recent loss of my father and experiencing this from both sides.

What are the "weird" things about grief that come up? How can life coaches best support clients through grieving without pathologizing it? Let's dig in.

Coaching + Courage + Community = CLCC.

We're a life-changing program, for you to become a life-changing coach. Our Level 1 ICF-Accredited program has worked with graduates from around the world. The first life you change? It'll be your own. We're the Credentialed Life Coach Collective, or CLCC, and we're here to give you a powerful coaching skill-set mixed with profound personal and professional growth.

Head to https://TeamCLCC.com to get our catalogue and the free "Become a Coach" video series to learn more about becoming a life coach, choosing a coaching niche, how coaches make money, and more.

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Coaching clients through career transitions is always complex work — but right now, when the job market is genuinely difficult and economic uncertainty is running high, it requires a particular set of skills that most coach training doesn't fully address. When a client has done everything right and the market still isn't responding, standard coaching moves can land as tone-deaf. And when a client's identity is wrapped up in work they've lost or are losing, the coaching goes deeper than strategy fast.

In this episode, we're breaking down what it actually looks like to coach career transition clients in a hard market — staying firmly in the coaching lane without crossing into career counseling, holding space for grief and identity disruption without getting pulled into rescue, and asking the questions that actually help when "just keep applying" isn't landing.

We're covering the difference between a career strategy problem and an identity crisis wearing career clothes, why the most important coaching in a job transition often has nothing to do with the resume, and the specific moves that help clients stay connected to their own agency when the external environment feels completely indifferent to what they have to offer.

Coaching + Courage + Community = CLCC.

We're a life-changing program, for you to become a life-changing coach. Our Level 1 ICF-Accredited program has worked with graduates from around the world. The first life you change? It'll be your own. We're the Credentialed Life Coach Collective, or CLCC, and we're here to give you a powerful coaching skill-set mixed with profound personal and professional growth.

Head to https://TeamCLCC.com to get our catalogue and the free "Become a Coach" video series to learn more about becoming a life coach, choosing a coaching niche, how coaches make money, and more.

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Growing a coaching business in a difficult economy tests something most business advice doesn't prepare you for — not your strategy, but your belief. When inquiries slow down, the silence has a way of becoming evidence. Evidence that you're not good enough, that you waited too long, that the market has moved on. None of that is necessarily true. But it feels true, and that feeling drives decisions.

In this episode, we're breaking down what's actually happening when a coaching business goes quiet — the difference between a market condition and a personal failing, how to audit what's working without spiraling into an overhaul, and what to do in a slow season that actually builds long-term equity instead of just filling time. We're also looking at how this translates directly to your coaching work, because clients who are navigating "I'm doing everything right and nothing is happening" need exactly the skills we're talking about here.

This episode is equal parts honest business coaching and inner work. Because in a hard market, those two things are inseparable.

Coaching + Courage + Community = CLCC.

We're a life-changing program, for you to become a life-changing coach. Our Level 1 ICF-Accredited program has worked with graduates from around the world. The first life you change? It'll be your own. We're the Credentialed Life Coach Collective, or CLCC, and we're here to give you a powerful coaching skill-set mixed with profound personal and professional growth.

Head to https://TeamCLCC.com to get our catalogue and the free "Become a Coach" video series to learn more about becoming a life coach, choosing a coaching niche, how coaches make money, and more.

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Coaching business pricing during economic uncertainty is where a lot of coaches quietly come undone. Not publicly — there's no announcement, no decision point. It happens in small moments. A potential client mentions money is tight and you immediately offer a discount. Someone ghosts after hearing your rate and you spend three days wondering if you should lower it. You start pre-emptively apologizing for your prices before anyone has even asked.

In this episode, we're breaking down what's actually happening in those moments — because it's rarely about the economics and almost always about the story underneath them. We're covering how to tell the difference between appropriate flexibility and people-pleasing yourself out of a sustainable business, what the research tells us about how clients actually make purchasing decisions during economic downturns, and the specific internal work that lets you hold your rates with confidence rather than apology.

This isn't about being rigid or tone-deaf to genuine financial hardship. It's about getting honest about when you're responding to a client's reality and when you're responding to your own fear. Those are two completely different situations — and they require two completely different responses.

Coaching + Courage + Community = CLCC.

We're a life-changing program, for you to become a life-changing coach. Our Level 1 ICF-Accredited program has worked with graduates from around the world. The first life you change? It'll be your own. We're the Credentialed Life Coach Collective, or CLCC, and we're here to give you a powerful coaching skill-set mixed with profound personal and professional growth.

Head to https://TeamCLCC.com to get our catalogue and the free "Become a Coach" video series to learn more about becoming a life coach, choosing a coaching niche, how coaches make money, and more.

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Most coaches create their offers by copying what they see others doing—but that leads to packages that don’t actually work.

In this Craft of Coaching episode, we dive into how to structure coaching packages that support real transformation for your clients and sustainable income and energy for you. You’ll learn how to align your offers with the actual arc of change, why underpriced or overpromised packages undermine both the coach and the client, and how to map your packages around integration, boundaries, and outcomes—not just sessions and price.

We walk through the top mistakes coaches make when designing packages and give you a clear, actionable framework for creating offers that deliver. If you’re ready to stop winging it and start building packages that feel good to deliver—and that clients are excited to commit to—this episode is for you.

Coaching + Courage + Community = CLCC.

We're a life-changing program, for you to become a life-changing coach. Our Level 1 ICF-Accredited program has worked with graduates from around the world. The first life you change? It'll be your own. We're the Credentialed Life Coach Collective, or CLCC, and we're here to give you a powerful coaching skill-set mixed with profound personal and professional growth.

Head to https://TeamCLCC.com to get our catalogue and the free "Become a Coach" video series to learn more about becoming a life coach, choosing a coaching niche, how coaches make money, and more.

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This episode gets into why naming imperfection — genuinely, not as false modesty — is foundational to coaching well, leading well, and building community that's actually real. We talk about assumed role power, the guru model that's quietly everywhere in the coaching industry, and what it costs coaches who are still performing perfection when a client brings them something messy.

We also get into the flip side: owning imperfection means owning the cleanup. The repair. The willingness to stay in relationship rather than manage the optics. Adrienne maree brown and Nike Aurea both speak to this in community contexts, and it's just as true in a coaching relationship.

How to embrace imperfection isn't a one-time reframe. It's a practice — built over time, in relationship, through the experience of being imperfect with other people and finding that the connection holds anyway.

That's the work. And it turns out, it's also what makes a great coach.

Coaching + Courage + Community = CLCC.

We're a life-changing program, for you to become a life-changing coach. Our Level 1 ICF-Accredited program has worked with graduates from around the world. The first life you change? It'll be your own. We're the Credentialed Life Coach Collective, or CLCC, and we're here to give you a powerful coaching skill-set mixed with profound personal and professional growth.

Head to https://TeamCLCC.com to get our catalogue and the free "Become a Coach" video series to learn more about becoming a life coach, choosing a coaching niche, how coaches make money, and more.

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Most coaches finish coach training--and then they're on their own. Most clients are trying to make life changes on their own, and only find success once they start coaching with you. And that's not an accident.

You've heard the advice to regulate your nervous system. What you're hearing less often is that it might not be fully possible to do that alone — and the science backs this up.

This episode gets into what actually gets in the way of nervous system regulation and relationships working together and what it takes to practice something different so that you can finally see change.

Coaching + Courage + Community = CLCC.

We're a life-changing program, for you to become a life-changing coach. Our Level 1 ICF-Accredited program has worked with graduates from around the world. The first life you change? It'll be your own. We're the Credentialed Life Coach Collective, or CLCC, and we're here to give you a powerful coaching skill-set mixed with profound personal and professional growth.

Head to https://TeamCLCC.com to get our catalogue and the free "Become a Coach" video series to learn more about becoming a life coach, choosing a coaching niche, how coaches make money, and more.

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If you're a coach considering a group program, you need to know how to build a community. Building real community isn't about luck or personality — it's about understanding what actually creates belonging, and developing the skills to sustain it. Most of us were never taught how to build community in any deliberate way, and the gap that leaves is real: connection that feels hollow, groups that don't stick, and a low-grade hunger for something more solid.

We break down the difference between cultivation — showing up consistently, being willing to go first, creating the conditions for belonging — and the specific skills that make community work: trust signaling, behavioral integrity, active listening, somatic awareness, and recognizing the inner critic narratives that quietly keep people isolated.

And for coaches, this isn't just personally relevant. It's professionally essential. The coaches who know how to build community from the inside out bring something qualitatively different to their clients — because you can't hold space for what you haven't lived.

If you've been thinking about how to build community that actually feels like something — this episode is a place to start.

Coaching + Courage + Community = CLCC.

We're a life-changing program, for you to become a life-changing coach. Our Level 1 ICF-Accredited program has worked with graduates from around the world. The first life you change? It'll be your own. We're the Credentialed Life Coach Collective, or CLCC, and we're here to give you a powerful coaching skill-set mixed with profound personal and professional growth.

Head to https://TeamCLCC.com to get our catalogue and the free "Become a Coach" video series to learn more about becoming a life coach, choosing a coaching niche, how coaches make money, and more.

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We’ve absorbed a quiet rule in the coaching industry: you’re not legitimate until your calendar is packed. If you’re not fully booked, you’re still “trying.” Still “building.” Still “not quite there.”

Let’s challenge that.

A fully booked client roster is a business metric — not a measure of your identity. When we tie our legitimacy to calendar saturation, we hand our confidence to algorithms, economic cycles, and comparison. And that’s a fragile place to build from.

In this episode, we unpack what actually makes someone a coach: commitment to craft, ethical standards, reflective practice, and skill development. We separate coaching skill from marketing outcomes, and we explore why claiming your professional identity early accelerates growth instead of inflating ego.

If you’ve been wondering when you can call yourself a coach, or feeling pressure to prove yourself through volume, this conversation will reset your internal barometer.

Coaching + Courage + Community = CLCC.

We're a life-changing program, for you to become a life-changing coach. Our Level 1 ICF-Accredited program has worked with graduates from around the world. The first life you change? It'll be your own. We're the Credentialed Life Coach Collective, or CLCC, and we're here to give you a powerful coaching skill-set mixed with profound personal and professional growth.

Head to https://TeamCLCC.com to get our catalogue and the free "Become a Coach" video series to learn more about becoming a life coach, choosing a coaching niche, how coaches make money, and more.

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Ever catch yourself scrolling and wondering, Why am I not there yet? You’re not alone. In this episode of the Craft of Coaching, we’re naming the comparison spiral that so many coaches fall into—especially in a world where highlight reels dominate.

We break down exactly how comparison derails your intuition, your business decisions, and your confidence—and what experienced coaches do differently to stop it in its tracks. You’ll hear practical, grounded strategies for staying focused on your path, building your coaching business with integrity, and reconnecting with your own metrics for success.

If you’ve ever felt like everyone else is ahead of you, or like you need to be louder or flashier to “make it,” this episode will rewire the way you see your coaching journey.

Coaching + Courage + Community = CLCC.

We're a life-changing program, for you to become a life-changing coach. Our Level 1 ICF-Accredited program has worked with graduates from around the world. The first life you change? It'll be your own. We're the Credentialed Life Coach Collective, or CLCC, and we're here to give you a powerful coaching skill-set mixed with profound personal and professional growth.

Head to https://TeamCLCC.com to get our catalogue and the free "Become a Coach" video series to learn more about becoming a life coach, choosing a coaching niche, how coaches make money, and more.

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When a client says "my manager is the problem," what do you do with that? In this episode, we're joined by Melody Wilding — executive coach, speaker, and author of Managing Up — to talk about one of the most common and least discussed challenges in coaching: helping clients navigate difficult relationships with the people above them at work.

Melody breaks down why coaching clients through workplace conflict starts not with confrontation, but with two deceptively simple conversations: alignment and communication styles. We dig into a real client story — a Chief People Officer who went from being told she might be "incompetent or over her head" to earning a six-figure bonus — and what actually shifted. We also talk about how coaches can use proprietary assessments to demonstrate client progress to organizational stakeholders, and how Melody built a speaking business from zero, starting with free talks and a clear ask.

Whether you're working with clients in corporate environments or thinking about expanding into organizational coaching yourself, this episode is full of the kind of concrete, actionable strategy that makes the work better.

Coaching + Courage + Community = CLCC.

We're a life-changing program, for you to become a life-changing coach. Our Level 1 ICF-Accredited program has worked with graduates from around the world. The first life you change? It'll be your own. We're the Credentialed Life Coach Collective, or CLCC, and we're here to give you a powerful coaching skill-set mixed with profound personal and professional growth.

Head to https://TeamCLCC.com to get our catalogue and the free "Become a Coach" video series to learn more about becoming a life coach, choosing a coaching niche, how coaches make money, and more.

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What does it really take to get honest and face hard things — in your coaching practice, and in your life? In this episode, we're joined by Andrea Owen, author of Live Like You Give a Damn: 25 Bold Moves to Get Honest and Face the Hard Stuff, for a conversation that goes well beyond coaching technique.

We’re digging into how the coaching industry has shifted from "good vibes only" toward doing real, deep transformative work — and what that shift has demanded of coaches personally. We explore the art of self-management when your client triggers something unhealed in you, how to use transparency as a coaching skill without making the session about yourself, and the hard-won wisdom that comes from taking a step back when life gets heavy.

If you've ever wondered how much of your own story to share, how to interrupt a client who's taking up too much space, or how to come back to your practice after a difficult season — this one is for you. Andrea doesn't sugarcoat it. Neither do we.

Coaching + Courage + Community = CLCC.

We're a life-changing program, for you to become a life-changing coach. Our Level 1 ICF-Accredited program has worked with graduates from around the world. The first life you change? It'll be your own. We're the Credentialed Life Coach Collective, or CLCC, and we're here to give you a powerful coaching skill-set mixed with profound personal and professional growth.

Head to https://TeamCLCC.com to get our catalogue and the free "Become a Coach" video series to learn more about becoming a life coach, choosing a coaching niche, how coaches make money, and more.

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There’s a line—and every coach needs to know where it is. When a client starts unraveling childhood trauma, asking for advice, or bringing deep grief into the session… are you coaching, mentoring, or sliding into therapy without meaning to?

This episode is for the coach who cares deeply—and doesn’t want to cause harm. We’re digging into the ethical gray zones where even experienced coaches can lose footing. What do you say (or not say) when a client wants emotional healing you’re not trained to offer? How do you hold firm to scope without abandoning your client in a hard moment?

We’ll break down real-world examples and the invisible pressures that get good coaches in trouble: the urge to “fix,” the fear of being too hands-off, the temptation to become a therapist-lite. You’ll leave this episode with clearer boundaries, stronger confidence, and language you can actually use when a session goes off-road.

Being an ethical coach doesn’t mean holding back—it means knowing your role and showing up with grounded, skillful presence.

Coaching + Courage + Community = CLCC.

We're a life-changing program, for you to become a life-changing coach. Our Level 1 ICF-Accredited program has worked with graduates from around the world. The first life you change? It'll be your own. We're the Credentialed Life Coach Collective, or CLCC, and we're here to give you a powerful coaching skill-set mixed with profound personal and professional growth.

Head to https://TeamCLCC.com to get our catalogue and the free "Become a Coach" video series to learn more about becoming a life coach, choosing a coaching niche, how coaches make money, and more.

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Feeling invisible in a crowded coaching market? You’re not alone.

In this episode of the Craft of Coaching podcast, we're giving you the real talk on the state of the coaching industry, including whether the coaching market is too saturated, and talk about what to DO about that.

Learn how to shift from trying to stand out in a "crowded"market-- to building trust, resonance, and relationships that lead to sustainable business growth.

Coaching + Courage + Community = CLCC.

We're a life-changing program, for you to become a life-changing coach. Our Level 1 ICF-Accredited program has worked with graduates from around the world. The first life you change? It'll be your own. We're the Credentialed Life Coach Collective, or CLCC, and we're here to give you a powerful coaching skill-set mixed with profound personal and professional growth.

Head to https://TeamCLCC.com to get our catalogue and the free "Become a Coach" video series to learn more about becoming a life coach, choosing a coaching niche, how coaches make money, and more.

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Ever have a client push back hard on a reflection—not because the reflection was wrong, but because it hit a nerve?

That’s "identity threat" in action.

In this episode of the Craft of Coaching podcast, we dive into what’s really going on when a client rejects your insight because it challenges the version of themselves they’ve needed to survive. We’ll explore the psychology behind identity defense, how to spot it in session, and what to do when a client becomes emotionally dysregulated or shuts down.

You’ll learn how to stay grounded, avoid reactivity, and build trust in the moments where it matters most. Instead of pushing, we’ll talk about how to slow down, ask safety-creating questions, and create the conditions for lasting identity expansion.

If you want to master the art of trauma-informed coaching—and support deep, sustainable growth—this episode is essential.

And if you’re ready to go deeper? Our new course, Undercurrents , trains coaches to work at the identity level of change with skill and respect.

Coaching + Courage + Community = CLCC.

We're a life-changing program, for you to become a life-changing coach. Our Level 1 ICF-Accredited program has worked with graduates from around the world. The first life you change? It'll be your own. We're the Credentialed Life Coach Collective, or CLCC, and we're here to give you a powerful coaching skill-set mixed with profound personal and professional growth.

Head to https://TeamCLCC.com to get our catalogue and the free "Become a Coach" video series to learn more about becoming a life coach, choosing a coaching niche, how coaches make money, and more.

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As coaches, we’ve all been there—you see what your client needs. You both know the actions that would help them break through. But they’re stuck. They hesitate. They say they want change, but their actions don’t follow. And suddenly, you’re caught between wanting to help… and pushing too hard.

In this episode of the Craft of Coaching podcast, we unpack what’s really happening when a client isn’t ready—and why your urgency can’t override their agency. You’ll learn why resistance is often a defense mechanism, not defiance, and how to work with—not against—a client’s inner pace. We’ll talk about how to name what you see without imposing, how to stay grounded in your role as a coach, and when it’s time to let go of the outcome.

This episode offers practical guidance and honest perspective for every coach who’s ever struggled with “wanting it more than the client.”
If you want to create more powerful sessions without bulldozing your client’s process, this one’s for you.

Coaching + Courage + Community = CLCC.

We're a life-changing program, for you to become a life-changing coach. Our Level 1 ICF-Accredited program has worked with graduates from around the world. The first life you change? It'll be your own. We're the Credentialed Life Coach Collective, or CLCC, and we're here to give you a powerful coaching skill-set mixed with profound personal and professional growth.

Head to https://TeamCLCC.com to get our catalogue and the free "Become a Coach" video series to learn more about becoming a life coach, choosing a coaching niche, how coaches make money, and more.

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If "clarity" is the main outcome you're selling on your sales pages and in your "getting to know you" calls, it might be time to stop over-focusing there. In this episode of The Craft of Coaching, we explore why selling clarity can create false expectations—and we're talking about what clients actually need instead.

While clarity sounds like a powerful promise, it can unintentionally trap clients in a perfectionist loop of waiting for the “right” answer. The truth? Real coaching happens when we help people build the capacity to move through uncertainty.

We’ll dive into how to reframe your marketing and your coaching approach, so you can stop promising what coaching can’t guarantee—and start delivering what truly transforms.

Plus, we’ll connect this approach to ICF Core Competencies and offer real questions you can use with your clients.

If you’re ready to become the kind of coach who helps clients build resilience instead of relying on certainty, this episode is for you.

Coaching + Courage + Community = CLCC.

We're a life-changing program, for you to become a life-changing coach. Our Level 1 ICF-Accredited program has worked with graduates from around the world. The first life you change? It'll be your own. We're the Credentialed Life Coach Collective, or CLCC, and we're here to give you a powerful coaching skill-set mixed with profound personal and professional growth.

Head to https://TeamCLCC.com to get our catalogue and the free "Become a Coach" video series to learn more about becoming a life coach, choosing a coaching niche, how coaches make money, and more.

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How do you challenge a client without damaging the coaching relationship? In this episode of The Craft of Coaching, we explore how skilled coaches use challenge—not as confrontation, but as transformation.

If you’ve ever held back from asking a hard question or reflecting a client’s pattern because you were afraid they’d walk away, this episode is for you. We break down what it really means to challenge someone in a coaching conversation and how to do it in a way that builds trust, not breaks it.

We’ll explore how experienced coaches create powerful breakthroughs by offering honest, compassionate challenge—and how this aligns with ICF Core Competencies like trust-building, presence, and evoking awareness.

You’ll walk away with real phrases to use in session, insight into why clients crave challenge (even when they resist it), and tools for navigating discomfort with integrity.

Whether you're a new coach still finding your voice or a seasoned practitioner refining your edge, this episode will change the way you view challenge.

Coaching + Courage + Community = CLCC.

We're a life-changing program, for you to become a life-changing coach. Our Level 1 ICF-Accredited program has worked with graduates from around the world. The first life you change? It'll be your own. We're the Credentialed Life Coach Collective, or CLCC, and we're here to give you a powerful coaching skill-set mixed with profound personal and professional growth.

Head to https://TeamCLCC.com to get our catalogue and the free "Become a Coach" video series to learn more about becoming a life coach, choosing a coaching niche, how coaches make money, and more.

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Are you being a supportive coach—or are you just people-pleasing? In this episode of The Craft of Coaching, we take an honest look at what happens when coaches confuse kindness with avoidance, and how to recognize when you're prioritizing being liked over being effective.

If you’ve ever hesitated to challenge a client, held back from naming a pattern, or found yourself drained after sessions, this episode is for you. You’ll learn how people-pleasing shows up in subtle coaching behaviors—and how to shift back into authentic support that fosters trust, not performance.

We’ll explore how the ICF Core Competencies call us to higher standards of presence and truth-telling, and how your desire to “be nice” might actually be undermining your client’s growth.

Whether you’re a new coach still developing your voice or a seasoned coach noticing these patterns in your work, this episode will help you discern the difference between showing up as a coach—and showing up as a caretaker.

Coaching + Courage + Community = CLCC.

We're a life-changing program, for you to become a life-changing coach. Our Level 1 ICF-Accredited program has worked with graduates from around the world. The first life you change? It'll be your own. We're the Credentialed Life Coach Collective, or CLCC, and we're here to give you a powerful coaching skill-set mixed with profound personal and professional growth.

Head to https://TeamCLCC.com to get our catalogue and the free "Become a Coach" video series to learn more about becoming a life coach, choosing a coaching niche, how coaches make money, and more.

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How do you support your clients—and yourself—when the world feels like it’s falling apart? In this episode of The Craft of Coaching, we’re talking about what it means to coach through chaos, uncertainty, and grief.

When clients bring in overwhelm, despair, or real-world fears, many coaches feel unsure about how to respond. Should you stay “neutral”? Try to uplift them? Hold space without absorbing their pain?

We explore how to stay grounded as a coach in messy times, how to support clients without bypassing their real emotions, and what it actually means to be present—without performing.

You’ll learn how to simplify your approach, listen without fixing, and recognize when you need to pause and seek support. We also connect these practices to ICF Core Competencies like cultivating trust, maintaining presence, and evoking awareness.

Whether you’re a new coach or a seasoned pro, this episode is your permission slip to be human. Because coaching in today’s world isn’t about being perfect—it’s about being real.

Coaching + Courage + Community = CLCC.

We're a life-changing program, for you to become a life-changing coach. Our Level 1 ICF-Accredited program has worked with graduates from around the world. The first life you change? It'll be your own. We're the Credentialed Life Coach Collective, or CLCC, and we're here to give you a powerful coaching skill-set mixed with profound personal and professional growth.

Head to https://TeamCLCC.com to get our catalogue and the free "Become a Coach" video series to learn more about becoming a life coach, choosing a coaching niche, how coaches make money, and more.

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What do you do when your client’s political values are wildly different from yours? In this episode of The Craft of Coaching, we explore how to navigate political differences in coaching without sacrificing your values—or your presence.

Whether a client makes a comment that goes against everything you believe in, or you discover deeper ideological gaps over time, the question becomes: Can I still coach this person with integrity?

We’ll walk through how to stay grounded in the face of political tension, when to address a comment in-session, and when it’s time to set a boundary or end the coaching relationship altogether.

You’ll also learn how to discern between a difference in opinion and a violation of human dignity, how to stay curious without bypassing your own ethics, and what the ICF Core Competencies say about navigating charged dynamics.

Coaching in today’s world means being present to complexity. This episode offers tools, language, and clarity for those moments when values collide—and shows you how to coach with honesty, discernment, and compassion.

Coaching + Courage + Community = CLCC.

We're a life-changing program, for you to become a life-changing coach. Our Level 1 ICF-Accredited program has worked with graduates from around the world. The first life you change? It'll be your own. We're the Credentialed Life Coach Collective, or CLCC, and we're here to give you a powerful coaching skill-set mixed with profound personal and professional growth.

Head to https://TeamCLCC.com to get our catalogue and the free "Become a Coach" video series to learn more about becoming a life coach, choosing a coaching niche, how coaches make money, and more.

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Feeling overwhelmed by your coaching business goals? You’re not alone—and you’re not doing it wrong. In this episode of The Craft of Coaching, we’re breaking down how to create a business roadmap that actually works for you—not against you.

Many coaches fall into the trap of overestimating what they can accomplish in a year—setting massive content creation or revenue goals that quickly lead to burnout and discouragement.

We explore why most 12-month plans are destined to collapse, and how to design a sustainable, seasonally-aware roadmap that reflects your real life, your real energy, and your unique stage of business.

You’ll learn:

  • The 3 key areas your roadmap should focus on
  • How to set supportive, non-overwhelming business goals
  • What to prioritize in each season of growth
  • How to align your business plans with your values and capacity

Whether you’re relaunching your business, scaling up, or trying to stay consistent without burning out—this episode will help you build a business that feels like you.

Coaching + Courage + Community = CLCC.

We're a life-changing program, for you to become a life-changing coach. Our Level 1 ICF-Accredited program has worked with graduates from around the world. The first life you change? It'll be your own. We're the Credentialed Life Coach Collective, or CLCC, and we're here to give you a powerful coaching skill-set mixed with profound personal and professional growth.

Head to https://TeamCLCC.com to get our catalogue and the free "Become a Coach" video series to learn more about becoming a life coach, choosing a coaching niche, how coaches make money, and more.

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Let’s talk about what it really means to help clients with nervous system regulation.

Kim Kimball—a CLCC grad, Doctor of Physical Therapy, and somatic leadership coach—joins us to unpack the difference between true regulation and what’s often just emotional bypassing. We explore how to help clients recognize what’s actually happening in their bodies, work with their capacity instead of against it, and build businesses that feel sustainable rather than depleting.

This conversation digs into how highly sensitive and neurodivergent entrepreneurs can honor their wiring, stretch within capacity, and stop forcing themselves into systems that were never built for them.

If you’ve ever wondered how to support clients in regulating without repressing, or how to bring a somatic lens into your coaching in an ethical, trauma-informed way—this episode is a must-listen.

Coaching + Courage + Community = CLCC.

We're a life-changing program, for you to become a life-changing coach. Our Level 1 ICF-Accredited program has worked with graduates from around the world. The first life you change? It'll be your own. We're the Credentialed Life Coach Collective, or CLCC, and we're here to give you a powerful coaching skill-set mixed with profound personal and professional growth.

Head to https://TeamCLCC.com to get our catalogue and the free "Become a Coach" video series to learn more about becoming a life coach, choosing a coaching niche, how coaches make money, and more.

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What does it really take to go from coach to founder?

In this episode, we talk with Megan Hale, MA, founder and CEO of DreamMoney.co, about what it means to evolve from running a coaching practice to building a tech startup. After a decade in the coaching world, Megan made the leap into software development—raising $150K in grants and funding her first platform as a non-technical founder.

We unpack the mindset shift that happens when you stop thinking like a solopreneur and start thinking like a founder: how to lead a vision that’s bigger than yourself, fundraise without burnout, and hold your nervous system steady through the unknown.

If you’ve ever felt the call to build something larger than your current business—or wondered how to make that leap—this episode offers an inside look at what it takes to grow from coach to founder with courage, clarity, and strategy.

Coaching + Courage + Community = CLCC.

We're a life-changing program, for you to become a life-changing coach. Our Level 1 ICF-Accredited program has worked with graduates from around the world. The first life you change? It'll be your own. We're the Credentialed Life Coach Collective, or CLCC, and we're here to give you a powerful coaching skill-set mixed with profound personal and professional growth.

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Still undercharging? Avoiding money conversations? Feeling stuck when clients bring up pricing, investing, or fear of earning?

In this episode of The Craft of Coaching, we tackle one of the biggest mindset challenges in coaching: money—and how to shift both your own money beliefs and support your clients in doing the same.

Whether you’ve been underpricing your offers, struggling to state your rates with confidence, or tiptoeing around client resistance to financial growth—this episode offers grounded, honest guidance.

We explore:

  • The most common money mindset traps coaches fall into
  • How to shift your pricing narrative without guilt or apology
  • Scripts and questions for coaching clients through money blocks
  • How to model healthy money behavior in a values-based way

You'll walk away with new language, powerful reflection questions, and a grounded approach to money work that aligns with the ICF Core Competencies.

Because coaching about money isn’t about spreadsheets—it’s about self-worth, possibility, and emotional safety.

Coaching + Courage + Community = CLCC.

We're a life-changing program, for you to become a life-changing coach. Our Level 1 ICF-Accredited program has worked with graduates from around the world. The first life you change? It'll be your own. We're the Credentialed Life Coach Collective, or CLCC, and we're here to give you a powerful coaching skill-set mixed with profound personal and professional growth.

Head to https://TeamCLCC.com to get our catalogue and the free "Become a Coach" video series to learn more about becoming a life coach, choosing a coaching niche, how coaches make money, and more.

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Building a coaching business isn’t a straight line—it’s a living, breathing experiment. In this conversation with CLCC graduates Kim Romain and Louise Neil, we talk about pivoting your coaching business with courage, collaboration, and self-trust.

Kim and Louise share how they went from co-hosting their first group podcast to creating Empowered and Embodied, a show born from brave conversations about what wasn’t working anymore. Together, we unpack how to know when it’s time to shift direction, why joy is a legitimate metric for success, and what it takes to release sunk-cost bias and start again.

If you’ve ever questioned whether you’re “doing it wrong” because you want to pivot your coaching business in a new direction, this is your invitation to see your coaching business as an evolution. This episode will help you see change as part of mastery—not a mistake.

Coaching + Courage + Community = CLCC.

We're a life-changing program, for you to become a life-changing coach. Our Level 1 ICF-Accredited program has worked with graduates from around the world. The first life you change? It'll be your own. We're the Credentialed Life Coach Collective, or CLCC, and we're here to give you a powerful coaching skill-set mixed with profound personal and professional growth.

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Wondering how to come back to your coaching business after time away? Whether you took a few months off or a few years, this episode of The Craft of Coaching will help you return with clarity, confidence, and self-compassion.

Many coaches step away from their businesses—but when it’s time to return, the shame spiral can hit hard. You might wonder if people noticed you disappeared, if you're still “legit,” or where to even begin.

We’re here to dismantle all of that. This episode walks you through how to re-enter your coaching practice without apology or hustle, offering real-world steps and mindset shifts to support your return. You’ll get a 3-part framework for reconnecting with your “why,” taking consistent action, and honoring who you’ve become during your break.

Most importantly, you’ll learn how to release the guilt and reclaim your role—not despite your time away, but because of what it gave you.

Coaching is not a straight path. You’re allowed to pause. You’re allowed to come back.

And you’re allowed to make this comeback honest, human, and powerful.

Coaching + Courage + Community = CLCC.

We're a life-changing program, for you to become a life-changing coach. Our Level 1 ICF-Accredited program has worked with graduates from around the world. The first life you change? It'll be your own. We're the Credentialed Life Coach Collective, or CLCC, and we're here to give you a powerful coaching skill-set mixed with profound personal and professional growth.

Head to https://TeamCLCC.com to get our catalogue and the free "Become a Coach" video series to learn more about becoming a life coach, choosing a coaching niche, how coaches make money, and more.

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We’re talking about how to change your marketing strategy when what you’ve been doing isn’t working—and how to know when it’s time to pivot. Our guest, Jen Vertanen (We The Unruly), has rebranded more than once, invested in beautiful websites and copy that didn’t convert, and sat in the stew of “make it fit” before landing on the approach that finally clicked.

Across this candid conversation, we explore why clarity about who you serve and how matters more than perfect labels, why you don’t need a niche to be magnetic (a strong point of view can do the heavy lifting), and why you shouldn’t wait for a flawless strategic plan before you start selling. Jen shares the permission question that unlocked her direction (“Where am I not giving myself permission?”), how she built a values-driven community without a sales page, and what changed when she started showing up as both coach and strategic CEO.

If you’re ready to evolve your message, stop forcing a brand that doesn’t fit, and build a strategy that actually attracts the right people, this episode is your practical, heart-centered roadmap to changing your marketing strategy with integrity.

Coaching + Courage + Community = CLCC.

We're a life-changing program, for you to become a life-changing coach. Our Level 1 ICF-Accredited program has worked with graduates from around the world. The first life you change? It'll be your own. We're the Credentialed Life Coach Collective, or CLCC, and we're here to give you a powerful coaching skill-set mixed with profound personal and professional growth.

Head to https://TeamCLCC.com to get our catalogue and the free "Become a Coach" video series to learn more about becoming a life coach, choosing a coaching niche, how coaches make money, and more.

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If you're a coach who has built out an entire brand--all the content and messaging, programs and protocols--and then you realize that you want to change things up, what do you do?

That's a question we tackle in this episode of the Craft of Coaching podcast on how to rebrand, and we're using our own rebrand as the example. The Courageous Living Coach Certification is still "CLCC" but we're changing our name to the Certified Life Coach Collective training program. Follow along to hear the story of what's changing, the ups and downs of a rebrand, and what we're leaning into more than ever.

Coaching + Courage + Community = CLCC.

We're a life-changing program, for you to become a life-changing coach. Our Level 1 ICF-Accredited program has worked with graduates from around the world. The first life you change? It'll be your own. We're the Certified Life Coach Collective, or CLCC, and we're here to give you a powerful coaching skill-set mixed with profound personal and professional growth.

Head to https://TeamCLCC.com to get our catalogue and the free "Become a Coach" video series to learn more about becoming a life coach, choosing a coaching niche, how coaches make money, and more.

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Boundaries are not just for our clients. Life coaches also need to be aware of client boundaries that set up their relationships for success. In today's episode, you'll learn the four areas where boundaries for life coaches are most important, both so that your clients are happy with the direction of their coaching process, and so that your coach-client relationship continues to be one of high trust and accountability.

Coaching + Courage + Community = TeamCLCC. We're a life coach training program for a different kind of coach.

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Yes, you know that you need to market your business--but what about actually running your business? That's the domain of business operations, and in today's podcast we're going to explore the different domains of business operations for life coaches, and the questions to ask to identify your most important high priority tasks.

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The biases and assumptions that your clients hold will either help them or hinder them. In psychology, these narratives/Stories are called "cognitive distortions" and there are specifically identified cognitive distortions that are particularly common. In today's Skill Drill series, I'm going over common cognitive distortions and how life coaches can help their clients identify cognitive distortions that hold them back.

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Life coaches love to coach their clients, but most dislike marketing to find clients--but it doesn't have to be that way. As a coach, you can learn approaches to marketing that are authentic and aligned with who you are and the body of work that you are creating in the world. Today's episode will guide you through 5 ways to be authentic when marketing, so that you can feel good about your messaging and how it's received in the world.

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Today's episode is part of our Skill Drill series and we're offering an exercise that you can use with your clients to help clients focus on what they can control. We live in a world full of things that we have no control over, and getting attached to outcomes and frustrated when we can't control things does not serve our clients. Using this exercise, you'll empower clients to focus on what they can control and start releasing attachment to the things in life that they can't.

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Wondering where to start with what questions to ask your clients? Or do you already have your questions that you love to ask, and you want some new questions to explore to energize your client sessions? These are the top 5 best coaching questions to ask clients to stimulate new ways of thinking, mindset shifts, and help clients move into proactively making changes.

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When most people think of becoming a life coach, they're imagining a one-on-one private practice working with clients. The growth of the life coaching industry has paved the way for far more career options than just a one-on-one coaching practice, and in today's skill drill I'm giving you an overview of careers in coaching that go beyond just one-on-one client work.

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If you're running a coaching business as a side hustle while you juggle a full-time job, parenting, or other responsibilities, then you definitely want to listen in on today's episode to maximize your personal morning routine. With a few simple shifts to your morning routine, you can maximize each day's potential by starting off feeling more resourced and ready for the day. This episode gets into some of the biological factors to consider that make waking up easier so that you can start your day feeling energized.

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We're introducing a new series as part of the Craft of Coaching Podcast: The skill-drill series, where we offer a short-form episode on a coaching exercise or topic related to the craft of coaching or running your coaching business. Today's skill drill is on how you design your life coach client onboarding experience, thinking through the questions that create a successful onboarding experience for you and your client to pave the way for client growth.

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How do you set your rates and price your coaching packages, group offerings, and more? That's what I'm diving into in today's Craft of Coaching episode, where we look at the business side of coaching as you figure out what to charge. Pricing doesn't have to be complicated and you can identify simple pricing strategies for your coaching business using the questions posed in today's episode.

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Have you ever been in a coaching session with a client who was "stuck" and the more you talked about it, the more they just kept saying that they were...stuck? When that happens, you need a way of gaining an entry point to explore not just why the client is stuck, but how to start thinking of their situation differently so that they can get unstuck.

Today I'm going over 5 questions to ask clients who are stuck--and I have an additional resource available for you (several of them!). Head to TeamCLCC.com/begin and become a subscriber, and you'll get immediate access to several CLCC resources for coaches, including a worksheet on the 5 Questions that you can share with clients as a journaling or reflection exercise.

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Relationships to others mirror our relationship to ourselves. Today’s Craft of Coaching guest has been a coach for more than 15 years and has a wealth of information to offer on modern dating and relationships. Kira emphasizes the importance of foundational skills in dating, such as setting boundaries, managing expectations, and understanding the nature of healthy relationships—and in particular, she wants her clients to understand how modern dating has fundamentally changed in recent years.

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Marketing can feel tricky for coaches—you want to do something heart-centered, not “market to people.” Today’s Craft of Coaching guest, Cory Huff, understands how to walk that line in helping artists and creatives (and coaches!) to effectively leverage strategies that make more money and help your business thrive.

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Continuing education and self-coaching for life coaches are critical to advancing your skill-set even after you’ve finished life coach school. Self-coaching is a process of being able to evaluate your own life’s strengths and weaknesses, set new intentions and goals, and start seeing progress--all while addressing the challenges that come up along the way. In this episode, I talk about the essential continuing education and self-coaching resources that will help you advance your coaching skill-set.

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People have confusion over what life coaching is. How is it different than therapy or counseling? On today’s episode, I’m getting into how to explain life coaching to people, including how I suggest you handle coaching skeptics.

A few highlights:

  • Be discerning when talking to people who are committed to being skeptical about life coaching—because no matter how well you explain it, if someone has already made up their mind about “what life coaching is,” they are not likely to shift their opinion. In fact, paradoxically, they may dig in on their skepticism even more.
  • One way to explain coaching is to highlight how it is different than therapy, since therapy is a profession more people are familiar with.
  • Being confident at explaining what life coaching is will help you not only in personal situations when you meet new people or when family members ask what you do, it will also help you when you meet potential clients who are curious about life coaching.

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Today's episode is all about pulling back the curtain and talking about the real-real truth: the hardest part of running a coaching business and what you can do to make it easier. You might be surprised--the hardest part of running your coaching business isn't what to name your signature program or developing your coaching skills. In this episode, I'm getting into what I and every other successful coach I've met has struggled with, and sharing how to navigate it so that you can see success with your coaching business.

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Coaches feel some pressure when they're first standing up a business because there are a lot of decisions to make--what do I call myself? who do I want to work with? what should my branding be?--and every decision feels like it's set in stone. In reality, you can pivot as often as you need to, and in today's episode with coach Michelle Ward, we're talking about how to pivot as a coach when you want to change up your business.

Michelle Ward (she/her) is a business coachsultant (yup, she made up that term and is sticking with it) and CEO of Hello Business.Since 2008, she’s guided her clients to discover, launch, and grow their dream businesses. You may have seen or heard her in New York Magazine, NY Post, The Huffington Post, Etsy, Newsweek, Freelancers Union, USA Today, the Forbes Top 100 Websites for your Career list, Joyful Marketing, Real Talk Radio, Profit. Power. Pursuit., The Tiffany Han Show or hundreds of other media outlets. She’s also the teacher of Create Your Dream Career and Ditch Your Day Job, which were watched by tens of thousands of people on CreativeLive.When she’s not coaching, teaching or speaking, she can be found performing in musicals, watching her kiddo play ice hockey, or sitcom-binging with her husband. Click here for the freebies that'll help you be your own damn boss with a sustainable business.

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Should coaches be working with clients who have extreme trauma? What does the data say about the level of skill and competence needed for coaches to adequately work with trauma? In today’s Craft of Coaching episode I’m getting into trauma-informed coaching, where I’ll talk about what trauma is, what to be aware of if clients exhibit trauma, and how coaches can be trauma-informed without overstepping their role.

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Are you trying to design a course or training for your coaching clients, or create a group coaching program? Today's episode gets into the foundational elements of instructional design that life coaches can use to apply to their courses or group coaching programs so that you can design your group coaching course. Learn how to target your course content for your audience so that you can see greater engagement and success for every course you create.

Early-bird registration is open from now until April 30, 2024 - head to https://TeamCLCC.com for our catalogue and application.

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In this conversation with Laura Simms, we get into whether or not you need to choose a niche as a life coach and how even when you do choose a niche, you aren't cutting yourself off to opportunities to work with different people as long as you keep the client's way of being at the forefront of your mind.

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Laura Simms is an expert in meaningful work who challenges conventional wisdom by asking people to ditch their passions and start with purpose.

She’s the creator of Your Career Homecoming, a celebrated career change program that helps people discover the meaningful work that’s right for them. Her work has been featured by The US News & World Report, Business Insider, and Psychology Today.

Laura’s colorful career history includes a history degree, an MFA in acting, getting fired from a dream project, quitting multiple jobs (including one after the first day), teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and a successful career as an actor where she worked on network television, performed in every state on the Eastern seaboard, received multiple callbacks from Cirque du Soleil, and shared a sound booth with Sandra Oh.

She lives in Atlanta with her husband and son, where she loves walking in the woods and trying to find the best whiskey cocktail in town.

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Debate over which coaching style is best often boils down to two different lenses: a more strategic and action focused lens, and a more embodied and "feeling based" lens. Both lenses have value, so which coaching style is best and when should you use them? Dig in to today's episode to learn more and get a free exercise for how to evaluate and expand your coaching style.

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When most people think of becoming a coach, they think of one-on-one client sessions--but there's another way to build a coaching business, and that's through coaching in organizations. Listen to this episode to learn the top things you'll want to keep in mind when adding coaching in organizations to your life coaching business (strategic tips on how to structure your coaching program proposals, ahead!).

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After a long break, the Craft of Coaching podcast is back, plus--we're opening up enrollment for CLCC! Head to https://TeamCLCC.com to learn more about our program and get the free Become a Coach video series.

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In 2022, the Courageous Living Coach Certification program is on sabbatical. What does that mean for the program, and how did we arrive here? That's what I'm covering in today's episode.

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Andrea Owen is our guest today, here to talk about how coaches can start to “make some noise” in their personal lives as well as how they show up with visibility online. “Make some noise” isn’t just about speaking up--it’s about living your best life and in this episode you can learn about how to start self-coaching to evolve how you show up in your business, including examining white feminism, white exceptionalism, and underlying biases around intersectionality.

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“But where is my business...going?” That’s a common question for new and emerging coaches who aren’t sure how to approach what their overall coaching business is about. Crafting a business vision can help you to get clear about what you’re ultimately creating with your business, and--this is important!--can be a great reminder of what you’re creating on difficult days where you encounter business setbacks.

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“But what am I ‘doing’ when I coach someone?” New and emerging coaches often feel a sense of wanting a coaching philosophy that they can explain to others. Grab a pen and paper as you listen to this episode, so that you can start clarifying your coaching philosophy.

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Coaching resistant clients can be frustrating--all you want to do is help, and the client is resistant. Some people in the coaching industry simply label such clients as “uncoachable” and say they should be “fired.” I suggest a different approach, because your clients don’t want to be resistant! They want help getting out of the resistance. This episode is full of questions that you can ask clients to help them get unhooked from resistant spaces, which will allow both you and the client to move forward.

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Coaching isn’t just for one-on-one client work; coaching skills are important for managers to utilize in salaried positions. Today’s episode shares the essential coaching skills for managers that can help you create workplace environments where people are more motivated, productive, and loyal to the overall success of the organization.

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Want to know about the game-changing moves that can move your coaching business forward? This episode is all about the shifts life coaches can make that will help them to gain momentum in their coaching businesses. It’s time to spend less time feeling stuck around the business end of things, so that you can do more of what you love: coach your clients.

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Want to broaden your coaching exercises for clients? For this podcast episode, I tapped graduates of the Courageous Living Coach Certification for their suggestions on favorite coaching exercises for clients. Listen in and consider which ones you’ll utilize as you work with your own clients.

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When supporting clients in the messy middle, it’s easy to make resistance and other stuck spaces into a “problem” that must be “fixed”--but that’s exactly the work that we need to avoid if we want to truly support our clients in finding the gold in the messy middle, to start powerfully moving forward.

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Today on the podcast? We’re talking about the biggest mistakes coaches make that hold them back from feeling fulfilled in their coaching businesses. These mistakes aren’t intentional (of course) but it’s through becoming aware of these mistakes that coaches can course-correct and start feeling less stressed and more aligned, in their work.

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Feeling overwhelmed by all the moving parts of your coaching business is pretty common for new and emerging coaches! In this podcast episode, I’m walking you through a process for setting annual goals for your coaching business, and setting quarterly goals that feed those larger annual goals.

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Have you always wanted to write a self-help book? If you’re a coach, what will you need to keep in mind in order to make that happen? Today I’m talking about my experience of being a life coach and author (my book, The Courage Habit, came out in 2018 and was named a “top book on habits” by BookRiot), and I’m laying out some of the essentials that you’ll need in order to write and publish your own book.

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Everything is a Story, and our clients can shape their lives based on the internal Stories and narratives they hold--and choose to change. Today’s episode looks at the line between getting too reductive with coaching (“Just change your story and you change your life, that’s all!”) and a more nuanced look at identifying client stories and narratives.

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Today I talk with Coach Valerie Tookes about the craft of health and wellness coaching. Specifically, we get into how we can help our clients break free from the diet industry paradigm, and choose health and wellness goals that are in alignment with who they truly are.

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If you’re a coach who is trying to get your business up and going while also managing the rest of your life (perhaps even still working a salaried job), managing your schedule is going to need some attention. In this podcast episode, I’m sharing how I approached managing my schedule when I was a new/beginning coach, and how you can implement some of those strategies, too.

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What do coaching and intersectionality have to do with one another? A lot--because our clients are not just individuals showing up to the coaching session. Every client brings with them a host of intersections and ways that they interact with the wider world. As life coaches, we need to do our own work to recognize intersectional opportunities, so that we can hold space for our diverse clientele without bias or assumptions. This episode on coaching and intersectionality offers suggestions for how coaches can do this work, to better support their clients.

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Here’s what I’m hearing about coaching during COVID : people either feel totally overwhelmed about taking on clients, or, people feel totally overwhelmed because they’ve got SO many clients who are in need of coaching. LinkedIn recently named Coaching one of the top jobs people are pivoting to during the pandemic...so here’s how I suggest you approach coaching during COVID, to lessen the overwhelm.

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Today’s Craft of Coaching episode is sharing the best ways to learn about marketing, especially for new and emerging coaches who know that they’re short on time or money. I’ll be breaking down the essential things to focus on, and what you don’t need to focus on (yet).

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What’s the thing that will make or break your success in life, your coaching business, and anywhere else? The power of commitment . In today’s episode, I’m asking you to take a look at where you can leverage the power of commitment to see even greater results in your life. Those of you who have hesitated to fully go all-in on your coaching business? This is definitely an episode to listen to.

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Working on your business is different than working in your business. This podcast episode is not a breakdown of marketing strategies; rather, it’s a way of looking at how you spend time on the big picture growth of your business so that you don’t solely focus on day-to-day tasks.

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A huge impediment to building your coaching business is getting comfortable showing up online. If you fear criticisms of how you look, your message being misunderstood, or that you’ll hear nothing but crickets, grab a pen and paper and get ready to start deconstructing fear and building confidence for showing up online.

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Your clients are going to navigate big life transitions--some desired, others not so much--and the stress and overwhelm of that can throw them off. In today’s episode, I’m asking you (the coach/listener) to think about your own big life transitions and put yourself in the client’s shoes. How are you navigating big life transitions? What tools can you apply to the process of learning and growing from those transitions, that are also useful for clients?

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As coaches, we know that we need to be clear about how we can help clients through their problems--so how do we practice authenticity with clients about the fact that we, too, are growing and evolving human beings? This episode discusses some mindset shifts that help you to show up with full authenticity with clients , especially in online spaces.

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The Courageous Living Coach Certification is now accredited with the International Coaching Federation, or ICF. In today’s podcast episode, we’re sharing we we decided to get our program ICF Accredited and how that will impact the program, moving forward.

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People have confusion over what life coaching is. How is it different than therapy or counseling? On today’s episode, I’m getting into how to explain life coaching to someone, including how I suggest you handle coaching skeptics.

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Okay, you’ve got your life coaching certification and finished life coach school--now what? It’s natural to feel overwhelmed by building your business and figuring out marketing as you step into your new career. This podcast episode breaks down the essential things to focus on when you’re figuring out what to do after you’ve got your life coach certification. 

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There’s a tendency in coaching for everyone to emphasize the problems and what’s not working. How can we integrate more fun, even if the problems are still there? Let’s start helping clients have more fun with these new ideas for energizing your coaching sessions.

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Most life coaches stay at their salaried jobs for awhile as they build their coaching businesses. So what do you tell your job, after becoming a coach? I’m breaking down that question in today’s episode, offering some different perspectives that might surprise you.

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Continuing education and self-coaching for life coaches are critical to advancing your skill-set even after you’ve finished life coach school. Self-coaching is a process of being able to evaluate your own life’s strengths and weaknesses, set new intentions and goals, and start seeing progress--all while addressing the challenges that come up along the way. In this episode, I talk about the essential continuing education and self-coaching resources that will help you advance your coaching skill-set.

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What are the essential life coach skills that every coach needs? Often, coaches know that something powerful is happening in their sessions, but they don’t necessarily have the ability to define or describe what the skills are. In this episode, I’m breaking them down and describing each one--and this episode is a great refresher for coaches who know that there’s wisdom in revisiting the basics!

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When coaches complete their life coach training, they often think about how they are going to coach other people--their clients. But what about self-coaching and working on yourself? Self-coaching is a process of using coaching tools in your own personal life to move your life forward. The more self-coaching you undertake, the better you’ll be able to bust through your own limitations and also help your clients. In today’s episode of the Craft of Coaching podcast, I’m sharing how you can use self-coaching tools in your personal life.

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Because coaches are empathetic, many struggle with knowing the line between care for clients, and crossing a line into care-taking. How can we practice more respectful client boundaries? When you try to control what’s happening in a session or save the client from any negative feelings, you end up care-taking, not caring. This podcast episode on respectful client boundaries gets into the differences.

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At some point in your coaching career, you’ll want to quit when things get tough--and here’s why you need to stay the course. Quitting when you’re frustrated deprives you--and the world--of your gifts as a coach. Here’s why you shouldn’t quit.

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Most coaching techniques involve avoiding, placating, or attacking the inner Critic--but you can give your clients something more. Let’s go beyond perpetuating self-abuse, and relate to the internal Critic, differently. In this episode, learn advanced techniques for helping clients to embrace the inner critic.

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In this episode, I’m talking to those coaches who know they feel intimidated by the idea of entrepreneurship: it’s time to focus your business priorities and be less busy. I’m offering easy, simple, implementable ideas for how to get focused (including the top three business priorities I suggest new coaches focus on).

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Helping clients take action starts with the power of the coaching relationship and the clarity that is gained from each session--and it extends to the practices that are happening in between sessions. Helping clients take action with practices that maximize what can happen in coaching is the focus of today’s episode.

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Here’s something important for every coach to know about themselves: are you adopting a growth mindset? If you’re not, it could keep you--and your clients--from moving forward in the was that you want to. There’s a special message in here, as well, for any coach who has felt discouraged lately around how her coaching practice is evolving!

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Whether you’re just starting or you’re a seasoned coach, you need self-care practices just as your clients do. Self-care for life coaches encompasses a shift in mindset and some specific strategies that can bring more ease to your coaching practice. Other resources mentioned include the Coaching Blueprint digital marketing program, Dubsado, and my new book, The Gift of Coaching by Kate Swoboda (search on Amazon).

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Some of the most common things you'll be helping clients with his how to step into greater visibility, find their voice, make an impact. In my interview with speaking coach Alexia Vernon, we talk about the essential questions for doing just that, and we also get into how feminism can be integrated into your client work.

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How can you be a life coach, if you still have your own life problems? Let's get into that and talk about building confidence as a coach, including how and when to ethically work out your own personal struggles without impacting your clients. 

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Most people are only familiar with cognitive-behavioral coaching techniques, but in this episode I'm getting into how you can use somatic coaching in your coaching practice (including identifying when it's not a good idea to use somatic coaching with clients). 

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Sarah Silvas is a classic multi-potentialite: she's a coach, yoga instructor, restorative justice leader, artist, and more. Instead of thinking that she has to give up on one of these and "just focus," she weaves all of these elements into her practice. In today's interview, we talk about how to make being a multi-potentialite a functional part of your coaching practice. 

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Think that you're too introverted to become a coach? Lisa Chartrand would disagree. In this interview, I talk with Lisa about how she came to defy stereotypes about introverts and embrace being an introvert in her life and in her coaching business. Those who are introverted or who want to learn more practical skills for coaching introverts will want to hear Lisa's take on the power of introverts. 

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I'm releasing a new book: The Gift of Coaching. It's all about the art of coaching, how we keep our eye on coaching as craft, and how to identify issues within the coaching industry that need correction.

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In the coaching industry, there's a term that we're not a fan of: the "uncoachable" client. How do you help clients who are going through heavy client resistance, without labeling them "uncoachable"? That's what we're exploring in today's Craft of Coaching episode. 

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A listener wrote in to us to ask about how we might handle resistance in a group coaching setting. We're answering this question plus giving some context as we kick off season four of the Craft of Coaching podcast. 

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Evolving your life will mean evolving your coaching business. You will change, and so will your business. 

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If you've ever thought that you'd love to be a coach, but don't see how you'd ever do it while also being a parent, today's episode is especially for you. 

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Finding your coaching niche is a question that plagues many people who want to become coaches. In today’s episode, I’m talking about an exciting new developing in the life coach certification program that I run, the Courageous Living Coach Certification: major concentrations. For those coaches who know that they want to coach a particular niche, you’ll learn about the most popular niches and what they encompass. For those coaches who have never felt drawn to establishing a niche and who want to know what they’ll call themselves, without one? We talk about that, too. 

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What does the science say about how our brains form and change habits? In this Craft of Coaching episode, I'm talking about how to help your clients learn how to change habits, even change habits they've had for a long time. 

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Today, on the podcast, I’m walking you through a group coaching how to, talking about how coaches who have primarily been coaching one-on-one can start extracting the skill-set of individual coaching, into a group coaching environment. Learn more about the Courageous Living Coach Certification's "sister program" all about group coaching: http://www.FacilitateWithImpact.com .

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In this episode, I talk about why it's unethical to work with certain clients--clients who are much better helped by someone else in the helping professions who has more training and licensure. 

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Do coaches need certification? What does a certified life coach training program include? That's the topic we're discussing in today's Craft of Coaching episode. 

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So what's the average life coach salary? This question is harder to nail down, and in this Craft of Coaching episode, I discuss why that is. 

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I talk with life coach Paula Jenkins about how she helps clients "Jump Start Your Joy" (including navigating the self-consciousness that arises when we star to change). 

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Lara Heacock discusses executive coaching training approaches that also apply to personal coaching in this Craft of Coaching episode.

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Helping clients change is at the root of coaching work--that's exactly why I wanted to interview life coach Liz Applegate, who's made helping clients change during times of transition central to her work. 

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What's the focus for the session? That's a critical component of successful coaching. Julie Houghton walks us through the craft of establishing a session focus with one of her favorite exercises for clients.

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Laura Simms and I talked earlier this year about life coach training courses, and now we're inviting her to the Craft of Coaching podcast to talk about how her clients create career change. 

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Andrea Scher is our guest on the Craft of Coaching podcast, where we talk about how to bring self-compassion into client sessions.

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So what's it REALLY like to be a coach? For someone who has only ever had a salaried job, you might be wondering what day-to-day looks like for this profession. Learn what it's really like to be a coach in this Craft of Coaching Episode that goes behind the scenes into day-to-day coaching work.

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A holistic life coach training approach that expands beyond a client’s problem, and into the whole of who they are as a person, will be more effective coaching. Here’s how.

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Ever feel like maybe, you’re not a good enough life coach? Let’s get to the bottom of this common fear and start practicing courage in our coaching.

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How to work with emotion in coaching is a hot topic in our industry. Here are my suggestions for doing deeper emotional work in coaching.

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The craft of coaching hinges on creating trust with your clients—but you can’t force trust. Here’s how you go deeper with clients using the cultivation of authentic trust.

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People wonder, How do life coaches make money? In today's episode, we tackle just that question.

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If you are considering becoming a life coach, let us start with discussing what life coaching is, and how coaching helps people.

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