STaR Coach Show: Recent Episodes
Meg Rentschler
The STaR Coach Show was created for professional coaches. Whether you are an Executive Coach, a Life Coach, a Business Coach or perhaps considering whether you would like to become a coach the show was created for you.
STaR Coaches is all about sharing Strategies, Tools and Resources about the field of coaching. Authors, speakers, successful coaches and industry leaders will share their expertise and wisdom in many different areas-business building, skills sets, internal coaching, external coaching, frameworks and so much more. Each show will run between 20 to 40 minutes and can be accessed on your mobile devices so that you can listen while you exercise, commute, cook, clean, relax or whatever works for you.
Each week every show will offer new insights, wisdom and advice that come from our guests; their stories, journeys and experiences. Tap into the learning to expand your coaching horizons.
About the host:
Meg Rentschler an Executive and Mentor Coach is the host of the STaR Coach Show. She has been working with others to make positive changes in their lives for over 30 years first as a psychotherapist working with couples, individuals and families. Then transitioning into Executive Coaching with a deep commitment to work within organizational environments to help leaders maximize their abilities and the abilities of those they lead to create healthier work environments with more effective communication, productivity and overall well-being.
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 change how you think about the people you coach.
Lyssa deHart is an author, master coach trainer, YouTube educator, and host ofThe Coaching Studio Podcast. Her books includeStoryJacking: Change Your Inner Dialogue, Transform Your Life,the Reflective Coach,Light Up: The Science of Coaching with Metaphors, andSticky Outcomes! at the Intersection of Coaching, Neuroscience, & Lasting Impact. Lyssa is a recovering therapist, Confidence Coach, Certified Mentor Coach, Coaching SUPERVision Partner, ICF PCC Assessor, and coaching educator. She guides and empowers professional coaches to enhance their client outcomes through deep listening, client-led approaches, and fostering a partnership that empowers their clients. In all her work, she is committed to improving the coaching community by enhancing the quality and impact of the coach-client relationship.
Show Highlights:
- Using the client’s own metaphors to listen and make them feel heard
- Getting curious with directionality about metaphors in conversation
- Metaphors are idea containers–structures in language to describe an experience. (Metaphors are the language of people!)
- Guard against extraneous cognitive load unnecessarily in client conversations. (Don’t change the client’s language.)
- The neuroscience behind visual language
- Next steps for coaches who want to partner with clients in metaphorical language
- Resisting the urge to bring your own metaphor into the coaching conversation with “the thinker” (your client)
- Replacing “client/coachee” language with “thinker” and understanding the deeper meaning
- Lyssa’s key takeaway: “Start noticing metaphors in every conversation, and be curious about them.”
Resources:
Connect with Lyssa deHart:Website,LinkedIn,Learning Academy,YouTube,The Coaching Studio Podcast,StoryJacking: Change Your Inner Dialogue, Transform Your Life,the Reflective Coach,Light Up: The Science of Coaching with Metaphors, andSticky Outcomes! at the Intersection of Coaching, Neuroscience, & Lasting Impact.
Connect with Meg:
Explore our mentor program! Now enrolling for Fall 2026!Click here for more information!
Learn more about the STaR CoachCommunity. We would love for you to join us!
Explore past episodes and other resources at www.STaRcoachshow.com.
Mentioned in this episode:
Mentor Program
If you're working toward your ACC or PCC credential, or if it's time to recertify your ACC mentor, coaching isn't just a requirement on a checklist. It's one of the most transformative investments you can make in yourself and your coaching. I've taught or mentored over 2000 coaches, and I hear the same thing again and again. I came because I had to, and I am so glad that I did. Coaches tell me they walk away with renewed energy, deeper confidence and a community of peers who genuinely support each other. Here's what you need to know right now. Mentor coaching must span a minimum of three months, so the time to start is not when your credential is just about to expire. And if you complete your hours in 2026, you get ahead of the upcoming ICF changes, which means peace of mind along with skill development. My fall cohort is already filling up. Every group is capped at ten.It's small, personal, and powerful. If you've been waiting for the right time, this is it. So head over to Star Coach Show. That’s https://starcoachshow.com/mentor/ to grab your spot or to learn more. I'd love to work with you. Now, let's get into today's show.
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 visibility-to-client ecosystem of getting seen in the right adjacent spaces, using a genuine lead magnet to build an email community, and nurturing that community into coaching clients without relying on sales tactics. Ready to change your thinking about visibility as a coach? Join us to learn more about thriving in your space without being enslaved to daily social media posts.
Polly Pollock is a speaker, published author, and the founder of Neuropreneur Rising. She mentors coaches with ADHD and busy brains toward capacity-conscious marketing, redefining consistency as regular, intentional action toward a specific result rather than a daily habit. To sum it up, Polly’s philosophy is that weekly intention matters more in marketing than the daily social media grind.
Show Highlights:
- Challenging your thinking around consistency
- Three filters for choosing a visibility strategy: niche-specific spaces, alignment with your strengths, and honoring your real-life capacity
- Focus on collaborative visibility: podcast appearances, guest teaching/speaking, and leading workshops.
- Time management strategies: use time blocking and replace worn-out marketing strategies with high-leverage activities that align with your unique strengths
- “We have the hardest time with consistency in doing something we hate. If we enjoy it, it’s easier to be consistent.”
- Polly’s best tip for getting started with podcast guesting: Make sure you know exactly who your ideal client is and what podcasts they are listening to. (Find the space where you can resonate with those who need what you are offering.)
- Pitching without AI: Authentic, researched pitches that lead with value win over generic, templated outreach.
- Leading with value is the most important starting point in business, marketing, and sales.
- Strategically using lead magnets to build your email community (“Give before you get.”)
- Understanding the visibility-to-client ecosystem in today’s world
- Polly’s key takeaway: “Send one pitch to a podcast, company, or community in which you want to teach and share value.”
Resources:
Connect with Polly Pollock: Website,Instagram, andThe Anti-Social Marketing Kit (FREE with code “STAR”)
Connect with Meg:
Explore our mentor program! Now enrolling for Fall 2026!Click here for more information!
Learn more about the STaR CoachCommunity. We would love for you to join us!
Explore past episodes and other resources at www.STaRcoachshow.com.
Mentioned in this episode:
Mentor Program
If you're working toward your ACC or PCC credential, or if it's time to recertify your ACC mentor, coaching isn't just a requirement on a checklist. It's one of the most transformative investments you can make in yourself and your coaching. I've taught or mentored over 2000 coaches, and I hear the same thing again and again. I came because I had to, and I am so glad that I did. Coaches tell me they walk away with renewed energy, deeper confidence and a community of peers who genuinely support each other. Here's what you need to know right now. Mentor coaching must span a minimum of three months, so the time to start is not when your credential is just about to expire. And if you complete your hours in 2026, you get ahead of the upcoming ICF changes, which means peace of mind along with skill development. My fall cohort is already filling up. Every group is capped at ten.It's small, personal, and powerful. If you've been waiting for the right time, this is it. So head over to Star Coach Show. That’s https://starcoachshow.com/mentor/ to grab your spot or to learn more. I'd love to work with you. Now, let's get into today's show.
“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 five diagnostic questions closely related to the Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership. She shares a client story, along with a “Say-Do Audit” tool to identify whether company values are genuinely lived or simply fiction. Join us to learn more!
Show Highlights:
- A working definition of culture that makes sense
- See the gap and close the gap.
- Five questions and how they match with the Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership:
- “What happened the last time someone on this team disagreed with a decision publicly?” (This aligns with “Enable others to ask questions.”)
- “What’s something everyone on this team knows is true, but no one says aloud?” (This exposes the “Model the way” failure.)
- “Regarding the last person promoted here, what behavior got them promoted?” (This is a “Challenge the process” question in disguise.)
- “When was the last time this team missed a deadline or made a mistake? What happened next?” (This tests the “Encourage the heart” practice.)
- “If a brand new employee shadowed this team for one week, what would they conclude actually matters here?” (This is an “Inspire to shared vision” check.)
- Client examples from Meg about innovation vs. compliance
- “Your highest value in organizational culture work is not as a mural painter but as a mirror.”
- How to use the “Say-Do Audit” of an organization’s stated values
- The key is to let the team recognize and sit with the gap before moving to action.
Resources:
Connect with Meg
Explore our mentor program! Now enrolling for Fall 2026!Click here for more information!
Learn more about the STaR CoachCommunity. We would love for you to join us!
Explore past episodes and other resources at www.STaRcoachshow.com.
Mentioned in this episode:
Mentor Program
If you're working toward your ACC or PCC credential, or if it's time to recertify your ACC mentor, coaching isn't just a requirement on a checklist. It's one of the most transformative investments you can make in yourself and your coaching. I've taught or mentored over 2000 coaches, and I hear the same thing again and again. I came because I had to, and I am so glad that I did. Coaches tell me they walk away with renewed energy, deeper confidence and a community of peers who genuinely support each other. Here's what you need to know right now. Mentor coaching must span a minimum of three months, so the time to start is not when your credential is just about to expire. And if you complete your hours in 2026, you get ahead of the upcoming ICF changes, which means peace of mind along with skill development. My fall cohort is already filling up. Every group is capped at ten.It's small, personal, and powerful. If you've been waiting for the right time, this is it. So head over to Star Coach Show. That’s https://starcoachshow.com/mentor/ to grab your spot or to learn more. I'd love to work with you. Now, let's get into today's show.
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 two clients can present with identical stated goals. At the same time, one is ready for strategy and the other needs nervous system regulation first, and how coaches can learn to read “the thing beneath the thing.” Join us for practical strategies, a “feel-think-do” framework, and the path to your free capacity report card self-assessment.
Dr. Lizette Warner is a keynote speaker and leadership capacity expert who helps organizations solve the effort-to-impact disconnect so they can build cultures where people make a bigger impact with less effort, while increasing engagement and retention. With a PhD. in Biomedical Engineering, 20+ years of executive leadership experience in science and health technology, and certification as a Master Certified Coach through the ICF, Lizette sits at a rare intersection of scientific precision, executive credibility, and embodied transformation. Her Hashimoto’s diagnosis, an autoimmune condition she now understands as her body’s response to years of unregulated performance, was the turning point that reoriented everything she knew about achievement and performance. Today, she speaks at corporate conferences, leadership retreats, and executive events on topics including leadership under pressure, high-performance culture, decision-making, and workplace resilience.
Show Highlights:
- Understanding effort, impact, and capacity
- Finding the value in data and measurement
- Capacity defined: the gap between your effort and impact (the wider the gap, the better)
- The coach’s capacity shows up in the coaching space (How much more is possible?)
- As a coach, where is your “ceiling”? (How can you lower the “noise”?)
- Lizette’s Feel-Think-Do framework to “lower the noise”
- Helping our clients become more aware of their ceiling.
- Signs to listen for from your clients so you can take the right approach
- Lizette’s free tool, the Capacity Report Card
- Lizette’s biggest takeaway: “Capacity is your nervous system’s bandwidth; it’s not fixed, but it’s trainable.”
Resources:
Connect with Dr. Lizette Warner:Website,LinkedIn,Power, Poise, and Presence book,Free Capacity Report Card, andEpisode 339 with Dr. Lizette Warner.
Connect with Meg:
Explore our mentor program! Now enrolling for Fall 2026!Click here for more information!
Learn more about the STaR CoachCommunity. We would love for you to join us!
Explore past episodes and other resources at www.STaRcoachshow.com.
Mentioned in this episode:
Mentor Program
If you're working toward your ACC or PCC credential, or if it's time to recertify your ACC mentor, coaching isn't just a requirement on a checklist. It's one of the most transformative investments you can make in yourself and your coaching. I've taught or mentored over 2000 coaches, and I hear the same thing again and again. I came because I had to, and I am so glad that I did. Coaches tell me they walk away with renewed energy, deeper confidence and a community of peers who genuinely support each other. Here's what you need to know right now. Mentor coaching must span a minimum of three months, so the time to start is not when your credential is just about to expire. And if you complete your hours in 2026, you get ahead of the upcoming ICF changes, which means peace of mind along with skill development. My fall cohort is already filling up. Every group is capped at ten.It's small, personal, and powerful. If you've been waiting for the right time, this is it. So head over to Star Coach Show. That’s https://starcoachshow.com/mentor/ to grab your spot or to learn more. I'd love to work with you. Now, let's get into today's show.
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 heart, tying together purpose, profit, and impact. Join us for episode #500!
Stu McLaren has been helping entrepreneurs turn the spike of a launch into steady monthly revenue with membership sites for over 18 years. He is the co-founder ofMembership.io, creator of The Membership Experience, author ofPredictable Profits, and co-founded the charity,Village Impact, with his wife Amy. Their charity has funded 16 schools in Kenya. Stu and Amy have two kids, and Stu loves trail running in his free time.
Show Highlights:
- Stu’s journey to a membership-based business was sparked by his first moments of fatherhood.
- Understanding the basics of a membership model
- Mindset advice about making a scary leap: “GROW into it!”
- One-on-one coaching and a “one-to-many” membership model go hand in hand.
- An example of a successful membership model to allow you to help more people and make more money—while working less.
- Personalizing your membership through practical strategies for content and community
- ONE meaningful relationship in a community can make ALL the difference. (Focus on connection points.)
- The sweet spot: Using a membership to complement your coaching
- Where is the best place to start your membership? A Founding Member Launch (Stu explains how to gauge interest.)
- What you think about is what you attract!
- Stu and Amy’s passion to make an impact around the world through charity work
- The work of Village Impact, supporting 16 schools in Kenya
- “The more money you make, the more good you can do in this world.” –Stu McLaren
Resources:
Connect with Stu McLaren
Website,LinkedIn,Predictable Profits book,Village Impact, andMarketing Your Business podcast
Connect with Meg
Explore our mentor program! Now enrolling for Fall 2026!Click here for more information!
Learn more about the STaR CoachCommunity. We would love for you to join us!
Explore past episodes and other resources at www.STaRcoachshow.com.
Mentioned in this episode:
Mentor Program
If you're working toward your ACC or PCC credential, or if it's time to recertify your ACC mentor, coaching isn't just a requirement on a checklist. It's one of the most transformative investments you can make in yourself and your coaching. I've taught or mentored over 2000 coaches, and I hear the same thing again and again. I came because I had to, and I am so glad that I did. Coaches tell me they walk away with renewed energy, deeper confidence and a community of peers who genuinely support each other. Here's what you need to know right now. Mentor coaching must span a minimum of three months, so the time to start is not when your credential is just about to expire. And if you complete your hours in 2026, you get ahead of the upcoming ICF changes, which means peace of mind along with skill development. My fall cohort is already filling up. Every group is capped at ten.It's small, personal, and powerful. If you've been waiting for the right time, this is it. So head over to Star Coach Show. That’s https://starcoachshow.com/mentor/ to grab your spot or to learn more. I'd love to work with you. Now, let's get into today's show.
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, author ofThe Generosity Mindset and host of The Price and Value Journey podcast, to tackle this most uncomfortable topic. John uncovers red flags in pricing, the mindsets that hold service providers back, and practical pricing strategies. The conversation wraps up with a vision of what adequate pricing could make possible for you: fewer clients, more revenue, and the freedom to choose how you spend your time. Join us to learn more!
John Ray is a consultant and business coach who advises expert service providers, including consultants, coaches, attorneys, fractional executives, and other service professionals, on two of their biggest challenges: pricing and business development. As an author and podcast host, he is passionate about how shifts in mindset, positioning, and pricing can alter a business and a business owner’s lifestyle choices.
Show Highlights:
- Red flags of inadequate pricing: pricing by the hour, working too hard for too little money, accepting EVERY client, offering only ONE service at ONE price, and letting the market pass you by.
- “You need a certain number of clients who are saying NO because you are too expensive.” –John Ray
- As a service provider, YOU are the product.
- Mindsets that get in the way of success for service providers: impostor syndrome, inadequacy, the helper trap, and the comparison spiral
- Generosity Mindset: Getting in the head of your clients and understanding where they see value in what we deliver.
- An example of the generosity mindset at work in the intangibles
- “The effectiveness of your pricing is constrained by your willingness to have a value conversation.” –John Ray
- Sales vs. serving people (in understanding their needs, wants, hopes, desires, and fears)
- Considerations in offering differentiated options to clients with a “good, better, best pricing model”
- Understanding the stages of the pricing journey
- Advice about creating long-term clients
- Don’t turn yourself into a commodity!
- Pricing adequately will help you achieve the ultimate goal of working less and earning more.
- Abundance vs. scarcity mindset
Resources
Connect with John Ray
Website, Facebook, Email,The Generosity Mindset: A Journey to Business Success by Raising Your Confidence, Value, and Prices book, andThe Price And Value Journey Podcast
Connect with Meg
Explore our mentor program! Now enrolling for Fall 2026!Click here for more information!
Learn more about the STaR CoachCommunity. We would love for you to join us!
Explore past episodes and other resources at www.STaRcoachshow.com.
Mentioned in this episode:
Mentor Program
If you're working toward your ACC or PCC credential, or if it's time to recertify your ACC mentor, coaching isn't just a requirement on a checklist. It's one of the most transformative investments you can make in yourself and your coaching. I've taught or mentored over 2000 coaches, and I hear the same thing again and again. I came because I had to, and I am so glad that I did. Coaches tell me they walk away with renewed energy, deeper confidence and a community of peers who genuinely support each other. Here's what you need to know right now. Mentor coaching must span a minimum of three months, so the time to start is not when your credential is just about to expire. And if you complete your hours in 2026, you get ahead of the upcoming ICF changes, which means peace of mind along with skill development. My fall cohort is already filling up. Every group is capped at ten.It's small, personal, and powerful. If you've been waiting for the right time, this is it. So head over to Star Coach Show. That’s https://starcoachshow.com/mentor/ to grab your spot or to learn more. I'd love to work with you. Now, let's get into today's show.
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 powerful growth containers available to practitioners.
Carrie Sackett is a leading authority on group coaching and community-based growth. She is a speaker, ICF-accredited trainer, and internationally published author specializing in emotional growth and connection. As the founder of Social Therapeutic Coaching, she works with individuals, groups, and organizations to help people break free from limiting inner narratives and build stronger relational skills. With an award-winning background in corporate leadership and employee engagement at Fortune 500 companies, Carrie now focuses on creating meaningful human connection and growth. She is the co-author ofSocial Therapeutic Coaching: A Practical Guide to Group and Couples Work.
Show Highlights:
- The evolution of Carrie’s role as “America’s Loneliness Coach”
- The loneliness epidemic: We can’t resolve a social crisis by addressing individuals.
- We, as humans, are a social species; we impact others, and others impact us.
- “We” culture vs. “me” culture
- What it takes to be radically present with our clients
- Group coaching: More powerfully transformative than one-on-one work
- The group leader’s role as an “ensemble director”
- Examples of transformation in organizations and individuals in embracing “we” and “yes, and”
- The transformation of coaches who step into more group work from one-on-one work
- Social therapeutic coaching is “a method for not knowing.”
- Four pillars of social therapeutic coaching
- Key takeaway from Carrie: “Our emotional development as practitioners is really important for the world. We need to grow in our toolkit.”
Resources:
Connect with Carrie Sackett
Website
Social Therapeutic Coaching: A Practical Guide to Group and Couples Work book
Group and Couples Coaching Course (A weekend intensive on June 27-28: Use the code ICF30 for an additional 15% off for SCS listeners.)
Connect with Meg
Explore the STaR Coach ShowMentor Program. We are enrolling NOW for this fall!
Join the STaR Coach Community. Become amember today!
Subscribe to the STaR Coach ShowYouTube Channel!
Explore over 490 past episodes and other helpful resources atwww.STaRcoachshow.com.
Mentioned in this episode:
Mentor Program
If you're working toward your ACC or PCC credential, or if it's time to recertify your ACC mentor, coaching isn't just a requirement on a checklist. It's one of the most transformative investments you can make in yourself and your coaching. I've taught or mentored over 2000 coaches, and I hear the same thing again and again. I came because I had to, and I am so glad that I did. Coaches tell me they walk away with renewed energy, deeper confidence and a community of peers who genuinely support each other. Here's what you need to know right now. Mentor coaching must span a minimum of three months, so the time to start is not when your credential is just about to expire. And if you complete your hours in 2026, you get ahead of the upcoming ICF changes, which means peace of mind along with skill development. My fall cohort is already filling up. Every group is capped at ten.It's small, personal, and powerful. If you've been waiting for the right time, this is it. So head over to Star Coach Show. That’s https://starcoachshow.com/mentor/ to grab your spot or to learn more. I'd love to work with you. Now, let's get into today's show.
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 navigate transition, from honoring the ending to trusting the “neutral zone” to anchoring in strengths and values. She also addresses one of the most common and quietly damaging ways coaches stall their own business transitions: hiding from the money conversation and underpricing their services. This episode weaves the person and professional into a single message: Transition is not the obstacle; transition is the invitation to be curious. Making the most of every moment, in life and in business, starts with being fully present to exactly where you are. Meg shares how everything shifted for her on June 5 of this year–a big life transition. Do you know the difference between change and transition? Join us to learn more!
Show Highlights:
- Change is the event, an external reality; transition is internal, the emotional and psychological journey we take when we move through the change process.
- The Neutral Zone: where identity reshapes and clarity lives
- June 5, 2026: A big day for the Rentschler family
- A new perspective, shifting priorities, and purposeful urgency
- Pricing is the biggest obstacle for coaches. (Get my free pricing guide!)
- Showing up for your clients in transition:
- Acknowledge the ending and honor what’s being left behind.
- Normalize the “neutral zone,” the space between what was and what will be.
- Anchor them in strengths and values.
- Use powerful questions to open awareness.
- Do your own work around transitions first.
- A recap: Transition is clarifying, “later” is the most expensive word in the coaching business, and you can’t wait for the other side of the transition.
Resources:
Connect with Meg
Meg has a Free Pricing Guide for Coaches.Get yours today!
Explore the STaR Coach ShowMentor Program. We are enrolling NOW for this fall!
Join the STaR Coach Community. Become amember today!
Subscribe to the STaR Coach ShowYouTube Channel!
Explore over 490 past episodes and other helpful resources atwww.STaRcoachshow.com.
Mentioned in this episode:
Mentor Program
If you're working toward your ACC or PCC credential, or if it's time to recertify your ACC mentor, coaching isn't just a requirement on a checklist. It's one of the most transformative investments you can make in yourself and your coaching. I've taught or mentored over 2000 coaches, and I hear the same thing again and again. I came because I had to, and I am so glad that I did. Coaches tell me they walk away with renewed energy, deeper confidence and a community of peers who genuinely support each other. Here's what you need to know right now. Mentor coaching must span a minimum of three months, so the time to start is not when your credential is just about to expire. And if you complete your hours in 2026, you get ahead of the upcoming ICF changes, which means peace of mind along with skill development. My fall cohort is already filling up. Every group is capped at ten.It's small, personal, and powerful. If you've been waiting for the right time, this is it. So head over to Star Coach Show. That’s https://starcoachshow.com/mentor/ to grab your spot or to learn more. I'd love to work with you. Now, let's get into today's show.
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 coaches can use to audit and elevate their offers in an AI-driven marketplace where clients are increasingly discerning. Your coaching expertise begins with you–your life, your experience, your intellectual property, and your human intelligence. Today’s episode is a masterclass in branding and building your coaching business!
Mary Henderson is an internationally recognized authority on personal branding, thought leadership strategy, and transforming industry experts into the go-to names in their fields. With over 23 years of experience and more than 40,000 hours of practical expertise, Mary is known for helping consultants, executives, and service-based leaders translate decades of knowledge into market-defining brands and monetizable internet protocol. She has fully integrated AI into every framework she teaches, using AI-powered algorithms built with smarts, engineered to create authority, generate leads, and accelerate client acquisition. Her genius lies in merging technology, strategy, sales, and marketing into systems that propel her clients to become undeniable category leaders. Mary founded The Incubator, a revolutionary program in which industry experts build a complete consulting or coaching business end-to-end in just 4 weeks. Mary is passionate about helping her clients build businesses on solid foundations, grounded in assets created through their lived experiences.
Show Highlights:
- Your offer must be structured as an asset. (YOU are the asset!)
- A checklist to evaluate your coaching business:
- Human intelligence: Your human intelligence–all of it–is your currency. (What does your life experience bring that is unique?)
- Asset Inventory: Consolidate your offers to deliver outcomes, results, and transformation. (If you don’t understand the playing field, you will be left behind. )
- Market validation: Who is looking for you? (Who is serving my audience right now?)
- Avatar Profile: Be able to describe your target client’s current situation in micro-detail. (Know what they are looking for, in their language.)
- Offer Architecture: Is your offer structured, priced, and packaged? (Your offer needs a defined container of systems and frameworks.)
- Delivery: Can you deliver results consistently and at scale? (Is your process repeatable?)
- Language: Can you articulate what you sell in a way that makes buyers act? (Language is the bridge between your expertise and your revenue. Eliminate jargon, buzzwords, and vague language.)
- The basics of coaching are your human intelligence and your delivery, combined into a structured system.
Resources
Connect with Mary Henderson
Email,LinkedIn,Facebook, andInstagram
Mary’s previous SCS appearance:Episode 194: Your Authentic Personal Brand
Connect with Meg
Explore the STaR Coach ShowMentor Program. We are enrolling NOW for this fall!
Join the STaR Coach Community. Become amember today!
Subscribe to the STaR Coach ShowYouTube Channel!
Explore over 490 past episodes and other helpful resources atwww.STaRcoachshow.com.
Mentioned in this episode:
Mentor Program
If you're working toward your ACC or PCC credential, or if it's time to recertify your ACC mentor, coaching isn't just a requirement on a checklist. It's one of the most transformative investments you can make in yourself and your coaching. I've taught or mentored over 2000 coaches, and I hear the same thing again and again. I came because I had to, and I am so glad that I did. Coaches tell me they walk away with renewed energy, deeper confidence and a community of peers who genuinely support each other. Here's what you need to know right now. Mentor coaching must span a minimum of three months, so the time to start is not when your credential is just about to expire. And if you complete your hours in 2026, you get ahead of the upcoming ICF changes, which means peace of mind along with skill development. My fall cohort is already filling up. Every group is capped at ten.It's small, personal, and powerful. If you've been waiting for the right time, this is it. So head over to Star Coach Show. That’s https://starcoachshow.com/mentor/ to grab your spot or to learn more. I'd love to work with you. Now, let's get into today's show.
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 we coach. We take a closer look at the difference between coaching and therapy, why there is always an overlap, and where the dividing line lies between big emotions, coaching, and therapy. Join us!
Dr. Kemia Sarrah, “Dr. K”, is an internist, educator, physician, and leadership coach. Her subspecialty is a focus on leadership and coaching in and beyond severe burnout, toxic stress, and trauma. She is the founder and CEO of Lodestar, a professional coaching and consulting firm that utilizes a 360-degree trauma-aware container for coaching, coach training, leadership training, and Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion facilitation. Her medical degree and Master of Public Health are from the University of Utah School of Medicine, and she currently serves as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in the Office of Equity, Diversity & Inclusion. Dr. K is a gifted storyteller and sought-after speaker with a deeply intuitive communication style, and her trademarked coaching paradigm has a lens focused on the secondary trauma that is part of daily life for high-achieving, hard-driving, and highly skilled professionals across various industries. Blending extensive experience with balance, humor, and endless empathy, Dr. K has helped countless physicians and professionals rediscover their professional pride, joy, and internal balance. She lives with her physician-husband on a small, working farm in Central Illinois, where they are raising four sons and too many farm critters to count.
Show Highlights:
- The question at the crux of it all: How can coaching and trauma co-exist in the same work?
- All Lodestar programs are dual-accredited by the ICF and the ACCME, meeting the rigorous standards for both coaching and medical education.
- Understanding the overlaps and distinctions between coaching and therapy
- Positioning yourself as a coach who is trauma-informed and trauma-responsive, being a “skilled holder” of what the client brings into the conversation
- Laying the foundation of the coach/client relationship in the beginning
- Trauma: more than events in time, but exposure over time (“The dose makes the poison.”)
- Understanding stress (not always a bad thing!), its effects, like loneliness and uncertainty, and long-term stress exposure
- The neuroscience of the “unsafe” brain: It cannot update its predictions, learns the wrong things, and cannot differentiate between predator threats and social threats.
- Recognizing the path forward with our clients: The stories our nervous system tells follow the state of our nervous system as a whole.
- “We are all the walking wounded. What you are experiencing is very real.”
- The key message from Dr. K: “Coaches are uniquely pre-set to do this exceedingly well. The beauty of this skillset is that it’s rooted in the similarities of our nervous system; these skills are universally teachable, learnable, and applicable.”
Resources:
Connect with Dr. Kemia Sarraf
Website,Facebook, and SCSEpisode 232
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Mentioned in this episode:
Mentor Program
If you're working toward your ACC or PCC credential, or if it's time to recertify your ACC mentor, coaching isn't just a requirement on a checklist. It's one of the most transformative investments you can make in yourself and your coaching. I've taught or mentored over 2000 coaches, and I hear the same thing again and again. I came because I had to, and I am so glad that I did. Coaches tell me they walk away with renewed energy, deeper confidence and a community of peers who genuinely support each other. Here's what you need to know right now. Mentor coaching must span a minimum of three months, so the time to start is not when your credential is just about to expire. And if you complete your hours in 2026, you get ahead of the upcoming ICF changes, which means peace of mind along with skill development. My fall cohort is already filling up. Every group is capped at ten.It's small, personal, and powerful. If you've been waiting for the right time, this is it. So head over to Star Coach Show. That’s https://starcoachshow.com/mentor/ to grab your spot or to learn more. I'd love to work with you. Now, let's get into today's show.
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 ever, but the question is whether you have positioned yourself to be found. We will walk through six concrete pillars for building a client pipeline that holds up in hard times, and we close with a candid look at the mental and emotional side of sustainability with a reminder that no coach should be building alone. There’s no toxic positivity here, just an honest look at reality and a grounded path forward. Join us!
Show Highlights:
- A reality check about today’s world for coaches: the good, the bad, and the ugly
- Coaches are called to be “sense-makers.”
- Where is your anchor in times of uncertainty?
- The mindset shift we need, even in the chaos
- Four root causes of an unsustainable pipeline:
- A fuzzy niche
- A lack of a consistent visibility strategy
- Being overly reliant on referrals alone
- Trying to build in isolation
- Six pillars to build your sustainable pipeline:
- Clarity
- Consistent visibility
- Relationship-based marketing
- A compelling entry point
- Client retention and expansion
- Layered revenue
- Which pillar resonates most with you right now?
- Staying in isolation is the worst move. You need a coaching community!
- You can’t pour into your clients when you are running on empty!
Resources:
Connect with Meg!
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Join the STaR Coach Community. Become amember today!
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Mentioned in this episode:
Mentor Program
If you're working toward your ACC or PCC credential, or if it's time to recertify your ACC mentor, coaching isn't just a requirement on a checklist. It's one of the most transformative investments you can make in yourself and your coaching. I've taught or mentored over 2000 coaches, and I hear the same thing again and again. I came because I had to, and I am so glad that I did. Coaches tell me they walk away with renewed energy, deeper confidence and a community of peers who genuinely support each other. Here's what you need to know right now. Mentor coaching must span a minimum of three months, so the time to start is not when your credential is just about to expire. And if you complete your hours in 2026, you get ahead of the upcoming ICF changes, which means peace of mind along with skill development. My fall cohort is already filling up. Every group is capped at ten.It's small, personal, and powerful. If you've been waiting for the right time, this is it. So head over to Star Coach Show. That’s https://starcoachshow.com/mentor/ to grab your spot or to learn more. I'd love to work with you. Now, let's get into today's show.
In today’s episode, you’ll hear one of the most compelling life stories I’ve ever heard. As we celebrate 10 years of the STaR Coach Show, I’ve looked back over some of the guests who brought something truly special to the show in the early years, and Andrew Bennett definitely fits the bill. He joins me for a third appearance on the show, and I can’t wait to share this conversation with you. Our focus is on the shift Andrew has made to zero in on individual development and living a purposeful life. You’ll gain insights into your inner work, along with practical tools to implement immediately with your coaching clients. Join us for this uplifting and inspiring conversation!
Andrew Bennett is a coach, professor, keynote speaker, and the founder and president of Bennett Performance Group. He’s also a lifelong magician, performing and perfecting magic tricks since the age of seven. A unique mix of business and life experiences has given Andrew valuable insight and compassion, enabling him to facilitate profound transformation in people and companies. As a longtime consultant and executive coach, he has been involved in nearly 40 major culture revitalization projects, creating customized solutions for lasting results. With the perspective that magic is the art of transformation, Andrew uses it to teach people how to rethink possibilities and obstacles, opening the door to new ways of thinking and acting. He teaches managers and leaders how to create environments where innovation, resilience, and capacity for change thrive.
Show Highlights:
- Andrew’s inspiration for his transformation: A shift from organizational to individual development
- Andrew’s story: Enduring much loss in life brings a unique awareness of the “preciousness of life.”
- Andrew’s new book (Coming in 2027!): A focus on the profound value of sharing your humanity with others.
- Words of wisdom from Andrew about the inner work we can do to find our life’s purpose
- Magic: The one constant in Andrew’s life since age 7 that became a useful tool in adulthood
- The framework of the three acts of magic: Appear, disappear, and restore (How this principle became the framework of Andrew’s life and work)
- The most important lessons around “appear, disappear, and restore” can help us make the most out of the precious gift of life.
- “Saying NO is easier when we have a deeper YES.”
- Andrew’s perspective on writing a transformational memoir: Being vulnerable in sharing your story isn’t scary when you sincerely want to help others and make a meaningful impact with your life.
- A key message from Andrew: “Appreciate this gift of life. Your life is important, and you are here to help raise others up. You are precious, valuable, and good.”
Resources:
Connect with Andrew Bennett
Website andFacebook
Andrew’s previous appearances: STaR Coach Show Episodes 118 and142
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Mentioned in this episode:
Mentor Program
If you're working toward your ACC or PCC credential, or if it's time to recertify your ACC mentor, coaching isn't just a requirement on a checklist. It's one of the most transformative investments you can make in yourself and your coaching. I've taught or mentored over 2000 coaches, and I hear the same thing again and again. I came because I had to, and I am so glad that I did. Coaches tell me they walk away with renewed energy, deeper confidence and a community of peers who genuinely support each other. Here's what you need to know right now. Mentor coaching must span a minimum of three months, so the time to start is not when your credential is just about to expire. And if you complete your hours in 2026, you get ahead of the upcoming ICF changes, which means peace of mind along with skill development. My fall cohort is already filling up. Every group is capped at ten.It's small, personal, and powerful. If you've been waiting for the right time, this is it. So head over to Star Coach Show. That’s https://starcoachshow.com/mentor/ to grab your spot or to learn more. I'd love to work with you. Now, let's get into today's show.
In this lively and inspiring episode, you’ll hear our guest’s remarkable journey from the theater stage to the executive boardroom. Her career has been a winding path of rich, creative experiences, culminating in three decades of improvisation training that has become the unexpected backbone of her coaching philosophy. You’ll learn why the rules of improv are the rules of great coaching and what it means to say “yes, and” to every dimension of yourself. Join us!
Ricci Mann Victorio is a Master Certified Coach and the president and co-founder of Victorio Counseling. She has spent more than three decades guiding leaders, entrepreneurs, and family businesses through complex transitions of leadership and life. Her work focuses on helping individuals navigate change and discover new possibilities, an insight that deeply informs the transformational themes at the heart of her fiction. Before executive coaching, Ricci worked as an improvisational comedian, director, and creative facilitator. She has written “The Guardian of the Faewild,” a philosophical fantasy series that explores transformation, courage, and the unexpected paths of becoming. When she’s not writing, Ricci continues her work as a leadership and succession coach while enjoying her wildly creative family and two young grandkids.
Show Highlights:
- Ricci’s unconventional career journey: aspiring clown, actor, director, writer, choreographer, and transformation coach
- Learning to coach organically—before she even became a coach
- Ricci’s story of finding her tribe in an intensely emotional experience
- “How can leaning into improvisation affect how I show up as a coach?”
- A perfect alignment of improvisation skills and coaching techniques: being present, being comfortable with not knowing, learning to integrate and give back, learning to respond and be with, and using “yes, and.”
- The five golden rules of improv (AND core coaching skills):
- Use the “yes, and” approach.
- Start in the middle.
- Don’t ask questions.
- Do—don’t tell.
- Stay in the moment.
- Using “Yes, and” in team and business settings
- Understanding that leading with improv isn’t easy, it takes training and skilled practice.
- Key takeaways from Ricci: “It’s easy to feel that we only get to choose one aspect of ourselves, but what makes us unique is the ‘all-of-ness’ of ourselves. Be all of you. Say YES.”
Resources:
Connect with Ricci Victorio
Coaching Website,Book Website,Facebook (Coaching), andFacebook (Books)
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Mentioned in this episode:
Mentor Program
If you're working toward your ACC or PCC credential, or if it's time to recertify your ACC mentor, coaching isn't just a requirement on a checklist. It's one of the most transformative investments you can make in yourself and your coaching. I've taught or mentored over 2000 coaches, and I hear the same thing again and again. I came because I had to, and I am so glad that I did. Coaches tell me they walk away with renewed energy, deeper confidence and a community of peers who genuinely support each other. Here's what you need to know right now. Mentor coaching must span a minimum of three months, so the time to start is not when your credential is just about to expire. And if you complete your hours in 2026, you get ahead of the upcoming ICF changes, which means peace of mind along with skill development. My fall cohort is already filling up. Every group is capped at ten.It's small, personal, and powerful. If you've been waiting for the right time, this is it. So head over to Star Coach Show. That’s https://starcoachshow.com/mentor/ to grab your spot or to learn more. I'd love to work with you. Now, let's get into today's show.
In this rich and inspiring conversation, Meg Rentschler welcomes Dr. Marcia Reynolds back to the show. A pioneer in the coaching industry and four-time guest, she discusses the newly released second edition of her landmark book,Coach the Person, Not the Problem. The conversation unpacks what drove the revision, her evolution as a coach and researcher, and a profound framework for what truly separates transformational coaching from transactional coaching. From identity coaching to the energetics of presence, this episode is a masterclass in what it means to coach at the deepest level. Join us!
Dr. Marcia Reynolds, president of Covisioning LLC, is passionate about researching, writing about, and teaching people around the world how to engage in powerful conversations that connect, influence, and activate change. She was the 5th global president of the International Coaching Federation and was inducted into their Circle of Distinction for her many years of service to the global coaching community. Global Gurus recognize her as one of the top ten coaches in the world. She is the creator of the renowned WBECS program and Breakthrough Coaching, and a Master Certified Neuroplastician.
Show Highlights:
- Reasons behind a second edition of Marcia’s book,Coach the Person, Not the Problem
- Coaching mastery is a path and a journey–not a destination.
- The difference between transformational coaching and transactional coaching
- Building your “curiosity” muscle vs. your “tell” muscle
- The neuroscience of coaching, based on decades of adult learning research
- Understanding the hidden places where you are judging others as “not as smart” as you are
- Letting go of “knowing” to be curious, present, and relentless with compassion
- Learning to be the coach who “takes it to the next level”
- Dr. Marcia’s key takeaway for listeners: “Presence is more than paying attention. The deeper we go with our full-body, open, vulnerable presence, the more powerful we are.”
Resources:
Connect with Dr. Marcia Reynolds
Website,LinkedIn,Instagram, andCoach the Person, Not the Problem
Dr. Marcia’s other SCS episodes:Ep. 40-Emotional Intelligence in Coaching,Ep. 329-Coach the Person, Not the Problem, andEp. 374-Breakthrough Coaching
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Mentioned in this episode:
Mentor Program
If you're working toward your ACC or PCC credential, or if it's time to recertify your ACC mentor, coaching isn't just a requirement on a checklist. It's one of the most transformative investments you can make in yourself and your coaching. I've taught or mentored over 2000 coaches, and I hear the same thing again and again. I came because I had to, and I am so glad that I did. Coaches tell me they walk away with renewed energy, deeper confidence and a community of peers who genuinely support each other. Here's what you need to know right now. Mentor coaching must span a minimum of three months, so the time to start is not when your credential is just about to expire. And if you complete your hours in 2026, you get ahead of the upcoming ICF changes, which means peace of mind along with skill development. My fall cohort is already filling up. Every group is capped at ten.It's small, personal, and powerful. If you've been waiting for the right time, this is it. So head over to Star Coach Show. That’s https://starcoachshow.com/mentor/ to grab your spot or to learn more. I'd love to work with you. Now, let's get into today's show.
AI is all around us! Is it a threat or an opportunity? How do coaches make sure to stay in the driver’s seat and engage with AI in an ethical, yet productive way? The bottom line is that AI can serve as a powerful multiplier for coaches—not a replacement for them. You’ll learn how today’s guest leverages the power of AI in various ways to organize his life’s work and enhance client deliverables. His enthusiasm for AI is balanced by practical caution, emphasizing that the coach must always be the one “driving the bus.” Join us to learn more!
Ron J. West is an executive coach and the founder of West Executive. For more than two decades, he has worked with senior leaders navigating complexity and change. He is the creator of the Chrysalis ecosystem, which comprises leadership experiences built around a simple idea: when leaders expand how they think and lead, the organizations and systems they serve can also evolve. Ron is a repeat guest on the STaR Coach Show, and we’re thrilled to visit with him again!
Show Highlights:
- AI as a useful thought partner–not a replacement for coaches
- Ron’s brainchild project: building a captured/private GPT of his body of work of 600+ artifacts (the Chrysalis AI Portal)
- Establishing guardrails to keep AI private and controlled (I.e., captured–as opposed to “set free” on the internet)
- Using Chrysalis as a practitioner with clear guidelines and purpose (“What am I trying to achieve?”)
- When using AI, remember who is “driving the bus”!
- Examples from Ron and Meg of using AI in the coaching process
- AI cannot replace the human aspect of coaching—in meeting people where they are.
- Compiling a database with the help of AI to build your legacy
- Examples of infographics and other resources created by AI
- Ron’s advice to coaches about harnessing the power of AI: “Just experiment. Enjoy the journey!”
Resources:
Connect with Ron West
LinkedIn andChrysalis
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Mentioned in this episode:
Mentor Program
If you're working toward your ACC or PCC credential, or if it's time to recertify your ACC mentor, coaching isn't just a requirement on a checklist. It's one of the most transformative investments you can make in yourself and your coaching. I've taught or mentored over 2000 coaches, and I hear the same thing again and again. I came because I had to, and I am so glad that I did. Coaches tell me they walk away with renewed energy, deeper confidence and a community of peers who genuinely support each other. Here's what you need to know right now. Mentor coaching must span a minimum of three months, so the time to start is not when your credential is just about to expire. And if you complete your hours in 2026, you get ahead of the upcoming ICF changes, which means peace of mind along with skill development. My fall cohort is already filling up. Every group is capped at ten.It's small, personal, and powerful. If you've been waiting for the right time, this is it. So head over to Star Coach Show. That’s https://starcoachshow.com/mentor/ to grab your spot or to learn more. I'd love to work with you. Now, let's get into today's show.
In this solo episode, Meg opens with a candid confession about her early coaching tendency to rescue and solve, and she uses it as a springboard into one of the deepest conversations in her coaching philosophy: the discipline of restraint. Drawing on decades of coaching and mentoring more than 2,000 coaches, Meg explores what it truly means to stay in wonder rather than knowing, to harvest before you plant, and to hold every offering with open hands. This episode is an invitation to coaches at every stage to examine where they may be shortcutting client transformation—and how to stop.
Show Highlights:
- My confession about the Rescuer in me
- The coach who robs their client with their knowing: Learn what it looks like.
- The neuroscience behind the struggle to create meaning, ownership, and the Aha experience (The journey is where transformation lives.)
- What it means to stay in wonder rather than knowing (It’s the difference between a coach who’s waiting for their turn to speak and a coach who is genuinely present to what’s unfolding.)
- The art of coaching is the art of getting out of the way. (Being helpful is not the same as being transformative.)
- Questioning to create an invitation instead of presuming the answer
- A coach’s most powerful tool: helping the client examine what they believe to be true
- Understanding the coach’s role in dealing with blocks AND openings (Learn to expand the lens.)
- The “harvest before you plant” metaphor as it applies to coaching (The coach must fully receive before offering something.)
- A strong attachment to our offering harms the coaching process and makes it “all about us.”
- Understanding partnership as fundamental equality
- The differences between a coach-driven session and a client-driven session
- 5 practices to try:
- Notice your impulses to share.
- Ask one more open question before you offer anything.
- Harvest before every plant.
- Practice the language of non-attachment.
- Fall in love with the pause. (Silence is beautiful—not a failure.)
- Continue to cultivate the habit of wonder.
Resources:
Connect with Meg
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Mentioned in this episode:
Mentor Program
If you're working toward your ACC or PCC credential, or if it's time to recertify your ACC mentor, coaching isn't just a requirement on a checklist. It's one of the most transformative investments you can make in yourself and your coaching. I've taught or mentored over 2000 coaches, and I hear the same thing again and again. I came because I had to, and I am so glad that I did. Coaches tell me they walk away with renewed energy, deeper confidence and a community of peers who genuinely support each other. Here's what you need to know right now. Mentor coaching must span a minimum of three months, so the time to start is not when your credential is just about to expire. And if you complete your hours in 2026, you get ahead of the upcoming ICF changes, which means peace of mind along with skill development. My fall cohort is already filling up. Every group is capped at ten.It's small, personal, and powerful. If you've been waiting for the right time, this is it. So head over to Star Coach Show. That’s https://starcoachshow.com/mentor/ to grab your spot or to learn more. I'd love to work with you. Now, let's get into today's show.
The fundamental truth is that who you are is how you coach. That’s the principle that we are unpacking in today’s episode. Today’s guest opens up about her personal experience with neurodivergence, chronic illness, and burnout as a model to demonstrate how to show up whole and lead by example as a coach. We dig into the multi-layered responsibilities coaches have to their clients, their profession, and the world. This conversation will stretch you—in the very best way. Join us now!
Katerina Kanelidou, MCC, is a leadership and team coach with 30 years of experience coaching, training, mentoring, and providing therapy with teams, groups, and individuals. In 2020, she co-founded the Team Coaching Global Alliance. She works with leaders and business owners worldwide, supporting them in creating healthy, high-value workplaces and fostering positive, sustainable change. Katerina is a recognized coaching authority, a frequent guest speaker at international conferences and events, and has served in various leadership roles within the ICF at both global and regional levels. She is a co-author ofBecoming a Team Coach: The Essential ICF Guide, published in 2025.
Show Highlights:
- Katerina’s book, “The Encyclopedia of Team Coaching” (You need this book!)
- The neurodivergent mind is “like a web of thoughts.”
- Katerina’s explanation of the statement, “Who you are is how you coach.”
- The coach’s multi-layered responsibility to lead by example and “show up.”
- Viewing coaching supervision as a professional responsibility
- Applying the diversity iceberg model
- Learning to say NO springs from values alignment (“Just because I can doesn’t mean I should.”)
- The coach’s understanding of neurodivergence, disability, and transparency
- Coaching is not therapy.
- Individual vs. team coaching
- Knowing the differences in coaching, consulting, and training
- Team coaching is pure coaching.
- Katerina’s key takeaway from today’s conversation
Resources:
Connect with Katerina Kanelidou
Website,LinkedIn, andBecoming a Team Coach: The Essential ICF Guide
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Mentioned in this episode:
Mentor Program
If you're working toward your ACC or PCC credential, or if it's time to recertify your ACC mentor, coaching isn't just a requirement on a checklist. It's one of the most transformative investments you can make in yourself and your coaching. I've taught or mentored over 2000 coaches, and I hear the same thing again and again. I came because I had to, and I am so glad that I did. Coaches tell me they walk away with renewed energy, deeper confidence and a community of peers who genuinely support each other. Here's what you need to know right now. Mentor coaching must span a minimum of three months, so the time to start is not when your credential is just about to expire. And if you complete your hours in 2026, you get ahead of the upcoming ICF changes, which means peace of mind along with skill development. My fall cohort is already filling up. Every group is capped at ten.It's small, personal, and powerful. If you've been waiting for the right time, this is it. So head over to Star Coach Show. That’s https://starcoachshow.com/mentor/ to grab your spot or to learn more. I'd love to work with you. Now, let's get into today's show.
This episode could change the way you think about boundaries, pricing, and what’s actually possible in your coaching practice. You’ll hear from a married couple regarding their initial resistance to working together, establishing healthy boundaries, defining roles and responsibilities, and the critical importance of pricing yourself correctly. My guests offer practical wisdom on maintaining work-life balance, protecting personal time, and thriving in both marriage and business through intentional communication and mutual respect. What have they learned that could help YOU, whether you work with your spouse or not? Join us to find out!
Robert and Kay Lee Fukui are the co-founders of i61 Inc., a business consulting company that helps married entrepreneurs achieve better work-life balance by structuring their businesses for scalability, while also freeing up precious time to invest in their marriages and families.
Robert has 25 years of successful sales and marketing experience with companies like Coca-Cola, Novartis Pharmaceuticals, and Bristol-Myers Squibb. He played an instrumental role in launching six major brands and is the recipient of national sales and leadership awards. His business acumen allows him to help family businesses become more profitable, efficient, and sustainable. Kay worked in the banking industry for many years and in her family business as the operations
manager for 10 years before meeting Robert, the love of her life. She understands the highs and lows of running a family business and the sacrifices owners make–often at the expense of marriage and family. Her passion is to see marriages flourish while building a profitable business and to help entrepreneurial couples understand that marriages and families don’t have to be sacrificed for business. Together, they have developed an innovative consulting program, Thriving in Tandem™, which equips the married entrepreneur to build a thriving marriage AND a prosperous business. They have authored the book Tandem: The MarriedEntrepreneurs' Guide for Greater Work-Life Balance and host the podcastThriving in Tandem.
Show Highlights:
- Working together with your spouse ALL the time: Can that really work?
- Time management, boundaries, and defining your lane of genius
- Freeing up time through ADE: automate, delegate, and eliminate
- Setting priorities and learning to say NO
- Kay Lee’s mindset as a third-generation entrepreneur who is learning to be more efficient
- Embracing change, intentional communication, and learning to pivot
- Set up a structure so you don’t overextend yourself. (Your boundaries deserve to be honored!)
- When you are with your family, BE with your family.
- The ONE business decision that will make more money and give you time back: raise your prices
- Key takeaways from Robert and Kay Lee:
- Robert: “If it feels like your business is running you instead of you running your business, fix it. Step back and evaluate.”
- Kay Lee: “Are you working in your zone of genius? If not, how can you do that? Do more of what you love!”
Resources:
Connect with Robert and Kay Lee Fukui
Website (Find your free gift!),Tandem: The Married Entrepreneurs' Guide for Greater Work-Life Balance,Thriving in Tandem podcast,Facebook,Instagram
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Mentor Program
If you're working toward your ACC or PCC credential, or if it's time to recertify your ACC mentor, coaching isn't just a requirement on a checklist. It's one of the most transformative investments you can make in yourself and your coaching. I've taught or mentored over 2000 coaches, and I hear the same thing again and again. I came because I had to, and I am so glad that I did. Coaches tell me they walk away with renewed energy, deeper confidence and a community of peers who genuinely support each other. Here's what you need to know right now. Mentor coaching must span a minimum of three months, so the time to start is not when your credential is just about to expire. And if you complete your hours in 2026, you get ahead of the upcoming ICF changes, which means peace of mind along with skill development. My fall cohort is already filling up. Every group is capped at ten.It's small, personal, and powerful. If you've been waiting for the right time, this is it. So head over to Star Coach Show. That’s https://starcoachshow.com/mentor/ to grab your spot or to learn more. I'd love to work with you. Now, let's get into today's show.
“Making sense out of chaos” is something we all want to do better. Today’s guest has discovered the secret sauce. In this episode, she unpacks how coaches and organizational leaders can measure what feels unmeasurable, create genuinely inclusive environments, and build healthier cultures by identifying the invisible programming running beneath the surface of any team or organization. We will explore three interconnected themes: demonstrating coaching ROI through powerful questioning, supporting employees with invisible disabilities through language and environmental design, and debugging the hidden “programs” that drive organizational chaos. This episode is practical, warm, and wisdom-packed—a must-listen for coaches, consultants, and leaders alike.
Kristy Busija is the CEO and founder of Next Conversation Consulting, a firm specializing in making sense out of chaos for organizations and leaders. She is a certified professional coach (mentored by Meg Rentschler), Forbes contributor, award-winning business owner, and the bestselling co-author of Hidden in Plain Sight: A Practical Guide to Managing Invisible Disabilities in the Workplace. Kristy brings expertise in corporate leadership, talent development, consulting, and neurodiversity-informed coaching. She is also a speaker who creates intentionally inclusive learning environments in her presentations.
Show Highlights:
- Where we begin in making the invisible, visible: The foundation of measurable ROI starts with asking the right questions.
- Trusting the process through the journey with a client
- Understanding “invisible disabilities” in the workplace
- Examples of Kristy’s expertise in opening a presentation by engaging with the audience and setting the stage for success
- Changing the language around invisible disabilities begins with debugging our invisible programming. (The cost of not providing support is much higher than you think!)
- Helping organizations lean into a coaching culture with the three Ps framework: identify patterns, priorities, and purpose.
- A closer look at Kristy’s work with leaders around shifting perspectives
- Kristy’s key takeaway: “Don’t just coach the person, but think about the whole system.”
Resources:
Connect with Kristy Busija:Website and book,Hidden in Plain Sight: A Practical Guide to Managing Invisible Disabilities in the Workplace.
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Mentioned in this episode:
Mentor Program
If you're working toward your ACC or PCC credential, or if it's time to recertify your ACC mentor, coaching isn't just a requirement on a checklist. It's one of the most transformative investments you can make in yourself and your coaching. I've taught or mentored over 2000 coaches, and I hear the same thing again and again. I came because I had to, and I am so glad that I did. Coaches tell me they walk away with renewed energy, deeper confidence and a community of peers who genuinely support each other. Here's what you need to know right now. Mentor coaching must span a minimum of three months, so the time to start is not when your credential is just about to expire. And if you complete your hours in 2026, you get ahead of the upcoming ICF changes, which means peace of mind along with skill development. My fall cohort is already filling up. Every group is capped at ten.It's small, personal, and powerful. If you've been waiting for the right time, this is it. So head over to Star Coach Show. That’s https://starcoachshow.com/mentor/ to grab your spot or to learn more. I'd love to work with you. Now, let's get into today's show.
In this solo episode, Meg Rentschler pulls back the curtain on the real challenges coaches face when building their businesses. She reveals what actually works and the most common mistakes that trip coaches up. Drawing on ICF industry data, small business research, and over 40 years of experience, Meg walks through the six most common struggles coaches encounter, including inconsistent client flow, isolation, pricing, and more. She offers six concrete, research-based strategies to position yourself for success. Meg makes a passionate case for community and mentorship as the biggest differentiators in a coach’s long-term sustainability. Join us!
Show Highlights:
- The good news about our booming coaching industry (Hear the facts!)
- The market wants coaching, but we have to know how to position ourselves for success and sustainability.
- Building a sustainable coaching practice is challenging because business-building skills differ significantly from coach training.
- Six common struggles for coaches:
- Consistently attracting the right clients (“Hope marketing” doesn’t scale.)
- Niching down (Niche-focused coaches grow their businesses 30% faster!)
- Pricing with confidence (It’s a mindset and self-worth issue.)
- A feast-or-famine cycle (This happens because systems and structures aren’t in place to keep the pipeline moving.)
- The isolation factor (Most coaches are solo-preneurs who work from home.)
- Wearing too many hats without the right skills (The gap between our genius work and all the other tasks creates overwhelm, avoidance, and stagnation.)
- What works to give us a leg up in the coaching field:
- Get crystal clear on who you serve and what you help them with.
- Build visibility–not just presence.
- Learn how to have enrollment conversations.
- Create systems, and create them early.
- Invest in your own development.
- Pursue your ICF credential.
- Understand the benefits of community and mentorship: accountability, encouragement, referral partners, and the irreplaceable experience of being with people who “get it.”
- Examples from the STaR Coach Community members about the difference a coaching community makes
- Meg’s challenge for you this week
- Understand the bottom line for your coaching career.
Resources:
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Mentor Program
If you're working toward your ACC or PCC credential, or if it's time to recertify your ACC mentor, coaching isn't just a requirement on a checklist. It's one of the most transformative investments you can make in yourself and your coaching. I've taught or mentored over 2000 coaches, and I hear the same thing again and again. I came because I had to, and I am so glad that I did. Coaches tell me they walk away with renewed energy, deeper confidence and a community of peers who genuinely support each other. Here's what you need to know right now. Mentor coaching must span a minimum of three months, so the time to start is not when your credential is just about to expire. And if you complete your hours in 2026, you get ahead of the upcoming ICF changes, which means peace of mind along with skill development. My fall cohort is already filling up. Every group is capped at ten.It's small, personal, and powerful. If you've been waiting for the right time, this is it. So head over to Star Coach Show. That’s https://starcoachshow.com/mentor/ to grab your spot or to learn more. I'd love to work with you. Now, let's get into today's show.
Have you ever realized that you’re living someone else’s dream instead of your own? Today’s guest walked away from a lucrative five-figure salary in the luxury yachting industry to create a scalable coaching business that generates six figures, from working just 15 hours per week. You’ll learn her proven frameworks for building simple, scalable businesses using strategic social media, ideal client positioning, and her signature approach that helps coaches and entrepreneurs create profitable businesses aligned with their dream lifestyles. Join us to learn more!
Sara Vezensek grew up in Slovenia, a place where the world of luxury yachts was something only seen in movies. By her early 20s, she had already immersed herself in that world, working as a private chef on superyachts, flying in private jets, managing million-dollar deals, and earning $15,000 per month. From the outside, it looked like a dream lifestyle, but she felt trapped. She was constantly on call and felt completely disconnected from her own freedom and purpose. Now, Sara is an online business coach and mentor who helps ambitious women turn their lived experiences into profitable, freedom-based businesses. She is known for helping her clients package their brilliance into high-impact offers, shift their money mindsets, and finally stop trading time for money. Sara is bold, real, and passionate about helping women build businesses that support the lives they want.
Show Highlights:
- Sara’s unconventional rise: How grit and determination opened doors to working in the luxury yacht industry
- Steps Sara took to fulfill her passion:
- Mindset shifts
- Aligned actions
- Determination to be THE best at her job and go above and beyond in every way
- The “golden handcuffs” of living someone else’s life and having the courage to walk away from something great
- Sara’s “big enough” WHY that offered “funds and freedom.”
- The “triangle of idea” framework: passion, problem-solving, and profit
- Using social media as a strategic business tool, not for influence
- How Sara uses her Instagram account to help people feel seen, heard, and understood
- Get clear about your ideal client. Use the “movie script” method.
- Understand how to close sales leads.
- Stop being busy; start being profitable.
- Sara’s big wins as a small business owner:
- Believing and trusting in herself
- Finding her voice
- Simplifying and scaling her business
- Positioning and pricing herself as an expert
- Highlights of Sara’s 15-hour work week
- Sara’s key takeaway: “Business CAN be simple and scalable.”
Resources:
Connect with Sara Vezensek
Instagram,She Thrives Podcast, and Free gifts for listeners:Million Dollar Course Idea and100k in Sales in 1.5 Months
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Mentioned in this episode:
Mentor Program
If you're working toward your ACC or PCC credential, or if it's time to recertify your ACC mentor, coaching isn't just a requirement on a checklist. It's one of the most transformative investments you can make in yourself and your coaching. I've taught or mentored over 2000 coaches, and I hear the same thing again and again. I came because I had to, and I am so glad that I did. Coaches tell me they walk away with renewed energy, deeper confidence and a community of peers who genuinely support each other. Here's what you need to know right now. Mentor coaching must span a minimum of three months, so the time to start is not when your credential is just about to expire. And if you complete your hours in 2026, you get ahead of the upcoming ICF changes, which means peace of mind along with skill development. My fall cohort is already filling up. Every group is capped at ten.It's small, personal, and powerful. If you've been waiting for the right time, this is it. So head over to Star Coach Show. That’s https://starcoachshow.com/mentor/ to grab your spot or to learn more. I'd love to work with you. Now, let's get into today's show.
Today’s episode will change what you think about leadership and shift how you see yourself as a coach. We are exploring the framework of 3D, 4D, and 5D leadership, specifically how leaders can move from survival-mode stress (3D) through self-awareness (4D) to soul-aligned, vision-driven leadership (5D). You’ll also learn how my guest’s unique 7-7-7 retreat model helps high performers make lasting transformation. Join us!
Grace Najean is a Korean-French-Australian leadership strategist, former Tony Robbins Master Coach, current PCC ICF coach, and founder of the Soulfluence Method ®. She helps high achievers align mind, body, and energy to lead with clarity, purpose, and magnetic presence. Her method brilliantly bridges and blends spiritual and scientific concepts in ways all leaders can embrace. The Soulfluence Awakening is a coaching model focusing on energy mastery and intuitive leadership, and The Soulfluence Retreat in Lombok, Indonesia, is an immersive reset for ambitious leaders.
Show Highlights:
- The Soulfluence Method ® is based on the integration of spirituality and neuroscience.
- Understanding 3D, 4D, and 5D leadership:
- 3D: Survival mode–driven by stress, pressure, materialism, and reactive behavior
- 4D: Awakening mode–driven by self-awareness and emotional intelligence, but leaders may stay stuck in “the knowledge trap.”
- 5D: Integration mode–where mind, body, and soul are aligned, and vision creates results
- Bridging the gap to develop 5D leadership
- The value of 7-day retreats to bring transformation and align the mind, body, and soul
- Using emotions as a GPS
- Understanding the coach’s role: shining the light and showing the way—not “saving” them
- Knowing what clients need vs. what clients want
- The 7-7-7 structure of Grace’s retreats and coaching offerings (7 days, 7 weeks, and 7 months)
- Making the transition from 3D to 4D to 5D leadership begins with self-awareness and self-leadership.
- Key takeaways from Grace about morning routines, including movement, breathing, gratitude, and visualizations
Resources:
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If you're working toward your ACC or PCC credential, or if it's time to recertify your ACC mentor, coaching isn't just a requirement on a checklist. It's one of the most transformative investments you can make in yourself and your coaching. I've taught or mentored over 2000 coaches, and I hear the same thing again and again. I came because I had to, and I am so glad that I did. Coaches tell me they walk away with renewed energy, deeper confidence and a community of peers who genuinely support each other. Here's what you need to know right now. Mentor coaching must span a minimum of three months, so the time to start is not when your credential is just about to expire. And if you complete your hours in 2026, you get ahead of the upcoming ICF changes, which means peace of mind along with skill development. My fall cohort is already filling up. Every group is capped at ten.It's small, personal, and powerful. If you've been waiting for the right time, this is it. So head over to Star Coach Show. That’s https://starcoachshow.com/mentor/ to grab your spot or to learn more. I'd love to work with you. Now, let's get into today's show.
We learn best when we are actively building and creating. Think Legos! All coaching is fundamentally play, and purposeful play transforms leadership development. Today’s guest is a certified hands-on thinking coach who brings Lego bricks into executive coaching sessions. He shares the neuroscience and learning theory behind why play isn’t frivolous but is essential for discovery, practice, and innovation. Learn how to integrate object play and constructionism into your coaching practice to help clients move from abstract thinking to concrete insights, particularly with neurodiverse populations and leaders who live too much in their heads. Are you ready to discover new techniques that might transform your work with your clients? Join us to learn more!
Paul Sanbar is an Ingenuity + Leadership Coach, certified coach supervisor, and hands-on visual thinking facilitator. He has dedicated himself to the field of self-development and to effecting positive change through purposeful play, storytelling, and powerful conversations. He was a humanistic-Gestalt psychotherapist and is now an ICF-accredited Master Certified Coach, EMCC-accredited coach supervisor, and senior practitioner.
Show Highlights:
- Play and coaching: How are they related?
- “Coaching gives clients a chance to suspend reality and just play.”
- Understanding “purposeful play” (also called “serious play”) in executive coaching, as it relates to how we played as children
- The value of attunement play
- Constructivism and constructionism
- Paul’s method of introducing object play into organizational coaching (Understanding the liminal space between “what is” and “what if”)
- Multi-modal learning helps us use multiple intelligences.
- Metaphors allow us to relate to and understand the world.
- Using Legos (and mini-figures) to build our thoughts and ascribe meaning to them
- The hands-on thinking coach methodology
- Feedback from coaches who are learning Paul’s play techniques as an enhancement to other coaching techniques
- Modern consequences of play deprivation—for kids and adults
- The truth: “We are all still kids.”
- Paul’s key takeaway about play methodology
Resources:
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If you're working toward your ACC or PCC credential, or if it's time to recertify your ACC mentor, coaching isn't just a requirement on a checklist. It's one of the most transformative investments you can make in yourself and your coaching. I've taught or mentored over 2000 coaches, and I hear the same thing again and again. I came because I had to, and I am so glad that I did. Coaches tell me they walk away with renewed energy, deeper confidence and a community of peers who genuinely support each other. Here's what you need to know right now. Mentor coaching must span a minimum of three months, so the time to start is not when your credential is just about to expire. And if you complete your hours in 2026, you get ahead of the upcoming ICF changes, which means peace of mind along with skill development. My fall cohort is already filling up. Every group is capped at ten.It's small, personal, and powerful. If you've been waiting for the right time, this is it. So head over to Star Coach Show. That’s https://starcoachshow.com/mentor/ to grab your spot or to learn more. I'd love to work with you. Now, let's get into today's show.
Trust is everything in the coach-client relationship. In this solo episode, Meg explores “The Trust Triangle,” a three-dimensional framework that reframes trust in coaching beyond simply the coach-client relationship. Drawing on client stories and 17+ years of teaching coaches, Meg breaks down the three interconnected dimensions of trust that determine whether coaching truly creates transformation: the relational trust between coach and client, the client’s trust in themselves, and the client’s trust in the coaching process. You’ll learn practical strategies for assessing, strengthening, and protecting each dimension, along with an understanding of how these strategies provide coaches with a powerful diagnostic tool when sessions feel stuck. Join us to learn more!
Show Highlights:
- Understanding three dimensions of trust:
- The trust between coach and client
- Mutual respect and trust are built with presence, consistency, confidentiality, appropriate boundaries, and honest authenticity.
- Things that erode trust: breaking confidentiality, being inconsistent, focusing on our own needs, defensiveness, trying to fix or rescue a client, overfunctioning
- Meg’s tips for applying these principles to build trust
- The client’s trust in themselves
- Fully stepping into the coaching process and moving from insight into action requires the client to trust themselves.
- Building self-trust in your client happens when they fully access their inner knowledge, hold space to celebrate micro-wins, reframe failures as data, and normalize the “messy middle.”
- Things that erode self-trust: a coach who gives advice, rescues a client from discomfort, and is too attached to the client’s success
- Meg’s tips for building the client’s self-trust
- Trust in the coaching process
- It’s a challenge to leave our expertise at the door and let the client be the expert in their life.
- Building process-trust depends on how we set the stage with clear expectations, help create early wins, make the “invisible” become visible, and be transparent about the process.
- Things that erode a client’s trust in the process: meandering sessions, abstract/philosophical coaching full of promises that can’t be kept, and having no structure or clear coaching agreement
- Meg’s tips for building trust in the coaching process (Begin with a clear coaching agreement!)
- The trust triangle gives the coach a new perspective (a measuring stick) to explore and be curious about what’s going on with the client. Meg explains how to use the triangle as a diagnostic tool.
- Hear Meg’s practical strategies for leaning into each leg of the trust triangle through rapport-building, reflecting wisdom, and connecting insights to action.
- Today’s key takeaway: “Trust isn’t singular in coaching—it’s triangular. Your job is to pay attention to all three dimensions.”
Resources:
Mentioned in this episode:STaR Coach Show, Episode 124 andSTaR Coach Show, Episode 131
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If you're working toward your ACC or PCC credential, or if it's time to recertify your ACC mentor, coaching isn't just a requirement on a checklist. It's one of the most transformative investments you can make in yourself and your coaching. I've taught or mentored over 2000 coaches, and I hear the same thing again and again. I came because I had to, and I am so glad that I did. Coaches tell me they walk away with renewed energy, deeper confidence and a community of peers who genuinely support each other. Here's what you need to know right now. Mentor coaching must span a minimum of three months, so the time to start is not when your credential is just about to expire. And if you complete your hours in 2026, you get ahead of the upcoming ICF changes, which means peace of mind along with skill development. My fall cohort is already filling up. Every group is capped at ten.It's small, personal, and powerful. If you've been waiting for the right time, this is it. So head over to Star Coach Show. That’s https://starcoachshow.com/mentor/ to grab your spot or to learn more. I'd love to work with you. Now, let's get into today's show.
Today’s conversation will transform your thinking about emotions. Instead of viewing emotions as negative experiences to push away or control, our guest helps us understand them as our body’s guidance system, much like a compass that helps us navigate. Fear and anger, often thought of as negative emotions, are the body’s survival mechanisms that are designed to protect our lives. You’ll discover practical insights on recognizing physical sensations, befriending your feelings, and using emotional intelligence to become a better coach and leader. Want to know more about relating to your own emotions and showing up as your best for your clients? Join us to learn more!
Joie Seldon, MA, is the founder of theEmotional Evolution Institute and the author ofEmotions: An Owner's Manual. An innovator in emotional intelligence, she is a life and professional success coach and EQ trainer. She has worked with clients at NASA, AT&T, Wells Fargo, Blue Shield, Dolby, and others. Her clients range from tech professionals and healthcare workers to C-suite executives. With 25 years of experience as an actor and acting teacher, 10 years as a somatic psychology therapist, and a lifetime of personal growth engagement, Joie has developed an innovative approach to teaching people how to release limiting behaviors and use their emotions as the powerful guidance system they are meant to be.
Show Highlights:
- Misconceptions, judgments, and misunderstandings about emotions
- Growing the relationship with your emotions, especially fear and anger, by recognizing and tolerating the sensations you experience
- Our feelings and thinking have to work together.
- The message of fear is “pay attention.”
- The results when people shift their perspective on emotions
- Dealing with emotions that arise in coaching conversations
- Understanding the difference between stress tears and sad tears
- The value of taking private time to process your grief and effectively giving others space for their grief and discomfort
- A coach’s job is not to rescue or “fix”; everyone just wants to be seen and heard.
- Joie’s top “Aha moments” with clients
- What coaches should understand about emotions being used as a compass
- “Emotions are energy in motion.” (Be curious about emotions.)
- Joie’s key takeaway for listeners: “Emotions are the link between the tangible and intangible. Pay attention to how you feel, and listen to what information emotions give you. Feeling your emotions will ultimately bring you more joy.”
Resources:
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Website,YouTube, andEmotions Owner's Manual (Kindle Edition)
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If you're working toward your ACC or PCC credential, or if it's time to recertify your ACC mentor, coaching isn't just a requirement on a checklist. It's one of the most transformative investments you can make in yourself and your coaching. I've taught or mentored over 2000 coaches, and I hear the same thing again and again. I came because I had to, and I am so glad that I did. Coaches tell me they walk away with renewed energy, deeper confidence and a community of peers who genuinely support each other. Here's what you need to know right now. Mentor coaching must span a minimum of three months, so the time to start is not when your credential is just about to expire. And if you complete your hours in 2026, you get ahead of the upcoming ICF changes, which means peace of mind along with skill development. My fall cohort is already filling up. Every group is capped at ten.It's small, personal, and powerful. If you've been waiting for the right time, this is it. So head over to Star Coach Show. That’s https://starcoachshow.com/mentor/ to grab your spot or to learn more. I'd love to work with you. Now, let's get into today's show.
Today’s episode features a fascinating, transformational story of death–and a second chance at life. You’ll discover how purpose-driven leadership creates both personal fulfillment and organizational success. You’ll hear practical wisdom for leaders seeking significance over success and learn how generosity transforms leadership. This conversation will challenge your ideas about success, significance, and what truly matters in life, while also showing why having an “elevator person” might be the most important leadership skill you never learned in business school. Whatever your leadership role, this episode will motivate you to stop waiting and start living with real intention. Join us now!
Bill Goodwin has over 30 years of leadership experience in developing individuals and teams, backed by proven leadership training and dynamic speaking for growth. As a Maxwell Leadership Executive Team Member, Bill is a speaker, leadership coach, and author. He is the founder of the Priority Living Consulting Group. His new book,Priority Living: 7 Pillars to Make Your Life Count, is derived from the backstory of Bill’s November 23, 1999, experience of acute respiratory failure. Being given a second chance has changed his life, and his wisdom could change yours, too.
Show Highlights:
- The story of Bill’s death on November 23, 1999
- “How do I make my life count?” (Bill’s Priority Living Framework)
- An overview of Bill’s book,Priority Living
- 7 Pillars to Make Your Life Count:
- Purpose–Turn your passion into impact.
- Growth–Be better today than you were yesterday.
- Impact–Do small things to create big waves.
- Rhythm–Build a life, not a schedule.
- Explore–Chase wonder and adventure.
- Connect–Relationships matter most.
- Give–The more you give, the more you grow. Live generously.
- People are hungry for professional development that invests in people.
- Bill’s gift to SCS listeners: a free chapter of his book (Click here.)
- Words of wisdom from Bill: “Be an ‘elevator person’ today.”
Resources:
Connect with Bill Goodwin:Website,Facebook,LinkedIn,Priority Living: 7 Pillars to Make Your Life Count, and get aFREE CHAPTER of Bill’s book.
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If you're working toward your ACC or PCC credential, or if it's time to recertify your ACC mentor, coaching isn't just a requirement on a checklist. It's one of the most transformative investments you can make in yourself and your coaching. I've taught or mentored over 2000 coaches, and I hear the same thing again and again. I came because I had to, and I am so glad that I did. Coaches tell me they walk away with renewed energy, deeper confidence and a community of peers who genuinely support each other. Here's what you need to know right now. Mentor coaching must span a minimum of three months, so the time to start is not when your credential is just about to expire. And if you complete your hours in 2026, you get ahead of the upcoming ICF changes, which means peace of mind along with skill development. My fall cohort is already filling up. Every group is capped at ten.It's small, personal, and powerful. If you've been waiting for the right time, this is it. So head over to Star Coach Show. That’s https://starcoachshow.com/mentor/ to grab your spot or to learn more. I'd love to work with you. Now, let's get into today's show.
Mentoring is a topic many coaches misunderstand, as they approach it reluctantly as another requirement in their credentialing process. In truth, mentoring is an opportunity, a gift, and a chance to sharpen our skills, break free from old habits, and continue our evolution as coaches. Mentoring is a valuable, transformational process that helps us identify our blind spots and expand our capacity. In this episode, you’ll hear insights about coaching presence in the mentoring process, along with how to approach your coaching growth with humility and curiosity. Join us to learn more!
Carly Anderson is a Master Certified Coach who has been continuously active as an ICF assessor for MCC, PCC, and ACC since 2005. She has carried this heavy load as an assessor, giving back to our profession and helping numerous coaches advance in the field. She has personally mentored over 200 coaches who have earned their MCC credential.
Show Highlights:
- Carly’s perspective on 20 years as an ICF assessor, which she calls “the greatest joy of my life.”
- The value of mentor coaching
- Key takeaways from Carly’s mentor coaching role
- Being present in mentoring without judgment
- Using “practices” to stay focused in mentoring: something tactile to hold, breathing exercises, hot yoga, chiropractic, massage, etc.
- The benefits of both group and individual mentoring
- Differences between mentor coaching and supervised coaching
- Helping coaches develop their own style
- The value of listening to your own coaching recordings to help you be the best you can be
- Carly’s tips for getting the most out of your recordings and using reflection without judgment
- The #1 takeaway from today’s episode for being the most present as a mentor coach
Resources:
Connect with Carly Anderson:Website
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Visit the STaR Coach ShowYouTube Channel! Subscribe today! Join our live show taping on the 3rd Thursday of every month at 1 pm CT.
Mentioned in this episode:
Join Mentoring Program!
If you’re a coach who wants to grow—not just check a box—this is for you.I’m enrolling coaches now for my Spring Mentoring Program. Some are here for credentialing hours. Others are here because they want to become the coach their clients rave about.Inside the program, we work on your actual coaching.You’ll hear yourself differently.Learn from other coaches.Develop more presence.And ask questions that create real transformation.If you’re ready to deepen your skills and your impact, I’d love to support you.Learn more at starcoachshow.com/mentorI’d love to work with you.
Mentor Program
If you're working toward your ACC or PCC credential, or if it's time to recertify your ACC mentor, coaching isn't just a requirement on a checklist. It's one of the most transformative investments you can make in yourself and your coaching. I've taught or mentored over 2000 coaches, and I hear the same thing again and again. I came because I had to, and I am so glad that I did. Coaches tell me they walk away with renewed energy, deeper confidence and a community of peers who genuinely support each other. Here's what you need to know right now. Mentor coaching must span a minimum of three months, so the time to start is not when your credential is just about to expire. And if you complete your hours in 2026, you get ahead of the upcoming ICF changes, which means peace of mind along with skill development. My fall cohort is already filling up. Every group is capped at ten.It's small, personal, and powerful. If you've been waiting for the right time, this is it. So head over to Star Coach Show. That’s https://starcoachshow.com/mentor/ to grab your spot or to learn more. I'd love to work with you. Now, let's get into today's show.
How are your “artful interruption” skills? This is a challenging yet essential skill for countering advice-giving patterns when facilitating coaching circles, peer learning groups, or team meetings. Inspired by a former student’s question about redirecting well-intentioned advice-givers without disrupting group dynamics, Meg provides practical strategies for facilitators who want to cultivate curiosity over knowing in group settings. By introducing the “two muscle framework,” along with specific techniques, visual cues, and verbal redirects, Meg demonstrates how to protect the coaching space and help people discover their own solutions. Learn how you can help safeguard space for learning and discovery! Join us to learn more!
Show Highlights:
- The challenge of incorporating polite, thoughtful interruptions into a coaching culture: Why is this an essential and highly relevant topic in today’s coaching space?
- Understanding the two-muscle framework: the “knowing muscle” and the “curiosity muscle” (We short-circuit the creative process when we rush in with answers and advice)
- Advice-giving in groups is problematic in several specific ways.
- Setting the stage before the first session with non-negotiables:
- Pre-frame the purpose and agreements.
- Explain the “muscle” metaphor.
- Model what “good” looks like.
- Create psychological safety around interruption.
- Address the elephant in the room by naming what makes this challenging to do.
- The Facilitator’s Toolkit, Six Specific Strategies for Interrupting Skillfully:
- The Appreciative Redirect (Acknowledge, redirect, and teach)
- The Pause and Pivot (Put your idea in the “parking lot” to give them time to think through and explore.)
- Visual Cues and Signals (These can be fun with card signals, the “muscle-flex” gesture, and a “parking lot” for ideas. Meg even has suggestions for using these with virtual meetings.)
- The Pattern Interrupt with Choice (Give agency while redirecting behavior.)
- Reflection Break (This is where the deepest learning happens.)
- The Question Upgrade (This is teaching in real-time.)
- Understanding when stepping in with advice and expertise is valuable (Use both/and thinking about coaching vs. advising.)
- A measuring stick question: “What creates more lasting impact, being told or discovering?”
- Practical tips for implementation:
- Start with shorter rounds.
- Pick 1-2 visual cues that work well with your group.
- Have a co-facilitator.
- Debrief after every session.
- Celebrate improvement.
- Track progress tangibly.
- Rotate the facilitator role when your group gains experience.
- Create a question bank resource.
- Build in application.
- Be patient with yourself and the group.
- Meg’s important takeaways about artful interruption
- Meg’s challenge for you this week
Resources:
Connect with Meg
Get Meg’s FREE download, Finding Your Perfect Match:A Coach's Self-Reflection Guide.
Explore the STaR Coach ShowMentor Program. New dates have been added for 2026!
Explore past episodes and other resources atwww.STaRcoachshow.com.
Explore theSTaR Coach Community and see what’s available there for you!
Visit the STaR Coach ShowYouTube Channel! Subscribe today! Join our live show taping on the 3rd Thursday of every month at 1 pm CT.
Mentioned in this episode:
Mentor Program
If you're working toward your ACC or PCC credential, or if it's time to recertify your ACC mentor, coaching isn't just a requirement on a checklist. It's one of the most transformative investments you can make in yourself and your coaching. I've taught or mentored over 2000 coaches, and I hear the same thing again and again. I came because I had to, and I am so glad that I did. Coaches tell me they walk away with renewed energy, deeper confidence and a community of peers who genuinely support each other. Here's what you need to know right now. Mentor coaching must span a minimum of three months, so the time to start is not when your credential is just about to expire. And if you complete your hours in 2026, you get ahead of the upcoming ICF changes, which means peace of mind along with skill development. My fall cohort is already filling up. Every group is capped at ten.It's small, personal, and powerful. If you've been waiting for the right time, this is it. So head over to Star Coach Show. That’s https://starcoachshow.com/mentor/ to grab your spot or to learn more. I'd love to work with you. Now, let's get into today's show.
Join Mentoring Program!
If you’re a coach who wants to grow—not just check a box—this is for you.I’m enrolling coaches now for my Spring Mentoring Program. Some are here for credentialing hours. Others are here because they want to become the coach their clients rave about.Inside the program, we work on your actual coaching.You’ll hear yourself differently.Learn from other coaches.Develop more presence.And ask questions that create real transformation.If you’re ready to deepen your skills and your impact, I’d love to support you.Learn more at starcoachshow.com/mentorI’d love to work with you.
Today’s episode tackles one of the most common workplace challenges: How do you lead effectively when people don’t report to you? My expert guest, a former coaching student of mine, reveals the hard-won lessons that transformed her approach to organizational change and unpacks practical strategies for motivating teams, navigating resistance, and creating real impact through influence rather than authority. Whether you’re a project manager, change leader, coach, or anyone tasked with getting things done across organizational silos, this conversation offers actionable frameworks for building collaboration instead of confrontation. In addition, my guest pulls back the curtain on the writing process and shares helpful tips for aspiring writers. Join us to learn more!
Michelle Pauk is the author ofBuild a Golden Bridge: How to Lead Change When You're Not in Charge, and the founder of Streamside Coaching, a boutique coaching and consulting firm dedicated to helping organizations lead change and build collaborative cultures. Her clients include executives and change agents at Fortune 100s, non-profits, and fast-growing startups. A Professional Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation, Michelle holds a master’s degree in leadership and organizational development.
Show Highlights:
- Filtering through the chatter when deciding to write a book: how Michelle brought her ideas and vision to life inBuild a Golden Bridge
- Michelle’s writing process: how she began to create content and structure for the first draft
- Decisions around publishing (“Finishing the writing process means you’re about ⅓ of the way through.”)
- Michelle’s vision and goals in writing her book
- Three gaps in the way we navigate change:
- Self-awareness
- Empathy
- Communication
- Letting go of assumptions to bridge the communication gap
- Looking for commonality over confrontation and ways to preserve dignity (Michelle explains the metaphor of “the golden bridge.”)
- Michelle’s takeaway thoughts
Resources:
Connect with Michelle Pauk:Website,LinkedIn, andBuild a Golden Bridge
Connect with Meg
Get Meg’s FREE download, Finding Your Perfect Match:A Coach's Self-Reflection Guide.
Explore the STaR Coach ShowMentor Program. New dates have been added for 2026!
Explore past episodes and other resources atwww.STaRcoachshow.com.
Explore theSTaR Coach Community and see what’s available there for you!
Visit the STaR Coach ShowYouTube Channel! Subscribe today! Join our live show taping on the 3rd Thursday of every month at 1 pm CT.
Mentioned in this episode:
Join Mentoring Program!
If you’re a coach who wants to grow—not just check a box—this is for you.I’m enrolling coaches now for my Spring Mentoring Program. Some are here for credentialing hours. Others are here because they want to become the coach their clients rave about.Inside the program, we work on your actual coaching.You’ll hear yourself differently.Learn from other coaches.Develop more presence.And ask questions that create real transformation.If you’re ready to deepen your skills and your impact, I’d love to support you.Learn more at starcoachshow.com/mentorI’d love to work with you.
Mentor Program
If you're working toward your ACC or PCC credential, or if it's time to recertify your ACC mentor, coaching isn't just a requirement on a checklist. It's one of the most transformative investments you can make in yourself and your coaching. I've taught or mentored over 2000 coaches, and I hear the same thing again and again. I came because I had to, and I am so glad that I did. Coaches tell me they walk away with renewed energy, deeper confidence and a community of peers who genuinely support each other. Here's what you need to know right now. Mentor coaching must span a minimum of three months, so the time to start is not when your credential is just about to expire. And if you complete your hours in 2026, you get ahead of the upcoming ICF changes, which means peace of mind along with skill development. My fall cohort is already filling up. Every group is capped at ten.It's small, personal, and powerful. If you've been waiting for the right time, this is it. So head over to Star Coach Show. That’s https://starcoachshow.com/mentor/ to grab your spot or to learn more. I'd love to work with you. Now, let's get into today's show.
The message in today’s episode is clear: leaders need new skills for navigating complexity, change, and the human aspects of work in modern times. The COVID-19 pandemic changed everything, and leaders must change with the times. Instead of “having all the answers,” leaders should leverage coaching competencies to transform their leadership effectiveness and become collaborative problem-solvers with their teams. In today’s compelling conversation, you’ll discover how curiosity beats assumption, how presence creates connection, and why collaboration might be THE most under-utilized leadership tool out there. Join us for practical insights you can use immediately!
Dr. Damian Goldvarg, MCC, has 35 years of experience providing executive coaching, leadership training, and facilitation in more than 50 countries. As an esteemed coaching expert and the recipient of numerous accolades, he has been an ICF Assessor for 10 years and was the 2013-2014 International Coach Federation Global President. He has published multiple books on coaching-related topics, including his 2025 release,Lead with a Coaching Mindset: How the Best Leaders Unlock Potential.
Show Highlights:
- After so many books, why this one NOW?
- The book’s alignment with the ICF’s coaching competencies
- A coaching mindset defined
- The sad facts about engagement at work: How can we change this?
- The benefits of leading with a coaching mindset–for leaders, teams, and the workplace culture
- The 8 ICF Core Competencies translated into practical leadership skills:
- Demonstrating Ethical Practice: Building trust through integrity and confidentiality
- Embodying a Coaching Mindset: Maintaining curiosity and development focus
- Establishing and Maintaining Agreements: Clarifying expectations and contracting
- Cultivating Trust and Safety: Creating psychological safety in relationships
- Maintaining Presence: Being fully present rather than distracted by past or future
- Listening Actively: Paying attention to what’s said and unsaid, embracing silence
- Evoking Awareness: Asking questions to uncover what’s in people’s way
- Facilitating Growth: Supporting actionable plans with deadlines and accountability
- Advice for struggling leaders who aren’t sure where (or how) to begin
- Collaboration is the key! It’s more important than “having all the answers.”
- Recognize when coaching or mentoring is best.
- Leading teams vs. individuals
- Dr. Damian’s key message to leaders
Resources:
Connect with Dr. Damian Goldvarg:Website,LinkedIn, andLead with a Coaching Mindset: How the Best Leaders Unlock Potential
Connect with Meg:
Get Meg’s FREE download, Finding Your Perfect Match:A Coach's Self-Reflection Guide.
Explore the STaR Coach ShowMentor Program. New dates have been added for 2026!
Explore past episodes and other resources atwww.STaRcoachshow.com.
Explore theSTaR Coach Community and see what’s available there for you!
Visit the STaR Coach ShowYouTube Channel! Subscribe today! Join our live show taping on the 3rd Thursday of every month at 1 pm CT.
Mentioned in this episode:
Mentor Program
If you're working toward your ACC or PCC credential, or if it's time to recertify your ACC mentor, coaching isn't just a requirement on a checklist. It's one of the most transformative investments you can make in yourself and your coaching. I've taught or mentored over 2000 coaches, and I hear the same thing again and again. I came because I had to, and I am so glad that I did. Coaches tell me they walk away with renewed energy, deeper confidence and a community of peers who genuinely support each other. Here's what you need to know right now. Mentor coaching must span a minimum of three months, so the time to start is not when your credential is just about to expire. And if you complete your hours in 2026, you get ahead of the upcoming ICF changes, which means peace of mind along with skill development. My fall cohort is already filling up. Every group is capped at ten.It's small, personal, and powerful. If you've been waiting for the right time, this is it. So head over to Star Coach Show. That’s https://starcoachshow.com/mentor/ to grab your spot or to learn more. I'd love to work with you. Now, let's get into today's show.
Join Mentoring Program!
If you’re a coach who wants to grow—not just check a box—this is for you.I’m enrolling coaches now for my Spring Mentoring Program. Some are here for credentialing hours. Others are here because they want to become the coach their clients rave about.Inside the program, we work on your actual coaching.You’ll hear yourself differently.Learn from other coaches.Develop more presence.And ask questions that create real transformation.If you’re ready to deepen your skills and your impact, I’d love to support you.Learn more at starcoachshow.com/mentorI’d love to work with you.
Welcome to 2026! I hope you’ve had time to reflect and recharge over the holidays, but I’m happy to be back with you for a new year of informative shows and amazing expert guests.
Can you improve your performance and resilience through neuroscience-based strategies? The answer is YES! Today’s conversation covers mental toughness, managing negative thoughts, and creating positive change from the inside out. You’ll discover practical tools for navigating the constant “noise” of your thoughts and letting your mind direct which thoughts deserve your energy and attention. Are you ready to think differently about the way you think? Join us!
Kevin Stacey is an effectiveness expert and former brain imaging specialist who helps individuals and organizations enhance performance, resilience, and results by utilizing neuroscience-based strategies. As the founder of TrainRight, Kevin has trained over 80,000 people across 48 states and four countries to break mental barriers, achieve peak performance, and navigate challenges with confidence. His diverse background blends military service, healthcare expertise, and corporate leadership. As the author ofMindRight andTimeRight and a featured guest on major media outlets, Kevin delivers engaging keynotes, workshops, and coaching on mental toughness, time mastery, and high-performance strategies to clients such as Ford, IBM, The New York Times, and the Federal Reserve.
Show Highlights:
- Overthinking is the #1 cause of unhappiness! (“Is my overthinking becoming counterproductive to the goals I want to accomplish?”)
- Kevin’s tips for “navigating the noise”: sometimes we need to ignore it, listen to it, or quiet it.
- Creating your own noise by controlling what you think about
- Kevin’s tips for developing mental toughness:
- Separate the brain (the creator of thoughts) and the mind (the director of your thoughts).
- Use your mind to keep your brain in check.
- Develop a different relationship with your “scary” thoughts.
- How our brains harm our happiness
- Change the subject to change your thinking. (“Thoughts are not facts.”)
- Applying neuroscience to organizations by reducing insecurity and managing focus
- Noticing and changing your thoughts interrupts the pattern of your thinking.
- “What you think, you become; what you feel, you attract; what you imagine, you create.”
- The “noise” will always be there, but we don’t have to focus on it. (Like when you’re on a train, notice you’re on the “wrong track,” and get off at the “next station.”)
- Coaches can practice using a “pattern interrupt” technique with clients.
- Thought-changing techniques using ACT (acceptance and commitment therapy) and CBT (cognitive behavior therapy)
- The value of gratitude in managing our negative thoughts and reframing our perspective
- Be careful of “outrage addiction.”
- “Life is a journey, not a destination.”
- Use a daily reminder: “I’m grateful, I’m happy, how do I want this day to go?”
Resources:
Connect with Kevin Stacey
Website,X,LinkedIn,MindRight, andTimeRight
Connect with Meg
Get Meg’s FREE download, Finding Your Perfect Match:A Coach's Self-Reflection Guide.
Explore the STaR Coach ShowMentor Program. New dates have been added for 2026!
Explore past episodes and other resources atwww.STaRcoachshow.com.
Explore theSTaR Coach Community and see what’s available there for you!
Visit the STaR Coach ShowYouTube Channel! Subscribe today! Join our live show taping on the 3rd Thursday of every month at 1 pm CT.
Mentioned in this episode:
Mentor Program
If you're working toward your ACC or PCC credential, or if it's time to recertify your ACC mentor, coaching isn't just a requirement on a checklist. It's one of the most transformative investments you can make in yourself and your coaching. I've taught or mentored over 2000 coaches, and I hear the same thing again and again. I came because I had to, and I am so glad that I did. Coaches tell me they walk away with renewed energy, deeper confidence and a community of peers who genuinely support each other. Here's what you need to know right now. Mentor coaching must span a minimum of three months, so the time to start is not when your credential is just about to expire. And if you complete your hours in 2026, you get ahead of the upcoming ICF changes, which means peace of mind along with skill development. My fall cohort is already filling up. Every group is capped at ten.It's small, personal, and powerful. If you've been waiting for the right time, this is it. So head over to Star Coach Show. That’s https://starcoachshow.com/mentor/ to grab your spot or to learn more. I'd love to work with you. Now, let's get into today's show.
Join Mentoring Program!
If you’re a coach who wants to grow—not just check a box—this is for you.I’m enrolling coaches now for my Spring Mentoring Program. Some are here for credentialing hours. Others are here because they want to become the coach their clients rave about.Inside the program, we work on your actual coaching.You’ll hear yourself differently.Learn from other coaches.Develop more presence.And ask questions that create real transformation.If you’re ready to deepen your skills and your impact, I’d love to support you.Learn more at starcoachshow.com/mentorI’d love to work with you.
Here we are at the last episode of the STaR Coach Show for 2025, as I’ll be taking some time off, as I usually do, to fully enjoy the holiday season. We have logged 50 episodes this year, exploring what it takes to build coaching skills, grow sustainable businesses, and develop authentic leadership. Coaching is all about the messy, uncertain, courageous work of transformation and building something meaningful. As I look toward 2026, I’m asking myself the same questions I’m asking you today: “What matters most? Where do I need to focus? How do I make sure I’m spending my energy on what actually moves the needle?” Here’s what I know: the problem isn’t that we don’t work hard enough; the problem is that we say YES to too many things, which scatters our energy and hinders our progress. We mistake busyness for progress. In today’s episode, I’m sharing my three words for 2026, along with guidelines for choosing your three words to serve as guideposts, decision filters, and energy anchors. You’ll learn about the year I’m choosing to create with my three words and why your three words might be exactly what you need, also. Join me now!
Show Highlights:
- Reflections on where we’ve been in 2025 (with 50 weekly episodes about building coaching skills, developing leadership capacity, and growing a sustainable business)
- From 2016 until now: 9 years of the STaR Coach Show!
- My three words for 2026:
- Refresh: I need to review my existing programs through fresh eyes and breathe new life into them.
- Uplevel: It’s time to bring on more team members so I can focus on doing my genius work with excellence.
- Bold: I need to be unapologetic about my offerings and do a better job of inviting people in.
- 2026 will be a milestone year for me in three ways: The 500th episode of the podcast, my 40th wedding anniversary, and a special year of integration
- Steps to choosing your three words
- Using your three words as guideposts and filters for each decision and action—a conscious framework for decisions
- Looking back on 2025 and forward to 2026
- Here’s a toast to you for a year of intentional growth, courageous decisions, action, and meaningful impact. I’ll see you in 2026!
Resources:
Get your free resource today to help you choose your Three Words for 2026: STaR Coach Show/473
Connect with Meg:
Get Meg’s FREE download, Finding Your Perfect Match: A Coach's Self-Reflection Guide.
Explore past episodes and other resources at www.STaRcoachshow.com.
Explore the STaR Coach Community and see what’s available there for you!
Visit the STaR Coach Show YouTube Channel! Subscribe today! Join our live show taping on the 3rd Thursday of every month at 1 pm CT.
Mentioned in this episode:
Join Mentoring Program!
If you’re a coach who wants to grow—not just check a box—this is for you.I’m enrolling coaches now for my Spring Mentoring Program. Some are here for credentialing hours. Others are here because they want to become the coach their clients rave about.Inside the program, we work on your actual coaching.You’ll hear yourself differently.Learn from other coaches.Develop more presence.And ask questions that create real transformation.If you’re ready to deepen your skills and your impact, I’d love to support you.Learn more at starcoachshow.com/mentorI’d love to work with you.
Mentor Program
If you're working toward your ACC or PCC credential, or if it's time to recertify your ACC mentor, coaching isn't just a requirement on a checklist. It's one of the most transformative investments you can make in yourself and your coaching. I've taught or mentored over 2000 coaches, and I hear the same thing again and again. I came because I had to, and I am so glad that I did. Coaches tell me they walk away with renewed energy, deeper confidence and a community of peers who genuinely support each other. Here's what you need to know right now. Mentor coaching must span a minimum of three months, so the time to start is not when your credential is just about to expire. And if you complete your hours in 2026, you get ahead of the upcoming ICF changes, which means peace of mind along with skill development. My fall cohort is already filling up. Every group is capped at ten.It's small, personal, and powerful. If you've been waiting for the right time, this is it. So head over to Star Coach Show. That’s https://starcoachshow.com/mentor/ to grab your spot or to learn more. I'd love to work with you. Now, let's get into today's show.
We are living in what some are calling “a loneliness epidemic.” The holidays, a time for celebrating our connections to each other, only amplify feelings of loneliness for many people. As we are more connected, digitally speaking, than ever before, we have never been more disconnected from one another as human beings. We are tackling this issue head-on today! I’m thrilled to bring you a timely interview with a husband-and-wife team that knows what it means to stick together in partnership. They give us insights into their unique partnership approach, the concept of “sticking together” in an organizational context, and practical strategies for building cohesive teams. Lee and Julie view their current work as the most important of their careers, as it addresses loneliness and the impaired social skills that have emerged since the COVID-19 pandemic in our country. This topic is essential to all of us who have lost our muscle of human connection, and we can rebuild it–one intentional step at a time. Are you ready to improve your connection skills? Join us now!
Dr. Lee Colan and Julie Davis-Colan co-founded The L Group in 1999, driven by a personal calling to equip and encourage leaders to achieve healthy growth. They are CEO advisors, executive coaches, and bestselling authors of 16 leadership books translated into 10 languages. Lee is a former chief human resource officer, organizational psychologist, and leadership consultant who has worked with some of America’s top companies. Julie is a corporate health strategist and leadership consultant who has spearheaded the implementation of corporate wellness initiatives for many of America’s leading organizations. In this episode, Lee and Julie discuss their collaborative work in leadership development, organized culture, and their newly released book: Healthy Leadership.Their next book will be published in September of 2026.
Show Highlights:
- Lee and Julie’s writing process: Pinpointing what the world needs to hear (in their next book) through their consulting work
- Social skills are skills that need to be practiced.
- Multiple factors have contributed to loneliness since the COVID pandemic.
- Fact: We were born to connect. All of our efforts to live a healthy lifestyle (nutrition, exercise, good sleep, etc.) are canceled out by our lack of social connections.
- The quality of our relationships is integral to living a long, healthy life.
- Action steps of Colan’s model to improve your connection skills:
- Reach out. “If you’re in line, get offline!” Everyone wants to be seen, heard, and acknowledged.
- Seek understanding. Find out the story behind the person and find common points of connection.
- Make memories. Initiate shared experiences, whether with new friends, old friends, or teams at work.
- Check in. A text, voicemail, email, or phone call can help cement your connection to another person. Lean into both difficult and celebratory situations by showing up.
- Rituals are an important part of connecting us and creating memories, whether with family, friends, or work teams.
- Creating connections produces positive physiological and psychological outcomes.
- Even remote workers can create intentional points of connection within their teams.
- One key takeaway from Dr. Lee: “Take one little baby step. Reach out to somebody today.”
- One key takeaway from Julie: “Make a commitment to reaching out to someone each day. Your life will be much more enjoyable, and you will be happier. It’s a beautiful thing.”
Resources:
Connect with Julie Davis-Colan and Dr. Lee Colan:
Website and book, Healthy Leadership: How to Thrive in the New World of Work
Connect with Meg:
Get Meg’s FREE download, Finding Your Perfect Match: A Coach's Self-Reflection Guide.
Explore past episodes and other resources at www.STaRcoachshow.com.
Explore the STaR Coach Community and see what’s available there for you!
Visit the STaR Coach Show YouTube Channel! Subscribe today!
Mentioned in this episode:
Join Mentoring Program!
If you’re a coach who wants to grow—not just check a box—this is for you.I’m enrolling coaches now for my Spring Mentoring Program. Some are here for credentialing hours. Others are here because they want to become the coach their clients rave about.Inside the program, we work on your actual coaching.You’ll hear yourself differently.Learn from other coaches.Develop more presence.And ask questions that create real transformation.If you’re ready to deepen your skills and your impact, I’d love to support you.Learn more at starcoachshow.com/mentorI’d love to work with you.
Mentor Program
If you're working toward your ACC or PCC credential, or if it's time to recertify your ACC mentor, coaching isn't just a requirement on a checklist. It's one of the most transformative investments you can make in yourself and your coaching. I've taught or mentored over 2000 coaches, and I hear the same thing again and again. I came because I had to, and I am so glad that I did. Coaches tell me they walk away with renewed energy, deeper confidence and a community of peers who genuinely support each other. Here's what you need to know right now. Mentor coaching must span a minimum of three months, so the time to start is not when your credential is just about to expire. And if you complete your hours in 2026, you get ahead of the upcoming ICF changes, which means peace of mind along with skill development. My fall cohort is already filling up. Every group is capped at ten.It's small, personal, and powerful. If you've been waiting for the right time, this is it. So head over to Star Coach Show. That’s https://starcoachshow.com/mentor/ to grab your spot or to learn more. I'd love to work with you. Now, let's get into today's show.
As an executive coach, I often focus on organizational leadership, but sometimes overlook the value of family-owned businesses. These businesses represent a significant portion of the global economy and are the backbone of many communities worldwide. Coaching in that space is very different from coaching in corporations. Navigating family dynamics, generational transitions, and business decisions makes the stakes incredibly high and deeply personal. Join us to hear a fresh perspective from today’s guest, who is living out his dreams in the family-owned business space with a burning desire to help others rise and face their challenges.
Zach Del Monaco is a dynamic entrepreneur, inspirational speaker, and growth coach who captivates audiences with his powerful story–and he’s 23 years old! Known for his hit record speech, he shares his incredible journey overcoming adversity during spinal surgery, transforming the impossible into the possible. He went from living the darkest moments of his life to someone who helps others through life’s challenges. Through his insights, Zach empowers others to face their challenges and achieve their own remarkable success.
Show Highlights:
- Zach’s story and how his incredible journey has unfolded
- Two options when facing a challenge
- Taking a bigger role in the family’s commercial construction business with a vision for building the company’s brand in the online world
- Breaking the resistance to his vision within the complexity of a family business and putting his stake in the ground
- Results over the past 1.5 years since Zach’s turning point in challenging his family to think differently
- Zach’s strategy in offering new transformational ideas for the business
- Differing communication and presentation skills are required in listening/learning, implementing/acting, and understanding others’ personalities.
- Understanding the value of the statement, “What got you HERE won’t get you THERE.”
- Overcoming challenges with drive and determination to find freedom ultimately
- The addictive, fired-up feeling from sharing with others to help them overcome challenges
- Takeaways about honoring legacy while pushing toward change
Resources:
Connect with Zach Del Monaco
Website and Instagram
Connect with Meg
Get Meg’s FREE download, Finding Your Perfect Match: A Coach's Self-Reflection Guide.
Explore past episodes and other resources at www.STaRcoachshow.com.
Explore the STaR Coach Community and see what’s available there for you!
Visit the STaR Coach Show YouTube Channel! Subscribe today! Join our live show taping on the 3rd Thursday of every month at 1 pm CT.
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If you're working toward your ACC or PCC credential, or if it's time to recertify your ACC mentor, coaching isn't just a requirement on a checklist. It's one of the most transformative investments you can make in yourself and your coaching. I've taught or mentored over 2000 coaches, and I hear the same thing again and again. I came because I had to, and I am so glad that I did. Coaches tell me they walk away with renewed energy, deeper confidence and a community of peers who genuinely support each other. Here's what you need to know right now. Mentor coaching must span a minimum of three months, so the time to start is not when your credential is just about to expire. And if you complete your hours in 2026, you get ahead of the upcoming ICF changes, which means peace of mind along with skill development. My fall cohort is already filling up. Every group is capped at ten.It's small, personal, and powerful. If you've been waiting for the right time, this is it. So head over to Star Coach Show. That’s https://starcoachshow.com/mentor/ to grab your spot or to learn more. I'd love to work with you. Now, let's get into today's show.
Does selling feel awkward or inauthentic? Today, we’re covering how you speak, teach, and bring a conversation to a sales conversion in an ethical, authentic, and effective way that feels good. Your expertise, wisdom, and life experiences could help people transform their lives, but you are leaving money on the table! We will bust through the myth that you “need to find your voice.” You already have your voice! Let’s strip away the mask and the layers that cover it so you can show up authentically!
Joel Bauer has trained some of the world’s top income-producing speakers, presenters, and online marketers to monetize their life experiences, both online and offline. A few notable trainees are Russell Brunson, Alex Hormozi, Dan Kennedy, Jordan Belfort, and Peng Joon, among others. For decades, Joel’s principles have set the bar for speaking, teaching, and closing at the very highest level, and there are over 2 million graduates of his program. By applying Joel’s strategies, you can break free from limitations, design your destiny, and monetize your expertise like never before. You’ll learn why implementing Joel’s strategies requires no talent, only technique. Joel explains how to give massive value without expectation, how to package and position your life’s work in high-ticket offers, and why you should never give away your consulting time for free.
Show Highlights:
- It’s not about talent; it’s about technique!
- Podcasts, like the STaR Coach Show, are the most valuable social media platform.
- Undervaluing your time
- Joel’s philosophy of NEVER taking anyone’s money unless he knows he can help them succeed
- Examples of unbelievable success from those who have implemented Joel’s strategies
- The value of accountability partnerships
- 3 moves for success:
- Preframe (Project them into the solution.)
- Verification of the Silent Salesman (It’s how you “wrap” the package.)
- Your Call-to-Action (What are you offering? The key is your money-back guarantee.)
- Being the greatest mentor in the world for the person who chooses you, trusts you, listens to you, and succeeds by implementing your techniques
- How love and like are different
- “Permission to reveal” technique as a transformational strategy in offering your service
- Value of letting people know what they CAN do
- Present, Persuade, and Preserve technique
- AI is never going to replace coaches and mentors
- Why you don’t need a large audience
- Don’t pass up Joel’s free gifts!
Resources:
Connect with Joel Bauer
Website and Instagram
Gift #1: Visit Joel’s Website to get Peng Joon’s “10 Moves to $10 Million.” It’s a free PDF download in audio and video versions.
Gift #2: Visit Joel’s Instagram, @JoelBauerMentor, and DM the comment “5 Moves” to receive the complete “5 Moves to Authority” program, a $5000 value!
Connect with Meg
Get Meg’s FREE download, Finding Your Perfect Match: A Coach's Self-Reflection Guide.
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The trap that almost all coaches fall into is assuming that experience eliminates the need for curiosity in growing our businesses. In today’s episode, I’m sharing personal revelations from leading the Enroll More Clients Clarity Sprint. I’ve rediscovered my message by doing every exercise along with the participants, and I’ve learned that even experienced coaches need curiosity to keep their practices fresh and avoid stagnation. Today’s focus is on the elements of magnetic messaging and why coaches should use their clients’ language instead of “coach speak.” We can’t assume that our experience eliminates the need for curiosity, so let’s talk about why that’s a dangerous assumption, what we can miss along the way, and what happened when I chose differently.
Show Highlights:
- Reasons why experienced coaches stop doing “the work” they ask their clients to do
- Get out of the clouds and speak your client’s language.
- Three elements of magnetic messaging: clarity, conciseness, and confidence
- Understanding the transformation path
- Focused repetition and daily immersion in skills development
- Getting trapped in analysis paralysis
- Curiosity and keeping your practice fresh and alive
- Isolation vs. collaboration
- Community vs. “figuring it all out by myself”
- The Star Coach Community: what we offer
- Give yourself the gifts of clarity, community, collaboration, and mentorship. Enrollment is only open for a few more days! Click here to learn more.
Resources:
Connect with Meg
Get Meg’s FREE download, Finding Your Perfect Match: A Coach's Self-Reflection Guide.
Explore past episodes and other resources at www.STaRcoachshow.com.
Explore the STaR Coach Community and see what’s available there for you!
Visit the STaR Coach Show YouTube Channel! Subscribe today! Join our live show taping on the 3rd Thursday of every month at 1 pm CT.
We begin with a mind-blowing statistic: 78% of people believe that we have a leadership crisis in corporate America. People aren’t leaving bad jobs; they are leaving bad leaders. Leadership isn’t about power, but it’s about people. In today’s episode. We are diving deep into what it takes to build genuine relationships at work. These relationships have a direct impact on productivity, retention, and team success. You’ll learn why leading with empathy beats leading with ego, every single time. Investing time in your people up front saves you countless hours down the road. Are you ready to discover how leading with empathy can be the game-changer you’re looking for in your leadership style? Join us now!
William Davis is a speaker, mentor, and leadership expert who has spent 38 years leading and uplifting teams. He has become a trusted voice in leadership, blending decades of experience with a genuine passion for guiding others and building success, one relationship, one project, and one person at a time. Loyalty, support, guidance, and empathy form the foundation of his leadership style, and his track record proves that his leadership principles steer organizations to success by fostering trust and accountability.
Show Highlights:
- Shocking statistics around leadership challenges and a world leadership crisis
- The disconnect in corporate leadership today (Having leadership skills is NOT a given.)
- “Do I even want to be a leader?”
- William’s #1 tip for identifying good leaders: Observe how they treat their families.
- Building relationships in the workplace focusing on connection and interaction
- Making sure your people are safe and secure in their roles to succeed and grow
- A good ROI is not always monetary in nature
- Watching your people succeed is the greatest testament to your career
- True leadership includes being supportive and uplifting to others
- Treating team members equitably, giving credit where it’s due, and creating a supportive environment
- William’s key takeaway about genuine relationships in the workplace
- Emotional maturity as a leader
Resources:
Connect with William Davis
Website
Book - How to Lead without Just Managing(The Leadership Blueprint Book)
Book - Building Genuine Relationships
Connect with Meg
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Today’s topic is a common experience for many listeners, whether in the present, future, or the rear-view mirror. We are discussing the all-important decision to leave the corporate world to leap into entrepreneurship. Our conversation explores the practical and emotional aspects of transitioning from employee to entrepreneur, including overcoming imposter syndrome, building effective networks, and strategically scaling a business. Join us to learn more!
Kym Insana, founder of Always On Digital, shares her journey from corporate digital marketing executive to successful entrepreneur. She built a multimillion-dollar, woman-owned agency serving major brands, like the US Air Force, Johnston & Murphy, and Enfamil. When Kym left a demanding NYC career in advertising to build Always On Digital, her goal was to find flexibility and balance as a wife and mother of four. Her company thrives by empowering talented working parents to blend career success with family life. Kym is a sought-after speaker who has shared her journey and expertise on several national stages and media outlets.
Show Highlights:
- Kym’s motivation to transition from employee to entrepreneur
- Coming from the place of “What I NEED doesn’t exist; I’ll create it myself.”
- Kym’s practical strategies to build your business:
- Ask, “What do I want this to look like?” (having a clear vision)
- Work backwards from that point to figure out the details. (Reverse-engineer your dream!)
- Self-motivation is essential!
- Dealing with imposter syndrome
- Accepting that you may not be the right fit for every client, but you are an expert
- Handling rejection with a “Who else is out there?” attitude
- Building networks by going to your allies first
- Hiring people for fractional roles as you build traction
- Growth and scaling phase, as you build momentum
- Taking the step to commit to full-time employees and serious operational costs
- Finding the balance between sales and customer service
- Kym’s unique approach to building her team
Resources:
Connect with Kym Insana
Website
LinkedIn (Kym would love to connect with you through LinkedIn! Tell her you are a STaR Coach Show listener!)
Kym’s profile: AccessSpeakers.biz/speaker/kym-insana-speaker-digital-marketing-expert-business-owner
Connect with Meg
Struggling to enroll more clients? Sign up today for our Enroll More Clients: Clarity Sprint 5-Day Challenge! It’s free, and we begin on November 10. Get clarity that makes enrolling clients feel natural, not pushy!
Get Meg’s FREE download, Finding Your Perfect Match: A Coach's Self-Reflection Guide.
Explore past episodes and other resources at www.STaRcoachshow.com.
Explore the STaR Coach Community and see what’s available there for you!
Visit the STaR Coach Show YouTube Channel! Subscribe today! Join our live show taping on the 3rd Thursday of every month at 1 pm CT.
As our world becomes increasingly connected, we work with teams spanning continents, cultures, and contexts. What works brilliantly in one culture can completely miss the mark in another. For example, silence in a meeting might mean respect, not disengagement. Humility might be mistaken for a lack of leadership potential, and direct communication styles can either build trust or create distance, depending on who’s listening. If you’re ready to stop making assumptions and get curious about the people you lead and coach, this episode is for you. Join us!
Dr. Ling Hua is an ICF-certified executive leadership coach and former global biotech executive. In today’s episode, she discusses the critical importance of cultural awareness in leadership and shares helpful tips and techniques we can put into practice. Dr. Ling has become an expert in something the world needs more of: leading with cultural respect. Drawing on her experience working across three continents, she explores how leaders and coaches can navigate high- and low-context communication styles, avoid cultural assumptions, and create inclusive environments for diverse teams.
Show Highlights:
- Understanding what it means to lead with cultural respect
- High-context vs. low-context communication styles: reading non-verbal cuesFactoring cultural differences into performance reviews
- Mistakes in cross-cultural relationships happen when we don’t understand humility vs. assertiveness.
- Dr. Ling’s tips for cultural awareness in different types of organizations
- The impact of coaching and a coaching mindset on diversity within organizations and individuals
- Dr. Ling’s observations about the evolution of company culture and overall cultural awareness in organizations
- Dr. Ling’s key takeaways about cultural respect in leadership:
- Don’t assume, ask questions.
- Adapt your approach.
- Look beneath the surface.
- Meet people where they are.
- Remember, our differences make us stronger, not weaker.
- Don’t miss our Enroll More Clients: Clarity Sprint 5-Day Challenge! It’s free, and we begin on November 10.
Resources:
Connect with Dr. Ling Hua
Recommended resources for leaders to raise their cultural awareness:
The Culture Map by Erin Meyer and a Harvard Business Review article
“Develop Cultural Intelligence to Lead Global Teams,” by Dr. David Livermore (May 2025)
Connect with Meg
Struggling to enroll more clients? Sign up today for our Enroll More Clients: Clarity Sprint 5-Day Challenge! It’s free, and we begin on November 10. Get clarity that makes enrolling clients feel natural, not pushy!
Get Meg’s FREE download, Finding Your Perfect Match: A Coach's Self-Reflection Guide.
Explore past episodes and other resources at www.STaRcoachshow.com.
Explore the STaR Coach Community and see what’s available there for you!
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Have you ever found yourself staring at your to-do list, desperately wanting to work, but somehow—-NOT working? You’re scrolling through social media, reorganizing your desk, making another coffee—-doing anything but the thing you actually need to do. You are not lazy or broken, and according to today’s guest, your problem isn’t willpower; it’s neuroscience. Are you ready to achieve more with brain-based strategies? Join us for a conversation that will change how you think about productivity.
Robin J. Emdon, known as “the procrastination slayer,” shares his personal journey from chronic procrastination to accountability coach. After realizing that he took 10 years to complete a 6-year degree due to procrastination, Robin researched the neuroscience behind productivity and wrote Get Resultsology®: The Science of Getting Stuff Done. He explains procrastination through brain science, describing the conflict between threat modality and reward modality. He introduces his “inner productivity team,” the Conductor, the Fun-Sized Warrior, and the Scholar. His work emphasizes that accountability is the critical missing link for sustained productivity, citing research that shows a 33% improvement in goal achievement with the proper accountability structure. Robin’s signature momentum formula, “Do it today–Profit tomorrow–Repeat,” helps clients worldwide turn daily action into meaningful progress and attainable success. He does this from his quiet corner on England’s southwest coast.
Show Highlights:
- Robin’s journey: a 2019 face-palm moment that changed everything
- The prevalence of procrastination
- The COVID-19 shutdown—and an opportunity to do meaningful research
- Robin’s embarrassment about his procrastination problem
- The structure of Robin’s book, GetResultsology®: The Science of Getting Stuff Done, divided into three specific sections
- “Money is infinite; you can always make more. Your time and life are finite. Procrastination greatly impacts your ‘time account’.”
- Momentum is the missing link to productivity—and this creates lifestyle freedom.
- To get into “the productivity groove,” you need an inner productivity team: the Conductor (dopamine), the Fun-Sized Warrior (noradrenaline), and the Scholar (acetylcholine).
- Assessing your threat modality vs. your reward modality
- Understanding accountability–and how it drives results
Resources:
Connect with Robin J. Emdon
Website, LinkedIn, and Goalbusters Podcast
Get your FREE PDF copy of Robin’s book, GetResultsology®. Click here.
Catch Meg’s appearance on Robin J. Emdon’s Goalbusters Podcast. Click here.
Connect with Meg
Get Meg’s FREE download, Finding Your Perfect Match: A Coach's Self-Reflection Guide.
Explore past episodes and other resources at www.STaRcoachshow.com.
Explore the STaR Coach Community and see what’s available there for you!
Visit the STaR Coach Show YouTube Channel! Subscribe today! Join our live show taping on the 3rd Thursday of every month at 1 pm CT.
It’s time to celebrate! This week marks 9 years of the STaR Coach Show, so I’m doing something special in today’s episode. I’m pulling back the curtain on the entire journey, sharing the lessons that built this show, the mistakes I’ve made along the way, and the unexpected gifts that come from showing up every week for 9 years.
What matters most is that I’m sharing the most impactful strategy from each phase of the journey, and these are steps you can implement right away. Whether you are considering starting a podcast, offering a course or program, or trying to figure out the consistency element in your own vision, this episode is for you. Join me now, and stick around until the end for a special gift offer!
Show Highlights:
- The beginning, October 16, 2016: My fears about this new endeavor
- Act I:
- Then vs. Now (The podcasting world was a much different place in 2016!)
- No regrets, only resilience and a commitment to my vision
My “one thing” from Act I:
“Stop waiting for the perfect timing.”
Act II:
- Lessons learned:
- Starting is better than perfect.
- I need to partner with genius.
- Know your audience deeply.
- Create systems for a smoother workflow.
- My “one thing” from Act II: “Identify one thing that could derail your biggest business initiative, and figure out how to partner with someone whose genius can remove that obstacle.”
Act III:
- The beautiful benefits and wins over the years are many.
- Your creations allow your work to be in front of more people as they get to know who you are and what you do.
- Meaningful feedback is heartwarming and encouraging.
- My “one thing” from Act III: “When you commit to serving your audience consistently with genuine generosity, the benefits will compound in ways you can never predict.”
Act IV:
- My honest regrets: What I wish I had done differently
- Overcoming hesitancy in letting your audience know what you need from them
- My invitation to join our Know Your People FREE 5-Day Challenge (Find out more at STaR Coach Show.)
- My “one thing” from Act IV:
- “Don’t wait years to ask for what you need. Invite your audience to engage NOW.”
3 questions to ask about doing something new in your business:
- How does it serve my audience?
- How does it align with my passion?
- Will it hold my interest?
Resources:
Connect with Meg
Get Meg’s FREE download, Finding Your Perfect Match: A Coach's Self-Reflection Guide.
Explore past episodes and other resources at www.STaRcoachshow.com.
Explore the STaR Coach Community and see what’s available there for you!
Visit the STaR Coach Show YouTube Channel! Subscribe today! Join our live show taping on the 3rd Thursday of every month at 1 pm CT.
Leadership is both a skill and a science. Today’s focus is on what happens the day AFTER a promotion. The problem with promotions is that being good at your job and being good at leading people can be two distinctly different skill sets. This episode will change the way you think about leadership development. Ready to learn more? Join us!
Noel Massie, former VP of Operations at UPS, discusses intentional leadership and value-based development. In his role at UPS, Massie supported and guided package delivery and logistics services in the US, and he continues to mentor young leaders and supervisors even after his retirement in 2019. Drawing from his 40-year career overseeing 200,000 employees, Massie emphasizes that leadership is about influencing behavior without coercion, and that newly promoted supervisors need structured training rather than being thrown into roles unprepared. His book, Congrats! You've Been Promoted, provides practical frameworks like the “four by five method” for feedback and conflict resolution, targeting frontline leaders who are promoted based on technical skills but lack leadership training. You’ll learn how conflict can be handled without raising your voice, why feedback needs a 4:1 ratio to actually work, and the real reason newly promoted supervisors derail within their first year.
Show Highlights:
- Defining leadership: “the ability to influence a group or individual in their behaviors without coercion”
- Understanding leadership development as a science
- The problem with the promotion gap
- Tips for helping new leaders succeed:
- Care about them.
- Act with some level of daily development.
- Navigating fairness, ethics, and integrity on your team
- Tips for effective feedback (motivational and formative in a 4:1 ratio)
- The “four by five method,” with four perspectives and five levels of intensity
- Using metaphors to disarm the circumstances of a conflict
- Using mentorship and “sticky development” to train leaders
- Noel’s #1 takeaway: “Invest in your development personally. If you make no investment, why would you expect a return?”
Resources:
Connect with Noel Massie: Website, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, and Congrats! You've Been Promoted
Connect with Meg:
Get Meg’s FREE download, Finding Your Perfect Match: A Coach's Self-Reflection Guide.
Explore past episodes and other resources at www.STaRcoachshow.com.
Explore the STaR Coach Community and see what’s available there for you!
Visit the STaR Coach Show YouTube Channel! Subscribe today! Join our live show taping on the 3rd Thursday of every month at 1 pm CT.
Discover how to build an “aligned empire,” a business and life that work together instead of against each other. Today’s guest has mastered the art of balance—not just work-life balance, but proper alignment between career ambitions, family priorities, energy management, and personal fulfillment. Whether you are just starting or feeling overwhelmed by trying to do everything yourself, this conversation will provide a reliable roadmap for building something sustainable that honors your values and ambitions. Join us to learn more!
Kasey D’Amato is a keynote speaker, executive coach, and strategic business advisor who helps business founders and corporate leaders navigate high-stakes decisions and transitions with clarity, confidence, and resilience, without burning out in the process. With over 20 years of experience across healthcare, entrepreneurship, and business consulting, Kasey brings a unique blend of business acumen, human behavior expertise, and emotional intelligence to her work. She has walked multiple career paths, including pharmaceutical sales, founding a global skincare brand, healthcare consulting, and executive leadership advisory. Kasey’s mission is to impact one million entrepreneurs and high achievers, and her core message will challenge how you think about success. She believes a dream life is within reach for those who are willing to lead with intention. You’ll discover Kasey’s “3 Whos” framework that ensures you will never have to navigate your journey alone, and why she swears by 90-day experiments instead of massive overhauls. Kasey is known for her dynamic, actionable, and emotionally intelligent approach to leadership as she guides ambitious entrepreneurs and executives to think bigger, lead better, and align their next move with both performance and personal fulfillment.
Show Highlights:
- Components of an aligned empire
- Find your Polaris Point™: This is your clear “North Star” that aligns business ventures with personal life goals. Every 90 days, take a step back, assess, and recalibrate your approach.
- 3 areas of alignment beyond the tactical tools of your industry:
- Self-leadership: mindset, resilience, clarity of purpose/mission, confronting limiting beliefs, and understanding that failure is part of the process (This is 80% of your success!)
- Team leadership: communication, expectations, measures of success, setting examples, and celebrating wins
- Industry leadership: visibility, accountability, a focus on your superpower, and consistency in how you want to be known
- Dream BIG! “Dreams are free in the land of imagination!”
- Implementing 90-day experiments to make progress in specific areas
- Common objections to having alignment partners:
- “I can do it all myself.”
- “I don’t have enough time.”
- I don’t have the money.”
- Hiring with specific growth goals in mind
- Kasey’s framework, your “3 Whos”:
- Who are your mentors and coaches?
- Who are your peers?
- Who are the members of your team?
- Kasey’s biggest takeaways about your journey, guidance, and leaning on your 3 Whos
Resources:
Connect with Kasey D’Amato: Website, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Kasey's Decision Threshold™ Checklist.
Connect with Meg
Get Meg’s FREE download, Finding Your Perfect Match: A Coach's Self-Reflection Guide.
Explore past episodes and other resources at www.STaRcoachshow.com.
Explore the STaR Coach Community and see what’s available there for you!
Visit the STaR Coach Show YouTube Channel! Subscribe today! Join our live show taping on the 3rd Thursday of every month at 1 pm CT.
How do you react when a client shares a perspective that fundamentally contradicts everything you believe about fairness, justice, or human dignity? In that moment, you face a choice that could define this session AND the entire coaching relationship. We need to know how to respond when our deeply held beliefs collide with our client’s worldview. Our focus for today’s show is relevant and timely because it is a reality we face more than ever in this polarized world. It is a challenging aspect of professional coaching, and we need to be prepared to navigate this divide. We are discussing practical tools and a framework for maintaining your professional integrity while honoring your client’s integrity and growth. Join us to learn more!
Show Highlights:
- The reality of today’s polarized world: We are more and more likely to encounter clients with deeply rooted differences in values than our own.
- 4 key themes in navigating these values challenges:
- Focus on process over content to maintain coaching effectiveness.
- Use curiosity as the bridge when perspectives diverge.
- Develop the emotional regulation to stay present in the face of discomfort.
- Cultivate our own self-awareness to recognize when our values might be interfering with our client’s journey.
- Coaching is about the client’s agenda—not the coach’s agreement with that agenda.
- Our job, as a coach, is to balance, support, and challenge that agenda.
- Genuine curiosity transcends judgment and opens possibilities.
- Stay present and remain focused in each session; recognize when your personal triggers are activated.
- Use self-awareness to benefit the client.
- Notice the red flags when your emotional reactions compromise your effectiveness.
- Understanding client-coach compatibility and boundaries
- Ethical considerations to think about regarding race, bias, gender, religion, etc.
- The core value of humanity in the ISS
- Practical tools for self-reflection (Download my assessment guide to help.)
- Using collaborative (not judgmental) language about the client-coach partnership
- The coaching mindset in action: Be open, curious, flexible, and client-centered.
- Don’t be afraid of vulnerability and authenticity!
- Your own self-awareness is non-negotiable!
- Mindset is everything.
Resources:
Connect with Meg
Coach’s Self-Reflection Guide
Explore past episodes and other resources at www.STaRcoachshow.com.
Explore the STaR Coach Community and see what’s available there for you!
Visit the STaR Coach Show YouTube Channel! Subscribe today! Join our live show taping on the 3rd Thursday of every month at 1 pm CT.
External professional achievements, as remarkable as they are, do not always translate to internal fulfillment. There can be a disconnect, so it is essential to take a closer look at success. My guest is joining us from Singapore, and she knows what success is all about! We are covering topics like the paradox of success and holistic well-being. Join us to learn more!
Nancy Ho is a renowned life strategist and personal transformation facilitator with over 26 years of experience helping high-performing professionals, executives, and business leaders achieve both external success and inner fulfillment. Nancy specializes in leadership development, mindfulness, emotional intelligence, integrative self-care, executive presence and influence, and change management. She empowers individuals to overcome internal barriers, embrace vulnerability, and unlock their true potential by designing innovative workshops and providing personalized coaching that fosters authentic growth, resilience, and lasting change. With a holistic approach, Nancy guides clients toward sustainable well-being and peak leadership performance, enriching both their personal and professional lives. She is a featured co-author of Jack Canfield’s book, Success Redefined, as she wrote a chapter titled “The Paradox of Success: Hidden Struggles of High-Performing Professionals.”
Show Highlights
- Redefining success: What is success?
- Nancy’s personal journey to find success
- Striving to find professional achievements and personal satisfaction–and wanting to make a more significant contribution
- Understanding the paradox of success
- Going inward to find alignment and your bigger WHY
- Strategies to find your WHY: (Nancy’s 5-Step Roadmap for Fulfillment)
- Introspection–Identify your core values.
- Individual improvement–Seek continuous growth, no matter your age.
- Integration–Strive for work-life integration, not balance.
- Interpersonal investment–Nurture relationships that truly matter.
- Intrinsic investment–Grow from within and stay current.
- Finding a different energy to influence and inspire through knowing your WHY
- Nancy’s key takeaway: “What really makes you happy–makes you feel good?”
Resources:
Connect with Nancy Ho: Website, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Success Redefined.
Connect with Meg:
Explore past episodes and other resources at www.STaRcoachshow.com.
Explore the STaR Coach Community and see what’s available there for you!
Visit the STaR Coach Show YouTube Channel! Subscribe today! Join our live show taping on the 3rd Thursday of every month at 1 pm CT.
Have you ever been tasked with leading a team, only to discover that managing people is nothing like you expected? Have you witnessed talented individuals underperform while you are struggling to gain buy-in on essential initiatives? Are good people leaving your team when you don’t understand why? If any of this sounds familiar, today’s episode is exactly what you need to hear. My guest has cracked the code on the psychology behind team performance, and he’s here to change how you think about leadership forever. You’ll learn the three pillars of building high-performance teams, 11 essential leadership traits, and what makes storytelling your most powerful leadership tool. You’ll also discover the difference between being a manager and being a true leader. Join us!
Manny Fiteni is the CEO of My Growth Corporation and a pioneering leadership strategist with over 30 years of corporate experience specializing in transformative personal development. His core methodology is “the mind congruency,” which he uses along with other innovative platforms. Manny is an author and international speaker who inspires global audiences, equipping individuals with tools for lasting personal and professional transformation. His approach is grounded in real-world applications, delivering measurable results across various industries.
Show Highlights:
- The difference in management and leadership
- Three pillars of building a high-performing team: environment, true leadership, and mind congruency
- Understanding mind congruency in terms of your operating system
- Using storytelling as a way to overcome barriers and resistance
- True leadership traits:
- The power of us
- Team first
- Mindset
- Consultation
- Open door
- Active listening
- Back them
- Improvement
- Integrity and honesty
- Cut your losses
- Observation
- Manny’s key takeaway: “Look in the mirror to see how you are operating. Awareness is the key.”
Resources:
Connect with Manny Fiteni
Website, LinkedIn, and Mind Growth 360
Connect with Meg
Explore past episodes and other resources at www.STaRcoachshow.com.
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Have you ever wondered why that “perfect” discovery call didn’t convert? Today’s episode covers sales, a topic that makes most coaches break out in a sweat. Most of us don’t know what to do with sales or how to approach selling to achieve success. I’m delighted to welcome today’s guest to share his wealth of knowledge and valuable insights. He teaches us how to shift from fear-based selling to service-based relationship building. Join us!
Jacob Hicks is a keynote speaker and coach with over a decade of experience transforming people’s lives and businesses. He has a special knack for identifying the elements that drive lasting success with systematic approaches that help build lasting engagement.
Show Highlights:
- “Fearless selling:” What it means
- Fear, rejection, and the stories in our heads
- The numbers that tell the truth about sales interactions
- The value we give when we come from a place of service
- Using Jacob’s 5 touchpoints to provide value in specific scenarios
- Systems and processes hold the key to your game plan.
- The power of a handwritten note/card
- Using a CRM to manage interactions with automation
- Examples of a drip campaign using newsletters and mini-courses
- Feeling better about rejection by changing your mindset to one of abundance
- Sell by making connections and providing value
- Consistency is essential!
- Jacob’s takeaways: “Your mindset is huge. Be consistent. Try new things and follow the 80-20 rule.”
Resources:
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What if you could strengthen your communication and change the way you ask questions by switching one small word? In today’s episode, you’ll discover how replacing “why” questions with “what” and “how” can revolutionize your coaching conversations. Host Meg Rentschler explores the neuroscience and psychology behind the questions we ask, revealing that “why” questions trigger defensive responses, while “what” and “how” can activate curiosity and exploratory thinking.
Show Highlights:
- The neuroscience behind different question types—and how they trigger us
- The problem with “why” questions
- The power of “what” and “how” questions to invite us into adult-state activation
- Exploration instead of explanation
- Solution-focused questions vs. problem-focused questions
- NLP principles that support “what” and “how” questions
- “Why” questions have their place, but be cautious not to be judgmental and critical.
- The problem with automatic “why” responses
- Transformation techniques:
- The question-translation practice
- The ego-state awareness practice
- The solution-focused reframe
- The future-pull technique
- Examples of “what” questions to help a client with clarity
- Examples of “how” questions around processes
- Examples of “when” questions that involve timing
- Practical steps to transform your questioning techniques:
- Start small.
- Practice the pause.
- Trust the process.
- Meg's challenge to you this week
Resources:
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Today’s episode could be life-changing as you discover the secret to success that may have been in front of you the whole time. You can rewire your autopilot setting that controls 95% of your daily thoughts and actions. Buckle up to learn how to be fully aware, conscious, and choice-driven about how you want to show up in life. Join us!
At age 50, John Mitchell wasn’t as successful as he thought he should be. To rectify that, he turned to Think and Grow Rich, the world’s most renowned success book, read by over 150 million people. The author, Napoleon Hill, says there is a secret to success, but he only gives us half the secret. Through his careful study, John uncovered the FULL SECRET and a 12-minute daily technique to apply it. The result was a 25-fold increase in his $200,000 income! John’s methodology, based on neuroscience, is an AI-driven algorithm that personalizes the success formula for each individual. John teaches his groundbreaking system at the University of Texas’ McCombs School of Business, one of the top five business schools in the country. He also serves as the mental coach for UT’s 18 head athletic coaches and many others around the country. John shares his powerful system in his book, The Missing Secret of the Legendary Book Think & Grow Rich.
Show Highlights:
- John’s story of finding financial success and becoming a teacher
- The first half of the secret to success–and John’s journey to find the other half
- The false belief about success (that John believed for 50 years!)
- “What you envision in detail, with emotion, daily, is what shows up in your life.”
- The results of John’s 12-minute daily technique:
- Immense control over your life
- Confidence
- The right actions
- Are you fear-based and reactive?
- John’s challenges in creating clarity
- The conscious mind vs. the subconscious mind
- The importance of having your emotions engaged for success
- John’s key takeaway: “The most significant thing I learned in my life is that 95% of my daily actions are unconscious.”
- Learn to work smarter, not harder!
Resources:
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It is critical that we, as coaches, strive for cultural awareness in our work. One of the most important aspects of coaching is the richness of our differences and perspectives, and often, the voices that are heard the least are those that can teach us the most—if we only listen. We are exploring this important topic in today’s episode.
Ingrid Hu Dahl is an author, speaker, and leadership coach. She has written, filmed, and directed two short films exploring identity, representation, and the mixed-race experience. Her advocacy for underrepresented voices and the importance of inclusive coaching are at the heart of her memoir, Sun Shining on Morning Snow, which focuses on leadership, coaching, and personal connection. Ingrid is a TEDx speaker and the founder of a coaching and consulting business for emerging leaders. Inspired by her mother’s passing, her work emphasized the need for coaches to create space for clients’ experiences, challenge biases, and promote curiosity in conversations while encouraging individuals to reclaim their power and live authentically. Certified by the International Coach Federation and the Center for Creative Leadership, Ingrid’s body of work is centered on connection, kindness, and inclusivity. She lives in Sausalito, CA, with her wife and their dog.
Show Highlights:
- The book-writing journey for Ingrid
- The traumatic impetus for her next steps was the loss of her mom to cancer.
- Holding space for your unique story and experiences
- Ingrid’s path to advocacy for underrepresented voices
- Using curiosity over judgment and assumptions
- The dangers of “righteousness”
- Ingrid’s tips for coaching for inclusion: slow down, start with the basics, and listen to understand
- Operating within a social system of power and oppression
- Reclaiming your personal power
- Ingrid’s key takeaway: “You have one life to live, so choose your truth and live it fully.”
Resources:
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You’ve experienced success, and you are the person that others come to for answers. The problem is that sometimes this very success becomes a trap, stopping us from dreaming new dreams and taking on new challenges. Today’s conversation dives deep into permission. What does it mean to give ourselves permission to be a novice again and to start small when we are used to thinking big? How can we permit ourselves to step into the unknown when we are already successful problem solvers? Today’s show will be incredibly valuable for you! Join us to be inspired to break free from whatever is holding you back from your next level of success.
Mitch Matthews is a success coach, speaker, and serial entrepreneur. Since 2015, Mitch has hosted the Dream Think Do, a podcast with the perfect title to sum up what he’s all about. He’s interviewed Olympic athletes, NY Times bestselling authors, and top business leaders, all while helping entrepreneurs and coaches dream bigger, think better, and do more. The podcast is rated #1 by the Huffington Post and is in the top 1% of all podcasts. As a speaker and elite success coach, Mitch has spent the last 20 years helping organizations like Nike, United Airlines, NASA, and Disney. His training program has helped thousands of life coaches from around the world build successful and profitable businesses they love. Most importantly, Mitch is a husband, dad, and lifelong learner living a highly caffeinated life with his family in Des Moines, Iowa.
Show Highlights:
- The dangers of success for high achievers
- Permitting yourself to dream big again
- Being “bored out” vs. “burned out”
- The “brain’s bodyguard,” the amygdala, and how it reacts when we try to be a novice again (Take the Annual Novice Challenge!)
- Feeling small again after feeling very big
- Getting clear on your “leap number”
- Identify your tribe: Who do you know?
- Collaboration and competition: “Your competition is not another coach; it’s the couch.”
- Mitch’s #1 takeaway: “What if”?
Resources:
Connect with Mitch Matthews: Website, Dream Think Do podcast, and LinkedIn.
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Mid-level managers are sandwiched between C-suite executives and everyone else in their companies. Coaching them presents unique challenges to meet them where they are while helping them expand their lens through creative options in a very competitive coaching market. We are exploring these relevant topics and focusing on the work of mid-level managers, often referred to as the “unsung heroes” of the corporate world. Join us!
Loretta Stagnitto is a certified executive coach and president of Loretta Stagnitto Leadership Associates, an online coaching and training company specializing in leadership development for executives, mid-level leaders, and high-performing teams, along with workplace wellness and mental health first aid. LSLA provides individual and group-based leadership development based on its trademarked “I Know System” and the “Assess. Act. Achieve” methodology. With over 20 years of executive coaching experience, Loretta empowers professionals at all levels to drive their development and team growth. She offers C-suite-level insights and fosters new work approaches, enabling leaders and teams to enhance inspiration, operations, and collaboration, ultimately strengthening relationships, developing talent, and accelerating organizational change.
Extensively experienced in healthcare, tech, finance, and biotech, Loretta has coached in diverse corporate and start-up settings. The 2020 pandemic spurred her focus on workplace anxiety and burnout, leading to expertise in related remedies. Through her non-profit, Invest in Mental Health, Loretta provides free or low-cost adult and youth mental health first aid certifications to a variety of communities. The non-profit is dedicated to breaking the stigma around mental health disorders. To help encourage and build advocacy for women’s leadership, Loretta serves as a guide for CHIEF, the nation’s largest membership-based executive coaching organization for executive women. Loretta has raised two amazing adult children with her husband in their northern California home, and her hobbies include biking, indoor rowing, Pilates, weight-training, silent walking, and sewing.
Show Highlights:
- The biggest challenges for mid-level managers, the “unsung heroes”
- Loretta’s theory on what coaches can do for mid-level leaders
- Creative solutions for mid-level leaders (because companies are not investing in them):
- Short programs delivered in smaller bites
- A convenient, online coaching program
- Putting cohorts together for peer group coaching and camaraderie
- The impacts of coaching within organizations around self-awareness, proactive feedback, communication, and self-advocacy
- Shifting perspectives around empowerment, awareness, and choice—to see ourselves differently and do things differently
- Assessing The Stress Factor--and how it shows up for leaders
- Positioning coaching as an investment, not remediation
- For external coaches: Position yourself for profitability with differentiation strategies such as a niche focus, collaboration, and investment.
- Loretta’s focus on burnout, anxiety, and wellness in the workplace
- The bottom line for coaches: Loretta’s advice to coaches about working harder, figuring out your clients’ problems, and being creative in developing solutions in a competitive market
Resources:
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Are you a purpose-driven coach who wonders why you’re staring at an empty calendar? Are you unsure about getting those first crucial clients? If you’re caught in the frustrating cycle of needing experience to get clients and needing clients to get more experience, you are not alone. More importantly, you are closer to breaking through than you think. Join me in today’s solo episode to uncover the key to a new coach’s biggest mountain to conquer: landing those first few game-changing clients. We’re diving into this essential topic right now with practical strategies you can implement today. Your first client is waiting for YOU!
Show Highlights:
- Make a mindset shift around the “experience paradox.”
- Three permission slips to give yourself:
- Permission to be a beginner
- Permission to start before you feel “ready”
- Permission to charge for your value
- Concrete action step #1: Write down one instance when you helped someone create a solution for an issue.
- Strategies for inviting clients into your space:
- Think of your warm market as your gold mine.
- Determine your three circles of influence. (“You cannot be a secret and a success at the same time.”)
- Build your Know-Like-Trust factor by providing value. Be clear and specific!
- Use your warm market as an opportunity to offer barter coaching.
- Concrete action step #2: Identify 10 people in your warm market who need what you offer or might know those who do. Reach out to one person today.
- Using the Beta Client Approach:
- Position yourself as someone launching a beta program for your coaching methodology. (This reframes your newness as exclusivity.)
- Take on a limited number of beta clients for a specified time frame.
- You can build your client base and clarify your offering to achieve exceptional results.
- Concrete action step #3: Consider your ideal client and develop a simple beta program tailored to your coaching niche.
- Building credibility without experience: Where to begin:
- Leverage your training and certifications.
- Share your personal transformation story.
- Connect your professional background to coaching.
- Gather micro-testimonials from informal helping situations.
- Create consistent, valuable content.
- Concrete action step #4: Create your own credibility stack. (Check out SCS 336, What’s Your Value Proposition?)
- Meg’s 7-day challenge: Are you up for it?
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You are in for a treat as we discuss current trends in the coaching industry in today’s episode. You’ll learn strategies for stepping up and standing out in a highly competitive market. Join us to hear practical insights from today’s expert guest!
Joanna Lott is a business coach who helps qualified coaches attract clients with honesty, not hype. As the host of the Women in the Coaching Arena podcast, a top 2% globally-ranked show, she provides practical strategies to help coaches grow thriving, sustainable businesses. With a track record of successfully selling executive and career coaching services to organizations and individuals, Joanna has supported hundreds of coaches in building profitable, integrity-driven businesses through strategic marketing. She is the co-founder of the One Stop Coach Shop, which offers instant access to templates, tools, and resources specifically designed for coaches. As an ICF Associate Certified Coach holding an ILM Level 7 Certificate in Executive Coaching and Mentoring, Joanna brings a wealth of practical experience and professional expertise to her work.
Show Highlights:
- The return of in-person coaching, even as a hybrid model of connection, is impactful.
- Your marketing should show who you are and attract YOUR kind of people.
- Leverage opportunities (like a podcast) to stand out and bring value.
- Joanna’s tips for standing out in a competitive coaching environment: use “bots” and tools, differentiate yourself with a catchphrase, run immersive workshops, be authentic, and be different
- “Coaching with purpose” means finding a mission or social justice issue that people want to get behind with you. (Figure out your mission by asking, “What makes me angry?”)
- Shine your light by unapologetically claiming your space!
- Joanna’s advice to young coaches who fear the haters
- Key takeaways from Joanna: “You’ll gain so much by going on a visibility mission as far as learning your own voice, building your confidence, and gaining self-esteem. There is so much to gain in the biggest personal growth journey of your life.”
Resources:
Connect with Joanna Lott:
Website, Women in the Coaching Arena podcast, The 2025 Coaches Planner, LinkedIn, and Facebook
Book mentioned in this episode: The Art of Gatheringby Priya Parker
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Today’s show focuses on values. How do we get clear on our values, and how do we best help our clients get clear on their values? Our starting point is to understand the crucial difference between needs and values. Join us to discover the transformative power of values-based coaching!
Alma Weaver Jones is an executive coach who recently rebranded her company to Soul Weaver, focusing on the positive power of coaching and synergy. As a coach, facilitator, and leadership catalyst, she has coached, inspired, and motivated thousands to build lives and careers that are energizing and fulfilling. With over 20 years of experience as a professional coach, Alma’s portfolio includes high-profile leaders, non-profit organizations, and Fortune 500 companies that recognize the value of developing their human capital as they work toward a shared vision. Alma’s varied background includes executive roles in the staffing industry and the nonprofit sector. She has been on staff at the University of Texas at Dallas since 2005, where she trains and mentors students in coaching programs and coaches leaders in the research department.
Show Highlights:
- Alma’s impetus and inspiration to rebrand after many years
- Alma’s experience with Thomas Leonard, “the father of coaching” (founder of the ICF)
- “Everyone is being chased by a need.” (Needs are different from values. Are you running FROM something or TOWARD something?)
- Finding clarity about your values and getting your needs met (Learn to ask yourself the right questions.)
- Working from a place of values with organizations with strengths in psychology and soul fulfillment
- Alma’s best advice for creating a thriving, sustainable coaching business: Find connection, cultivate collaboration, and allow yourself time to build your “runway.”
- Considerations in weaving a tapestry of values (“What I value” and “what my values are” aren’t the same!)
- Key takeaways from Alma: “Look at how you, your clients, and your clients’ companies can find ways to live their values. It goes beyond profitability.”
Resources:
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Do you feel stuck in the mindset of creating new lead magnets over and over again to grow your email list? There is a better way! The most effective email list-building strategies today focus on genuine value exchange. Are you ready to learn six proven strategies for building your email list beyond the traditional lead magnet? Join us to learn more!
Marci Rossi is a business strategist who helps new and growing coaches build a business that is strategic, streamlined, and set up for real growth. With a background in law and corporate business, Marci is known for her ability to cut through the noise, simplify decisions, and create smart workflows that make business feel a lot lighter. She’s the creator of The Shortcut, a 12-week done-for-you setup and coaching program that helps coaches go from overwhelmed and stuck to clear, confident, and fully up and running. Marci blends strategy with structure to help her clients move faster, focus on what really matters, and make progress they can feel. When she’s not working behind the scenes in someone’s business, she’s usually hanging out with her dogs, watching Friends reruns, or saving recipes she’ll probably never make.
Show Highlights:
- Taking a NEW path to success through your email list
- AI has changed the landscape. It takes more in today’s world.
- Components of a genuine value exchange: (Think “MAGNET.”)
- Micro-offers
- Access
- Group projects
- Nurturing content
- Events
- Things (the tangible templates, tools, and tests)
- Never violate the trust of someone who gives you their email address. Be a good human!
- “We aren’t here to convince people to like us; we are here to serve the people who are already paying attention to us.” –Marci Rossi
- Key takeaways: AI can help, but your authenticity must come through; and we can only serve when we put ourselves out there.
Resources:
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In today’s episode, I’m going solo to explore a question I’ve been asked dozens of times: “Should I take notes during my coaching sessions?” As with many things in life, this is not a black or white issue, and the experts are divided over their answers. It’s a simple question that doesn’t have a simple answer! Join me to weigh the ins and outs of the “great notes debate.”
Show Highlights:
- There are two sides of the coin with strong opinions on both:
- Side 1: Taking notes during sessions:
- Note-taking can make you a better listener. (Are you distilling the info down to the essence of the conversation or trying to capture EVERY detail?)
- It gives the coachee a “break” from being stared at.
- My personal experience in documentation
- Taking notes helps track details, progress, and accountability.
- Side 2: Minimal note-taking (or the “less is more” mindset):
- Our job is to hold space for the client to process through the session; note-taking is not necessary.
- Note-taking can slow you down to the point that you won’t “end up” at the same place as your client.
- Note-taking can cause you to miss nonverbal cues from the client.
- The big question around taking notes: What is the purpose of your notes?
- Grounding with ethical principles in coaching around legality, records, privacy, etc
- What seasoned coaches say about their notes regarding transparency
- Finding middle ground in the Great Notes Debate
- The science of what happens in our brains:
- Divided attention vs. deep, empathetic listening
- Deciphering body language
- Is note-taking truly about helping the client move forward?
- Workable solutions to find middle ground: use appropriate forms, practice strategic note-taking (the two-layer approach, ABC framework, and technology tools)
- Meg’s advice: “Craft your own approach and find what works for you to serve your clients best and maintain the integrity of the coaching relationship.”
- To beginning coaches: “Give yourself permission to experiment while building your curiosity and presence muscles.”
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The important question every coach asks is, “How do I attract great clients?” We all want more amazing clients without having to invest in more marketing. Are you spending too much energy on building visibility and credibility? Learn to spend less time on daily content creation and more time on strategic relationship building and direct client generation! That’s our focus in today’s episode. Join us to learn more!
Mary Cravets is an award-winning client generation expert and international speaker who helps coaches grow their businesses without working nights and weekends. She’s heard all the confusing and conflicting advice, and she’s not surprised that most coaches struggle to establish a sustainable business–but she’s here to change that. Using Mary’s methods, the majority of her clients quickly increase their income by 50% or more. Her clients range from the former CFO of Microsoft North America to coaches in their first few years of business.
Show Highlights:
- A story from Mary: How 20 minutes of coaching can be transformative
- What keeps coaches stuck? Confusion about visibility vs. lead generation (Credibility/visibility should be 10-20% of your time, and lead generation 80-90%.)
- “Lead generation is all about sparking, building, and nurturing genuine relationships.” –Mary Cravets
- Identifying strategies vs. action steps (not dependent on competence!)
- What things lead to success for coaches? Referrals and speaking engagements
- Break down your discomfort; where is it coming from?
- “More clients, less marketing”: What does it mean?
- The skill set of client generation is not intuitive; it is challenging.
- Magnetic messaging is the key to client generation.
Resources:
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I was recently interviewed by John Ray on The Price And Value Journey Podcast, and I thought it only fitting to return the favor. I’ve loved spending time with John and getting to know him and his work. Today’s topic is an important one: pricing. We will discuss what we tell ourselves about pricing, how we underprice ourselves, and what needs to change about our pricing mindset. John has extensive experience and valuable wisdom to share, and every coach needs to hear what he has to say! Join us!
John Ray is a consultant and business coach who advises expert service providers, including consultants, coaches, attorneys, fractional executives, and other service professionals, on two of their biggest challenges: pricing and business development. He is passionate about how changes in mindset, positioning, and pricing change the trajectory of a business and the lifestyle choices of a business owner. John’s #1 bestselling book, The Generosity Mindset: A Journey to Business Success by Raising Your Confidence, Value, and Prices, was published in 2023. John is a radio enthusiast and fellow podcaster, hosting The Price And Value Journey Podcast and North Fulton Business Radio.
Show Highlights:
- Red flags of inadequate pricing: pricing by the hour and working too hard for too little money
- “You need a certain number of clients who are saying NO because you are too expensive.” –John Ray
- As a service provider, YOU are the product.
- Mindsets that get in the way of success for service providers: impostor syndrome, inadequacy, and helping
- Generosity Mindset: Getting in the head of your clients and understanding where they see value in what we deliver
- An example of the generosity mindset at work in the intangibles
- “The effectiveness of your pricing is constrained by your willingness to have a value conversation.” –John Ray
- Sales vs. serving people in understanding their needs, wants, hopes, desires, and fears
- Considerations in offering differentiated options to clients with a “good, better, best model”
- Advice about creating long-term clients
- Don’t turn yourself into a commodity!
- Messages about pricing across the lifespan of a business
- Pricing adequately will help you achieve the ultimate goal of working less and earning more.
- Abundance vs. scarcity mindset
Resources:
Connect with John Ray:Website, Facebook, Emaill, The Generosity Mindset: A Journey to Business Success by Raising Your Confidence, Value, and Prices book, and The Price And Value Journey Podcast
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As service providers, it’s imperative that we emphasize our own well-being before we can be there fully to help others. My guest is the ideal person to help us understand this concept of transforming sabotage into success. Join us to learn more!
Carol Look is a psychotherapist, Founding EFT Master, bestselling author, and international speaker. In creating The Yes Code, her signature coaching method, she combines her traditional training as a psychotherapist with clinical hypnosis and advanced applications of EFT for unprecedented results. Known for her laser-like focus and state-of-the-art approach, Carol has utilized EFT tapping for over 25 years to help clients release their limiting beliefs and emotional conflicts, enabling them to enjoy lives of exceptional success and fulfillment. Carol is a world-renowned EFT workshop presenter and is a regularly featured energy medicine expert on leading global telesummits and documentaries. Her book, The Yes Code, was just released in late 2024.
Show Highlights:
- Carol’s journey to create The Yes Code, her three-step coaching process
- “Taking care of myself consistently is what changed my life.”--Carol Look
- The importance of asking the right questions to address the core issues
- Understanding the emotional expense of sabotaging yourself with the fear of visibility and success
- Questions to ask yourself to understand your behaviors (the real issue vs. surface behaviors)
- Being neutral about our reactions
- Tapping (EFT): the ultimate stress-relief technique (that rewires your brain)
- An example of using Carol’s technique around the fear of being visible
- Carol’s takeaway from our conversation regarding calming down your stress levels (A tapping technique will help in only 10 minutes daily!)
Resources:
Connect with Carol Look: The Yes Code Website (free resources), Carol’s Website, and The Yes Code book
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Today’s expert guest joins us to explore the essentials of business building through self-coaching and personal alignment. We discuss the importance of self-reflection, niching down, and adapting in today’s ever-changing coaching landscape. Join us to learn more!
Ellen Kocher is a visionary entrepreneur, workplace wellness expert, and Master Certified Coach who works with coaches to be their very best. She has over two decades of experience empowering individuals, teams, and organizations to thrive through transitions. Her long career is a testament to her agility, creativity, and passion for building solutions that drive meaningful impact. The founding of three thriving businesses reflects her innovative approach to coaching and consulting. Her book, Wake-Up, Shake-Up, Thrive! How to Lift Up Your Life in Your 50s and Beyond, and transformative workshops have inspired professionals worldwide to embrace growth, possibility, and reinvention at every stage of life.
Show Highlights:
- Using a coach approach on ourselves, and what that means
- Ask the important question—and re-ask it continually.
- Ellen’s personal example of using a coach approach on herself by listening and adapting
- Understanding your “inside driver” to resolve and succeed in your values-based coaching business
- Feeling “wobbly”? Here are Ellen’s tips:
- Ask, “Who am I?” (Use self-awareness, and focus on being and doing.)
- Align with your values, and re-align when necessary.
- Be open to growth and “pivot-ness.” (There is power in pivoting!)
- Niche down as specifically as possible by listening to internal and external feedback. (Try, listen, observe, and adapt.)
- Highlights of Ellen’s journey and the many pivots along the way
- Ellen’s #1 takeaway about collaboration, connection, and needing others
Resources:
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LinkedIn, Whealthness Facebook, Wake-Up Shake-Up, Thrive, Facebook, Wake-Up, Shake-Up, Thrive! How to Lift Up Your Life in Your 50s and Beyond book, and Email.
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In today’s solo episode, we are exploring why developing emotional regulation is fundamental to having an effective coaching mindset. We will learn how emotions are valuable clues to our underlying thoughts and self-talk. I’ll share practical techniques to master your emotional compass. Join me!
Show Highlights:
- A personal example from Meg
- The key is to slow down and discover what’s happening beneath the surface to generate your emotions.
- Guard against putting yourself in the middle of the session. It’s supposed to be about the client!
- Unregulated emotions lead to hijacked
- sessions, where we project our own issues onto our clients and miss important clues.
- Five specific techniques to use to master your emotional compass:
- Develop a pre-session centering ritual.
- Practice the pause.
- Use body awareness as an early warning system.
- Maintain a reflection journal to document moments of emotional activation during sessions.
- Work with your own coach to explore your emotional patterns.
- Examples of different coaching scenarios that trigger our responses
- The client’s perspective is THE most important one, not yours.
- Emotional regulation is about developing a wise relationship with your emotions so you can learn from them.
- “Great coaches are not emotionless; they are emotionally masterful.”
- One simple practice to strengthen your emotional regulation muscle: “Name it to tame it.”
- Remember that emotions are clues, not commands.
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Today’s show focuses on personal growth and mindset, and we are highlighting the significance of being the main character in your life story. Along with how to maximize gratitude and attitude, you’ll learn the four essential energies for success, the energies that stop us in our tracks, and the storytellers that live in our brains. Join us to learn more!
Dianna Kokoszka is an award-winning entrepreneur, business leader, and former CEO. She is a practitioner of neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) and a founding member of the John Maxwell Team of Certified Coaches. Her dedication to developing leaders and encouraging individuals to recognize and harness their innate potential has made her a prominent figure in the coaching industry. Dianna is the author of Becoming More: You Can't Get to Better Until You Get to Different.
Show Highlights:
- Which character are you playing in your life story?
- Adding value to others’ lives—every single day
- If you don’t like your story right now, YOU can change it!
- The four energies of success: confidence, gratitude, being in the present, and purpose
- Energies that limit us vs. those that liberate us
- Advice for those who are stuck
- The power of gratitude in your mindset
- Attitude and mindset are NOT the same!
- The four storytellers that live in our brains: the devious storyteller, the flattering storyteller, the reasonable storyteller, and the empowering storyteller
- The human brain loves negativity!
- Understanding the prevalence of a scarcity mindset
- Dianna’s key takeaway about growth
Resources:
Connect with Dianna Kokoszka: Website, Coaching Blitz Bootcamp, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and Becoming More: You Can't Get to Better Until You Get to Different.
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Today’s episode focuses on how nature inspires leadership and personal growth. If you’ve never considered how this plentiful resource can beautifully complement the world of coaching, join us to learn more!
John Sigmon is an esteemed executive coach, speaker, and organizational transformation expert. He owns and leads Sigmon Leadership Solutions and is the author of Wild Leadership: What Nature Teaches Us About Adaptability, Resilience, and Intuition. John has over 25 years of experience in executive coaching, and his integration of nature into coaching began during the pandemic, inspired by a creativity-focused learning event. He helps connect people to their higher wisdom and partners with executives to tap into effective business solutions and practice leadership applications. John is a returning guest to the show, appearing a couple of years ago in Episode 175. We are discussing the concept behind his book, what nature teaches us about leadership, and the vastness of the untapped resources all around us.
Show Highlights:
- John’s motivation to focus on nature AND leadership
- John’s transformational journey as a coach who wanted MORE
- Clients’ transformations encompass a wide range of experiences with nature.
- Adaptability, resilience, and intuition—how these qualities show up in coaching
- Leading chemistry and alignment conversations to get clear with clients
- Nature IS reality and is a free resource that “holds us.”
- Key takeaways from John
Resources:
Connect with John Sigmon: LinkedIn, YouTube, Wild Leadership, and Episode 175
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Being a solopreneur is NOT easy! How do you know what to outsource and what to tackle yourself? There are many things to consider, so join us to unlock winning strategies with our expert, Carly Ries.
Carly Ries is a marketing expert with nearly 20 years of experience. Since 2020, she has been the Fractional Chief Marketing Officer for LifeStarr and has cohosted The Aspiring Solopreneur Podcast. She also co-authored the upcoming book, Solopreneur Business for Dummies. Because of Carly’s passion for helping solopreneurs, she’s the perfect person to help us learn more about getting our work into the world and building thriving businesses.
Show Highlights:
- Carly’s smart tips for outsourcing: (It’s a mindset thing! Being a solopreneur does NOT mean doing it all yourself!)
- Outsource things that don’t bring you joy and aren’t your genius work, so you can focus on high-quality work.
- Consider bartering for services with others.
- Put AI tools to work for you!
- Considerations in creating a business that works for your life and your ideal lifestyle. (Learn to reverse engineer!)
- Start small when it comes to outsourcing.
- Establish and document your SOPs.
- Instead of trying to do EVERYTHING, let people know what you do.
- Change your viewpoint! Turn social media platforms into true communities.
- Use AI to be more human and make more connections.
- Think about your pipeline and get creative with your downtime.
Resources:
Connect with Carly Ries: Website, The Aspiring Solopreneur Podcast, LinkedIn, and Solopreneur Business for Dummies
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Is fear holding you back? We are diving into this topic, which affects all of us in our coaching careers. I believe that fear, not hate, is the opposite of love. When we are caught up in the fear of what other people think about us, whether we are smart enough, bright enough, and strong enough, we are held back from the love of what we do and the love for those around us. With our focus on stepping into fear vs. love, I hope this episode will keep fear from being the barrier preventing us from stepping into the world and bringing our expertise forward. Along with exploring this topic, we will discuss practical strategies to move beyond fear. Join us!
Show Highlights:
- Recognizing and normalizing the fear
- The chatter in our brains is fueled by fear and keeps us small!
- You, your special sauce, and your unique perspective are needed in the world!
- The cost of staying small for you, your audience, and the world.
- Specific fears that service professionals encounter:
- The fear of criticism
- The fear of “impostor syndrome”
- The fear of responsibility
- Perfectionism
- The comparison trap
- Strategies to conquer fears:
- Set clear boundaries.
- Ground yourself in general knowledge and expertise.
- Adopt a communication style that is adult-to-adult.
- Shift your lens to the service you offer and the impact you can have.
- Examples of those who have pushed past the fear that held them back
- Key takeaways and a challenge from Meg
Resources:
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Does your profitability need a makeover? Today’s show covers simple, yet powerful systems that can help you know your numbers and get out of your way to become the truly profitable coach you want to be. Managing our money and setting up accounts properly are foundational aspects of profitability, and keeping our finances steady amid ups and downs is crucial. Join us to learn more!
Dr. Stan Ward of Influence Coaching works with leaders to help them reduce unnecessary conflict, beat burnout, and create sustainable positive change. As a leadership coach, author, and educator, he has been part of the Texas Coaches Coalition Retreat for many years, bringing his entertainment talents and musical skills to share with everyone. Dr. Stan is all about coaching, leadership, and helping coaches thrive, and he brings that passion to our show today. Catch his previous appearance on the STaR Coach Show in Episode 293, The Power of Self-Care.
Show Highlights:
- Stan’s journey to coaching and mentoring–after a stint in education
- Key systems for profitable sustainability in coaching:
- Bank account structures (personal, operations, taxes, retirement, and emergency)
- Pricing and charging (a formula to figure the numbers accurately based on your “necessary” income)
- Giving yourself permission to prioritize self-care and energy management
- Important questions to ask about serving your clients while sustaining profitability
- Your coaching practice: Hobby or Business?
- Making decisions around business building
- The formula for burnout awareness: Energy in (boosters)--Energy out (drainers) x Time (Think about your work-life balance!)
- Daily ABCs: Author, Build, Care, Develop, and Enjoy.
- Stan’s new group program, The Profitable Coach (a 60-day program). Connect with Stan to find out more through his newsletter.
Resources:
Connect with Dr. Stan Ward: LinkedIn, How to Beat Burnout for Yourself, Your Family, and Your Team, and Ethical Leadership: A Primer
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Do you lead with empathy and kindness? What guides your decision-making process? Our show is packed with interesting information that is top-tier in relevance to what’s happening in the world around us every day. Today’s guest has amazing expertise gained from his unique perspective as a hacker and a social engineer. He’s a trailblazer in the field with much to teach us. Join our conversation!
Chris Hadnagy is the founder and CEO of Social-Engineer LLC, a company specializing in education and training in social engineering. In addition to training law enforcement officers and working with businesses, Chris works with some of the world’s leaders in scientific research in social engineering. He wrote his book, Human Hacking: Win Friends, Influence People, and Achieve Your Goals, which delves into the intriguing world of human interaction and communication. In this conversation, we dive into Chris’ profound insights about how empathy, generosity, and kindness can be harnessed to navigate these complexities in our modern society.
Show Highlights:
- Chris’ path to understanding how we make decisions
- Hackers, strong emotions, and a lack of critical thinking
- Guarding against common scams in today’s world
- Using empathy and kindness in the corporate world
- Unmasking manipulation: “What is your intent?”
- Ways we communicate with others
- Is your company ruled by fear?
- Analyzing possible breakdowns and vulnerabilities to find ways to build strength
- Characteristics of bad culture
- Chris’ learnings about self-awareness
- Final takeaways from Chris
Resources:
Connect with Chris Hadnagy: Website, LinkedIn, Human Hacking: Win Friends, Influence People, and Achieve Your Goals, Facebook, and the Innocent Lives Foundation
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In this episode, we are meeting you where you are in today’s chaos. We will discuss how to show up at your best, no matter what the situation. Are you relying on your intuition as a coach? Join us to learn more!
Grace Calpus is a PCC-certified coach and the owner of Third Eye Coach Development. She is passionate about helping coaches thrive, and her experience goes beyond traditional coaching. She brings a different perspective forward because her path includes time as a craniosacral therapist and energy worker.
Show Highlights:
- Working with your intuition and being present to bring in light, energy, and love
- Simply acknowledging what’s happening with someone means everything to them.
- Knowing when to share your intuition with a client
- The role of coaches in being true to their unique gifts
- Struggles for coaches in showing up in the present moment
- The possibility of what’s next
- Grace’s best tips for developing your inner wisdom
- The “100th Monkey” Effect
- Ways in which Grace works with clients
Resources:
Connect with Grace Calpus: Website, The Insight Advantage Course, and LinkedIn
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A good coach MUST be a good listener. Beyond that, they must be a “disciplined listener.” Today’s guest covers this topic with information and expertise. Join us to learn more!
Mike Reddington is a Certified Forensic Interviewer and the president of InQuasive, Inc. He wrote The Disciplined Listening Methodand hosts the Disciplined Listening podcast. Mike shares effective communication techniques derived from interrogation practices. You’ll learn the importance of disciplined listening, strategic observation, and how creating safe spaces can foster openness.
Show Highlights:
- Mike details his path into this line of work from his beginnings as a middle school teacher and coach.
- Myths about interrogation vs. the reality of non-confrontational interrogation
- Key concepts in disciplined listening
- What you DO is more important than what you SAY.
- What is “disciplined listening”?
- “How many questions have I created?” is better than asking, “Do you have any questions?”
- Critiquing diverse pathways and control in conversations
- A key takeaway from Mike: “Prioritize outcomes and maintain situational awareness.”
Resources:
Connect with Mike Reddington and InQuasive, Inc.
Michael Reddington.com
InQuasive, Inc.
The Disciplined Listening Methodbook
Disciplined Listening podcast, and LinkedIn
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Expanding our reach, connecting with our audience, and showcasing our expertise are essential goals for coaches. This episode explores strategic business investment and focuses on sponsorship opportunities. We'll delve into critical questions about sponsorship opportunities and provide proven strategies to ensure profitable business growth through being a sponsor of an event. Join us to learn how to make wise sponsorship decisions and invest in your business's future.
Show Highlights:
- Key questions to ask in deciding whether or not to sponsor an event:
- Is this event in alignment with my audience?
- What is the potential return (tangible results) on my investment?
- Does this sponsorship align with my current strategy for business growth?
- What does this event have in the way of demonstrated performance for their sponsors?
- Strategies to maximize your event sponsorship:
- Take advantage of the pre-event opportunities.
- Design a memorable event at your booth or table.
- Use any speaking opportunity to connect your presentation to what you DO and OFFER.
- Implement a strategic follow-up with contacts.
- Maximize your relationships with the event organizers and other sponsors.
- Go back to the basics! Be very clear about your message!
Resources:
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In everyday life and in business, shifts occur that cause us to rethink, reframe, and pivot. Our perspective means everything when we face these shifts, and the opportunity is there to make magic happen. Join us to explore this topic with today’s expert guest!
Kat O’Sullivan is a bestselling author, speaker, changemaker, and transitions coach. Her new book is From Doubt to Do: Navigating Your Pathway to Possibility. She believes that when shift happens, it’s time to make magic happen. In this episode, we dive into the growth opportunities when shift happens and how to establish a framework for embracing shift instead of resisting it. With over 25 years of experience in driving personal and organizational transformation, Kat brings her expertise forward in everything she does.
Show Highlights:
- The facts about shift:
- Shift happens, whether it happens TO us or BECAUSE of our choices.
- Magic CAN happen in shift, but only when we embrace disruption as a BFF.
- Kat’s intentional use of “shift” instead of “change”
- A new perspective on disruption
- Two questions to ask when shift happens:
- “What if it IS possible?”
- “What am I not seeing YET?”
- Kat’s motivation to write From Doubt to Do: Navigating Your Pathway to Possibility
- The importance of having a WHY in making a decision (like packing up and moving to Mexico!)
- Kat’s 4 C’s Framework: Courage, Clarity, Commitment, and Capacity
- Kat’s personal experience in walking through the 4 C’s in moving to Mexico
- Understanding what it means to “learn into the future”
- A key takeaway from Kat: “What if impossible is just a story you are telling yourself?”
Resources:
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One question we ALL have as coaches and business owners is, “How do we get more people to work with us?” We must get in front of people with our message. Join us to learn how to use social media platforms to find and convert more clients and customers.
Jason Moss is a multi-six-figure business coach who helps online business owners scale in an ethical, high-integrity way, using marketing strategies that make sense. He started his business in 2016, but he was making about $5K in yearly revenue. With higher aspirations motivating him, Jason spent years refining strategies that actually work, and he’s sharing his wisdom with us. In this episode, he shares practical insight into social media messaging that connects you to your audience and builds a thriving community. You’ll learn Jason’s eight core beliefs that transform potential clients into loyal customers.
Show Highlights:
- Importance of effective messaging in client attraction strategies for coaches and business owners
- Understanding and addressing potential clients' pain points and desires
8 core beliefs about messaging:
- Pain (Connect to someone’s pain with understanding.)
- Desire (The “point B” of possibility on the other side of their pain.)
- Help (The person has to get to the place where they want help.)
- Cost (They have to weigh the cost of staying where they are vs. the cost of change.)
- Process (Show proof that you have a road map and steps to follow.)
- Guide (Connect the person to your expertise and the ability to guide them to transformation.)
- Objections (What holds someone back from saying YES? Help them reframe.)
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Timing (Connect them to the moment in which they say, “The time is now.”)
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The role of authenticity in messaging and building trust with potential clients
- Significance of creating awareness of clients' pain and connecting it to their desires
- Facilitating transformation and articulating the benefits of coaching services
- Differentiating coaching processes from past unsuccessful methods experienced by clients
- The power of personal storytelling in creating relatable and engaging content
Resources:
Connect with Jason Moss: Website, YouTube
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Balance is crucial in every aspect of life! Our clients look to us to create the structure and flow of the coaching process, and maintaining boundaries is part of that process. Today’s episode explores the importance of boundaries as a professional coach to create balance, safety, and trust with our clients. We will look at essential boundaries to maintain and workable strategies for their implementation.
Show Highlights:
- Clear boundaries clarify roles and protect the integrity of the coaching relationship.
- Boundaries produce specific benefits for our clients’ empowerment, growth, and autonomy.
- Understanding how to model healthy, professional relationship dynamics
- Kinds of boundaries to set and maintain:
- Time and logistics of availability and structures
- Clear expectations and distinctions of coach/client roles to maintain professionalism
- Emotional boundaries MUST be maintained!
- Best strategies for maintaining boundaries and balance:
- Use clear communication
- Prioritize your professional development.
- Maintain energy levels through self-care practices.
- Actions to take on troubling boundary issues
- Keeping boundaries is KEY!
Resources:
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Selling more effectively is ALWAYS a topic that resonates with coaches. We all want to know how to overcome our mindset issues around selling. I have the perfect guest to help us embrace our uniqueness and be authentic and unafraid in the sales process. Join us to learn more about business—and flamingos!
Katie Hornor is an international keynote speaker, business owner, mom of five, and the award-winning author of more than a dozen best-selling books, including The Flamingo Advantage: How to Leverage Unique, Stay Relevant, and Change the World. She has been featured on NBC, CBS, FOX, and TEDx. Katie is a business strategist who loves using flamingo metaphors to teach timeless business and marketing principles. Her mission is to empower entrepreneurs and business owners to live their purpose boldly and create businesses in service of their life and calling so they can have more joy, sales, and impact.
Show Highlights:
- Flamingos—the perfect metaphor for business!
- What makes YOU unique?
- Be confident and unafraid of the competition (like a flamingo who doesn’t fear the nearby crocodiles!)
- Mindset issues around making money and serving people
- Desperate energy vs. magnetic energy
- Katie’s TEDx talk journey
- Flamingo wisdom from Katie about fulfilling your purpose, being relevant, and not hiding who you are
- Katie’s parting advice to entrepreneurs
Resources:
Connect with Katie Hornor
Website
The Flamingo Advantage book
Katie's TEDx talk
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Many coaches find themselves stuck, unable to create the thriving coaching business they envisioned. As a result, they leave the field of coaching or flounder around, never reaching their full potential. This is not okay! The world needs coaches, so we must work smarter, use the right systems, and “Go for the Gold.” Think like an Olympic champion! Join us to learn more in today’s episode.
Show Highlights:
- Don’t “sell” coaching. Do this instead.
- Create the value proposition of what coaching is.
- Systems are the ways we manage our resources.
- Think TEMP: Time, energy, money, and people
- The Work Smarter philosophy: FANS: Framework, an attractive offer, nurture, and the sales process
- Utilizing your coaching skills can help you stand out from the crowd.
- Finding the core of who you are here to serve
- What are your values? Are you living them out day-to-day?
- “People come to you for WHO YOU ARE. YOU are the magic sauce.”
Resources:
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The struggle is real! Research shows that 75% of business teams fail. Why do we find team building so difficult? In today’s show, we explore the psychology of teams, how to build effective teams, and how to work with teams. Join us to learn more!
James Scouller is an executive coach and celebrated author who has focused on team building during his 45-year career. After leading three international companies as CEO for over 11 years, he founded The Scouller Partnership in 2004, which is an executive coaching practice near London focused on growing leaders and building teams. James holds two postgraduate coaching qualifications and has undergone 4 years of deep training in applied psychology. He has written 4 books, including the trilogy, How to Build Winning Teams Again and Again. It’s the first series of handbooks to explain the psychology, action principles, and roadmaps behind team success. Book #1 explains what you need to KNOW about teams and their psychology, Book #2 outlines what to DO to build teams that last, and Book #3 explains HOW to apply Book #2’s models and tools in different scenarios.
Show Highlights:
- An overview of James’ book trilogy
- James’ working experience and fascination with teams and business success
- Understanding James’ Team Progression Model
- A real team vs. a performance group
- Which one do you need, a team or a performance group?
- Understanding the characteristics of a pseudo-team
- Figuring out the #1 goal of the team is the first step in team building.
- Commit, Combust, and Combine–steps to understand the psychological model
- James’ final words to coaches about team building
Resources:
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The different phases of life are filled with transitions, and the transition to retirement means facing many unknowns. We may financially prepare for retirement for many, many years, but facing its reality challenges our mental and emotional health. Whether you are thinking of retirement on an individual level or as a service provider to those preparing for retirement, today’s show is packed with helpful information. Join us to learn more!
Suzanne Campi is a life transition coach and community builder who works with women in retirement. She helps women learn to live large after retirement, understanding that preparing for this transition is much more than saving money. “Retirement is an inside job” defines her holistic approach to bringing together women who are shaping their retirement to embrace freedom, create meaningful connections, and design more vibrance in the next stage of life.
Show Highlights:
- Life transitions come in all forms throughout our life span.
- Finding joy in retirement goes far beyond saving a lot of money.
- Retirement: a time for recharging, reinventing, and redefining your purpose
- Suzanne’s advice to those coming from the corporate world into coaching in “retirement”: “Step back and honor yourself. Consider taking a gap year.”
- Assumptions about retirement
- Don’t forget to have FUN!
- Taking a holistic look at retirement with the “wheel model”
- The key to any change is making small, steady habits.
- Learning to “dial down the busy”
- Important considerations in life transitions around new beginnings and endings
Resources:
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When should you consider the path from PCC to MCC? In this episode, you’ll learn the ICF designations for MCC and PCC, along with the different levels of coaching certifications. Fran Fisher joins us to discuss this topic, which is the sweet spot of her expertise. Explore this topic with us today!
Fran Fisher, MCC, is recognized as a pioneer in the coaching industry. She’s a published author, international speaker, and founding ICF executive board member who helped develop the credentialing program for aspiring coaches and training schools. She specializes in mentoring experienced coaches for their MCC accreditation, and she offers advanced certification mentor training. Fran founded one of the first coach training schools to be accredited by the ICF, and she’s an executive ICF board member as chair of the credentialing development committee, serving as an ICF credentialing assessor since 1998. In 2022, Fran received the ICF Circle of Distinction Award.
Show Highlights:
- Requirements to go from PCC to MCC (It goes far beyond more coaching hours!)
- Understanding an MCC as “the space of the client’s greatness”
- Coaching as a partnership of two experts
- The shift from a habitual pattern mindset to a soulful-based mindset
- Offering choice and inviting the client to lead with a higher order of empowerment
- Unlearning and taking a new, masterful approach
- Fran’s experience in interviewing potential mentees to determine their motivation
- Habits that need to be changed in asking questions of our coaching clients
- Using your coach’s intuition correctly
- The beauty of “inviting awareness”
- Highlights of ICF resources
Resources:
Connect with Fran Fisher: Website
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I’m diving into one of the most asked questions I receive as a coach mentor and coach instructor: “What’s the optimal way to price my services?” Coming from the corporate world, as many coaches do, there are many questions about how to charge for coaching services, so this episode is the ultimate guide on this topic. We will cover different pricing models, a pricing structure, best pricing practices, and common pricing pitfalls. Join us!
Show Highlights:
- Understanding different pricing models: hourly dollars pricing, package pricing, and value-based percentage basis pricing
- Know what the market will bear.
- Your experience will influence what you charge.
- Take a business owner mindset and consider your business costs.
- Consider your market positioning, target market, experience/credentials/services, and business costs.
- Best practices: establish your clear value proposition, test different pricing tiers, clearly communicate your pricing, allow room for growth, and maintain flexibility
- Common pricing pitfalls: underpricing, overcomplicating your pricing structure, failing to review/adjust, and inconsistent pricing
Resources:
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Let’s talk about organization! How organized are you, digitally speaking? As coaches, it’s often the “office” part of our role that can feel overwhelming or get routinely pushed to the back burner. Are your digital spaces in chaos? How would it change your business to bring more organization and structure into that realm? Join us to learn more from my expert guest!
Jésabel DC is a digital organization coach who helps entrepreneurs and creatives turn their chaotic digital spaces (think inbox, calendar, files, etc.) into organized, playful spaces where they actually want to spend their time. She created The Lifestyle Lab to help people reduce digital anxiety through 1:1 organization sessions, workshops, and classes. Jésabel will join the STaR Coach Community in February to do a deeper dive on this topic for our members. Haven’t joined our community yet? Click here for more information!
Show Highlights:
- Understanding digital nesting and Jésabel’s low-tech approach
- Streamline your energy leaks to align your digital spaces to your overall vision
- Evaluating your digital space–learn how Jésabel works with clients
- Implementing flexible time management techniques
- Setting up your time task ecosystem and using buffers correctly for top performance
- Don’t forget to refuel yourself!
- Setting parameters around your calendar: Experiment with what works best for you!
- The importance of visual cues
- Considerations in designing your digital spaces
- Examples of a “digital mess” (Does this describe you?)
- Organization leads to more growth!
- An overview of Jésabel’s Lifestyle Lab: workshops, classes, resources, and more
Resources:
Connect with Jésabel DC
Website
Jésabel invites you to explore her offerings: 1:1 Sessions, Inbox Class, Free Inbox Workshop, and Calendar Class
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Can you believe this is our final episode of 2024? At this time of saying goodbye to one year and opening the possibilities of a new one, it’s the perfect time to focus on change. Change is an inevitable and unpredictable part of life. Change is a process that requires us, as coaches, to look at the impact of change on ourselves and help our clients navigate change through the lens of growth, opportunity, and possibility. Join me for more about the bittersweet nature of change.
Show Highlights:
- A look at the highlights of 2024
- Make a mindset shift in your thinking about change (What’s the opposite of change? Would you want that?)
- Change creates discomfort, angst, and confusion—and that’s normal.
- In our work with clients, change is about balance and possibilities.
- The biggest challenge in navigating change is letting go of the familiar.
- Change requires adaptability.
- Are there changes ahead of you? Face them with clear, realistic goals; identify the support/resources you need; and approach change with confidence and resilience.
Resources:
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Hearing about the journeys other successful coaches have taken is inspiring, and it shows us that varied paths and backgrounds can catapult us to where we want to be as coaches. Going through ups, downs, failures, and successes is part of everyone’s journey, and just because something goes wrong doesn’t mean we are lacking. Join us for this value-packed discussion with today’s guest!
Megan Huber is a powerhouse in the coaching industry, known for helping coaches and online educators scale their businesses to six and seven figures without relying on paid advertising or complicated funnels. She is known for her simplicity in supporting women entrepreneurs who seek balance between growing their businesses and living a fulfilling life. As the host of the Built to Last podcast, Megan helps listeners learn how to create lasting success through actionable strategies, mindset shifts, and proven business-building tactics. In today’s episode, she shares her journey and insights to creating–and rebuilding–her successful business.
Show Highlights:
- Megan’s motivation to plunge into entrepreneurship via the path of educator-turned-coach
- Finding a niche through networking and an unlikely apprenticeship
- Megan’s decision to spread her wings and fly
- Developing her coaching program and funneling clients through her Facebook group
- Giving expertise and value by inviting people in as clients
- Megan’s key message: “Have a singularity of focus on your ideal client and your ability to solve their biggest problem. Every piece of content you create should target that specific focus.”
Resources:
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Structured Freedom Inc. Facebook Group
Built to Last podcast
Today’s guest is an expert in speech and communication training, and we are diving into the importance of our communication in building confidence and getting our work into the world. What an important concept for every coach to understand! Communication is everything in our effectiveness with clients and our success in putting our message out. Join us to learn practical tips for upgrading your communication!
Bailey Massey is the owner and founder of Bailey Massey Global, located in Denver, CO. She uses her expertise and master’s degree in communication to help people understand the profound influence of our voices and the ways we communicate. Bailey customizes training and coaching needs for organizations and professionals to successfully support them in meeting their goals related to speech and communication clarity, accent and dialect coaching, vocal projection, public speaking, presentation skills, non-verbal communication, internal communication, trust and relationship building, leadership and development, executive communication, cross-cultural communication, and client relationships. In this conversation, she helps us learn how we can tailor what we do and say to show up with clarity in our communication.
Show Highlights:
- ALL communication starts with breathing.
- Internal and external components of breathing
- Practical tips for better communication
- The importance of a pause and an “I don’t know” answer
- A fresh perspective on “being nervous”
- Active listening, intentional preparation, and nonverbal messages
- The eye-opening statistics: 7% of your message comes from your words, 38% from your tone, and 55% from your body language.
- What makes authentic communication
- Changing your voice in the moment: start with a simple exhale to release tension
- Reframing imposter syndrome
- Why people might hire a communications coach
- Bailey’s key takeaways about effective and confident communication
Resources:
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Website and LinkedIn
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In the face of life’s many ups and downs, how can we leverage gratitude, intention, and choice to face challenges and set our path forward? The reality is that despair and overwhelm can happen because so much of life is completely out of our control. How can we respond with empowering decisions instead of getting caught in the swirl of overwhelm and despair? The answer lies in adopting a mindset shift to embrace an attitude of gratitude, and this is a timely discussion for this week as we celebrate Thanksgiving here in the US. Join me for a closer look at today’s topic!
Show Highlights:
- A shift in life can shake us to the core
- Learning to hold the power of choice and agency when challenges occur
- The high costs to us (and others around us) when we allow despair and hopelessness to take root
- Reclaiming our power through choice and gratitude
- Make a perspective shift by embracing gratitude
- Choose to be informed in decision-making
- Nurture relationships and meaningful connections in your life
- Embrace possibilities and challenge the norms
- Establish appropriate boundaries and be assertive about them
Resources:
Mentioned in this episode: The Leadership Challenge by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner
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Today’s episode is an experiment. We are having a joint collaborative conversation with a fabulous coach in Canada. We are interviewing each other for our podcasts, but we are doing it simultaneously. Join us as we explore the barriers that coaches hit, our passion for coaching, and details about the coaching partnership. Join us!
Candy Motzek is a coach, business mentor, and podcast host who is passionate about helping coaches launch successful businesses. Candy hosts the She Coaches Coaches podcast and has a unique background as a former senior leader in the corporate world. She brings a wealth of knowledge and actionable insight and her specialty is in empowering intelligent professionals to launch and grow successful coaching businesses. She uses this unique blend of practical strategies and mindset mastery to help clients achieve greater clarity. Her calming and personalized approach enables coaches to play bigger, find more clients, and create meaningful and profitable success.
Show Highlights:
- What Meg and Candy love about coaching
- Pinpointing the vision and determining the destination
- “Do you KNOW what you want?”
- Helping the client understand the coaching lens
- Knowing when and how to ask deeper questions
- Finding a balance between “telling” vs. “coaching” and “offering without attachment”
- The level of trust in yourself and your coaching skills
- Conversations of all kinds are enhanced when they begin with curiosity.
- Getting better at asking before you move into telling
- Final takeaways from Meg about being a great coach AND a great marketer
- Final takeaways from Candy about the significant overlap between coaching and marketing
Resources:
Connect with Meg
Explore the STaR Coach Community and see what’s available there for you!
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Connect with Candy Motzek
Work with Candy, Free Resources for Coaches, Instagram, LinkedIn, and She Coaches Coaches podcast
My guest is someone I’m happy for all our listeners to meet. Her amazing background and experience have uniquely positioned her to understand the role of an executive assistant. She’s here to share what she’s learned and what you should consider in bringing someone into your business to help you succeed. It’s ridiculous to think you can do IT ALL in your business! It’s okay to bring in someone to do their expert work to help propel you to further success. Today’s episode gives you tips and insights to take that next step.
Monique Helstrom worked as the “How” to Simon Sinek’s “Why” for almost a decade as she filled the role of executive assistant, producer, and “Chief of Simon” for the NY Times best-selling author and TED celebrity. She produced everything he did to inspire and scale his movement, including launching three best-selling books, developing his world-famous speaking career, and coordinating his media appearances. During this whirlwind, she had the opportunity to meet many thousands of people facing quite similar issues who asked themselves, “What do I bring to the table, and how can I use those skills to amplify a partnership, team, or organization?”
As an expert in the relationship between an executive and their assistant, Monique bridges the skill and personality gap with personalized coaching, specialized recruiting, practical strategies, and actionable insights tailored to both sides of the partnership. Her experience gave rise to a practical and honest approach to individual excellence, team collaboration, and how communication is at the center of it all.
Show Highlights:
- The “should-ing” we do to ourselves–and how it trips us up
- Using self-awareness to identify what we are good at helps us know where we need help.
- Knowing yourself helps you know who else you need around you.
- Learn to communicate your needs in specific ways. (People can’t read your mind!)
- Effective communication requires talking with each other (not texting and emailing!) so that tone and non-verbals are understood.
- Feedback is NOT inherently negative and dangerous, but it’s helpful.
- Honesty and vulnerability are key in effective communication.
- Appreciate the unique differences in people.
- The benefits of assessments to help us understand ourselves and each other
- Key takeaways from Monique
Resources:
Connect with Monique Helstrom: Website, Facebook, and LinkedIn
Mentioned in this episode: Surrounded by Idiots by Thomas Erikson
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I’m excited to bring you this conversation today! My guest and I are in perfect alignment regarding the value that coaching brings to the world and the importance of giving coaches the skills and techniques they need to partner with their clients. Let’s dive into the topic of your coaching mindset. Join us to learn more!
Ann Fogolin is a Master Certified Coach who has been working with, learning from, and growing with her clients for nearly 20 years. Like many coaches, Ann came from another career path to coaching; utilizing her background in education, she continues teaching coaches today at the University of Texas-Dallas. Her business, Becuz I Matter, focuses on leadership coaching, and she serves as an ICF Assessor to help new coaches on their journey. Our discussion centers around the relatively new coaching competency of “a coaching mindset” (added in 2019).
Show Highlights:
- The vital role of the coach’s mindset in mastery
- Ann’s perspective of how coaches evolve as they work toward mastery
- Making the mindset shift to holding clients accountable, asking questions, not being a “fixer,” and seeing clients as whole and resourceful
- Coaching vs. mentoring, leading, consulting, etc.
- The coach’s transformation: “What does the coaching mindset do for you, as a coach?”
- An invitation–and even a requirement–for coaches to have awareness to do their work
- The coach’s code of ethics requires a coaching mindset.
- “BEING your best requires DOING your work.”
- Are you 1% better today than yesterday?
Resources:
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You’ve heard it here repeatedly: “You can’t be a secret and a success.” Getting yourself out there in the world in front of your audience is the key to success for your coaching business. Today’s show covers expert tips around your message, taking advantage of speaking opportunities, and upping your PR game. Join us to learn more!
Jeff Crilley left the world of news reporting to start the country’s first all-journalist PR firm. As the founder and CEO of Real News PR, Jeff is an expert in getting in front of people with your message, and he regularly appears on numerous media outlets. This award-winning reporter and podcaster has dedicated his career to helping small business owners, and his top-notch team of journalists and marketing experts help clients build brand awareness that makes an impact.
Show Highlights:
- Speaking opens up other opportunities for you to shine: “If you want to get yourself ‘out there,’ you have to speak.”
- The structure of a great speech is “Haagen Dazs and Broccoli.”
- Endearing yourself to your audience
- Getting on the news is as easy as “catching the wave,” learning when to pounce, and making yourself relevant.
- Jeff’s “Slow News Day” theory—how to make it work for you
- The biggest mistakes people make in PR:
- Spotlighting the messenger instead of the message
- Underestimating the value of praise and flattery
- Jeff’s perspective on the influence of podcasting and monetization opportunities
- Showing value and being of service
Resources:
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Connect with Jeff Crilley and Real News PR
Website (Get Jeff’s free ebook!)
podcasting studios
When was the last time you decided to invest in yourself and felt good about how it moved the needle toward your goals? On the flip side, you may have felt disappointed when an investment turned out to be a waste of time and effort—and no one wants to feel that way. I believe there is a strategy to help us focus on opportunities to invest in ourselves that pay off and deliver the desired results. Let’s take a closer look!
Show Highlights:
- You must have a strategic mindset in making decisions.
- 5 strategies to create clarity:
- Clarify and prioritize your goals to understand your needs.
- Evaluate the experience and credentials of any service provider you are considering.
- Explore the value, cost, and ROI.
- Look for a personal fit, overall compatibility, and an aligned relationship.
- Understand the money-back guarantee and the long-term commitment.
- Ask questions:
- Will I achieve the results I desire?
- Do I have peace of mind about this investment?
- Am I willing to put the work into this program?
- Will this help grow my muscles to be the best I can be?
Resources:
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The unfortunate truth is that not everyone in a leadership role knows how to lead effectively. An important key to successful leadership is to have a coach. As my guest frequently asks, “How do you live without a coach?” Yes–coaching is THAT important. Join us to learn more in today’s episode.
Dr. Dawndra Sechrist is the Dean of the School of Health Professionals at Texas Tech University’s Health Sciences Center. In this conversation, she shares her journey of working with an executive coach to strengthen her leadership skills, and she explores how that coaching partnership impacts how she shows up as a leader.
Show Highlights:
● Dawndra’s leadership journey at TTU
● Rising to a leadership role within an organization–and the factors to consider ● The value of a “one team” mentality
● Taking risks and failing forward
● Creating an environment conducive to leadership at TTU
● “Coaching shouldn’t be the ‘best-kept secret’ ever!”
● Feedback Dawndra has received about coaching and accountability
● Helpful questions to ask when you feel stuck
● “Why would you not want to work with a coach?”
● Key takeaways from Dawndra about the value of executive coaching and being the best version of yourself as a leader
Resources:
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Previous Episode Mentioned:
Episode 50 with Steven Sosland, “Establishing a Values Culture”
Does your leadership operating system need an upgrade? We often upgrade the operating systems on our phones and computers, but what about our leadership style? Today’s guest joins us from San Diego to discuss upgrading your leadership operating system. Join us to learn more!
Eric Pfeiffer is a co-founder and senior consultant at MPWR Coaching, focusing on executive coaching, team coaching, and leadership development. Eric has empowered thousands of leaders worldwide to become the best leaders of themselves and others, and he believes that the best leaders are made, not born. He founded MPWR Coaching to expand his efforts to unlock leaders’ potential so they can grow their organizations and teams in new, never-imagined ways. Eric is the author of Transform Your Trajectory and Leadership Gravitas, two incredible leadership books that are the basis for our conversation today.
Show Highlights:
- Understanding what a “leadership operating system” is–and why you need an upgrade
- An upgraded leadership operating system allows you to become a better version of yourself under pressure.
- Understanding the power of personal responsibility is foundational.
- Don’t be a pinball!
- What lens are you looking through?
- Increasing awareness of ourselves and our environment
- Leave the old, default, victim pathway behind.
- Shared language, shared meaning, and shared practices make true teamwork.
- Finding success through “harnessing the collective genius”
- An overview from Eric of free resources, links to books and courses, and opportunities for a consulting call; find these at MPWR Coaching. (His new book comes out in 2025!)
Resources:
Connect with Eric Pfeiffer and MPWR Coaching: Website, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, Transform Your Trajectory, and Leadership Gravitas,
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As a Christian, I want to have the right filter for information to help people in my community and my church community because there are so many families affected by diagnoses like ADHD, autism, and sensory processing issues. Many of these families are isolated without much support in place. We are talking about the importance of finding your ideal audience and the importance of the coaching partnership. Join us to learn more!
Heidi Fishbein is a sought-after ADHD coach, speaker, and Christian life coach. She holds a PCC through the ICF and is passionate about empowering women and families to navigate life’s challenges that come with ADHD. As the Assistant Director of Training at the International ADHD Coach Training Center, Heidi is an expert who teaches and mentors new coaches worldwide to become great coaches and create thriving, ethical coaching practices.
Show Highlights:
- Heidi’s journey into Christian coaching and ADHD after her young son’s diagnosis
- ADHD is an “interest-based nervous system.”
- Heidi’s perspective on maintaining the boundary between coaching and therapy
- Giving space for people with ADHD to be who they are
- The differences in coaching, consulting, and therapy
- Responding with empathy and compassion instead of “fixing” and rescuing
- Heidi’s partnership with the Holy Spirit
- When coping mechanisms aren’t working
- “People with ADHD are absolutely brilliant!”
- Fact: Many coaches who are drawn to ADHD coaching have attention deficit issues themselves.
- Heidi’s role as a business owner
- The widespread impact of ADHD in families everywhere
Resources:
Connect with Heidi Fishbein and find free resources: Coach Heidi Resources and Website
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You’ve heard the word curiosity mentioned here quite often. Because it’s an essential part of a coaching culture, curiosity is a topic that deserves a closer look. In this solo episode, we are diving into the concept of curiosity, what it means to be curious, and the pitfalls of “knowing” too much.
You’ll also hear practical tips for fostering curiosity, such as asking open-ended questions and active listening, which can improve effectiveness through curiosity. Join us!
Show Highlights:
- A place of curiosity vs. a place of knowing
- The value in slowing down and asking open-ended questions
- Advantages of a curious mind:
- Curiosity fuels innovation.
- Curiosity encourages lifelong learning.
- Curiosity enhances our problem-solving skills.
- Curiosity builds resilience.
- Curiosity strengthens our relationships.
- Curiosity increases engagement.
- “Curiosity is a connector, a bridge that breaks down the divide between people.”
- Be genuinely curious!
Resources:
Recommended in this episode: The Leadership Challengeby James Kouzes and Barry Posner
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Are you a secret or a success? You can’t be both! If you feel stifled by the undying commitment to your comfort zone, today’s show is for YOU! It’s time to bring yourself out of obscurity and in front of your target audience. Are you leveraging the benefits of AI? We want to help coaches be as successful as possible by making sure that AI tools are functioning as your best referral partner. Join us to learn more!
Tom Schwab is a US Navy veteran, entrepreneur, and author. As the founder and CEO of Interview Valet, Tom is a pioneer in leveraging targeted podcast interviews as a powerful marketing channel. Working with over 1500 clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to high-level coaches and consultants, he’s been called “The Godfather of Podcast Interview Marketing.” His book, Podcast Guest Profits: Grow Your Business with a Targeted Interview Strategy, has been called the bible of podcast guesting. He routinely speaks at top business conferences about how to turn podcast listeners into clients. His refreshing view of marketing today shows how you can break through the noise and finally get heard by your ideal clients.
Show Highlights:
- Tom’s journey from the US Navy to corporate America to entrepreneurship
- “Obscurity is everyone’s biggest problem today. There is no nobility in being unknown.”
- The overarching principles of selling products and services
- What ChatGPT is “looking for”
- Examples of what to do to be seen and heard more (Look for avenues that are easy, scalable, and digital!)
- Pinpointing the podcasts that are right for you and your expertise
- Tom’s tips on repurposing content (It’s easier than you think!)
- Tom’s tips to identify your best talking points (Hint: Stories ALWAYS work!)
- Focus on profits–not leads.
- Tom’s challenge to coaches who want to be podcast guests: Start by identifying five podcasts that have your ideal clients as listeners.
Resources:
Connect with Tom Schwab and Interview Valet: Website (Take the free assessment and receive a free copy of Tom’s book, Podcast Guest Profits.), Facebook, and LinkedIn
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Leaders develop their best skills through connection, vulnerability, and exploration. Today’s guest covers it all with enthusiasm, confidence, and genuine humility. She shares her unique journey from a small Indonesian village to a full life in entertainment, coaching, and entrepreneurship. Join us to learn more!
Dona Amelia is a multi-talented and inspiring leader, keynote speaker, and executive/life coach. As the co-founder and Member Service Director at EGN Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia, she leads Asia’s largest peer network for C-suite executives and entrepreneurs, embodying the qualities of a true leader and empowering women to reach new heights in leadership. Before taking on her role at EGN (Executives’ Global Network), Dona achieved remarkable accomplishments in the entertainment industry as an award-winning singer, actress, DJ, and TV host. She brings a unique blend of artistic talent, dynamic presence, and entrepreneurial skills that showcase her resilience as a leader. Her passion for making people happy and empowering others makes her a role model for women who seek to break barriers and thrive.
Show Highlights:
- Humble beginnings in a bamboo house without electricity and running water
- Dona’s journey as a singer, actress, and TV presenter who transitioned into work with EGN, the first peer network in Indonesia
- The unique collaborative platform that is the foundation of EGN
- Leadership training in facing challenges with vulnerability and collaborative solutions
- Dona’s stories about the value of peer networks
- Lessons from a wise grandmother: “Give—and make people happy.”
- A glimpse into the holistic structure in EGN’s efforts to create strong peer networks
- Dona’s explanation of EGN’s Advisory Board and Wise Crowd–and how she gets leaders to buy into the program
- Dona’s takeaways about the value of peers, coaches, and mentors in leveraging your leadership potential
Resources:
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No matter your profession or lifestyle, you would probably agree that stress levels are at an all-time high. In our post-pandemic world, we have “busy brains” that affect us personally and impact leadership at a crisis level in organizations. Join us for today’s episode to hear an actionable approach that individuals and leaders can implement immediately for immediate stress relief and long-term wellness.
Dr. Romie Mushtaq is a triple board-certified physician, award-winning speaker, and national media expert. She mixes her unique authority in neurology, integrative medicine, and mindfulness to transform cultures and teams. Serving as the Chief Wellness Officer at Great Wolf Resorts, she uses digital solutions for whole-person wellness for over 12,000 employees. She is a leading authority in stress management and workplace wellness leadership serving professional athletes, Fortune 500 companies, and global organizations. Her TEDx talk, “The Powerful Secret of Your Breath,” has over 500,000 views, and her book, The Busy Brain Cure, is a national USA Today and Amazon bestseller.
Show Highlights:
- Dr. Romie’s transition from traditional medicine to a focus on stress management
- The problem: High achievers get stuck in the stress success cycle.
- “The way your brain knows how to achieve is by living on the edge of burnout where stress is a badge of honor.”
- Characteristics of a busy brain
- The importance of knowing your brain score (Take the Busy Brain Test for FREE!)
- Steps in the Busy Brain Cure:
- Replace self-judgment with self-awareness.
- Make brain shifts in your micro habits.
- Restore your sleep.
- Results Dr. Romie has seen from the Busy Brain protocol
- The impact of overlooked thyroid disease
Resources:
Connect with Dr. Romie Mushtaq: Website, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, X, TEDx talk, the FREE Busy Brain Test, and The Busy Brain Cure book
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I’m excited to bring you a wonderful interview with a fellow podcaster. We have many shared interests and goals, including a passion for honoring the craft of coaching. He shares the Coaching Business Flywheel with us, a valuable tool he’s created based on practical tips for successful coaching. Join us to learn how you can use these concepts for maximum impact and outreach in your coaching business!
Robbie Swale is a leadership coach, author, and podcaster whose work focuses on leading with honor and the craft of coaching. He is the founder of The Coach's Journey and the podcast of the same name, where he interviews coaches about their journeys into coaching and how they developed successful coaching businesses, whatever that means for them. He is the creator of The Coaching Business Flywheel and has coached and mentored countless coaches through various coaching, training, and supervision programs, including The Coach’s Journey Community. Along with his direct client work, Robbie has done leadership development and coaching work for many global organizations. He is the author of the 12-Minute Method books, which include How to Start When You’re Stuck and How to Create the Conditions for Great Work.
Show Highlights:
- Robbie’s journey into coaching and his inspiration for the Coaching Business Flywheel
- Robbie’s consistent blog posts, the impetus to get the flywheel moving with momentum
- The Prosperous Coach Flywheel (Rich Litvin) and how Robbie built on it
- Connection is the key to a sustainable coaching business!
- Robbie’s Coaching Business Flywheel: 5 things you have to do to have a sustainable coaching business:
- Connect with people.
- Offer opportunities for people to experience you.
- Help people create insight.
- Tell people how you work, how much it costs, and how to pay you.
- Work with enough clients to get the feed of referrals. (“If you hide from the NOs, you can’t get the YESES.”)
- Ask for referrals and connections!
- Facing fears and embracing personal growth
Resources:
Connect with Robbie Swale: Website, LinkedIn, Facebook, The Coach's Journey Podcast and Community, and the 12-Minute Method books
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Welcome to a very special episode! I had planned to feature this live stream with listeners to celebrate the milestone of our 400th episode, but a family emergency preempted those plans. Never fear—we are making it happen now! Listeners share what’s made the show important to them and some of their favorite episodes, topics, and guests. Join us!
Show Highlights:
- From Carolyn Covey Morris–A favorite is Episode 200; the STaR Coach Show helped her in the transition into executive coaching and continually inspires her to keep going.
- From Donna Holder–Her favorites have changed over the years, but some are Episode 107 with Fran Fisher, Episode 244 with James Allen, and others about leadership, business building, and brain science. She loves to recommend the STaR Coach Show to coaching colleagues!
- From Susan Collins–She is a leadership coach who helps clergywomen navigate their careers, and she embraces the entire STaR Coach Show ecosystem and loves the community and the education that are available.
- From Dr. John Roof–The STaR Coach Show is an important part of his coaching journey, and he loves meeting other coaches at conferences. Two favorites are Episode 107 with Fran Fisher and Episode 374 with Dr. Marcia Reynolds.
- From Serge Devieux–He’s a newer listener who became a coach after a long career as an international executive, and he loves the wealth of learning through the STaR Coach Show. Two favorites are Episode 107 with Fran Fisher and Episode 197 with Adam Carroll.
- From Cynthia Pike-Fuentes–She coaches executive women on personal and professional changes in their lives, and a favorite is Episode 289 with Tracy Winter.
Resources:
Links are given in the Show Notes to connect with these great coaches and their favorite episodes.
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Welcome to a very special episode that will help propel you forward, get obstacles out of your way, and create a formula for making the living you deserve and the impact you desire. I’m excited to share this interview with one of my mentors whose work has helped propel my business forward. You will learn so much from today’s guest! Let’s get started!
Jeff Walker is the creator of Product Launch Formula, the step-by-step process that has generated over a BILLION dollars in online launches. He teaches people how to launch online courses, membership sites, online product, and services, and his formula has literally changed the way things are sold online. Jeff started his first online business in 1996, pioneering the online launch concept. His Product Launch Formula transformed the online marketing world from the day it was released in 2005, and Jeff and PLF have not slowed down since. Now, the Product Launch Formula brand is the gold standard in the online entrepreneurial training market. Jeff’s students have done over a billion dollars in launches in hundreds of niches and markets in dozens of countries worldwide. Jeff lives with his wife, Mary, in Durango, Colorado, and is always up for an outdoor adventure. He’s no longer quite as fast as his kids on skis or mountain bikes, but they still let him come along for the ride.
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Show Highlights:
- Jeff’s journey from stay-at-home dad into coaching and creating the Product Launch Formula
- Jeff’s once yearly FREE Launch Masterclass—and how and why it came about
- The PLF is adaptable to ANY business.
- Leveraged income > passive income
- Presenting an offer and getting paid for that offer gives you the “keys to the kingdom.”
- Jeff’s commitment to delivering value and creating an impact
- “What will I learn in the Launch Masterclass?”
- Coaching: solving problems, creating transformation, and building trust
Resources:
Connect with Jeff Walker: Website, Launch book, and free Launch Masterclass
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The truth is that no one is attracted to your scarcity mindset. If you want to project magnetism in your field, you have to leave scarcity behind and embrace abundance! My guest today is a great example of success in multiple streams of services and income, and her sweet spot lies in creating sales pages that get results. Do you need a mindset adjustment and a sales page makeover? Join us to learn more!
Sarah Walton is a business coach and sales expert who has been featured on The Today Show, speaks at women’s conferences worldwide, and has helped hundreds of women start and grow businesses they love. She works with a handful of 1:1 clients, runs The Sales Mastermind, and leads her exclusive Abundance Academy for women in business. Sarah is the voice behind The Game On Girlfriend Podcastand the face of “Sarah Uncut” on YouTube, making her the go-to source for no-nonsense business coaching and real-life, mind-blowing abundance. From growing up in a low-income household with a single mom to helping moms turn their passion into a business they love while supporting their families, Sarah’s lived experience shows how women can powerfully change their lives and the lives of their families and communities. Through her successful coaching business, strategically designed to put more money in the hands of more women, Sarah has transitioned from being “just another coach” to being a real change-maker, and she is “all in” on her mission to put more money into more women’s hands!
Show Highlights:
- From a background of poverty to a mindset of abundance
- Finding your space and learning to expand
- 80% of success comes down to your mindset!
- The importance of letting people know who you are and how you are going to show up for them
- Remember—your business is NOT about you!
- Before you create a page or send a newsletter, ask, “What problem can I solve right now? Who needs me right now?”
- Transitioning from fear and scarcity to connection and abundance
- Refining your “Hey, you” strategy
- Cleaning up your sales page and correctly using testimonials
- Sarah’s advice to listeners
Resources:
Connect with Sarah Walton: Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, and The Game On Girlfriend Podcast
Mentioned by Sarah: The Simple Path to Wealthby J. L. Collins
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As coaches, we always strive to bring our best forward so we can partner with our clients to help them create the changes they want in their lives. Today’s expert guest is a renowned authority on leadership assessment and development. Join us to learn more about growing into your greatness and being the most effective executive coach you can be!
Mohamed Hamza is a facilitator, assessor, and coach with significant contributions in more than ten countries. He is the Senior Client Success Director for Mercer Talent Enterprise, where he assumes the crucial responsibility of designing, developing, and delivering cutting-edge leadership assessment and development solutions to esteemed clients. Mohamed has coached over 3000 leaders from future talent to C-suite executives. His extensive experience and continuous pursuit of knowledge position him as a leading figure in business and leadership, delivering exceptional value to his clients and organizations.
Show Highlights:
- Mohamed’s current position at Mercer and his passion for leadership development
- The value in experiencing coaching through the client lens (“You will not believe in coaching unless you are a client first.”)
- Steps to maximum coaching effectiveness:
- Believe in coaching.
- Get your training and certifications.
- Practice, practice, practice!
- Know who you are and develop your natural coaching style.
- Know your clients and their culture.
- Using a multicultural approach in coaching
- Reasons for the current growth of coaching in the Middle East
- The influence of culture on coaching results
- Mohamed’s perspective on his executive coaching work and the results clients want
- Finding a balance in coaching within an organization and addressing deeper issues with clients
- Mohamed’s advice to everyone: “Try coaching once. Don’t be a conservative client. Just open up. This is how it works.”
Resources:
Connect with Mohamed Hamza: LinkedIn
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I am delighted to have Jocelynn Flowers joining us on the show today to share her wisdom with us. Jocelynn is truly a special person! She is the proud founder and CEO of J. Flowers Marketing, where she and her team expertly motivate and support small business owners and entrepreneurs presently achieving six figures to scale their businesses, empowering them to reach seven figures and more. In this episode, she shares three non-negotiable marketing strategies for building your business. We all know that if we’re a secret, we won’t be a success. So, join us for Jocelynn’s valuable insights on growing your business.
As a certified Productivity Specialist and Social Media Manager, Jocelynn embarked on her journey from the heart of New York City in 2016, and today, she is thrilled to celebrate her seventh year in business, flourishing amidst the serenity of Palm Springs, California.
The challenges of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic compelled her, like many others, to reimagine and reinvent her business strategies. That experience taught her the invaluable lessons of perseverance and creativity in the ever-evolving entrepreneurship landscape. In her role as "The Sanctuarian", she is dedicated to relieving the time constraints, learning curves, and organizational burdens entrepreneurs face. Her mission is to harmonize and balance the lives of their clients by infusing their businesses with structure, efficiency, consistency, and organization as if they were her own.
She has firmly set her focus on fostering growth in impact, income, and engagement for those with whom she has the privilege to partner.
Show Highlights:
- Three non-negotiables for marketing
- The importance of showing up authentically in business
- Using branding as your key to success on social media
- Helping clients navigate networking events confidently
- Creating a supportive and calming environment
- How delegating tasks benefits business owners
- Implementing effective marketing strategies based on audience feedback
- How tracking the right data leads to social media success
- Sharing insights and perspectives that resonate with audiences
Resources:
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It’s our 400th episode! I had big plans for this episode, but circumstances have forced my plans to change; hopefully, we will be on track to celebrate this worthy milestone in a big way with a listener-focused livestream episode very soon. I can’t think of a better substitute than my friend, Dr. Eileen Forrestal. She joins us to talk about the concept of courage–and who doesn’t need a healthy dose of courage in today’s world? Join us!
Dr. Eileen Forrestal is a retired consultant anesthetist and the co-founder of Get Up and Go Publications Ltd, publisher of the award-winning inspirational Get Up and Go Diaries, Journals, and Events. Having spent 20 years “putting people to sleep,” Eileen is now at work “waking people up.” She is continually inspired to make a greater impact on personal health and well-being with words rather than drugs and one pair of hands. In her memoir, The Courage to Shine: Find Your Voice and Discover the Healing Power of Your Words, Eileen shares her personal story of “waking up” to encourage others to explore their authentic self-expression and engage in new conversations for wellbeing and vitality.
Plagued by a childhood stammer and a reluctance to speak publicly for many years, Eileen is now developing herself as a personal coach, entrepreneur mentor, and speaker to encourage others to overcome their fears and shine their light in the world. With a Foreword and enthusiastic endorsement by Jack Canfield, Eileen’s memoir touches on her challenging relationship with her mother, the source of her “yes” in life. Her upcoming book is Embrace the Edge: Life is Bigger When You Say Yes. An avid traveler with an adventurous spirit, Eileen’s thrill-seeking highlights include summiting Mt. Kilimanjaro and Mt. Everest base camp, cycling in Cambodia, rafting the Zambezi, riding an ostrich, and hypnotizing a chicken!
She is a recently accredited Thought Leader with the All-Ireland Business Foundation, and she liberally shares her thoughts through Sparkles of Wisdom and Pocket Pearls on social media platforms, blogs, and articles. She lives in the beautiful Northwest of Ireland with her beloved 10-year-old Cocker Spaniel, Kellie.
Show Highlights:
- Eileen’s dramatic career shift after 20 years in the medical field
- Fighting through a childhood stammer and its accompanying trauma and anxiety
- Figuring how to hide through life AND medical school
- Becoming a successful doctor without having to talk
- Overcoming anxiety, leaving medicine for entrepreneurship, and impacting audiences with the power of words
- Self-acceptance is the FIRST step to courage!
- Eileen’s discovery of the healing power of words
- The value of community and connection—and finding your cheerleaders
- Living a YES life!
Resources:
Connect with Dr. Eileen Forrestal: Website, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and book, The Courage to Shine
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Workplace culture and leadership are the foundation for success in every kind of business. I’m excited to be joined by two guests today who are proven experts in both of these areas. They bring their expertise into a discussion about the facets of workplace conflict; it can either be productive or destructive. Join us for a closer look!
Karin Hurt and David Dye help human-centered leaders find clarity in uncertainty, drive innovation, and achieve breakthrough results. As CEO and president of Let's Grow Leaders, they are known for practical tools and leadership development programs that stick. Karin and David are the award-winning authors of six books, including Courageous Cultures: How to Build Teams of Micro-Innovators, Problem Solvers, and Customer Advocates and Powerful Phrases for Dealing With Workplace Conflict. A former Verizon Wireless executive, Karin was named to Inc. Magazine’s List of Great Leadership Speakers. David Dye is a former executive and elected official. Karin and David are committed to their philanthropic initiative, Winning Wells, which builds clean water wells for the people of Cambodia.
Show Highlights:
- The Four C’s of Productive Conflict:
- Connection
- “Do we have a relationship?”
- “Am I working to build relationships before I need them?”
- Clarity
- A lack of clarity and assumptions contribute to much of the conflict in the workplace.
- “What would a successful outcome DO for you?”
- Curiosity
- “Are we genuinely interested in the other person’s perspective? What’s possible?”
- “It’s hard to be curious and furious at the same time.”
- Commitment
- “What is our path forward? How can we hold ourselves accountable to our agreement?”
- “Schedule the finish” to establish a timetable for accountability and deal with problems that interfere with our best intentions.
- The principles of productive conflict can beautifully apply to our personal growth AND our coaching conversations.
- What Karin and David have seen in their work with leaders in reducing stress and expediting outcomes of productive conflict (Workplace conflict is a huge deal that affects everyone.)
- Tips for using Karin and David’s book (and their GOATs and ACEs) in workplace conflict
Resources:
Connect with Karin Hurt and David Dye: Website, LinkedIn (Karin), LinkedIn (David), and Facebook
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Are you ready to up your game around social media marketing? There are simple tweaks that can elevate your social media presence and help you create content to connect with your audience—and you can do it in one hour or less each week. Join us to learn helpful strategies for flexing your social media muscles with today’s expert!
Karlyn Ankrom is the founder and lead strategist of Oh Snap! Social and the creator of the Fan Firestarter Framework. This approach to social media marketing is made specifically for entrepreneurs “tempted to fake their own death and flee to Tahiti at the mere thought of content creation.” Karlyn developed her user-friendly strategy after working for a decade with a variety of brick-and-mortar businesses that were decidedly “social allergic,” as she calls it; it’s not that they didn’t want to DO social media, but they found the process much too intimidating. Her new system helps social media newbies get on the fast track to “unsticking their social media” in just one hour per week.
Show Highlights:
- Social media: an overwhelming world of unlimited opportunities (for FREE!)
- Make the mindset shift so you aren’t missing out!
- Social media is all about relationships, so share your message of connection and solutions.
- Be human, be authentic, and be self-aware.
- Karlyn’s tips for creating social media content:
- Find your anchor point.
- Batch your content.
- Craft your calendar to include themes, content pillars, and relevant “national days.”
- Give value and next-step resources.
- Look to go viral, but connect it to your business.
- Karlyn’s tips on creating videos
- The importance of calls to action, both internal and external, in your content
- Karlyn’s tips on getting your content out in one hour or less:
- Create content to address your audience’s pain points directly.
- Give a clear call to action.
- Vary your style in presenting content.
- Use a notes app on your phone to collect good ideas.
Resources:
Connect with Karlyn Ankrom and Oh Snap! Social: Website, Website Resources, LinkedIn, and Facebook
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Burnout is real, and coaches are not exempt. How can we effectively help others achieve growth and accomplish their goals if we are personally dealing with the symptoms of burnout? Today’s guest is a passionate expert on this topic, and she’s sharing helpful information and resources in this episode. Join us!
Dr. Zeina Ghossoub, a Master Certified Coach, has a Ph.D. in human behavior and counseling and co-founded Vital Signs, a coaching/consulting company with a global presence in Houston and Beirut. She is passionate about addressing burnout, especially among healthcare professionals and coaches. In this episode, Dr. Ghossoub identifies the red flags of burnout, the importance of wellness and emotional intelligence, and how to address burnout. She stresses the necessity of prioritizing self-care for coaches and shares helpful tools and resources.
Show Highlights:
- Dr. Zeina’s passion for wellness for those in the caring professions
- What is burnout?
- Severe burnout symptoms are similar to those of PTSD!
- The contributing factors to burnout for coaches
- For coaches, fighting burnout begins with overall wellness and emotional intelligence.
- Dr. Zeina’s focus on physical wellness from her perspective as a dietitian and coach
- Red flags of burnout symptoms
- Where a coach should start in addressing burnout and seeking help
- If you have unmet expectations, a lack of control over what you’re doing, and insufficient rewards, you are likely heading toward burnout.
- The value in evaluations and assessments in addressing burnout (Dr. Zeina recommends the Maslach Burnout Inventory)
Resources:
Connect with Dr. Zeina Ghossoub: Vital Signs Website, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram
Download the Maslach Burnout Inventory that Dr. Zeina recommends!
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Are you feeling the summertime heat and the increasing pull to spend lazy days by the pool or on the beach? As we move into the “dog days of summer,” it’s easy to feel pulled toward fun rather than focusing on our business, and it’s so easy to become distracted. How do you keep your focus on building a thriving business? I’m exploring this topic and sharing five tips you can implement today!
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My 5 tips for a thriving business during the dog days of summer:
- Stay engaged with your audience. Think of fun ways to use social media to share meaningful content and get feedback. Show your fun side and build strong relationships!
- Create summer-specific offers, like a course or program that can be recycled. Use content to reach a new audience beyond your norm.
- Remember to focus on self-care and personal development. Explore tips with your audience to help them take care of themselves.
- Plan ahead. Use these summer months to strategize your fall activities and develop new offerings, launches, messages, and programs.
- Continue to give value to the people who know, like, and trust you. Create a new giveaway to use as a lead magnet.
Resources:
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Most coaches admit to a love/hate relationship with sales. They either avoid everything to do with selling, or they are blessed with natural gifts that make selling easy. Today’s guest is a natural salesperson, and she has practical tips to share that can help make sales a much less painful—and maybe even enjoyable—part of entrepreneurship. Join us to up your sales game!
Katie Nelson, the founder and CEO of Sales UpRising, is a three-time business owner who has coached hundreds of entrepreneurs to play smarter in the “big leagues.” Known as “The Sales Catalyst,” she is a sales-loving, straight-to-the-point, let’s-get-down-to-brass-tacks sales coach with a solid entrepreneurial background and many years of sales experience. She pinpoints relationship-building as the key to sales success and is firmly committed to changing the current statistic that 90% of businesses do not meet their sales goals. Katie has developed the mantra: “Cashflow is oxygen.” Using her charismatic style as a speaker, consultant, and business coach, Katie’s mission is to bring fun back into sales and encourage business owners to make their revenue dreams happen and be their own best spokesperson. With a total of 25 years in sales and $150 million sold in products and services, Katie is adamant that every business action is a sales conversation. Her strategies have achieved sales of more than $7 million in her businesses! Her proven strategies for success are transforming mediocre companies into profit-making powerhouses. Through hard work, determination, and networking, Katie has built a brand that helps entrepreneurs take their businesses to the next level, and her workshops, Mastermind courses, and business retreats are always in high demand. She is active in the small business community in northern Virginia as she works with a wide variety of business associations to steer them toward successful and profitable business growth.
Show Highlights:
- Katie’s perspective on the statement: “But I just want to coach; I don’t want to do sales.”
- All about assuming!
- Sales accessibility, sales-like conversations, and saying YES to selling
- Making sales easier with repetition
- The truth: “For even the best salesperson, the majority of selling is rejection.”
- Rethinking what it means to rely on referrals
- The four stages of business: startup, base, expand, and thrive
- Your #1 skill as a business owner is selling!
- Common barriers Katie sees in her clients
- Creating more “runway” for your “plane”--”The bigger your dream, the bigger your plane; the bigger your plane, the longer the runway.”
- Getting your system down by asking the right questions
- Katie’s advice about accessible sales for everyone
Resources:
Connect with Katie Nelson: Website, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Katie’s book updates on All Love, No Bullshit: The Sales Edition (publishing on June 26, 2024)
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Success is what we all desire in our businesses, and we want that success to be sustainable. What’s the key? Systems! We have to put systems and processes in place to achieve the success–and life–that we want. My guest is a perfect example of someone who has been down the hard road of entrepreneurship and learned the hard lessons, and she’s living her best beach life now while running a successful business. Molly Ruland joins us today to share her insights!
Molly Ruland, CEO and founder of Heartcast Media has been at the helm of her multimedia company for over two decades and is a trailblazer in the podcast production realm. Based in DC but managing her operations from Costa Rica, Molly’s expertise is on display in producing top-ranking podcasts across various genres. Her client roster is impressively diverse, encompassing the Department of Health, the DC government, NATO, dating coaches, and former NBA players, and she consistently delivers high-quality content across the board. Under Molly’s leadership, Heartcast Media has become synonymous with premier-branded podcast production, aiding businesses in boosting revenue and fostering strategic relationships. With a deep understanding of podcasting dynamics, content creation, and guest booking, Molly is a sought-after speaker who brings valuable insights to every engagement. Living next to a volcano in Costa Rica with her three dogs, she embodies the philosophy that “listening is the revolution,” driving her global business forward with passion and innovation.
Show Highlights:
- Molly’s definition and vision of a “sustainable business”---and how she got there
- The key to a sustainable business is systems.
- Molly’s tips for implementing systems: eliminate redundancy, make it easy to get paid (Molly recommends Acuity), and use automated forms
- Redundant tasks are costing you money!
- Tips for sustainable business success:
- Stop beating yourself up. Be gracious and have self-compassion.
- Take care of yourself, pay yourself, and be honest with yourself.
- Don’t believe the lie that you should devalue yourself and your services.
- Understand that perceived value is EVERYTHING.
- Molly’s 80/20 rule for business
- Molly’s path to living her best life in Costa Rica by pinpointing her joy and leaving the rest behind
- Molly’s biggest takeaway from her journey: “Your greatest success comes after your greatest failure. You CAN redo things. Don’t put off what you want for later because later is not promised at all.”
- Molly’s parting advice: “Build into your relationships and actively seek new relationships. Relationships make our lives beautiful, vibrant, and colorful. Enrich your relationships because they enrich your life and your bottom line in business.”
Connect with Molly Ruland and Heartcast Media
Website
Books recommended by Molly
The 1-Page Marketing Plan by Allan Dib
$100M Offersby Alex Hormozi
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Today’s topic is a message that resonates with me on many levels. The success of everything we do comes down to our mindset. That’s where it all begins. The good news is that we can learn to take control of our mindset. Does your mindset need an upgrade? Learn how to make it happen in today’s conversation with Dre Baldwin.
Dre Baldwin is the CEO and founder of Work On Your Game, Inc. He has given four TEDx talks on discipline, confidence, mental toughness, and personal initiative. He has authored 33 books and appeared in national campaigns for brands such as Nike, Finish Line, Wendy’s, Gatorade, and more. Dre has published over 8,000 videos, has over 142,000 subscribers, and his content has been viewed over 100 million times. He hosts a daily podcast, Work On Your Game, that has over 2900 episodes with more than 7.3 million downloads. He joins us to explain his principles of success that have carried him through a professional basketball career into entrepreneurship.
Show Highlights:
- Dre’s background in sports, teaching athletes, and coaching on mindset
- Using social media to share your message
- Dre’s path to getting noticed on the internet through exposure camps, VHS tapes, and blogging
- Dre’s process of getting clarity on what his message was and how to serve his audience
- Successful entrepreneurship happens through building relationships.
- Dre’s principles of success to “work on your game”: mindset, strategy, systems, and accountability
- Sourcing already-produced material to write book after book after book
- Dre’s podcast material comes from his audience’s needs and their questions.
- Dre’s key takeaway: “Your internal conversation is the most important conversation you have. You can take control of your internal conversations through mental conditioning.”
- How important is your mindset? “Mindset is the foundation of all success, all failure, and all mediocrity.”
Resources:
Connect with Dre Baldwin: Website, Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube
and Work On Your Game Podcast
Get Dre Baldwin’s free book, The Third Day, with this link.
Check out Dre’s Work On Your Game University.
Get Dre’s free training on How to Increase Your Business Without Working Harder.
Text Dre to get his free #Monday Motivation: 1-305-384-6894.
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In the most recent solo episode, I shared that a few changes are coming to the format of the STaR Coach Show, all of which are designed to enhance and improve the value to our audience. You’ll start to see some of those in today’s interview with Annie Gelfand, the co-creator and host of the Essence of Mastery Summit. She shares how the path of coaching mastery has the secret sauce it takes to help us be better human beings. If we want to change the world, we have to continue to grow in our coaching mastery! Join us to learn more!
Annie Gelfand is a Master Certified Coach (credentialed by the International Coach Federation), Advanced Certified Mentor Coach, and MCC Assessor. Coaching since 1997, she founded the Wisdom Foundation, a humanitarian, philanthropic, community-based, not-for-profit service, as well as Radical Wisdom and Reach Coaching Mastery. A corporate “survivor,” Annie has an MBA, is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach, Organizational and Relationship Systems and Teams Coach, and holds multiple holistic certifications. She is an avid lover of all things natural and nature, including pickleball, kayaking, swimming, biking, hiking, gardening, ping pong, and chess.
Show Highlights:
- Coaches care deeply and want to make an impact in the world.
- Running a coaching business requires business savvy around accounting, marketing, sales, etc.
- The feeling is magic!
- The #1 problem for MCC applicants? Not doing their inner work
- Alignment eliminates static noise and confusion about our purpose.
- The trap we fall into when we compare ourselves to others. Show your gifts to the world!
- “You can’t be a secret and a success at the same time!”
- How to identify and celebrate with your support community
- Do the inner work and find your blind spots.
- It’s NOT about the money!
- Masterful coaches are transparent, curious, confident, and unique.
Resources:
Connect with Annie Gelfand: Website, LinkedIn, and Facebook
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Social media presents coaches and small business owners with multiple innovative opportunities–and most of us are unaware of how to use those to our benefit. Want to learn more about unlocking this potential? Today’s featured guest teaches us to use the tools available to us to help our coaching businesses thrive–without paid ads. Join us to learn from his expertise in creating viral content that generates unlimited leads and solidifies client retention.
Michael Gerardi is the founder and CEO of NextGenCEOs. He is known for taking struggling online coaches and turning them into profitable six-figure business owners. Over the past three years, Michael has been on a mission to help over 100 online coaches achieve six-figure incomes in six months or less without paid ads through his Content To Cash Method. He has scaled his business to over $1 million in revenue without paid ads. Your audience is filled with online coaches and entrepreneurs who are passionate about scaling their businesses online, and Michael is here to help them truly become CEOs while they achieve financial freedom without having to trade their time for money.
Show Highlights:
- Michael’s motivation to help struggling online coaches be more profitable
- Michael’s skill set as a fitness coach—and how he learned to put his customers first
- Going viral and going viral to your audience are two different things!
- Getting clear about who you want to speak to by identifying their pain points
- Michael’s process to create effective reach to his clients uses effective headlines, trending audio, an “attention-grabbing, scroll-stopping hook,” and captions.
- Ideas to put in a compelling video to grab your audience’s attention
- Be aware of what the algorithms are looking for!
- The impacts Michael has seen in his business
- “Information is free. People hire you for implementation.”
- Understanding how to turn eyeballs and content into cash through building relationships
- Retaining clients through creating systems and follow-ups
- Referrals and retention to build revenue
Resources:
Connect with Michael Gerardi: Website and Instagram
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Today we are diving into the reality of change. It’s an inevitable part of evolving and growing, but we usually struggle to leave our comfortable patterns and routines to step into change. Why are we so naturally resistant? Let’s explore the challenge that comes from doing things differently and embracing change when it’s the right time to do so.
Show Highlights:
- Much of the coaching process requires us to challenge our belief systems and make positive changes (but we have a natural resistance!) Check out STaR Coach Show Episode 295, Coaching Past Ambivalence.
- The STaR Coach Show journey has been full of change!
- Are your services and offerings evolving as you gain more clarity?
- The crucial precursors to implementing change: know your audience, their needs, pain points, and aspirations to tailor your offering to them
- The value of the guidance of mentors and coaches
- Get clear about your business plan, priorities, and values—and work with people who align with those things.
- My realization: “Just because I’ve always done it THIS way doesn’t mean I have to continue with that.”
- My new goals with the STaR Coach Show: to produce a quality weekly show, take advantage of more opportunities with YouTube, and change my solo shows to monthly live streams
- Understand the value in being creative, not perfect, in your growth process; every new step may not be as successful as you want it to be.
- My tips for embracing change:
- Create your vision and write down your goals every day.
- Get clear about what’s holding you back.
- Embrace change as a catalyst for growth.
Resources:
Mentioned in this episode: STaR Coach Show Episode 295, Coaching Past Ambivalence
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We have a great show for you today! We are not only learning about a helpful technique but experiencing an exercise in “tapping” with my guest. It’s a win-win for you as you learn a different way to engage with clients and help them clear their blocks, reduce their stress, and reach their goals–and a stress-reducing technique for anyone! Come in with an open and curious mind and learn more with us!
Brad Yates is the online guru for Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), also known as “tapping.” He wrote the bestselling children’s book, The Wizard's Wish, and is the co-author of the bestseller, Freedom at Your Fingertips. He is a featured expert in the film, “The Tapping Solution,” and has appeared at many events, seminars, and media outlets. Brad’s core belief is that we all have greatness within us, and he views it as his job to help people reveal that greatness. He has over 1200 instructional videos on YouTube, and he encourages our listeners to take advantage of his online resources. To get the full experience of today’s episode, we urge you to watch the video interview on the STaR Coach Show YouTube channel so you’ll more fully understand the technique of tapping.
Show Highlights:
- Brad’s explanation of EFT and tapping—and the tremendous benefits
- Resistance, self-sabotage, old programming, and how tapping can help us manifest and reach our goals
- The origins of tapping (1980) as an outgrowth of kinesiology and acupressure
- Brad’s core belief: “The Michelangelo Process”
- Brad’s demonstration of a tapping round on the concept of resistance (Try it with us!)
- Training and certification in tapping are readily available for coaches who want to work more fully with clients around their emotions.
- Tapping is a way to help people change habits and patterns of behavior.
- Brad’s explanation of the “freedom to succeed” and how we can achieve goals far beyond our familiar comfort zones
- “Self-sabotage is simply misguided self-love.”
Resources:
Connect with Brad Yates: Website, LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and Freedom at Your Fingertips book
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Welcome! I hope you enjoyed our “Spring Break” during which we revisited two fantastic shows that were packed with valuable information. I’m excited today to bring you a brand new show with a physician-turned-coach/entrepreneur who shares the value of barter coaching and why this skill is a helpful addition to your creativity toolkit. There is much for us to learn about building this unique coaching muscle! Join us!
Dr. Whitney Chew is a board-certified internal medicine physician who quit medicine to pursue entrepreneurship. She helps high-achieving “creator-preneurs” tap into deep focus and peak performance so they can do more and make more money in less time, allowing them to experience more of what truly matters. Through hypnotherapy and other modalities that increase neuroplasticity, Whitney helps her clients rewrite their limiting beliefs and optimize their mindsets.
Show Highlights:
- Whitney’s transition to coaching from the medical field
- The common scenario of moving into coaching from another profession
- The comparison and contrast between coaching and medicine for those who want to help and serve others
- The necessary “unlearning” for a physician-turned-coach
- Barter coaching creates a platform for practicing and solidifying coaching skills.
- The essence of barter coaching—and how Whitney structures the schedule to accommodate needs
- Building skills and confidence through barter coaching while helping clients see their blocks and work through them
- Barter coaching offers a flexible playground to explore different niches.
- Whitney’s current coaching niche is not at all what she originally intended.
- Whitney’s advice for those interested in barter coaching
Resources:
Connect with Dr. Whitney Chew: Website, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram
Past episodes mentioned: SCS 368 with Dr. Kemia Sarraf, SCS 213 with Dr. Gail Gazelle, and SCS 349 with Dr. Gail Gazelle
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Are you battling a negative narrative? We all need encouragement to get the negative narrative out of the way and shift our mindset to build the life we want. As we continue in our “Spring Break” mode, we are revisiting another great episode that is a favorite of mine from a few years ago with Pam Aks. She is a co-instructor with me at UTD, and she’s one of my favorite people! Her specialty is helping turn your inner critic into your inner support team. Sounds amazing, right? Join us to learn more!
Pam Aks is the founder of What’s Within U, an international coaching practice that supports leaders, entrepreneurs, and coaches to change the “Can’t” mindset to “Oh yeah? Watch me!” Named one of the Top Business Coaches in Phoenix by Influence Digest, Pam has helped many go from feeling demotivated personally and professionally to feeling unstoppable. In addition to coaching, Pam loves to teach and is on faculty at the University of Texas at Dallas in their Executive and Professional Coaching Certificate Program. Pam loves to read and geek out on all things mindset-related, and she’s the author of Developing a Confident Mindset.
You’ll be inspired by Pam as she helps us adopt a more positive and forward-moving mindset.
Show Highlights:
- Pam’s journey into mindset coaching and writing her book
- The workings of the human brain are dependent on what we “feed” them.
- Pam’s advice for our “I can’t” storylines
- Leading with empathy and understanding as a coach
- Pam’s definition of mindset
- Our negative bias keeps us safe and in our comfort zone.
- Changing our negative narrative requires awareness and “tuning in.”
- Using “what ifs” to change the negative narrative
- Fear-based emotions—and how they show up in our bodies
- Using awareness and data to decide what the truth is
- Examples of exercises to do when you feel less than confident and are caught in the negative loop:
- Look for the opposite to see what is really true.
- Be curious to see what you can learn.
- Recognize that you have options and choices.
- We are more susceptible to negative chatter when our batteries are drained.
- Creating a self-care “menu” of appetizers, entrees, desserts, and full means
Resources:
Connect with Pam Aks: Website and Developing a Confident Mindset book
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There is always more to learn about deep listening skills. Whatever your coaching or leadership role, you want those around you to feel seen and heard as you engage with them. In today’s episode, we are revisiting a listener favorite from 2020, Honor the Art of Deep Listening. Join us now!
Tijen Genco, a Master Certified Coach, is the owner of Genco Coaching, where she offers executive/leadership coaching, life coaching, and wellbeing coaching. She joins the show to discuss the barriers that get in the way of deep listening, along with how we can be attentive and fully present with our clients.
Show Highlights:
- Tijen’s journey into coaching
- The core competencies around deep listening—and what does NOT work
- The importance of self-awareness for the coach
- The coach’s responsibilities during a coaching session, while keeping the focus on the client
- The key language of coaching: open-ended questions (not assumptions)
- Understanding the client’s model of the world and its impact
- Deep listening means listening for the essence of what the client says and represents.
- Note-taking during a coaching session? Get Tijen’s take.
- Understanding why the coach’s expressive language must match the client’s
Resources:
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There are many different coaching styles and ways of engaging with our clients to empower them to reach their goals. Today’s show explores an interesting facet of coaching as we welcome a coach who focuses on the release of trauma and tension that build up in our bodies. Join us to learn more!
Amanda Duarte (PCC, NBC-HWC) is a somatic coach who specializes in the field of emotional regulation. With a deep care for the mind-body connection, she empowers individuals to cultivate emotional well-being and navigate life's challenges with greater ease. Amanda's passion for helping others stems from her personal experience of burnout and understanding the impact that unresolved stress and tension can have on our overall well-being. Through the application of TRE (Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises) and coaching, clients learn to tap into their body's innate wisdom and activate the body's natural ability to release stress and restore equilibrium.
Show Highlights:
- Amanda’s curiosity in trauma and tension release exercises (TRE)
- The impacts of stress in our daily lives (“The body keeps the score!”)
- Understanding the process of “release” (from the work of Dr. David Bercelli) and how children and adults do it differently
- Amanda’s work: inviting people to be vulnerable in a safe space that allows for a mind-body connection
- An example of what a TRE session with Amanda might look like, and how it incorporates traditional coaching methods
- Feedback from clients who have incorporated TRE into their lives
- Group settings for TRE allow shared humanity and increased connections.
- The importance for every one of us to be grounded and feel safe
- Benefits and results of TRE
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Email Amanda Duarte amanda@shakeforstressresilience.com
Welcome to another great episode of the STaR Coach Show! Today’s topic is a core concept of coaching: using inquiry to empower others to step into their talents and strengths. Join us to learn practical tools you can implement today!
Bob Tiede is the co-author of the 3rd edition of Leading With Questions, a book filled with step-by-step guidance on the art of questioning and techniques for use with individuals, teams, and organizations. An author of six books, Bob is the content creator behind Leading With Questions, a blog of over 12 years and followed in over 200 countries, testifying to his creativity, innovation, and consistency in bringing content forward. He has been on staff at Cru (formerly Campus Crusade for Christ) for 53 years, working in several roles. Most recently, he marked the 20-year milestone on their US leadership development team. Bob is passionate about helping leaders build their confidence and competence through using coaching techniques with their teams and seeing incredible results. Bob has been married to his wife, Sherry, for 53 years, and they share four adult children and eight incredible grandchildren.
Show Highlights:
- Leading With Questions, the book that changed Bob’s leadership style forever
- A leader is more than a “benevolent dictator.”
- The beginnings of Bob’s blog and his “addiction to exposure”
- The pushback from leaders about leading with questions
- Bob’s 30-second technique to teach anyone to lead with questions
- Leading with questions maximizes opportunities, workable solutions, and teamwork.
- Leadership does NOT mean doing it all and having all the answers.
- The power of might instead of should
- Bob’s example of incredible success and transformation at Walt Disney World Laundry Services when leaders began leading with questions
Resources:
Connect with Bob Tiede: LinkedIn, Facebook, Leading With Questions blog, and Leading With Questions book
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Are you bringing your CEO mindset to your business? What does that look like for you? Today’s show will move the needle for you, whether you are a coach or any other small business owner, and you’ll learn more about wearing your chief executive officer hat correctly!
Deirdre Harter and Carmen Reed-Gilkison are business strategists and the co-founders of Encore Empire, the place where women who believe that entrepreneurship is the most exhilarating and satisfying way to reach financial security and freedom translate their experiences into impact and income while making a difference in the world. In founding Encore Empire, Deirdre and Carmen bring together their backgrounds in business with the financial savvy of a CPA (Deirdre) and the insights of a Certified Online Business Manager and Whole-Person Coach (Carmen).
Show Highlights:
- Three phases of the CEO mindset:
- The startup phase: In this phase, you are intentional in building the foundation of your business with systems, services, and ideal clients. You must plan, review, test, and optimize.
- The fix-up phase: If you are making sales, you have entered the fix-up phase in which you’ll leverage your time, experience growing pains, focus on systems to optimize, get serious about data, and plan for a team.
- The grow-up phase: In this phase, you learn to “delete or delegate,” focus on high-value activities, scale your business, know your financial metrics, and develop courses/programs.
- Work ON your business, not IN your business!
- Progress through the three phases of the CEO mindset is not always linear!
- Takeaways from Deirdre: “Stewardship is key. Separate yourself emotionally from your business and understand your role and responsibilities.”
- Takeaways from Carmen: “Lead with curiosity. The journey of an entrepreneur is not linear.”
Resources:
Connect with Deirdre, Carmen, and Encore Empire: Website, LinkedIn (Deirdre), LinkedIn (Carmen), Facebook (Encore Empire), and Facebook (Empire of Unstoppable Women)
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Do you need a jumpstart to help you get traction and make things happen? This is the show to inspire and motivate you. You can achieve far more than you ever thought possible! My expert guest helps us understand the difference between dreams and goals—and how to achieve them to the fullest. Join us to learn more!
Laura Seybold is the founder and president of Shine Consulting, an executive coaching and consulting firm focused on enabling individuals, teams, and organizations to reach their greatest potential. Laura understands the impact leaders have on employee engagement, retention, and organizational culture. She is passionate about teaching leadership and coaching leaders so they can have a more positive impact and influence on others. She hosts the Leadership Rediscovered podcast, where she interviews leaders from different industries and walks of life to share lessons learned along the leadership journey. In today’s show, we dive deep into goals and how we move from wishing and dreaming to making them happen.
Show Highlights:
- Laura’s journey into entrepreneurship, creativity, and her leadership philosophy: “You can’t lead others if you don’t know how to lead yourself.”
- The difference between dreams (the blueprint) and goals (the construction team)
- Laura’s B-STAR framework for goal-setting success: Believable, Specific, Time-bound, Accountable, and Rewarding
- Creating coaching programs that fit clients’ needs–and how Laura developed “Finish It!”
- Laura’s passion for moms who put their dreams on hold to serve others in their lives
- Laura’s learnings as she developed her virtual program, retreats, masterclasses, and one-on-one coaching offerings
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Connect with Laura Seybold
Website, LinkedIn, and Facebook
How much attention are you paying to your brand? Whether you are an internal or external coach or a leader in any capacity, you have a personal brand. How can we build confidence and create clarity around our brand while staying in alignment with ourselves? My guest today has helpful tips to share! Join us to learn more about sustainable ways to approach personal brand development with authenticity and intention.
Emma Donovan is the co-founder and brand strategist of Dapper, a brand studio focused on how the human experience shapes brand development. She is an established professional with 15+ years of experience in brand strategy, content writing, and entrepreneurship. At Dapper, she and her team focus on creating space for clients to gain clarity of purpose and confidence to own their authentic stories. Her ability to identify and seize an opportunity has played a significant role in her entrepreneurial journey, and Emma’s superpower lies in injecting enthusiasm, vibrancy, and playfulness into any situation. She excels in creating new products and collaborating with brilliant minds to connect the dots for clients.
Show Highlights:
- Your personal brand is not a logo, but it’s how you show up in the world.
- Imposter syndrome is the first hurdle to overcome in brand building.
- It’s okay (and preferred!) to be vulnerable, relatable, and authentic!
- Embrace the winding path that gave you experience and expertise.
- Steps to build your personal brand: curate your brand, share your story with joy, position yourself to attract the right clients, and stand out from the others.
- In social media video posts, “natural and engaging is better than being perfect.”
- Find your confidence in brand building through clarity of purpose.
- Brand building is a process; give yourself grace and time to build momentum.
- Emma’s advice about finding balance in being responsible and consistent in posting content while not overdoing it
- Conversations build confidence; you can utilize LinkedIn Live, Zoom, Google Meets, etc.
- Emma’s tips about writer’s block, accountability, and using LinkedIn
Resources:
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Most coaches don’t set out to be coaches. A consistent background among many coaches is the move from some other kind of work where we have grown and developed as human beings before moving into the coaching world. The transition for many coaches involves moving from the corporate sector into entrepreneurship, a journey that has its various challenges and experiences. Whatever your coaching role now and wherever you aspire to go in the future, you’ll find today’s interview to be helpful and informative. Join us!
Susan Daniel is a devoted talent development professional who is committed to unlocking the potential of individuals, teams, and organizations. Her journey began at Walt Disney World Resort, setting the stage for a fulfilling career path. Specializing in leadership development, experiential learning, facilitation, and performance coaching, Susan has refined her skills across various roles. She excels in designing, managing, and coaching various leadership and team development programs, all aimed at enriching personal and organizational effectiveness. Away from her corporate achievements, Susan is an avid fitness enthusiast, engaging in activities like hiking, yoga, Pilates, and strength training. Her dedication to nutrition extends to preparing healthy, nourishing meals for friends and family, and her adventurous side shines through her extensive travels with her husband as they explore the great outdoors and seek new experiences.
Show Highlights:
- Two paths that might lead to external coaching as an entrepreneurial career
- How we are myth-busting several common misconceptions around making a move into coaching
- The importance of networks and community in establishing support and continued growth
- How this interview came about in an unusual way when Susan attended a conference where Meg was speaking
- What Susan has noticed about the differences in being an internal vs. external coach around marketing and branding
- Why feedback is just as important for an external coach–but it takes intention to get feedback
- How you can set yourself up for success as an external coach while you are still coaching internally
- How Susan found ways to pave the way for a smooth transition as she got her coaching certification
- How Susan is finding ways to challenge herself to continue to grow and develop
- How structure and systems can help you be more efficient and effective as an external coach
Resources:
Connect with Susan Daniel: LinkedIn and Facebook
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Welcome! We are wrapping up the month of February with an encouraging show and another inspiring guest. You’ll be challenged to think about the choices you make in life and how you can be more proactive than reactive, especially when life hands us difficulties. Whatever your role and however you show up in your life, you don’t want to miss this dose of practical wisdom. Join us!
Gerald Leonard is an author, CEO, and jazz musician. He brings all of these roles and skills into his presentations, writing, and work. In today’s show, he shares his journey of overcoming a crippling illness to create his own success story. He teaches us a new perspective on life through his analogy of being caught in the traffic of life or moving into the HOV lane to adopt a different mindset and create a better result. He’s written A Symphony of Choices (A Business Parable), Culture is the Bass, and Workplace Jazz.
Show Highlights:
- Why mindfulness, productivity, and goal achievement are not as much WHAT you do as WHO you are
- Highlights of Gerald’s background: music, ministry, IT work, and a crippling illness right before his TEDx talk
- How Gerald made mindset shifts and learned new concepts to face his biggest challenge in life–and turn his mess into his message
- Specific choices Gerald made to “get better, not bitter”
- How Gerald discovered one simple daily practice that rewired and reprogrammed his brain
- What it means to live life in the HOV lane instead of being “stuck in stressful traffic”
- How to narrow your focus on success instead of drifting along with the waves of life
- Gerald’s takeaways: “Identify your #1 goal and the #1 person who is good at that. Buy their book, read their material, listen to their programs, and learn all that you can from them. Pursue them. You never know what might happen. Take one step at a time.”
Resources:
Connect with Gerald Leonard: Website, LinkedIn, and Facebook
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Are there lessons to be learned from the world of hip-hop? The answer is YES! Today’s topic should expand your lens and encourage you to look at things a little differently regarding how culture influences the way we show up in life. Join us to learn more!
Dr. Tori Ellis is a native New Yorker who has always been inspired to lead and guide others in the educational and workplace realms. Witnessing her family’s efforts to support and empower youth in the community from an early age, Tori decided to build upon that legacy and carve out her unique path. Pursuing psychology and criminal justice as an undergrad, she went on to earn her master’s degree in industrial-organizational psychology and a doctorate in human and organizational psychology. Positioned as a millennial in contemporary society, Tori is dedicated to providing her peers and succeeding generations with the necessary tools to become exemplary members of society. Through a focus on wellness, positive psychology, and entrepreneurship, she is committed to holistic personal development and every effort that inspires and empowers children around the world to pursue their passions and be their best selves in every area of life. Being inspired and motivated by the hip-hop industry led her to write her best-selling book, The Sound of Business: Seeing Entrepreneurship through Hip Hop.
Show Highlights:
- How entrepreneurship and leadership are connected to hip-hop
- How Dr. Tori learned about healthy leadership, influence, and growth
- What it means to “be authentically me” in connection and impact to the world
- 3 key elements Dr. Tori found that are common to entrepreneurship and hip-hop:
- Evolving over time
- Falling in line with demands
- Making future advancements
- Why we have to pay attention to the feedback we receive
- How hip-hop and coaching have common parallels around self-expression, strength, courage, and struggle
- Takeaways from Dr. Tori: “Continue to be your authentic self, trust in everything that you envisioned, and know that you will get to the top if you continue to believe and put your best foot forward.”
Resources:
Connect with Dr. Tori Ellis: The Sound of Business website and book, Instagram, and LinkedIn
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Visit the STaR Coach Show YouTube Channel!
Explore past episodes and other resources at www.STaRcoachshow.com.
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Happy Valentine’s Day! On this day when we celebrate love and relationships, I want us to focus on the power of self-love because the relationship we have with ourselves is foundational to how we show up with others. We don’t give self-love enough attention because we are wired as humans to focus on what we are doing wrong and where we are lacking. When we accept ourselves for who we are and recognize our worth, it has a healthy impact on our esteem and confidence.
I highly recommend the work of Kristin Neff around self-compassion, which is the companion to self-love that encourages us to take care of ourselves, both physically and emotionally. The concept of self-love impacts how we make choices, set boundaries, and treat ourselves with kindness and care. Let’s explore more about this topic in today’s show!
Show Highlights:
- Why self-love is not indulgence, selfishness, or narcissism
- How to understand self-love, self-compassion, and self-care
- Proven benefits of healthy self-love and self-care practices
- Why we are more resilient when we are in a place of self-love and self-compassion
- Why self-love presents an opportunity for personal growth and development
- Practical steps to cultivate self-love:
- Be intentional about finding enjoyment, getting good sleep, having physical movement, etc.
- Increase awareness of your routines and patterns.
- Turn self-criticism into a compliment.
- Focus on gratitude.
- Use affirmations.
- Celebrate wins.
- Consider taking a strengths assessment to spotlight your strengths. (Check out The STaR Coach Show Episodes 31 and 131 about Character Strengths with Dr. Ryan Niemiec.)
- Be aware of what drains your self-love—and practice mindfulness instead. (Check out Episode 349, Mindfulness Practices with Dr. Gail Gazelle.)
Resources:
Mentioned in this episode: VIA Character Strengths Assessment, STaR Coach Show Episodes 31, 131, and 349
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Visit the STaR Coach Show YouTube Channel!
Explore past episodes and other resources at www.STaRcoachshow.com.
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Is your marketing plan delivering the results you want? Do you have a marketing plan, or are you guilty of “random acts of marketing”? Today’s show covers the importance of having a structured plan in place to make your marketing process a foundational piece of your business success. If you need practical and straightforward guidance for setting better intentions and seeing better results from your marketing dollars, you don’t want to miss today’s show! Join us!
Austin LaRoche is the CEO of ATAK Interactive and the creator of M2S (Marketing-to-Sales) Framework, a B2B growth system that synchronizes strategy and execution in a simple pragmatic plan. Based in Pasadena, California, ATAK Interactive is a full-service marketing agency with employees and clients across the globe. Austin is an engaged entrepreneur with a passion for helping other business owners see their visions come to light, and his company motto is “Strength and Structure.” He and his team watch their clients grow from random acts of marketing into an organized operation that can measure and optimize success at every stage of their journey. Austin describes himself as naturally creative and biologically unorganized, traits that have driven him to build frameworks in every area of his life to keep him accountable for his goals and long-term vision. He doesn’t just preach “Strength in Structure” to his clients, but he carries out the mantra in everything he does. You’ll learn specific examples of a marketing plan that brings you “strength in structure.”
Show Highlights:
- What Austin enjoys most about his work with business owners
- The four elements of your business foundation: vision, communications, data, and buyer personas
- How Austin simplifies the structure of B2B (business-to-business) marketing, which easily applies to B2C (business-to-consumer) marketing
- How lead generation fluctuates within different industries
- How to get clear about “delighting your customers”
- Why we should stop our random acts of marketing
- How to use authentic ways to connect through marketing by providing value
- Successful tactics that share your authentic messaging:
- Make the customer the hero in your story.
- Be intentional about asking for testimonials and reviews.
- Four buckets into which every marketing effort should fit (in one or more): to attract prospects, to convert prospects into an opportunity, to close the opportunity into a customer, or to delight the customer
- Austin’s takeaway advice about habits, quarterly systems, and processes
Resources:
Connect with Meg
Check out the STaR Coach Show Mentor Programs!
Visit the STaR Coach Show YouTube Channel!
Explore past episodes and other resources at www.STaRcoachshow.com.
Explore the STaR Coach Community and see what’s available there for you!
Connect with Austin LaRoche
Website
No matter what work we do and what passions we pursue in life, we must manage our time, energy, and confidence to be successful. For coaches and others in the helping professions, these management skills are important to us AND our clients. We can help others reach their goals by empowering them to examine how they engage with their time, energy, and confidence. Join us to learn more from today’s inspiring guest!
April Roberts is a coach who helps Gen X women achieve more abundance, love, spirituality, and alignment in connecting with their femininity. She’s a high-achieving former attorney and financial advisor who discovered her genuine desire and enthusiasm to help people think differently about the way they engage with their choices and intentions in life. April hosts The Vixen Voice podcast, where she shares stories of Gen X women who have shed the traditional definition of success to pursue their life’s true passion. Along with much wisdom and inspiration, April shares specific strategies to apply in time management, identifying energy drainers in your life, and finding what truly lights you up.
Show Highlights:
- Why knowing yourself and how you operate is the key to understanding your actions and reactions
- What April learned about herself and how she best operates for success in time management
- How to show up as your best self–even for the energy-draining activities in your life
- How to fill up your energy tank by managing time, energy, and confidence with a color-coded calendar
- April’s tips for managing your color-coded calendar:
- Use 3-5 colors maximum (Don’t overdo it!)
- Review your calendar monthly.
- Use time blocking.
- Sandwich an undesirable activity between two things you enjoy.
- Reflect weekly and evaluate what makes a day flow for you—and listen to the wisdom of your emotions.
- How a morning routine can clear out mental and energetic clutter and set the stage for peace and calm each day
- How to understand your best self vs. your shadow self
- Why Zoom and video conferencing burn us out with overstimulation
- Why strategic breaks are necessary for rest and reset during the day
- How to set intentions about how we want to show up and set graceful boundaries
- How to look for wins and positives each day
- How April’s “Six Minutes to Change Your Life” exercise is a simple hack to improve your life!
Resources:
Connect with Meg
Connect with April Roberts: Website and Podcast, Instagram, and LinkedIn
Sign up for April’s 3-Day Money Mindset Challenge! (February 6-8)
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Connect with April Roberts
Website and Podcast
Previous Episode Mentioned:
STaR Coach Show 247 on Human Design
When we think too much in our coaching, we break the presence with our clients. We make it about our identity as a coach instead of about the work the client is doing–and that’s not good coaching. I’m happy to welcome Dr. Marcia Reynolds to the STaR Coach Show for her third visit! She has much wisdom to share with us about helping us be in partnership with our clients. Join us to learn more!
Dr. Marcia Reynolds is a Master Certified Coach who has trained and coached leaders in 43 countries. She is the author of four international bestsellers: Outsmart Your Brain, The Discomfort Zone, Wander Woman, and Coach the Person, Not the Problem. In today’s show, we focus on her newest book, Breakthrough Coaching: Creating Lightbulb Moments in Your Coaching Conversations. Marcia holds a doctorate in organizational psychology and two master’s degrees in learning psychology and communications. She was the fifth ICF president, is in ICF’s Circle of Distinction, and teaches for coaching schools in the US, Asia, and Europe.
Show Highlights:
- How a coach’s identity and a client’s identity form a multi-layered issue
- How we define situations based on our self-perception
- How a breakthrough moment in coaching can be a subtle shift
- How a coach can become a thinking partner with their client
- Why a coach must make space for new awareness
- How a coach can become a thought disrupter and invite clients into discomfort
- Why maintaining presence and curiosity with the client equals safety for them
- Why Marcia wrote Breakthrough Coaching–and what she hopes the book accomplishes
- How a coach can partner with a client in understanding
- Takeaways from Marcia: “Breakthrough Coaching is not about being perfect; it’s about being present. The most important thing is to be compassionately curious with your client.”
Resources:
Connect with Meg Rentschler
Visit the STaR Coach Show YouTube Channel!
Explore past episodes and other resources at www.STaRcoachshow.com.
Explore the STaR Coach Community and see what’s available there for you!
Connect with Dr. Marcia Reynolds
Website
Breakthrough Coaching: Creating Lightbulb Moments in Your Coaching Conversations
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What habits and routines are you creating that will bring you the success you want in your life? How can you partner with others to help them do the same? The steps we take each day collectively add up to make a huge difference; don’t we want those steps to move us forward to more success? Join us to learn more in this episode!
Ben Kirk is a highly sought-after productivity and high-performance expert known for his direct approach to helping individuals and businesses achieve their goals. His mantra is, “Do Better, Be Better, Win the Day,” which encapsulates his self-discipline, consistency, and accountability philosophy. He uses an innovative, custom-built, world-class digital platform that allows his clients to easily track their progress and see tangible results. His methods are designed to help his clients implement incremental changes that grow their success exponentially. Ben firmly believes that small changes create a major impact. His clients know him as their “Productivity PT,” and his accountability niche is tailored to the busy professional. He offers efficient, weekly 15-minute sessions that focus on the performance of the previous week, identify obstacles, and outline high-value tasks for the week ahead. All of this is tied to his clients’ quarterly and yearly goals, which were created using his proven method and digital platform. His work is not just about improving productivity, but it’s transforming lives.
Show Highlights:
- Where to begin to help an overwhelmed person set goals and form good habits
- How to implement an immediate action drill, or brain dump, by using the Eisenhower Matrix
- Questions to ask a client who isn’t reaching their goals that will identify the habits they want to establish
- How to be realistic in setting goals and establishing new habits and routines
- How Ben helps his clients get clear about the goals that will help them move forward (his Goal-Setting Challenge)
- How to identify daily activities (little steps taken with consistency) that can propel us forward
- Why a weekly review process is one of the biggest success habits to put in place
- What it was like for Ben to develop an app
- Ben’s takeaways: “Start at the 30,000-foot level in looking at your goals and break them down into quarterly/monthly/weekly goals and daily tasks.”
Resources:
Connect with Meg Rentschler:
STaR Coach Show YouTube Channel!
Explore past episodes and other resources at www.STaRcoachshow.com.
Visit the STaR Coach Community and see what’s available there for you!
Connect with Ben Kirk:
Website
There is much buzz circulating around the topic of artificial intelligence, and if we want to stay relevant in today’s world, we cannot overlook its value as it relates to our coaching profession. Can we use AI ethically as an asset to build our business? I say emphatically, YES! AI is a valuable tool that can help streamline our operations, enhance customer service, and provide helpful data to drive decisions about product development and offerings.
In this episode, we will explore how we can start small with specific AI strategies to create a big bang in our businesses in concrete ways. In engaging with AI tools, we have to break the blocks we have around trying something new and take steps forward that may pull us out of our comfort zone. Another key issue with using AI tools is that we must remain ethical and responsible as AI tools develop and evolve in the future/; AI-generated content still needs to be in our words and carry our voice. Join me for this interesting look at how AI tools might be just the boost your business needs in 2024!
Show Highlights:
- What is AI?
- How I’m finding AI tools to be helpful in facing “blank paper syndrome”
- How AI can help enhance your social media presence to connect with your ideal audience (Meet Edgar makes it easy!)
- How AI can help create compelling giveaways that resonate with your audience and bring them into your circle
- How AI can be customized to your perspective, your audience, your beliefs, etc.
- Why we need to put AI-generated content in our own words to reflect our voice
- How using AI tools as a coach is very much like the reflection we do regularly with our clients
- How AI can help identify hot topics and trends that are important to your audience
- How AI can be used to craft dynamic proposals
- Where to start in using AI tools if you are a newbie
- My top ethical considerations in using AI tools to share MY information
- My challenge to you: “Start to play with AI tools and have fun exploring what they can do for you!”
Resources:
Mentioned in this episode: Meet Edgar
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Public speaking is something most people either hate or love. In fact, the fear of public speaking ranks at the top of the list for many people! Wherever you fall on the spectrum, the truth is that you can increase your reach, visibility, influence, AND income through public speaking. Want to learn how to speak from a stage to attract others into your circle? Join us to learn more on today’s show!
Kim Carpenter is an executive and leadership coach with whom I’ve been privileged to work in various roles for more than 10 years. With a solid commitment to awakening unbounded human potential, Kim has spent the past 15 years helping business leaders and their teams hone their leadership and communication skills to navigate change and create breakthrough results. She is the founder and principal of People at the Center, a boutique consulting firm that helps organizations develop thriving company cultures that align with their values and boost their bottom line. In this episode, Kim shares her proven strategies and tips to help you go from hating public speaking to thriving and multiplying your income through this platform.
Show Highlights:
- How Kim began as a public speaker
- How to build your public speaking muscles through practice
- Why stories are the most engaging parts of an inspiring speech
- Tips for telling compelling stories:
- Know what the juicy part of your story is—and leave out irrelevant details.
- Use sensory details.
- Don’t be afraid of humor.
- How to find speaking engagements
- The results Kim has seen in her business because of speaking engagements
- How to use social media as a speaking platform
- Kim’s takeaway: “Just get started!”
Resources:
Visit the STaR Coach Show YouTube Channel!
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Connect with Kim Carpenter and People at the Center:
Website
Click HERE for Kim’s examples ofPublic Speaking Resources.
As 2023 is winding to a close, I’ll remind you that this episode is our final one before a holiday break at the end of the year. We will be back every Wednesday in 2024 with new episodes packed full of strategies, tools, and resources for coaches and leaders. We wish each listener the very happiest of holidays and much joy during this special season! Be kind to yourself and enjoy time with the special people in your life!
Today’s special episode is an interview with a valued friend and colleague. I’ve been able to serve as his instructor in coach training, and I’ve been privileged to work very closely with him for the past 18 months. Tom Burland is a seasoned professional with over 45 years of experience in building high-performing teams that drive impactful results. Throughout his career, Tom has held various leadership positions in all aspects of sales. One of his top passions is employee engagement and fostering emotional commitment in teams and organizations. He believes that these factors are crucial for organizational success and personal growth, so he developed and implemented his program within his organization. Serving as a trusted advisor and partner for organizations looking to elevate their performance through a coaching culture, Tom has positioned himself as the go-to expert on creating empowered, energetic, dynamic organizations through the power of coaching. I’m thrilled to introduce Tom to our listeners today!
Tom Burland’s Bio:
Tom Burland is a seasoned professional with over 45 years of experience in building high-performing teams that drive impactful results. Throughout his career, Tom has held various leadership positions in sales, including direct sales teams, indirect channels, and overseeing sales enablement efforts.
One of Tom's passions is employee engagement, adoption, and emotional commitment. He believes that these factors are crucial for both organizational success and personal growth. Recognizing the lack of understanding and training in this area, Tom has dedicated himself to educating managers on how to cultivate these qualities in their team members.
14 years ago, Tom embarked on a coaching journey that initially focused on Deal Coaching within a sales methodology. This thrilling role involved collaborating with senior managers to coach them on effectively implementing the methodology in deals ranging from $50 million to $500 million.
Tom firmly believes that driving a coaching culture within any organization requires several critical elements. First and foremost, executive support and investment are essential to create a foundation for success. Additionally, leadership must actively engage in the coaching process. Having a core team of professionally trained coaches is crucial, along with a trusted partner to train front-line to senior managers in effective coaching techniques. A structured support system, which includes mentor coaches, observation, and systemic capture of coaching, is also necessary. Finally, measurement through employee surveys and performance evaluations allows for ongoing improvement and accountability.
With his extensive experience and deep understanding of coaching and team dynamics, Tom Burland is a trusted advisor and partner for organizations looking to elevate their performance through a coaching culture. His expertise and passion for driving transformative results make him a sought-after resource in the industry.
Show Highlights:
- How Tom cultivated his vision of changing organizations through coaching
- Why Tom focused on employee engagement and emotional commitment as the top two factors in bringing transformation in organizations
- How Tom was impacted by several mentors, advisors, and leaders on his journey to becoming a coach
- How Tom and his team developed and implemented his coaching program in the middle of “The Great Resignation” by teaching leaders to use coaching skills
- How the program utilized mentor coaches and specific tools to support leaders
- The impacts of Tom’s program regarding attrition rates and employee engagement
- What this program has meant for Tom personally
- Tom’s key takeaways in developing a coaching culture in an organization
Resources:
Connect with Tom on LinkedIn
Mentioned by Tom: Coaching Salespeople into Sales Champions by Keith Rosen
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This is our final episode for 2023 but catch us in 2024 every Wednesday for a new STaR Coach episode!
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What is the best way to connect with your audience? It all comes down to video! If you are not using live stream videos as part of your marketing strategy, you are losing out on massive opportunities. Join us in today’s show to find out why video is the best way to quickly and effectively engage with your audience.
Tanya Smith is a premier video coach, savvy business strategist, and the host of Stream Like A Boss TV. She is one of the most sought-after speakers on content marketing, known for her soothing voice and magnetic presence, and she understands what entrepreneurs need to do to drive business engagement. Tanya’s weekly live stream show, Stream Like A Boss (8 pm Eastern on Thursdays), is where she offers strategies and tools to help entrepreneurs attract people into their world and engage them. In today’s show, Tanya covers common objections about live stream content and techniques for diversifying video content to attract your audience and turn them into engaged clients. Tanya first joined us for Episode 24, Social Media Marketing, and I’m thrilled to welcome her back to the show to share more of her expertise.
Show Highlights:
- Why live streaming is vitally important to humanize your brand and create a genuine connection
- How to determine what your live stream content should be (Don’t be afraid to experiment!)
- Tanya’s Five E’s about the purpose of live stream video: educate, encourage, elevate, entertain, and evoke emotion
- How to diversity your content on different platforms according to your target audience
- The most common objections about using live video–and how to overcome them
- Tanya’s advice about using Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn for live video—and why using a third-party video service provider is easier than you might think
- Tanya’s tips and takeaways about getting started with live streaming with consistency, commitment, and why your interactions are the key to engaging with your audience
Resources:
Connect with Tanya Smith: Website, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Stream Like A Boss TV
*Catch Tanya’s first appearance on Episode 24 (Social Media Marketing) of the STaR Coach Show!
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Throughout our lives, we all experience a barrage of small “t” traumas, and when facing a crisis, we do whatever we can to get through it. However, once that crisis has passed, people often continue trying to deal with the trauma to re-establish their stability.
In March of 2021, amidst all the challenges of the COVID crisis, I had the privilege of interviewing the remarkable Dr. Kemia Sarraf. In our discussion, we dove into the reality of trauma, and Kermia explained how to mitigate its impact. That interview was one of our most popular and impactful interviews ever. This week, we revisit it.
Kemia, also known by many as Dr. K, is a physician, educator, and leadership coach with a sub-specialty in leadership and coaching on severe burnout, toxic stress, and trauma. She is the founder and CEO of Lodestar, a professional coaching and consulting firm using a 360-degree trauma-aware container for coaching, coach training, leadership training, and justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion facilitation.
Join us today to learn from Dr. K’s profound insights as she weaves her personal stories into her extensive coaching experience to navigate the delicate balance between coaching and therapy. This interview will enlighten you and hopefully leave you feeling lighter and more empowered!
Show Highlights:
- Kermia shares her personal experience of trauma and explains how it impacted her life and her work
- What coaching teaches us
- How the effects of burnout go far deeper than just the symptoms
- How toxic stress impacts individuals and communities
- The importance of recognizing and addressing small “t” traumas
- What is the difference between coaching and therapy?
- Why it is essential to understand trauma without necessarily having to know every detail about its cause
- How grounding techniques can help people in the midst of a crisis regain control
- Kermia shares her personal experience with ACEs (Adverse Childhood Events)
- Why is trauma-informed counseling essential for healing?
- How trauma mitigation coaches help people recognize their agency and develop the necessary skills to manage traumatic encounters
Bio:
Dr. Kemia Sarraf - or "Dr. K" as she is most often known - is an internist, educator, and physician & leadership coach whose subspecialty paradigm focuses on leadership and coaching in and beyond severe burnout, toxic stress, and the trauma of these times. She is the founder and CEO of Lodestar, a professional coaching and consulting firm that utilizes a 360° trauma-aware container for coaching, coach training, leadership training, and Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion facilitation.
Dr. Sarraf received her Medical Degree and Master of Public Health at the University of Utah School of Medicine and completed her residency in Internal Medicine at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine. She serves as Adjunct Asst. Professor at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine where she works in the office of Equity, Diversity & Inclusion.
A gifted storyteller and much-sought speaker, Dr. K's communication style is deeply intuitive, rooted in both the power of connection and the knowledge that intratraumatic growth is not just aspirational, but possible. Weaving her background and deep understanding of trauma and the multivariate ways in which it "shows up" with her skills as an executive coach, Dr. K's trademarked coaching paradigm has a lens tuned to the vicarious or secondary trauma that is a part of daily life for high achieving, hard-driving, highly skilled professionals in any industry.
Blending extensive experience with balance, humor, and endless empathy, Dr. K has helped countless physicians and professionals across industries (re)discover their professional pride, joy, and internal balance. She is an expert strategist who assists clients in discovering and naming what is essential and setting a path for their True North.
"In the end, it’s really very simple," she says, "we all need a deeper bench."
Kemia and her physician-husband have been married for more than two decades and live on a small, working farm in Central Illinois, where they are raising four sons and too many farm critters to count.
Resources:
Links to connect with Dr. Kemia Sarraf:
On her website
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What does it mean to live a truly happy and fulfilled life? As coaches, that is something we all need to consider.
My guest for today, Daniel Mangena, helps people live abundant, joyful, and purpose-driven lives. He is the CEO of Dream With Dan and Dream Inc., in addition to being the author of four best-selling books, a radio host, an international speaker, a master money manifester, and the creator of the Beyond Intention Paradigm.
Daniel is the ideal guest to kick off Thanksgiving week because he embodies the true essence of gratitude! He has a wealth of experience to share today, so join us as we dive into the art of dreaming big and explore how he crafted his unique brand and the mindset that drives his success.
Stay tuned to learn the keys to realizing your dreams and unlocking a happy, fulfilling, and proactive life!
Show highlights:
- How discovering purpose and fulfillment led Daniel to a more effortless engagement with money and life
- Why we must recognize the value we bring to others, even though we may feel unworthy
- Why is it essential to let go of our limiting beliefs?
- Daniel explains how his Money DNA framework helps people overcome unworthiness and optimize their unique strengths
- How acts of service and physical touch can help reprogram unworthiness within the unconscious mind
- The importance of energetic alignment and authenticity in transformational work
- How coaches can heal their relationships with money
- How his Money Game Formula helped Daniel manifest $10,000 in 5 days
- How embracing the ups and downs in life when facing adversity helps us thrive
Bio: Daniel Mangena
ENTREPRENEUR LEADERSHIP NETWORK® CONTRIBUTOR
CEO of Dream With Dan & Dream Inc
Dan Mangena is a best-selling author, radio host, international speaker, master money manifester, and the creator of the Beyond Intention Paradigm. He is completely self-made and has spent decades perfecting his world-class coaching to help others live an abundant, joyful, purpose-driven life.
Resources:
Dream With Dan
Manifestation Film
The Dream With Dan Podcast
Daniel’s books
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As 2023 winds down, many people are dealing with much more than shopping and planning holiday celebrations. The struggles with depression, anxiety, and loneliness intensify during this time, and these struggles are a real obstacle for many people. The US Surgeon General recently spoke about a study on the loneliness epidemic here in the US and how this pressing issue affects millions of people across the globe. The study revealed that 33% of the world’s population is lonely!
How can the coaching partnership help turn the tides on loneliness? Let’s talk about what loneliness looks like and how we, as coaches, can use our conversations and relationships to bring awareness and help counter this epidemic. Join us!
Show Highlights:
- Factors that have led to an increase in the patterns of loneliness: the COVID-19 pandemic, modern technology, loss of connection and human interactions, rushed lifestyles, remote work, conveniences, etc.
- Why Dr. Vivek Murthy, the US Surgeon General, recently spoke of loneliness as “so much more than a bad feeling”
- The costs of loneliness as a public health issue
- How loneliness might affect the coach/client relationship
- How a coach can detect loneliness in a client, normalize it, and increase connection opportunities
- The facts: People crave connection and are wired for community; everyone wants to be seen and heard.
- What coaches and leaders can do to help connect others and be the bridge to change the loneliness gap
Resources:
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Are you a judger or a learner in the questions you ask? As coaches, we should always be refining our skills with a methodology that we bring forward for our clients, and no one exemplifies that better than my guest today. Join us to learn the importance of the questions we ask and the mindset behind them!
Marilee Adams, Ph.D., is an award-winning author and pioneer in the fields of inquiry-based coaching, leadership, and organizational effectiveness. She is also an executive coach, coach educator, keynote speaker, and the originator of the Question Thinking™ methodologies. She is the CEO/Founder of the Inquiry Institute, a consultant for organizations large and small, an affiliate instructor for Weatherhead Executive Education at Case-Western Reserve University, and served for ten years as an Adjunct Professor of Leadership at the School of Public Affairs at American University. Her bestselling book, Change Your Questions, Change Your Life: 12 Powerful Tools for Leadership, Coaching, and Results, is a mainstay for coaches everywhere.
Dr. Adams and her team at the Inquiry Institute provide training for coaches, leaders, and teams in the Question Thinking™ methodology, working with many high-powered organizations and leaders across the world.
Show Highlights:
- How Marilee uses the Choice Map as a multipurpose tool–get your free copy today by taking a short survey at www.inquiryinstitute.com
- The basics of Question Thinking™
- Why Marilee feels a responsibility to educate and empower clients far beyond coaching
- An exercise to understand the Question Thinking™ model of two mindsets, the judger and the learner
- How Marilee uses the tool in a session with a client to guide them with questions in a targeted way
- An example of the power of a question to shift perspective, possibility, and mood
- Why we can’t get stuck in the effort to ask “the perfect question”
- Why does asking, “What do I want this question to accomplish?” have a different impact and focus?
- Takeaways from Marilee in the form of impactful quotes from her book: “A question not asked is a door not opened. Every question missed is a potential opportunity lost. Every question missed is a potential crisis waiting to happen. Great results begin with great questions.”
Resources:
Connect with Dr. Marilee Adams and the Inquiry Institute: Website
Get your copy of the free Choice Map here.
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Have you wondered how you can use paid advertising in your coaching business? Experts abound on this topic with a multitude of opinions about how to best grow your business. My goal is to give you valuable information to aid in making the best decisions for you, and running paid ads is, without a doubt, the best way to grow your business. Want to know more? Join us for today’s STaR Coach Show!
In 2013, Luke Charlton (aka The Aussie Hermit) decided to quit his comfortable six-figure-per-year government job, move halfway around the world, and start an online business as a coach. Thinking he knew enough about marketing to survive in one of the most expensive cities in the world (London), he quickly realized this online thing wasn’t as easy as it looked. Through years of trial and error that left him struggling and nearly going bankrupt, Luke finally discovered the formula for online success. Since then he has helped over 4,000 coaches grow their businesses online. In addition, he has been featured in The Six-Figure Coach Magazine, has spent over $16 million on advertising, has helped clients generate over $50 million in sales, and has written winning ads for world-leading experts such as Bob Proctor, Mike Dillard, Neil Patel, Grace Lever, and many more. Now he spends his days as a hermit living somewhere near Byron Bay as he runs his ad agency and teaches other coaches how to get consistently high-paying clients with paid advertising.
Show Highlights:
- Luke’s advice about profitably scaling your ad campaigns:
- Start with your message.
- Know your market.
- Link your program to what the market wants.
- Connect your message to the market.
- How Luke structures sales funnels to provide a solution for the market
- Luke’s example of sales ad success through addressing a market fear and providing a solution
- Tips on how to “go to the market”
- How to take a beginner mindset in starting to run paid ads
- How to assess your KPIs when running paid ads by tracking your cost per appointment, cost per click, and cost per opt-in
- What success looks like in running paid ads
- How to optimize your closing rate success
Resources:
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Are you living your truth in the way you show up for your coaching clients? As coaches, it is essential that we listen and communicate well to help others be the best they can be along their journey, and no matter what our level of experience, there are always more opportunities for learning and growth. Join us to learn how to show up as the best and truest version of yourself!
Mike Green is the author of Wandermust: A Hero’s Journey to Seven Truths. He is a global keynote speaker, facilitator, and Master Certified Coach with over 30 years and 11,000 hours of international human performance experience. As an “adventurer of leadership,” Mike has traveled to and worked with individuals and organizations in over 63 countries on all seven continents in a multicultural array of top corporations and outfits. From this depth of experience in living an adventurous outdoor life, Mike coaches his clients to identify their leadership truths, be more congruent leaders, and create better experiences for the people they lead.
Show Highlights:
- What it means to live out “your coaching truth”
- Highlights of Mike’s own “hero’s journey” (Hint: It began in Aisle 4 of his hometown grocery store.)
- How a 14-day Outward Bound dog sledding program changed teenage Mike’s life and built momentum for the rest of his life
- How Mike learned to identify his self-limiting thoughts and change them as he took his next steps into criminal justice, teaching, and coaching
- What happened for Mike when he wrote his book, Wandermust
- What Mike wants listeners to hear and understand about defining “your coaching truth”
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Books mentioned by Mike
The Rihla by Ibn Battuta
The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
Today’s show will help your business-building perspective as we dive deep into marketing. My guest will move the dial for you whether you are building a coaching business or using your entrepreneurial skills in other ways. You’ll learn valuable information about building your marketing team to spur the future growth of your business. Join us!
Nikki Nash is a master marketer who is known for crafting mind-blowing strategies, assembling kick-butt marketing teams, and freeing visionary CEOs from the marketing grind. Her previous work was in helping Fortune 500 companies and tech startups create more money. Now, she spends her time helping business owners meet their goals and reach their dreams. She hosts the podcast, Market Your Genius, and has written a book by the same name. You’ll learn what to consider in building and hiring a rockstar marketing team as you hear Nikki’s innovative approach to filling your programs with dream clients.
Show Highlights:
- What it means to have a rock star marketing team
- Why YOU (the business owner) are the marketing conductor until you can hire one
- How marketing ties into the goal and vision of your company in the next 1-3 years
- How to get clear about the role marketing should play
- How to develop a crystal-clear vision for your business
- How to lead from a sense of accountability and vision alignment with the destination goal in mind
- What to consider in hiring and building your team
- Practical tips from Nikki about adding people to your team
Resources:
- Connect with Nikki Nash: Website, Market Your Genius book, and Market Your Genius podcast
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Leadership is one of our core topics here at the STaR Coach Show. Everyone encounters leadership opportunities at points along their journey, and we all need exemplary leadership ahead of us to forge the way forward. A pivotal concept we are exploring today is that what happened in childhood directly links to the way people exercise their leadership as adults. Join us to learn more!
Dr. Stephen Barden is an esteemed strategic, business, and operational partner to corporate leaders and organizations. He works globally coaching clients in the UK, US, Europe, and Asia, following his previous decades of experience at CEO and executive board levels across media, technology, and communication sectors. His thriving private practice began in 2001 with his approach to helping his clients achieve strategic zenith while maintaining ethical integrity. At an individual level, he empowers the leaders and managers he works with to wield their authority effectively. Dr. Barden’s book, How Successful Leaders Do Business With Their World, is a testament to his passion for fostering partnerships between leaders and stakeholders. You’ll hear what his years of research have taught him about how leaders recover, regenerate, and create collaborative and successful environments, along with barriers that leaders encounter. He shares the findings of his fascinating research with leaders about the assumptions they adopted in childhood around the world and their place in it.
Show Highlights:
- How Stephen’s research began and played out with leaders in various sectors
- What the research showed about assumptions formed in childhood around a “friendly universe” and the “balance of power”
- How Stephen identified the sweet spot of leadership using the navigational stance, partnering stance, and oppositional stance
- Characteristics of those in a partnering stance: they don’t have huge egos, don’t compete, keep a balanced relationship with the world, and view their organization as an ecosystem
- Why the basis of all good leadership is curiosity
- How Stephen works with leaders to uncover their power relationship with the world
- Why childhood assumptions are not genetic but learned assumptions that can be unlearned and relearned
- How Stephen sees results with leaders in his work
- How leaders can be aware and responsive to their needs
- Why Stephen favors the term “partner leader” over “coach”
Resources:
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How Successful Leaders Do Business With Their World
How are you getting in front of your audience? Today’s technology with social media and video opportunities opens doors that would have cost us thousands of dollars just a few years ago. Yet so many coaches have a real hesitancy about and resistance to getting in front of their audience with live video.
Today’s episode covers how you can eliminate barriers, access resources, and optimize your impact on the world by tapping into live video. I’m sharing ten strategies to help you show up, shine, and step into the video space with more consistency, confidence, and flair. Join me to learn more!
Show Highlights:
Ten strategies to help you show up and shine with video:
- Know your audience. Understand their aspirations, pain points, and how your message can resonate with them.
- Think like a beginner. When creating content, build a foundation, and don’t assume what your audience already knows.
- Realize that it’s all about building relationships. It is not about you but about what your audience needs from you.
- Visualize your audience. When on video, see yourself having a conversation with one person who epitomizes your audience.
- Choose to be consistent. Consistency will build your know, like, and trust factor as people connect regularly with you.
- Find a partner to go online with. Bouncing ideas off one another will help the creative juices flow.
- Do some investigating. Get curious about the resources and content you already have around you–and use it.
- Look through the lens of everyday wonders. What can you notice in your life that can be the beginning of a post?
- Chunk it down. Use bite-sized nuggets of inspiration to offer consumable pieces of information.
- Just do it. Your mind is your biggest asset AND your biggest barrier.
Resources:
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One common failure of coaches is in the business arena. Many of us love our coaching work, but we make costly mistakes in running our businesses successfully. My guest today shares his journey to entrepreneurship and how he learned to love the business of business. Join us to learn more!
Tomas Keenan is best known for his humble beginnings and lengthy career as a custom car audio installer. He is the epitome of a technician-turned-COO and has turned his learning into a profession as a successful coach for other industry leaders and business owners. He works with entrepreneurs who don’t want to be average but want to crush seven-figure plus businesses. He has been featured in Forbes, Mobile Electronics Magazine, CE Outlook, CEO Blog Nation, Fit Small Business, The Startup Growth, The Goodmen Project, and numerous blogs and podcasts. Tomas is a sought-after public speaker, two-time bestselling author, and Step It Up Entrepreneur Podcast host. He states that the key to his success is making progress every day, regardless of how small it may be. His latest book is Unfck Your Business: Stop Business Self-Sabotage by Getting Clear on Your Core Values NOW*.
Show Highlights:
- How working with a coach changed everything for Tomas
- How Tomas’ first business failure led to his greatest business lesson
- Why “working harder” is NOT the path to business success
- How the birth of Tomas’ first child forced him to reassess his life and business goals
- How to focus on operations and time management to be more productive:
- “What am I worth per hour?” (yearly income divided by 2080)
- “What time am I spending on activities below that dollar amount?”
- What to do if your hourly worth is too low and needs to change
- How to decide what tasks you should hire others to do
- How Tomas has seen Aha moments for his clients
- Why it’s valuable to get clarity on your genius work–and the genius work of others
- How to take a big-picture view of which activities to do and which to delegate
- Common areas where small business owners fall short around hiring, vision, culture, and values
- A look at Tomas’ book and podcast
Resources:
Connect with Tomas Keenan: Website, LinkedIn, Facebook, Coaching, Book, and Podcast
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This BONUS episode is Part 2 of a special business-building series for coaches: The Why, What and How of Being a Wildly Successful Coach. In today’s show, you’ll learn the common problems that coaches face, what we need to do differently, and what we need to create as offers to give our clients the best value. Join us to learn more about developing your marketing mojo!
We wrap up this three-part series by inviting you to join us for a free, live webinar. Register today for the webinar on September 29 at 1 pm ET.
Sue Schöning is a coach with over 30,000 hours of individual and group client hours. Her work is exclusively online and connects her with global clients, including business executives, sports stars, media personalities, and other coaches. Drawing on her business and professional experience, Sue works across a broad range of different life circumstances, coming into her coaching career after transitioning from a nursing career. In 2013, she partnered with her husband, Franz, to create Coach Automator, an online marketing and business automation management platform aimed specifically at the coaching, wellness, and healing industry. Coach Automator is the perfect blend of Sue’s many years in business and marketing and her vast experience in the coaching and healing arena.
Show Highlights:
- Why it’s NOT a good thing that most coaches are experts in stealth marketing (Don’t be your own best-kept secret!)
- Why it’s a common problem for coaches to think like a businessperson
- Why we need to shift our mindset about how we engage with our clients on the coaching journey
- What we need to offer our clients to keep them in our ecosystem, extend their growth, and create touchpoints to build relationships with them (Sue shares many examples of simple ways to own your skillset and promote your strengths.)
- Sue’s candid thoughts about the value of online courses in a hybrid format, comprised as a combination of online work and some degree of live, personal interaction
- How your offerings can evolve into memberships and subscriptions to keep loyal clients in your community
- How to identify your USP (Unique Selling Proposition), the thing that makes you unique at what you do and helps you stand out above the crowd
- How to remember your CPR (Connection, Products, and Resources)
Resources:
Connect with Sue Schöning and Coach Automator: Website, LinkedIn, and Facebook
Catch our bonus series, (Episodes 356 and 358) The Why, What & How of Being a Wildly Successful Coach. Register for the FREE live webinar on September 29 at 1 pm ET that is the finale of the three-part series.
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I hope you are enjoying the transition to fall like I am! Fall is the perfect time to prep for the coming year, and today’s topic fits perfectly into that concept. We are discussing the voices within us, the messages they give us, and how those messages impact our businesses and lives. Join us to learn more from today’s expert guest!
Jenn Beninger is the founder of Genius Unlocked and the CEO of the Genius Unlocked Institute, a board-certified company where she teaches coaches, leaders, and mentors to transform their personal and professional lives. Through her thousands of hours of executive experience, Jenn has refined the art of coaching others on how to delve into what’s holding them back and guiding them to successfully live in their purpose by calling on their intuition. “Achieving Mastery” is one of Jenn’s core values, and it’s been at the center of her education, training, and work with coaches of all types.
Show Highlights:
- The four voices, the four I’s:
- Intuition: the inner guidance that holds your truth
- Inner ego: the identity you’ve developed from outside influences
- Inner critic: the judgment you have towards the identity you’re holding
- Inner child: the childlike aspect that includes all your learned experiences before you hit puberty (can include feeling hurt, sad, disappointed, and fearful)
- How to “give new jobs” to your voices as you integrate them
- Why your intuition becomes the translator for the other I’s
- Steps to develop your intuition: acknowledge it, understand how it communicates, trust it, and take action
- How to consider the patterns in your life that aren’t serving you
- How these steps to following your intuition can make your coaching business more impactful and profitable
Resources:
Connect with Jenn and Genius Unlocked: Linkedin, Facebook, and YouTube
*Take Jenn’s free quiz to find out why your coaching business isn’t working!
*Take Jenn’s Unlocking Your Intuition Meditation Challenge!
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This BONUS episode is Part 1 of a special business-building series for coaches: The Why, What and How of Being a Wildly Successful Coach. In today’s show, you’ll learn why an online presence is critical to your coaching business. My guest explains what you need to be doing as a coach, what you need to stop doing, and the things that are a complete waste of your time. Join us for this opening session of our series and come back for next week’s Part 2. We wrap up the three-part series with a live webinar on September 29 at noon (central time). Don’t miss it!
Sue Schöning is a coach with over 30,000 hours of individual and group client hours. Her work is exclusively online and connects her with global clients, including business executives, sports stars, media personalities, and other coaches. Drawing on her business and professional experience, Sue works across a broad range of different life circumstances, coming into her coaching career after transitioning from a nursing career. In 2013, she partnered with her husband, Franz, to create Coach Automator, an online marketing and business automation management platform aimed specifically at the coaching, wellness, and healing industry. Coach Automator is the perfect blend of Sue’s many years in business and marketing and her vast experience in the coaching and healing arena.
Show Highlights:
- How COVID changed the face of the online world and opened a new world of opportunities
- What to do:
- Identify your target audience and be where they are. Ask, “Who is my niche audience, where are they, and what do they need to know?”
- Identify keywords associated with your chosen niche and your client’s pain points.
- Have a simple, effective website and social media presence. Think of social media as free opportunities to connect with clients, provide value, and build relationships.
- Use email marketing to build your database. Newsletters and lead magnets can get target clients into your ecosystem.
- What not to do:
- Don’t ever build your business on a platform that someone else controls.
- Don’t watch what everyone else is doing.
- Don’t expect immediate reactions.
- Don’t neglect your offline activities.
- Why it is a waste of your time to go after every “shiny penny” out there
- Sue’s takeaways: Remember ACT (Audience, Connection, and Traction)
Resources:
Connect with Sue Schöning and Coach Automator: Website, LinkedIn, and Facebook
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What would make 2024 a stellar year for you? As we enter the fall season, it’s the perfect time to assess your 2023 goals and look ahead to new accomplishments in a very successful 2024. If improving your marketing skills would help make 2024 a banner year for your business, today’s show is for you. My guest loves marketing, and she’s here to elevate our marketing process around understanding our client’s emotions. You’ll learn five strategies to be a better marketer and grow your business. Join us to learn more!
Chantal Cornelius started Appletree Marketing in 2000 and has helped hundreds of coaches, consultants, and speakers grow their businesses. She is the author of two books about growing successful businesses through marketing, and she is hard at work on a third book. Away from work, Chantal enjoys riding her horses, walking her dog, and working in her garden.
Show Highlights:
- The key to marketing: Find out what emotions your client wants to feel when they work with you.
- Five strategies for coaches to use in marketing:
- Certainty–Your client is looking for a safe place, a sure set of hands, and someone who is with them on their journey.
- Connection–Your client is looking for a tribe and a sense of family and wants to connect with the right people.
- Contribution–Your client is looking to be a part of something bigger in the world.
- Growth–Your client is looking to grow, either personally or in business, with clarity, development, and empowerment.
- Significance–Your client is looking to stand out, speak up, and make more of an impact in the world.
- How coaches can identify their main strategy and a secondary one
- How to look for keywords in a client’s language that tell you what they are looking for (Take Chantal’s test and get her report and tips on your key marketing strategy!)
- Why knowing your key strategy will help you attract clients who are the best match
- How Chantal helps her clients pinpoint their strategy and simplify their marketing
- Key takeaway from Chantal: “In coaching, it’s not about us and how we feel; it’s about the client and how we make them feel.”
Resources:
Connect with Chantal Cornelius: Website (take the test!), LinkedIn, and Facebook
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What are you doing to keep your coaching skills strong? How are you bringing your impact into the world? Today’s show is packed with new tools and techniques in our informative conversation around better communication and ways to honor the growth and development of others while leaning into partnership. Join us to learn more!
Dr. Alis Anagnostakis, PCC, is an adult development researcher, group facilitator, executive coach, and founder of the Vertical Development Institute. For over 15 years, she has been supporting the development of leaders toward the later stages of psychological complexity and maturity. Alis is an experienced coach educator and mentor, having accompanied hundreds of coaches on their path to credentialing. She has a master’s degree in Positive Leadership and Strategy and a Ph.D. in Vertical Development. Alis aims to blend adult development research and coaching practice to create innovative coaching techniques and more effective learning interventions for future leaders. You’ll be inspired by Alis and her expertise.
Show Highlights:
- What is vertical development?
- How vertical development applies to the world of coaching
- What vertical development offers as tools and a conceptual framework for coaches to use
- A description of the stages of development: diplomat, expert, and achiever
- How to help a client’s meaning-making awareness
- How a “disorienting dilemma” (stuckness) brings vertical growth
- Why a coach should let their framework inform their curiosity
- An overview of Alis’s Ph.D. work about vertical development and transformative learning experiences
- How the stages of vertical development have multiple lines of development
- Why opportunities for cross-pollination are an important element of coaching
- Why a coach needs to lean into developmental discomfort, self-reflection, and self-honesty for themselves
Resources:
Connect with Dr. Alis Anagnostakis: Website and Resources
Other STaR Coach Shows mentioned: STaR Coach Show 289 and STaR Coach Show 298
Mentor coaching is a wonderful way to build skills and confidence! Grab one of the last mentor spots for 2023 now! www.STaRcoachshow.com/mentor/
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Tapping into the genius zone of your work creates a flow into your purpose and allows you to offer your work unapologetically and confidently. If you need a push to tap into your genius zone more fully, today’s show is just the one for you. Join us to learn more!
Ruth Klein is a Brand Visibility Strategist, a Master Book Coach, and the CEO of Expert Celebrity Branding. This author of seven bestselling books works with high-achieving entrepreneurs, coaches, sales professionals, and company founders to help them reach bold goals. Her focus is for her clients to expand into bigger possibilities, higher income, and unimaginable impact. Throughout her successful career spanning over 30 years, she has helped her clients create a 360-degree brand and convert their expertise and content into books, speeches, high-ticket programs, expansive incomes, and bold results. In today’s interview, Ruth brings her high energy level forward to offer listeners clarity and inspiration to step into their genius zone.
Show Highlights:
- Ruth’s story of finding her genius zone and writing her book, Generation Why Not?
- How to pinpoint your genius zone, beginning with identifying what you enjoyed the most when you were young
- How to navigate the gap between you and your profitability
- How working in our genius zone honors the gifts and talents we were given and shares our value
- Why your zone of genius is your North Star
- How Ruth helps people showcase their genius zone with visibility, credibility, and marketability
- Why writing a book, posting blogs, and using social media platforms helps showcase your credibility and visibility
- Why your marketability depends on your clarity about who your ideal client is
- How blinders limit our thoughts, beliefs, and decisions
- Takeaways from Ruth about being open to possibilities and miracles and the value of a journaling practice
Resources:
Connect with Ruth Klein: Website, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube
Get your free download of Ruth’s 5-Step Guide to Increase Productivity & Income (ebook)
Book a complimentary 30-minute call with Ruth through her Calendly link.
Mentor coaching is a wonderful way to build skills and confidence! Grab one of the last mentor spots for 2023 now! www.STaRcoachshow.com/mentor/
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I love it when episode topics pop up organically in the STaR Coach Community. A community member recently faced the challenge of creating a proposal for an organization around assessments and coaching. In guiding her through the proposal process, I knew this would be a topic of interest and a great benefit to other coaches.
In this episode, you will learn the key elements to consider when creating a proposal, along with strategies that are applicable to individual and team coaching. This episode is packed with practical information to help you learn the best strategies for responding to an RFP (request for proposal). Join us to learn more!
Click this link and download a Sample Proposal
https://starcoaches.mykajabi.com/optin-sample-proposals
Show Highlights:
- How to start a proposal from a place of curiosity about the desired coaching outcomes
- Why alignment meetings are crucial for coaching success
- Example scenario #1: You are contacted by a leader in HR about coaching a senior-level leader: What’s next in crafting your customized proposal?
- How to craft bullet points in your proposal with “their language” to address the desired outcomes
- How to formulate your proposed approach, including assessments
- How to include pricing, session/engagement info, and availability in your proposal
- Example scenario #2: You are contacted by an organization to do facilitation training or a group program: What’s next in your proposal to build a culture of collaboration, teamwork, and improve communication?
- How to decide on appropriate assessments and team-building training/exercises (Members of the STaR Coach Community gain access to templates for client forms and proposals, and every listener can access the free download of my proposal template!)
Resources:
Previous STaR Coach Show episodes mentioned in this episode:
Episode 7: Working with a Coaching Broker, Shari Barth
Episode 290: Secrets to Successful Discovery Calls, Meg Rentschler, MSW, PCC
Episode 259: From Free to Fee: Your Steps to Client Enrollment, Nancy Giere
Episode 83: Creating Organizational Alignment, Lisa Sansom, MAPP
Episode 288: What is Your Coaching Methodology? Laura Berman Fortgang, MCC
Episode 164: How to Close a Corporate Coaching Client in Just One Conversation, Angelique Rewers
Episode 308: Simplify Proposals, Russell Pearson
Episode 122: Last Chance Coaching, Diana Ideus, PCC
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Are you stuck in your coaching career? We are challenging you today to get out of the box! Life is full of change and evolution, both for our clients and ourselves, and we cannot let ourselves get too comfortable and be limited by our self-imposed boundaries. It’s time to live in your authentic fullness with energy, freedom, and joy! If you need help blowing up the rules and climbing out of your rut, join us for this episode!
Lynn Young, PCC, is a Co-Active Coach, motivational speaker, founding Mama of the Badass Sagers, and the author of the Amazon bestselling book, Red Hot Living. She believes that life is juicier when we are playing, taking risks, and serving the common good. Lynn is a global citizen and ambassador for joy who colors outside the lines and knows that life is truly a gift. She holds a MA from the University of Colorado, is an International Coaching Federation Professional Certified Coach, and was formerly a coach with the Center for Creative Leadership. She lives in Colorado and adores color, sunshine, her amazing family, and savoring dark chocolate.
Show Highlights:
- How Lynn went down the path of “full-permission” living with strong energy and freedom
- Why being a professional does NOT require you to tamp down yourself and be less than your genuine, full self
- How Lynn’s business has been impacted by her willingness to “love what she loves” and bring that into service in the world
- Why there is great joy and energy in leaping into the unknown
- How Lynn took risks and launched the Badass Sagers program for women and wrote her book, Red Hot Living
- Why Lynn likes to live on the “edges” of life and ways of thinking
- How we can grow and shift through new stages in life with curiosity and confident risk-taking
- The value of finding support and investing in partnerships that help you move forward
- Parting words from Lynn: “Get up and play—and see what happens. Invite that thing to join you that you’ve always loved.”
Resources:
Connect with Lynn Young: Website (Sign up for Lynn’s newsletter and get her Three Tips on Red Hot Living), Facebook, and Red Hot Living
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I’m delighted to welcome you to this milestone of Episode 350, which means we have built a comprehensive library of expert interviews and resources. I invite you to explore our website for more! Today’s guest shares why coaching ethics is a focus of her work and is essentially the backbone of our profession. Join us to learn more!
Cecilia Engquist, MSc, PCC, is a certified leadership and executive coach, coaching instructor, and coach mentor. She is a past president of ICF Houston and the co-founder of the All-TX Retreat and Conference who has served on the ICF Global Independent Review Board (IRB) since 2020. Cecilia’s work with leaders involves providing leadership development solutions through Envision Global Leadership and coaching through her company, Engquist Coaching. She partners with leaders to create paths to achieve strength-based goals while examining and navigating barriers. Her true expertise is manifested in the way she skillfully engages a holistic body-mind approach to helping clients access their full wisdom and creativity. She uses research-based, tailored, innovative coaching techniques and often brings lessons learned through her experience as an elite international equestrian athlete and ultra-marathon runner into her working relationships. A special area of interest for Cecilia is the rise of AI and how it can be used beneficially in the coaching sphere.
Show Highlights:
- Why Cecilia became interested in the topic of coaching ethics
- The differing opinions about coaching being independent vs. being regulated–and why a code of ethics is so valuable
- The purpose of the ICF Independent Review Board and how they handle complaints and investigations
- Why the ethics review process is meant to be an educational process rather than a punitive one
- How some coaching ethics standards are more likely to be infringed upon, like boundaries, confidentiality, and contracts
- How our Western lens limits our views on what are global ethics concepts
- How the ethics complaint process is completed and carried out by the IRB
Resources:
Connect with Cecilia Engquist: Facebook and LinkedIn
The Ethics tab found on the front page of the ICF website contains a wealth of goodies such as:
- The Code of Ethics (Values, definitions, and the 28 standards from 2019)
- Insights and Considerations for Ethics (ways to view the 28 standards in order to gain more insight into what they mean)
- Ethics Community of Practice
- Ethics Assist Line
- Information of the Ethics Conduct Review process and the IRB (Independent Review Board)
- Annual Ethical Conduct and Compliance Report
- Ethics Research Portal
ICF Converge - 2 different sessions on August 24:
The IRB Chair Carrie Doubts presents together with IRB member Jürgen Bache, and the session will also be livestreamed. The topic is: Ethics in Coaching: What You Don't Know Can Hurt You or Your Clients
The IRB Vice Chair of Development Joao Pasqual presents with IRB member José Estrada and ICF member Silvina Spiegel on A Latin American Perspective on Cultural Complexities: What You Don’t...
Mindfulness is a word that is thrown around in coaching and therapy circles, but many people don’t know what it is. Today’s show teaches you what mindfulness is and how to apply it to improve your life. We have practical tips to engage with more mindfulness and step into your autonomy to make beneficial choices that impact your life and business. Join us!
My guest is Dr. Gail Gazelle, a former hospice physician, part-time Harvard Medical School assistant professor, and Master Certified Coach. Her work with physicians and as a mindfulness/meditation teacher merge beautifully in her current role. She joined us previously for Episode 213 where we discussed how physicians can beat burnout and thrive with coaching, but her wisdom also applies to those in non-medical professions. For the past decade, she has coached over 500 physicians and physician leaders. Our discussion centers around the content of her newest book, Mindful MD: 6 Ways Mindfulness Restores Your Autonomy and Cures Healthcare Burnout. Dr. Gazelle’s work has been featured in diverse venues such as the New England Journal of Medicine, CNN, Medical Economics, and O, the Oprah Magazine.
Show Highlights:
- What is mindfulness?
- How mindfulness trains us to be the captain of our minds–not the captive
- Why coaching is “mindfulness in action”
- How Dr. Gail’s book applies to many aspects of life far beyond the healthcare professions
- Dr. Gail’s 6 Mindfulness Practices:
- Recognize that you are not your thoughts.
- Step out of your mental stories.
- Reduce reactivity.
- Lean into compassion, connection, and purpose.
- Work with what IS–not what ifs
- Cultivate upward spirals.
- How Dr. Gail’s book is structured with chapters, Q & A sections, and practical exercises (download a free chapter!)
Resources:
Connect with Dr. Gail Gazelle: Website, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook
Dr. Gail’s books: Mindful MD: 6 Ways Mindfulness Restores Your Autonomy and Cures Healthcare Burnout (Download your free chapter at www.gailgazelle.com/mindfulmd.)
(2020) Everyday Resilience. A Practical Guide to Build Inner Strength and Weather Life’s Challenges
The 2013 Harvard Health Guide Mindfulness Support for Alzheimer's Caregivers
Check out Dr. Gail’s previous appearance on the STaR Coach Show: Episode 213
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Every coach wants to thrive in their journey, but self-doubt can leave us floundering. Today’s show is about focusing your energies on the results and impact you want. You’ll learn how to remove the barriers to your success, earn the income you want, and move the needle for your clients. Join us!
Jeanne Omlor has been coaching for 12 years, helping all types of businesses scale. She is a certified business strategist and Online Business Coach whose work has made a huge impact on many high-level CEOs and business icons. Since moving her coaching online, she’s grown her business to multi-millions by helping coaches, consultants, and service providers scale sustainable businesses. She sees herself as a catalyst to help her clients scale to unimaginable prosperity, improve productivity, and live their lives with integrity. In today’s show, Jeanne shares her insights about mindset, habits, energies, and behaviors that can help scale your coaching business to new levels!
Show Highlights:
- Fact: Coaches who aren’t thriving can’t help their clients thrive.
- Why we MUST get out of our emotional habits
- How to focus your energy on being in the present
- Why coaches should be servant-leaders who aren’t afraid to be imperfect
- How to move past mindset challenges
- Jeanne’s Dos and Don’ts for Coaches:
- Don’t:
- Spend time “fixing” your website.
- Write an ebook.
- Build your email list.
- Do:
- Write down what you want out of coaching.
- Identify the one action that will bring in a client.
- How to focus on high-impact activities: Get clear on who you are coaching, what you are coaching them for, your pricing, and market organically (without ads).
- How organic marketing is successful when you focus on ONE social media platform (NOT all of them!)
- How Jeanne took one social media platform at a time, beginning with Facebook, to make her first million dollars
- Specific steps Jeanne took to build her Facebook muscles
- Jeanne’s parting advice to coaches: “Figure out what you actually want, figure out how to get that, and then do it. It really is that simple.”
Resources:
Connect with Jeanne Omlor: Website, LinkedIn, and Facebook
Learn more about Jeanne's work.
Books mentioned by Jeanne: Breaking the Habit of Being Yourselfby Dr. Joe Dispenza and The ONE Thing by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan
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Those of us who have been in the coaching field for many years have a responsibility to help those coming into our profession, and we want to make the path forward as clear as possible for them. Today’s guest and I are discussing the lessons we have learned in our many years of entrepreneurship with the hope of inspiring and encouraging other coaches. Join us to learn more in today’s packed show!
Marsha Clark is an executive coach and independent consultant who founded Marsha Clark and Associates in 2000. She has extensive experience in coaching, delivering workshops, and training around leadership development and more. As the author of Choose, written in 2004, Marsha has recently published Embracing Your Power: A Woman’s Path to Authentic Leadership and Meaningful Relationships. She has graciously prepared a download of her 23 best lessons learned, so please find that valuable resource here.
Show Highlights:
- Why coaches who transition from other careers have a distinct advantage in perspective and experience
- Marsha’s best lessons learned:
- Make the most of templates and tools to stock your toolkit.
- Price your services based on the value people receive rather than on the effort it takes to produce them.
- Clearly articulate and manage expectations. Be explicit!
- Don’t let relationship desires outweigh business needs.
- A look at Marsha’s newest book, Embracing Your Power, released in 2022
- Parting words from Marsha: “Believe in what you do and live in your purpose.”
Resources:
Connect with Marsha: Website, LinkedIn, Facebook, and podcast
Marsha’s latest book: Embracing Your Power: A Woman's Path to Authentic Leadership and Meaningful Relationships
Find Marsha’s List of 23 Entrepreneurial Tips here!
Books mentioned in this episode: Cassandra Speaks by Elizabeth Lesser and Trust and Betrayal in the Workplace by Dennis and Michelle Reina
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The reality is that we coach human beings who have emotions, even though many coaches admit their struggles when emotions rise to the surface with our clients. How do we honor the line between coaching and therapy while demonstrating our confidence in working with emotions? That’s our focus for today’s show. Join us!
Cedric Bertelli is a recognized expert in Emotional Resolution (EmRes), a revolutionary approach to emotional healing that has transformed the lives of countless individuals. As the founder and director of the Emotional Health Institute (EHI), Cedric has dedicated his career to helping people overcome stress, anxiety, depression, PTSD, and other negative emotions by using powerful tools and techniques. After a drastic career change, Cedric began his journey into Emotional Resolution in 2009 in his home country of France. Since then, he has honed his expertise and developed a deep understanding of how emotions function in the human psyche. At EHI, Cedric and his team provide training and education to mental health professionals, coaches, and educators, helping them integrate Emotional Resolution into their practices. In addition, Cedric works directly with clients, providing individualized support and guidance to help them overcome emotional challenges and improve their overall well-being. With a passion for empowering people to take control of their emotional health, he has helped transform lives, and his expertise continues to drive innovation and progress in the field of emotional healing. In our conversation, Cedric shares how we can use Emotional Resolution as a tool to help us be more confident and competent when a client experiences emotional upheaval, and he explains what neuroscience has contributed to this field.
Show Highlights:
- How we can use a new approach to make emotions less scary
- How a disruptive emotional pattern always begins with a traumatic event
- How our prefrontal cortex shuts down at the moment of dissociation from trauma, and our subconscious takes in a flood of information
- How physical sensations in the body are processed by the brain to make predictions based on previous trauma
- How Cedric works with someone toward emotional resolution by identifying the underlying tension
- How fears cause us to stay stuck and keep us “feeling comfortable”
- How a coach can lead a client to be aware of sensations and face their shame about their fears
- How emotional resolution can help “update an outdated prediction from the brain”
- Why we often fail in “slaying our dragons” and take the wrong approach
- How EmRes tools can be used by every coach and therapist
Resources:
Connect with Cedric and EmRes: Cedric's Website, EHI Website, Cedric's Facebook, EmRes Facebook, and Instagram
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Here in the US, we just celebrated Independence Day and the democracy, freedom, and independence that are wrapped up in the July 4th Holiday. In keeping with that theme, I wanted to focus today’s show on the independence and freedom we can find in our businesses. Every entrepreneur dreams of a life of freedom in running their business, but, very often, that’s not the case as the business ends up taking over every aspect of life.
Coaches become coaches for many different reasons and at many different phases of life; many times, someone becomes a coach after a lengthy, unsatisfying career in another field. So I ask, is YOUR business freedom-producing in your life? Let’s explore the most common pain points for coaches, and I’m including references to several past episodes where you can find more detailed ideas and solutions (See Resources). Join me to learn strategies to lessen your pain points and grow in independence, freedom, and joy in your entrepreneurial journey.
Show Highlights:
- 5 common pain points for coaches and strategies to address them:
- Clients: How do I find clients and fill my calendar?
- Get clear about who you serve and what results they can expect.
- Cultivate relationships and share your message.
- Cash flow: How can I deal with the ebb and flow of finances?
- Create a consistent, balanced flow to attract the right clients.
- Carefully evaluate your offerings.
- Plan ahead and budget for big annual expenses and quarterly taxes.
- Isolation: How can I connect with others and not feel isolated?
- Move toward collaboration, brainstorming, and masterminding.
- Get a coach and surround yourself with a support system.
- Overwhelm: How can I fight the desire to do it all myself?
- Invest in yourself and your business by hiring others.
- Devote your time to your genius work and money-making activities.
- Time: How can I protect my time?
- Set boundaries and structure around your time.
- Be clear and unapologetic about your calendar and availability.
- Use time blocks on your calendar.
Resources:
Pain Point 1: Finding Clients
Episode 336
Episode 288
Episode 270
Episode 98
Pain Point 2: Cash Flow
Episode 248
Episode 201
Episode 171
Episode 183
Pain Point 3: Isolation
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You can’t be a secret and a success at the same time. We want to be an expert in our field so people are drawn to work with us, and that means we have to be in front of them. There are specific steps to take around our messaging, capturing the attention of our audience, and delivering what we want people to hear, whether that’s through live social media appearances, writing a blog, or appearing on TV shows. My guest has proven expert tips to share in today’s show. Join us!
Ronny Leber is a renowned keynote speaker, stadium host, and legacy coach from Austria. He has entertained 5 million people worldwide through live sporting events, corporate events, and seminars. Since 2021, Ronny has logged over 1500 hours of live television as a host and anchorman. He has secrets to share about appearing on TV and maximizing every opportunity. Ronny hosts the weekly Ronny Leber Show, where he brings inspiring guests from the world of sports, business, and entertainment to viewers to share stories of success and overcoming obstacles in life. The Ronny Leber Show is available on YouTube and all major podcast providers.
Show Highlights:
- Why you must be crystal clear about who your audience is
- How to build your brand by being newsworthy, interesting, and polarizing
- How to use your image to add value
- Why AI tools make it impossible for you not to be awesome in your content
- How to get the attention of those who find talent for TV shows by networking
- How to create a buzz around your content with the help of a virtual assistant, blog, and social media platforms
- How to comment on social media posts with insightful, valuable, and controversial comments
- How to talk in pictures and stories so you are memorable and impactful
- A recap of Ronny’s tips: Get yourself out there in the world, carefully craft your message, and practice consistently to hone your skills.
Resources:
Connect with Ronny Leber: Website, Blog, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and LinkedIn
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Communication is EVERYTHING, and this applies to every human relationship–not just the field of coaching. When it comes to coaching teams, we know that everyone comes to the table with their own style of communicating, including the motivators and stressors that make them do what they do. How can we, as coaches, help teams learn about different communication styles so they can see through a different lens and be open to collaboration? That’s our topic up for discussion today. I hope you’ll join us to learn more!
Dr. Ellen Zimmerman is the owner of Ellen Zimmerman Consulting, LLC. She teaches graduate and undergraduate human resource and leadership courses at Lamar University. She is a co-lead for the International Coaching Federation’s Executive and Leadership Community of Practice, the vice president of the Texas Coaches’ Coalition, and one of a limited number of Dare to Lead®️ facilitators (selected and trained directly by Brené Brown). Ellen believes that creativity is the key to learning in everything from coaching questions to the development of learning opportunities and strategic planning. “The best way to get unstuck is to do things differently.” In this episode, we are discussing how organizations can change when teams operate more collaboratively and cohesively by communicating differently. Ellen shares the assessment tool she uses to begin the coaching conversation, and she walks us through her process with teams in setting up engagement.
Show Highlights:
- How Ellen became hooked on helping teams be more collaborative through better communication
- Why there is a different perspective in coaching a team vs. coaching an individual
- Why it’s important to realize that everyone has different priorities and communication styles–but can still work together
- How Ellen approaches her training process with a new team–and begins with the DISC assessment to set the stage for understanding, identify challenges, and formulate learning activities
- How the DISC assessment sets the stage for understanding, based on four communication styles
- How the DISC assessment identifies motivators and stressors for each communication style
- Examples of an activity Ellen would use with a team to encourage collaboration
- How to deal with conversations that might be heated by using questioning techniques
- Key takeaways from Ellen about our communication and cohesiveness
Resources:
Connect with Ellen Zimmerman: Website and LinkedIn
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Who is your target market? As coaches, we bring our specialties, expertise, and passion to the table, and some of us thrive in helping individuals unlock their full potential, while others excel in navigating organizational dynamics. Both avenues have their purpose and rewards, and today, we'll explore how they differ and the impact they can have on your coaching experience. Your target market determines how best to build your coaching brand. We exist in a world driven by social media and various avenues of communication, so it’s important to understand the nuances of marketing and how to establish your presence and build your brand in ways that are tailored to your chosen coaching direction.
Let’s explore some of the similarities and differences we should consider in engaging with our target market, whether individual clients or organizations. Join us to learn more in today’s show!
Show Highlights:
- Similarities in individual and organizational coaching:
- The discovery call needs to speak the language of the client and speak to their needs with curiosity about the desired outcomes–Can you help them with their pain points?
- You must build your brand so that you are seen and heard on your website and social media platforms. Where does your target audience hang out? Get in front of them!
- Differences in individual and organizational coaching:
- Individual clients have a personal investment (more “skin in the game”), and you can create specialized programs for their needs.
- With individuals, you can have program launches throughout the year to invite clients in so your income isn’t a “feast or famine” situation.
- With organizations, the coach is building relationships with gatekeepers and decision-makers, so you’ll need to create clarity about your offer for an organizational solution.
- Because the organization IS the client, you’ll have fewer clients in organizational coaching, so you can charge higher fees and establish more long-term work.
- With organizations, you’ll likely need a toolbox of assessments and certifications and have more paperwork involved with proposals, contracts, and legal documents.
- Why you should be wary of putting “all your eggs in one basket” with organizational coaching
- Ask yourself these questions in choosing your target market: What lights me up? Which workflow aligns best with me and meets my needs as a business owner?
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Today's show features an encore edition of one of my most popular episodes.
Occasionally, I like to do a summary show with powerful key pieces of interviews with previous guests. A summary show gives us a different perspective on a particular topic. Other summary shows include Episode 66 on key business-building tips, Episode 86 on how to use a strengths focus in coaching, Episode 100 with crucial nuggets of wisdom from our first 100 shows, and Episode 114, which shared bonus content usually only available to my membership subscribers.
Today’s show is another summary episode about The Essence of Mastery Summit and the incredible opportunity to learn from this group of Masterful Coaches and earn core competency continuing education credits. Since I’ve interviewed 7 of the 14 featured coaches, I’ve put together a few highlights from those 7 interviews as we explore how to show up masterfully in partnership with our clients.
Show Highlights:
- With Jane Adshead-Grant, we discuss lessons learned around performance anxiety and how to let it go to be in the best service to our clients.
- With Fran Fisher, we talk about creating a clear coaching agreement for the session in setting the stage for the client to decide what needs to be addressed or resolved to achieve the outcome.
- With Cynthia Loy Darst, we focus on the challenge in not inadvertently removing the client from the lead, learning to hold a client’s agenda, and being fully curious about their experience.
- With Marilyn O-Hearne, we discuss our thoughts about client expectations and the role of direct communication in the partnership, along with how we use comments, observation, and intuition.
- With Cynthia Loy Darst, we talk about how to let go of our attachment to client outcomes.
- With Annie Gelfand, our focus is on the reality of conflict in adult relationships and making room for trust and intimacy, which often means difficult conversations and using “repair bids.”
- With Molly Gordon, we highlight the partnership in the client/coach relationship and how the coach should use language that is meaningful to the client.
- With Georgina Woudstra, we discuss how the coach may unconsciously take the client out of the lead and get in the way of the growth and learning of the client, team, or group.
Resources:
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Your mental health matters! As helping professionals, we have to understand how important our mental health is in allowing us to be our very best for our clients. In my 20+ years as a psychotherapist, I have learned how crucial it is to pay attention to the patterns and situations that arise in our lives. When we constantly focus on the problems of others, it is easy to neglect our own mental health and well-being. To help us dive into this important topic, I reached out to a good friend and colleague, and I’m thrilled that she’s joining us for this episode.
Dr. Jane Phillips is the owner of North Texas Family Solutions located in Granbury, Texas. She has been a practicing therapist since 2000, working with children, families, and couples affected by family court litigation and crisis. She profoundly understands the stress felt by adults and children involved in divorce and custody disputes and actively works with family members to explore creative solutions to those difficult circumstances caused by separation and divorce. Dr. Jane helps us identify what we should pay attention to in our own mental well-being and how to best help our clients.
Show Highlights:
- The starting point: making sure we are “breathing well” before we can help others
- What to look for as signs that our mental health needs immediate attention
- What our bodies can reveal about our mental health–and why we cannot ignore what our bodies try to tell us!
- What we should pay attention to regarding our mood and interest in activities
- What we should notice about our ability to fully present and engaged with other people
- What we can do to lean into good mental health care for ourselves: taking frequent daily breaks for movement and play, establishing routines around sleep and nutrition, setting boundaries around work, giving ourselves grace, and learning to change our perspective
- How we can mind our concentration level and “get back on track” when we drift
- How personal relationships and community support can help support mental health and well-being
- What to look for in our clients that might prompt a referral to an additional professional
- Dr. Jane’s best tips for being responsible about mental health for ourselves and our clients
Resources:
Connect with Dr. Jane Phillips: Website and Facebook
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Are you using your authentic voice? Sometimes we have to step “into the scary” to take the journey toward growth and progress. We have to lean into who we are and what we need to do to move forward. I know you will learn a lot from today’s guest. I hope you’ll join us!
Dr. Lizette Warner is a business leadership coach, keynote speaker, and best-selling author. With years of executive healthcare expertise, she’s also a biomarker expert, which she explains in this interview. She is the author of Power, Poise, and Presence: A New Approach to Authentic Leadership. Lizette is also a former student of mine through the UTD program, and I’m thrilled to shine the spotlight on her incredible work.
Show Highlights:
- What it means to find our “authentic voice”
- What biomarkers are–and how they fit into Lizette’s work
- How Lizette formulated recipes for the elements of power, poise, and presence
- Why everyone’s power recipe is different–because we each feel empowerment uniquely
- Lizette’s personal example of her recipe for peace in her life
- How to discover your unique recipes for power, poise, and presence through biomarkers
- Why your recipe will change over time as you go through new experiences
- How Lizette helps clients differentiate between their recipes for power, poise, and presence–and find their authentic voice (sweet spot)
- How Lizette’s book gives tactical tools to use, pitfalls to avoid, and how to empower the next generation with power, poise, and presence
Resources:
Connect with Dr. Lizette Warner: Find her book, and Visit her website and Instagram
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How do you create products and offers that your clients need? We are covering this topic in today’s episode. Let’s talk about how you can lean into your expertise and be in control of your “talent strategy.”
I’m thrilled to be joined by Susan Collins, a friend, and client of mine. She’s a former talent acquisition leader who has had a front-row seat to watching careers rise and fall, always staying curious about why some people thrive and others, though incredibly talented, never realize their potential. With her extensive experience in the corporate arena, she has guided thousands of people through career decisions. Now, as a Career Growth Coach, Susan is focused on helping leaders create meaningful goals, find their way to successful career paths, and work with no regret. She takes an innovative approach to assist people in developing personal talent strategies so they can take control of their own career journeys. Her framework, the 8 Career Narratives, guides leaders as they navigate the corporate ladder to success.
She’s here to share insights from her path into coaching and where she is now, bringing incredible value to her clients through her Career Self-Care program.
Show Highlights:
- Steps in Susan’s career that brought her into her current role: receiving the gift of a coaching package, a long corporate career, the pandemic/a job furlough, and a career pivot into coaching
- Why talented leaders don’t always get ahead in their careers—and how Susan identified where they go wrong
- How Susan’s path pointed toward a role as a career consultant until she discovered coaching
- How Susan identified 8 Career Narratives that are essential to moving a career forward
- How Susan built a LinkedIn community of over 19,000 people
- How career self-care aligns with mental health and wellness
- Why Susan built her program around finding balance and holding boundaries–and why she KNEW it would work
- An example of one of Susan’s career narratives: steps to build and manage your personal brand to get to the place of promotion
- Key advice from Susan: “I had to let go of proud and perfect. I learned to take action every day, be vulnerable, and never stop being curious to learn more.”
Resources:
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We are diving deep into the world of emotional intelligence in today’s show, just in time for Mental Health Awareness Month. We will explore the many facets of emotional intelligence and how it impacts our daily lives along with the idea that emotions contain data, and they can help us gain a deeper understanding of ourselves and those around us. Whether you're looking to improve your relationships, better manage stress and anxiety, or simply gain a better understanding of your own emotional landscape, I hope you’ll join us for a journey of discovery and growth in the fascinating world of emotional intelligence.
Robin Hills is a distinguished business psychologist and the director of Ei4Change, a leading organization in emotional intelligence, positive psychology, and neuroscience-based personal development. With a focus on education, training, and coaching, Robin has taught more than 300,000 people across 195 countries how to cultivate resilience, self-awareness, and understanding of others. In his work, Robin highlights the importance of emotional intelligence and its role in our personal and professional lives. As a member of the North West Committee of the Association of Business Psychology, Robin is the author of two books and the creator of the most comprehensive range of online, self-paced emotional intelligence courses. With a following of over 200,000 individuals awaiting his next move, Robin is a popular keynote speaker and a true thought leader in the realm of personal and professional development.
Show Highlights:
- How emotional intelligence can be simply defined and described in a nutshell
- How emotional intelligence functions in a framework of our inner awareness and the outer world of things, events, and people
- How to engage with someone who isn’t motivated to be emotionally intelligent internally and relationally
- How hearing loss helped Robin adapt in learning to engage and focus as a good listener and reader of body language
- How we as coaches can tune into our hidden drivers of excellence
- How emotional intelligence assessments (like the EQI 2.0) can identify strengths and weaknesses in measurable ways
- How qualities like empathy and assertiveness can be strengths and hidden drivers of excellence as part of our wholeness
Resources:
Connect with Robin Hills and Ei4Change: Website, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook (Fb-My Emotional Intelligence Lab), and Courses
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How do YOU set the stage for the value of coaching? In other words, what’s your value proposition?
Since coaching is a relatively new and often misunderstood profession, many conversations are called coaching when they are something else entirely. In trying to create clarity about what we do with our clients, many coaches define their profession by saying what it is NOT, and I don’t believe that perspective brings value to our coaching. Let’s take a deeper look at how we set the stage for the value of coaching. Join me for this solo episode as I share four specific strategies for building and sharing your value proposition.
Show Highlights:
- Why coaching is one of many types of conversations we can have with others—but it’s the one that brings transformational change
- What the coaching partnership is–and what it does for your clients
- What the data shows about the results of coaching in moving clients forward
- Four strategies for building and sharing your value proposition as a coach:
- Be a student of the results that coaching brings.
- Let go of “coach-speak.”
- Tie in your process to let them know what to expect.
- Seed your value proposition into everything (every social media post, blog post, speaking engagements).
- How the partnership aspect of coaching brings a unique value to the relationship
- Why clients will be more ready to engage when they know they know what the coaching process looks like and the results they can expect
- How I use the acronym RESULTS to lay out my coaching process in my value proposition: Review, Evaluate, Strengths, Understand, Leverage, Target, and Sustainability
- Why it is important to weave the evidence of your coaching into everything you do
Resources:
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Showing up as our best and engaging with others with the best tools and techniques are at the heart of the coaching profession. Honing these skills with mastery helps us as leaders, in our relationships, and in the ways we engage. My guest today embodies the best of these skills, and I’m thrilled that she is joining us for this rich conversation. Join us now to strengthen your coaching muscles!
Lisa Dare is a multi-faceted certified and accredited professional coach who is also a management consultant and facilitator. Her expertise is leadership development, change management, organizational effectiveness, and strategic planning. She brings over 20 years of experience in different industries and roles. A former pharmacist with a degree from the University of Alberta, she still resides in Canada. Her coaching certification and advanced leadership training are through the Coaches Training Institute.
Today’s conversation focuses on how to move from transactional coaching to transformative coaching, and we talk about neuroscience, the stairway to coaching mastery, and the different paths that coaches walk. We also touch on topics like visibility, social media, and holding true to your values as a coach. You’ll appreciate the insights from Lisa’s rich experience and perspective and be challenged to go deeper with your clients.
Show Highlights:
- How Lisa shows up on social media to get her message out into the world
- How impact happens through our visibility—whether we see it or not
- Transactional coaching vs. transformative coaching and the two paths
- How neuroscience factors into coaching, behavior, and trauma
- What you might be holding back and afraid to say to your client
- Why remembering the basics of values and creating space for emotions are part of the important work we do with clients
- How the coach’s growth and transformation happen along the journey
- What Lisa teaches leaders about using coaching skills in conversations
- Lisa’s parting advice about problem-solving vs. curiosity in coaching conversations
Resources:
Connect with Lisa Dare: Website and LinkedIn
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There are more different generations in today’s workforce than possibly at any other time in history. Coaches and leaders must understand what each generation brings to the table and the special needs of each one. My guest helps us zoom in on Gen Z in today’s show. Join us to learn more!
Dr. Robert Sullivan has been a university professor for over 20 years and is presently the Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Dallas Baptist University. His background includes experience in political science, law, and urban planning. In today’s conversation, Dr. Sullivan helps us identify the characteristics of Gen Zers and understand different generations with perspectives of understanding and collaboration. He is the author of What’s the Plan? and hosts The Wonkyfied Podcast.
Show Highlights:
- Characteristics that make Gen Z unique in today’s world
- How Gen Z experiences and acknowledges mental health issues
- Why “job hopping” is common among Gen Z
- Why Gen Z might be missing out on building communities and making workplace connections
- The pros and cons for Gen Z of being digital natives
- Dr. Sullivan’s tips for working with Zoomers:
- Avoid generational condescension and connect with them.
- Help them have an aptitude adjustment.
- Stress the process of incrementalism.
- Teach them to embrace sacrifice.
- A glimpse into Robert’s book, What’s the Plan? and his podcast, The Wonkyfied Podcast
Resources:
Connect with Dr. Robert Sullivan: Website, YouTube Channel for Podcast, Book, and LinkedIn
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I hear many coaches say that they struggle to have smooth sales conversations and discovery calls. It is common to find yourself tongue-tied when it comes to naming your price and making the sales offer for someone to work with you. Fortunately for us, my guest today knows the sales process and has simple steps to help us be more confident and find sales success! Join us to learn Nikki’s sales secrets!
Nikki Rausch is the CEO of Sales Maven. She has the unique ability to transform the often misunderstood and scary selling process. Her 25+ years of selling to prestigious organizations like The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and NASA have helped her shatter sales records and garner several top producer awards along the way. Nikki works today with entrepreneurs and small business owners as she shows them how to sell successfully and authentically. She has written three books, one of which (The Selling Staircase) aligns perfectly with today’s topic. Listen to Nikki’s “5 Steps” that can prepare you to have the enrollment conversations that will make a difference in your business.
Show Highlights:
- What led Nikki to create her signature framework for sales conversations, The Selling Staircase–and why it WORKS
- How to know when it’s time to dig in and learn new selling skills
- 5 Steps to Sales Conversations: introduction, creating curiosity, discovery, proposal, and close
- How to bridge the gap between the proposal and close with “close language” and NOT end up on someone’s to-do list
- How to build your muscle for creating curiosity (Use your “cat-calling energy.”)
- Why you must not coach during a discovery call
- How to handle the “bless and release” when the coach and client are not a good fit
- How to use the technique of asking permission to move from discovery to proposal without “muddying the waters”
- How to stand in your credibility in recommending solutions without assuming what the client can afford
- Why your close language is vital in a sales conversation
Resources:
Connect with Nikki and claim your gift for STaR Coach Show listeners: Mastering the Sales Conversation
Check out Nikki’s podcast: Sales Maven Podcast
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Coaching is a powerful tool for leaders to use to empower their teams and encourage others to reach their full potential. What are the benefits and impacts for leaders who apply coaching to their leadership style? We are breaking it down in today’s episode. Join us to learn more!
In today’s show, I’m sharing insights and perspectives from a few of the leaders I’ve had the honor to teach and train. I’ll share with you their words about their training, how they evolved throughout the process, and what was most helpful to them along the way. I hope you’ll be inspired to explore how coaching can transform leadership and take it to the next level.
Show Highlights:
- What makes coaching critical and beneficial for leaders
- The challenge: How can leaders shift from a “fixer” mindset to a coaching mindset that opens up possibility and collaboration?
- Common objections from leaders about using coaching in their leadership style
- Key results when leaders lean into the concept of empowering others to be their own creative geniuses
- How coaching increases someone’s ownership and ability to engage with co-creating solutions
- Why leaders usually find it difficult to practice active listening instead of problem-solving
- The biggest awarenesses I see from leaders who step into co-creating solutions with their team members
- Common challenges that leaders face in learning coaching skills
- Why coaching is an essential skill for ANY leader who wants to see results for their team
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Books mentioned in today’s show:
Coaching as a Leadership Style by Robert F. Hicks
The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
The Leadership Challenge by James Kouzes and Barry Posner
What are the stories you are telling yourself about how you engage with the sales process? The mindset we take is formed by our beliefs about our identity, integrity, and general view of sales. Would you like to be more magnetic in the sales process for your business and more comfortable in engaging with others? You’ve come to the right place! Join us to learn more from today’s expert guest!
Meena Adnani is a business and self-empowerment coach for female entrepreneurs. She qualified as a solicitor in England and as an attorney in New York; after several years of practicing law, she took on senior leadership positions in multinational companies, overseeing their business development and sales and marketing. In 2016, Meena went from multiple six figures to zero in her bank account due to a huge financial loss. Within two years, she rebuilt herself and surpassed seven figures through her coaching business. Since then, she has been mentoring women to start and scale their online businesses so they can increase to six figures and create financial and time freedom in their lives.
Show Highlights:
- Why we need to figure out our “identity” around money
- Why there are big misconceptions around sales in the coaching business
- How to be more magnetic in your sales strategy through your personal brand, sales calls, and follow-ups
- The three pillars of success in building your personal brand: mindset, marketing, and money
- Why it is important to convince yourself that you are the expert
- How to improve your mindset by putting yourself in the position of the buyer
- Why taking ownership of our failures plays a part in our future growth and healing
- How our money mindset forms in our early childhood years
- How to “live what you say” around scarcity, abundance, and results—and create trust and alignment
- Why Meena is passionate about helping women build wealth
Resources:
Connect with Meena Adnani: Website, TikTok, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram
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Coaching and consulting are two different roles that are often misunderstood, but they can work together beautifully to maximize your business impact and results. Our topic is how coaching can grow your consulting business. Today’s expert guest shares more in this conversation. Join us!
Dr. Steven Goodwin is the president and CEO of TurningWest, a national consulting firm that specializes in organization development and leadership. As a perpetual cheerleader for personal and organizational transformation, Steven has been a pastor, consultant, and coach. His life work is to enable organizations to harness the human potential embodied within each group so that they can create a more just world. He believes we all need to become better communicators through conflict and better at using that energy to make stronger relationships and better decisions. He is the author of Catching the Next Wave: Leadership Strategies for Turn-Around Congregations, along with several workbooks and articles. He is currently hard at work on a new book with the working title of Realigning Culture: Creating Organizational Transformation that Lasts.
Show Highlights:
- How coaching has added to Steven’s consulting business
- A holistic view of the coaching services that can create culture change
- How learning is built into team growth and development
- The Four C’s of Hiring: character, competency, chemistry, and capacity
- What Steven is learning about helping his clients flourish
- What has been most beneficial in providing the coaching and consulting services that his clients need
- Examples of positive organizational psychology in action
- Why the magic happens at the intersection of the outsider and insider perspective
- How great coaching questions can help clients see their own way forward
- Steven’s advice about engaging as a leader who encourages their team members to stay and grow
- Takeaways about having a solo practice vs. a team
Resources:
Connect with Dr. Steven Goodwin: Website, Podcast, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Book, and Email
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Do you need clarity on coaching the person rather than the problem? You’ve chosen the right show to learn more masterful coaching skills from today’s expert guest. Join us!
Dr. Marcia Reynolds is a Master Certified Coach who is the president of Covisioning, a leadership training and coaching firm. She is a former ICF President who is hired by organizations around the world to evoke transformation through conversations. Not only is she the author of Coach the Person, Not the Problem: A Guide to Using Reflective Inquiry, but she also wrote Outsmart Your Brain, Wander Woman, and The Discomfort Zone. Marcia was a previous guest on Episode 40, in which we talked about emotional intelligence, and I’m delighted to welcome her back to the show.
Show Highlights:
- What is reflective inquiry? (and what it is not)
- Why the offer for reflection is always an invitation to the client
- Marcia’s three tips for coaching the person, not the problem:
- Set the expectation with an agreement.
- Maintain the belief that our clients are whole and resourceful.
- Know when to shift from the situation into coaching the person.
- How to partner with a client for their growth in asking the right questions for transformation
- Why people need to be seen, heard, and valued in order to grow
- Why coaching the person is very different than simply asking lots of questions
- Why the foundation of the power of coaching is giving people the ability to observe their thinking
Resources:
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Marcia’s previous appearance on the STaR Coach Show: Episode 40
Connect with Dr. Marcia Reynolds
Website, Twitter, and LinkedIn,
Marcia’s books: Coach the Person, Not the Problem, Outsmart Your Brain,Wander Woman, andThe Discomfort Zone
One of my favorite topics is learning more about mindset, thinking, and how our brains work. As much as the world’s experts already understand, we are probably just beginning to scratch the surface of the power and potential of our thinking. Today’s conversation asks and answers the question, “Is your mind lying to you?” Let’s learn more together in today’s show!
Dr. Don Booz is the founder of Booz and Associates, Inc., an executive and organizational development firm. While he is educated as a marriage and family therapist, he is also an executive coach, a master coach in conversational intelligence, and a master practitioner in NLP (neuro-linguistic programming). He is best known as a conversational anthropologist. Dr. Booz is the author of two books, Your Brain is Lying: How to Silence Your Inner Critic and The Emotional Intelligence Primer for Today’s Leaders: How to be the Difference that Makes the Difference. Dr. Booz shares specific strategies that you can apply today to get out of your own way in moving forward.
Show Highlights
- How to understand the basics of our limiting beliefs, thinking, and self-talk
- How to become aware of negative self-talk in internal and external forms (the ANTS–”automatic negative thoughts”)
- How to use Dr. Booz’s emotional intelligence filter before you say/write something: “Does it need to be said? Does it need to be said by me? Does it need to be said by me now?”
- How to identify your emotional triggers and audit your thinking
- How women in the medical field often battle with imposter syndrome
- How to combat negative self-talk with tools, like affirmations, meditation, breathing, journaling, mirror work, etc.
- Why most people don’t realize how important inner thoughts and talk are
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Dr. Booz’s books
Your Brain is Lying: How to Silence Your Inner Critic
The Emotional Intelligence Primer for Today’s Leaders: How to Be the Difference that Makes the Difference
If you are a new coach just starting your career, you’ll find in today’s episode what I wish someone had taught me many years ago. We need help focusing our attention on the most productive steps in building a coaching business. Let’s learn more about strengthening the four pillars of your thriving coaching business!
Lee Chaix McDonough is the founder of Coach with Clarity, a training and education company for life and business coaches. She hosts her podcast, Coach with Clarity, and is the author of an Amazon #1 bestseller, ACT on Your Business: Braving the Storms of Entrepreneurship and Creating Success Through Meaning, Mindset, and Mindfulness. While originally a clinical social worker and healthcare professional, Lee has leveraged those skills into her next career as a credentialed coach.
Show Highlights:
- Why Lee is passionate about working with coaches
- How Lee formulated the Four Pillars
- The Four Pillars:
- Identity–Who do I want to be as a coach? What do I want to be known for?
- Audience–Who do I most want to serve?
- Approach–What is it like to work with me as a coach?
- Offer–What results will my client receive when they pay for my coaching services?
- A closer look at Identity and how to get clear about roles, core values, alignment, and expressing what matters most
- How the Valued Living Questionnaire (VLQ) can help clarify your core values (and your clients’ core values)
- Why we may see shifts in our identity as we grow and change over time through our lives
Resources:
Connect with Lee: Website, LinkedIn, Facebook, Coach with Clarity Podcast, and Lee's book
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Our words are important! There is great power in the words we use, and they are the key to all spoken and written communication. Today’s show takes a look at how our word choices affect our responses, motivations, and actions we take. Our words come into play in the self-talk we tell ourselves and also in our language with others, either prompting forward movement and growth or potentially shutting down all growth. Join me as we examine our communication through the lens of two words in this question: Is it an excuse or an explanation?
Show Highlights:
- What an excuse is–and how it’s used to bypass all accountability and ownership
- What an explanation is–and how it’s used to seek to clarify, understand, and learn
- How an excuse blocks our creativity and any path forward, keeping us in a fear-based state
- How an explanation sees through the lens of reason to find a path to a solution
- How an excuse costs us, keeps us powerless and stuck, and won’t help us meet our goals
- How excuses make us small and invisible, blocking our dreams from coming true
- How I’ve seen excuses and explanations come into play as a therapist and coach
- My challenge: What would shift for you if you recognize your excuses as excuses?
- How your excuses can turn into explanations that give choices and options
- How to identify the smallest thing you can do to begin to make progress and shift your words from excuses to explanations
- Examples of resources that can help you move forward in shifting from excuses to explanations
- My advice for taking the steps and making the changes in going from excuse to explanation
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Is your website bringing traffic to you? Are those website visitors being converted into clients? How do you feel about your website? Today’s guest challenges our thinking and gives his perspective on this crucial part of your business, including how we can maximize website opportunities and turn our website into a profit center. Join us to learn more!
Michael “Buzz” Buzinski is a lifelong entrepreneur, digital marketing thought leader, and author who has worked with over 1200 service-centric businesses. Through Buzzworthy Integrated Marketing, Buzz teaches people how to use their websites to effectively double their revenue by following his success formula. His passion for helping entrepreneurs comes from his 15-year struggle in his business, so he is relatable and knowledgeable in helping others avoid the time drain and frustration that are common in entrepreneurship. His book, The Rule of 26 for Service-Based Businesses: Three Steps to Doubling Website Revenue, was published in 2021. In today’s show, Buzz shares how we can reach more people, bring more value, and live the lifestyle that we want in today’s digital age.
Show Highlights:
- How Buzz finds value in helping those in service-centric businesses understand their value and individuality
- Why the starting point is Strategy
- The mindset shift to think of your website as an expense item to a profit center (⅔ of ALL business today is going through websites!)
- How Buzz’s “Rule of 26” strategy can help you use your website as a profit center
- Why “billing what you are worth” is a pitfall that MUST be addressed
- Why the next step is to create more value for your clients
- How to break down the math to increase your conversion rate by 26%
- Why your website should talk about the most important person: the website visitor (Change your “I” and “me” language to “you” and “your.”)
- Why most entrepreneurs make the common mistake of addressing too many problems and failing to niche down to a particular problem
- What your conversion rate optimization formula looks like: You must identify the problem, form a solution, and create a methodology that revolves around THEM
- How to use your website “About” page to make everything about you actually about THEM
- How to attract people to your website through SEO
- How to change your mindset around time and money
- Why you need to get rid of “PITA” clients and focus on attracting the next echelon up by raising prices and eliminating “tire-kickers” and “plate-lickers”
- Key takeaways about optimized websites:
- Evaluate your current clients (How many are your perfect clients?), do research on why they are your best clients, make a profile of them, and figure out the commonality between them.
- Evaluate your website (Am I talking to my perfect clients with language focused on them?), address the clients’ problems, show them your success rate, and give them a good call-to-action/offer.
Resources:
Connect with Buzz: Website, Book, and Email
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As coaches, it is SO easy to get caught up in all the things we need to do to build our businesses and neglect our health. Our bodies are the foundation for every success we achieve, and if we neglect our physical health, our bodies will someday demand our attention and focus. Let’s find out more about how our health habits can affect our business’s bottom line. Join us!
Alison Scott is a Certified Health and Lifestyle Coach who specializes in intermittent fasting. After Alison lost about 30 pounds through intermittent fasting several years ago, she became passionate about sharing it with others. She realized that she can help others find the keys to a healthier lifestyle that they can maintain for the rest of their lives. In her coaching business, she helps clients design the life and lifestyle that they want through health, well-being, and making good choices.
Show Highlights:
- What we need to know regarding our eating habits by planning ahead and making better food choices
- How small changes can make a big difference (Start with healthy swaps that crowd out the poor choices!)
- How intermittent fasting can improve a person’s health and energy level
- Why heavy, high-fat and high-sugar foods drain your body’s energy level
- How “appetite correction” occurs with intermittent fasting
- Why exercise needs to fit into your lifestyle and be something you enjoy doing
- Why it’s important to get your heart rate going, use weight training, and increase flexibility and balance
- How regular exercise helps you as an entrepreneur in various ways
- How to break the sedentary cycle and build exercise into your day with small tweaks and changes
- How daily grounding practices (meditation, gratitude, stretching, mindfulness, etc.) can help entrepreneurs and make space for creativity
- Alison’s programs: New Lifestyle You three-month coaching program, six-month 1:1 Master’s program, and her online course on intermittent fasting that’s coming soon
Resources:
Connect with Alison Scott: Website, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram
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Are you a good communicator? Communication is key in coaching and life. Most especially, communication factors into conflict, both positively and negatively—and we all know that conflict is an unavoidable part of life as a human being. No matter how practiced and eloquent you might be at communicating, there is always room for improvement. Is your communication style as effective as it can possibly be? Join us to learn more in today’s show!
Dr. Debra Dupree is known as the MINDSET Doc as she strives to make a difference in the lives of people. She does this by providing insight and vision that helps them leverage the conflict mindset to gain new perspectives and opportunities. As a Dispute Resolution Specialist, Conflict Leadership Coach, international trainer, and keynote speaker, Debra has a vast history of experience, including work as the former Director of Training for Mediation Training Institute (MTI), where she trained professionals to become workplace mediators throughout North America. She also hosts the Decoding the Conflict Mindset podcast. In this rich interview packed with resources, Debra explains how we can engage with others and use our emotional intelligence to truly communicate rather than just talk to people.
Show Highlights:
- How Debra became known as the MINDSET Doc
- How Debra’s personal story illustrates what we need to consider in “knowing ourselves”
- How a deeper understanding of self helps us have a greater awareness of conflict
- Why it is essential to change our mindset about those who see things differently and have a different perspective
- How knowing ourselves helps us build confidence and be comfortable with others’ perspectives
- Tips for better communication:
- Debra’s 360-degree Perspective (YouTube)
- A focus on “other” options for resolving conflict effectively
- What happens we are emotionally hijacked
- How reflection and nonverbal communication fit into the overall picture of mediation and conflict resolution
- How Debra uses the tool, Three Steps to Mindset Shift (Online Assessment)
- Why productive conversations come with increased emotional intelligence and the ability to “read the room”
- How emotional intelligence is based on the four quadrants of self-awareness, self-management, other-awareness, and relationship management (from Dr. Daniel Goleman’s book, Emotional Intelligence)
Resources:
Connect with Dr. Debra: Website, Instagram, YouTube, Podcast
Resources mentioned: Debra’s 360-degree Perspective (YouTube), and Three Steps to Mindset Shift Assessments
Books mentioned: Emotional Intelligence by Dr. Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Dr. Travis Bradberry and Dr. Jean Greaves, and Your Emotional Potential by Dr. Debra Dupree
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Even though coaching is a great way to enhance listening and communication skills, the reality is that NOT everything is a coaching conversation. While that may sound odd on a podcast about coaching, the truth is that coaches sometimes feel confined by the coaching process. It is important to respect the coaching process while exploring the need to give enrichment in other ways beyond questions, reflection, and sharing insights. There are different types of conversations that are needed in coaching situations to communicate effectively. Join me for a deeper look at this topic!
Show Highlights
- Why the most important thing to remember about our conversations is to use the right tool for the job
- The fact: Coaches and leaders need to balance the “telling” and the “asking.”
- The different kinds of conversations coaches can have: teaching, mentoring, consulting, managing, and psychotherapeutic
- How we can use different conversations as we determine the best fit for where clients are and what they want to achieve
- Why EVERY conversation we have could benefit from MORE curiosity and LESS judgment
- How the impact of coaching is diminished when we don’t use the most effective form of communication with our clients
- My tips for sharing your knowledge, expertise, and experience as a coach
- Why the space you give for discovery and awareness is a powerful and transformational gift
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What are you doing RIGHT NOW that’s upping your coaching game and moving you forward? Whatever your coaching field and level of expertise, this show is all about helping you grow in proficiency with the way you engage with your clients. One of the major components of successful coaching in a feedback culture is trust. Let’s take a closer look with today’s expert guest!
Dr. Tom Krapu is a coach with inexhaustible curiosity, and he uses a highly collaborative, reliable, and flexible approach in the facilitation of coaching methods. He works with his clients to create an impact across their organizations that leads to lasting and meaningful results. Through executive coaching and 360 feedback, Tom is committed to helping organizations develop leadership and create powerful cultures. He has worked with individuals in their development for over 30 years and has specialized as a coach, facilitator, and trainer since 2001. His internationally-focused work has included coaching engagements in Malaysia, Korea, Japan, Europe, and the US across diverse sectors of the economy from health care, finance, publishing, government, and higher education.
Show Highlights:
- What lights Tom up about coaching and keeps him in this work
- How to understand the basics of a feedback culture
- How the Johari window model and its four quadrants form a framework for our awareness of ourselves
- Why trust is a game changer when it comes to a feedback culture
- Success indicators that show a high-trust environment: employee climate surveys, exit interviews, and a high retention rate compared to industry standards
- How to implement best practices in ratings, reports, and 360 feedback
- How 360 feedback surveys should be done to prevent mistrust and abuse and increase accountability
- Why 360 feedback results should be paired with a robust, professional debriefing to create meaning
- How to use the Stop, Start, Continue Method to create a culture of trust (See Resources for Tom’s blog on the subject.)
Resources:
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What are the benefits to being in an organization that offers coaching to individuals and groups? What are the drawbacks? We are diving deep into these questions and more on today’s show. My guest and I are also discussing some of the questions we are asked most often about our profession, for example, what it means to be a coach, where to begin coach training, etc. Come join us to learn more!
Ilene Schaffer is the CEO of Silicon Valley Change (SVC). As an executive leadership coach, she leverages her graduate work in life transitions counseling to engage with her clients so they can thrive amid ever-changing environments. In today’s conversation, she explains how someone should begin engaging with an organization that offers coaching, whether online or in person, along with what it means to “coach from the bench.” Through her work with senior executives in a variety of industries, she views her role as a connector to help bring positive change to her clients and the coaches on her bench. You will gain valuable knowledge from Ilene today, and be sure to listen to Episode 109, her previous appearance on the show. Ilene is one of my favorite people, and I’m excited to welcome her back today!
Show Highlights:
- Why Ilene is energized most by the relationships her coaching work brings
- What has changed for Ilene since her last appearance on the STaR Coach Show
- How Ilene became involved with Silicon Valley Change and took on the role of CEO
- How Ilene’s work focuses on connecting people and organizations
- How different coaching “benches” have different requirements and offer different opportunities
- Ilene’s advice about where to begin in looking for coaching organizations in the space of your interest
- The biggest advantages to being part of a bench of coaches
- Why there is value in building and engaging in community with other coaches
- How a growth mindset allows you to learn and develop into a better coach
- Common questions about coaching:
- Do I need specific training?
- Which program should I do?
- Should I join the ICF or not?
- Parting words from Ilene about coaching in community
Resources:
Connect with Ilene: Email and LinkedIn
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Are you living a balanced life in these first few days of 2023? Balance is a key component in finding perspective in the dynamic relationship between expectation, achievement, and fulfillment. It’s most often imbalance that causes us to feel stuck, frustrated, and discouraged.
Join me as we discuss the consequences of imbalance, along with strategies you can use to find the balance you need for 2023!
Show Highlights:
- How I’ve witnessed balance–or imbalance–as the major factor that impacts one’s health
- Why “living in extreme thinking” creates imbalance; this keeps us stuck and prevents perspective and curiosity
- How Episode 318 pairs with today’s episode in that letting go of certain things is necessary to achieve balance–especially as we begin a new year
- How imbalance in our lives creates consequences that are counterproductive to the achievement of our goals
- Why multitasking is a myth that decreases productivity and increases stress and overwhelm (Dr. Lindsey Bloom calls multitasking “a continuous pattern of partial attention.”)
- How I notice multitasking leading to an imbalance in my life and work
- How to identify and evaluate the things that disturb your balance by understanding your motivation and purpose
- My challenge to you in creating clarity and purpose, experimenting with new steps, and applying your learning to your next steps
- Why it’s important to allow yourself enough TIME to achieve your goals
- Steps to take to find clarity, connection, and community in achieving balance
Resources:
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Welcome to the final show of 2022. I’m taking a holiday break through the end of the year, and you’ll have a chance to catch up on any shows you might have missed or those that you want to listen to again. So, as you are baking, wrapping presents, or cleaning the house, I hope you’ll let the STaR Coach Show be your companion. Thank you for listening!
Let’s use today’s episode to discuss how we have to let go so we can grow. This process is part of life that comes to mind when we lose loved ones, as I have experienced several times this year. It’s also an important part of identifying what has served us well in the past that might need to be let go for future growth. Let’s take a closer look as we explore the concept of letting go.
Show Highlights:
- Why we need to start with attachment–and what it means to let go
- How we should evaluate the people in our lives–Are they giving us room to grow?
- How to evaluate the story we are telling ourselves and take inventory
- Why we as coaches need to let go of the need to prove our value
- As you close out 2022: What is serving you, and what is holding you back?
- How I have had to let go in my career–to step into new and exciting things
- The power in the awareness of what you really want and what is best serving you
- The value in practicing gratitude
- Key takeaways to remember about letting go to grow: increase awareness of your vision, take inventory of what’s working/what’s not, journal about where you want to be, meditate and be mindful, give yourself time and grace, embrace the emotion, practice gratitude, create a mantra to combat your old storyline, and surround yourself with encouraging/supportive people
- “What do you want to let go of so you can grow into who you want to be?”
- A look back at the biggest highlights of the STaR Coach Show in 2022
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Welcome to December! Today’s topic is very important in that setting up an anti-racist workplace is a good move economically, emotionally, and holistically for everyone. I’m talking to the co-authors of a book that takes on this subject, and our conversation centers around how coaches are in a unique position to usher in this conversation for workplaces everywhere. Join us to learn more!
I’m joined by Margaret Greenberg and Gina Greenlee to discuss The Business of Race. Margaret and Gina self-identify as white American and black American, respectively. Margaret is president of The Greenberg Group, a consulting firm dedicated to coaching executives and their teams to lead large-scale organizational change. She is a globally-recognized thought leader, keynote speaker, and positive psychology pioneer.
Gina Greenlee is an organizational development, project management, communications training, and education professional. She creates experiential learning models and stages of readiness for behavioral change. Margaret and Gina share how they partnered together to write their book, and we discuss the impact of empathy, curiosity, and how coaches are uniquely qualified to help leaders create and sustain anti-racist workplaces.
Show Highlights:
- How Gina and Margaret used their deep, decades-long friendship as the basis for their writing partnership
- Why the death of George Floyd prompted their deeper, race-centered conversations with each other
- How their writing style is the perfect balance of the “angry black woman” and “privileged white woman” so people will accept it
- How we can best address the reality of unpleasant race issues in history
- Why empathy is a critical emotion when considering race and US history
- How coaches are uniquely positioned to step into the space of race because of their empathy, curiosity, and awareness
- Why creating and sustaining an anti-racist workplace is good for business
- Why shared context and readiness are vital in conversations about race
- How assessment tools can be helpful for coaches in assessing readiness (See Resources for the ASI and the OSA and more.)
- How the Race Card Project works to help further understanding and change
- Gina’s parting words to coaches: “You must do your own work before you can work with clients about race. Be curious.”
- Margaret’s parting words to coaches: “With our book, I recommend that you read a chapter and reflect on the questions.”
Resources
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Other resources shared in this episode:
Profit from the Positive by Margaret Greenberg
Cheaper Than Therapy: How to Take Risks to Create the Life You Want by Gina Greenlee
The NPR Race Card Project
Anti-Racist Ally by Sophie Williams
Shared Sisterhood by Tina Opie and Beth A. Livingston
The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee
All Are Welcome by Cynthia Owyoung
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What keeps you from achieving what you really want to achieve? Is it clarity, drive, or motivation? We have to be intentional about the decisions we make that move us in the right direction. Today’s guest shares his process of chunking time in segments to accomplish our goals. It’s a process we can personally use as coaches AND with our clients. Join us to learn more!
Tommy Newberry is The NY Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The 4:8 Principle and the founder and head coach of AchievingOPTIMAL, an organization that helps Christian entrepreneurs and their families maximize their full potential. He’s written numerous books, including the motivational classic, Success is Not an Accident, and he’s appeared on a variety of TV and radio shows.
Show Highlights:
- An overview of Tommy’s unconventional path to coaching and what lights him up about the work he does today
- How Tommy has seen firsthand the evolution of coaching over his 31+ career
- Why Tommy focused his coaching niche on faith-based entrepreneurs and their families who want to go from GOOD to GREAT
- Why Tommy’s work with clients begins with the premise that your business should serve you and your life
- Steps in the process to get what you want by managing your time:
- Design the master vision of your optimal life. What do you want your life and business to look like ten years from now?
- Concentrate on “needle-moving activities” for the next three years, and break those down into ten-week segments and weekly planning sessions.
- Schedule a weekly session to identify the three most important things to accomplish in the coming week.
- Why it’s important to let the client come to clarity on their own about the three most important things to accomplish in each week
- How to use a “Someday I Just Might Want To . . .” journal
- Why weekly goals and EMSRs (Early Morning Success Ritual) are valuable–even without a clear master vision: “If you WIN the morning, you WIN the day.”
- How to bookend your day with an EMSR and an NTSR (Nighttime Success Ritual): “If there is a part of your day that you should be obsessive-compulsive about, it should be the first hour of the day.”
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Connect with Tommy: Website, Email, LinkedIn, The 4:8 Principle book
Mentioned by Tommy: Do What You Love, the Money Will Follow by Marcia Sinetar
As Thanksgiving is upon us, I want to take a moment to say that I’m very grateful for all of you. Thank you for listening! In today’s show, my guest shares how we can create new insights and go deeper with our coaching clients. Invoking new awareness is key to the coaching process, and there is something here for each of us to learn. Join us now!
Dr. Patrick Williams is a psychologist, author, speaker, leadership coach, and a true pioneer in the field of Whole Life Coaching. He is the founder of the Institute for Life Coach Training and was honored as one of the inaugural members of the ICF’s Circle of Distinction. Besides being a Master Certified Coach since 1999, Patrick has been busy developing leaders for three decades in his work around the world.
Show Highlights:
- What lights up Patrick about the coaching work he does today
- What Patrick has seen in the evolution of awareness in the field of coaching
- How coaching helps you find out WHO you are and WHAT you are
- How a coach shows up transparently and authentically with empathy–without making it all about themselves
- Why a coach sometimes has to be a “committed listener”
- How to notice a shift in the client’s energy and listen for metaphors
- What Patrick dislikes about the word “goals”
- Why we have the need to share with other people
- The difference in offering a metaphor vs. evoking a metaphor
- How emotion is literally “energy in motion”
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Find his books on Amazon, including his latest,Getting Naked: Ways to Uncover Your Authentic Self at Work, Home, in Relationships, and Life
Today’s show is a treat for you as we meet a member of the new generation of exciting young coaches who is making a huge impact in the world. He shares his journey and concept of coaching, along with information about his exciting non-profit. Our conversation is topped off with an extraordinary performance that you don’t want to miss! Join us!
Tim Harrison, ACC, is a San Diego native, Rice University graduate, and resident of Houston, Texas. After graduating into a world in crisis because of the pandemic and social unrest, he turned down a coveted job in consulting to pursue his life mission, “To inspire and equip people to realize their potential.” This led Tim to create the non-profit EPOG (“Enjoyable Pain of Growth”) Academy with the mission to make personal development part of education. EPOG makes professional leadership coaching accessible so that high school students from all zip codes can access top-tier resources that empower them to take control of their future. Tim is one of the youngest coaches in the US to earn his ACC credential from the International Coaching Federation, and he’s an active Leadership Coach, public speaker, peer-reviewed social scientist, consultant, and performing artist.
Show Highlights:
- Tim’s dynamic journey to where he is today as a 24-year-old coach: from college basketball player to psychology/personal development enthusiast and 2020 college graduate
- Why Tim turned down an attractive, six-figure consulting position to pursue his coaching certification, become a leadership coach, and open his non-profit
- Why a coach should lean on humility, curiosity, and principles
- How Tim found his purpose at age 22, knowing exactly what he was called and uniquely wired to do with his life
- An overview of EPOG Academy, which strives to equip high school students in underserved communities with personal development as part of their education
- How Tim uses the acronym POWER (Purpose, Ownership, Wisdom, Execution, and Resilience) as the backbone of the EPOG curriculum
- How Tim identified and moved past the barriers that were in his way
- How Tim handled the non-profit journey to depending on others for funding and relinquishing his control
- How running a non-profit has added to Tim’s experience as a coach
- Why the best coaches receive coaching themselves
- Why it’s important to have a core mission, an anchor, and an essential aim in your purpose
- How Tim turns to poetry to fulfill his mission to inspire and evoke awareness in others
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The energy and presence that we bring into our market are vitally important. Our being as a coach very much determines how we engage with potential clients, and our level of engagement is everything. Join us to learn more!
Karen Cappello is a Master Certified Coach, business and executive coach, communications specialist, motivational speaker, and coach trainer. She collaborates with leaders and executive coaches to promote highly beneficial business outcomes. With over 30 years of expertise and experience in business management, financial planning, and higher education, she has brought her broad-based background to her coaching clientele. Her level of excellence is evidenced by her former Chief Learning Officer position with the International Coach Academy in Australia, her work with Ford Motor Company’s executive leadership program, and her work with leaders from the World Health Organization. Her passion is to help coaches bring their work into the world, and you’ll hear that in today’s conversation. We discuss the energy with which we engage with prospective clients, along with how our energy and presence align for successful marketing and why having market research conversations is a game-changer for coaches.
Show Highlights:
- What lights Karen up about the work that she does
- How Karen identified and put to good use her “essence energy”
- How to slow down and evaluate your “fully alive” and “fully present” energy
- Why a “I’m here to serve” mindset becomes magnetic in showing your true self
- How coaches can bring their true essence into marketing
- How coaches can increase their exposure in marketing by sticking with their essence energy in market research conversations
- How to make the most of feedback and your best coaching skills
- Karen’s advice about what coaches should do in the next few weeks (a simple strategy around market research conversations)
Resources:
Connect with Karen: www.karencappello.com
Visit www.coachesquickstartdigital.com for Karen’s digital program around market research conversations.
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In today’s solo episode, I’m focusing on how we can avoid becoming stagnant and falling into habits that do not serve us or our clients. We are also discussing how to have grace with ourselves through the process of growth and evolution. Join us to learn more! Show Highlights: How thehttps://starcoaches.mykajabi.com/star-coach-community-offer ( STaR Coach Member Community) can help in your development as a coach by providing a wealth of opportunities, resources, and connections with other like-minded coaches How your evolution as a coach helps you move into mastery The Four Stages of Competence in our development as coaches: (as created by Noel Burch of Gordon Training International in the 1970s)
Unconscious Incompetence Why different types of conversations, like teaching, mentoring, managing, and consulting are not coaching conversations–though they have value How the ICF defines coaching Why unconscious incompetence occurs when there is a different skill set needed than what we were previously aware of
Conscious Incompetence How moving to conscious incompetence depends upon the motivation to learn a new skill and believe in the process Why we have to embrace the learning and value in a new skill as important parts of our growth What powerful questions do–and how to best use them What the two biggest obstacles are to growing coaching confidence and skills
Conscious Competence Why it takes practice to move us into conscious competence Why this is the time to build the muscle of moving from “asking” to “telling” How mentoring helps you pay attention to where you want to grow and continue building your coaching muscles
Unconscious Competence How unconscious competence happens with years of experience in using inquiry to help people grow How unconscious competence allows us to view our conversations differently and be fully present with the client How the unconsciously competent coach can step into different needed roles with a client as the coach’s evolution continues in building and growing coaching skills To wrap up, what are you doing to stay committed to your continuous growth as a coach?
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Everything can change because of leadership. In our world today, our organizations, and our coaching relationships, leadership is crucial and foundational. Let’s take a closer look at the future of leadership and how we, as coaches, can better engage with the challenges of leadership. Join us to learn more! Chuck Mollor is the founder, CEO, executive coach, and advisor at MCG Partners. This organization specializes in leadership and talent optimization through aligning business and people strategies for maximum results. He is the author of the new, best-selling book, The Rise of the Agile Leader: Can You Make the Shift? Chuck’s key focus is on enabling leaders to advance to the next level by simplifying the complexities of modern leadership. In today’s show, Chuck shares how leaders can maximize their impact and how they show up to create a culture reflective of the organization’s mission, purpose, and values. We discuss the future of leadership, along with how coaches can partner with leaders to get them where they want to be. Show Highlights: What lights up Chuck about the work he does today What Chuck sees as the future of leadership Why there is a new emphasis on joy and connection in leadership How the future of leadership is around creating culture, unity, and alignment with a complex, virtual, hybrid workforce Why the pace and intensity of change are more rapid than ever before in the workplace Why learning how to fail comes along with innovation Why having the self-awareness to make adjustments is crucial for effective leadership How reflective exercises, behavioral assessments (like the Predictive Index), and asking for feedback can help a leader be better Why many leaders struggle to make decisions Why the best leaders establish human connections and understand their people, along with their challenges and aspirations Why leaders need to create stability for themselves and their teams in this world of chaos Why creating culture is key for leaders in connecting their external and internal brand Chuck’s advice for coaches about engaging with today’s leaders
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Today’s show is a powerful one that aligns in a particularly timely way with my life at this moment. Pain is part of life, and it comes in various ways to touch every part of our being. Losing a loved one, as I recently have, brings much pain and despair. We must go through the pain and grief in life’s moments of despair to make it to the other side of the pain. The good news is that we CAN find purpose through those painful moments, and today’s guest has insights to share. She shares transparently about the depths of her pain and her story of survival and finding purpose. Join us to learn more! Jenny Ngo is an intuitive business coach and master healer. Together with her husband, Dan, they help coaches and healers create quantum leaps to six figures in their businesses by doing what they love, finding more freedom, and creating impact in the world. They specialize in helping their clients fill their one-on-one and group programs through organic marketing strategies and mindset and energy-healing support so they can attract more coaching clients. Before coaching, Jenny worked in the medical field as an RN and Certified Nurse-Midwife. Jenny and Dan love spending time together with their two kiddos, traveling to the beach and other fun places.
Show Highlights:
What Jenny loves about the work she does today–and how she fulfills her purpose Why nothing else will get better in your life until you heal past traumas How Jenny’s journey to coaching and healing merged mindset work, business coaching, trauma healing, and purpose The value in community and connection, especially when we need help and support How Jenny made the journey from self-recrimination to giving herself grace through trust and surrender Jenny’s story of how she hit rock bottom in her business, felt like a failure, and became a suicide survivor Lessons learned by Jenny in her journey “back” to believing in herself, her purpose, and her business Why believing in yourself is the #1 step to success How Jenny feels about her current path in light of the pain she’s experienced How Jenny uses the “AM/FM Stations” acronym in her coaching
Resources:
Connect with Jenny: https://purposetoprofitscoaching.com ( Website),https://www.facebook.com/JennyNgoPurposeToProfitsCoaching/ ( Facebook), andhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/jennythaongo ( LinkedIn)
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I’m changing things up today as we revisit a very important episode for the STaR Coach Show. We are going back to Episode 1 and my very first guest. The content is still relevant and timely today, so I hope you get value from this flashback. Join us! Cynthia Loy Darst is a Master Certified Coach who is known as a passionate pioneer in the coaching industry. An experienced coach since 1992, Cynthia joined me way back when for our very first episode, and she walked us through some things coaches should think about in building their business. Cynthia also helped deepen our understanding of the nuances of the client partnership and why you need to reassess the coaching agreement down the road. Based in Los Angeles, Cynthia and her husband, David (also a coach), are partners in their companies, The Inspiration Point and Team Darst. They do work with individuals, teams, couples, partnerships, and organizational systems. Cynthia’s book, Meet Your Inside Team: How to Turn Internal into Clarity and Move Forward with Your Life, was published in 2018.
Show Highlights:
The first steps in building a coaching practice: Focus on your strengths, and keep it simple. Don’t forget to have fun! Take the business part seriously so you aren’t panicked and desperate. Make sure you are well-supported emotionally. The traps that beginning coaches fall into How to get better at connecting with others Why signing someone up for coaching with you is NOT about you at all Why you should never keep a client who “costs” you or causes resentment How to create a safe and courageous space for you (the coach) AND your client Why it’s important to take the time to rework the contract with a client after a time How to know if you are coaching with intuition The best question to consider about coaching and staying true to yourself Cynthia’s final words of wisdom to coaches
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Writing proposals is a necessary task that can become an obstacle that stops us in our tracks. The process can be a deep, dark rabbit hole that we fall down, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Today’s guest has insights and wisdom that will help you simplify the proposal process. Join us to learn more! Russell Pearson is a business strategist, designer, keynote speaker, and artist. He has been working with passionate yet frustrated business owners to transform the way they grow their organizations for over 25 years. He is the founder of the Crimson Fox Creative Studios and hosts The Marketing Report podcast. He is also the Past National President of Professional Speakers Australia. I’m excited to introduce you to Russell in today’s show! Show Highlights:
What Russell loves about the work he does today What Russell identifies as the gaps in small business strategies today Where to start in doing better at proposals to address what the customer wants Why the starting point is the “priority conversation” to identify the problem The difference in collaborating on designing a proposal and creating a blind proposal The three categories of proposal opportunities in working with large organizations How Russell simplified the proposal process to these steps in the collaborative sales conversation: Make friends. Discover the problems that need to be solved. Meet them where they are now and collaborate on the design to reach the outcome. Help say YES. How Russell approaches the collaborative design process How to effectively use a price anchor in a proposal Why you should never send a “lonely” proposal Why both parties need the “know, like, and trust” factor
Resources:
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Connecting with other coaches can be just the right thing to propel your coaching to the next level of growth and impact. Coaching impact and leadership go hand-in-hand, and we are diving into these topics with today’s guest. Join us to learn more! Marlene Thomas is the president and CEO of Thomas Management Consulting, a woman-owned small business providing strategic consulting and executive coaching services to federal, state, and private sector businesses. With over 25 years of experience in leadership and executive coaching, organizational development, and project management, Marlene is dedicated to supporting individual employers and leaders in building productive partnerships, teams, and workplaces. She is the current president and former membership director of the Metro DC Chapter of the International Coaching Federation, the largest city chapter in the world with over 1700 members. In today’s show, we discuss what we have gained through volunteering for ICF leadership roles, how coaching impacts the world, and how ICF members are empowered through their connections with each other. Show Highlights:
What lights up Marlene about coaching and the journey she has taken to where she is today Why Marlene took on a leadership role in the ICF Metro DC Chapter Why every coach benefits from engagement in their professional organization and coaching community How Marlene and her fellow coaches in the Metro DC Chapter partner to give back in various ways The best steps you can take to start your coaching business Why coaches are lifelong learners who continue to build their muscles and hone their skills by investing in themselves A closer look at the virtual “Coffees” held by the Metro DC Chapter, which are great ways to connect with other members How Marlene decides which training investments to make for herself The one aspect of coaching that Marlene is most passionate about in her current role Marlene’s challenge to other coaches to look for pro bono work to make a difference in the world
Resources: Connect with Marlene:https://twitter.com/dmtconsults/with_replies ( Twitter),https://www.facebook.com/thomasmanagementconsulting/ ( Facebook), andhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/d-marlene-thomas-b010918 ( LinkedIn) Sign up for virtual “Coffees” with the Metro DC Chapter: http://www.icfmetrodc.org ( www.icfmetrodc.org) Sign up to gain access to the replays of last week’s STaR Coach Show FREE Masterclass, The 6 C’s to Your Coaching Master Plan: http://www.starcoachshow.com/masterclass/ ( www.STaRcoachshow.com/masterclass/) Follow us onhttps://www.facebook.com/STaRCoachShow ( Facebook)!
In today’s online world, content is everything. You have to produce content to let people know what you do, what you believe in, and what you offer your clients. Creating new content can be very intimidating and exhausting! Repurposing your existing content can make all the difference. Join us to hear more from today’s guest! Dr. Colin Gray is a podcaster, speaker, and the founder of The Podcast Host and Alitu.https://www.thepodcasthost.com/ ( The Podcast Host) is a huge audio, video, and written resource on how to create a successful show. https://alitu.com/ ( Alitu) is a web app that includes everything you need to make your podcast in the easiest way possible but still maintain full creative control. It includes call recording, automated audio cleanup, adding theme music, and building/hosting for your show. In today’s episode, Colin teaches us about the power of audio, the helpful resources that are available, and his best tips for creating a successful podcast.
Show Highlights:
What led Colin on the path to the work he does today How the podcasting boom has opened limitless opportunities Why audio content has a power all its own as compared to written and video content Ways to bring audio content forward apart from doing a long-term podcast How to break down your podcast idea into one season about a specific topic for 8-10 episodes—and then repurpose that content into other forms of media How today’s technology has made it super easy for anyone to record a podcast How resources likehttps://www.fiverr.com/ ( Fiverr),https://www.upwork.com/ ( Upwork), andhttps://www.canva.com/ ( Canva) can remove barriers that keep someone from podcasting Colin’s best tips for identifying your ideal audience and reaching out to them How podcasts can be structured in different ways to take away much of the mental load How to use transitions from season to season as opportunities to change things up, take a break, hype a re-launch, etc. How to create an “engagement stack” to draw people into your content Why simplicity is the key when starting a podcast
Resources:
Connect with Colin: https://www.thepodcasthost.com/start ( The Podcast Host Website),https://alitu.com ( Alitu Website),https://twitter.com/thepodcasthost/status/1512077236253327362 ( Twitter),http://uk.linkedin.com/in/colinmcgray ( LinkedIn), andhttps://www.facebook.com/thepodcasthost/ ( Facebook)
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How do coaches become clear about exactly who they want to coach? While that clarity might come easily for some in our profession, I know that many coaches struggle greatly to figure this out. My guest today found her coaching sweet spot, and she’s sharing helpful information that you can use in your quest to niche down. Join us to learn more! Sarah Kenny is a certified coach, mentor, and positive role model for adolescent girls. She believes that self-empowered girls will change the world, and her mission is to create a more just, equitable society by helping them develop critical life and leadership skills, especially the ones they don’t learn in school. Sarah helps girls navigate the challenges of adolescence while developing higher self-esteem, confidence, and courage so they can thrive as young women and transform into impactful leaders. Based in Austin, Texas, Sarah has her master’s degree in Gender Studies and is an Accredited Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation. She is an avid yogi, the mama of two fur babies, and a diehard Parks & Rec fan. Show Highlights:
Sarah’s long and winding journey to the work she does today and the Aha moment that led her to the perfect niche The most common areas in which Sarah coaches her young clients How Sarah works with her clients around emotions, relationships, and the anxiety that comes from people-pleasing The challenges inherent in the niche of coaching adolescent girls Why Sarah begins with an inquiry call with the girls’ parents first How it pays off to become known for your niche (the differentiators are what draws people to us) Sarah’s advice to those who want to find their niche Why Sarah views her coaching work as a vehicle that is a small part of a bigger, global mission to empower young girls and bring positive change
Resources: Connect with Sarah:https://sarahkennycoaching.com/ ( Website),https://www.facebook.com/sarahkennycoaching/ ( Facebook),https://www.instagram.com/sarahkennycoaching/?hl=en ( Instagram) Follow us onhttps://www.facebook.com/STaRCoachShow ( Facebook)!
Today’s topic is one that comes up often. How do we approach coaching with the client who didn’t ask to be coached? We are taking a close look at the coaching relationship with someone who has volunteered or feels like they’ve been “sentenced” into coaching. There are some unique considerations in setting up this kind of partnership. Let’s talk about it. Show Highlights:
What might lead someone into coaching who didn’t ask for it themselves Why this could be a low-trust or uncertain situation for the client How the coach can find out what the organization’s expectations are for this kind of coaching relationship Why guidelines have to be established about confidentiality and communication How I like to start off, in the beginning, to set the client up for success How to be clear about what the coaching process requires from the client How to revisit the coaching agreement if they don’t show up or want to pull out of the program How I have noticed an overall lack of trust as a major issue with these clients An example of how I set up structured coaching around a resource with success How to handle those who simply don’t want to be coached Why it is always important to find out what the motivation is for a client to be coached
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Mentioned in this episode: STaR Coach Showhttps://www.starchaochshow.com/122-diana-ideus-pcc-last-chance-coaching ( Episode 122) The Speed of Trust by Stephen M. R. Covey
Today’s show covers a critical skill set for all coaches. An important part of our work involves engaging with people when they are in a state of crisis. For our clients, there are various reasons that their emotions and responses might escalate during these times, and the very best coaches learn how to meet people in their pain. Join us to learn more from the discussion! Ken Jenkins is a professional emergency manager with extensive experience in planning, logistics, training, deployment, response, and after-action analysis in aviation disasters. He has been involved in the aftermath of 9/11 events, along with many other catastrophic events. He has provided strong leadership for over 30 years in the transportation disaster sector. His work has enabled him to use his collaborative skills under conditions of high stress, and, in becoming a coach, he knows how these skills relate to the coaching profession. He is a coach, trainer, and author, as well as the owner and president of his own emergency response company. His book is Resilience: Stories of Courage and Survival in Aviation Disasters. In today’s episode, Ken shares specific strategies that will be useful in your toolbox to appropriately and successfully engage with clients in crisis. Show Highlights:
What brought Ken into trauma work early in his career Why Ken wrote his book, Resilience, which focuses on his experience in eight aviation disasters with fatalities Why Ken decided to add coaching to his skillset and become a certified coach How showing up for people in the aftermath of a disaster is how we should approach people in need every single day—with deep empathy and compassion How Ken learned to engage with people through tough, emotional conversations by building rapport, trust, and safety How Ken learned to lessen the internal and external noise that people are experiencing The importance of preparation and presence in a situation where someone is wounded and grieving How open-ended questions help someone focus on the question instead of the emotion they feel How to best engage productively with someone who shows anger What it means to validate someone’s feelings Why crisis communication is everyday communication
Resources:
Connect with Ken:https://kenjenkinsllc.com/ ( Website),https://www.facebook.com/KenJenkinsLLC ( Facebook), andhttps://twitter.com/kenjenkinsllc ( Twitter),https://www.linkedin.com/in/kjllc/ ( LinkedIn) Find Ken’s book:https://www.amazon.com/Resilience-Stories-Survival-Aviation-Disasters/dp/1619200368 ( Resilience: Stories of Courage and Survival in Aviation Disasters) Join the STaR Coach Community: http://www.starcoachshow.com/register/ ( www.STaRcoachshow.com/register/). To join the Fall Mentor Program with Meg, visithttp://www.starcoachshow.com/mentor ( www.starcoachshow.com/mentor). Visit myhttps://www.starcoachshow.com ( website) for your FREE download: What I Know Now, That I Wish I Had Known When I First Started Coaching.
Today’s show covers key elements to help you thrive and soar to new heights as a business owner. If you are stuck in the struggle and wondering what you can do to turn things around and excel in achieving your goals, THIS is the show for you. Join us to hear more from today’s expert guest! Hilmon Sorey is the co-founder of the CoachCRM sales coaching software platform and co-founder of ClozeLoop, a sales strategy training and enablement firm with offices around the world. He is also a partner in a seed-stage venture capital firm and the author of eight top-selling books on sales, sales management, and coaching. Throughout his career, he has helped build teams in companies ranging from early-stage startups to established companies like Salesforce, Box, and Survey Monkey. He is an award-winning trainer of over 15,000 salespeople and over 5,000 executives. Hilmon is a sought-after speaker around the globe, and I’m honored that he took the time to be on the show during his recent vacation in Milan. Show Highlights:
What lights Hilmon up about the work he does today The four S’s for business success: Strategies–This is what you are doing in the marketplace, including awareness of direct and indirect competition. Systems–This includes the repeatable processes that allow you to deliver your offerings, but some type of feedback is crucial. Staff–To have the right people requires clarity and a competency model, whether those are employees, contractors, virtual assistants, etc. Skills–We have to be honest in our evaluation of our skills and look for opportunities for growth. Why you have to look at each category in light of the gap between where we are today and where we would like to be Why the implementation of the four S’s has to be an ongoing endeavor–and actually become part of your business–in order to have business success
Resources:
Connect with Hilmon Sorey:https://www.linkedin.com/in/hilmonsorey ( LinkedIn),https://www.facebook.com/ClozeLoop/ ( Facebook) (ClozeLoop), andhttps://www.foundersalesaccelerator.com/ ( Website)
Join the STaR Coach Community: http://www.starcoachshow.com/register/ ( www.STaRcoachshow.com/register/). To join the Fall Mentor Program with Meg, visithttp://www.starcoachshow.com/mentor ( www.starcoachshow.com/mentor). Visit myhttps://www.starcoachshow.com ( website) for your FREE download: What I Know Now, That I Wish I Had Known When I First Started Coaching.
Today’s guest is sharing her perspective on diversity, equity, and inclusion. We will learn what we should consider to get it right in the coaching space and show up in partnership with our clients. Join us to learn more! Deborah Harris is a certified personal and executive coach with an extensive background in leadership development, management, education, and training. Her work is focused in the diversity, equity, and inclusion space, and she is the perfect person to help us learn more. This is a wonderful interview that I’m very excited to share with you. Show Highlights:
How Deborah came into the work she does today What coaches should be aware of regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) Why it’s important to have a sense of belonging and connection in the coach/client relationship How DEI issues for coaches are not the same everywhere else in the world What Deborah advises about eliminating unconscious bias How to consider your “invisible suitcase” regarding how we judge and categorize others How to be reflective, aware, curious, and considerate of other perspectives Why coaches should allow the client to set the expectation regarding working with a person of another race/ethnicity How listening can be the best tool for coaches to pick up on clients’ cues about DEI What’s important for organizations to consider regarding DEI Why coaches should educate themselves about DEI in intentional ways
Resources:
Connect with Deborah: http://www.linkedin.com/in/deborah-harris-4b729537 ( LinkedIn)
To celebrate our recent 300th episode, I held a FREE Masterclass series, The 6 C’s to Your Coaching Master Plan. You can catch it until August 18 athttp://www.starcoachshow.com/register ( www.STaRcoachshow.com/register)/.
Join the STaR Coach Community: http://www.starcoachshow.com/register/ ( www.STaRcoachshow.com/register/). To join the Fall Mentor Program with Meg, visithttp://www.starcoachshow.com/mentor ( www.starcoachshow.com/mentor). Visit myhttps://www.starcoachshow.com ( website) for your FREE download: What I Know Now, That I Wish I Had Known When I First Started Coaching.
Welcome to our 300th episode!! I’m so excited to celebrate this milestone, and I’m appreciative of every single step that brought me to this point. To mark this special moment in time, we are doing something very different: my coach, Rick Tamlyn, is turning the tables to interview me. Join us to see how this conversation unfolds! Show Highlights: What it feels like to reach 300 episodes of the STaR Coach Show What it means to “receive” one’s impact A glimpse into the origin story for the STaR Coach Show How to find consistency and the motivation to keep going Meg’s perspective about the shadow and light moments of putting out the podcast weekly How Meg will celebrate this milestone with an upcoming rebranding in October What’s next for Meg and the STaR Coach Show A brief overview of the upcoming STaR Coach Show membership site Where Meg’s inspiration and positivity come from What Meg envisions if there were to be a 1000th episode Parting words from Meg about the beauty of coaching
Resources: Join the STaR Coach Masterclass: The 6 C’s of Your Coaching Masterplan:http://www.starcoachshow.com/register/ ( www.starcoachshow.com/register/)
To join the Fall Mentor Program with Meg, visithttp://www.starcoachshow.com/mentor ( www.starcoachshow.com/mentor). Visit myhttps://www.starcoachshow.com ( website) for your FREE download: What I Know Now, That I Wish I Had Known When I First Started Coaching.
We all know that part of having a successful business is selling, but most of us cringe at the sound of the word “sales.” Today’s show will teach you how to embrace the reality of selling, including getting past the mindset issues that some of us have around selling ourselves and our services. Come join the conversation to learn more from today’s expert guest! Catherine Brown is the author of How Good Humans Sell: The Proven Path to B2B Sales Success. As a veteran of 25+ years of B2B (business to business) selling, she understands what it means to build a business during challenging times. She launched her first sales consulting firm in 2003, and now runs the sales training firm, Extra Bold Sales, where she coaches others to sell with confidence. Her sales system includes psychology research that gets to the heart of why people don’t sell effectively, and she trains on the reasons people buy. With honesty and transparency, Catherine shares insights about her sales process that take the frustration and worry out of business development, along with how we can apply our coaching methods to our sales. Show Highlights: How Catherine came to the work she does today Why Catherine wants to help people overcome negative stereotypes about selling to get what they want in their businesses How to use “notice and naming” to choose what to believe instead of making up stories Catherine’s advice about how to reconnect with someone without using “just following up” and “just checking in” phraseology Why you want the prospective client to see you as a connector to resources and assets Why we need to have a growth mindset vs. a fixed mindset How we need different motivators for different domains in our lives How to have money conversations and make proposals with clients How to ask the right questions to go to a deeper level about what you sell
Resources:
Connect with Catherine: http://www.extraboldsales.com ( www.extraboldsales.com) orhttp://www.howgoodhumanssell.com ( www.howgoodhumanssell.com)
Catherine’s book: https://www.amazon.com/How-Good-Humans-Sell-Success/dp/B095MD3HQK ( How Good Humans Sell)
To celebrate our upcoming 300th episode, I’m offering a FREE Masterclass series, The 6 C’s to Your Coaching Master Plan. Register athttp://www.starcoachregister.com ( www.STaRcoachregister.com).
To join the Fall Mentor Program with Meg, visithttp://www.starcoachshow.com/mentor ( www.starcoachshow.com/mentor). Visit myhttps://www.starcoachshow.com ( website) for your FREE download: What I Know Now, That I Wish I Had Known When I First Started Coaching.
Mentioned in this episode: Join the Star Coach Masterclass! Learn the 6 C’s to your Coaching Masterplan. https://starcoachshow.captivate.fm/register (Star Coach Masterclass)
Leadership is everything! We are taking a closer look at the importance of leadership and how coaching and leadership partner together in transformation. Our focus is on the roles that inquiry and feedback play in transformational leadership. Dr. William Torbert is a Leadership Professor Emeritus at Boston College. He has spent his career leading, consulting, teaching, and researching. In addition to consulting dozens of companies, not-for-profits, and governmental agencies, Bill has served on numerous boards. Since his retirement from academia in 2008, he continues his leadership work in various capacities. His most recent book is Numbskill In the Theater of Inquiry: Transforming Self, Friends, Organizations, and Social Science. We have a great conversation about his research around leadership and its accompanying thought patterns and behaviors, along with how those influence the way we receive feedback. Show Highlights:
What lights up Bill about the work he does today and his path to get there How Bill was inspired to write Numbskull, a memoir that shares a personal look at his life What we need to understand about developmental transformation for leaders How our action logics come with choices about power How feedback is tied into the transformation of leaders How action logics represent the fundamental ways people think about themselves and the world Why people are sometimes resistant to their early action logics How coaching and feedback play into transformational leadership How we move from level to level as The Expert, The Achiever, The Diplomat, and The Over-Achiever The three loops of feedback and their differences: single-loop, double-loop, and triple-loop Why human nature determines that not everyone will invest in transformational leadership at the same level
Resources:
Connect with Dr. Torbert through hishttp://www.actioninquiryleadership.com/ ( Website).
Find his book on https://amzn.to/3vi23oG (Amazon).
To join the Fall Mentor Program with Meg, visithttp://www.starcoachshow.com/mentor ( www.starcoachshow.com/mentor). Visit myhttps://www.starcoachshow.com ( website) for your FREE download: What I Know Now, That I Wish I Had Known When I First Started Coaching.
We all need resilience to handle setbacks and adversity in life. Today’s focus is on building that “bounce-back muscle” that enables us to be resilient in the ways we show up in the face of change and grief. Join us to learn more! Teresa Bitner is a Professional Certified Coach who partners with those who have been knocked down by life and are looking to bounce back to live boldly. She’s a speaker and author whose specialization is resiliency, change, and loss. Building resiliency and learning steps for surviving and thriving in the midst of constant change distinguish those who live boldly from those who live life in fear. Teresa is the author of Soul Love: How A Dog Taught Me to Breathe Again. She is passionate about giving back, as evidenced by her volunteer work with the ICF Austin chapter. She is a former board member and Community Outreach Director, and she serves on the Advisory Council. Through Women for Change and Stand Beside Them, Teresa provides pro bono coaching for women in poverty and veterans and their spouses. In today’s conversation, Teresa openly shares her personal grief journey and why she loves working with people around resiliency.
Show Highlights:
How Teresa has built resiliency since her difficult childhood days and into adulthood when she suddenly found herself a widow and single mom Top resiliency traits that Teresa recognized in herself: having goals about what you need to do and being willing to accept help when you need it What resiliency means to Teresa: “To be able to withstand and recover quickly from difficult conditions” Why it’s possible to build resiliency if it doesn’t come to you naturally How Teresa assesses someone’s resiliency, beginning with your beliefs about change Characteristics of resiliency: Looking at change as an opportunity. Accepting change as a part of life. Being a constant learner about life. Being flexible. Having a growth mindset vs. a fixed mindset. How to approach a coaching client in dealing with change by identifying the angst, the facts, and what they CAN control How to ask the right questions about the changes a client is experiencing and point them to the best resources Considerations in coaching people toward resiliency: Acknowledge and celebrate their accomplishments so far. Help them begin a gratitude practice. Key takeaways from Teresa: Remember that there are different levels of resiliency. Take your resiliency pulse. Plan–and take action on your plan for resiliency. How Teresa’s book, Soul Love: How a Dog Taught Me to Breathe Again, which tells her visceral story of grief, hope, and resiliency
Resources:
Connect with Teresa:https://www.boldfulfilledlifecoach.com/ ( Website),https://www.facebook.com/boldfulfilledlifecoach/ ( Facebook), andhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/teresabitner ( LinkedIn).
Check out Teresa’s https://starcoachshow.com/coaching-questions-for-resiliency/ (FREE giveaway )for STaR Coach Show listeners:
Visit Teresa’shttps://www.boldfulfilledlifecoach.com/ ( Website) for lots of FREE resources and to buy her book, Soul Love: How A Dog Taught Me to Breathe Again!
To join the Fall Mentor Program with Meg, visithttp://www.starcoachshow.com/mentor ( www.starcoachshow.com/mentor). Visit myhttps://www.starcoachshow.com ( website) for your FREE download: What I Know Now, That I Wish I Had Known When I First Started Coaching.
Today’s show is all about business success. We are weaving thoughts about success concerning freedom in your life, which can make all the difference in creating the life you want. The foundation for the freedom you crave is a financial plan that works, and my guest today has the answers for you. Join us to learn more! Brian Bogaert is the owner of Next Level Success Coaching. Brian is absolutely passionate about the value of freedom because working for years in corporate America brought him a lack of freedom that “crushed his soul.” He loves helping people reach their financial goals, and he’s totally dedicated to education and empowerment to help people reach the next level of success. In today’s conversation, we’ll look at ways to empower ourselves in creating a financial plan for freedom that allows us to step into our work in the fullest way and not be cut off at the knees when things like global pandemics occur. We want to engage in work that lights us up, but we need a plan in place that opens us up for financial freedom. Brian shares his expertise, mindset, and practical tips to create your financial freedom plan! Show Highlights: What led Brian to the work he does today What it means to “build a financial plan for freedom” How your goals and commitments play into your financial plan Why Brian’s work with any client begins with their financial mindset Why the entrepreneurial world can still be a prison for some people How to identify things in your business that give you leverage Why managing cash flow is the biggest challenge for entrepreneurs AND large companies Why gross revenue is NOT the best indicator of financial success Why venturing into entrepreneurship doesn’t have to burn the bridges behind you Why a savings cushion is essential in launching a new business because you don’t have to operate with a scarcity mindset Why investing is a crucial element for your financial freedom plan; the time to start is TODAY!
Resources:
Connect with Meg Find out more about my mentor coaching program: http://www.starcoachshow.com/mentor (STaR Coach Show: Mentor) Check out my free resources for you regarding your coaching certification hours: http://www.starcoachshow.com/credential ( www.STaRcoachshow.com/credential) http://www.starcoachshow.com/ (STaR Coach Show) Visit myhttps://www.starcoachshow.com ( website) for your FREE download: What I Know Now, That I Wish I Had Known When I First Started Coac
Connect with Brian Connect with Brian and schedule a FREE Success Snapshot call through hishttps://www.nlscoaching.com ( Website),https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Consulting-agency/Next-Level-Success-Coaching-694992373930541/ ( Facebook), orhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/brianbogaert/ ( LinkedIn) Find out more about Next Level’shttps://www.nlscoaching.com/cert-program/ ( Certified Secure Investor Program).
Books Mentioned: https://amzn.to/3bXifom (Rich Dad Poor )Dad by Robert Kiyosaki https://amzn.to/3uGF46c (Cash Flow Quadrant )by Robert Kiyosaki
How can you engage with a coaching client who is caught in a place of ambivalence about making changes? In addition to the coaching space, this topic is relevant in the workplace both in the employer/employee relationship and in coworker relationships. We are taking a deep dive in this solo episode about how we partner with our clients to help them move past ambivalence. We’ll talk about how our human nature sets us up for a battle with ambivalence, why this is important in the coaching arena, and what we can do as a coach in this space. Join us for a closer look! Show Highlights:
How ambivalence is manifested through conflicting reactions, beliefs, and feelings Why Motivational Interviewing (from the work of William Miller and Steven Rollnick) is the most helpful framework I’ve found for engaging with ambivalence How Motivational Interviewing initially was developed to help those with addictive disorders–but has great coaching applications! How you can learn much more about Motivational Interviewing through various resources that are readily available Why the coaching process, at its essence, is all about CHANGE! Why most people respond to change with ambivalence and resistance because our equilibrium is impacted Why it’s important to notice how a client’s habits are engaging or resisting change How a coach should listen for “change talk” from the client but not push for change Four categories of change talk (and what to listen for in the client’s language): Recognizing the disadvantages of the status quo Recognizing the advantages of change Expressing optimism about change Expressing intention to change How to use OARS: open-ended questions, affirmation, reflection, and summarization The value of using open-ended questions with the client to elicit and evoke awareness Suggestions for evoking methods to get the client to see what you want them to see and imagine future possibilities Examples of statements of affirmation to use with clients to help them feel heard How to use reflective listening to help the client clarify what they mean to say How to use summarization to highlight the reasons for change and emphasize the client’s commitment to change Why we need to understand that ambivalence is part of human nature
Resources:
If you are interested in doing mentoring with Meg, visithttp://www.starcoachshow.com/mentor ( www.starcoachshow.com/mentor)
Today’s show focuses on a very important aspect of life: our habits. Are your habits working FOR you or AGAINST you? Our habits can influence our confidence level, and confidence is essential in the way we engage with others in the coaching profession. Join us to learn more! Dr. Jon Finn wrote his best-selling book, The Habit Mechanic: Fine-Tune Your Brain and Supercharge How You Live, Work, and Lead because his life’s mission is to help people be their best in the challenging modern world. His book has been proven to change lives! People have called it “a manual for life” and “a toolkit for success.” With over 30 self-improvement tools, it’s like three books in one! Dr. Jon Finn founded the award-winning Tougher Minds consultancy and has three psychology-related degrees, including a Ph.D. He has worked in performance psychology, resilience, and leadership science for over 20 years. Tougher Minds uses cutting-edge insights from psychology, behavioral science, neuroscience, and world champions to help organizations develop “Habit Mechanics” and “Chief Habit Mechanics” made of resilient people, outstanding leaders, and world-class teams. Having trained and coached over 10,000 people, Dr. Finn and his colleagues work with global businesses, high-growth startups, individuals, elite athletes, coaches and teams, leading educational institutes, families, the UK government, and think tanks. Show Highlights:
How his life’s path led Dr. Finn to the work he does today through a sports career What’s missing when we only focus on our knowledge and skills Why we should be aware of our habits instead of letting our brain do its mindless thinking How our habits impact our confidence, which is made up of two parts: esteem (the belief) and efficacy(the evidence) How to use Dr. Finn’s “Igloo of Confidence” model to build more robust confidence How the “igloo” helps us do intelligence watching of ourselves by moving from the broad to the specific How Dr. Finn’s “KOSY” (Knowledge, Others, Skills, and You) model covers the areas in which we can build confidence A reflection exercise from Dr. Finn that you can implement today: Ask, “How well did I DO my best to BE my best in achieving my goals yesterday?” What it takes to be a “Habit Mechanic”; more intelligent self-watching and planning
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Connect with Dr. Finn: https://www.tougherminds.co.uk/ ( Website),http://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-jon-finn ( LinkedIn),https://geni.us/TheHabitMechanic ( Book)
Check out my free resources for you regarding your coaching certification hours: http://www.starcoachshow.com/credential ( www.STaRcoachshow.com/credential)
As we focus on doing more, creating more, and earning more, we lose sight of THE most important thing: self-care. Physically and mentally, our health and well-being are critically important to our satisfaction and success–so why do we often ignore self-care? Self-care practices can run the gamut from luxurious indulgences to very simple breathwork and hydration; ultimately, we want to be our best so we can bring our best to our clients. Join us to learn more from today’s guest! Dr. Stan Ward knows that the world needs leaders committed to relationships and results. He also knows that creating harmony and productivity is easier said than done. As founder and principal at Influence Coaching, LLC, Dr. Ward partners with leaders to reduce unnecessary conflict, beat burnout, and create sustainable positive change so that they can succeed personally and professionally. Dr. Ward’s clients experience transformation within three months of starting their work with him, and they report lasting results long after they complete his six-month coaching program. Besides his work as a coach and his experience as a professor and administrator in higher education, he is also the author of How to Beat Burnout for Yourself, Your Family, and Your Team, and the co-editor of Ethical Leadership: A Primer. In today’s episode, Stan explains how to face forward into life’s stressors and demands and why we cannot ignore self-care. He shares transparently about his personal experiences when burning the candle at both ends and how he helps clients transform and see long-lasting results through his work to combat burnout. Stan is truly one of my most favorite people, and I’m thrilled to introduce him to our audience today!
Show Highlights:
How Stan came to the work he does today Why Stan wrote his book on burnout to clarify the concept and educate people about the need for self-care Why self-care is much more than a “having a spa day,” but is really what you do to keep your engine running to show up for the people around you How Stan experienced severe intestinal blockages that sent him to the Mayo Clinic–and his eyes were opened to his failures in stress management in life How Stan gained a new appreciation and awareness of the mind-body connection—and applies it to his coaching practice today How coaching revolves around putting ourselves in the best place through self-care so that we can partner with clients Why self-care at its essence is a bent toward intentional time for rest, refueling, and hitting the reset button to get out of “fight or flight” stress How reflection practices help you learn to rest, digest, heal, and reset Why there is great benefit in even small moments of exercise and “positive intelligence repetitions” (See Resources for Dr. Stan’s ideas for 5-minute, 2-minute, and 1-minute practices.) Stan’s formula for recognizing burnout through your energy boosters and energy drainers How to “fail forward” and reframe something that didn’t work well
Resources:
Connect with Dr. Stan through hishttps://www.coachingforinfluence.com ( Website),https://www.facebook.com/coachingforinfluence ( Facebook),https://twitter.com/stanleyjward ( Twitter), andhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/stanleyjward ( LinkedIn).
Find Dr. Stan’s book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/How-Beat-Burnout-Yourself-Family/dp/173439370X ( How to Beat Burnout for Yourself, Your Family, and Your Team)
“https://www.coachingforinfluence.com/blog/what-to-do-when-your-smartwatch-reminds-you-to-move (What To Do When Your Smartwatch Reminds You to Move or Breathe") provides some 5-minute, 2-minute, and 1-minute movement options.
This video from the Center for Creative Leadership will provide the basic concepts about the difference between stress and pressure, as discussed in this episode.https://youtu.be/IxD4IgmROds ( https://youtu.be/IxD4IgmROds)
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Today, we will be diving into some things that the global organization, The International Coaching Federation, is doing to grow the industry and change with the times as it meets the needs of a diverse world. I am delighted to have Anik Clemens on the show today to discuss what the ICF has done and is doing to grow the industry globally. Anik joined ICF Global in October 2018 as a Regional Development Manager, then Volunteer Engagement Director, and now Strategic Development Director for North America, Latin America, and the Caribbean. In this role, her focus is on developing local and regional markets, deepening member and volunteer engagement, developing long-term partnerships, and sustaining healthy chapter communities. Anik has been a coach and ICF member since 2015 and served as a chapter leader for 2 years. Prior to coaching, Anik worked for the federal government as a biologist where she led a fisheries policy team to help conserve our natural resources.
Show Highlights:
Anik discusses how she began working with ICF. Anik and Meg tell how important it is to join a local chapter of ICF. ICF has chapters in over 80 countries. Looking through different lenses because of the diversity in ICF ICF is looking forward to see what needs to shift or be updated to be more current, relevant, and inclusive. ICF is looking at how to engage coaches from a younger generation. There are many coaching platforms, and many require coaches to be ICF credentialed. Anik doesn’t think the coaching industry is saturated, so there is still room for you to carve out your space. Meg and Anik talk about the power of coaching and its ripple effect on helping others. Being a part of ICF is belonging to a true community.
Resources:
Connect with Anik through her via LinkedIn
https://coachingfederation.org/professional-coaches/regional-team (International Coaching Federation)
Clickhttps://form.jotform.com/ICFforms/interest-form-icf-volunteer ( here) to volunteer.
Connect with Meg:
Understand re-credentialing requirements and resources free webinar: http://www.starcoachshow.com/credential (www.STaRcoachshow.com/credential)
Need Mentor Coaching? Meg’s last program for 2022:http://www.starcoachshow.com/mentor ( www.STaRcoachshow.com/mentor)
There is SO much noise vying for your attention in the world. The reality is that what works and is right for someone else might not be the best path for you. So, how do you determine what is the best fit for you? Join us for today’s conversation and learn how to break through the noise and find your authentic voice. Sara Sabin transitioned from corporate life to full-time entrepreneurship, which is a popular path for many coaches. She founded two start-up companies and built a multi-six-figure coaching practice, working with successful leaders and entrepreneurs of high-growth, seven-figure businesses. Sara writes regularly for The Fast Company and Entrepreneur Magazine as part of her Leadership Network. She built her business through trial and error without throwing money to ads or being ever-present on every social media platform, learning that simplicity and a “less is more” approach leads to success. Today, Sara helps other coaches and consultants build their businesses through a personalized version of her proven roadmap to success by helping them select 2-3 core, relevant strategies that help them soar. She loves helping others build high-value coaching practices in simple and cost-effective ways with the clients they love. Show Highlights:
How Sara’s winding path led her to where she is today in transformational coaching How to filter through the noise to hear your own voice: Ask yourself why you are doing what you are doing. Determine whether or not what you are doing is bringing the results you want. Learn to build your strategy around your talents and reach out proactively to your target audience. How to get clarity about where your target audience “hangs out” How to get in front of your ideal clients by giving them a taste of your value How to decide between short-term vs. long-term marketing for your business How to use short-term strategies, like personal reach-outs, etc. How to use long-term strategies, like writing for corporations, etc. How to let go of the traps that can sabotage you for years Why you must be your authentic self in your connections Parting thoughts from Sara for coaches: “There is no ONE way of doing things. Your roadmap to success should be personalized for your strengths. That’s where the magic happens.”
Resources:
Connect with Sara through herhttps://sarasabin.com/ ( website),https://sarasabin.com/business-accelerator-program/ ( program),https://www.facebook.com/sarasabinbusinesssuccesscoach ( Facebook),https://twitter.com/sarasabin1 ( Twitter), andhttps://uk.linkedin.com/in/sara-c-sabin-coach ( LinkedIn). Get her FREE guide, “6 Myths About Building a Six-Figure Coaching Business (and what to do instead!).”
Learn more about my mentor coaching program: http://www.starcoachshow.com/mentor ( www.STaRcoachshow.com/mentor) This is your last chance to enroll for 2022 as there are only a few spots left!
One of the most important parts of the coaching business can also be daunting and frustrating. We are talking about those discovery calls, or consultations, that we have with prospective clients. How do we create an environment that invites the prospect in, while realizing that every prospect is not going to be an ideal fit for us? We are covering it all in today’s show, from the preparation of the call to the follow-up. Join me to learn more! Show Highlights: The purpose of the discovery call: What are you seeking to accomplish? The basics of the discovery call: Make the offer and let people know that a call is available. Use a digital calendar with reminders so they can sign up right away. Keep your exploratory questionnaire short and concise. (Don’t overwhelm the prospect by asking for a lot of personal information.) Be very clear about how the call will unfold. Change your mindset! Remember that the ultimate goal is NOT to sign up every prospect, but to enroll those that are the best fit for your coaching. Use the discovery call to excite the prospect about the results you can bring to them. Inside the call, Be warm and welcoming to put them at ease. You, the coach, should set the agenda for the call and let them know what to expect. Stay in a place of curiosity and ask meaningful questions. (Listen to hear my examples.) Set clear and realistic expectations for the changes they want to make. Focus on what the client wants and the results you can bring. Help them see the possibilities! Be clear about your methodology so the prospect is not confused. Lay out your packages and pricing unapologetically—and stop talking. Be honest if they aren’t a good fit for you, and refer them to someone else. The follow-up to the call: Use a questionnaire to assess their clarity. Send an email within 24 hours and offer a resource, like your Facebook group, article, podcast episode, downloadable lead magnet, etc.
Resources: Learn more about my mentor coaching program: http://www.starcoachshow.com/mentor ( www.STaRcoachshow.com/mentor)
There are many different specialties and focuses in the coaching field. My guest today does intriguing work in the neurodiversity field, working with gifted people and those diagnosed with ADHD, autism, and more. Join us to open up your mind to all the different areas of life in which coaches can touch and help people. Dr. Tracy Winter is a neurodiversity coach who has coached up and down the career ladder from individual contributors to vice-presidents, and she has worked in industries such as technology, government, academia, and health care. Each client she meets has a unique brain that deserves its own unique approach, and she partners with her clients to use their strengths to reach the outcomes they desire. Tracy trains new ADHD coaches and is a mentor coach for students at the International ADHD Coach Training Center. She also facilitates leadership development training with organizations such as Tesla and Acxiom and has been an adjunct professor at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. Tracy earned her Ph.D. in Human Development, her MA in Human and Organization Systems, and her Evidence-Based Coaching Certificate from Fielding Graduate University. Her dissertation focused on the social-emotional needs of highly gifted adults. She serves as president of the Austin chapter of the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and holds an ICF credential as a Professional Certified Coach. She has the unique ability to jump rope tap dance! Show Highlights: What led Tracy into this work and lights her up about what she does What Tracy learned through her dissertation topic: self-concept development in gifted adults What it’s like to coach neurodiverse people who might not “fit” into where the world puts them How part of the coaching challenge is to get neurodiverse people to accept themselves in their different-ness How Tracy works with coaches to be “ADHD aware” in order to help those who feel big and deep emotions and sensitivities How Tracy has fun with her clients in working and making connections with them How the world is missing out on what neurodiverse people can bring to the world when we don’t give them a safe space to share their energy and ideas How Tracy helps her clients get rid of the “mental clutter” Tracy’s advice about how leaders can help neurodivergent people on their teams and in their organizations: Focus on their strengths. Consider increasing points of accessibility in the interview process. Be watchful and aware of what people need. Ask them!
Connect with Tracy https://www.nerdcoa.ch/ ( www.nerdcoa.ch) Email - tracy@nerdcoach.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracy-winter ( LinkedIn)
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Find out more about my mentor coaching program: http://www.starcoachshow.com/mentor ( www.STaRcoachshow.com/mentor)
***If you need help with your coaching certification, you can earn up to 22.5 core competency credits through thehttps://www.essenceofmasterysummit.com/ ( Essence of Mastery Summit). Use the coupon code “Meg” to take advantage of the $397 discounted price for STaR Coach Show listeners!
Everything about your coaching boils down to methodology, which encompasses the How, What, and Why of your coaching purpose and vision. My guest today is a true pioneer in the coaching industry, and she has dedicated her life to raising visibility around coaching and helping coaches be successful. Join us to hear her wisdom around coaching methodology! Laura Berman Fortgang’s professional life is anchored by her international reputation as a pioneer and 27-plus-year veteran in the personal coaching field. She is also the best-selling author of five books and a sought-after speaker who has made TV appearances on Oprah and every national morning show. Her TEDx Talk has over 1.7 million views, and her books have been staples in my library and coaching resources for many years. Laura has addressed public and corporate audiences in many parts of the world on topics like reinvention and career satisfaction and change. She has brought coaching to diverse clients ranging from homemakers, celebrities, and Fortune 500 companies to NASA and the Army Corps of Engineers. Laura is best known for her unique career transition “Now What?” methodology and is currently launching her legacy project, The A-List Coach Business Mentoring Program to train coaches to grow their impact and income. Whether you are a brand new coach or a seasoned veteran in the coaching field, you don’t want to miss what Laura has to say! Show Highlights: Highlights in Laura’s coaching journey and what lights her up about her work today Why Laura’s focus is on training and helping coaches be successful in their methodology How your methodology communicates to others that you have expertise and bring results Why coaches shouldn’t narrow their niche too early in their careers (“Coach as many people as you can!) Why a coach should describe their profession in terms of the pain points and needs of the people they serve Why the coach’s greatest tool is the power of observation–and how to use this tool Why one of Laura’s tenets is “No one should suffer to make a living,” which is based on what she saw in her father’s career Why Laura wrote her third book, Now What?, to outline her methodology Why Laura’s methodology revolves around coaching more people, observing your process, creating content, and building your reputation through results Hear Laura’s take on the “chicken or the egg” question of what comes first–and her personal story of finding widespread success How you can stand out as a coach by showing up 100% of the time, getting results, not being shy, and knowing what it is that you do How to be clear about your methodology in consultations and pinpoint a result that will occur
Resources:
Connect with Laura: http://www.thealistcoach.com ( www.thealistcoach.com),http://www.nowwhatcoaching.com ( www.nowwhatcoaching.com), andhttp://www.laurabermanfortgang.com ( www.laurabermanfortgang.com) Find Laura onhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/laurabermanfortgang?trk=public_profile_browsemap ( LinkedIn) andhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/250652099970950 ( Facebook Group for Coaches). Get Laura’s FREE downloadable resources: https://laurabermanfortgang.com/5-steps-to-a-coaching-consultation/ ( 5 Steps to a Coaching Consultation) andhttps://www.thealistcoach.com/six-steps/ ( Six Steps to Go From Practitioner to Sensational Brand)
Connect with Meg:http://www.starcoachshow.com ( www.STaRcoachshow.com)
Find out more about my mentor coaching program: http://www.starcoachshow.com/mentor (www.STaRcoachshow.com/mentor)
***If you need help with your coaching certification, you can earn up to 22.5 core competency credits through thehttps://www.essenceofmasterysummit.com/ ( Essence of Mastery Summit). Use the coupon code “Meg” to take advantage of the $397 discounted price for STaR Coach Show listeners!
I am incredibly excited today to be speaking with Donna Zajonc, Director of Coaching for The Center for The Empowerment Dynamic. Today’s episode is packed with so much helpful information, including tips and tools, that are very much needed by coaches in order to improve and grow. Donna has a new book out entitled, Who Do You Want to Be on the Way to What You Want? Coaching with the Empowerment Dynamic. I am so fortunate to be able to have Donna on today’s episode to share some of the many wonderful resources from her book. As many of you may remember, Donna was on the show previously in https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/96dac2cc-fd2b-421b-aed1-887c2ab6ff38/ep42donnazajonc.mp3 (Episode 42) and again, in https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/af966b6e-cc8c-4934-a9f0-eaa9e99bf053/ep44donnazajonc.mp3 (Episode 44). If you missed her, please take time to listen to those episodes as well. Show Highlights: Donna shares what she’s been up to lately including working full-time in coach training, education, and writing about The Empowerment Dynamic. Showing up for your clients is something Donna speaks about in her book, Who Do You Want to Be on the Way to What You Want? Coaching with the Empowerment Dynamic. Donna shares how we can/should activate our inner observer to self-observe during the moment in order to better serve our clients. Donna shares that by practicing, “I can create what I want in this moment, I can learn to be a challenger, and I can learn to coach” we are using 3 important rules of The Empowerment Dynamic. Meg encourages each of us to tap into ourselves, as coaches, in order to learn what triggers us. Notice and name it, along with having self-compassion are two important tools coaches should have in their toolboxes and are discussed by Sophia and RJ, two characters in Donna’s book. Being real and authentic, according to Donna, can be transformative. True inquiry is inquiring into the not knowing space, according to Donna. Tell 3 Stories, is a technique coaches can use with clients to enable them to broaden their perspectives. Donna uses this as an example with characters in her book. Donna says we can all learn a lesson from Sophia, a character in her book, when she is finally able to make friends with herself. Meg and Donna agree that becoming the most enlightened and best coaches we can be is paramount.
Resources:
Connect with Donna:
Website - https://www.theempowermentdynamic.com/ (The Center for The Empowerment Dynamic)
Email - Donna@http://www.powerofted.com/ (www.powerofted.com)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/donna-zajonc-mcc-612455/ (Linkedin)
Donna’s Book: https://amzn.to/3M4TkMW (Who Do You Want to Be on the Way to What You Want? Coaching with the Empowerment Dynamic)
Connect with Meg:
http://www.starcoachshow.com (www.STaRcoachshow.com) Find out more about my mentor coaching program: http://www.starcoachshow.com/mentor ( www.STaRcoachshow.com/mentor)
If you desire a soul-led business, today’s episode will be valuable to you as a coach, along with what you’ll learn about engaging with your clients. Here at the STaR Coach Show, we are all about getting on the right path and moving in the right direction to create the clarity we want in our lives and businesses. Join us to learn more! Taryn Watts is a Professional Certified Coach and founder of the Mind Rebel Academy, where she helps train and support world-class coaches around the globe to step into their life’s work. She created the revolutionary Mind Rebel Method, a simple yet powerful self-discovery framework that is transforming the way people coach, lead and connect internationally. With Taryn, coaching isn’t about giving advice, but it’s about helping others find their deepest truth within themselves. Taryn’s work is heart- and soul-centered, and you’ll be inspired by her calm, beautiful spirit and her wisdom. Show Highlights: ● A look at Taryn’s journey, where motherhood and coaching became perfectly intertwined ● How Taryn learned to access her wiser self and inner wisdom ● The Four Steps of Taryn’s Mind Rebel Coaching Plan: ○ Vision–Get REALLY clear about what you want for your business. ■ “Dream big. Your vision should feel like a stretch.” ■ “The potency of your vision is found in the WHY of the things.” ■ Write out your vision statement as if it is happening TODAY. ■ Read your vision EVERY DAY to defeat your “Rebel Mind.” ○ Milestones–Create the path from where you are today to where you want to be. ■ Plot out 1-3 “pins” on the map of your path; these can change as you progress. ■ “Be flexible to adjust your pins as you move closer to your goal.” ○ Choices–Who are you being, and how are you showing up in the world inside your vision? ■ Identify 1-3 affirming statements about how you are showing up in the world. ■ Your choices discern between the voice of your inner wisdom and all the other voices in your head. ■ “You WILL get off the path at times, but getting back on your path is only one choice away.” ○ Next Steps–Based on the first three steps, prioritize 1-3 next steps that are right in front of you. ■ As you progress, you’ll have more information and “pieces of the puzzle” to make your next three steps. ■ Be open and responsive to new opportunities that come your way. ● Why your still, small voice inside already knows the way–so orient yourself inward Resources: Connect with Taryn: https://www.instagram.com/the_mind_rebel_academy/?hl=en (Instagram) and https://www.facebook.com/the.mind.rebel.academy (Facebook) Find info about the FREE 3 Steps to Alignment Masterclass: http://www.themindrebel.com (The Mind Rebel) Connect with Meg: http://www.starcoachshow.com (STaR Coach Show) Find out more about my mentor coaching program: http://www.starcoachshow.com/mentor (STaR Coach Show: Mentor)
If you know me, you know that I am all about helping coaches thrive on their journey. Today’s show aligns with that purpose in helping you build a profitable business and create the life you want. Join our conversation to learn more about bringing your best forward with the most significant value for your clients. Amy Yamada trains coaches and service-based entrepreneurs to master the power of deep connections through their words and messaging, high-ticket packages, and sales conversations. Amy has over 20 years experience in marketing, sales, promotions, and broadcast media, and she created her signature Create, Connect, Offer system, which she explains to us today. Her system empowers entrepreneurs to break through all the noise of marketing to deeply understand themselves and connect with their audiences to make a difference. As a result, Amy’s clients have gained clarity in their message, confidence in how they communicate, and increased cash flow in their businesses as they see their big dreams come to life. Show Highlights: What lights Amy up about the work she is doing today to empower coaches Common barriers (and limiting beliefs!) that keep us from offering high-ticket packages How Amy learned to overcome her blocks and limiting beliefs by focusing on the difference she could make for her clients Why Amy decided to create one signature, high-ticket package for a six-month private coaching program at $5K How Amy secured her first high-ticket client–who went on to become a two-year client How Amy tapped into her 93-year-old self through a journaling exercise to tap into herself and focus on gratitude How Amy’s high-ticket packages have progressed over the years to $18-20K Why your high-ticket package doesn’t have to be built perfectly and completely in its beginning How Amy views the work she does with clients in her signature coaching program Details about Amy’s various offerings, including the structure, planning, and purpose of her private, customized VIP Days Why your high-ticket packages have to begin with the premise that you, as a coach, have a deeper calling to serve and have value to offer
Resources: Connect with Amy: http://www.amyyamada.com (Amy Yamada) and https://www.facebook.com/groups/HighTicketCoaches/ (Facebook) Connect with Meg: http://www.starcoachshow.com (STaR Coach Show) Find out more about my mentor coaching program: http://www.starcoachshow.com/mentor (STaR coach Show: Mentor)
Today’s episode carries an important message for our world, especially during this time of the year when many are celebrating in various ways around their religious beliefs. My guest makes the message of love both simple and universal and very relevant to our field. I hope you’ll agree that love is the key to many aspects of the coaching work that we do. Join us to learn more about the truth of love. Juan Lee is a transformational speaker, thought leader, and author of Love Made Simple: A Guide to Inner Peace, Contentment, and Success. Juan used his life lessons to zero in on his work at Clear Journey, a nonprofit that teaches teens and young adults life skills, financial literacy, and attitudes for success in life. He teaches lessons around finance and the message of love as it is used to build connection and humanity to minimize division and opposition. Through his work, Juan found that the things that make us similar as humans are far greater than the things that divide us. His message is one that the world needs to hear! Show Highlights: ● Juan’s journey as he came from feeling unprepared for life after high school and how he found his passion for the work that he does today ● How repeatedly failing a test in Air Force basic training helped Juan learn who he was, identify his authenticity, and develop his perseverance ● How we learn what we gain from each other when we love and give ● How to become clear about “the system” we are in through a mindset shift and a change in attitude ● How Juan learned to ask the right questions, answer them honestly, and make the adjustments ● Why love is a chameleon, conduit, and choice ● How we can maximize every moment to influence humanity for eternity with our investment ● How Juan uses his knowledge and experience at Clear Journey to help others navigate life successfully with the right attitude ● How selflessness allows us to act on the behalf of another to see the bigger picture Resources: Connect with Juan: http://www.clearjourney.org/ (Clear Journey). Find Juan’s book at: http://www.juanleetheauthor.com/ (Juan lee The Author) Visit https://extra.juanleetheauthor.com/freebie (Juan lee) for Juan’s Free Guide: Three Mistakes We Make that Prevent Us From Living a Happier Life. Find Juan on https://www.facebook.com/juanleeauthor/ (Facebook), https://www.instagram.com/juanleeauthor/?hl=en (Instagram), https://mobile.twitter.com/lovemadesimple (Twitter), and https://www.linkedin.com/in/juan-lee-6077907a (LinkedIn). Connect with Meg: http://www.starcoachshow.com/ (STaR Coach Show) Find out more about my mentor coaching program: http://www.starcoachshow.com/mentor (STaRc Cach Show: Mentor)
Today’s solo show is my challenge to you in how you engage with your business and the practice of coaching so you can stand out from the crowd. Coaching is a booming, exciting field, and you need to get your message out to your target audience. Don’t be your best-kept secret! What is uniquely wonderful about you? Let’s talk about how you can own it to the fullest and have a greater impact! In this episode, we discuss the challenges of building a business in the middle of so much noise and competition in this growing field of coaching. I’ll share thoughts about the relationship of marketing and coaching. How do these two aspects of our profession fit together? Supporting today’s overall topic of standing out from the crowd, I’ll cover the key aspects of your differentiators and your philosophy. Your clients don’t pay for coaching, but they pay for the result that comes from partnering with you on their journey. Show Highlights: ● Why building a business is NOT easy ○ The facts: Most new businesses fail within three years, and 82% of coaches fail to succeed as business owners (From Laura Berman Fortgang, coach and author). ○ Coaches love coaching–not marketing and running a business. ○ Creating a thriving business requires time, energy, and vision. ● Three things to do to stand out from the crowd: ○ Build a brand. ○ Create a message that draws people to you. ○ Describe what you do. ● Why your goal is to appeal to your target market—NOT to everyone ● How to use your differentiators, like your failures, successes, life wisdom, motivations, beliefs, and style, to set yourself apart ● How my journaling exercise can help you take a deeper look at your life as an “informant” and how you are uniquely qualified to work with your clients ● How your philosophy embodies your core beliefs about life, your work, and what you bring TO and FOR your clients ● How your differentiators and your philosophy allow you to stand out and become the key to building your brand and sharing your message ○ Sharing your message can be through public speaking; writing books and articles; and showing up on social media, blogs, and podcasts. ● How to make the most of exploratory sessions and consults with potential clients ○ Be bold as you teach and explore with them. ○ Set the stage and clearly show what partnering with you as a coach will look like for them. ● Key takeaways from this episode: ○ Be absolutely clear about who you are and what you believe. This is what makes you stand out from the crowd. ○ Build your brand around your differentiators and philosophy. ○ Carry your unique message into all speaking and marketing opportunities. Resources: Connect with Meg: http://www.starcoachshow.com/ (STaR Coach Show) Find out more about my mentor coaching program: http://www.starcoachshow.com/mentor (STaR Coach Show)
At every workplace and organization, leadership is crucial. One of the problems is that managers are put into leadership positions without the proper training, and this can lead to disastrous results. Today’s show takes a closer look at leadership, management, and psychological safety. Join us to learn more! Jim Wetrich is the founder and CEO of The Wetrich Group of Companies, which offers a variety of healthcare management advisory services. Those services include management consulting, executive coaching, talent assessment, leadership development, and outplacement. Jim lectures and blogs about leadership and teamwork consistently, and he coaches and mentors executives across many industries. Having led teams on three continents over more than 40 years, Jim has seen great leaders who have thrived and those who have failed. Jim’s first book, Stifled: Where Good Leaders Go Wrong, was released in 2021. Jim shares key leadership principles from his book, how mentor coaching shifted things for him, and how his life has been impacted by his journey into coaching. Show Highlights: ● Jim’s journey into teaching and coaching from a place of mentoring ● Why Jim decided to write his book ● Why managers fail when they aren’t properly coached and mentored ● Why managers need to shift their priorities past the numbers to how people are treated and empowered ● The impact of the coaching lens on Jim’s work to focus on people, not products ● Why Jim--and many other top leaders–see the benefit of hiring a mentor coach ● Why the best leaders keep learning and growing to become better ● The need for psychological safety, where people in companies can speak up without fear and where leaders can admit that they don’t know it all ● Why transparency is an important lost art in many companies today ● Problems that occur within global companies when terms are defined differently around the world Resources: Connect with Jim: http://www.jimwetrich.com/ (Jim Wetrich), http://www.wetrichgroup.com/ (Wetrich Group), https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesgwetrich (LinkedIn) https://www.amazon.com/Stifled-Where-Good-Leaders-Wrong/dp/1637350457 (Stifled: Where Good Leaders Go Wrong by James G. “Big Red” Wetrich) Connect with Meg: If you are interested in Mentor Coaching, check out my spring program: http://www.starcoachshow.com/mentor (STaR Coach Show).
Today’s show has a message that will resonate with everyone as we each seek to bring our brilliance forward in the world. We are talking about being authentic and connected with your true gifts to bring out your unique energy. Join us to learn more from today’s guest! Eugenia Oganova is a business strategist, personal transformation expert, and messaging energetics coach with over 20 years of experience. She is a self-made millionaire in the personal transformation and business niche and a bestselling author of three books. Having been featured on Fox, NBC, CBS, Market Watch, and over 100 other networks, Eugenia is not your typical business coach. She is clairvoyant and uses her extraordinary abilities to support her clients, in addition to teaching business and marketing strategies. Eugenia specializes in helping conscious coaches and healers create foundational strategies for sustainable $10k+ months and scaling past six figures. She accomplishes this not by having them work harder but by helping them align with their unique soul design and mission. Show Highlights: ● A look at Eugenia’s lifelong journey to the work she does today ● Soul expertise: what is instilled in a person’s very being ● How Eugenia knew she was different from other people–even at age 5 ● How Eugenia helps clients find their energetically correct path ● Why most people are only getting paid for 10% of what they do ● To find your soul expertise, recognize what you are delivering and how you are unique. ● Why you need to “flip everything” in your coaching business to achieve $10k/month and have exactly what you want ● How to tap into what you love through an abundance mindset and true alignment ● Why scaling to a higher income comes through simplification–not making things more complicated ● How Eugenia brings her soul message forward as a service-oriented vision (Vision-based marketing vs. Pain-based marketing) ● Why premium coaching isn’t just about higher income but is based on higher levels of commitment and maturity ● How being clairvoyant helps Eugenia in her work with clients ● Why we need to be better at knowing, imagining, and envisioning what we really want Resources: Connect with Eugenia: http://www.transcensiongate.com/ (Transcension Gate), https://www.facebook.com/eugenia.oganova (Facebook), https://www.linkedin.com/in/eugeniaoganova (LinkedIn), Check out Eugenia’s FREE webinar, How Conscious Coaches Get To Sustainable $10k Months For Their Soul Work and Find High-Ticket Clients Who Are Ready To Pay Them Over $5k Per Offer: http://www.soulstrategywebinar.com/ (Soulstrategywebinar.com) Connect with Meg. If you are looking for mentor coaching, the spring program is beginning soon. Find the details at http://www.starcoachshow.com/mentor (STaR Coach Show).
Today’s conversation is all about getting your message out to your clients through the world of copywriting. You will learn some tips and tricks to find your voice and use it to bring your message across to those who need to hear it. Join us to learn how to get your message out so that it truly resonates with your audience! Finding the voice of ideal clients for business owners across the US and Canada, Sarah Talbert is the copywriting strategist trusted by six and seven-figure business owners alike. Founder of Sandbar Marketing, Talbert has developed a proven research process to truly dig out the language of an ideal client, research their behaviors, and turn it into copy for everything from websites to social media. In today’s conversation, Sarah dives into the process of effective messaging. She explains how to the right language to resonate with your prospects and make your clients feel heard and understood. Show Highlights: • Sarah shares her journey and explains what lights her up about copywriting. • The framework Sarah uses to help her clients find their voice and make their messaging more effective. • Finding your voice for different pieces of your messaging. • Your voice needs to be more succinct for your website and sales pages. • Do your storytelling and explain why people would want to connect with you in your emails. • Speak from your values on your sales pages. That can drive the language you use. • Things you need to be aware of when it comes to your audience voice. • How to add an extra layer of value by raising revenue from testimonials. • Third-party interviews often allow people to be more honest about their experiences. • Some tips for gaining clarity around the kind of transformation your client is looking for. • Sarah shares the PAS (Problem Agitate Solution) copywriting formula for improving copy technique for posts or blogs. • Strategies for gaining consistency and flow around giving content. • Great tips for stepping into your space and owning your piece of the market. Resources: https://sarahtalbert.com/17-free-headlines/ (Write better headlines) Sarah’s http://www.sarahtalbert.com/ (website) Sarah on https://www.instagram.com/sandbar_marketing/ (Instagram) Sarah Talbert on https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-talbert-copywriter/ (LinkedIn) I’m enrolling for my next mentor program! Find out more at http://www.starcoachshow.com/mentor (STaR Coach Show).
Today’s conversation brings you much value around what you charge for your coaching services. You’ll find ideas to tweak your mindset and find clarity about the transformation you bring to your clients. Join us to learn what you can do today to become a premium coach! Frank Macri is the founder of Thriving Coach Academy. When he started on his coaching journey over seven years ago, Frank didn’t have prior business experience or a large online following. Still, he discovered a unique process that allowed him to take his business from zero to multiple six figures before turning 30, making him one of the most successful millennial coaches in the industry. Now Frank has trained and mentored over 1000 individuals looking to start their own coaching practices. He also hosts the Life Coaching Secrets podcast. In our conversation, Frank explains how limiting beliefs and myths hold many coaches back in what they charge, along with how we can best serve our clients with premium offerings of the value we can bring. Show Highlights: ● Frank’s journey to where he is today, dedicated to training coaches better as business owners ● The myth: “You shouldn’t get paid well for doing what you love.” ● What it means to be a premium coach: charging $2K-10K per client ● The difference between a traditional life coach and a premium coach–how to break down the numbers strategy ● How Frank works with coaches to get over mindset problems and limiting beliefs ● How Frank categorizes three types of buyers of coaching services ● Another myth: “It’s easier to sell coaching services for a cheap price.” ● How you can charge a premium and be the person who showed up for your clients and gave them a chance at the transformation they want ● Why resourceful people will always find a way to afford what they really want ● How to make clear to clients the cost of their inaction and the value you offer ● How to look at your clients through the “heroic lens” and not the “victim lens” Resources: Connect with Frank: http://www.thrivingcoachacademy.com/VIP (Thriving Coach Academy) Find Frank’s podcast, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/life-coaching-secrets/id1559505567 (Life Coaching Secrets) I’m enrolling for my next mentor program! Find out more at http://www.starcoachshow.com/mentor (STaR Coach Show).
We need to value the differences in people’s lives and experiences. Today’s show tackles how we can re-engage with others and bring humanity back into our conversations. Join us to learn more from our guest! Dr. Karen Rigamonti brings passion and compassion to every conversation. She is an advocate, speaker, and consultant with a background in human ecology, anesthesiology, and internal medicine. In addition to her medical degree, she has master’s degrees in business administration and public health and serves on numerous nonprofit boards. Dr. Rigamonti worked for several years as a consultant for a nonprofit health organization in Saudi Arabia, where she led workshops and used her coaching skills to bring compassion into difficult conversations. While there, she also worked as a fierce advocate for young adults with disabilities. As a certified coach, Dr. Karen brings a healthier perspective to any conversation and helps shift mindset. I know you will appreciate her charisma and inspiration in today’s episode. Show Highlights: ● Dr. Karen’s journey from medical doctor to coaching, and how the birth of her second child changed everything ● Why we need to expand on our uniqueness and differences and not let them create barriers between people ● What Dr. Karen learned about communication through caring for her special needs son: “Respond, don’t react.” ● How our own agenda can limit what we hear another person say–sometimes with dire consequences ● Why Dr. Karen doesn’t look at COVID as something gone wrong but as an opportunity to learn something and impact people in positive ways ● Why Dr. Karen decided to pursue a coaching career after having her third child ● How Dr. Karen determined who she wanted to work with in transitioning from one profession to another ● How compassionate conversations can impact relationships both personally and professionally Resources: Connect with Dr. Karen: http://www.drkaren.org/ (Dr. Karen) Find her on https://twitter.com/karenrigamonti (Twitter), https://www.facebook.com/Dr.KarenRigamonti/ (Facebook), https://www.facebook.com/KHDRConsulting/ (KHDR Consulting) on Facebook, https://www.linkedin.com/in/karenrigamonti (LinkedIn), and https://www.instagram.com/dr.karenrigamonti/?hl=en (Instagram). I’m enrolling for my next mentor program! Find out more at http://www.starcoachshow.com/mentor (Star Coach Show)
We are discussing a timely topic and one that is near and dear to my heart. This episode centers around how we can uncomplicate being an entrepreneur and coach through being a guest on podcasts. Besides being fun, appearing on podcasts is another great way to create value and increase our visibility in front of our target audience. Join us to learn more! Kristin Molenaar is an entrepreneur-enthusiast who lives by the mantra, “Work less + Make more.” She enjoys helping entrepreneurs ditch vanity metrics for true, profitable connections. As the CEO of YesBoss, a podcast booking agency that helps entrepreneurs elevate their visibility and credibility, Kristin helps them scale their businesses without becoming full-time marketers. Show Highlights: ● The unfolding of Kristin’s entrepreneur journey with its failures and successes to get where she is today ● Why the most successful root of podcast guesting is connecting with people ● The misconceptions and true facts about podcast guesting ● Why Kristin refers to podcast guesting as “networking on steroids” ● What Kristin wants people to know about branching out into podcast guesting: ○ Find them: In asking for podcast appearances, figure out how you can add the most value to the podcast’s audience. (Kristin explains how to craft your talking points and bio.) ○ Pitch them: Find podcasts that are aligned with your message. (Kristin explains her gold nugget research strategy, “follow the influencer path.”) ○ Keep them: Look for additional collaboration opportunities with the host. (Kristin explains several ways to continue to nurture the relationship and provide value for the podcast host.) ● What Kristin means by “vanity metrics” in your business: attracting, attracting, attracting in business without nurturing, selling, and retaining ● Kristin’s advice: “Don’t overlook the impact you can have as a podcast guest, even on newer podcasts. Bigger isn’t always better; more connected is better.”
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Connect with Kristin http://www.yesbossva.com/ (Yesbossva.com) and https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristinmolenaar (LinkedIn)
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Today’s show tackles an important topic related to our mindset. We all have “mind apps” going on in our heads; these are the stories that play and the automatic responses we have. The truth is that some of those mind apps need to be uninstalled because they simply hold us back. What mind apps do you need to uninstall? Join us to learn more! Sallie Wagner is “Your Life Alchemist” from Intentional Coaching, LLC. She specializes in helping women reclaim power over their lives by using specific techniques. Sallie uses emotional freedom techniques (EFT), evolved neurolinguistic programming (eNLP), and trauma-aware modalities so clients can launch into action and gain access to rapid, concrete results as they ditch habits, fears, phobias, limiting beliefs, and decisions that hold them back in life. Sallie is a speaker, author, lawyer, real estate broker, and life coach who spent the majority of her law career in the corporate world, working in real estate for various industries. In today’s show, Sallie shares details of her “MSG Technique,” which stands for “Mindset, Skillset, and Get off your ass-et.” We dive into techniques that are helpful for coaches and their clients to uninstall those mind apps that are holding us back. Show Highlights: ● Sallie’s path that brought her to her work and focus of today ● How Sallie’s coaching program teaches people to uninstall apps and reclaim their power of conscious choice ● The starting point: MSG, which is Mindset, Skillset, and Get off your ass-et ● How our mindset develops from the patterns we have created ● Why it is important to be more forward-focused in your mindset ● How new skills can help create a new mindset by stacking skills and asking the right questions ● More about skills stacking: Sallie gives examples of skills stacking from her own career ● “Get off your ass-et” refers to taking action and putting into practice what we know ● Why big goals need to be broken down into daily steps that will move you in the right direction ● Why worthiness and perfectionism are mind apps that many people allow to take over ● How Sallie works with clients around her MSG program using EFT and eNLP to help put off bad habits ● What we need to understand about going “from regret to resilience” (and how we encounter resistance along the way) ● Sallie’s advice: “Look at the four areas of resilience in your life, which are physical, emotional, mental, and social. Figure out the simple things you can do every day to begin to build resilience. You can have amazing results.” Resources: Connect with Sallie: http://www.salliewagner.com/ (Sallie Wagner), https://www.linkedin.com/in/sallieintentionallifecoaching (LinkedIn), and https://www.facebook.com/SallieWagnerIntentionalLifeCoaching/ (Facebook). Mentioned in today’s show: Scott Adams, the https://dilbert.com/ (Dilbert) cartoonist https://bronnieware.com/regrets-of-the-dying/ (Bronnie Ware), Regrets of the Dying If you are enjoying the show, please consider leaving a “love note” at https://www.podcash.com/love-letters/pfdg4 (Love-Letters) to help Meg win a competition for the show. Connect with Meg http://www.starcoachshow.com/mentor (STaR Coach Show)
Today’s show is packed with actionable strategies for creating a better workflow in your life. Whether you are new to running a business or have been an entrepreneur for years, time blocking can help to structure your days and weeks for maximum efficiency. Join us to learn more! Ashao FreeSky helps coaches by giving them the exact blueprint to streamline their businesses and become more productive. He is passionate about helping parent-preneurs work less and enjoy more time with their families. Ashao is the founder of Double Your Time Off, where he helps online coaches skyrocket their businesses while shaving hours from their workweek. Show Highlights: ● How Ashao’s winding journey led him to offer help with productivity and efficiency to others ● Today’s challenge: how to avoid distraction from our most important work when there are so many demands on our time ● What it means to be “highly effective” in our businesses (Hint: it doesn’t mean doing more things faster!) ● How time blocking can help harness our focus and cut everything else out ● Three phases of time blocking: ○ Take a high level, big-picture view of your most important priorities: ■ Health and Self (Schedule time for sleep, movement, and growth.) ■ Family and Relationships (Don’t let work infringe on this set-aside time!) ■ Service and Work (Work begins and ends at specific times.) ○ Time-block your weeks according to daily “themes” so your effort can be more focused. (Google Calendar can help!) ■ Make time for planning. (It is helpful to look ahead to the next week on Friday afternoon.) ■ “Maker time” is for the tasks that are the most demanding and move your business forward. ■ Manager time is for administrative tasks that support your high-value work. ○ Time-block your days. ■ Use a “power up/power down” ritual to transition to and from work and family times. ■ Schedule breaks for energy renewal during the day. ■ Put high-value work at earlier times in the day. ● How creating habits will help develop processes that become a natural fit ● How Ashao has seen a “night and day” difference in his life by implementing time-blocking strategies Resources: Connect with Ashao and get his FREE 90-Day Planner: http://www.perfectproductivity.net/star (Perfect Productivity) If you are enjoying the show, please consider leaving a “love note” here to help Meg win sponsorship money for the show: https://www.podcash.com/love-letters/pfdg4 (LoveLetters) Connect with Meg http://www.starcoachshow.com/mentor (STaR Coach Show)
I have a secret to share with you today. It’s my birthday! I thought it would be a great time to have a heart-to-heart chat as I reflect on these almost six decades of life and learning. I’m sharing some of my top life and business lessons, and I hope what I say is helpful to you at whatever place in life you find yourself today. Join me! Show Highlights: ● Why treating others with respect, kindness, and care has become a core belief for me ● Why it’s better to CHOOSE to look at life through the lens of love, joy, and abundance rather than one of struggle and scarcity ● Even when we mess up, there is always the chance for do-overs in life. ● Why it’s important to be intentional about the people with whom you spend your time ● What we create room for in life is what will show up–in life, in business, and in relationships ● Why it is better to make decisions based on love, not fear ● Why we are NEVER done learning and growing ● My top business-based lessons based on treating my business like a business–not a hobby–Ask yourself these questions to see if you need to learn the same lessons! ○ Do I need to build my team with more people? ○ Am I just busy, or am I productive? (Refer to Ep. https://starcoachshow.com/258-are-you-productive-or-just-busy-steven-kirch-ph-d/ (258 with Dr. Steven Kirch).) ○ Do I know my business numbers? (Refer to https://starcoachshow.com/248-know-your-numbers-build-your-profit-michelle-coop/ (Ep. 248 with Michelle Cooper).) ○ Am I my own best-kept secret? (Refer tohttps://starcoachshow.com/267-building-the-confidence-you-need-to-show-up-online-meg-rentschler/ ( Ep. 267).)○ Have I separated my business and personal bank accounts? (Refer to https://starcoachshow.com/95-jason-amon-pc-protecting-your-assets/ (Ep. 95 with Attorney Jason Amon).) ● Why clients usually begin the same way they will continue ● Getting caught up in comparison and jealousy does not help you understand your contribution and value. ● Why it’s fundamental to me to acknowledge God as my touchstone, anchor, and the higher power that connects us all to each other and gives us hope and purpose Resources: Help Meg win sponsorship money for the show. Leave a love note saying what you love about the show: https://www.podcash.com/love-letters/pfdg4 (Love Letters) Connect with Meg http://www.starcoachshow.com/mentor (STaR Coach Show)
Today’s topic is relevant to every business even if you aren’t a coach! To position yourself as an expert, you have to be intentional about building credibility and visibility in your field. Join me for a closer look! Claudia Miller helps women in tech get to the next level in their careers. She has helped clients get up to $100K in salary increases along with flurries of emails from headhunters at well-known companies like Google, Facebook, and Nvidia. Her workplace expertise has been featured in Forbes, MSNBC, and Thrive Global. Claudia is on Business Insider’s 2021 global list of Top 23 Most Innovative Career Coaches. In today’s show, Claudia talks about knowing your audience, knowing your differentiator, and strategies we can implement with confidence. She brings her expertise to help you become the go-to expert in your field. Show Highlights: ● What led Claudia to the work she does today in empowering women in their careers ● Why positioning yourself as an expert begins with mindset ● How you, as the expert, can level down, reach those on your level, or level up to those above you ● Steps to identify your expertise, your target, and their pain points by asking, “Who is my audience, and how can I help them?” ● How to identify who your audience is listening to (Ex: podcasts, blogs, newsletters, etc.) ● How to pinpoint your market differentiator–and it might be what you view as a weakness! ● How Facebook groups (and other social media platforms) can put you in touch with your ideal customer, build your brand, and establish your expertise. ● Why it is beneficial to reach out to reporters and journalists with a concise and compelling hook about what you do ● Why you should have a press page on your website that features your media appearances ● What things should (and should not) be included on your speaker page (Hint: Think of it as your resume!) ● How to position yourself through public speaking by looking for seminars, symposiums, and panels that are looking for speakers ● Final advice from Claudia: “Positioning yourself as an expert brings fear. You have to make a plan and set goals.” Resources: Connect with Claudia on her https://www.claudiatmiller.com/ (Website), https://www.linkedin.com/company/claudia-t-miller-career-coaching (LinkedIn), or via Email. Mentioned in today’s episode: https://www.helpareporter.com/ (Haro) and https://www.canva.com/ (Canva) Help Meg out! Leave a note here to help Meg win a competition! https://www.podcash.com/love-letters/pfdg4 (Love Letters)
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We all have areas in our lives where we want to make better choices. The problem is that our default patterns keep us trapped! Join us to learn how to disrupt those old patterns while giving yourself permission and freedom! Irene Pace is a dietitian and nutrition professional who coaches, speaks, and writes as a champion of high achievers who are eager to get control of their eating. She helps smart, successful folks get peace with food and pants that fit. In today’s show, Irene discusses the patterns we fall into regarding food, but those patterns extend into so many other areas of life. She will share how to disrupt the default paths that we fall into that don’t always serve us best. Show Highlights: ● How Irene arrived where she is today after a time of intense personal challenges and a powerful experience of impulsive eating of donuts and ice cream bars ● Why it’s important to recognize when you need help ● The importance of hiring a professional and taking a mindset shift to allow you to focus on your “stuff” and move through the work ● Why it is important to approach change from a place of safety and give yourself permission to be human ● Why every behavior is an attempt to solve a problem ● Why food actually “works” as an attempt to make us feel better–even though we might know better ● How Irene helps clients understand their relationship with food with her three-step process: ○ Greet the “pull.” (The pull is the craving or drive to eat food.) ○ Create a pause. (We have to disrupt the default pattern.) ○ Give yourself permission. (Looking out for yourself sometimes means choosing food, but it can mean choosing another option.) ● Why it is important to practice a new awareness, beginning with greeting the pull ● Why there is truth in the saying, “If it’s hysterical, it’s historical” when it comes to our reactions
Resources: Connect with Irene: http://www.irenepace.com/ (Irene Pace), https://twitter.com/thedonutition (Twitter), https://ca.linkedin.com/in/irenepace (LinkedIn), and https://www.facebook.com/TheDonutition/videos/pace-nutrition-live-shindigs/818810878540457/ (Facebook) Eat Like You Teach: How to Reset Your Weight and Reclaim Your Life by Irene Pace, RD Help Meg earn sponsorship for the show by leaving a love letter https://www.podcash.com/love-letters/pfdg4 (here)
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I hope your personal and professional life is off to a tremendous start in 2022! The most effective coaches teach from their own experiences that they can bring forward to their audience, and that’s precisely what I’m doing in today’s solo episode. Join me for a look at “white-glove” extras that can help you deliver a five-star client experience. Show Highlights: ● What makes a top-notch, memorable experience with a service provider? ● Why my recent surgical procedure was good–but not great ● How our coaching can bring a five-star experience for our clients: ○ The foundational piece: Show up as the coach in the best way possible to honor the coaching process. ○ Provide the right tools and forms to maximize client engagement. ○ Use visual assessments that can help with specific goals. ○ Build a library of recommended books, articles, and recordings (podcasts!) for clients to access. ○ Offer a searchable transcript of sessions for clients. (See Resources for more info.) ○ Use snail mail to send a card or note as a special touch. ● How these resources can bring value to both one-on-one and group coaching ● How spending nothing or very little can still deliver attentiveness that is impactful and inspiring to your clients Resources: Visit http://www.starcoachshow.com/resources (Star Coach Show) to find out more about Searchie, the transcription service mentioned in today’s show.
If 2022 finds you struggling as a business owner and looking for expert advice, this show is for you. If you want to know how to find and secure those ideal, committed clients who can make all the difference, you’ve picked the right episode. Join us as today’s guest shares tips and insights that can turn your drudgery into business bliss! Caterina Rando is a Master Certified Coach, speaker, and author who is on a mission to teach, mentor, and support women to be themselves, do their thing, serve their people, and massively monetize their mastery. She shows women entrepreneurs how to be loud and proud about the value they bring in order to make their businesses thrive. Her clients grow, shine, expand, and open themselves up to new possibilities, taking their businesses further than ever before. Caterina is all about positivity, integrity, generosity, community, and providing massive value while uplifting others. Even though her work is primarily with women, her insights apply to both men and women as she teaches powerful concepts around the topic of influence and why your influence should equal your ASK. Along with being the author of several books, Caterina is the founder of The Thriving Women in Business Giving Community and the Thriving Women in Business Center, located in San Francisco. This episode is crammed full of business strategies and insights that you can put into action right now, including her five pillars for a successful business, her influence formula, and why making yourself known through speaking is the way to come home with clients. Show Highlights: ● Caterina’s business journey to finding what lights her up ● How Caterina came to coaching from her business background ● How she realized the value of having an assistant to allow her to focus on revenue-producing activities ● The five pillars of your job as a business owner: speaking, selling, serving clients, strategy, and self-care ● Why the biggest mistake a business owner can make is trying to do all their marketing themselves ● Caterina’s influence equation: Visibility + Value + Consistency = Influence ● Why speaking is the best way to make yourself known and showcase your massive value ● How to get the help you need to move toward the goal of mastery–not perfection ● How to have sales conversations and build influence, which is the shortest route to a full client base ● Why it’s important to have only clients that are the best matches for you ● How to start on your mission to “speak” ● Why your ASK cannot exceed your amount of influence (Don’t try to persuade people to buy from you if you haven’t built influence!) ● Why we need to recognize that “Sales is Service” ● Caterina’s super speaking strategies to get in front of people: ○ Go to the platforms and groups where your clients are already gathered. (Utilize the virtual platform!) ○ Have a low time/money investment to invite clients to an easy YES. ○ Ask your champion clients to host you for an “intimate intro” to their specially invited friends. ● The super tip that has changed everything for Caterina: Schedule post-workshop calls when you invite people to your workshop ● What coaches have to do to solidify the sale: ○ Make a call to welcome them to the community. ○ Send a welcome gift to new clients. ○ Remember that engagement is the Queen of Everything! ● Why you have to build influence before you ask people to buy because they will be turned off if your ASK exceeds your influence ● Two guiding principles for Caterina’s business: ○ Take any disappointment and turn it into determination. ○ Remember that your business is supposed to be your bliss (What would it take to make it your bliss?) Resources: Connect with Caterina and find free resources: https://www.caterinarando.com/links (Caterina Rando) Find Caterina on https://www.facebook.com/CaterinaRando (Facebook), https://www.instagram.com/caterina_rando/?hl=en (Instagram), and...
Happy 2022! I hope your year is off to a great start! If you’ve ever had feelings of burnout and exhaustion, this show is for YOU! If you dream of this new year being one that is more energizing and full of more joy and the things that light you up, today’s guests will help you discover the secrets to setting priorities and mastering your time. This could be the show that changes everything for you! Join us to learn more! Nadine and Derek Nicholson are business growth strategists, master leadership coaches, and the founders of Ascend Leadership Company. They help successful but overwhelmed powerhouse CEO service providers see and solve the issues that are holding them back from earning more in less time. They teach that overwork is NOT what causes fatigue, exhaustion, and burnout, along with solutions to help us resolve those issues and actions we can take to elevate our income. They bring to the table six decades of business development, strategic planning, coaching, consulting, corporate communications, change management, team leadership, and relationship-centered sales. Show Highlights: ● How Nadine and Derek came into the work they do today from their corporate backgrounds ● How Nadine’s business journey has been affected by the wake-up calls of realizing how short and precious life is ● Why depletion, exhaustion, and burnout don’t come from overworking but from SACRIFICING THE WRONG THINGS ● How “say-do gaps” deplete our energy and keep us from getting where we want to go ● How the “shoulds” and “can’ts” can stop us in our tracks and make us think we are supposed to suffer to find success ● How Nadine applied their coaching principles with a specific client to find what lights her up ● How Nadine and Derek help people get clear about what matters most ● Why different results come from making different commitments, which all come from how we prioritize our time ● How to make different commitments: ○ Who is my team? ○ How can they support me? ○ What do I need to walk away from? ● Why you need to give yourself permission to say YES to what lights you up ● How to find “the middle zone” and create a new curve ● How we “step over ourselves” and cause resentment because we sacrifice ourselves, our health, and who we care about ● How to get out of “the middle zone” by shooting higher and doing things differently ● Why a social media hiatus can be helpful in finding clarity Resources: Connect with Nadine and Derek: http://www.ascendleadership.com/ (Ascend Leadership) Visit their website to find their Free Video Series about escaping time overwhelm and burnout to elevate wealth! https://www.ascendleadership.com/video-training (Ascend Leadership: Video Training)
Today’s show topic will help bring this year to a culmination and springboard ourselves into 2022. We are discussing getting the negative narrative out of the way and shifting to build the life we want. Join us to learn more! Pam Aks (Thomas) is the founder of What’s Within U, an international coaching practice that supports leaders, entrepreneurs, and coaches to change the “Can’t” mindset to “Oh yeah? Watch me!” Named one of the Top Business Coaches in Phoenix by Influence Digest, Pam has helped many go from feeling demotivated personally and professionally to feeling unstoppable. In addition to coaching, Pam loves to teach and is on faculty at the University of Texas at Dallas in their Executive and Professional Coaching Certificate Program. Pam loves to read and geek out on all things mindset-related, and she’s the author of Developing a Confident Mindset. She has great ideas to share with us today to help us adopt a more positive and forward-moving mindset. Show Highlights: How Pam was drawn into mindset coaching Why our feelings come from the thoughts we have Why Pam wrote her book, Developing a Confident Mindset Why our brains can’t discern between fact and fiction but rely on what we “feed” them Pam’s advice for the “I can’t” storylines How a coach’s life experience comes center stage so they can lead with empathy and understanding Mindset–as defined by Pam Why we have a negative bias to keep us safe and in our comfort zone Why awareness is key to changing our negative narrative–but only if we tune in How we use “what ifs”--and how we SHOULD use them to change the negative narrative How our fear-based emotions show up in our bodies How we can have awareness and then look for the data to decide what the truth is Examples of exercises to do when you feel less than confident and are caught in the negative loop Look for the opposite to see what is really true. Be curious to see what you can learn. Recognize that you have options and choices. Why we are more susceptible to the negative chatter when our batteries are drained Why we need to create a self-care “menu” of appetizers, entrees, desserts, and full meals
Resources: Connect with Pam: http://www.whatswithinu.com (What's Within U) Developing a Confident Mindset by Pam Aks Join our mentor coaching program! Limited space is available: http://www.starcoachshow.com/mentor (Star Coach Show)
Many barriers can get in the way of building the businesses we want. One barrier that comes up for many people is getting in front of people to create the buzz around what they do and what makes them unique. Join me for this solo episode as we discuss this very common fear–and what you can do about it. Show Highlights: Why social media is the best way to get in front of people, capture the attention of your ideal audience, and become the go-to expert in your chosen niche Why you should focus on video content (and eventually, live video!) on social media platforms to get you noticed and increase audience engagement Ten tips for posting video content: Have clarity about what you want to say. Use a script or bullet points. Focus on a key tip or takeaway for your audience. A nugget of inspiration in a 30-60 second video is ideal. Make eye contact with the camera lens and smile. Engaging directly with your audience is essential. Use a healthy voice. Warm up your voice and stay hydrated for optimal sound. Practice recording from a standing, sitting, and walking position to find your most comfortable spot. Find what works best for you to help you feel confident. Use front lighting so your face is clearly visible. A talking silhouette will not fully engage your audience. “Fake it ‘til you make it.” Walk through the discomfort until it becomes comfortable. Keep showing up. Don’t wait until it’s perfect. Perfection is not the goal. People need to hear what you can share right now. Don’t be afraid that you are giving “too much” away. Be inspirational, give value, and share perspective. Cultivate an alter ego. (From author Todd Herman: The Alter Ego Effect) This allows us to self-distance and take a new perspective to eliminate nervousness and anxiety.
Resources: Find out more about my mentor program; we are currently enrolling! https://starcoachshow.com/mentor/ (Star Coach Show)
Today’s show focuses on an often-overlooked resource that we each have within us: our superpower of learning. Join us for this interesting conversation about the different ways in which we learn and how to maximize our learning. Lucas Root led numerous teams on Wall Street for over 17 years. After establishing a consistent track record of success, Lucas started his own consulting business. In addition to speaking engagements around the world, Lucas works with strong brands to help them best execute their great ideas, and he partners with businesses for training and mentoring. He has built a strong track record of successes that also includes podcasts, publications, and his bestselling “Work from Home” course. Whether leading projects for his clients or mentoring them to become empowering leaders, Lucas is a heart-centered expert in business. His passion to serve and support leaders in startups and entrepreneurship is at the forefront of his purpose to bring success and change to the world. Show Highlights: The journey that led Lucas to his current work with learning and productivity Lucas defines productivity as “what I can do to be successful in the thing I need to do RIGHT NOW” Lucas explains his “superpower” philosophy and his desire to accelerate his capacity to learn Three paths in the mechanical process of learning (in reverse order): 3. Downloading--an instant understanding with no pathway to get there; Ex: mushroom hunting 2. Modeling--not to be learned from a book but copied from someone else; Ex: martial arts 1. Information ingestion--learning from a book; the cheapest and most efficient way to learn; what we assume is the bulk of learning Why it’s harder to learn when we are tired (we usually learn better first thing in the morning!) The relationship between “processing” and “downloading” as we learn Creating paths of learning and productivity when challenges come--like working from home during the pandemic How all of our senses contribute to our capacity to move into the productivity of the moment How to use things like specific clothing and smells for productivity Why we all need to share the ways we find to turn on our “downloading ability”
Connect with Lucas: http://www.lucasroot.com (Lucas Root) Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/lucroot/?hl=en ( @lucroot) https://www.twitter.com/lucroot (Twitter) https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Product-Service/Lucas-Root-Speaker-Author-Entrepreneur-642366183041519/ (Facebook)
We are always interested in engaging with the world and our coaching clients in the best way. Today’s show covers how to apply a positive mindset to healthy leadership principles. Join us to learn actionable strategies from today’s expert guest! Julie Davis-Colan is the co-founder of The L Group, Inc., a management consulting firm that has served leaders since 1999. Julie is a business advisor and peak performance coach who has authored six books, including Stick with It, Getting the BEST of Yourself and Others, and The Power of Positive Coaching. She was on the show over a year ago talking about her most recent book, and I’m thrilled to have her join us again. We will be diving into Julie’s healthy leadership model, specifically the piece around a positive mindset. She will help us understand how a shift from a negativity bias to a positive mindset can increase productivity, effectiveness, relationships, and more. Show Highlights: ● Catching up with Julie’s professional life since COVID has hit ● How positive psychology became an umbrella that provides valuable tools in addressing mindset ● How positive mindset can change everything through brain science and breaking down thoughts, words, and actions ● The basics of brain science, “the most amazing network on earth” ● Positive and negative action ratios ● How to change your language around the words “yet, get to, and not” ● How we talk to ourselves vs. how we talk to close friends ● A sample exercise Julie uses to brainstorm emotional words, showing that most people choose negative words over positive ones ● The feedback Julie has received from clients about positive mindset ● How Julie uses affirming language with herself ● The components of healthy growth: compelling purpose and plan, aligned culture, engaged hearts and minds, positive coaching, and excellent execution ● Why healthy leadership is a multiplier in healthy growth ● Why “multitasking is to the brain as cigarette smoking is to the heart” in creating deterioration--along with a 40% decrease in productivity! Resources: Connect with Julie: http://www.leadershipexperts.com/ (Leadership Experts) https://starcoachshow.com/120-julie-davis-colan-the-power-of-positive-coaching/ (Julie’s first episode) Mentioned in this episode: https://www.amazon.com/Chatter-Voice-Head-Matters-Harness-ebook/dp/B087PL8YVQ (Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It by Ethan Kross)
I hope you can focus on gratitude during this Thanksgiving season. I know that I’m immensely grateful for every listener and each wonderful guest of the STaR Coach Show. Today’s discussion is about getting past stumbling blocks to be a powerful partner for our clients. We are also talking about credentialing opportunities for your coaching certification, so listen closely if you need to grab more credits before the end of the year. Join us to learn more! Annie Gelfand is a repeat guest on the show. She has been a Master Certified Coach for individuals, teams, and relationships since 1997. She founded her company, Radical Wisdom, to work with professional coaches who are driven to step up their coaching mastery skills in service of being the most potent change catalysts possible for their clients. She holds multiple coaching certifications and has a diverse range of life experience, including a 15-year corporate career, being a reflexology instructor, certified holistic practitioner, and living in rural India for seven years while studying under a meditation and yoga master. Show Highlights: ● Why Annie lights up in being a changemaker who sees the world differently than most other people ● How coaches hold the key to having true conversations from unconditional positive regard ● Why obtaining an MCC is an important achievement for any coach; it’s the highest credential a coach can reach to be the most excellent in their field ● Since 2017, Annie has held the Essence of Mastery Summit to help coaches get their core competencies; the next one is coming up in December! ● What coaches struggle with the most ● What it means to really listen to your clients without judgment ● How to pause, get curious, and come from a place of no ego and no judgment ● The importance of clarity in the coaching agreement ● Coaching the WHO and getting “underneath” the issue in true partnership with the client ● Why coaches tend to get uncomfortable with an emotional client--and how to handle it the best way ● Why it’s important for a coach to have a willingness to be vulnerable and wrong ● How we give the client the space to create change by not trying to prove our worth and be the “best” coach with the “best” questions ● Why coaches should record themselves and listen over and over again even though it’s a painful part of the coaching certification journey ● What you should know about the Essence of Mastery Summit, December 7-9, 2021 Resources: Earn 21 Core Competency credits with the Essence of Mastery Summit at http://essenceofmasterysummit.com/?ref=meg (Essence of Mastery Summit). Use the code “MEG” to save $100 when you sign up by 12/1/21. https://starcoachshow.com/132-annie-gelfand-mcc-leaning-into-conflict-creating-space-for-trust-and-intimacy/ (Annie’s previous show appearance) https://starcoachshow.com/107-fran-fisher-mcc-how-to-establish-a-clear-coaching-agreement/ (Fran Fisher’s show) Teresa Pool’s shows: https://starcoachshow.com/166-coaching-from-transaction-to-transformation-teresa-pool-mcc/ (166: Coaching From Transaction To Transformation Teresa Pool Mcc) https://starcoachshow.com/41-becoming-a-master-certified-coach-with-teresa-pool-mcc/ (41: Becoming a Master Certified Coach With Teresa Pool Mcc) Check out http://www.starcoachshow.com/resources (Star Coach Show)
Today’s show takes a look at key components to coaching success. We are discussing using your coaching skills in a sales conversation to create win-win energy, inviting the most ideal clients to work with you, and listening to what the client needs. Another topic is inviting clients into your world in a way that is open to the rejections they bring--and solving those rejections. Join us to learn more! Doug Brown started working for his family’s business at the age of three, and he went on to start and build over 35 companies. After spending twelve years in the US Army, he became the top-selling sales representative for a two-billion-dollar company. With travels to 47 US states and 14 countries, he has consulted, coached, advised, and trained thousands of people in business for companies like Enterprise Rent-a-Car, Nationwide, Procter & Gamble, and CBS Television. Doug has also worked in sales and training for companies run by Tony Robbins, Chet Holmes, and Russ Whitney. Currently, Doug is the CEO of Business Success Factors, where he helps businesses grow and accelerate their sales revenue. He is the creator of Sales Revenue Growth University, where he teaches the best sales revenue growth strategies to companies who are serious about their sales growth. His book, Win-Win Selling: Unlocking Your Power for Profitability by Resolving Objections, is an international bestseller. Show Highlights: ● The philosophy behind Doug’s “win-win selling:” doing the right thing for ourselves and our clients so that everyone wins and relationships are built on trust ● Why the point is resolving objections, not overcoming objections; this is done by challenging the objections in a respectful way ● How all objections form in the presence of major or minor fears ● How coaching presents both a professional and personal ROI ● Why most coaches are terrible at value selling ● How the ROI for a client increases when they gain confidence, save relationships, gain free time, etc. ● Doug’s Nine Rules for Resolving Objections: ○ Breathe and relax. ■ This interrupts the pattern and gives time to ask questions of clarity. ○ Get curious--not confrontational. ■ Ask questions of curiosity like a child. ○ Think before you act or speak. ■ This helps you avoid confrontation and overreactions. ○ Ask good questions and let the other person speak. ■ Hear what they have to say. ○ Resolve objections--don’t overcome them. ■ Don’t become confrontational or defensive. ○ Focus on win-win. ■ There should be value for both sides. ○ There should be no loser. ■ Disengaging can lead to valuable referrals. ○ Watch your tone and expression. ■ Don’t be condescending, especially with your first responses. ○ Maintain rapport at all times. ■ This can make all the difference in the relationship. ● How Doug’s Training University on conversational conversion will be available in early 2022 Resources: https://www.businesssuccessfactors.com/ (Business Success Factors) Email: doug@businesssuccessfactors.com Find Doug Brown on https://www.linkedin.com/in/dougbrown123 (LinkedIn). Find Doug’s book, Win-Win Selling at http://www.winwinsellingbook.com/ (Win-Win Selling Book). Check out valuable resources at http://www.starcoachshow.com/resources (Star Coach Show)
Whether with an audience of one, a gathering of hundreds, or an online presence that touches tens of thousands, we all want to captivate people with what we say. Today’s show covers the specifics of capturing the attention of others with your words. Join us to learn more! Eva DeVirgilis is an actress and makeup artist. She created a TEDx talk that went viral with nearly one million views. HER Magazine recognized her talk as one of their “Top inspirational TEDtalks to Help You Change Your Life.” Eva has the secret to getting your message so clean, targeted, and engaging that it has the potential to go viral, or at least help you speak in ways that cause people to sit up and take notice. In one-on-one conversations, a boardroom, and groups from 10-10,000, Eva has helpful tips for a tight, focused, engaging message to attract people to you and what you do. She shares specifics about prep work, breathing exercises, and creating your hook. Her coaching is the secret weapon for many top-earning executives, industry leaders, politicians, and influencers, and she empowers many thought leaders to communicate at their highest potential. She brings 20 years of experience in TV, comedy, and business to help you find the creative, passionate, dynamic speaker within you. Eva has taught Creative Presentations at VCU School of Business and loves to help people tell their stories. Show Highlights: How Eva’s path unfolded to merge her passions of performing, being a makeup artist, and reaching people around the world with her TEDx talk How Eva’s talk helped her become a creative communications consultant to help others share their message Where to begin with any talk or presentation: Think about your audience-- What do you want to make them do? What do you want to make them feel? “Hook them right away, make them feel something, and compel them to action.” How Eva’s plan for her TEDx talk narrowed her message to women to forgive themselves, accept themselves, and stop saying, “I’m sorry” What Eva learned from Darren Lacroix and Craig Valentine: “Your audience is always listening to WIIFM radio.” (“What’s in it for me?”) The bottom line is that it’s all about the audience. How to hook your audience: A short, engaging story A compelling question A shocking fact or statistic A compelling quote An unusual prop Humor What do you want your audience to do and feel? Have an objective that you want them to do (Eva explains how to use action verbs.) Have an objective that you want them to feel (Eva explains what words to use.) Why you need a script for a talk or presentation How to use your voice as a tool to comfort, activate, and engage How to do prep work to center yourself with breathing exercises (4-7-8 breaths) and stretching How to go to your big idea after your hook: Tell the audience why you are there. Use 14 words or less. Keep it simple. (Eva explains how to use Patricia Fripp’s formula: “Every _____ can ______ by _____.”) Why your intro should come after the hook and big idea Why you should chunk your main points into three sections: Use the 10-20-30 rule for presentations. “Don’t be the sideshow to your slideshow.” Back up your main points with evidence, a personal story, or play. Why your presentation bullet points need to go away How to wrap up with a Q & A by asking, “What questions do you have for me?” How to state your call to action in 14 words or less and use a DTM (drop the mike) statement for your final moment Remember that your final statement is about your audience, especially those who haven’t heard you before and may not hear you again.
Resources: To find out more about Eva, visit her website: http://www.evadevirgilis.com ( www.EvaDeVirgilis.com) Watch Eva’s TEDx talk: https://www.tedxtokyo.com/translated_talk/in-my-chair-a-makeup-artists-perspective-on-beauty/ ( In my chair — a makeup artists perspective on beauty – TEDxTokyo)...
In today’s solo episode, I’m sharing my expertise about what successful coaches do to leverage their time and energy to maximize their income, impact, and growth. Join me to learn more about how to give your clients what they need. Show Highlights: ● Why I’ve created a resource page with tools you can use ● How there are limits on your time, energy, and income capability ● How some coaches follow the model of low client load and high price point ● How some coaches leverage their expertise with more product offerings than just one-on-one coaching ● How reliance on one-on-one coaching only can contribute to burnout ● Why I challenge you to project outward to two years, four years, six years, and ten years--and see where different product offerings can fit for you ● How turning to different product offerings has opened up new avenues of energy, focus, and diversity in my coaching business ● Options for offerings other than one-on-one coaching: ○ Group coaching programs in the form of mentor groups for skills growth (With this option, you have to decide your subject matter focus.) ○ Video training series or an online course (After the series or course, you can invite them into a coaching package with you.) ○ Membership site (This option offers more access to you with a lower price point that offers incredible value.) ○ Retreats (This is a high-end offering for a smaller group of clients.) ● How you build credibility and a framework to become the go-to person in your space: ○ Have confidence in inviting people into your space to work with you. ○ Close the gap between coaching and becoming good at selling. ● Why you need to explore these ideas and see if they will work for you Resources: Shows mentioned: https://starcoachshow.com/259 (StarCoachShow: 259) https://starcoachshow.com/258 (StarCoachShow: 258) https://starcoachshow.com/260 (StarCoachShow: 260) https://starcoachshow.com/199 (StarCoachShow: 199) https://starcoachshow.com/221 (StarCoachShow: 221) Resource page: https://starcoachshow.com/resources (Star Coach Show) Kajabi offer: https://productlaunchformula.com/ (The 2021 Launch Masterclass - Registration Now Open!)
Welcome to the STaR Coach Show! However you show up in this big world of coaching, there is something here for you in today’s show. We are discussing how finding the edge lights you up and propels your business forward. Join us to learn more! David Wood is a former consulting actuary to Fortune 100 companies. He built the world’s largest coaching business, becoming #1 on Google for life coaching and coaching thousands of hours in 12 countries around the globe. In addition to helping others, David is no stranger to overcoming challenges himself, having survived a full collapse of his paraglider and a fractured spine, witnessing the death of his sister at age seven, anxiety and depression, and a national Gong Show experience (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgKwAJieQes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgKwAJieQes)). David coaches high-performing business owners to double their revenue, and he helps them maximize their time off by focusing on less and being 30% more courageous in their business or career. Show Highlights: ● David’s work today and the winding road that brought him here from a difficult childhood in Australia to consulting in NYC to coaching ● How his first coaching experience got him hooked on coaching forever--and how he’s never looked back ● What it means to “play full out” as opposed to “playing it safe”(David shares his terrifying Gong Show experience.) ● How David “played full out” in becoming a speaker and pursuing his dreams of being an actor ● Three important questions: ○ What really matters to me right now? ○ What would I like to move toward at a faster pace? ○ If I was fearless, what would I do? ● Why it’s important to find the sweet spot zone between playing it safe and playing full out ● David’s current endeavors include coaching, working with business owners, writing The Mouse in the Room, Extraordinary Focus podcast, and his Tough Conversations podcast. ● Final words from David: “Have courage through a heart lens. Live life so that, when you’re on your deathbed, you can say you gave it everything and really, truly lived.” Resources: Connect with David: http://www.myfocusgift.com/ (My Focus Gift) Find David on https://twitter.com/_focusceo?lang=en (Twitter), https://www.linkedin.com/in/focus-ceo (Linked In), and on Facebook at https://wwwlfacebook.com/extraordinaryfocus (Extraordinary Focus).
Today’s show looks closely at the steps we take to move a client into our world. We are diving into specific actions necessary to continue to grow the know, like, and trust factor so that clients want to engage with us. Join us to learn more! Nancy Giere spent a lifetime in the corporate training world, so she knows how businesses operate, and she isn’t afraid to shake things up. Her unique perspective, combined with more than 25 years of experience, has empowered her with fresh insight and the industry’s best-kept secrets that she’s ready to share with us. On a lifelong campaign against boring training, she uses the power of storytelling and light-hearted humor to create an engaging, fun, and interactive environment. Masterfully intertwining comedic humor with life lessons, her stories make learning stick. Nancy has worked with the biggest names in corporate America, like Johnson Controls, Harley Davidson, and Northwestern Mutual. Nancy’s sharing what she did to warm up her email list and how we can take steps toward client enrollment. Show Highlights: ● What led Nancy into the work she does today ● How Nancy helps people create digital programs ● How creating freebie offerings shows your knowledge, expertise, and personality ● How giving people insight into who you are and what you’re about can be an effective lead magnet ● How Nancy created her PDF opt-in, 8 Easy Steps to Create Training That Sells ● In creating a program, you must first follow these steps: ○ Determine the scope of what you want to accomplish and get clear on where you are going. ○ Decide who you want to serve and what makes you unique. ○ Decide what you can offer to attract people to you. ● What it means to “warm up your email list and how to do it: ○ Provide tips and information while giving value. ○ Repurpose your content to social media platforms. ○ Use podcast appearances and speaking presentations to increase your email list. ● Why it’s helpful to create a partnership with someone who has a wider reach than you do ● How Nancy’s opt-in email and system is structured: It starts with the opt-in PDF and progresses to free webinars, paid two-day retreats, and group programs or one-on-one coaching offered in some combination. ● Why the key to offering webinars is to give people enough value that they want more ● Why the goal of webinars is to get people into your larger programs ● Why you need various offerings to accommodate clients who are in different places and want to move at different paces ● Why your opt-in offer has to be of outstanding value, so you don’t lose the know, like, and trust factor ● Why your offer has to have fluidity and build upon each element in a natural flow ● Nancy’s tips: ○ Look at your content, inventory it, and decide how to pull it out to reuse in different ways. ○ Think about blocking your webinars into sections so you can cut the video and fashion it into an online course. ○ Take the transcription of your webinar and record over it to make a tighter, more Resources: Connect with Nancy Find Nancy on https://twitter.com/nancygiere?lang=en (Twitter), https://www.linkedin.com/in/nancygiere (Linked) https://www.linkedin.com/in/nancygiere (In), and https://www.facebook.com/nancy.giere (Facebook). Find Nancy’s FREE gift, https://nancy-giere.newzenler.com/f/easy-steps-to-create-training-that-sells (8 Easy Steps to Create Training That Sells)
Are you confused about the next steps to growth in your business? Barriers and challenges are always in front of us, and it’s important to prioritize those next steps to progress. Join us to learn how to avoid shiny object syndrome and be your most productive instead of just busy. Steven Kirch is a productivity expert and business growth strategist. After retiring from a successful career as manager and leader in the high-tech industry, Dr. Kirch now brings his passion for people, organizations, and small businesses to his clients. The goal of Profit Minds, LLC is to help serious small-business owners generate more clients, close more sales, and increase their overall revenue and profits--quickly and inexpensively. Steven specializes in helping small business owners and business coaches improve their results using time-tested sales and marketing strategies. As a certified facilitator of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People for more than 20 years, he works alongside his clients to develop methodologies for the implementation of these strategies in their business. In addition, he serves on the board of directors for The Gratitude Network, a leadership development organization that works with social entrepreneurs around the world to enable growth of these innovative companies that are changing the lives of children and youth everywhere. Show Highlights: ● Steve’s journey into business coaching after a 30-year career in high-tech ● The big problem Steve sees across the board with small business owners ● How Steve can help small businesses find untapped revenue ● The difference between being productive and being busy ● How to structure your day around the most important tasks ● How to identify your “biological prime time” for productivity ● Why we get overwhelmed by our to-do lists and why we should focus on tasks instead of projects ● How to use the Pomodoro Technique to focus on tasks ● How to combat your tendency to procrastinate ● Tips to avoid shiny object syndrome: ○ Identify 2-3 most important tasks for each day. ○ Protect specific blocks of time for strategic tasks. ○ Consider an accountability partner to check up on each other. ○ Take time on Sunday to plan out your week. ● How Steve approached pivots during his career ● Considerations you need to make if you’re facing a pivot ● How Steve structures the pricing of his coaching programs to create a partnership with his clients Resources: Connect with Steve: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevekirch/ (LinkedIn) http://www.profitminds.net/ (Profit Minds) coach@profitminds.net http://www.gratitude-network.org/ (Gratitude Network) Books mentioned in this episode: https://www.amazon.com/Habits-Highly-Effective-People-Powerful/dp/0743269519 (The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey) https://www.amazon.com/Getting-Things-Done-Stress-Free-Productivity/dp/0142000280 (Getting Things Done by David Allen) https://www.amazon.com/Productivity-Project-Accomplishing-Managing-Attention/dp/1101904038 (The Productivity Project by Chris Bailey) https://www.amazon.com/Scaling-Up-Companies-Rockefeller-Habits/dp/0986019526 (Scaling Up by Verne Harnish) https://www.amazon.com/Traction-Get-Grip-Your-Business/dp/1936661837 (Traction by Gino Wickman) https://www.amazon.com/12-Week-Year-Others-Months/dp/1118509234 (The 12 Week Year by Brian P. Moran and Michael Lennington)
In today’s solo episode, we are discussing a common issue that comes up for new coaches. It encompasses the whole realm of our money mindset, valuing what we offer to clients, and packaging our services, and it can be a difficult journey to navigate when you are starting out in your quest for coaching certification. Join me to learn ways to build your expertise and confidence as you find balance in what works best for you. Show Highlights: ● Tips for finding clients: ○ Don’t overlook the value in coaching other coaches. ○ Consider small businesses in your area that might barter their services in exchange for coaching. (Have very clear agreements about the exchange.) ○ Draw on your experience with people who already know, like, and trust you--and people they can refer to you. ○ Reach out to organizations that you were associated with in the past and let them know what you’re doing in coaching. ● Tips for packaging your services: ○ Focus on the length of the engagement and your availability to the client. ○ Find the balance between what you can comfortably charge and what you will offer to the client. ○ Create your packages based on the partnership between you and the client. ○ Think about your “between-session” availability and other resources you’ll offer. ○ Consider the specialized packages you can offer that make you stand out from the competition and offer additional value to clients. ● Remember that you are bringing your experience and your value to each session. ● Be confident about what you are charging to bring value and change to your clients. Resources: Join me weekly for Facebook Live on Wednesdays at 4 pm CT on https://www.facebook.com/STaRCoachShow (the STaR Coach FB page) Previous episodes discussed: http://www.starcoachshow.com/195 (Star Coach Show: 195) http://www.starcoachshow.com/241 (Star Coach Show: 241) http://www.starcoachshow.com/248 (Star Coach Show: 248)
We are diving into an important topic that is especially relevant to what’s happening in our world today. Global and national events that produce landscape shifts are often referred to as “black swan” events; they buckle us at the knees and knock the wind right out of us, but we have to be prepared for them as business owners. Today’s show covers how these events create the need for coaches to be flexible, creative, and responsive to our clients’ needs. Join us to learn more! Sam Palazzolo is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, author, leadership professor, and nonprofit philanthropist. He brings a variety of value creation topics to entrepreneurs and business leaders through his ideas, actionable takeaways, and five books. His most recent book is The Influential Leader: Leading at the Tip of the Spear. In today’s show, Sam tells us how to be flexible and creative when things go awry. He shares ideas about being collaborative in your relationships with other coaches, how to choose the right clients, and why you need to let go of those who aren’t your ideal client. Show Highlights: ● Sam’s journey, where he is today, and what lights him up in his work ● How February/March 2020 events brought huge shifts for everyone ● How coaches can build strategic relationships with their clients ● How Sam structures monthly complimentary webinars that springboard to other resources for leaders ● How to handle black swan events with your clients: ○ Make yourself available and valuable ○ Look to partner with affiliates for webinars and programs ● Sam’s advice about choosing good venture partners (“Date” them first!) ● Why Sam uses month-to-month contracts with new clients ● How a “red velvet rope policy” works to identify ideal clients (from Michael Porter, Book Yourself Solid) ● Why you have to know what you’re aiming for in targeted approaches Resources: Visit Sam’s website for your free http://www.tipofthespearventures.com/ (Business Transformation Self-Assessment Workbook!) https://www.amazon.com/Leading-Tip-Spear-Sam-Palazzolo/dp/1981860436 (The Influential Leader: Leading at the Tip of the Spear by Sam Palazzolo) Mentioned in this episode: https://www.amazon.com/Entrepreneurial-You-Monetize-Expertise-Multiple/dp/1633692272 (Entrepreneurial You by Dorie Clark) https://www.amazon.com/Book-Yourself-Solid-Reliable-Marketing/dp/0470643471 (Book Yourself Solid by Michael Port )
If you’re a business owner, you know that marketing is essential, but it doesn’t have to be a drag. In today’s show, we’re taking a fresh and fun approach to the marketing piece of entrepreneurship. Join us to learn more! Ann Bennett is the founder of Renegade Branding and has spoken across the country and around the world. She is a best-selling author, coach, and Brand Profit Builder who has shared the stage with thought leaders like Les Brown, Jack Canfield, Sandra Yancey, Jen Sincero, and more. Ann uses her marketing and branding genius to help women entrepreneurs (and a few good men) build their STAND OUT personal brands and boost their profits. She works with purpose-driven entrepreneurs who do transformational work to liberate and ignite their unique genius, authentic voice, and build a profitable brand platform. With over 25 years of experience in visual and graphic design, Ann has brought her talents to many major magazines from Popular Mechanics to Vogue. She stands by her personal slogan and the cornerstone of all her programs: “It’s smart to fit in . . . but it’s brilliant to stand out.” In today’s show, Ann teaches us how marketing can be fun as she focuses on four different archetypes for marketing. Join us to find which type you are and how you can use that to be bold in your marketing endeavors. Show Highlights: How Ann came to the work she does today How Ann’s personal 9/11 experience caused her to turn inward and recreate herself How Ann developed clarity around marketing How to make a connection by listening and asking questions Four marketing archetypes that come from iconic personality styles: The Nurturer--warm, loving, takes care of others The Disruptor--bold, sassy, loves to upset the status quo The Innovator--super creative, full of possibilities and new ideas The Geek--practical, loves steps, formulas, and science How the archetypes help people connect and engage with each other as we lead with our dominant personality style How to say your message simply and concisely How your authenticity will attract the people with whom you are supposed to work
Resources: http://www.renegadebranding.com/ (Connect with Ann) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AnnBennettMarketing/ (Ann Bennett Marketing)
Today’s show might challenge us to think differently and expand the ways we engage and bring our impact into the world. Let’s explore together how we can dare to be brave, bold, and courageous with our clients! Rick Tamlyn inspires people to be their best. He teaches that every experience, emotion, reaction, and relationship is all made up. As an author, activational keynote speaker, co-active trainer, and thought leader in the inspiration business, Rick has delivered his message around the world to people and organizations from all walks of life. In 2001, Rick co-created The Bigger Game: a tool that inspires people from all walks of life to get out of their comfort zones and invent the lives they want. He was here for episode 165 to discuss The Bigger Game; you can check it out with the link in our Resources section. Rick is the author of Play Your Bigger Game: 9 Minutes to Learn, A Lifetime to Live (Hay House). Rick is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) and a Master Certified Coach (MCC) as designated by the International Coach Federation (ICF) and is a senior trainer for The Coaches Training Institute. Show Highlights: ● Get to know Rick and his work, which includes 26 years in coaching ● Why coaches need bigger and bolder agendas to get into the world ● How coaches are thought leaders and wisdom guides in addition to their other roles as teacher, guide, mentor, etc. ● How to reframe and redefine your role as a “coach” ● What opens up for coaches who step up in a bolder role ● How coaches can activate the clients’ creativity and future self ● Why the purpose of discovery calls, a.k.a. “sample sessions,” is to upset “business as usual” and pull the client out of their comfort zone ● Rick’s latest endeavors and the upcoming Produce You event Resources: http://www.ricktamlyn.com/ (Rick Tamlyn) http://www.produceyouevent.com/ (Produce You Event) Coupon code: SAVE50 https://starcoachshow.com/165-the-bigger-game-rick-tamlyn-cpcc-mcc/ (Rick’s first STaR Coach Interview) https://www.amazon.com/Play-Your-Bigger-Game-Lifetime/dp/1401942946 (Play Your Bigger Game: 9 Minutes to Learn, A Lifetime to Live by Rick Tamlyn)
Today’s show is about practical strategies that help you communicate effectively to capture the attention of your audience, whether it’s an audience of hundreds, thousands, or just one person. Could anything be more important? Join us to learn more about engaging in conversation and understanding your audience and their struggles. Neil Gordon helps experts become the face of a movement. He works with executives, influencers, coaches, and thought leaders and has helped them get six-figure book advances, be seen on shows like Ellen and Dr. Oz, and double their speaking fees. Prior to becoming a communications expert, he worked on the editorial staff of Penguin Random House, where he worked with New York Times bestselling authors. He has been featured on Forbes, Fortune, Inc.com., and NBC Palm Springs, and is a VIP contributor for Entrepreneur. Show Highlights: ● How Neil came into the work he does today ● How we can get our message “out there” ● The example (from Neil’s dad’s life) about framing an issue in the context of a problem that someone wants to be solved ● How to know what problems your audience wants to solve ● Neil’s “Twitter Test”---how it works and what it accomplishes for him ● How to align your message to your audience’s problem: ○ Craft and tailor a framework message that can address various needs--and build in your solution. ○ Reach out to existing clients about common themes. ○ Have empathy and understanding about their problems--and you’ll build trust. ● How contrast leads to clarity: ○ Find your “silver bullet” by packaging your secret sauce in a simple sentence. ○ Contrast your unique solution to the others offered that are failures. ● Neil’s parting message: listen to a story connected to the loss of Neil’s father and the eulogy he gave for him Resources: http://www.neilcanhelp.com/ (Connect with Neil) Take http://www.neilcanhelp.com/quiz (Neil’s Speaker Quiz)
We are diving into the world of technology in today’s show. In our digital world, an online presence is vital in building your business and credibility. Nothing matters more than your ideal clients’ ability to find you online and learn about what you offer them. If you’re like me, technology is not your sweet spot, so join us to learn more about utilizing your website to its greatest capacity. Eric Seropyan is the owner of This Is My South Bay, a digital marketing agency in the South Bay area of Los Angeles. His business specializes in helping small to mid-sized businesses gain exposure online with a variety of digital marketing strategies. Eric focuses on driving traffic to clients’ websites by utilizing the power of search engines and optimizing websites to be ranked organically, which is referred to as Search Engine Optimization (SEO). He’s here to help us understand search engines and how our websites can function more strategically to grow our businesses. Show Highlights: ● Learn about Eric’s company and the work he does today ● What is SEO, and why is it important? SEO is the whole process of how your business can be found, ranked, and matched with potential clients when they do a Google search. ● Keys for your website’s improved SEO: ○ Make sure your website is optimizable (easily navigated, functional, and with no broken links) ○ Present your content so Google can find it (tag your pages correctly and use proper keywords) ○ Post to social media regularly and consistently (This is a big deal in Google’s world!) ○ Use blogs, videos, and other pieces for additional content that adds visibility. ● Final words from Eric: “SEO is FREE traffic for your business, but you must do certain things consistently. Think of SEO as a marathon; it’s a long process to leapfrog over your competitors and stay there, but the benefits are worth the effort.” Resources: Connect with Eric and book a consultation! http://www.thisismysouthbay.com/ (This is My South Bay)
Today’s solo episode takes a deep dive into the stress we’ve all been dealing with over the past 18 months or so. We are now seeing an uptick that tells us that the pandemic isn’t over yet. There are many stressors today, like going back into the workplace or sending our kids back to school. How can we engage with our clients in ways that bring our best selves forward? The reality is that coaches are dealing with stress, and our clients are dealing with stress. Let’s talk about how we can reframe stress and engage with our clients to offer new options. Show Highlights: ● Stress is a fact of life, a certain amount of stress is normal, and we actually need some stress in our lives for optimal function. ● Some of the biggest stressors include balancing work and parenting, adjusting to working from home (or returning to the workplace), and unhealthy sleep patterns. ● As stressors increase, our coping skills decrease, and we tend to push away from the very practices and activities that can help us deal with stress. ● Specific strategies to partner with clients and employ cognitive coaching skills: ○ Help the client understand the belief driving their reaction and help them respond without fear, mind-reading, generalizations, or judgment. ○ Apply the four agreements (from Don Miguel Ruiz) to how we think about stressful situations: (Find more in Episode 13) ■ Be impeccable with your word ■ Don’t take anything personally ■ Don’t make assumptions ■ Always do your best ○ Use the client’s strengths to emphasize their best self in ways to shift the focus from the negative. ○ Recognize the uniqueness of each client and facilitate their growth in ways that make sense for them and how they respond to the world, whether that is geared toward the cognitive, environmental, creative, physical, spiritual, managerial, relational, humorous, or outdoor activity. (In other words, what lights them up?) ● Even with universal stressors, each person has an individual response---and that’s how we need to engage with our clients. Resources: https://www.amazon.com/Four-Agreements-Practical-Personal-Freedom-ebook/dp/B005BRS8Z6 (The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz) https://www.amazon.com/Strengths-Based-Workbook-Stress-Relief-Character-ebook/dp/B07MB1CF8P (The Strengths-Based Workbook for Stress Relief by Ryan Niemiec) Episodes mentioned in this episode: https://starcoachshow.com/13-using-the-four-agreements-in-coaching/ (13: Using The Four Agreements in Coaching) https://starcoachshow.com/31-character-strength-coaching-with-ryan-m-niemiec/ (31: Character Strength Coaching with Ryan Niemiec) https://starcoachshow.com/131-dr-ryan-niemiec-the-power-of-character-strengths/ (131: Dr. Ryan Niemiec: The Power of Character Strengths)
Today’s episode covers the important topic of having difficult conversations with our clients. I’ve seen this come up frequently for coaches, and frankly, it involves taking steps that we are often reluctant to take. We have to remember that being in the highest service to our clients means that we can’t avoid the things that are uncomfortable. Join us as we dive deeper! Becca Ribbing is the author of The Clarity Journal and has been a coach for over a decade. She's on a mission to help people break out of the cycles of uncertainty and struggle that hold them back. Becca helps women going back and forth with the big, seemingly endless question of what to do next—so they can stop going around in circles and finally figure out what they truly want so they can create the clarity and momentum they crave. Show Highlights: ● How Becca came into her work with difficult client conversations through work with a drug-addicted client ● Becca’s work with clients who want to change careers, especially those with ADHD and muddled pasts ● Why it’s difficult to spot the warning signs of addiction and ADHD ● The benefits when coaching clients also see a therapist for anxiety and depression ● How Becca sets the stage with clients in their intake session ● Becca shares specific examples of her work with ADHD clients ● The coach’s ethical obligations ● How to identify the client’s needs without stereotyping ● Specifics to remember about difficult conversations: ○ Listen. ○ Put forth a suggestion and let it sit. ○ Be comfortable with the discomfort. ○ Recognize that this is what the client is paying you to do. Resources: http://www.beccaribbing.com/ (Becca Ribbing) https://www.amazon.com/dp/1733131604 (The Clarity Journal by Becca Ribbing)
The inescapable truth is that a successful coaching business requires clients. Who are they? Where are they? How do I find them? What do I say to them? How do I attract them to my business? If you find these questions confusing and perplexing, join me for today’s show, where we discuss all things related to client attraction. Jacob Ratliff is a Client Attraction Coach and entrepreneur based in Asheville, North Carolina. Using his identity and lived experiences as the catalyst for creating his business, Jacob uplifts people and helps them to grow their businesses by leaning into their authentic, confident, empowered selves. With over five years’ experience in growing clients’ businesses as well as his own, Jacob is uniquely positioned to help high-impact coaches build intimate relationships online to attract high-paying clients. Over the past five years, he has developed a comprehensive training and coaching program that helps entrepreneurs increase brand awareness and visibility, create meaningful engagement, and maintain long-term clients. Show Highlights: ● How Jacob came into the work he does today from his beginnings as a freelance digital marketing designer ● The value in identifying your ideal client and crafting messaging that speaks directly to them and their pain points ● Why Jacob focuses his marketing on LGBTQ+ entrepreneurs but also attracts other clients to whom the same message appeals ● How and where to look for your ideal client---and it may not always be the people you think! ● Why your ideal client, niche, offer, and message should constantly evolve--so allow some wiggle room! ● How to establish authenticity through building relationships with clients--instead of using long-winded, sales-y posts ● The value of authentic social media conversations from you, the person--not the salesperson ● The value in asking questions in direct message conversations to find deeper pain points; start by digging deeper three feet at a time ● How to be aware of unnatural tactics and techniques that don’t align with you and your values ● Jacob’s advice: “The most important piece of client attraction is to find what works best for you.” Resources: http://www.jacobratliff.com/ (Jacob Ratliff) Find https://www.facebook.com/jacob.ratliff.71/ (Jacob on Facebook) Find https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacob-ratliff/ (Jacob on LinkedIn)
Financial flow in your business is an important topic, and we are stripping it down to basics today. We need a strong foundation that creates a financial base that allows us to create as we want--instead of living with messy financial situations. Join us as today’s guest shares valuable tips and insights. Michelle Cooper is the high priestess of profit, a spiritual gangsta, CEO of Alchemy Accounting & Bookkeeping, a Profit First Professional, and author of several books. Michelle took her small accounting firm in rural British Columbia to a thriving online business encompassing coaching and consulting, speaking, and writing while balancing the management and growth of a brick and mortar office. She has built a solid team of bookkeepers, accountants, tax professionals, and business coaches who support impact-driven entrepreneurs to have highly profitable, sustainable businesses while creating the peace of mind that comes from a solid financial foundation. Today, Michelle supports the growth of her client’s business with real strategic planning while also addressing the mindset issues that arise with growth in order to bust through and rise up to levels they never dreamed possible. The team at Alchemy Accounting & Bookkeeping support clients across North America, specializing in coaches and consultants. Michelle and her team have helped hundreds business owners climb out of entrepreneurial poverty into the land of PROFIT. Show Highlights: ● What led Michelle to work with coaches about entrepreneurship and stable finances ● How messy financial situations can keep coaches from the visibility we want ● How to begin with sound finances and price points: ○ Completely separate business and personal finances. ○ Get clarity on the work you do and the income it generates. ● Considerations for price points, products, offerings, and affiliate marketing ● How a financial advisor can help with product and program launches ● How to manage expenses and income for the future ● Tips on “cleaning up” your finances for the business you want--not the business you have right now ● Tips on choosing a bookkeeper that is the right fit for your business ● How a really good bookkeeper can save you money ● How to build a solid financial team to scale your business ● Why it’s important to have in place the financial support you need ● The importance of a solid belief system around your relationship with money and how you work with money ● Bonus Question: What can listeners do right now to take their business to the next level? Resources: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michellebcooper/ (Find Michelle on LinkedIn) https://www.facebook.com/AlchemyAccounting/ (Michelle’s Facebook Business Page) https://www.financialfoundationsquiz.ca/Check (Financial Foundations Quiz) Check out Michelle’s FREE RESOURCE: https://www.financialfoundationsquiz.ca/ (Financial Foundations Assessment)
Today’s show explores a tool that may be unfamiliar to most of us. As coaches, we have to be willing to open up new ideas and explore tools that help people be the best that they can be. Join us to learn more about Human Design. Erin Claire Jones uses a process called Human Design to help thousands of individuals and companies step into their uniqueness in their work and their lives to be their truest selves and reach their highest potential. Her work as a guide, speaker, and coach has attracted a growing community of over 100K people who use her teachings for practical tools, digestible tips, and deeper self-knowledge. She helps people engage in life with ease and authenticity. Erin’s work has been featured in Forbes, MindBodyGreen, Well+Good, and many other outlets. Human Design is a synthesis of ancient wisdom and modern science that sheds light on a person’s energetic makeup, as well as specific tools to use in life to be the happiest, healthiest, and reach the highest potential. Show Highlights: ● How Erin ended up in the work she does today after a startup background in entrepreneurship ● Where to begin in understanding Human Design, which is a blueprint of how we are wired to work, connect, collaborate, and operate at our best ● The five basic types in Human Design: ○ Manifesting Generators--have the energy and life force to build, create, and make things happen; they are energetic and uplifting to everyone and multi-passionate ○ Generators--similar in energy to manifesting generators ○ Projectors--are leaders, guides, teachers, and advisors; they are not here to “do,” but work well in one-on-one situations and love systems ○ Manifestors--initiate and inform and get things started; they value freedom, autonomy, and control, and they thrive in an entrepreneurial setting when given freedom to be innovative ○ Reflectors--make up only 1% of people; they are collective mirrors who are sensitive to their environment and love tapping into different ways to express themselves ● Why it’s essential to understand how we make decisions according to our Human Design types ● How understanding the difference in Human Design types gives us more compassion and the ability to communicate effectively in all relationships at home and at work ● How Erin uses Human Design concepts in her work with individuals and teams ● How Human Design principles can be applied to areas in which we are especially sensitive, helping us know where we need to detach and establish boundaries Resources: http://erinclairejones.com/blueprint (Here's the link to get Erin’s Blueprint, a personalized guide to your unique design) The code STAR will get 10% off your Blueprint or a spot in Erin’s next Flow workshop. http://erinclairejones.com/lookup (Look up your design) http://erinclairejones.com/individual (Book an individual session) http://erinclairejones.com/ (Visit Erin’s website) http://instagram.com/erinclairejones (Find Erin on Instagram)
Today’s show is a close look at my guest’s journey from corporate leadership into leadership coaching. He shares with transparency how his steps unfolded and the decisions he made along the way. Join us to hear his inspiring story! Ed Evarts is the founder and president of Excellius Leadership Development, an organization focused on coaching mid-to-senior level leaders and their teams in business environments. You’ll hear Ed’s story of stumbling from the corporate world into his own business as a means of necessity. With over 25 years of leadership and management experience, Ed possesses the ability to build awareness, spur action, and deliver results. He is known for his business acumen and his ability to resolve complex human relations issues. He’s written two books about the lessons he has learned, and these have strengthened his credibility and accessibility with clients. Show Highlights: ● Ed’s career in HR in the New England area, with 15-17 years in retail and 10 years with another company until a layoff in 2008 prompted big changes ● Two ways to transition from a corporate career: purposeful and planned or abrupt and forced ● Ed’s fresh and brave idea to start his own coaching business in 2008 ● How Ed decided to network and gather information in building his business ● The mindset that set up Ed for success in his new venture ● How Ed decided to build his coaching skills and demonstrate his commitment through coach training and certification through the ICF ● How Ed wrote his first book, Raise Your Visibility, to share his ideas about value and visibility within his industry ● How being an author improved Ed’s visibility and credibility and added a level of competence ● Why Ed wrote his second book, Drive Your Career, to help people learn to drive their careers and not just be a passenger ● How Ed continues his path of credibility and visibility through his podcast, Be Brave at Work, which began in December 2019 (he just recorded the 145th episode!) ● How Ed has evolved and grown since 2008, thanks to his experiences, his books, and his podcast Resources: https://www.excellius.com/ (www.excellius.com) Books: https://www.amazon.com/Raise-Your-Visibility-Value-Connecting/dp/1628654732 (Raise Your Visibility and Value) https://www.amazon.com/Drive-Your-Career-High-Impact-Responsibility/dp/1734500409 (Drive Your Career) Podcast: Be Brave at Work
In today’s show, we are answering a question that comes to me often: What do I need to start my coaching business? Just getting started can be overwhelming, but there are a few simple steps to take to get your business up and running. Join me! As much as you want to use your coaching skills to make a difference with your potential clients, there is also a business aspect to coaching. Let’s talk about the systems you need to have in place to help you be the best coach you can be, but remember that it’s OK to start with the bare minimum and build from there. Think of this episode as a beginner’s guide to get you started. Show Highlights: ● The necessities to have in place when starting your coaching business: ○ A system to send digital forms and templates for your coaching agreement, intro questions, intake information, follow-up forms, and assessments. ○ Scheduling tools, like Calendly, Acuity, and Book Like a Boss ○ Email for your business account (or gmail is an option) ○ Ways to take payments, like Stripe, PayPal, Square, etc. ○ **Ideally, you want to move toward the automation of as many of the items listed above, so you can spend more time on the activities that are income producing. ○ Choose a platform for seeing clients, like video conferences, phone, in-person, or a combination of the three. ○ Four important aspects of your business: business name, website (even a one-page website, See Ep. 115), LinkedIn profile (See Ep. 97, 137, and 234), and how you show up on social media. ● To attract clients and be seen, focus on building relationships and credibility, knowing your audience, and creating solutions. ● Use social media to share your message, build a following, and create a buzz, but also think about the following: ○ Moving names from social media platforms to your email list ○ Providing ongoing value ○ Communicating regularly ○ Sharing more about what you do ○ Making offers ● My biggest regrets when I started out----not capturing email addresses soon enough and not sending regular communication to my community ● Create a giveaway that speaks to your audience, like a PDF, video, checklist, infographic, or chapter of your book. ● Use an email builder or provider like MailChimp, MailerLite, or ActiveCampaign. ● Final pieces of advice: ○ Pace yourself and choose the tools that are right for you right now. ○ Take advantage of free or low-cost services for small businesses. ○ Consider all-in-one services that are priced according to the size of your business, but choose wisely. ○ Remember that changing to other systems as you grow is perfectly acceptable; you are not glued to any one service or system for the next 20 years. ○ Take the time to build the foundational pieces that will create a good flow for later--when your calendar is full of clients. Resources: https://starcoachshow.com/234-linkedin-the-coaching-way-kyle-elliott/ (LinkedIn) https://starcoachshow.com/137-karen-yankovich-increase-your-prospect-calls-using-linkedin/ (137: Karen Yankovich Increase Your Prospect Calls Using Linkedin) https://starcoachshow.com/97-marie-zimenoff-writing-a-winning-bio/ (97: Marie Zimenoff Writing A Winning Bio)...
Fear: it gets in the way of what we want to accomplish in many areas of life. The key to squelching fear is building confidence in what we do and how we engage with people. If fear has gotten the best of you in the past, join us today to learn more about being courageous and putting yourself out there in front of people. James Allen is an international high-performance coach, author, and speaker. He helps his clients live into their highest potential, so they feel alive, engaged, purposeful, and free. He takes a holistic approach to success by helping his clients build a life and business that go beyond their expectations in health, wealth, and relationships. James helps with mindset, confidence, health, wellbeing, courage, leadership, and business strategy. In today’s show, James shares examples of overcoming fear in business building to achieve the goals you want. He also tells us how to walk into a situation that’s not ideal and thrive in spite of the fear. Show Highlights: ● James’ perspective on confidence and courage--and how they fit together ● How James overcame fear in pricing his coaching services ● How feeling fear can lead to courageous action that brings a reward ● How speaking on stages and reaching out for public speaking engagements can help get you in front of clients ● How to know when and how to take the leap in making phone calls and connecting with others ● What to say when you make the first contact ● How to create your own stage through Facebook Live, webinars, and events ● How to build a webinar with three basic principles that you already know ● A personal experience from James about the importance of showing and delivering ● How to come from a place of service to support others Resources: Book a session with James: https://calendly.com/jallencoaching/breakthrough-call (Calendly) Books mentioned in interview: https://www.amazon.com/Prosperous-Coach-Increase-Income-Clients-ebook/dp/B00CLLACTA (The Prosperous Coach by Rich Litvin and Steve Chandler) https://www.amazon.com/Feel-Fear-Do-Anyway/dp/0345487427 (Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway by Susan Jeffers) https://www.amazon.com/Built-Serve-Purpose-Become-Leader/dp/1642934917 (Built to Serve by Evan Carmichael)
How strong are the standard operating procedures at your business? Can you take a vacation with confidence, knowing your systems and processes are in place even if you aren’t there? Today’s show takes a deeper look at those supporting pieces that need to be in place so our businesses can function well and create flow with a solid foundation. Join us to learn more! Lizabeth Wesely-Casella is the founder and CEO of L-12 Services LLC, a firm specializing in internal communications training and executive virtual assistance. In 2014, Lizabeth organized and led a process and communication change coalition for First Lady Michelle Obama’s signature program, Let’s Move! Today, Lizabeth uses her communication, collaboration, and LEAN process design skills to identify where businesses can overcome challenges related to scaling, process breakdown, workflow management, and culture. Lizabeth is the Advisory Board Chair for the Association of Virtual Assistants (AVA). She helps clients regain the headspace they need to think creatively and become the leaders that their organizations deserve. Show Highlights: ● How Lizabeth survived disasters as an executive assistant in the construction arena, in nonprofits, and as a policymaker--to end up where she is today ● How systems can be customized to your business and achieve the results you want ● An example of standardized communication systems that can be customized to fit your needs ● The importance of intentionality in your work ● Why you need to share your vision and goals with others through documentation ● How to capture and refine procedures: ○ Plan out your week on Sunday (do this for several weeks) ○ Pinpoint the practices that are a process ○ Standardize the steps that are repetitive and collect them in a Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) book ● How structure creates flexibility and freedom ● How to use reverse engineering to documentation and SOPs to get where you want to be ● Why tools, systems, and SOPs are a labor of love as you are the caretaker of your business ● Why analyzing your processes and systems will help you understand where you are, manage your expectations, and build a solid foundation that supports your business goals Resources: http://www.l12services.com/ (L-12 Services) Find Lizabeth Wesely-Casella on LinkedIn.
Everyone loves a story. There is power in storytelling as we can connect and engage with others. Facts and figures may be hard to remember, but people will remember a story. Join us to learn more about how coaches can increase their connection and visibility by using a story. Jane Tabachnick is the founder of Simply good Press, a book publishing company. She’s a public relations consultant, content marketing strategist, and mentor who works with changemakers to create a greater vision and visibility around what they do. Jane helps people attract clients and be seen as tops in their industry. She was named one of the Top 100 People Online by Fast Company, and she’s been featured in numerous media outlets. She’s a former fashion designer and adjunct professor at The Fashion Institute in NYC, where she teaches Sustainable Design Entrepreneurship. Show Highlights: ● How Jane came into the work she does today ● How Jane used a story to engage her audience and increase her visibility ● How stories are so compelling because our brains are wired to remember stories ● How we know what our best stories are ● How Jane uses story to be authentic, real, and relatable ● How to “make the client/customer the hero of your story” and remover yourself from the spotlight ● Tips for tuning into your best stories: ○ Ask those close to you about your most impactful stories ○ Be selective about sharing ● How your story in written form can be impactful and create immediate expert status ● When considering writing a book, ask yourself what you want to accomplish by writing it (Hint: don’t do it if making big money is your goal.) ● How to keep your audience in mind by finding out where they hang out online, what they are most interested in, and what podcasts they listen to ● How to repurpose content from podcasts, videos, blogs, and articles ● An example of Jane’s story about a sportswear collection she designed Resources: http://www.simplygoodpress.com/ (Simply Good Press) http://www.janetabachnick.com/ (Jane Tabachnick) https://www.linkedin.com/in/janetabachnick/ (LinkedIn: Jane Tabachnick)
What are the results you offer to your coaching clients? If you don’t have a ready answer, or you default to a vague and lofty generalization, then today’s show is just for you. It is absolutely key that coaches have clarity about the transformation we bring to our clients. How we speak and present our offerings can help build the “know, like, and trust” factor with our clients. More than the programs and courses you offer, a client wants to know about the specific impact your coaching will have on them. Join me to learn more. Show Highlights: ● Why a partnership between coach and client is a key element in achieving transformation ● Why we have to use specific, concrete, and descriptive language about the outcomes our coaching will bring ● The importance of identifying the ideal client before identifying specific outcomes ● Examples of my coaching outcome specifics: “coach with ease and savvy, attain credential, confidently engage with clients, build a thriving business” ● Why the words you use to describe your outcomes have to feel authentic to you ● An exercise to help you find clarity about the transformation you offer: ○ Identify (and write down) the results that your clients receive. ■ What have your clients said about working with you? ○ Identify (and write down) the cost to your clients if they didn’t achieve that transformation. ■ What would the prospective client lose by not working with you? ○ Identify (and write down) the specific impact of the results for your clients. ■ How have your clients been transformed by your coaching? ■ Knowing what you bring to the table will help you describe what you do and how you engage with clients; it will also build your coaching confidence. ■ Why you should use case studies and examples of your transformative coaching in proposals, posts, and talks Resources: To find out more about identifying your ideal client, check outhttps://starcoachshow.com/59-your-client-avatar-with-mel-depaoli-mba/ ( Star Coaches Episode 59).
What does it mean to live a well-aligned life? The concept of alignment is essential for the effective coach to understand. Today’s focus brings a different perspective than our recent discussion of soul alignment back in Episode 238, so I hope you’ll join us to learn more. Kristin Kaufman is the founder of Alignment, Inc., which is a unique consultancy firm formed in 2007 to help individuals, corporations, boards of directors, and other groups find alignment within themselves and their organizations. After 25 years of corporate experience, Kristin woke up one day and realized that she was out of alignment, and this led her to look through a different lens at different work. She wrote a trilogy of books under the title, Is This Seat Taken? We’ll talk about her books and her work, along with challenging your thinking about your engagement and encounters with others. Show Highlights: ● Kristin’s path from global corporate work into a pivot that brought alignment ● Kristin’s books, Is This Seat Taken? Autobiographical collections of stories based on “random encounters, it’s never too late, and this seat is saved for you.” ● What is alignment? ● Commonalities that run through the stories that make up Kristin’s books: ○ You have to define success on your own terms. ○ Everyone has the power of choice. ○ Incidental encounters are not accidental. ○ As long as we have breath, we have a purpose in being here. ● What makes a story fascinating and captivating? ○ Divine inspiration ○ An “arc” in the story ○ Their uniqueness has beauty ● What Kristin has learned about alignment in life: “We are put on this planet to learn, teach, and serve. It’s all mixed up and glued together with the magical elixir called love.” Resources: http://www.kristinkaufman.com/ (Kristin Kaufman) Books by Kristin S. Kaufman: https://www.amazon.com/This-Seat-Taken-Random-Encounters/dp/1612540201 (Is This Seat Taken? Random Encounters That Change Your Life) https://www.amazon.com/This-Seat-Taken-Never-Right/dp/1626341656 (Is This Seat Taken? It’s Never Too Late to Find the Right Seat) https://www.amazon.com/This-Seat-Taken-Saved-You/dp/1626346682 (Is This Seat Taken? No, I Saved it for You)
One of the goals of this show is to connect coaches with the strategies, tools, and resources they need to achieve their goals. Today’s episode covers what it looks like for a coach to partner with entrepreneurs to help them build thriving businesses. Henry Daas is a serial entrepreneur who started his first business in 1991. He began selling, installing, servicing, and financing computers for large corporations. His business has morphed over time, and he now refers to himself as a Coach Approach Strategic Advisor. Henry offered his coaching services for free during the COVID pandemic --just because he knew so many people needed help. Since 1991, Henry has founded a succession of different firms in e-commerce, finance, real estate, and consumer products. He’s also published a book, Financial Intelligence. In today’s show, we’ll discuss what it means to be an entrepreneur coach and choose your own path forward in coaching. Henry also takes the time to give us a glimpse into his journey and what he is doing today. Show Highlights: ● Henry’s journey to where he is today ● Why Henry is attracted to working with entrepreneurs ● Why Henry opened up his practice for free from April to June last year to help entrepreneurs ● How Henry created his hybrid model that blends his financial expertise and coaching skills to be a CASA (Coach Approach Strategic Advisor) ● Why clients hire Henry for help in solving their problems ● How to get clarity about who you want to work with ● Why Henry is looking to pivot into working with retirees next Resources: Connect with Henry and take advantage of many free resources: https://bookbaby.daasknowledge.com/ (Book Baby) https://podcast.daasknowledge.com/ (Podcast) If you want to chat with Henry about entrepreneurship, money, or anything else, use this link: https://daasknowledge.com/contact/ (Daas Knowledge) https://www.amazon.com/Fq-Financial-Intelligence-Henry-Daas/dp/1733287809 (Financial Intelligence by Henry Daas)
One thing I love about doing this show is getting different perspectives from different guests. Today’s show explores how coaches can use soul alignment to help clients tap into their greatest potential. Sara Loos is a transformational coach who, for 20 years, has been helping women in leadership roles learn to make soul-aligned choices so they prosper in all areas of their lives. Her work teaches clients how to access their greatest potential through her unique approach, AtomicZen, a combination of mindset, spiritual, and practical shifts to achieve courageous clarity and inner calm. Sara’s work is built on extensive training and certifications in personal development and spiritual practices, and she is considered a master-level intuitive healer. She’s hosted two shows on Transformation Talk Radio and been a featured guest of Hay House Radio, as well as written a book. Sara lives in Pacific Grove, California, yet enjoys supporting clients worldwide. Show Highlights: ● What Sara wants us to know about soul alignment ● Skills we need to know about self-regulation and empowerment: ○ Calm ■ It takes breath and visualization to set and calibrate this emotion. Sara explains how to hang out in the space and witness what you’re feeling. ○ Clarity ■ Sara’s “Move that Bus” technique involves moving blocks out of the way to hear your inner wisdom. This is soul alignment. ○ Courage ■ This is important for women, especially when they feel unworthy and underestimate their skill sets. Courage comes from feeling it, not thinking about it. ● The difference between fear and nervousness ● How women are waiting to “be invited to the table.” Sara explains how to “make the space and step into courage.” ● Sara’s path from high-level corporate marketing in NYC and LA when she had no family life and was miserable all the time. When she was fired, this led her down the path to personal support through coaching and therapy to find alignment. ● Sara’s #1 lesson learned: “I’m not meant to work with everybody.” Resources: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/saraloos77/ (Sara Loos) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/saralooscoaching (Sara Loos Coaching) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sara-loos-7362bb62/ (Sara Loos) https://www.amazon.com/Miracle-WorkerS-Handbook-Creating-Exceptional-ebook/dp/B0792L9C9S (The Miracle Worker’s Handbook: A Seeker’s Guide to Creating an Exceptional Life by Sara Loos)
One thing we all need to improve is our memory skills. How important is it for a coach, leader, business owner, or entrepreneur to have sharp memory skills? How can these skills increase your value and profitability? Does it take superior intelligence to sharpen your memory, or are there practical techniques that anyone can learn? Join us as today’s guest answers these questions and more! Chester Santos, “The International Man of Memory,” is the world’s leading expert on memory training. He’s a bestselling author who has helped thousands of people worldwide realize the benefits of improved memory and a sharper mind. There are many things we can do as human beings, business owners, coaches, entrepreneurs, and leaders to add value to our lives as we apply some of Chester’s concrete strategies. He is a highly sought-after guest on numerous media outlets for his exceptional skills and expertise. Through workshops, corporate training, speeches, and presentations, Chester has developed a knack for passing on valuable memory techniques that are easy to understand and retain for years to come. He has inspired millions to develop their memory, and he’s here today to inspire each of us to remember more. Show Highlights: ● How Chester became “The International Man of Memory” ● Three main principles of memory skills: ○ Visuals--Turn what you want to remember into a picture in your mind. ○ Additional senses--The more senses you use to encode information into your brain, the more your brain is activated to remember. ○ Psychological aspect--We remember things that catch us by surprise and are unexpected, so attach something extraordinary to what you want to remember. ● Chester’s memory technique called the “story method”--and how to use it ● The practical application of memory to business success in remembering names: ○ Repeat the person’s name when introduced. ○ Ask them a question using their name. ○ Connect the name to something familiar. ○ Say goodbye to the person using their name. ● How memory skills benefit someone who is giving a presentation (Use mental picture clues instead of notes!) ● How to remember the things you have to look up repeatedly Resources: https://www.memoryschool.net/ (Memory School) Use the promo code STAR to remove the fee for the first 50 listeners! Twitter: ChesterJSantos LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/chestersantos (Chester Santos) Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/TheInternationalManofMemory (TheInternationalManofMemory)
What does it mean to be an empathetic leader? Empathy is a good quality for anyone, especially a leader, to have, but it also brings challenges. Today’s show covers the intersection between feelings and leadership and how coaches can help their clients navigate this tricky pathway. Join us to learn more! Kris Plachy is THE Thought Leader and Expert for Entrepreneurial Management. Known for her simple, honest, and authentic style, Kris has poured her life’s work into learning about, understanding, and guiding leaders through the tricky path of learning how to lead a team. She’s had an incredible journey that includes beginning her career in a corporate startup culture and being recognized as a top-performing leader, year after year. Kris has a knack for creating teams that stick together, and she’s here to share her wisdom about empathetic leadership that engages and connects, along with strategies you can put into practice right now. Show Highlights: ● Kris’ journey, which took an unexpected turn as she merged her coaching with her leadership skills and experience ● How Kris started her executive leadership coaching business just nine years ago ● The huge demand for Kris’ help in working with difficult people (because we all need help in this area) ● How working exclusively with female entrepreneurs was a natural progression and a good fit for Kris’ skillset ● The concept of the empathetic CEO ● The difference between sympathy and empathy ● How empathy can be the superpower that allows you to connect with others ● The cautionary tale of an empath: experiencing depression, exhaustion, and social anxiety because of everyone else’s emotional noise ● Why an empathetic leader needs boundaries, systems and procedures put in place ahead of time for particular emotional triggers ● How to practice the plan of setting boundaries when dealing with toxic people ● The myth: “I’m just too sensitive to be a good leader.” ● How coaches can help leaders: ○ Have a leadership operating system ○ Understand adversity resilience ○ Have a philosophy for leading people through performance ○ Get clear about your voice, your presence, and who you are as a leader ● How you can feel everything you want to feel and still be successful, happy, and joyful Resources: Connect with Kris: http://www.krisplachy.com/ (Kris Plachy) http://www.facebook.com/krisplachy (Facebook: Kris Plachy) http://www.twitter.com@krisplachy/ (Twitter: Kris Plachy) Find Kris on LinkedIn and Instagram, too. Books by Kris Plachy: https://www.amazon.com/Truths-Thinking-About-Difficult-People/dp/098387364X (5 Truths for Thinking About Difficult People) https://www.amazon.com/How-Coach-Difficult-People-Steps/dp/0983873658 (How to Coach Difficult People in Six Steps) https://www.amazon.com/Change-Your-Think-Unexpected-Managing/dp/0983873607 (Change Your Think: An Unexpected Way to Think About Managing People) Recommended by Kris: https://www.amazon.com/Highly-Sensitive-Person-Thrive-Overwhelms/dp/0553062182 (The Highly Sensitive Person by Elaine N. Aron)
Do you have a book in you that the world is waiting to read? You may not realize that writing a book can increase your visibility and income flow, leverage your wisdom, and bring added value to your clients. My guest today breaks down the process and teaches us the basics. Join us to learn more! Jyotsna Ramachandran is a bestselling author, book publisher, TEDx speaker, and international Author Success Coach. She helps coaches, trainers, speakers, and experts build a super-profitable author funnel with the help of their book. Jyotsna founded Author Success Academy to help aspiring authors finally finish their book, get it professionally published, market it into a bestseller, and use that position to grow their business. Jyotsna has helped over 400 authors from 35 different countries through her global publishing agency, Happy Self Publishing. When Jyotsna isn’t working, this mom of two kids also loves to dance, run, plan her next solo trip, and is a passionate advocate for educational rights. Show Highlights: ● What led Jyotsna to work with others to get their word out in a published book ● Why there is such a good fit for coaches to become authors because the framework is already there ● Ways to convert readers into clients: ○ Pull method: how to pull readers in with connection ○ Push method: how to collect leads from readers ● Why you should give away a lead magnet with each book ● Why you must make your call to action very clear and specific ● Additional income streams can include online courses, membership sites, virtual summits, and live events--all with different levels of commitment for your clients ● Why you should offer more options to your clients rather than just one-on-one coaching and a book ● Jyotsna’s author funnel and how it works in offering a range of services ● How a book will elevate you as a speaker ● Jyotsna’s proven formula to becoming a TEDx speaker ● Jyotsna’s parting advice: “Be generous in sharing your content in your book; it will only motivate people even more to work with you.” ● Why you should view your book as your legacy, make it your masterpiece, and start writing now! Resources: http://www.happyselfpublishing.com/ (Happy Self Publishing) https://www.linkedin.com/in/authorjyotsna/ (LinkedIn: Author Jyotsna) https://www.facebook.com/happyselfpublishing.com (Facebook Business Page(s)) Join the Happy Authors’ Tribe Facebook group at http://www.happyselfpublishing.com/tribe (Happy Self Publishing)
We know that social media interaction is a vital part of the coaching profession. However, many questions remain about how to handle social media in the best way. Today’s show gives you insight and perspective on increasing your value and visibility on LinkedIn. Join us to learn more! Kyle Elliott, MPA, CHES, is the founder, career coach, and professional resume writer behind CaffeinatedKyle.com. As a result of working with Kyle, senior managers and executives have landed jobs at Facebook, LinkedIn, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and nearly every other Fortune 100/500 company. Not only have his clients found jobs as a result of working with Kyle, but they have landed jobs that bring them happiness and fulfillment. As a trusted career expert, Kyle’s words have been featured on Business Insider, Forbes, Fast Company, The Muse, and Ladders, among dozens of other leading publications. He is an official member of the invitation-only Forbes Coaches Council, a member of the Gay Coaches Alliance, and a Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES). Show Highlights: ● How Kyle came into the work he does today--totally by accident ● Tips for using LinkedIn in a coaching way: ○ Use your profile to set yourself apart and build trust with clients ○ Use high-level numbers, facts, and testimonials to let people know why they should work with you ○ Create content from repurposed blog posts, articles, and podcasts or from something you are doing today that demonstrates your coaching skills ● How people connect and engage with each other through LinkedIn ● Why it’s important to show your personal side in addition to your professional side because your clients want to see who you are ● Kyle’s success stories about LinkedIn posts that stem from his attempts to be authentic, transparent, and vulnerable ● Why you cannot overlook the value of former clients ● How to create a community through engaging with other people’s content in a thoughtful manner ● Why you should always respect LinkedIn connections and build relationships without taking advantage; Kyle says you can’t go wrong if you look to add value to the other person ● Why we have to take more risks to have more great things happen as we share ourselves with the world ● Kyle’s parting advice: “Don’t feel compelled always to have original content. Share what you are already doing. Remember, ‘document, don’t create’.” Resources: https://caffeinatedkyle.com (Website) https://www.linkedin.com/in/kylecromerelliott (LinkedIn) https://www.instagram.com/caffeinatedkyle (Instagram) https://www.facebook.com/caffeinatedkyle (Facebook) https://twitter.com/caffeinatedkyle (Twitter)
Today’s show covers the important topic of tapping into the wisdom within each of us. Sometimes the spark inside us gets buried by the obstacles and challenges of life. Are you listening to and honoring the voice within you? Join us to learn more! Cherie Burton is a pioneering spiritual psychologist whose evolutionary STAND SPEAK SHINE method transforms women into authentically embodied and empowered feminine leaders. She’s a mother of six, an author, international speaker, and host of the Women Seeking Wholeness podcast. Cherie is passionately driven to guide women influencers to heal, express, and create. We are discussing healing, wisdom, and the challenges we have to step through to continue moving forward. Personal emotional trauma due to familial depression and mental illness has helped Cherie zero in on emotional wellness in her work. She admits to being obsessive in her quest to break family patterns and crack the code of depression. She is an avid teacher and researcher of the divine feminine and has written and produced audios, training programs, and transformative retreats. She’s taken yoga teacher training and has become a certified mind-body facilitator in the unique modality of perfect healing. Show Highlights: ● How Cherie was led into the work she does today through her background experience with religion and femininity and her family history of mental health issues ● How Cherie was affected so deeply by the tragic suicide of her sister while she was working hard to convey the message of empowerment to women ● How Cherie became obsessive about cracking the code of familial mental health issues ● The truth about addiction and how our society is failing those who are addicted ● Cherie’s principles of perfect healing: ○ An awareness of what’s happening with the kinesiology of our bodies ○ Creating containers of safety to clear emotions, darkness, and fear ● How men and women handle the energy of emotions differently ● The importance of learning to trust ourselves as powerful and wise experts ● Cherie’s advice: “Come back to your own knowing and trust yourself and honor yourself. Connect with your curiosity and explore. Detach yourself from the voices of dream killers and follow your heart.” Resources: Connect with Cherie: https://cherieburton.com/ (Cherie Burton) Find https://cherieburton.com/category/womenseekingwholeness/ (Cherie’s podcast)
This is an important show full of impactful and relevant issues. The truth is that no one is immune to trauma at some point in life. Join us to hear the truth about trauma. Dr. Kemia Sarraf, also known as “Dr. K,” is an internist, educator, and physician and leadership coach who focuses on leadership and coaching in and beyond severe burnout, toxic stress, and trauma. She is the go-to expert in this field and the founder and CEO of Lodestar, a professional coaching and consulting firm that uses a 360-degree trauma-aware container for coaching, coach training, leadership training and Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion facilitation. Dr. K is a gifted storyteller and a sought-after speaker who is deeply intuitive and open in sharing her knowledge of intra-traumatic growth. She’s here to share timely and key information to help us with today’s challenges. Show Highlights: ● What brought Dr. K to where she is in her journey ● How her son’s leukemia diagnosis at age 13 shaped her life and coach training work ● How Dr. K noticed, in her coaching work with physicians, that “burnout” was a symptom of something deeper and that the term was being weaponized against physicians by administration and management ● How “stepping into choice” is a trauma-mitigating strategy ● Why physicians are more open to coaching rather than therapy ● Dr. K explains the spectrum of stress to trauma, which can be an event or an environment ● Why connection is the key to trauma mitigation ● How trauma primes us for future trauma ● Why we have to recognize and name “Big T traumas” and “Small t traumas” ● How our wounds can become sacred places of wisdom as they heal ● How coaching through trauma differs from therapy ● How the trauma-informed approach doesn’t require the coach to know the source of the pain ● The 360-degree perspective in trauma mitigation ● The rest of the story of Dr. K’s son, Joseph, and how he channeled his pain into purpose ● Holding space for the pain of trauma to be normalized and reframed ● The bright spot of trauma-informed coaching because of COVID: growing recognition in the governing bodies that there is room in the Venn diagram for overlap ● Why the words “trauma” and “victim” are not synonymous ● Dr. K’s program and how it can help physicians for the worst that is yet to come ● Why the best thing for a human in pain is another human Resources: Twitter: @DrKemia LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drkemia/ (Dr. Kemia) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LodestarTraumaMitigation (Lodestar Trauma Mitigation) Website: http://www.lodestarpc.com/ (Lodestar)
Today’s show dives deep into what drives us, and we’re looking through the lens of how this concept applies to your work with clients, along with your personal development and awareness as a coach. Join us! Dr. Chris Coultas serves as vice president of product innovation and is a senior consultant at Leadership Worth Following. Since joining the LWF in 2014, Chris has assessed and coached hundreds of leaders. He has spearheaded a number of company-wide research and development initiatives, including the development of the DRiV assessment. It’s a tool that goes a step beyond personality assessments in providing valuable insights into what drives and drains people in their careers. Chris shares with us the benefits of looking into drivers and their impact in the workplace, such as engagement, resilience, burnout, culture fit, teamwork, leadership influence, and overall job performance. He recently wrote Driven Not Drained: Discover Your Path to Career Happiness, Effectiveness, and Influence. Show Highlights: ● The importance of understanding the things that either drive us or drain us ● How Chris came into this work ● Why we need to understand the WHY behind our WHAT ● The difference in personality and drivers in determining what drives the behavior ● How Chris explains the components of drive: ○ The behavioral bucket: what we do ○ The affective bucket: what we want to do ○ The cognitive bucket: what we should do ● Why only a few people can accept us in our unfiltered, authentic state ● The importance of a clear sense of pursuing our drivers and avoiding drainers while not overemphasizing either one ● How motivational hooks can help with what drives someone ● How coaches can use drivers to leverage higher motivators with clients ● How awareness of drivers helps clients become aware of biases ● How understanding drivers help coaches with self-awareness and communication styles ● How drivers function in work with groups and teams, based on six factors: impact, insight, connection, harmony, productivity, and meaning ● Chris’ DRiV assessment tool, which contains 28 drivers within each of the six factors, and how they emphasize the positive implications of each driver with accessible language Resources: https://lwfinsights.com/ (Website) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chriscoultaslwf/ (Linkedin: Chris Coultas ) https://www.linkedin.com/company/drivennotdrained/ (Linkedin: Driven Not Drained) Twitter: @DriveDrain Driven Not Drained: Discover Your Path to Career Happiness, Effectiveness, and Influence Hardcover – May 25, 2021
I’m absolutely sure that today’s show will bring value to your coaching business! We are covering a topic that I hear mentioned repeatedly by other coaches, which is how to create an elevator pitch that wows and attracts clients. If your elevator pitch needs a tune up to leave the humdrum behind and take your business to the next level, join us to learn more! Chala Dincoy is CEO and founder of The Repositioning Expert, a division of Coachtactics, and a marketing strategist who helps professional service companies change their messaging to attract more decision-makers. She’s a marketing consultant who has written Gentle Marketing: A Gentle Way to Attract Loads of Clients and How to Win Friends the Way Apple Wins Customers. Chala brings her experience and expertise forward to help us understand the secrets to create an elevator pitch that wows customers and engages clients. Show Highlights: ● Chala’s journey to her work today in helping coaches be successful ● How Chala functioned as a corporate slave for 18 years as she dreamed of doing more ● How Chala had to pivot her business to go online due to COVID---and found even greater success ● Why your elevator pitch has to be something that stops people in their tracks and prompts them to ask for your card ● Why Chala decided to focus her work with coaches ● Why differentiation boils down to super niching ● The two steps to identifying your super-niche: ○ Pick a very specific interest group that you serve ○ Identify the most expensive problem you can solve for them ● Why Chala’s super niche is to help diverse businesses develop their elevator pitches ● Common objections to super-niching ● How Chala works with clients to get clarity in identifying their super-niche ● The formula for the perfect elevator pitch: ○ The Who: Who do you serve? ○ The Pain: What is their most expensive pain? ● How Chala fixes your elevator pitch so that you are asked for your card or a meeting after every interaction ● An example of how Chala’s system works to develop Meg’s elevator pitch ● The biggest problems that Chala sees in her work are people “guessing” at their super-niche and generalizing their niche (“Generalization=Death”) Resources: Website: http://www.repositioner.com/ (Repositioner) Visit http://www.repositioner.com/gift (Repositioner) to receive a free download of Chala’s book, The Gentle Marketing Book. Twitter: @Chala_Dincoy LinkedIn: Chala Dincoy
We are exploring a new topic in today’s show as we consider the gift that is our voice, the instrument we use for communication. Join us as we learn about a unique perspective on coaching through vocal empowerment. Brienne Hennessey is a licensed Speech-Voice Pathologist who became a vocal empowerment coach with 13 years of clinical expertise specializing in voice and breathing assessment and therapy. Her focus is on the prevention of vocal injury through wellness and customized voice training. She is a speaker at local, state, and national conferences who has worked at the top academic voice centers in the US, and she has published research-based book chapters and articles. Brienne is the owner of Your Vocal Vitality, LLC and the creator of Empower Your Voice. This program supports CEOs, entrepreneurs, coaches, educators, sales teams, and public speakers to conquer vocal fatigue, elevate voice health, and tap into their inner voice to show up with more authentic impact and influence. Show Highlights: ● Brienne’s journey to where she is today as a vocal empowerment coach ● Why your voice is a vital asset for communication in your life and business ● The frustration of not being able to communicate ● Why we shouldn’t take our voice for granted ● Warning signs that something might be wrong: scratchiness, hoarseness, fatigue, strain, and weakness ● What to consider about voice health and wellness ● How to minimize nervousness about public speaking ● What it’s like to work with a vocal empowerment coach: ○ You’ll understand how the voice works ○ You’ll understand vocal hygiene ○ You’ll understand voice use ○ You’ll craft a warm-up, cool down, and voice use plan ● What Brienne wants us to know about loving our voices and ourselves ● How bias and prejudice show up about our voices and those of others ● Why we need to own and love our natural voices ● Brienne’s tips for overall voice health ● An example of a voice warm-up exercise--Join us! Resources: Ways to connect with Brienne: Email: brienne@yourvocalvitality.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yourvocalvitality (Your Vocal Vitality) Empower Your Voice Facebook Group: If you are a person who requires your voice to do your job, I am warmly inviting you to join: http://facebook.com/groups/empoweryourvoice (Facebook: Empower Your Voice) IG: https://instagram.com/yourvocalvitality (Your Vocal Vitality) Clubhouse: @briennehennessy
If you’re ready to skyrocket your sales, then join us for today’s show. We will learn how to engage our minds for success in moving forward in our businesses. My guest delivers bucket loads of wisdom and inspiration in the form of techniques that you can apply today! Join us! Angela Henderson is an author, entrepreneur, small business consultant, speaker, blogger, mom, and former mental health clinician of more than 15 years. She founded a highly successful online educational toy store called Finlee and Me, and she currently works with business owners to grow thriving enterprises. Angela helps women build consistent five-figure months and multiple six-figure years--without burning out in the process. Show Highlights: ● Angela’s journey from mental health clinician to online educational toy store owner, parenting blogger, and business consultant ● Why it’s OK to pivot and leave a place of abundance to go after something else that lights you up and brings you joy ● Why you have to be mindful of overcomplicating things; simplicity is in your favor ● Why it’s important to understand why your business is struggling to skyrocket your sales ● How to identify the “internal stuff” that’s holding you back---and how to fix it ● Remember that “selling is serving” ● Angela’s Three S Framework for skyrocketing your sales: ○ Showing up--How, why, and where? (Google Analytics can help) ○ Strategy--How to map out the year with a promotional rhythm ○ Selling--Are you doing it every single day? ● An example from one of Angela’s clients proves what showing up and selling every day can do for your business Resources: Connect with Angela: Website: http://www.angelahenderson.com.au/ (angela Henderson) https://www.instagram.com/angelahendersonconsulting/?hl=en (Instagram) https://au.linkedin.com/in/angelahendersonconsulting (LinkedIn) https://www.facebook.com/angelahendersonconsulting (Facebook) Email: info@angelahenderson.com.au
We are in the middle of Women’s History Month, bringing you great content covering different aspects of our coaching work. Today’s show highlights social media marketing, which most people find challenging. My guest shares key takeaways about how we create freedom through structure in social media. Megan Winkler is a spiritual business coach and marketing specialist who works with female entrepreneurs to build sustainable, authentic, and energetically-aligned businesses. She’s known as The Good Business Witch and has a podcast by the same name. Megan incorporates strategy and spirituality to create one-of-a-kind business and marketing plans for her clients. We can learn so much from what Megan does with social media, and she’s here to share some of her secrets to success. We’ll explore the ideas and intent behind a content calendar and learn tips and strategies to best utilize Facebook, Instagram, and other social media platforms. Show Highlights: ● Megan’s long and winding path to where she is today ● How Megan helps women entrepreneurs become more visible through authentic marketing ● Megan explains what a content calendar is, why you should have one, and how it can be a beneficial framework for your business ● How video and images promote your content on Facebook and Instagram ● How to structure your message to grab people’s attention and create connection ● Why you need to finish up your social media post with a call to action ● The goal of social media is to get people to engage with you ● Tips to make your Instagram bio stand out: ○ Let them see your face first. ○ Make sure your handle has a searchable term in it. ○ Make your bio all about your followers and what you do for them--not about you ● Why social media is all about having fun while you interact with your peers and ideal clients ● Why saving posts on Instagram helps business owners ● Megan’s advice about following people on Instagram ● How to leverage direct messaging ● What NOT to do on social media ● How to use Instagram stories to get conversations going ● How to practice and learn how to do Instagram stories ● Why you should always be yourself on Instagram ● Megan’s final tips Resources: Website: https://www.goodbusinesswitch.com/ (The Good Business Witch) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/goodbusinesswitch (Good Business Witch) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/themeganwinkler/ (The Megan Winkler) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/themeganwinkler/?hl=en ( @themeganwinkler ) LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/meganwinkler1 (: @meganwinkler1 ) https://twitter.com/MegWinkler (Twitter: MegWinkler)
We are always looking for different ways to leverage our small businesses to create the impact we want. One way to make that happen is with a membership site. I met today’s guest at a conference, and I knew I had to have her on the show to share her expertise. We are covering the things you should know about a membership site for your business. Join us! Meghann Conter sprinkles laughter dust and butterfly kisses all over the world. She has created a fabulous membership site for her community to bring added value. Meghann is on a mission to elevate more women in business to the seven-figure mark and beyond. She empowers women-led organizations to leap over revenue targets, grow professionally and personally, get out of serious as often as possible. She focuses on forming meaningful collaborative relationships as founder of The Dames, an international community that celebrates women running and leading 6 & 7-figure companies or divisions. Show Highlights: ● Meghann’s path to where she is today, from a corporate career that sucked the joy out of her ● How Meghann felt blocked in building her business because she was trying to copy what others were doing ● Why she craved connection with like-minded, high-caliber women ● How Meghann lives today in the space of ease, flow, and FUN ● How to better understand a membership site, like Meghann’s The Dames ● Steps in creating a successful membership site: ○ Get aligned so you know where you’re going ○ Get clear about who it is that you serve ○ Focus on your packaging, pricing, and positioning to accomplish your goals ○ Realize that your membership site can be a lead generator ● How Meghann’s membership site is structured with virtual and chapter-based memberships and events for her target audience ● How to utilize talented, creative people to help you accomplish your goals ● The #1 advantage of a membership site is recurring income and compounding revenue ● What Meghann realized about her strengths and her “sweet spot” ● Meghann’s parting advice: ○ Keep it simple in all ways ○ Allow yourself to morph and innovate with what happens next ○ Listen to your members and ask them what they want Resources: http://www.thedames.co/roundtable (The Dames) http://www.thedames.co/free-gift (Free Gift) https://www.linkedin.com/in/meghannconter (LinkedIn)
Today’s show brings a unique perspective about the coaching journey. Our topic is timely as we wrap up Black History Month with a conversation about racism, bias, and the primary need for curiosity. Genena Armstrong is a highly sought-rafter ICF-certified professional and personal development coach, Diversity and Inclusion Consultant, and best-selling author. She has over 25 years’ experience in human resources and is currently an executive coach with Building Champions Inc. Prior to that, Genena owned and operated her own coaching and consulting practice, Metamorphosis Coaching. She has also served as a Diversity and Inclusion Consultant for various Fortune 500 companies. Join us to hear Genena’s perspective on how we can honor diversity through our coaching practice. Show Highlights: ● What lights up Genena about coaching ● Genena’s experience as an African-American female on the coaching journey, which was shaped by what her mother taught her about racism and bias ● How racial tension hits differently when you see its effect on your children ● Genena’s advice about educating ourselves about racial issues ● How Genena begins her executive coaching in organizations ● How to manage bias--even if you’re unaware that they exist ● How Genena realized her own bias regarding Asian men early in her career--and how she overcame that bias ● Genena’s hope for the coaching community and society as a whole ● Why we, as coaches, need to learn and grow Resources: Connect with Genena: https://www.linkedin.com/in/genenawoodsonarmstrong (Linkedin) Mentioned in the show: https://www.amazon.com/White-Fragility-People-About-Racism/dp/0807047414 (White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo) https://www.amazon.com/Think-Again-Power-Knowing-What/dp/1984878107 (Think Again by Adam Grant)
Today’s show brings us information about taking a closer look at how we can build our business. As always, we are bringing strategies, tools, and resources to take your coaching business to the next level! Bryan Kramer is the co-founder of H2H Companies and a renowned business performance coach, global keynote speaker, executive trainer, two-time bestselling author, TED speaker, and Forbes contributor. He’s also the former president and CEO of a Silicon Valley global marketing agency, an experience that he shares with us in the interview. As a business-performance coach, Bryan teaches speakers, executives, and entrepreneurs how to up-level their storytelling and create more business opportunities through the H2H Method. Show Highlights: ● Bryan’s journey to the coaching world from his global marketing agency ● How he walked away, took a year to find and heal himself, and found his people by becoming a coach ● Six steps to help coaches with business growth: ○ Mindset--Reset your mindset by having a mentor or coach hold you accountable ○ Niche down (and then down again)--Niche down enough to stand out in your field ○ Create your irresistible offer--Deliver your value--and prove it ○ Connect with people--Use simplicity, empathy, and embrace imperfection ○ Build your relationship platform--Nothing is as important as your community! ○ Increase the momentum--Take everything you’ve learned and refine your processes ● Final words from Bryan: “We aren’t all built the same. We are unique, and our journey isn’t like someone else’s. Your time is coming. Be kind to yourself.” Resources: Website: https://bryankramer.com/ (Bryan Kramer) https://www.h2hgrowth.com/ (H2H Growth ) https://www.ted.com/talks/bryan_kramer_why_social_media_is_reimagining_our_future (Bryan’s TED TALK) Books by Bryan Kramer: https://www.amazon.com/There-No-B2B-B2c-Human/dp/1640079335 (There is No B2B or B2C: It's Human to Human #H2H) https://www.amazon.com/Shareology-Sharing-Powering-Human-Economy/dp/1630473847 (Shareology: How Sharing is Powering the Human Economy)
Today’s show covers the one thing I wish I’d known earlier and done better. We are learning about lead magnets: what they are, how to create them, and why you need them. Bringing value to your clients in the work that you do will build an engaged, interactive, warm audience. Nancy Fields loves “teaching people how to fish” with WordPress, which is a platform for building websites without having to hire a web designer. She builds websites and teaches others how to do it for themselves. Nancy began her design business over 28 years ago. As a graphic designer, web designer, calligrapher, and botanical illustrator, Nancy loves color, light, and design. Her appreciation for these elements was enhanced at an early age as she grew up with an aunt who was blind. In today’s show, we talk about creating lead magnets that people actually want, along with Nancy’s tips and strategies to grow your business with a high-converting website. Show Highlights: ● Nancy’s journey into the work she does today ● Why we want to build an email list and let people know that we can solve their problem ● Why your free offer--your lead magnet--should answer the question and solve the problem of the person who will be your ideal client ● Nancy’s most popular lead magnet--all about website images and pictures ● Nancy’s #1 lesson learned: “Don’t give out too much information in your lead magnet. Less is more.” ● How to know what your audience wants, and how Google Analytics or even a simple Google search can help) ● How to align your creative offerings with what people want ● What Meg wishes she had known about her first lead magnet ● Why you can’t wait until everything is perfect ● How to use Canva in your lead magnets--even the free version! ● A checklist for lead magnets: ○ Offer what the customer wants--in their own language ○ Decide what you will create ○ Use an email host to build your list ● Why your lead magnet has to be perceived as high-value ● Why your free offer shouldn’t be something you spend more than one hour creating ● How Nancy works with coaches to help with websites and lead magnets and offer workshops and courses Resources: Nancy’s website: https://fieldsgraphicdesign.com/ (Fields Graphic Design) Giveaway: https://fieldsgraphicdesign.com/ (Get my free resource for totally FREE high-quality images) for your website or any project. Email hosting sites: http://www.mailchimp.com/ (MailChimp) http://www.aweber.com/ (AWeber) http://www.constantcontact.com/ (Constant Contact)
There is no more relevant topic in today’s social setting than cultural diversity. As coaches, we need to continually examine how we partner with our clients in cultural respectfulness and responsibility. Join us to learn more! Dr. Rebecca Eldredge is a licensed psychologist who focuses on facilitating guidance and support for aspiring allies and anti-racists and providing culturally-sensitive therapy for adults. She’ll share with us the road she walked in her doctrinal training in counseling psychology and why she decided to have a multicultural specialization. Since then, she has been blessed with a variety of meaningful opportunities, including teaching Multicultural Counseling graduate courses, developing and offering support groups and home visits for female refugees in Houston, TX, and providing cultural training and consultations to individuals and groups. Over the last 19 years, she has been deeply honored and humbled with the trust of hundreds of therapy clients from diverse identities and backgrounds. Last year, she began creating new programs to offer guidance and support for aspiring anti-racists who want to break free from the status quo and speak up against bias. Show Highlights: ● How Rebecca observed differences, cultural diversity, and injustices on the journey to where she is today ● How we can be more in tune with how we show up with others ● Five Cultural Hacks: ○ Cultural humility ■ Say, “I don’t know it all, and I will make mistakes.” ■ Create spaces to explore and ask questions when you don’t know ■ Don’t have the “my-way-is-the-right-way” attitude ○ Cultural awareness ■ Say, “I don’t want to operate on assumptions.” ■ Be aware of your thoughts, feelings, identities, and places of privilege ■ Recognize others in ways that don’t define their identity ○ Cultural compassion ■ Ask, “How do I self-soothe and other-soothe to create a space of safety?” ■ Realize that you can’t show up with compassion for others if you are critical and judgmental of yourself ○ Cultural knowledge ■ Ask, “How can I learn about traditions and norms of different cultural groups?” ■ Knowledge helps us grow and change our perspective ■ Go to events and listen to lectures and podcasts, but don’t rely on only one source of knowledge ○ Cultural skills ■ Ask, “How do I set an example for others in the way that I live?” ■ Your skills are dependent on the other foundational pieces ■ Your skills involve communication, action, and internal processing Resources: https://feeldeeplylivecompletely.com/ (Feel Deeply Live Completely) https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-a-eldredge-phd (Linkedin: Rebecca Eldredge PhD)
Today’s show is all about new possibilities for 2021! When we make changes to our business, we know that there is an impact on our home life and work life. After going through 2020, it’s a great time to consider a unique opportunity to include in your services offered to clients. We are talking about retreats in today’s episode because they are a great way to continue to build your brand and strengthen relationships with clients. So, the question is: Are you retreat ready? Tamara Golden is the owner, founder, and CEO of Journeywork Retreats, a full-service retreat planning, and strategy company. Tamara takes her unique experience as a certified coach and travel/event planning expert and combines them to create this unique company that serves the US and the world. She offers do-it-yourself courses all the way to done-for-you services within the context of supporting entrepreneurs, coaches, healers, the transformational leaders. She crafts custom retreats that grow their brand and accelerate outcomes for their clients. Retreats create a unique transformational experience in a concentrated, focused time together. Tamara shares what you should think about when planning and incorporating retreats strategically into your service offerings. Show Highlights: ● Why Tamara decided to work with business owners in creating and facilitating retreats ● The two-fold purpose of a retreat should be to grow your business and to do deeper work with existing clients ● The first two steps in being retreat-ready: ○ To get started, you need two things: clients and teaching material ○ Decide how you want to strategically embed the retreat into your offerings ● Why you have to have your proof-of-concept in place and then decide how to attach it for profitability ● How to navigate the retreat-planning tasks ● Tamara’s tip: ask your clients where they want to go, when they want to do, and what content they want to cover ● Keys in deciding the when, where, and kind of venue ● How to look at retreats with client retention in mind--and not client attraction ● Tamara shares an example of a recent retreat in Belize ● Why you should consider a local or regional retreat before going overseas ● How to move forward confidently and successfully in your planning ● Timeline tips for planning ahead for local and overseas retreats ● Why your retreat needs the three key elements of teaching time, bonding time, and downtime Resources: Find out more about Tamara’s work and take her Retreat Ready Assessment: https://www.journeyworkretreats.com/ (Journey Work Retreats) Find Tamara on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tamaragoldenjourneyworkretreats (Tamara Golden Journey Work Retreats)
Today’s show will make you think in new ways about the systems in your business. We know that systems are important and relevant to all of us in achieving the freedom we want as business owners. Join us to take a fresh look at the vision, organization, and processes that will make your business work! Michael Mills is one of the founders and managing directors of Business Design Corporation. Michael was a Master Certified E-Myth Consultant for many years, delivering Michael Gerber’s E-Myth Mastery Program to hundreds of entrepreneurs. He decided to focus on creating a tool and process to make it easy to systemize businesses. Michael’s career spans 35 years from where he started out as a sales manager in his father’s company. He went on to own his own company, which he later sold, and then he focused his attention to helping entrepreneurs build their businesses. He’s written a book on how to systemize businesses, and he’s a frequent speaker at conferences in the US and Canada. In 2004, Michael’s business was so systemized that he and his family took 14 months to travel the world in a once-in-a-lifetime experience; his business ran smoothly and profitably during his absence, all because of the systems he had put in place. Get ready to view your business systems with a brand-new perspective! Show Highlights: A glimpse into Michael’s journey to where he is today Five Simple Steps to Systemize Your Business: Vision--know where you’re going Create your organizational structure with an org. chart--”You won’t know how to grow without an organizational chart.” Process identification--List each step in your business that requires a process Linking--Link your processes to boxes on your org. Chart Prioritizing--Prioritize, write, implement, and repeat Don’t think of systemizing your business as a one-time project, but an ongoing thing
Resources: Michael’s email for handout: Michael Mills of Business Design Corporation mmills@businessdesigncorp.com Website:https://www.businessdesigncorp.com/ ( Business Design Corp) https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-mills-6a31051/ (LinkedIn page) Business Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/BusinessDesignCorp?fref=ts&ref=br_tf (Business Design Corp)
Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/businesssystemization (Business Systemization)
As in many of our episodes, today’s show focuses on a unique aspect of business-building. If marketing is an unwelcome task on your to-do list, then join us to learn about heart-centered marketing. Find out more about the new revolution that my guest has begun! Sarah Santacroce is all about heart-centered marketing. Her revolution is the Gentle Marketing Revolution. You’ll learn about marketing genuinely and authentically, tapping into Sarah’s 7 P’s of Marketing. She comes from Switzerland and will share her unique marketing perspective, along with helpful resources that you can use in your business. Show Highlights: ● Sarah’s Gentle Marketing Revolution ● How Sarah was led into her work as an Online LinkedIn Consultant ● The process of devising the Gentle Marketing solution ● Why people want to build their business with kindness and integrity ● 7 Pieces to the Gentle Marketing Revolution: ○ Passion: What is the story of the WHY behind your business? ○ Personal Power: Who am I, and what do I want? ○ People: Who are the people I want to serve? ○ Product: Do my products and services align with my values? ○ Pricing: What feels good to me and creates a win-win-win relationship? ○ Promotion: What platforms feel right to me? ○ Partnership: How can I benefit from collaboration? ● Final words from Sarah: “Give yourself permission and listen to your intuition.” Resources: Find Sarah: http://www.sarahsantacroce.com/ (Sarah Santacroce) Get Sarah’s One-Page Marketing Plan at http://www.sarahsantacroce.com/1page (Sarah Santacroce) https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahsantacroce/ (Linkedin: Sarah Santacroce)
As we move into a new year, I wish you good health, wellbeing, peace, and prosperity. The challenges of 2020 remain, so we must commit ourselves to constant improvement in our coaching practice. Join me to learn more. In this solo episode, we consider key components of our preparation and mindset as we show up as a coaching partner for our clients. How do we embody a coaching mindset? That’s the focus of today’s show as we explore the commitments we can make to mindset work that will make us the best coach possible for our clients. Show Highlights: ● A brief history of the ICF core competencies and the four domains of foundation, co-creating the relationship, communicating effectively, and cultivating learning and growth ● How to embody a coaching mindset that is open, curious, flexible, and client-centered: ○ Acknowledge that our clients are responsible for their own choices ○ Engage in ongoing development and learning ○ Create and maintain an ongoing reflective practice ■ Remain open and aware of the influence of context and culture on ourselves and others ■ Use awareness of self and intuition to benefit clients ■ Develop and maintain the ability to regulate emotions ● The benefits of mindfulness and reflective practice in our lives and coaching practices ● How to prepare for sessions mentally and emotionally ● How we connect our clients with other sources for additional help
Welcome to our final show of 2020, a year filled with challenges, grief, struggles, and overwhelm. It’s also been a year of silver linings, opportunities, and unparalleled connection. This show focuses on happiness; don’t we all want more? Join us for the perfect way to say goodbye to 2020 and look forward to 2021. Gemma Nastasi is a National Board-Certified Health and Wellness Coach from the National Board of Health and Wellness Coaching and an Associate Coach from the International Coaching Federation. She holds certifications in holistic nutrition, positive psychology, and life coaching. Her business, Gemma Health Coach, LLC, is located in Red Bank, New Jersey. Gemma is a speaker and writer who helps people tap into happiness and wellness. Her books are Happiness is My Choice and The Positive Psychology Diet: 21 Days to a Happier and Healthier Life. She’s here to share specific actions we can take to improve our overall happiness and wellbeing. Show Highlights: ● How Gemma was prompted into health and wellness coaching by her family history of depression ● How Gemma works with clients using specific tools to measure and improve happiness ● How Gemma uses the Happiness Wheel of 12 intentional activities to improve happiness: ○ Gratitude ○ Kindness ○ Relationships ○ Goals ○ Spirituality ○ Optimism ○ Flow ○ Mind/Body ○ Avoid comparing ○ Savor ○ Forgiveness ○ Coping ● Key takeaways: ○ Anyone can be happier with their life if they are willing to put in the work ○ Identify the areas in which you need to cultivate more happiness--and get to work! ● Gemma’s books--and how they can help you get started on the path to increased happiness Resources: Find Gemma’s books on http://www.amazon.com/ (Amazon) https://www.amazon.com/Positive-Psychology-Diet-Happier-Healthier/dp/1517383633 (The Positive Psychology Diet: 21 Days to a Happier and Healthier Life by Gemma Nastasi) https://www.amazon.com/Happiness-My-Choice-Practical-Health/dp/1544809972 (Happiness is My Choice by Gemma Nastasi) https://gemmahealthcoach.com/ (Gemma’s website) Mentioned in today’s show: The How of Happiness by Sonja Lyubomirsky
Today’s show is packed with helpful information that every coach or entrepreneur needs to hear. If you want to know more about how to build your clientele, then this is the show you can’t miss. Join us! Marc Mawhinney is a speaker, mentor, and lifelong entrepreneur who helps coaches get more clients--without paid advertising. He’s here today to share with us his secret sauce for building a substantial audience on Facebook. His Facebook group, The Coaching Jungle, has almost 20,000 members, so Marc knows what he’s talking about. He’s a fellow podcaster with his popular show, Natural Born Coaches, and he sends out a physical newsletter, Secret Coach Club, to his subscribers. Show Highlights: ● What led Marc to focus on Facebook with which to build his community ● Marc’s up-and-down journey into coaching ● Why Marc’s primary focus is on coaching coaches ● The three pillars of Marc’s business: podcast, Facebook group, and regular emails ● How to get Marc’s infographic on being a content creation machine ● How Marc built his Facebook community: ○ He showed up actively every day ○ He followed four rules: create the group, grow it, engage it, and monetize it ● The correlation between having a daily podcast (for a while) and the growth of Marc’s Facebook group ● Why you can’t be afraid to “toot your own horn” on social media ● The value of a Facebook group Resources: https://www.naturalborncoaches.com/contentcreationmachine/ (Infographic) https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheCoachingJungle (Marc’s Facebook Group, The Coaching Jungle) https://www.naturalborncoaches.com (Marc’s podcast, Natural Born Coaches)
Does social media feel like a drag and a burden to you? My guest has unique experience and expertise as a business coach who has proven methods to create income streams. She will challenge your mindset to see social media as a gift to help you build the business you want. Join us to learn more! Julie Ciardi is a former Fortune 500 marketing VP who has turned into a multi-passionate entrepreneur. She hosts the podcast, Ignite Your Side Hustle, and believes there has never been a better time for women to create an additional income stream aligned to their passions and purpose. Julie’s specialty is working with women, but what she has to share will be helpful to men as well. Julie knows we try to build our business and draw clients into our online market, but we end up wasting a lot of time and not making the kind of money we want. Julie is dedicated to helping women create profitable side hustles that give them joy, purpose, and profit with proven, timeless business strategies that work in today’s online world. Julie has created Ignite University, a one-of-a-kind program to ignite purpose, passion, and profit with proven methodologies in business, as well as creating a mastermind space for like-minded women. In today’s show, we hone in on social media, specifically Instagram, as Julie challenges us to a mindset shift. Show Highlights: ● Get to know Julie and how she was bitten by the entrepreneurial bug, becoming passionate about helping women ● The key to strategic social media use is asking, “Can I leverage this platform for my business?” and “Can it work for me?” ● How to bring about a mindset shift about Instagram and other social media platforms: ○ See social media as a free gift and resource ○ Use social media as a prospecting tool to find new leads ○ Realize that the search bar on Instagram is an incredible resource ○ Learn to message directly the people who follow you ○ Make your bio about what you do for your clients ○ Keep your content simple ○ Use IGTV to showcase who you are ● Why many people make the big mistake of using the “post and pray” approach on Instagram ● Julie’s advice on how to get started: “Clean up your bio, decide on five topics you’ll post about each week, and start the process to find your ideal client.” ● Why you should start imperfectly at first and then build and tweak your social media presence later ● Why Julie loves the human connections that are possible through social media ● Julie’s podcast: Ignite Your Side Hustle ● How social media helped Julie transition from the corporate world to entrepreneurship ● How to leverage social media in specific ways, like in collaboration with others ● Parting messages from Julie: “Using social media, and putting yourself out there, may be uncomfortable at first, but utilize what you have, and just get started.” Resources: Find Julie on Instagram athttps://www.instagram.com/julieciardi/?hl=en ( Julie Ciardi) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ignite-your-side-hustle/id1424512444 (Find Julie’s podcast: Ignite Your Side Hustle) Mentioned in the show: http://www.basecamp.com/ (Basecamp) and http://www.linktr.ee/ (Linktr.ee) to connect audiences to all of your content with just one link.
Today’s show delivers again with strategies, tools, and resources to help you show up as your best self. I’m thrilled to hear that the show resonates with many who aren’t necessarily functioning in a coaching role. We are learning more about the science behind creating successful goals, which is relevant to everyone, no matter their profession or position. Join us to learn more! Caroline Adams Miller is one of the world’s leading experts on the science behind successful goal setting. She’s also an expert in using good grit to achieve hard things, which is exactly what we need to hear during these difficult days. Caroline was a previous guest on Episode 36, long ago, to talk about her book, Getting Grit, which teaches us how to formulate a plan to achieve the tough goals and having clarity to create the life and business we want. Caroline’s previous book, Creating Your Best Life, is being reissued since it has sold over 100,000 copies. Caroline is a speaker, educator, author, professional coach, and pioneer in the coaching industry. She’s helped hundreds of senior executives, professional athletes, parents, and politicians identify their character strengths and get grit to achieve their goals. Show Highlights: ● The exciting news that Creating Your Best Life is being reissued now, twelve years after its initial publishing ● The importance of happiness in goal attainment ● Focusing on happiness means flourishing and being proud, content, mindful, and grateful ● How optimizing the way you live and think will help you become a different person who sees the world through a different filter ● The foundational principle of goal setting is that not all goals are equal; learning goals and performance goals are very different ● Caroline’s BRIDGE framework, which explains the “how” of goal accomplishment with the acronym that stands for brainstorming, relationships, investment, decision-making, good grit, and excellence ● How active-constructive responding to your good news lets you know whether someone has your back or not ● How Caroline introduced her work to coaching clients virtually during the pandemic ● Caroline’s next book and what it will cover ● How are we assisting others in achieving their goals? Resources: https://starcoachshow.com/36-caroline-miller-mapp-getting-grit/ (Episode 36: Getting Grit with Caroline Miller) Books by Caroline: https://www.amazon.com/Creating-Your-Best-Life-Ultimate/dp/1402779984 (Creating Your Best Life) https://www.amazon.com/Getting-Grit-Evidence-Based-Cultivating-Perseverance/dp/1622039203 (Getting Grit) https://www.carolinemiller.com/ (Caroline’s website)
2020 has undoubtedly been a year of building resilience in revolutionary ways, which is the focus of today’s show. If you coach anyone with high levels of stress and overwhelm, then today’s show has helpful information for you! Dr. Gail Gazelle is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, certified mindfulness teacher, and survivor of childhood abuse. Dr. Gazelle knows resilience inside and out, and she’s here to help all of us learn how to build our resilience. As one of the leading physician coaches in the country, she’s coached over 500 physicians and has been featured in media outlets such as Bloomberg Businessweek, Medical Economics, the Physician Leadership Journal, the New England Journal of Medicine, ABC News, and CNN. Her new book is titled Everyday Resilience. What we’re talking about in today’s show applies to anyone who coaches those in high-pressure positions that might be subject to burnout. These clients might need continuous leadership development because they deal with conflict on a regular basis. Join us to learn more from Dr. Gazelle. Show Highlights: ● How Dr. Gazelle came to where she is today ● Why physicians might want to partner with a coach to combat burnout, promote leadership development, and better handle conflict management ● How physicians can give themselves permission to seek help from a coach rather than therapy ● Why physicians need help to combat their negative self-view and identify strengths and accomplishments ● How Dr. Gazelle uses the University of Pennsylvania’s Values and Actions Survey to identify top strengths ● How Dr. Gazelle uses her new book with her coaching clients ● How physicians are given extensive medical training but almost no training to manage their minds ● How to help physicians diagnose their mental patterns ● Helpful exercises that Dr. Gazelle uses with physician clients help them build emotional intelligence, self-compassion, and mindfulness ● Dr. Gazelle’s work as a mentor coach to help coaches broaden their skills in the field of physician coaching Resources: https://www.gailgazelle.com/ (Gail Gazelle) https://www.amazon.com/Everyday-Resilience-Practical-Strength-Challenges/dp/1647395011 (Everyday Resilience: A Practical Guide to Build Inner Strength and Weather Life’s Challenges by Gail Gazelle MD)
Don’t we all want more happiness and well-being? You might not realize how these factors can be measured, but today’s guest has devoted his work to this field. He’s an expert on happiness and well-being, and he’s to share his knowledge with us. Nic Marks is the founder and CEO of Friday Pulse. Described by one client as a “statistician with a soul,” Nic has been working in the field of happiness and well-being for over 25 years. He’s done phenomenal work that has been duly recognized and rewarded. In 2010, Nic gave a TED talk on his previous work in public policy; that speech has been viewed over 2.3 million times! His work was hailed as one of Forbes Magazine’s Seven Most Powerful Ideas in 2011. As founder and CEO of Friday Pulse, Nic shares his creative thinking with leading organizations on how positive emotions drive productivity and profit. Show Highlights: ● Nic’s journey that brought him to the work he does today ● What coaches should know regarding the well-being and happiness of their clients within organizations ● How we are shaped by the environment and systems around us ● How coaches can use statistics and measurement to create believability ● How Friday Pulse measures happiness and well-being with goal-specific questions and reflection ● How to have conversations about Friday Pulse’s findings about measuring and improving employee happiness ● How Friday Pulse supports team leaders to help them be better ● How to raise awareness about well-being in workplaces ● A sampling of the benefits of Friday Pulse include being able to tackle problems faster to bring positive changes and delegating responsibility to improve communication ● Nic’s Five Keys to Happiness at Work: connect, be fair, empower, challenge, and inspire Resources: https://fridaypulse.com/ (Website) https://www.linkedin.com/in/marksnic (LinkedIn) https://www.ted.com/talks/nic_marks_the_happy_planet_index?language=en (TED Talk) Join Meg on FB Live every Wednesday at 9:00 am CT/10 am ET https://www.facebook.com/STaRCoachShow (STaRCoachShow)
Marketing is a necessary part of being a business owner. Some people love it, and some feel overwhelmed and inadequate. Today’s show covers the marketing mistakes that hinder our flow and how we can improve. Heather Campbell is a nationally recognized branding strategist, creative problem solver, and digital marketing sherpa. On top of that, she’s a fun and inspiring person who has a passion for helping entrepreneurs. Heather founded her agency, Double Dutch Creative, in 2014, after a successful career leading branding, marketing, and strategic communications programs for multi-billion-dollar companies. Heather’s secret sauce connects your vision to deliverables that engage, inform, and motivate your most valuable customers to take action. She knows how to leverage websites and digital media to advance the customer sales journey and exploit efficiencies inherent in online channels. Heather has an online course called Epiphany, which replicates her agency processes and DIYs them for savvy and scrappy entrepreneurs. Show Highlights: ● How Heather came to where she is today in helping entrepreneurs with their marketing ● The #1 marketing mistake that entrepreneurs make: marketing too soon ○ The core sequence to follow before you start marketing: ■ Establish your brand and identity ● Find out who plays in your space, create value, and stand out ■ Understand your most valuable customer ● Ask, “Who do I want to serve? What are their aspirations?” ■ Align your product and pricing with what your customers want ● Explore your “space” to see what customers want ■ Have a website that’s built to sell ● Give customers a sense of what it’s like to work with you; show a visual difference that’s clear about what you do ■ Get your marketing plan together ● THIS is when you’re ready to market on Facebook ● Marketing mistake #2: Wearing someone else’s marketing as a mask ○ The fix: Unapologetically own your best attributes ● Marketing mistake #3: Casting too wide a net in trying to serve everyone ○ The fix: Ask specific questions to hone down to three core customer groups ● Marketing mistake #4: Not having a website ○ The fix: Establish your website upfront, and then continue to evolve later ● Marketing mistake #5: Improvising your marketing ○ The fix: Look at your marketing planning through the lens of the customer journey Resources: Find Heather: https://hellodoubledutch.com/ (Hello Double Dutch) https://heyheathercampbell.com/ (Heyheather Campbell) Find Heather’s Facebook group: Hey Heather Campbell
Today’s show covers the topic of building your business with referrals--but in a new and revolutionary way. While this information is vital for coaches, it’s also applicable to any business owner. Join us to learn more! Stacey Brown Randall is a member of the “business failure club.” She shares openly about what she’s experienced and what she’s learned along the way. She’s also a contrarian on generating referrals, which is the focus of today’s show, and Stacey supports the entrepreneurial dream. She creates programs that provide a roadmap on how to take control of your business. She’s a three-time entrepreneur, author of the award-winning book, Generating Business Referrals. . . Without Asking, and she hosts the Roadmap to Grow Your Business podcast. We’re diving into Stacey’s path along with her five-step process to generating referrals without even asking. Show Highlights: ● A look at Stacey’s journey of how she came to where she is today ● What Stacey learned to help herself and help others regarding referrals ● Why a true referral has to have a personal connection and a need that is identified in the prospect ● What you need to know about gaining referrals by using Stacey’s five-step process: ○ Identify your referral sources ■ This is the foundational piece; resources can help, like a simple Excel spreadsheet ○ Write a handwritten Thank You note for each referral received ■ How Stacey goes above and beyond to appreciate people and make herself memorable and meaningful (“Minding your M & Ms”) ○ Build a referral plan in advance ■ How you can deepen the relationship with a series of outreaches to take care of your referral sources ○ Understand the language to use in planting referral seeds ■ How to employ the “secret sauce” to make your referral plan work ○ Do the “processitizing” to make your plan happen ■ How to apply the process to your workflow and your unique business situation Resources: Stacey’s website: http://www.staceybrownrandall.com/ (Stacey Brown Randall) Email Stacey: Stacey@StaceyBRandall.com Find Stacey on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/staceybrandall (StaceyBRandall) Twitter: http://www.twitter.com@staceybrandall/ (StaceyBRandall) Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/StaceyBrownRandall (StaceyBrownRandall) https://www.amazon.com/Generating-Business-Referrals-Without-Asking/dp/1683509269 (Generating Business Referrals. . . Without Asking by Stacey Brown Randall)
Today’s show will help coaches think through their messaging when they connect with clients. Even though today’s show focuses on creating webinars that convert, my guest has a lot of helpful information about connecting with clients and creating compelling messages. Join us to learn more. Michelle Barry Franco works with coaches, wellness experts, and business leaders to build thriving businesses that change lives and the world. She has spent the last 12 years supporting many well-known entrepreneurs to craft compelling business messages and programs. Michelle is a high-impact speaking coach and works with people to create TEDx talks and speak at conferences. She’s an author and the host of the Brilliance at Work podcast. Michelle founded Coaches Leadership Collective and created the Speaking So It Matters presentation skills training. In today’s show, Michelle will help us understand the four key elements in crafting any compelling message for our audience. Show Highlights: ● How Michelle ended up where she is today, prompted by a family tragedy during high school that spurred her into active speaking roles ● Why a coach should see webinars as a valuable platform to expand their reach, impact more people, and ensure evergreen content ● How to use webinars as a way to convert people into paying clients ● Michelle’s “Quad Pod” of great webinars: “I see you, I get you, I know what you want, and I can help.” ● Why the presenter should ask, “What am I here to say? Who are they, and what do they need?” ● The mistake that many people make in trying to help clients too soon ● The importance of the intimate audience connection ● How to communicate through your webinar that you SEE the client (Hint: use your story) ● How to build in Michelle’s key elements into a great webinar ● Examples of webinars that convert ● How to let people know about your webinar ● Final words from Michelle: “Don’t skip the story part in your webinar because stories inspire people to action. They can be a beacon light to others. Don’t forget the call to action in letting people know what you want them to do.” Resources: https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Applause-Meaningful-Difference-Transformational-ebook/dp/B079GNMZWL (Beyond Applause: Make a Meaningful Difference through Transformational Speaking by Michelle Barry Franco) Connect with Michelle on Facebook: Michelle Barry Franco Executive and Speaking Coach Connect with Michelle on Instagram: MichelleBFranco Check out her websites: http://www.michellebarryfranco.com/ (Michelle Barry Franco) and http://www.brillianceatwork.com/ (Brilliance at Work) Michelle’s giveaway: The Only Presentation Outline that You’ll Ever Need Join Meg every Wednesday Morning at 9 am CT/10 am ET for Fb Live on the STaR Coach page
Today’s show is full of innovative and applicable ideas for engaging organizations and their leaders. We are taking an in-depth look at why we need to reframe our thinking about problems and their solutions for ultimate growth. David Veech teaches leaders how to love, learn, and let go. The actions following these three decisions create an engaging workplace that harnesses the creative and productive power of people. David will share details of his journey from his career in the US Army to where he is today. He is a passionate, inspiring speaker whose messages move organizations to obliterate obstacles, accelerate innovation, and elevate performance. David leaves people motivated and engaged for the future. He has studied leadership and work systems for over 30 years and has helped leaders learn to be more effective. He has put together an amazing package of downloads for you, which you can find in our Resources section. David has written two books, Leadersights: Creating Great Leaders Who Create Great Workplaces and The C4 Process: Four Vital Steps to Better Work. His next book, High-Speed Problem-Solving, will be out in the spring of 2021. Show Highlights: ● David’s journey that brought him to coaching, which includes 20 years in the US Army, teaching at the University of Kentucky, a unique partnership with Toyota, a Ph.D. program in educational psychology, a lot of time in Australia, and his current position at Ohio State University ● The importance of critical thinking in the problem-solving process for leaders ● Why the word “problem” is a beautiful word ● The job of leaders? It’s not to solve problems but to develop people ● How leaders develop people (David’s secrets to leadership success): ○ Love--Understand others’ needs and aspirations ○ Learn--Set your own needs aside and focus on others ○ Let go--Build a plan to let them go and do their job ● David’s advice to leaders (and coaches of leaders): ○ Don’t try to coach too many people, but develop no more than 7-8 at a time ○ Give leaders the capability and structure to succeed ● How to realize the value of the coaching session as a developmental plan ● David’s C4 Process tool (and how to implement it): Concern, Cause, Countermeasure, and Confirm ● How to use the “why” to identify the problem without passing blame ● The importance of the decision to treat people with love ● Four skills for leaders to develop: Challenge, Support, Correct, and Encourage Resources: Veech is the author of two best-selling books: https://www.amazon.com/Leadersights-Creating-Leaders-Create-Workplaces/dp/1466558008 (Leadersights: Creating Great Leaders Who Create Great Workplaces), and https://www.amazon.com/C4-Process-Vital-Steps-Better/dp/0983263957 (The C4 Process: Four Vital Steps to Better Work) Connect with David Veech: https://leadersights.com/ (Website) Email: david.veech@leadersights.com Phone: 502-517-1845 https://twitter.com/davidveech (Twitter) https://www.facebook.com/DSVLeadersights (Facebook) https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidveech/ (Linkedin) Get David’s promised downloads here:https://www.leadersights.com/star-coach-show/ ( Leader Sights: Star Coach Show) JOIN MEG EVERY WEDNESDAY AT 9 AM CT/10 AM ET ON THE STaR COACH FB PAGE FOR CONNECTION AND TO GET YOUR COACHING QUESTIONS ANSWEREDhttps://www.facebook.com/STaRCoachShow ( Facebook: STaRCoachShow) What would make your coaching journey more successful? Email Meg at meg@afocusonresults.com
We know that it’s vital for coaches to show up with curiosity and deep listening skills. The deep listening we are referring to carries many nuances, and those are the focus of today’s show. Join us to learn more about the importance of listening and connecting with your clients. Tijen Genco is a Master Certified Coach who has experience in every aspect of coaching as a mentor, practitioner, and coach educator. She’s an executive life and wellbeing coach who specializes in cultural transformation through the mindful awakening of individuals and companies. Tijen combines neuroscience and transcendental approaches to behavioral change. In 2013, Tijen served three months in India to help improve the quality of maternal health services in rural areas. She’s a thoughtful and gentle spirit who is highly skilled in coaching. In today’s episode, Tijen gives examples of how to be fully present with clients and remove barriers that can get in the way of deep listening. Show Highlights: ● A look at Tijen’s journey into coaching ● How core competencies relate to deep listening as far as what does NOT work: ○ Some coaches interpret the competencies literally and in order ○ Some coaches don’t take time to explore with the client ○ Some coaches ask the same questions over and over again ● Why the coach needs to be self-aware ● The coach’s needs: ○ To be comfortable with ambiguity ○ To allow the client to choose whether to act or not to act ○ To get feedback ● Why the focus of the session has to stay on the client ● Regarding the language of coaching, the coach should use open-ended questions and not fall into assumptions ● The client’s model of the world, which is the way our socialization gives us an interpretive language to understand ● Listening for the essence of what the client says and presents ● Tijen’s take on note-taking during a coaching session ● Why the coach’s expressive language must match the clients Resources: https://gencocoaching.com/ (Genco Coaching) Join Meg every Wednesday at 9:00 am CT/10:00 am ET for Facebook Live on the STaR Coach page: https://www.facebook.com/STaRCoachShow (Facebook: STaRCoachShow)
We’re addressing the important topic of appreciation in the workplace. When appreciation is done well, it happens in all-around ways at all levels in an organization. Today’s show is packed with helpful information, so join us to learn more! Paul White is a psychologist, speaker, and international leadership trainer. He knows how to make work relationships work well. His company, Appreciation at Work, provides training resources for corporations, medical facilities, schools, non-profits, government agencies, colleges, and universities, operating in over 60 countries. Paul is the co-author of The Five Languages of Appreciation with Gary Chapman. The book has been recently updated and has sold over 500,000 copies. Show Highlights: ● How Paul became interested in the topic of appreciation in the workplace ● The importance of appreciation for leaders and coaches of leaders ● How Paul and Gary identified the five languages of appreciation at work ● The importance of specific actions within the language of appreciation ● The five languages of appreciation: ○ Words of affirmation--genuine ways to affirm someone’s worth/value ○ Quality time--giving full attention to someone ○ Acts of service--doing small things to help someone reach their goals ○ Tangible gifts--small things involved in getting to know a person ○ Physical touch--appropriate connectedness for the workplace ● The difference between appreciation and recognition--they aren’t the same! ● Connecting and appreciating people while working remotely: ○ Be proactive in reaching out to others ○ Give people tools for dealing with anxiety ● How to discern someone’s appreciation language ● How to see “blind spots” when it comes to the language of appreciation Resources: Book: https://www.amazon.com/Languages-Appreciation-Workplace-Organizations-Encouraging/dp/080246176X (The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace: Empowering Organizations by Encouraging People by Gary Chapman and Paul White) http://www.appreciationatwork.com/ (Appreciation Atwork) Join Meg every Wednesday in the STaR Coach FB page for Wednesday’s Wisdom at 9 am CT/10 am ET.
Today’s show looks through a different lens to bring a different perspective to an essential element of a coaching practice. My guest shares considerations in bringing back the human element to the workplace through spiritual intelligence. Amy Lynn Durham is a UC Berkeley Certified Executive Coach and Emotional Intelligence Practitioner who has spent years in the corporate world, successfully managing hundreds of employees for private- and publicly-traded companies. She is often referred to as a Corporate Mystic, due to her unique ability to provide Spiritual Intelligence (SQ) to energize and transform the workplace. Today’s show gives you specific examples of what you can do to bring the human spirit into the workplace. Show Highlights: ● Amy’s journey from the corporate world to a space of greater creativity ● The results that Amy saw from putting her philosophy into practice ● Amy’s work today with Create Magic at Work ● The difference in IQ (what I think), EQ (what I feel), and SQ (what I am)---and why spiritual intelligence is superior to the other forms ● How Amy helps clients tap into their spiritual intelligence by bringing gratefulness into team meetings and allowing people to share their intentions through exercises ● Tools Amy uses with leaders and coaches to improve SQ: ○ Word destroying and word reshaping exercises ○ Ways to trust your own intuition ● Responses Amy has received from organizations about her work ● How COVID-19 has affected corporate America with a “system shakeup” ● How Amy got clarity in the cutthroat world of corporate competition, learning to bring her “full self” to the workplace and risk being seen ● How Amy uses her “In Ten Years” exercise with clients ● Why we have to have courage and vulnerability to try something new, which is the first baby step to bring heart and human connection to the workplace Resources: https://createmagicatwork.net/ (Create Magic At Work) Book: https://www.amazon.com/Create-Magic-Work-Practical-Connection/dp/1098314514 (Create Magic At Work: Practical Tools To Ignite Human Connection)
Today’s show is about clarity in your business and making the tough decisions that will bring you success. It’s time to think about your business in a very different way! Join us to learn more! Crista Grasso is a serial entrepreneur with several different businesses under her belt. She continues to be an accessory brand owner in addition to the work she does in organizations and on her own as an international lean business consultant and coach. Today, she shares her Lean Out method to help businesses create sustainable, flexible businesses that allow us to be true to our calling. Crista is known as the “Business Optimizer,” and she has the ability to cut through the noise and optimize the core values that will grow and scale your business for maximum impact. Crista specializes in helping business owners focus on the most important things right now. Show Highlights: ● Crista’s long and winding journey to where she is today ● How Crista realized the need to scale her business to survive ● How she developed her Lean Out method of “more value/less waste” and applied it to her business ● How to build a lean business: ○ Get super clear on what matters most---and get rid of the rest ○ Create a vision of what you want your business to be ○ Set shorter-term goals for the next 90 days ● The four pillars of Crista’s Lean Out method: context, clarity, commitment, and Kaizen ● How to function in the interest of being lean ● Crista’s CHUCK technique: “What are you going to cut, hold, change, and keep?” ● Why it’s hard to say NO and cut things out ● Why we need to beware of saying YES to all the things in the beginning and build our “saying NO” muscle ● How Crista works with clients with her programs, one-on-one coaching, and mastermind groups Resources: Connect with Crista: http://www.leanoutmethod.com/ (Lean Out Method) Join Meg’s FB Live Discussion, every Wednesday at 9:00 am CT/10:00 am ET on thehttps://www.facebook.com/STaRCoachShow/ ( STaR Coach FB) page
Our tendency is to be short-sighted when it comes to coaching, not realizing what’s going on around the world in our field. It’s important that we broaden our view to get a global perspective on the advancement of coaching. Today’s show will give us a better understanding of how coaching continues to extend across the globe to create impact and build culture. Leila Rezaiguia is an internationally known executive coach who is head of the Academy of Executive Coaching. She’s deeply passionate about empowering leaders and regularly works with teams worldwide to help them develop the confidence to achieve success in their careers. Leila has specialized for over 18 years in mental toughness training, peak performance coaching, and imposter syndrome and is committed to helping her clients develop a healthy mindset. Leila started her career as a human development professional, and she now works with organizations in Dubai. In today’s show, we’ll talk about how the Middle East is embracing coaching and how Leila works with organizations to bring more coaching to the region. Leila has international experience in many different industries and is trilingual, coaching clients in English, French, and Arabic. We’ll focus on what motivates companies to bring in coaches, how they use internal and external coaches, and how to build a brand. Show Highlights: ● Leila’s road to coaching and how she came to where she is today ● The escalation of coaching in the Middle East during the last ten years ● The need for education and awareness in organizations about the difference between executive coaching and life coaching ● Characteristics of executive coaching and how it addresses the challenges in organizations ● How Leila commits to understanding her clients’ needs and fitting her coaching into them ● How Leila works with organizations to train their leaders and internal coaches--and is seeing the enormous impact ● What Leila notices about coaching trends in organizations regarding certifications and credentials ● What Leila sees as the benefits for organizations in creating coaching cultures ● The trend in the Middle East for organizations to train internal coaches but still relying on external coaches for the specific needs of senior leadership ● What organizations are looking for in external coaches: corporate experience, credentials, and results ● The value in branding and becoming visible and how they go hand in hand ● Why coaches need to ask their clients, “Where do you want to be known?” and “What do you want to be known for?” ● Leila’s advice about how to raise your visibility ● Parting words from Leila: “Be authentic. It’s about who you are. Clients are smart enough to notice when you’re overselling and not being authentic.” Resources: LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/leila-rezaiguia/ (Leila) https://www.linkedin.com/company/kompass-consultancy/ (Kompass Consultancy) https://www.linkedin.com/company/aoec-uae-the-academy-of-executive-coaching/ (AoEC UAE) Instagram https://www.instagram.com/kompassconsultancy/ (Kompass Consultancy) https://www.instagram.com/aoecuae/ (AoEC UAE) Facebook https://www.facebook.com/kompassconsultancy/ (Kompass Consultancy) Register for AoEC UAE Courses Join Meg’s FB Live Discussion, every Wednesday at 9:00 am CT/10:00 am ET on thehttps://www.facebook.com/STaRCoachShow/ ( STaR Coach FB) page
How are you vibrating in the world? Are you vibrating at a low level, just struggling to survive, or are you at a high level, thriving in flow and ease? Today’s show focuses on your awareness of your energy flow as you work with your clients. Join us to learn more! Kami Guildner believes that women’s voices matter. She’s a storyteller, connector, and business coach for women. She’s the founder of Extraordinary Women Radio, a podcast featuring wildly successful women making an impact in the world. Kami has been featured as a guest across many media platforms, and she’s the author of Firedancer. We’ll learn a lot from Kami today, including what she calls the “R Factor.” Listen and increase your awareness of the four components of the R Factor and your impact on the world. Even though Kami’s focus is on her work with women, our conversation today is beneficial to all genders, because Kami points out that she works with many smart men. Show Highlights: ● Kami’s journey story of how she came to where she is today ● Finding clarity in the transition from the corporate world to entrepreneurship ● The R Factor: How we resonate at high vibrations vs. low vibrations: ○ Mindset: What stories are playing in my head? ○ Body set: How do I feel physically and energetically? ○ Spirit: How is my alignment to my purpose? ○ Community: Who surrounds me? ● The importance of being intentional in shifting the patterns in our lives ● Why naming your fear is the first step in shifting your patterns ● How tuning into the R Factor helps someone connect with their community ● How clients use the R Factor to impact their businesses around money and abundance ● The value of the inner work to make breakthroughs to new levels ● The first place to start is with daily check-ins with your R Factor components ● Kami’s event, Extraordinary Women Ignite Conference, November 5-7; it’s virtual this year, so see resources below for a discount link Resources: Connect with Kami: http://www.kamiguildner.com/ (Kami Guildner) Find Kami Guildner Coaching on Facebook or @KamiGuildner on Instagram and Twitter Get your ticket to https://kami-guildner.mykajabi.com/extraordinary-women-ignite-2020V (Extraordinary Women Ignite with a $50.00 STaR Coach Discount) Use code: StarCoaching to get $50 off your ticket Book reference:https://www.amazon.com/Its-Not-Your-Money-Abundance/dp/1401954731 ( It’s Not Your Money by Tosha SiIver) Join Meg for Wednesday’s Wisdom every week on thehttps://www.facebook.com/STaRCoachShow/ ( STaR Coach FB) page at 9 am CT/10 am ET
Today’s show will help you make more money in your business! Isn’t that what we all want? Join us to learn more about increasing your financial fitness by creating a business plan. Tracey Bissett is a financial coach on a mission to redefine the world’s economic future by increasing the financial literacy of entrepreneurs just like you and me. Tracey has over 20 years’ experience in the financial industry, so she has the skills to help us best flex our financial muscles. She is the founder, President, and Chief Financial Fitness Trainer at Bissett Financial Fitness, Inc. Tracey helps her clients understand and improve their financial fitness levels to increase their confidence and clarity as business owners. In addition to owning her business, Tracey is a professor at Centennial College’s School of Business, and she’s a regular speaker at engagements to increase financial fitness awareness.
Show Highlights:
How Tracey realized her early passion around finances and entrepreneurship To get started with your business plan, test the market to make sure your product will sell How to get clarity around your ideal customer: Who do I want to help? What problem can I solve? How to explore the market with focus groups and surveys How to use pricing exercises to see if you can make money on your endeavor, considering your product/service costs, time, and overhead expenses Why Tracey says most business owners undervalue and underprice what they sell Tracey’s suggestions to increase income, freedom, and flexibility as an entrepreneur Don’t be afraid to get advisors to help with bookkeeping, accounting, and other tasks Consider hiring a business coach to help you figure things out faster and smarter Tracey’s tips: Have a regular time to review financial results, either weekly or monthly Don’t beat yourself up about mistakes. Move on! Don’t commingle personal and business finances Be kind to yourself and patient
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Find Tracey: http://www.bissettfinancialfitness.com (www.bissettfinancialfitness.com) Find BissetFinFit on most social media platforms.
Tracey’s giveaway, the Money Meeting Agenda, can be found at: http://www.cashcoach.biz (www.cashcoach.biz)
Find templates for your business plan: https://www.bdc.ca/ (https://www.bdc.ca/)
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It’s here! The 200th episode of the STaR Coach Show! I’m thrilled and honored to have covered such informative content with the amazing guests we have featured on the show. This milestone episode is a compilation of thoughts from seasoned coaches about what they wished they had known when they first began as a coach. The responses are varied and value-packed, and I hope you enjoy these coaching insights. Show Highlights: These coaches were asked: “What do you know now that you wish you had known when you first started coaching?” Meg Mann, MCC, and co-owner of Clarity Professional Development shares two specific concepts: Go on the coaching journey with the client to help them get clear on what they truly want. Enjoy being a co-discoverer and co-explorer with the client as a travel companion with an open mind. Dr. Renee Moorefield, MCC, and CEO of Wisdom Works shares the following: The upfront goal or problem of the client that’s most obvious really isn’t it. There is usually a deeper goal, aspiration, challenge, or need, and it’s often something around meaning and purpose in life and work. Rick Tamlyn, MCC of The Bigger Game and Produce You, shares the following: Instead of performance anxiety in wondering if I, the coach, am doing a “good job,” I should be committed to my client’s dream for their life. Andrew Bennett, TEDx and keynote speaker and executive coach, shares about his self-awareness: Coaches need to put aside their ego and fear of rejection to be self-differentiating in their coaching conversations. Alison Hendren, CEO, and founder of Coaching Out of the Box shares the following: Coaches aren’t responsible for solving problems for their clients, but they should support the client in finding their way. Jean Oplinger, MCC, Insights facilitator, Master Personal Brand Strategist, and Gallup Strengths Coach shares the following: A coach should follow their passions, values, and strengths, but should “go narrow and deep” into the specialty that mirrors that passion. Kathleen Stinnett, MCC, principal, and founder of FutureLaunch shares the following: Be bold and true to yourself in discerning what kind of clients you want to work with because you will invest essential and critical work with that person over time. Ilene Schaffer, Positive Psychology specialist and creator of Mindful Stepping echoes the importance of being true to yourself: Having a health action and a connection action for your clients (and yourself!) is extremely important. Help the client identify how they will pursue these actions from session to session. Dr. Ann Deaton has more to add about being true to yourself and your values: A coach should listen to the advice of others, but be discerning and do a “gut check” to determine the approach that works best for them. Mary Henderson, personal branding and social selling specialist, adds the following: Don’t believe everything you see on social media! Notice the red flag when you try to follow what everyone else is doing, and step into the genius zone of YOUR skills. Terri Levine fromhttp://www.heartpreneur.com ( Heartpreneur.com) adds the following: A consulting skill set may be a better fit than coaching, because you can give strategy and advice that guarantee results for your client. Teresa Pool, MCC from Transitions for Business, adds the following important insight: A coach starting out should invest in hiring a virtual assistant. There are many tasks that someone else can handle, and you will have more time to focus on your practice. Diane Ingram, Professional Certified Success Unlimited Network Coach and Coach Trainer adds the following about the coaching journey: Trust the process through the ups and downs of coaching. Fran Fisher, author and international speaker shares the following about her coaching journey: The coaching journey is an adventure, so trust the process instead of second guessing,...
I’m excited to bring you this episode because it means we are almost to 200! We have created helpful content full of expert advice and practical resources to enhance and grow your coaching business. Today’s show is another one in that line. Get ready to challenge your thinking and shift your perspective with today’s guest. Chris Kenney is a High-Ticket Sales Mastery Mentor. His focus is on teaching entrepreneurs how to break their money rules to master high-ticket sales, rapidly accelerate their income, and live lives of uncommon freedom and choice. Chris was the keynote speaker at the All Texas Retreat last year, and he did a delightful job in bringing his message to that audience. In today’s show, we’ll talk about sales and marketing, but we will focus on viewing it through a different lens. Chris will also share the proven model he uses in his seven-figure coaching business. Show Highlights: ● What brought Chris to the place he is today ● Chris’ coaching journey: from Mary Kay consultants to women entrepreneurs to coaches ● How Chris works with coaches to help them target their niche and market their message to attract clients ● Why an introvert has a distinct advantage in selling ● Why your message has to be sound from start to finish ● How to learn the skill set to market and message yourself so people compare you to something higher level ● Two models for scaling your coaching practice: ○ High volume, low investment ○ Low volume, high investment (the fastest way to grow!) ● Why it makes all the difference to be “interested,” not “interesting” ● How to get people to see your value through questions ● Why you can’t make the scale about money: “Be committed to service, not attached to the money.” ● Chris’ THINK model for creating what he wants through manifestation: ○ T-Think about what you want ○ H-Have a clear description of what you want ○ I-Insert gratitude ○ N-Notice what shows up ○ K-Keep moving in faith ● The new perspective we should have about what “shows up” for us ● What we need to know about selling: the client’s seen problem, an unseen problem, and the solution ● Final advice from Chris: “Stop selling the solution to the seen problem, but ask better questions to reveal the unseen problem and sell the solution to that.” Resources: Connect with Chris on https://facebook.com/groups/SalesMasteryInnerCircle/ (Facebook in the Sales Mastery Inner Circle). There is new, free content every Thursday! Chris’ website: http://www.chriskenneycoaching.com/ (Chris Kenney Coaching) Join Meg live every Wednesday at 9 am CT/10 am ET on https://www.facebook.com/STaRCoachShow/ (Facebook: STaRCoachShow)
Our goal each week is to enhance your life and business as a coach. Today’s guest is full of warmth, generosity, and social responsibility, and I’m grateful to introduce him to you. Mel Leow is a Master Certified Coach. He is sharing the impact that coaching has had on his business, family, and views on social responsibility around the world. Mel is transparent, open, and authentic about the highs and lows of his coaching business, what motivated him into coaching, and what motivates him to help social entrepreneurs to impact the world and make a difference. Mel is an internationally acclaimed leadership and life coach, speaker, and trainer who engages with individuals and teams to uncover their personal and professional potential and align with their inner purpose and desires. Mel believes he exists to empower the next generation of leaders and catalysts to live and be brave. Show Highlights: ● Mel’s journey story from the marketing world to coaching ● How Mel gained traction in his early coaching career ● How Mel applied coaching skills to his leadership style through active listening ● How Mel’s children noticed the changes as he lived out his coaching principles ● How Mel transitioned into coaching as a full-time career ● The story of Mel’s friend who experienced a huge transformation through coaching ● How Mel’s coaching work in Asia goes across borders all over the world ● How Mel helps the visually impaired through his coaching work in Africa ● Mel’s transformative work in India in a social enterprise school with African students ● Mel’s mission to bring coaching to the ends of the world, equipping 10,000 coaches to impact 10 million people ● What it means to live out coaching as a lifestyle ● The ripple effect of the coaching impact ● Important considerations for living out coaching as a lifestyle with the important people in our lives and on social media platforms ● Mel’s new book: Engage: How To Stop Living In Default And Start Living The Life You Desire Resources: Connect with Mel and learn more about his work: https://catalystcoach.live (I Am Catalyst) https://apicoaching.com/ (API Coaching) https://www.linkedin.com/in/coachmel/ (Linkedin) https://twitter.com/lifecoachmel (Twitter: Life Coach Mel) Join Meg every Wednesday at 9:00 am CT/10:00 am ET on the STaR Coach FB page for all things coaching. Bring your questions! https://www.facebook.com/STaRCoachShow/ (Facebook: STaRCoachShow)
In building any business, you will stumble upon times of stagnation when you don’t know the next steps to take. You might still feel the passion and vision for what you want to accomplish, but you know that something is missing. Today’s guest has the answers for you with his practical business-building tools that are easy to implement today. Pull your business out of the doldrums and join us to learn more! Adam Carroll is a speaker, author, mentor, and host of the Build a Bigger LIfe podcast. Adam has been working for years to help people make the most of their money to recover from debt and thrive in business. Business-building strategies can benefit you no matter where you fall between being a novice business owner or a seasoned veteran. You can get Adam’s tips and strategies on a daily basis by following his YouTube channel. Show Highlights: ● Adam’s journey that brought him to the place he is today ● How Adam shared his passionate message through his book and interactive program for high school students in the early 2000’s ● How Adam made the decision around 2014 to change the way he made a living to be at home more ● How Adam pivoted to doing life building and personal growth retreats in cool destinations ● The starting point for business building: “Get out there and share your knowledge.” ● How to begin your speaking career: What would you love to talk about? ● How to use speaking as a business-building tool: ○ Focus on storytelling ○ Have three titles and session descriptions in your pocket at all times ○ With every speaking opportunity, promote your “tripwire” product to grab leads ○ Watch and study the techniques and delivery of speakers who inspire you ● How to use networking POWER (Promoting Opportunities While Establishing Relationships) as a business-building tool: ○ Create a POWER 100 list of people who like, love, and respect you ○ Don’t underestimate being in your own community and creating your network there ● How to use content creation as a business-building tool: ○ Use mind mapping techniques to structure your content in compressed time ● The importance of your team in business building Resources: http://www.adamspeaks.com/ (Website: Adam Corroll) https://www.buildabiggerlife.com/podcast/ (Podcast: Build A Bigger Life) https://www.youtube.com/adamcarrollspeaker (YouTube: Adam Carroll Speaker) https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamcarrollspeaks (LinkedIn: Adam Carroll) Wednesday’s Wisdom 10 am ET/9 am CT on https://www.facebook.com/STaRCoachShow (STaR Coach FB Page)
Having sustainable, profitable, healthy businesses helps us show up better with our clients. You can focus on your coaching skills if you aren’t stressed out about paying the bills. Want to learn more? Join us for today’s show. Ursula Pottinga is the co-founder of BEabove Leadership and the co-developer and leader of a popular program for advanced coaches around the neuroscience of coaching. In today’s show, we are talking about the neuroscience of prosperity, which is Ursula’s focus as the president of Profound Growth, where she works with people around topics of prosperity and legacy. We’ll look at how we bring those two concepts together to create the kind of business we want to have. Ursula also shares how to prime the brain, manifest what you want, and put in the work to reach the prosperity you want. Show Highlights: ● The starting point of neuroscience for prosperity: “the user’s manual for the human brain” ● What prosperity is ● The first step in prosperity is clarity in your vision and dream ● How form and experience factor into prosperity ● How to identify the emotion underneath the form ● Why we get distracted by titles and labels ● How we prime our brain for prosperity with RAS (reticular activation system) ● How to increase your brain’s focus on what you want ● Why you can’t just push away the brain’s attention on what you don’t want ● How we create pathways in the brain through deep, personal relevance ● How being worried and anxious keeps us from making clear and sound decisions ● Why you shouldn’t build a coaching practice through scarcity--because of how your mirror neurons function ● An overview of services offered by BEabove Leadership Resources: http://www.profoundgrowth.com/ (Profound Growth) http://www.beaboveleadership.com/ (BE above Leadership)
The STaR Coach Show is always about strengthening your skills, competencies, and confidence in your coaching career. As you look to minimize the barriers and maximize your success, your mindset and your “inner game” are far more critical than any system or process. Join us to find out more in today’s show! Barry Magliarditi is an award-winning coach and the founder and director of The Game Changers. He was chosen as Australian Coach of the Year for the 2016 Invia Innovation and Excellence in Business Coaching in Australia. Barry learned quickly that his inner game is the key to creating tangible and sustainable results in his outer game. In today’s show, we’ll explore his journey for valuable lessons learned. Since starting his coaching business, Barry has assisted business owners in creating amazing results, sometimes tripling and quadrupling their growth. Barry is a Peak Performance Coach based in Perth, Australia, who helps facilitate sustainable, heart-based change for his clients. Show Highlights: ● Barry’s path to success on his coaching journey ● How Barry’s goals backfired, propelling him into the coaching industry ● Despite his good intentions, Barry endured bankruptcy and a failed marriage before finding unimaginable success ● Why Barry wanted to help others avoid the same pain and mistakes that he endured ● How Barry uses The Game Changers to help other business owners get exactly what he wanted years ago as a business owner ● How Barry’s business runs without his daily involvement and now gives him the free time he wanted all along ● The reality that our personal problems are expressed as our business problems ● Why your framework of mindset is more important than any business systems and strategies ● Barry’s end-game goals that have now been realized ● Barry’s tips: ○ Just do it--Don’t wait--”Others are waiting to hear your message.” ○ Leverage your value--Be clear--”If people pay, they’ll pay attention.” ○ Embrace the energetic exchange--The market reflects you--”Be willing to charge for your services at least the amount you’re paying for coaching.” ● Overcoming barriers regarding value and money Resources: Email: Barry@the-game-changers.com.au Website: http://www.thegamechangers.com.au/ (The Game Changers)
Today’s show has top-notch information about maximizing your coaching skills. My energizing and enlightening guest explores authenticity, the strength of your personal brand, and tapping into your purpose. Join us to learn more! Mary Henderson is an internationally-recognized personal branding and social selling specialist. She brings 20 years of experience in building seven- and eight-figure businesses. Today’s show focuses on her personal branding methodology, an algorithm that can define a person’s uniqueness, passion, values, and expertise. Mary has a background in technology, and she shares her incredible journey of self-awareness to discover her passion and purpose. Her personal journey is very much a part of the work she does with business owners to create their authentic personal brand. We’ll discuss our natural state and how it is reflected in our authentic brand. Mary thrives on helping people fulfill their dreams through her compassionate, heart-centered approach, and I’m excited to introduce her to you! Show Highlights: ● How Mary’s journey unfolded, beginning with a pivotal moment of realization in 2011 that began to change her life ● The events that followed in defining Mary at her true core ● How Mary discovered how she could merge her three passions: sales, building digital businesses, and personal branding ● How she started her business in 2015 as a full-time coach/consultant ● Why we are tempted to discount our natural genius skills ● What is important about authenticity ● How to help clients clear away the fog to find their authentic state ● How Mary’s holistic view impacts her coaching process ● Why Mary asks clients, “What problem can you solve effortlessly?” to help them find their flow ● Mary’s advice about bringing your authentic brand forward and designing their methodology ● Why your authenticity has to be trustable and believable ● How you can connect with your ideal client with consistency ● The power of micro-niching: “Be clear about the problem you can solve and who needs that problem solved.” ● Why your personal brand needs one clear sentence that states what you do, who you serve, and what you promise ● Mary’s transition from Facebook to LinkedIn---and the knowledge that came with it ● Mary’s parting advice: “If you’re not moving forward in your business, there’s nothing wrong with you and your specialization. The starting point is to understand yourself, your values, and what’s natural to you.” Resources: Website: http://www.maryhendersoncoaching.com/ (Mary Henderson Coaching) Email: mary@maryhendersoncoaching.com LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/maryhendersoncoaching (Mary Henderson Coaching) Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/maryhendersoncoach (Mary Henderson Coach) Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/maryhendersoncoaching (Mary Henderson Coaching)
Last week’s show was about growing your online presence with a website, and today’s show builds on that momentum. The truth is that you have to be visible online for your potential clients to find you, and that has never been more relevant than it is in today’s coronavirus pandemic. Having an online presence does NOT mean that you are doomed to spend hours each day on social media sites. Join us to learn more about maximizing your online presence and leveraging the available resources to build your coaching business. Debbie Peck has been an online marketer since 1999, as well as being a marketing coach and consultant. She also owns a digital marketing agency that helps people set up courses and funnels and facilitates launches and launch strategies to bring in business. She is currently in her home country of Canada, but she lives the freedom lifestyle as a digital nomad, traveling the world to do her business from anywhere--when COVID-19 isn’t restricting travel. In today’s show, Debbie shares how we can use her strategies to bring in leads online and maximize our online presence. Show Highlights: ● We have ways to connect online in 2020 that were never before available ● Steps to maximize your online presence: ○ Be visible ■ Set profiles to make it obvious what you do and where people can find you ■ Send the same message across all platforms ■ Attend networking events and make appearances ○ Have automated systems set up so people can connect with you ■ Use funnels to move people along in the sales process ■ Use automated emails to enhance your credibility ■ Start with what you need right now---and expand later ○ Communicate ■ Your email list is the biggest asset in your online business ■ Be clear about your call-to-action ■ Don’t do “billboard” ads, but focus on collecting the lead ○ Follow up ■ When someone opts in, have at least five emails ready to go ■ Don’t send out “fluff,” but make it important information ● How to adapt your online content to current clients’ needs ● Final thoughts from Debbie: “We’ve been forced to do things online that we didn’t think possible a short time ago, so we see what can be done. Networking online is the same as networking offline; follow the rules of being respectful, giving your clients valuable stuff, and building relationships.” ● An overview of the services Debbie offers through her digital agency Resources: http://debbiepeckdigital.com/ (Debbie Peck Digital) Mentioned in today’s show: http://www.minichat.com/ (Minichat) http://www.mailchimp.com/ (Mailchimp)
With the challenges we currently face in our world, the quality of resilience is more important than ever. No matter what your role or position, cultivating resilience is essential. If you want more resilience in your life, then don’t miss today’s show! Pegah Kadkhodaian is the owner of PK Coaching. She’s a renowned speaker, international trainer, and resilience expert who believes wholeheartedly in the transformative nature of resilience. Pegah is bringing her 7 Pillars of Radical Resilience to us so we can better understand how to rise up, take care of ourselves, and nurture the resilience within us. Pegah’s own mastery of resilience began with the powerful women who raised her: a mother who left revolution-torn Iran when Pegah was three, and an aunt who endured political imprisonment and unspeakable loss. Pegah witnessed the strength of these women who gifted her with the extraordinary ability to nurture thriving out of hardship. Pegah has continued to explore the power of thoughts as a Master Practitioner and Certified Trainer of Neurolinguistic Programming, Hypnotherapy, and Mental and Emotional Release Therapy. Pegah works with individuals in coaching, teaches at corporate events and universities, leads wellness retreats, and hosts the brand-new podcast, Radical Resilience, The Podcast. Her joy is to help clients find the power of radical resilience, to harness and hone it, and to learn to call it their own. Show Highlights: ● How resilience applies perfectly in the face of a global pandemic ● Pegah’s definition of resilience: “Having an inner sense of self-awareness, congruence, and absolute unshakeable calm that no matter what the world throws at you, you are unstoppable” ● Seven Pillars of Radical Resilience: ○ Radical self-care: Take care of yourself mentally, physically, spiritually, and emotionally ○ Healing the heart: Take time to heal the inner child, wounds, and traumas ○ Learn unconditional acceptance: Say YES to everything, even when it’s uncertain and uncomfortable ○ Reclaim your identity: Uncover your bigger purpose and true essential self ○ Cultivate connection and community: Have a tribe of people who support you, help you, and are aligned with you ○ Cultivate creativity: Continually expand your creations in the world ○ Make joy a daily spiritual practice: Tap into the things that bring you pleasure and make you feel alive ● The goal of the seven pillars is “to make a well-rounded, harmonious, self-aware, blessed human being” ● How the deep pain of life helps wake us up to who we are and return us to center ● How mindset fits into the framework of radical resilience ● Pegah’s Empowering Paradigms (there are ten in all, but three are especially relevant to the pandemic): ○ Honor and acknowledge that everyone has their own model of the world ○ Seek to understand before you’re understood ○ Recognize that flexibility expands possibility ● Pegah’s last words to coaches: “Do your own work first.” Resources: ■ http://www.coachpegah.com/ (Coach Pegah) ■ FB Page https://www.facebook.com/CoachPegah/ (Coach Pegah) ■ https://www.facebook.com/groups/201567297302903/ (FB Group ) ■ Instagram @pegahk_radical_resilience ■ Podcast https://radical-resilience-the.captivate.fm/listen (Radical Resilience The Captivate)
Coaching can help us be more respectful of one another and curious about others’ experiences. Coaching can help transform our world into a more prosperous, loving, and connected place for individuals and organizations. In this time of global pandemic, the question is, “What can we do to increase awareness and help small businesses grow and thrive?” Patrick Frazier is an executive coach who brings clients more than 35 years’ experience as a business executive in the technology, banking, and transportation industries. He has served as vice president of operations, director of systems development, and executive coach on high growth company leadership teams. Pat understands how to create award-winning results and cultures. He guides company executives in finding and keeping A-players, getting the right people in the right seats, developing and putting an actionable strategic plan in place, and having the discipline to execute and hit milestones. Pat’s business is The Coaching Authority. You’ll be amazed at the nuggets of information in this interview as Patrick shares Seven Attributes of Agile Growth. Show Highlights: ● Observations from working with small to medium-sized businesses: 95% fail to scale up, and 80% fail due to poor execution ● Patrick’s passion is to help small businesses beat the odds and discover and develop potential, so leaders have the right tools to succeed ● How we can stack the odds in favor of small businesses to succeed ● Seven Attributes of Agile Growth: ○ Leadership ■ Leaders have to be well-balanced and the best version of themselves ○ Strategy ■ You should be able to state in a simple sentence what it is that makes your business unique and different ○ Customers ■ Who is your ideal customer? What is your promise to them? ○ Execution ■ What are your priorities, metrics, and communication rhythms? ○ Cash ■ Do you have enough to fuel your growth? ○ People ■ People are the heartbeat of any business. Assess your staff regularly and coach them daily to attract, retain, and develop the best (and let go of the rest!) ○ Systems ■ Use processes that are repeatable and scalable. (Think of the acronym, SYSTEM--”Saves you stress, time, and money.”) ● Patrick shares other concepts to pay attention to so you can be a company that WINS Resources: Website: https://coachingauthority.net/ (The Coaching Authority) Free 7 Attributes of Agile Growth assessment: Text: Getacoach to 31996 Free 3-minute coaching session: MeetCoach to 31996 Email: Patrick.s.frazier@comcast.net Twitter Name @CoachFrazier Linked In Contact/Name https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-frazier-0b82b48?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_profile_view_base_contact_details%3BmVZzNTqBQLuWfbl1GgRSUA%3D%3D (Patrick Frazier See Profile on LinkedIN) https://www.facebook.com/TheCoachingAuthority/?eid=ARBpwwsbWde0y2vVKdH-KBCNVngxDT_1Bn2g3_cnPBblV9zJZ1VP8jn-pYbyrk2X5vSdxXY9vGUJnXqM Patrick Frazier (The Coaching Authority) https://www.amazon.com/Inside-Advantage-Strategy-Unlocks-Business/dp/007149569X (The Inside Advantage by Dave Conti) https://www.amazon.com/Your-Oxygen-Mask-First-Leadership-ebook/dp/B076TBQP61 (Your Oxygen Mask First by Kevin N. Lawrence) https://www.amazon.com/Five-Dysfunctions-Team-Leadership-Lencioni-ebook/dp/B006960LQW (The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick M. Lencioni) https://www.amazon.com/Multipliers-Best-Leaders-Everyone-Smarter/dp/0061964395 (Multipliers...
With every week’s show, I hope to provide a valuable takeaway for you. My desire is that you’ll find a helpful perspective to apply to your coaching skills, coaching business, and leadership style. Today’s show follows that same pattern as we look at the limiting beliefs and self-sabotaging behaviors that keep us from properly valuing our skills, products, and services. Reese Evans is a Master Manifestation + Abundance Coach and creator of the YES SUPPLY METHOD. Reese is on a mission to teach the world the power of the subconscious mind and the universal laws to create the life you were meant to live. Reese is going to share about her journey and how she was led to the place she finds herself today. Through her path from a job in which she wasn’t happy, she went to create a multiple six-figure company where she can bring coaching forward and teach others her method, which has an amazing ripple effect. Reese will talk about the sabotage we engage in with our mind chatter regarding the sales conversation. We start there, but we branch into other rich topics for you to consider asking a client to work with you. Show Highlights: ● Reese’s story of landing in the coaching profession: from an unhappy job situation to the video blog for entrepreneurs that created a community ● Reese’s tips about blogging: ○ Look to solve a big problem ○ Know your audience and be intentional about your message ● Why launching small is the way to go ● How Reese started coaching people who reached out to her because of her blog ● How a growth mindset helped Reese to overcome obstacles and accomplish her goals ● How Reese empowers clients with their mindset and personal identity first---and THEN tackles their behaviors ● The difference between being a coach and a consultant ● Problem #1: The societal programming that self-sabotages the sale (“When did we decide that selling is bad?”) ● The mind shift that needs to happen to ask someone to invest in you ● Look at allowing someoner to invest in you as a gift or service to them ● Problem #2: Entrepreneurs haven’t truly fallen in love with their product or service ● Things to say to encourage people to work with you: ○ Ask about their goals and obstacles ○ Show them how you can help them ● Realize that whatever you charge will be insignificant to the amount of value that the client will get ● “Be an example of what can happen when good people get money. Use that money to invest in programs and certifications that allow you to empower more people.” Resources: Reese’s website: https://www.yessupply.com/ (Yes Supply) Twitter: https://twitter.com/yessupply (Yes Supply) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yessupply/ (Yes Supply) Join us for Wednesday’s Wisdom: https://www.facebook.com/STaRCoachShow (Facebook: STaRCoachShow)
One of my goals for SCS is to bring more confidence and competence to you as you develop the skills and tools that add brilliance to your coaching journey. Today’s show highlights the value of a global community of actively participating coaches. My guests are Josh Lissauer and George Nuthu, global co-leaders of the ICF’s Ethics Community of Practice. We’ll talk about how you can access valuable resources and learn how the umbrella of ethics affects how we conduct ourselves with sensitivity to cultural differences, maintaining privacy, and showing authentic truth in who we are. We’ll also talk about the benefits of belonging to a global community with specific standards and why we need to understand the code of ethics. George Nuthu joins us today from Africa. He has volunteered with committees and organizations within the ICF as a global volunteer and consultant. George is a leadership development coach whose mission is to inspire and influence leaders to discover their potential, passion, and performance so their teams can deliver the highest productivity and profitability. Josh Lissauer is a certified professional coach whose focus is to serve and support the global community in career and life transitions. Josh volunteers at the Long Island ICF chapter. Show Highlights: ● The background of the ICF Communities of Practice and the resources available for coaches ● How George became a volunteer and then a leader in the Ethics Community of Practice ● What George gained in meeting with coaches from all over the world ● From Josh: how ethics support the coaching industry with standards, guidelines, and procedures ● The value of ethics in providing guidelines for how we should behave as professionals ● How ethics standards are relevant in today’s world of online interaction ● How ethics share values with the ICF’s core competencies ● The confusion when coaches identify themselves incorrectly as “ICF-certified” ● How a coach can post an ethics question (or find an answer to a question) on the ICF global website Resources: Where to find https://coachfederation.org/communities-of-practice (Communities of Practice) https://ke.linkedin.com/in/georgenuthu (Connect with George) https://www.linkedin.com/in/jalcoaching (Connect with Josh)
As coaches, we know how essential it is to build relationships and work one-on-one with our clients. One way to step up your game and get your message across is through public speaking engagements. Speaking to a crowd maximizes your influence far beyond the one-one-one platform. Another benefit of speaking publicly is attracting clients who want to work with you. Join us to learn more! Anthony Lee is the founder of the Heroic Voice Academy, a communications training company. He’s an expert in preparing clients for high-stakes presentations like conference keynotes or the coveted TEDx presentations, where you want to capture and enthrall an audience in under 18 minutes. The specialties of the Heroic Voice Academy include conference training, investor presentations, and media interviews. Their clients have made significant impact in areas like animal welfare, employee experience, entrepreneur education, mental health, and the future of food. You’ll hear Anthony’s desire to make the world a better place and work with organizations that make a difference. The Heroic Voice Academy offers presentation training programs, executive communication training, and coaching/event production consulting. Anthony offers a free download for SCS listeners to help us have strong communication; see Resources for this episode for more information. Show Highlights: ● The story of how Anthony came to where he is today ● How Heroic Voice Academy prepares leaders for their most important conversations ● How an opportunity to speak on stage is a chance to get a lot of information across to your audience in a short amount of time ● Anthony’s “Three V’s” message: ○ Their vision: Where are they going? ○ Their values: What do they care about? ○ Their vow: How can I count on them? ● The importance of coaches knowing how to engage with others ● How to apply Anthony’s 3V message to the work of coaching ● What poor presenters fail to do ● Anthony’s connection triangle for presenters ● How expertise and passion help you connect with your audience ● Why relatability and empathy help you make a connection ● The role of storytelling in making connections ● What coaches need to know about connecting through speaking ● The need to curate information and engage with your audience ● How to prepare a long-form keynote by having a well-prepared short-form keynote ● Key questions that a leader needs to answer in any presentation ● Anthony’s free download on how to construct your message ● Anthony’s final words of wisdom for coaches: ○ Charge full price and accept multiple currencies ○ Find clients with a vision ○ Find clients who bring out your best Resources: Product Giveaway - Slideshare "https://www.slideshare.net/AnthonyLee112/delivering-a-town-hall-presentation-be-a-heroic-voice?ref=https://www.slideshare.net/AnthonyLee112/slideshelf (How to Deliver a TownHall Presentation)" Other offerings on Anthony’s website: https://www.heroicvoice.com/Office-Hours ( )https://www.heroicvoice.com/Office-Hours (Heroic Voice) JOIN US for WEDNESDAY’S WISDOM FB LIVE at 9 am CT/10 am ET on the STaR Coach Show pagehttps://www.facebook.com/STaRCoachShow ( )https://www.facebook.com/STaRCoachShow (Facebook: STaRCoachShow)
I’ve been busy setting up interviews for summer episodes, and I’m so excited about what’s coming your way! As I’m setting up a new website for my business, I’m doing a lot of writing, which makes today’s show extremely timely and relevant. How do you feel about the copy on your website? Does it attract the clients you want? Join us as we discuss all things copywriting! Megan Kachigan is the owner of Megan Kachigan Copywriting. She creates content for coaches that generates revenue and optimizes automation. In today’s show, Megan talks about the importance of writing content in such a way that readers turn into clients. She’ll share five key elements of compelling copywriting, how you can access free templates for writing content, and what to expect should you choose to work with a copywriter. Show Highlights: ● Copywriting 101: What is copywriting all about? ● How copywriting for coaches can help with websites, emails, automated sales pages, and Facebook ads ● Five essentials for creating content: ○ Use a juicy hook or headline to get readers’ attention ■ Know your audience, their pain points, and their motivation so you can meet them where they are ■ Overcome the fear of being too specific with your niche ○ Create an emotional connection ■ Tell a story to illustrate a problem and a solution that you can provide for them ○ Offer them proof of your work ■ Use testimonials, case studies, graphs, and statistics to remove doubt ○ Tell the benefits and features of working with you ■ Highlight both tangible and intangible benefits ■ Cite the results you’ve gotten for other clients ○ Have a clear call to action (CTA) ■ Be a leader and ask the reader to take the next step with you ● Why simplicity, authenticity, and clarity are important in all of your content ● What it’s like to work with a copywriter: ○ How different ranges and levels of services are offered, depending on what you need ○ How the copywriter becomes an extension of you ○ How a customized plan is developed for your business Resources: Megan’s website: http://www.megankachigan.com/ (Megan Kachigan) Free Content Templates available at http://www.megankachigan.com/free-content-templates/ (Megan Kachigan: Free Content Templates) Join us for Wednesday’s Wisdom Facebook LIve at 9 am CT/10 am ET on the STaR Coach Show page at https://www.facebook.com/STaRCoachShow (Facebook: STaRCoachShow)
Here we go! Today’s episode is another informative show with creative ideas to consider as you settle into being a successful and profitable business owner. Mariana Ruiz is a certified business coach and consultant, international bestselling author, and the founder and CEO of The Impact Driven Entrepreneur. Her company is on a mission to transform coaches into thriving CEOs. We’ll talk about building a team for your business with a foundation for documenting each of your processes as you add new team members. We’ll walk through many options, so there will be plenty of food for thought and action steps to take to help your business grow and thrive. Show Highlights: ● Mariana’s journey into business ● Her motivation to impact coaches and consultants ● How to think like a CEO: ○ Realize that PEOPLE grow businesses, and not just one person ■ At some point, you will need a team ○ Start documenting your processes for everything ■ Break down every task into basic steps ○ Consider how to train others to work for you, even interns ■ They can learn from you while taking some of your workload ● Considerations in expanding your team by hiring a VA; make sure it’s someone who fits into your culture and is a type-A high achiever ● How to handle references for potential new hires ● How to get clear and ask the right questions in interviews ● The most important qualities to look for with your first hire or intern ● How to direct and manage your people once they are hired ● The time and energy investment required to get your business where you want it to be ● The importance of YOUR brain management---get a coach! Resources: https://www.impactdrivenentrepreneur.com/ (Impact Driven Entrepreneur) STaR Coach Listeners: Join me for Wednesday’s Wisdom on Facebook Live every Wednesday at 9:00 am CT on the STaR Coach Show page at https://www.facebook.com/STaRCoachShow (Facebook: STaRCoachShow) https://www.amazon.com/Profit-First-Transform-Cash-Eating-Money-Making-ebook/dp/B01HCGYTH4 (Profit First: Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine by Mike Michalowicz)
As always, we are focused on bringing you great content and shining it forward. In today’s show, we look at a different strength that can impact others significantly with a valuable perspective. Join us to learn more! Layne Booth is CEO and Business Growth Strategist of The Project Booth, a business consulting company that uses proven metrics and data to bring business owners to the next level in their business. Layne shares how we can strategically plan operations and actually get a visual road map of our forward movement in our business by making data-driven decisions. If this isn’t your forte, then you’ll be grateful that there are people like Layne who speak that language. Layne is passionate about being a guiding light for businesses and helping success-minded business owners eliminate their overwhelm by making good decisions. She also brings forward wisdom about straddling corporate America while starting your own business on the side. This show will be helpful for any of you who are in that place of transition to your own business on a full-time basis. Show Highlights: ● Layne’s journey from corporate America to finding joy as an entrepreneur ● What lit Layne up with passion and purpose ● How Layne began to question her 60-hour workweeks in the corporate world ● Balancing a corporate position while launching into an entrepreneurial journey ● How Layne launched her business in 2017 ● How Layne knew it was time to go out on her own ● The financial structure to put in place ahead of launching out on your own ● Why you should start with one client and focus on quick, high-impact wins ● How to customize a plan to target your client’s struggles ● The importance of clarity coupled with creativity ● How to build your core message around one tangible skill ● What to focus on to help clients leverage their business ● The ABCs of KPIs in your business: audit and analyze, tie it to the bottom line, and make clear and confident decisions ● Leveraging your services for maximum profitability ● Layne’s advice for scaling your business: “Be clear about where you are now and where you want to be.” ● Layne’s business and what she does to help clients scale to the next million Resources: https://www.theprojectbooth.com/ (The Project Booth) STaR Coach Listeners: Join me for Wednesday’s Wisdom on Fb Live every Wednesday at 9:00 am CT on thehttps://www.starcoachshow.com/contact/ ( STaR Coach Show page.)
Today’s show covers a topic relevant to all aspects of coaching. If you’ve wondered about expanding into mastermind groups, or thought about how that would work for your coaching business, then this is a show you can’t miss. Ronan Leonard co-founded Trnsform to solve the biggest problem in business, which is how to increase trust. He has pivoted to focus on mid-sized businesses, helping identify underperforming strategies or new growth ideas. He’ll share tips on leveraging your business through different services we offer. We’ll discuss the benefits of mastermind groups, in which you transition from one-on-one coaching to coaching larger groups of people. Ronan brings much knowledge and creativity to our conversation, so join us to learn more. Show Highlights: ● How Ronan became interested in masterminds after “stumbling around” in various professions ● How mastermind groups became Ronan’s sweet spot ● What a mastermind group is ● The most powerful aspect of a mastermind group ● How a mastermind differs from a course ● Important things to consider about a mastermind group ● Why it’s OK to have specific expectations of your mastermind ● How the accountability factor shows up in a mastermind ● The necessary mindset for a successful mastermind ● Why relationship building is the key ● Working on a mastermind group as part of our coaching service offerings ● What it means to leverage your business ● How we can get creative with our intellectual property Resources: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronan-leonard/ (LinkedIn: Ronan Leonard) Websites: https://eccountability.io/ (Ronan’s company website) calendly.com/eccountability/return-on-intellect-discovery-call (Book a FREE strategy session) Twitter: Eccountability
We continue to explore the different skills that make us stronger as coaches. Today’s show is specific to the topic of organizational development. We’re discussing the way leaders can better engage with their talent and resources within an organization to increase productivity, motivation and collaboration. Dr. Edie Goldberg is president of E.L. Goldberg & Associates, and she’s a nationally recognized expert in human resources, talent management strategies, and organizational effectiveness. She’s the co-author of the brand new book, The Inside Gig: How Sharing Untapped Talent Across Boundaries Unleashes Organizational Capacity. Edie earned her Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the University of Albany, and she’s the recipient of HR People + Strategy’s Lifetime Achievement Award and a Fellow of the Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology. Show Highlights: ● How Edie’s book serves many different audiences regarding many aspects of the coaching profession ● How Edie came into the field of talent management ● How Edie serves both companies and individuals ● Edie’s talent operating model to raise skill levels and help HR see the future ● The key for leaders to consider in bringing new talent to their companies is the need for agile learners ● The statistics: 67% of employees think learning and growth is important to their careers, and 97% say they will stay with a company that invests in their career ● How to determine someone’s learning agility ● The problem: companies don’t know the talent they have under their roof already ● How managers become territorial about their people ● Why companies are resistant to cross-company collaboration ● The benefits of working together to achieve optimal outcomes ● The principles in Edie’s book for building confidence and flexibility ● The foundation of Edie’s system is that projects can be done faster when people’s skills are matched with projects Resources: The Inside Gig: How Sharing Untapped Talent Across Boundaries Unleashes Organizational Capacity by Edie Goldberg and Kelley Steven-Waiss Linkedin: Edie Goldberg Ph.D. http://www.elgoldberg.com/ (E. L. Goldberg)
I’m always excited to help you learn more about particular coaching niches. In today’s show, we learn more about agile coaching. Join us! Cherie Silas is a Master Certified Coach and a Scrum Alliance Certified Enterprise Coach. She has a strong desire to help people arrive at the place where they define success in their personal and professional lives. Her goal is to invest the experience and talents she has gathered through the years of learning into the people she hopes will become greater than she could ever dream of being. Cherie is committed to the profession of coaching and what coaching can bring forward. She is currently focused on training agile coaches in the art and discipline of professional coaching. Cherie is the founder and head coach of Tandem Coaching Academy, which is an affiliate program of Coaching4Today’sLeaders. It’s an ACTP program that is certified through the ICF. In today’s episode, we’ll explore what coaching can do in organizations, and what makes someone an agile coach. Show Highlights: ● Cherie’s recent achievement as a Master Certified Coach ● What led Cherie into the coaching space ● What agile coaching is and how it helps organizations make sustainable change ● Five roles of the agile coach: consultant, teacher, mentor, facilitator, and coach ● How organizations learn about agile coaching ● The value of systems coaching ● The structure of an agile coaching system ● How agile coaching is changing the ways companies operate and do business ● How to address the fear of change with a move to agile coaching ● The growth that goes into becoming an agile coach ● How to learn more about agile coaching, which takes training and an investment of time, money, and practice Resources: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cheriesilas/ (Linkedin: Cherie Silas) https://tandemcoaching.academy/ (Tandem Coaching Academy) Essence of Mastery Summit 2020:https://essenceofmasterysummit.com/ref/MegRentschler/ ( )https://essenceofmasterysummit.com/ref/MegRentschler/ (Essence Of Mastery Summit) Coupon code “meg”
Today’s show is fun and different as the tables are turned on me. Jean Oplinger, Master Certified Coach and Episode 176 guest, interviews me about how we can coach through fear, a timely topic as we function through a global pandemic. Show Highlights: ● Why we need to address the subject of coaching through fear ● Why most negative emotions (panic, anger, frustration) are fear-based feelings ● What we should pay attention to with our clients ● How a coach can help when a client feels fearful by using tone, presence, and holding space for emotions, but not trying to “fix” the fear for them ● The importance of managing emotions and being curious with your coaching presence ● The value of listening, in being a safe and trusted space and being OK with silence ● Having courage as a coach to own the vulnerability ● Indicators that the emotion might be a mental wellness issue and a referral might be needed ● How emotions and anxiety can make people feel stuck and pull them away from day-to-day function ● Questions that coaches can ask about what they notice with clients ● How to coach through fear to ground the client to move into the future with calm, reason, and freedom ● Why it’s OK to ask about the support that clients need from their coach and other people around them Resources: Link for Jean’s show: https://www.starcoachshow.com/episodes/176-top-10-lessons-learned-from-my-20-years-coaching-jean-oplinger-mcc/ (Star Coach Show: Episodes 176: Top 10 Lessons Learned From My 20 Years Coaching Jean Oplinger Mcc) Need Mentor Coaching? Mentor Program enrolling now:http://www.starcoachshow.com/?page_id=1569&preview=true ( )http://www.starcoachshow.com/?page_id=1569&preview=true (Star Coach Show: Coaching Programs)
In these uncertain times, my heart is with all who are suffering across our country and the world. I am dedicated to keeping you connected to the coaching field no matter what we face, and being a masterful coach has never been a more relevant topic than it is right now. Let’s explore this subject together! Judith Duhl is the founder of Crossing the Thresholds of Your Life: From Transition to Transformation. She’s been called “The Soul Whisperer,” and has over 20 years of coaching experience. Judith is also a Certified Professional CoActive Coach, having attended the Coach Training Institute and receiving her Master of Coaching Certification in 2006. Judith brings a depth of experience to today’s show in explaining how to be open, vulnerable, and still. She is also a speaker at The Essence of Mastery Summit, a quality training that I highly recommend. Show Highlights: ● How Judith’s journey led her into the field of coaching ● How master coaches can impact others by meeting clients where they are ● How to use obstacles in our coaching as new opportunities ● Why we need to learn to be still ● Why clients relax when a coach invites them to be present without needing to change ● The power to be found in befriending failure ● How accepting your own failure impacts the way you coach others ● Why Judith encourages herself and her clients to take more risks ● The value of being in relationship with risk, challenge, failure, and obstacles ● Creating the space for everything to show up ● The dynamic of the coach and client in “the healing work of a lifetime” ● Why it’s OK not to know what happens next, especially in uncertain times ● How to “create from” rather than “react to” Resources: http://www.starcoachshow.com/ (Star Coach Show) Find the STaR Coach Show Facebook page for information on Wednesday’s Wisdom, a live Q & A every Wednesday at 9 am https://www.linkedin.com/in/judithduhl/ (LinkedIn: Judith Duhl) https://www.facebook.com/CrossingThresholdCoaching/ (Facebook: Crossing Threshold Coaching) https://judithduhl.com/ (Judith Duhl)
We are in the middle of difficult times in our world as an unseen illness ripples through and mandates increased isolation. Even though there are many serious issues on our minds, the truth is that we need community right now--in every sense of the word. In these desperate times and across every niche, coaches are needed right now more than ever. Dr. Val Hastings is a Master Certified Coach, and he’s the founder and president of Coaching4Today’sLeaders and Coaching4Clergy. He hired his first coach while pastoring at a local United Methodist Church, and you’ll love the interesting story about how he discovered the power of the coaching process. Val is the author of numerous books and has developed four coach training programs, all accredited by the ICF and currently offered on five continents. He has seen an incredible ripple effect of his global approach with coaching programs, which has expanded his influence to unimaginable heights. Show Highlights: ● Val’s work with the specific population of faith-based organizations, and how he entered the coaching profession ● How Val continued as a pastor while beginning his coaching career by coaching 38 people over 18 months ● How coaching is impacting faith-based organizations with its popularity ● Val’s program of working with leaders in faith-based organizations to empower them to coach ● Why denominational leaders want to have coaching skills ● Why Val went for the top certification as a Master Certified Coach ● How coaching works in faith-based organizations in specific ways ● Why people don’t think the faith-based coaching niche can be profitable---but they are wrong! ● Why there isn’t a price tag on having your pastor be focused, sharp, healthy, and at his/her best ● The interesting prevalence of ADHD diagnoses among pastors, and how coaching can help with their focus ● Val’s global teaching and coaching, which happens both in-person and online ● The pushback Val experiences from some pastors who want their team to be coached, but not themselves ● How Coaching4Clergy began in 2001 ● How current events convince clergy that now, more than ever, coaching is relevant and necessary ● How we can be creative and focused in the way we help our clients Resources: Email: val@coaching4todaysleaders.com Websites: https://coaching4clergy.com/ (Coaching4Clergy) and https://coaching4todaysleaders.com/ (Coaching4TodaySleaders)
We are facing unprecedented challenges in our communities, nation, and the world as the coronavirus emergency necessitates changes in the way we live and operate. Talking to today’s guest let me know that now is the perfect time to hear his wisdom. Jonathan Slain is the author of a new book, Rock the Recession: How Successful Leaders Prepare For, Thrive During, and Create Wealth After Downturns, which is already a #1 Amazon bestseller. Jonathan coaches high-growth leadership teams across the US in his copyrighted program, the Entrepreneurial Operating System called “Traction.” He’s here to share with us today how we, as business owners, respond when crises hit and create a recession. Jonathan shares about Black Swan events and how they can come up at any time. There are elements of this interview that are difficult to hear, and Jonathan offers strategies that might feel difficult to handle. Please take what you can from this interview, explore these ideas, and decide how you want to show up in the middle of chaos and crisis. One way we can get through a difficulty together is to support each other, so this podcast will continue to be there for you as we move forward. Show Highlights: ● Fact: We never know when the next recession is coming, but we can look for black swan events as clues ● How Jonathan got into his work back when he owned several gyms and a recession hit ● Decisions to be made into today’s economy ● Things for coaches to remember: ○ The intellectual property we create is valuable for our clients ○ Businesses that do well in recessions do NOT cut their marketing dollars ● How we make our coaching too valuable for a client to let it go ● Why Jonathan’s coaching approach has become more directive because his clients want tactical advice---not philosophy ● How Jonathan uses the “emergency brake” with his clients--with a four-tiered plan ● Why clear decisions need to be made far away from panic ● Jonathan’s valuable resources: Check out his free assessment! ● The massive opportunities to be found in times of recession ● How you can be the coach that helps clients rock the recovery Resources: Link for FB Live with Meg Wednesdays at 9:00 am CT :https://www.facebook.com/STaRCoachShow/ ( )https://www.facebook.com/STaRCoachShow/ (Facebook: STaR Coach Show) Use Coupon Code “STaR Coach” athttp://www.recession.com/shop ( )http://www.recession.com/shop (Recession) to get 30% off the Rock the Recession workbook or other products. Check out Jonathan’s Free Assessment of your Recession-Readiness Score at http://www.recession.com/ (Recession) Social links: https://www.facebook.com/RockTheRecession/ (Facebook: Rock The Recession) https://www.linkedin.com/company/rock-the-recession/ (Linkedin: Rock The Recession) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkAKdWaeESrylXXpQCD6DPQ (Youtube Channel)
During this difficult time, many people are affected, and so many things are uncertain about the future. We remain committed to bringing you strategies, tools, and resources to help in your business, and we send our best wishes to all of those who are struggling. Jean Oplinger is a Master Certified Coach with over 20 years’ experience in the coaching field. She brings her energy, attention, and top ten learnings about what she’s learned in building her coaching business. Jean will share with us how she connects with clients and how we can partner with our clients, along with taking care of ourselves so we show up in the best way possible. She’s known for being trustworthy, attentive, and effective in expanding leaders and teams to see more, be more, and do more. Jean is an Insights facilitator, Master Personal Brand Strategist, and Gallup Strengths Coach. She combines “care and craft” to quickly connect with clients, tap into their authentic strengths, clarify their destination, and initiate action. She will challenge you in your own breadth and depth as a coach. Jean works with Fortune 50, 100, and 500 clients, and she has a healthy family in her life of balance, presence, and great joy. Show Highlights: ● Jean’s story of how she came into the world of coaching 20 years ago ● How Jean wanted to “fill the void” for senior leaders and launched into the coaching profession ● The difference in the availability of coaching resources today vs. 20 years ago ● Three categories of key learnings: business, clients, and self ● Jean’s top tips for business: 3. Structure, 2. Network, and 1. Honor and uphold ICF ethics ● Jean’s top tips for clients: 3. Be real and speak your truth, 2. Be 100% present, and 1. Identify the deepest root of what they want to talk about ● Jean’s top tips for self: 3. Invest in mental, physical, and emotional well being, 2. Restore your energy, and 1. Have your own coach ● Jean’s bonus tip: Be a good listener in your business, with your clients, and to yourself Resources: http://www.visions-in-action.com/ (Visions In Action) Find Jean on LinkedIn
One of the goals of the show is to connect you with great resources to help you in your coaching business, and today’s show is no different. We are talking about how to make those important contacts within organizations to elevate your coaching into the corporate world. John Sigmon is an executive coach, speaker, teacher, facilitator, and organizational transformation expert. His background is in HR leadership, so he has experience in the position of having external coaches reach out about what his company’s needs are and what they can offer to the organization. John will give us the insider scoop on what organizations are looking for when they interview coaches and what you can do, as a coach, to be best prepared for that conversation,. We’ll also discuss the kinds of assessments organizations need and how you can provide those. John will share some strategies and tips that you can use if you want to get into organizations and offer your coaching expertise. Show Highlights: ● Common questions John hears about considerations in the coach/organization relationship ● How to understand the pathways of access into organizations ● Ways to find out what matters most to an organization and their culture, and what it takes to become an external coach for them ● The importance of building a relationship with an organization ● How to know what kind of assessments with which a coach should be familiar ● John’s tips for interpreting competencies ● How to approach the situation when an organization uses an unfamiliar assessment ● Important aspects of the internal perspective ● Steps you should take as a coach in an organization ● The importance of confidentiality in the coaching sessions ● Ways to measure progress in the coaching relationship Resources: Email John: john@sigmonsolutions.com Find John on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnwsigmon/ (John Sigmon) Find John on Twitter: @YourHRIdeas Find John on Facebook: @SigmonLeadershipSolutions
Have you thought about starting a podcast? Do you wonder what the first steps are? Are you looking for ways to attract people to you and your business because of the services you offer and the value you provide? If you answered YES to any of these questions, then today’s show is a don’t-miss episode for you. In this solo episode, I’m covering the steps I went through in creating the STaR Coach Show. I’ve received many questions about what my journey to podcasting has been like, so I’m happy to share those steps with you, along with the considerations you’ll have to tackle if starting a podcast is on your horizon. Show Highlights: ● How the podcasting medium has literally exploded over recent years---and it’s not going away ● Two recommended courses through which you can learn more about podcasting: ○ John Lee Dumas: Podcasters’ Paradise ○ Pat Flynn: Smart Passive Income ● An overview of my journey and the questions I had to ask myself: ○ What’s the topic of my podcast? ○ Who is my ideal client? ○ What message do they need to hear? ○ How often can I commit to doing a podcast? ○ What is my reason for doing a podcast? ● Details and decisions to consider about a podcast: ○ The format, whether solo, co-hosts, or interview ○ Audio/video format ○ Length of the show ○ A name for the show, and whether it matches your website name ○ Expenses for artwork, editing, show notes, hosting platforms, etc. ○ The flow and format of each show ○ Equipment Resources: Podcast hosts: Buzzsprout, Libsyn, Simplecast Podcast courses: https://podcastersparadise.com/ (Podcasters Paradise) https://www.smartpassiveincome.com/guide/start-podcast-pats-complete-step-step-podcasting-tutorial/ (Start Podcast Pats Complete Step Step Podcasting Tutorial)
I love to share with you other coaches’ journeys and stories because I think they can help you get clarity about your next steps. In today’s show, we take an honest look at getting clear about your audience and your message. Join us to learn how to create stellar content that will keep your audience coming back for more! Tiffany Toombs is an international speaker and leading expert on rewiring the unconscious mind for success. She loves teaching how we can tap into our personal potential. For over 20 years, Tiffany has educated and transformed the lives of thousands of people across the world. She’s the author of Stop Being a Selfish Btch: A Comprehensive Guide to Living Your Best Life Through Radical Self-Love. Tiffany’s story of going from zero to a six-figure income in one year is a story that will benefit many in our audience. Tiffany will tell us about the struggles she’s faced on her journey to success and the way she has strategically placed herself in the industry to bring value to her customer base. She’ll share information about repurposing content and bringing continual value through her message. She’s currently focused on her personal life mission to change the world by empowering one million people to live an intentional life aligned with their deepest truth every single day. Show Highlights: ● Tiffany’s journey from zero income to six figures ● Personal events that made Tiffany realize she had been playing small in every area of life ● How healing led Tiffany to NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) ● How she lost everything in Australia and had to move back to Canada with $3000 to her name ● How Tiffany created a value-add session for gyms and yoga studios to showcase NLP techniques ● How Tiffany followed with an ebook to secure contact information ● Tiffany’s general rule about putting out free content ● How to repurpose content to give people what they want ● Tiffany’s specialty: clearing out emotional baggage and mental trash ● Specific ways Tiffany finds content ● Tips about using live videos ● The value of getting on podcasts to attract an audience ● How Tiffany starts a sales conversation ● The importance of building relationships and adding value for future appearances Resources: Tiffany’s website: https://www.bluelotusmind.com/ (Blue Lotus Mind) https://www.amazon.com/Stop-Being-Selfish-Btch-Comprehensive-ebook/dp/B07MNXNYTN/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=stop+being+a+selfish+bitch&qid=1582306773&sr=8-1 (Tiffany’s book) Websites mentioned: https://marketingboost.com/ (Marketing Boost) Keywords Everywhere Answer The Public Rev.
One commodity that is equal for everyone is the number of hours in a day, week, month, etc. If we only have a certain number of hours in the day, then we have a limited amount of time and energy in which to deliver for our clients. Today you’ll learn how to leverage your time and resources to do more than one-on-one work. Kevin Koskella is an online entrepreneur who decided to be free of the corporate world a few years ago. He wanted to leverage his expertise in a place where he was comfortable bringing his knowledge forward. He started as a swim coach and then branched into online offerings, soon realizing the untapped potential that existed in the online world. Now, he helps entrepreneurs be more successful with their client base in the online space. We’ll cover how to conceptualize moving from one-on-one business to a one-to-many approach. We’ll also learn from Kevin what his company, Work Hero, does in providing services for online entrepreneurs. Show Highlights: ● How Kevin journeyed to where he is today, by way of a job layoff, swim coaching, and offering online products and a membership site ● The limit to the expansion of our business because of the number of hours available ● Things to consider about online opportunities: ○ Start small ○ Find a unique approach to solve a problem for your clients ○ Find a way to bring value to your ideal client ○ Leverage social media opportunities to make yourself known ● The advantage of membership sites ● How Work Hero can help with your technology challenges ● Why longevity is an important goal Resources: Website: http://www.useworkhero.com/ (Use Work Hero) Email: kevin@useworkhero.com LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-koskella-406696/ (Kevin Koskella) Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pg/useworkhero/about/ (Use Work Hero) http://www.twitter.com/freedomlovinguy (Twitter)
We love exploring the different avenues at the intersection of being a professional coach and business owner. We know that being confident and competent in our skills helps us meet the needs of our clients, but being a successful business owner requires financial strength. If your business can use some financial fortification, then today’s show is for you! Daniel Blue is the CEO of Quest Education, a firm that helps entrepreneurs obtain capital for their companies. He has over ten years’ experience educating small business owners, and he has a knack for helping individuals get creative with their finances. Daniel joins us today to talk about the many considerations in setting up your business and how to use your assets to continue to grow and bring new offerings to your clients. We’ll also discuss creative ways to secure funding for high-end coaching programs that can help your clients reach their goals. Show Highlights: ● The #1 thing entrepreneurs need to understand is how taxes are different from being a W-2 employee ● Lessons learned the hard way: ○ You need a business bank account that is separate from your personal account ○ You need capital to scale and grow your business, either through a bank loan, credit card, or creative use of a retirement account ● The tax advantage of protection through your EIN as an LLC ● How your coaching clients can afford your high-end programs through a retirement account like a Solo 401K, which is IRS approved, with no penalties or taxes) ● As a business owner, you should outsource your bookkeeping so you can make use of your P & L statement ● Tips for finding a good CPA: ○ Read Profit First ○ Avoid cookie-cutter companies ○ Find a CPA who specializes in working with entrepreneurs ● How Quest Education helps their 1000 clients find and access capital for their businesses ● Daniel’s tips: ○ If you are a solopreneur, look to delegate and outsource so that you can spend your time on your highest producing activity ○ If you have employees, then focus on the culture to share your vision and empower your team Resources: https://www.yourquest.com/ (Your Quest) https://www.amazon.com/Profit-First-Transform-Cash-Eating-Money-Making-ebook/dp/B01HCGYTH4 (Profit First: Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine by Mike Michalowicz)
Today’s show covers the aspect of coaching leaders and managers that makes up a lot of our work with clients. We want to help our clients who partner with leaders and organizations for career development and employee retention, and I’m thrilled to have a talented professional here to share her expertise. Dr. Beverly Kaye is internationally known as a professional who is dedicated to helping individuals, managers, and organizations understand practical how-to principles of employee development, engagement, and retention. She shares with us some vitally important principles that are intertwined with communication and how we show up. We are discussing several immobilizing myths that managers carry into the workplace. Specifically, Beverly shares how we can demystify those myths with tips and strategies to overcome those perceived obstacles and be more efficient in our communication. Beverly received her doctorate from UCLA in 1976, founded Career Systems International, and currently Beverly Kaye and Co. Her wisdom is overwhelming because of her vast experience. She’s been honored by ATD with their 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award for her advanced knowledge and extensive practice across the talent development field. The Association of Learning Professionals also honored Beverly with a Thought Leadership Award. Beverly continues to be a strong advocate for employees and the way we can help organizations and leaders engage and retain their employees. Show Highlights: ● What brought Beverly into this field 40 years ago ● How Beverly became a learning specialist with an emphasis on practicality ● How a busted sewer pipe helped Beverly make some important decisions ● Why career development is so important ● Beverly’s books ● Myths about career development: ○ There’s just not enough time ○ If I don’t talk about it, they may not think about it, and the status quo will be safe ○ Since employees need to own their careers, it’s not my job to plan it for them ○ Everyone wants more ○ Development efforts are best concentrated on high potentials, and most of them have that taken care of ● Six career moves, from Beverly’s book, Up is Not the Only Way: Lateral, Enrichment, Vertical, Exploratory, Realignment, and Relocation ● Why people in an organization want to be seen, heard, known, and understood ● Five P’s about how employees think about their careers: Person, Perspective, Place, Possibilities, and Plan ● Why organizations are responsible for delivering on their promises ● Why Beverly wants all of what she does to be delightfully engaging, deceptively simple, deliberately simple, and decidedly business-centered ● Beverly’s work in support of “the massive middle” Resources: Beverly’s website: https://bevkaye.com/ (Beverly Kaye) Find Beverly on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bevkaye/ (Beverly Kaye) Pam McLean’s episode:https://www.starcoachshow.com/139-exploring-self-as-coach-pam-mclean-ph-d/ (139 Exploring Self As Coach Pam Mclean Ph.D.) https://www.amazon.com/Help-Them-Grow-Watch-Conversations/dp/B00BZD7VR6 (Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go: Career Conversations Employees Want by Beverly Kaye) https://www.amazon.com/Up-Not-Only-Way-Rethinking/dp/1523083484 (Up is Not the Only Way: Rethinking Career Mobility by Beverly Kaye)
We are always exploring different aspects of the coaching industry as we look for those strategies, tools, and resources that make us more excellent as coaches. One unique branch of the coaching profession is the coaching that goes on with “creatives,” which is a broad term encompassing artists of every kind. In today’s show, we’ll help you understand the different niches available within this realm of coaching, along with the creative endeavors of our coaching community. Coleen Chandler is a Professional Certified Coach and a Certified Creativity High-Performance Success Coach. She has a unique ideal client population that is intriguing, and she has an interesting journey into coaching creatives. Working with this population brings unique challenges, which Coleen shares with us today, along with the importance of tapping into and respecting the art. In this interview, we explored her emphasis on creating clarity, confidence, and focusing on the creativity and resiliency of her clients. She talks about the challenges that come with working with this population and how she partners with other professionals to create success in this client experience. Coleen has been a professional coach for over 15 years and has a varied background in performing and financial coaching before she landed in her sweet spot of creative coaching. Coleen is the founder of Your Best Creative Life, through which she uses her multifaceted approach to help her clients balance their professional, creative, and personal lives. Show Highlights: ● How Coleen came into the world of creativity coaching ● How Coleen sabotaged herself because of fear in her early career ● Why Coleen left her creative performing career to get a “safe” degree in finance ● When Coleen’s life wasn’t working for her, she turned to coaching to get her life back in shape ● How Coleen’s creativity blossomed, and the world opened up for her again ● What we need to be aware of in coaching creatives: ○ Have compassion ○ Have faith that their path is right ○ Put the art first ● How to show the creative that their art matters ● How the creative mind works, with high highs and low lows ● The distinction between a coach’s work and a therapist’s work ● Why the coach of creatives has to give strong and unconditional support ● Why creatives might reach out to a coach ● Coleen’s thoughts about the challenges of addiction in the creative world ● Why Coleen’s clients look for the clarity that coaching brings ● Why Coleen’s clients require a lot of relationship work in coaching ● Coleen’s words of wisdom about coaching creatives: “Broaden your horizons. Take chances to be a bolder coach. Do the work to learn more. Don’t be afraid of words like obsession and perfectionism.” Resources: Coleen’s website: https://yourbestcreativelife.com/ (Your Best Creative Life) Find Coleen on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coleenchandler/ (Coleen Chandler)
Today’s show is an unforgettable episode filled with incredible learning. I hope you are always thinking about how you can creatively expand your coaching offerings and your impact. We all want to bring our message to our ideal audience and wow them with it, which is precisely how today’s guest operates. Join us to learn more. Dr. Sherry Yellin has over 20 years’ experience in designing, creating, and delivering learning and coaching solutions to leaders in many industries. Her gift is helping others understand how to do what she does. Sherry helps us identify the right need and the right solution delivered in the right way. You might remember Sherry from Episode 60 when she shared her CRANIUM learning principles with us. Show Highlights: ● How today’s interview shares a different perspective than Sherry’s Episode 60 appearance ● Why the #1 key to impact your coaching is to focus on the right solution for the right need ● How to identify your client’s right need ● Simple strategies to identify the real need, beginning with staying in questioning mode ● How Sherry uses her discovery with clients to identify their need ● How Sherry customizes her coaching to ask deeper questions: ○ Write down the names of those who can be your ideal clients ○ Email them and “pick their brains” ○ Ask them who else you need to reach ● How these invested people will start participating in your program because they know you’re meeting their needs ● Questions to ask in finding the right solution: ○ How can you integrate several solutions to meet the need? ○ What can you do prior to the learning event? ○ How can you follow up with reinforcement? ● The right way: How to design the solution the way the brain works best to eliminate problems and frustrations ● An overview of Sherry’s CRANIUM principles: ○ C--Challenge ○ R--Relevance ○ A--Action ○ N--Novelty ○ I--Interaction ○ U--Using emotion ○ M-Multiple intelligences ● Sherry’s book (2019): Unforgettable Leadership: 7 Principles for Leading, Learning, & Living ● Sherry’s online Fb community: Unforgettable Design ● How you can download Sherry’s ebook, Don’t Be Boring ● Sherry’s parting advice on delivering your message and being unforgettable Resources: http://www.starcoachshow.com/60-design-for-transformation-with-sherry-yellin-phd/ (Episode 60: Design for Transformation with Dr. Sherry Yellin) Download Sherry's Free Tips on Presenting:https://afocusonresults.coachesconsole.com/star-coaches-resource-download---sherry-yellin.html ( Don't Be Boring) Sherry’s book:https://www.amazon.com/Unforgettable-Leadership-Principles-Leading-Learning/dp/1733502009 ( Unforgettable Leadership: 7 Principles for Leading, Learning, & Living by Sherry Yellin) Sherry’s Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/UnforgettableDesign/ (Unforgettable Design) Sherry’s website
We all can use a little more happiness and positivity, right?I have just the right person to help you put more happiness into your coaching practice, along with practical tips to help you be a more effective coach. I hope today’s show will help with your forward momentum and increase your positive perspective. Jim Smith is The Executive Happiness Coach. He’s a global executive coach, speaker, author, and change strategist. Jim works with leaders all over the world to better balance their lives, to improve their leadership skills, and to build more positive workplace cultures. Jim has spent many years in the corporate world, holding executive roles in sales, marketing, finance, operations, and human resources, and he brings all of that experience into his executive coaching practice. Jim has written four books about happiness and leadership, one of which is Happiness at the Speed of Life: 13 Powerful Strategies for Finding Happiness in a Turbulent World at Home and on the Job. As much as I want to explore the subject of happiness with Jim, today’s show focuses on something that challenges most coaches, and that is how to effectively hold the structure of a session, close a session, and use the elements of laser coaching. Jim is passionate about what he does, and you’ll be able to hear that in our conversation. Show Highlights: ● What brought Jim’s attention to the topic of holding the framework of a coaching conversation ● Why you need to have a framework for coaching conversations ● Jim’s Diamond model of divergent and convergent thinking ● What partnering looks like in convergent thinking ● Why you have to trust the process ● Things that might get in the way of closing the coaching conversation ● Considerations in being lasered and focused in our coaching ● How Jim decided to offer three clients lasered coaching for a year---and why he’ll do it again ● Helpful feedback on Jim’s unconventional lasered coaching model ● Why you have to trust that the client is getting what they need Resources: https://theexecutivehappinesscoach.com/ (The Executive Happiness Coach) https://www.amazon.com/Happiness-Speed-Life-Powerful-Strategies/dp/0615289428 (Happiness at the Speed of Life: 13 Powerful Strategies for Finding Happiness in a Turbulent World at Home and on the Job by Jim Smith)
I hope your 2020 is off to a good start and that the STaR Coach Show stays a part of your future as you build your business and strengthen your coaching skills. Today’s show is about advancing the mastery of coaching from transaction to transformation. Teresa Pool, Master Certified Coach, has worked with organizations and executives for over 25 years, helping them to unlock their potential. She’s also the ACTP Director for the University of Texas at Dallas in their Executive and Organizational Development Coaching Program, and I’ve had the pleasure of working with her through that organization. Teresa was a guest on Episode 41, in which we discussed what it looks like to become a Master Certified Coach. In today’s show, she will share gold nuggets with us about the learning plateaus that we hit and the belief systems that get in our way as coaches. We will learn how the key is asking what we can do to explore the shifts that are necessary for our mindset and skillset to move our coaching from successful transactions for our clients to truly life-changing transformation. If you are interested in learning even more, Teresa will tell us about her upcoming workshop in Houston in February. Show Highlights: ● What it means to progress from transaction to transformation ● How coaches might miss out on going deeper with a transformational experience ● Indicators that you’re “lounging on the couch” as a coach ● How coaches can challenge themselves to move to the next level ● Letting go of our needs as coaches to add value, make an impact, and be “good” ● Why coaches need to be curious about the changes to competencies ● Characteristics of transformation in the coach/client relationship, beginning with deeper, broader conversations ● Core beliefs and inner needs that the coach brings forward that need to get out of the way: ○ How to respond to the need to help ○ The discomfort of now knowing all the answers ● How Teresa’s workshop helps coaches identify limiting beliefs and create awareness of a clear path to their own transformation ● “The Coaching Container”--the combination of trust and intimacy to create the environment the client needs ● Why the coach can’t have goals for the client and must release any bias ● Teresa’s two-day workshop in February around the core competencies ● The importance of noticing your plateaus Resources: Register for https://icfhoustoncoaches.org/meetinginfo.php?id=126 Workshop (Houston Workshop)https://icfhoustoncoaches.org/meetinginfo.php?id=126 ( ) Episode 41:http://www.starcoachshow.com/41-becoming-a-master-certified-coach-with-teresa-pool-mcc/ ( Becoming A Master Certified Coach With Teresa Pool, M)CC Teresa’s website: https://www.transitionsforbusiness.com/ ( Transitions For Business)
In this final show of 2019, it’s the perfect time to think about how you want to show up in the new year. Today’s show is about your calling to make a difference in the way you show up with your family, friends, business, and in the world. Rick Tamlyn inspires people to be their best. His compelling purpose is to encourage and assist others in reaching the end of their life and looking back on a great life rather than wishing they had done more. Rick is here to share his creation, The Bigger Game. In 2001, Rick co-created this tool that inspires people from all walks of life to get out of their comfort zones and invent the lives they want. Rick is the author of Play Your Bigger Game: 9 Minutes to Learn, A Lifetime to Live. Rick is a Master Certified Coach, a Certified Professional Proactive Coach through the Coaches Training Institute, where he is an instructor. Rick is doing other exciting work through Produce U, which we might cover in an upcoming episode. In today’s show, we’re looking at what a “bigger game” is and how each one of us finds ourselves with choices to make. Show Highlights: ● How the Bigger Game puts us in bigger conversations with a bigger future ● The two conversations that create our lives and define our existence: the conversations in our head and the conversations we have with others ● Why we, as humans, are here to expand life and create ● Within organizations, how the Bigger Game conversation is different than a strategy conversation ● The Bigger Game vs. the bigger goal ● How The Bigger Game was born out of the Coaches Training Institute with the realization that people who are impact-oriented are the most successful ● The Bigger Game Board, which is a new perspective on the metaphor of the tic-tac-toe board ● The 9 elements of The Bigger Game: ○ Hunger--What are you hungry for? ○ Compelling Purpose--What are YOU about? ○ Comfort Zones--Do they serve my Bigger Game, or not? ○ Allies--Who will help me? Who thinks I’m crazy? ○ Investment--What do I need to invest in to make this real? ○ Gulp--This MUST be, and I’m not sure how this will go, ○ Sustainability--Take care of YOU, and figure out how your impact can go on after you, ○ Assess--How’s it going? ○ Bold Action--Without it, you just have nice dreams. ● Produce U, Rick’s latest version of his Bigger Game ● Why the Bigger Game is a conversation guide to design your life, not fix all your problems Resources: Rick’s book: https://www.amazon.com/Play-Your-Bigger-Game-Lifetime/dp/1401942946 (Play Your Bigger Game: 9 Minutes to Learn, a Lifetime) https://www.amazon.com/Play-Your-Bigger-Game-Lifetime/dp/1401942946 (to Live (Hay House, Oct. 2013)) Bigger Game http://www.ricktamlyn.com/ (Rick Tamlyn)
I’m always interested in helping you build flow into the way you deliver your coaching services to your clients. We want to develop this flow in ways that have proven to be efficient and successful. Today’s guest fits perfectly into these goals. Join me to learn more! Angelique Rewers is CEO and founder of The Corporate Agent. She’s been called “The Undisputed Champion at Helping Small Businesses Land Big Clients” by Inc. magazine. The focus on landing big clients is certainly one we want to cultivate in our coaching practices. I know that landing big corporate clients can be intimidating, so I think Angelique will help us understand more. She’ll cover the conversations we need to have in the “corporate America” space, along with how we meet our clients there and bring value to them. She has groundbreaking global conferences that bring business owners together with major brands like IBM, Intel, HP, Paypal, AT&T, Marriott, and many more. In addition to being named “Enterprising Woman of the Year” by Enterprising Women magazine, Angelique has also been featured by Huffington Post, Forbes, Inc., Lucky, Washington Post, Entrepreneur, CBS, and many more. In today’s conversation, Angelique opens up about how we bring our coaching skills to the sales conversation to bring our clients value, understand their needs, and create a conversation that closes those corporate clients. Angelique has built her company on the belief that businesses, not governments, change the world. She’s also created a download for our audience that you can find the link to in our Resources section. Show Highlights: ● How to begin approaching and engaging corporate clients ● Being proactive in identifying problems and solutions ● Why proposals don’t work--so don’t send them! ● Different conversations to have with a prospective client: ○ The bridge conversation ○ The capabilities briefing conversation ○ The needs discovery conversation ○ The red zone to end zone conversation ● Basic tips for the needs discovery conversation ○ Identify whether the client is ready for this conversation ○ Be proactive in priming your client for this conversation ● The value in relationship-building in coaching ● The immense need for coaches within corporations ● Why you must master business development and the sales process ● Dealing with objections that clients must navigate ● The two most important commodities of your clients: time and brain space ● Why you have to show clients how you are different ● Instilling from the beginning a level of value and leadership to create a comfort level in the relationship dynamic ● Angelique’s tips in readjusting and guiding a client in the “co-creating to 100%” process Resources: http://www.thecorporateagent.com/starcoach (www.thecorporateagent.com/starcoach) Download 7 Simple $100K Packages to Sell Corporate Clients
As we are rolling through December and getting closer to the New Year, today’s show is especially relevant. We’re talking about getting clarity and discernment about your life purpose and staying in alignment with that purpose. My guest today is doing incredible work around this topic, so I’m excited to share it with you! Dr. Bradley Davidson is a former student of mine over a decade ago in UTD’s executive coaching program. Bradley has been a coach for over ten years and currently leads a group of internal coaches at a major financial services firm. On the side, he has a private coaching and spiritual direction practice. Bradley has a passion around life purpose and how we, as coaches, can help clients create clarity around their life calling. Creating the connection between what we do and why we’re here establishes a different kind of energy, and the connection is one that our clients need to learn how to achieve. Bradley has created a download of the major findings from his dissertation research around the roles of caching and the discernment of calling. You can find the link for it in the Resources for this show. Bradley has completed extensive training and certification in spiritual direction at Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University, and he holds the senior-most human resources certification from the Society of Human Resource Management and the Human Resources Institute. Bradley is a Professional Certified Coach through the International Coach Federation, and he brings his incredible research to us today on the show. Show HIghlights: ● How Bradley chose the topic for his dissertation ● How Bradley identified his “createdness” and developed his mission statement ● How Bradley became a coach and decided to get his doctorate ● How Bradley conducted the research for his Ph.D. ● The universal drive (and struggle) to identify your purpose ● Two key concepts of Bradley’s research findings: ○ 1. Components of the coaching process that support the discernment of calling ○ 2. Characteristics of great coaches who support clients in discernment ● The concept of looking inward to assess strengths ● The key to success: the coach’s ability to make the discernment real and tangible ● Examples of Bradley’s work with clients on discernment: journaling and compiling “your river story” ● The secret to thriving is to look inward and connect your purpose to the needs of the world ● Why the coachee has to have a desire for change and a willingness to be honest and open ● Why a coach has to be open to his/her discernment ● Brad’s model for discernment: ○ L--Look inward ○ I--Imagine the possibilities ○ F--Form a strategy ○ E--Executing the strategy ● Results that Bradley sees with his clients Resources: http://www.thrivinity.com/ (Thrivinity) http://www.liveandleadonpurpose.com/ (Live And Lead On Purpose) Get Brad’s https://afocusonresults.coachesconsole.com/star-coaches-resource-download---dr.-bradley-davidson.html (download here)
In this Thanksgiving episode, we’re talking about an incredible superpower that deserves our attention and focus. Gratitude is something that is immediately available to all of us, and sometimes we need a friendly reminder of its impact and power. Join me to learn more about leveraging the benefits of the superpower of gratitude. Show Highlights: ● Gratitude expert, Robert Emmons, identifies two components of gratitude: affirmation of goodness and the recognition of the sources of goodness outside of ourselves ● Why our focus often shifts to the division around us instead of the relationships in our lives for which we should be grateful ● Science has made recent advancements in measuring the impact of gratitude on our brains, mental health, and overall well being ● Benefits to practicing gratitude: ○ The brain is flooded with dopamine, giving a natural high that counters depression and anxiety ○ Emotions shift from negative to positive and build resilience to help us “bounce back” from trauma ○ Other benefits include higher self-esteem and better sleep ● The 2012 University of Kentucky study showing that participants ranking higher on gratitude scales are less likely to seek revenge and more likely to be empathetic to others ● A gratitude practice takes no special training or certification ● Gratitude shares its benefits with both the giver and the receiver ● Ideas for incorporating gratitude practice into daily life: ○ Keep a daily gratitude journal ○ Make charitable donations and/or volunteer your time ○ Tell others that you appreciate them ○ Write letters of appreciation ○ Have a daily trigger that helps you remember to express gratitude ○ Practice mindfulness and kindness to others ○ Release judgment ● What are you thankful for today?
Today’s show is about a topic we’re all familiar with in one way or another. Imposter syndrome is something I’ve experienced, and I’ve seen it manifested in many other coaches. If we’re honest, most of us have had personal experience with this phenomenon, and it seems to be a battle that women leaders often have to fight. Join us to dive into this topic and learn more! Dr. Jennifer Hunt had trained, mentored, and supervised hundreds of medical students, residents and practicing physicians before she became aware of the unexpected prevalence of imposter syndrome. It’s especially widespread among women leaders in healthcare. In addition to serving as the Chair of Pathology at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Jennifer is a sought-after speaker and executive coach for current and aspiring leaders in the field of medicine. She has developed a popular leadership development program for women to address imposter syndrome in their professional lives. The program is called “Unlocking the Authentic Self,” and it feeds into Jennifer’s passion-mission to increase the number of women in leadership roles across all industries. Since imposter syndrome is a big contributor in holding women back from their potential, Jennifer is bringing her experience forward to work with women around this area. Whether you’re a man or a woman, you’ll benefit from hearing what Jennifer shares with us today about the five dysfunctions of imposter syndrome and her practical tips for overcoming this trap. Show Highlights: ● Jennifer helps people develop their skills and fully find what is resourceful about themselves ● Jennifer’s preferred title for imposter syndrome: “Self-underappreciation syndrome” ● How Jennifer began her work with physicians with imposter syndrome ● The intentions behind Jennifer’s program ● Why women and minorities are held back by imposter syndrome ● The five dysfunctions of imposter syndrome: ○ Internalizing emotions as truth ■ Label your emotions and their roots, and use centering, grounding, and power-posing techniques ○ Seeing the super-sized, gigantic inner critic ■ Label the critic, hear it, notice it, and make it speak to your face ○ Showing up to life as an avatar ■ Show up as the real you, and act out of choice, and not habit ○ Using unresourceful approaches to risk-taking and challenges ■ Reframe failure as a step in a process and an opportunity to learn and gather data ○ Having a destructive pattern for processing feedback ■ Cultivate tools and strategies for processing both criticism AND praise ● Jennifer’s 8-week program and the assignments and fieldwork to practice and perfect the tools and techniques Resources: https://www.amazon.com/Thanks-Feedback-Science-Receiving-Well/dp/0670014664 (Thanks for the Feedback by Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen) http://www.jenniferhuntmd.com/ (Jennifer Hunt M.D.) Email: jenniferhuntmd@yahoo.com Twitter: @jhuntpath LinkedIn: JenniferHuntMD
We all strive for success, no matter how we are connected to this field of coaching. How do we achieve success? Is there a formula to follow? Today’s show answers these questions with actionable steps you can take TODAY to build and increase your level of success. Gary Barnes is The Breakthrough Business Mastery Coach. He’s a high-performance business and sales strategist, popular national and international speaker, and author of nine books. His clients span seven countries, and he’s been interviewed and published in many places, including NBC, FOX, PBS, ABC, CBS, and TEDx. Gary is the founder of Gary Barnes International. He’s created several companies over the years, personally selling over $280 million in products and services. Through his life lessons, Gary teaches how we can be seen, be safe, and be relevant, and therefore, be more successful. Gary’s love of adventure is evident. He’s completed a world-class 40-foot firewalk, flown a WWII P-51 fighter, flown on a trapeze, completed a 75-foot bungee jump, and driven in a destruction derby with his car, “The Purple Passion. He’s also graduated from the police academy, climbed a 14,000-foot mountain, and plays the drums. Show Highlights: How Gary determined the three elements of success The 1st step to success: Be seen Why we have to grasp the concept that our clientele needs what we have to offer What makes us shine in a different way How Gary has defied the odds to be seen Why our clients differ in the way they make application of the content we give them With each opportunity, ask, “Does this take me toward or away from my ultimate vision?” Gary’s “Power of YES” philosophy The 2nd step to success: Be safe Why you have to go into any connection with no agenda The key to being safe is active listening Why asking questions is the key to making connections and being authentic The 3rd step to success: Be relevant Ask, “Do people need and desire what I have to offer?” How to connect to people’s pain points A dollar decision vs. a value decision Gary’s tips for focusing on results How clients “borrow” our beliefs Why we need to listen to others more than we talk about ourselves The uncertainty of the gestation period for our clients
It’s always refreshing when someone takes the initiative to develop a new product in the field of coaching. Today’s technology allows creative and innovative ways to enhance our work with clients, and my guest today has truly gone above and beyond to develop a new tool that is meeting the needs of many. Join us to find out more! Neena Newberry is an executive coach who is here to share how she saw an unmet need in her coaching space of leadership development and executive coaching. A 12-time award-winning speaker, author, and executive coach, Neena launched Newberry Executive Solutions in 2008. Her company focuses on her passion for developing strong leaders, especially women leaders. She left a managing and consulting career of over 16 years with Deloitte to build her own company. Neena develops leaders through purpose, presence, and power. She’s an executive coach with proven results. We’ll talk about Neena’s innovative solution to create an app called New Lens. Show HIghlights: How Neena came into the field of coaching Why Neena’s focus is on developing high-performing women leaders The glaring need Neena saw regarding the availability of resources to develop leadership skills The solution: Neena’s New Lens app How Neena initially developed micro-learning content that she wasn’t sure how to deliver Steps in Neena’s journey in developing the app The success of the app with large companies What the app does as a tool for seeing leadership through a new lens How the app suggests action items to help clients achieve results How the app uses assessments to help you prioritize success strategies How everyone using the app begins with two foundational success strategies Why the remaining six strategies are chosen based on your assessment results The confidentiality within the app Why this app is not AI that will wipe out coaching The things that make the New Lens app unique What’s next for Neena’s app Feedback from users of the app A rundown of the app’s success strategies How Neena’s message of “not compromising” has driven her forward Benefits to companies who use the app
Resources: New Lens Leadership New Berry Solutions
Halloween week is here, and we’re playing off that theme for today’s show. It can be an uncomfortable and frightening moment when you ask for someone’s business or ask a client if they want to partner with you in the coaching process. We want to look at different pieces of the ask, ways to get…
How can being fully present help your coaching work with your clients? If you haven’t given much thought to this idea, then stop for a moment and think about it. Today’s show will help, and I have just the person to spur you in this endeavor. Diane Ingram is a Professional Certified Success Unlimited Network…
As coaches, we can never underestimate the value of effective communication. In fact, it’s at the heart of everything we do. We’re diving deep with today’s guest into the art of communication. Steve Knight is an Executive Coach, Business Communications Specialist and INSEAD Adjunct Professor who spent 30 years in broadcast journalism at the BBC…
Today’s show opens a different perspective on living as a coach. What we mean are the ways we, as coaches, put our coaching principles into action with those with whom we interact in our lives on both personal and professional levels. Join us for a look at this topic! Mina Brown is a Master Certified…
I love doing a summary show from time to time. It allows me to choose a topic and mine out gold nuggets to share with you from multiple guests. Approaching a topic in this way gives us a broad perspective with different insights from different guests. On today’s show, we’re talking about using social media…
What lights you up? Whatever that “fire” is for you, can you incorporate your passion into your coaching? Today’s show is all about taking your coaching to another level. Katherine Bock loves the beach! She was creative enough to figure out how her coaching practice could allow her more time at the beach each year,…
As coaches, we know that providing feedback to our clients is essential in helping them reach both personal and professional goals. There are many tools that can be used in gathering that feedback, and we’re focusing on one of those terrific tools in today’s show. Kelly Ross is a coach, learning and talent strategist, and…
What is the value of professional credentialing? This is a question I’m asked often by other coaches. Today’s show focuses on why it’s good to have a set of standards to meet, the changes that are happening within the ICF, and the value of ICF membership. Sara Smith is a Master Certified Coach and Vice-Chair…
Today’s show is a solo episode in which I share five lessons I learned in building my business. I’m sharing an honest look at my journey as I transitioned from therapy to coaching, even the mistakes I made and the things I would do differently. I hope it helps you with the choices you make…
How are you looking at life and its difficulties? The lens we choose to view life circumstances has a great impact on us and the people around us. Today’s conversation is about the journey into coaching through very difficult life situations that became motivators to change and move into coaching. Nancy McKay has had the…
Every coach has concerns about using the best assessments in the most effective ways. There are so many assessments out there, but why waste time with those that aren’t effective? Let’s clear up the confusion and explore one particular tool that I’m excited to share with you! Kathleen Stinnett is a Master Certified Coach. She…
Social media can be a noisy, frustrating, and confusing place for any business owner. Do you view it as a waste of time and something you just wish you could hire someone to take off your hands? If that describes your attitude toward social media, then you’re missing out! Let’s take a look at social…
Coaching touches lives in many different ways. In today’s show, we focus on how coaching can impact the health and wellness of our clients–as well as our own! Dr. Leena Guptha is the Academic Dean of Online Education at Pacific College of Health and Science, and she’s the Chief Empowerment Officer at 2BWell Solutions. Dr. Leena…
If you’ve ever been curious about what other coaches have done to build their practice and be successful, you’ll want to join us on today’s podcast as our special guest is going to share nuggets of wisdom on how to create powerful presentation, facilitation when we’re in front of teams or groups, when we’re individual…
Difficult conversations are part of life. We have varying degrees of conflict both at home with loved ones and in the workplace. Managing conflict is a huge part of what we as coaches help our clients figure out for their growth. Wouldn’t it be beneficial to navigate these interactions with increased awareness, engagement, and alignment?…
I’m always looking to share tools that have been created by experienced coaches to help other coaches in their work. I recently met two knowledgeable coaches at an ICF luncheon and am thrilled to share their latest work and the new book they have written. Dr. Robert Schaefer is Vice President of Client Services at…
Would you say that the human spirit could use some revitalization? It’s an interesting concept to bring to the workplace from the coaching perspective. In today’s show, we’re talking about courage, compassion, inspiration, and aligning with your truth. Andrew Bennett joined us back in Episode 118 to talk about how he uses his skills as…
Happy Birthday to our country! I know you join me in wishing everyone increased understanding, empathy, grace, and prosperity. Increased wellness is just one aspect of thriving leadership, which is the focus of today’s show. Dr. Renee Moorefield is a return guest to the show. She visited us in Episode 102 to give us an…
I’m always looking to share nuggets of wisdom with you, especially those with a practical application to help you take your business to the next level and make your coaching practice even stronger. Today’s show is no different as we’re looking at an interesting topic with a true expert who is eager to share what…
So much of what we do in the coaching field is centered around our outward actions and the techniques we use with our clients. Today’s show, however, turns the focus inward on you: the coach. We’re taking an honest look at the internal aspects of what we know about ourselves. Dr. Pamela McLean is CEO…
Every so often, I like to do a solo episode of the show to talk to you about some things I’ve learned along the way in my coaching practice. In today’s show, I’d like to share some points from a presentation I gave in April at the All-Texas Coaching Retreat around the topic of the…
In today’s digital world, we know we should take advantage of the marketing opportunities that social media platforms provide—but how? They can be intimidating and confusing to figure out regarding your specific business. Let’s learn more! Karen Yankovich is the CEO of Uplevel Media, a LinkedIn marketing firm that delivers profitable, cutting-edge digital strategies. Karen…
In leadership training, feedback is an essential element. The problem is that there are both good and bad ways to deliver feedback. Today’s show focuses on how a coach can deliver feedback in the right way to spur the client and propel them to positive action. LeeAnn Mallory is an executive coach, facilitator of transformational…
Occasionally, I like to do a summary show with powerful key pieces of interviews with previous guests. A summary show gives us a different perspective on a particular topic. Other summary shows include Episode 66 on key business-building tips, Episode 86 on how to use a strengths focus in coaching, Episode 100 with crucial nuggets…
The border between coaching and therapy is often not clear. In today’s show, we try to eliminate those blurred lines and make distinctions between coaching and therapy. We’re diving in, clearing up misconceptions, and debunking five common myths. Steve Coxsey is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Professional Certified Coach. He’s the Founder and President of…
Today’s show is another one focusing on the core competencies of coaching. One of the most misunderstood competencies is direct communication. We are taking a look at how that intertwines with us being culturally-intelligent as coaches. Marilyn O’Hearne is a Master Certified Coach and one of the guests at The Essence of Mastery Summit 2019,…
Many people will go to great lengths to avoid conflict. Today’s show explains how acknowledging and leaning into conflict actually strengthens trust and intimacy in the coaching partnership. We’ll discuss how to set aside assumptions and get to a place of acceptance and openness, not making conflict a problem, but realizing that conflict is part…
As coaches, we know the importance of identifying the strengths of ourselves and our clients. Today’s enlightening conversation shows us how to look through the lens of character strengths, how to build those strengths, and how to understand them better. Dr. Ryan Niemiec is one of my favorite past guests from way back in Episode…
Most people don’t enjoy conflict, but as coaches, we deal with multiple issues around this issue. In today’s show, we’re exploring how our coaching skills can help with conflict management and resolution with a coach who knows how it’s done! Patricia Porter, LCSW, is 25-year conflict management and resolution expert who is known as “The…
How can you be a more successful coach, financially speaking? It’s valuable information, and it’s here for you today! We’re talking about tips and strategies for success whether you’re a small business owner or simply handling your household finances. Candice Bakx Friesen is a real estate agent in Manitoba, Canada. She’s a busy mom of…
This week we are sharing a perspective that may be new to you, may be controversial and definitely needs to be heard. Join us as we dive into a discussion of toxic masculine and feminine energy. We look at how it is impacting our world, our relationships and what we can do to recognize it…
It’s a solo episode today with yours truly. With every teaching opportunity I have, I’m reminded how much benefit coach training can bring to organizations. Join me to explore the value in key coaching principles. Show Highlights: How we can increase awareness of the effectiveness of coaching The most common reactions from leaders when they…
What would YOU want to know from an experienced coach? What questions would you ask? What practical insights would you hope to gain? No matter what might have crossed your mind, you will find answers and fulfillment in today’s conversation with a “coach’s coach.” Molly Gordon is a Master Certified Coach and Certified Mentor Coach…
I’m challenging you to turn the lens inward today as we talk about self-compassion. How kind are you to yourself? Life has a way of demanding our attention, how can we be intentional about self -compassion? The information we explore today is great for our own focus and will help our clients as well. We are…
According to our guest, as coaches we have the capability to catalyze the world to greater well being. What an extraordinarily wonderful and powerful belief. To build that capability, we growth and strengthen the way that we show up to partner with our clients. In today’s show, we are talking about the nitty-gritty of active listening and…
What is the difference between team coaching and group coaching? There might be coaches who don’t truly understand the distinction because these are often muddled together under the coaching umbrella. Let’s discuss these concepts and gain some clarity from an expert! Georgina Woudstra is a Master Certified Coach who first trained as a coach back…
In coaching, we often focus on coaching those that opt into coaching for themselves: leaders who want to achieve more, high potentials to get to the next level, teams who want to fulfill their objectives. What about those people who are struggling and perhaps are on their way out the door? What can coaching possibly…
What are the keys to success in relationships? More specifically, think about the high-performance relationships in your life. How can we be successful in life at work and at home in these relationships? My guest today draws on her experience and personal research into this topic to share practical advice that works from the bedroom…
As coaches, we know the importance of mindset, but do we know the nuts and bolts of achieving the mindset we desire in ourselves and our clients? Today’s show is about the impact of positive psychology on coaching and mindset. We’re diving deep into positivity and sharing some practical tips that you can implement today.…
In each show, we explore different tools, resources, and strategies to help strengthen your skills and create a stronger business. Today’s show is extremely useful, not just for coaches, but for everyone. We’re looking at how we overcome self-sabotage, so we can all learn new skills to help us in everyday life! Mike Bundrant is…
Do you believe in magic? More specifically, do you believe in the POWER of magic? You might be surprised at how the principles of magic play into the world of coaching, inspiration, and unlimited possibility—and that’s where today’s show takes us. Join us for the ride. Andrew Bennett is an expert at building inspiring organizations.…
If we’re honest, we can probably all think of a time when we were encouraged not to express a certain emotion we were feeling. Unfortunately, many children have grown up to be adults who aren’t very skilled in showing emotions responsibly. My guest today is on a mission to bring emotions back—in the best way.…
Coaching for Executives in a healthcare environment – that’s something that Lisa Reynolds is passionate about at CHRISTUS Healthcare. The organization, whose vision is to extend the healing ministry of Jesus Christ, has a roster of board-certified primary care doctors who create innovative health and wellness solutions. Lisa has been with CHRISTUS for almost 18…
Happy 2019! On this first show of the new year, we’re looking at the things that hold you back from having a great website. What are your barriers as a solopreneur? Let’s take a look at how to face these challenges and overcome them! Lucy Horton is full of energy and creativity as a designer…
Today’s show is guaranteed to light up your day, give you new information, and create a new perspective. I have a treasure trove of wisdom from some special guests to share with you, so I hope it impacts you in a positive way. I have decided to provide this special show today and then take…
Here we are, approaching the end of the year and a new beginning. It’s a great time to look at the way we make choices and the perspective with which we see ourselves and the world. In today’s show, we are looking at the concept of living significantly, and within that, the radical gift of…
Public speaking–do you love it? If you don’t LOVE it, then you are probably part of the 75% of the population who have anxiety around this topic. In coaching, public speaking is a big part of what we do; it can be a part of marketing your business and building your credibility. Today’s guest has…
If you’ve been curious about group coaching, then you don’t want to miss today’s show. My guest has tips and advice that cover all the ins and outs of this unique kind of coaching. Join us for more! Holly Williams has a passion to coach leaders to build their leadership capacity in transforming the cultures…
How can creativity be used in coaching? It may not be something you’ve considered, but you’ll be amazed at the excitement and stimulation that creativity can bring to your coaching conversations. Engage creativity and help your client circumvent the left brain logic processor and create more insights and perspectives. Kathleen Stinnett is a Master Certified…
Are you in transition? We all know that transitions are part of life, and they sometimes happen when we aren’t quite prepared. As certain as those transitions are, they usually bring unique obstacles that can make us feel resistant to the change. My guest has made this interesting part of life her work and passion,…
What does it take to be successful in multicultural business? How do you learn to be thoughtful and sensitive about traditions and customs held by other cultures? Maybe you’ve never thought about the coaching opportunities that exist in other countries, or what that might look like. Today’s show gives you a glimpse into the world…
Are you ready to go to coaching school today? This episode is packed with information as we take a very deep dive into the strong and foundational step of establishing a clear coaching agreement. Download the handout from the resource page for a handy reference guide! Fran Fisher is a Master Certified Coach who is…
What would you say is the most important aspect of coaching? What does it mean to be an effective leader? What is the difference between leading and managing? Today’s show covers these topics and more, with great information for coaches and leaders. Beverley Wright brings a unique perspective to coaching. She has experience as both…
Think about your coaching journey. Is it a journey that others can learn from? No matter what the field, all journeys are different and they all have their unique stumbling blocks and barriers. The fun part is how we learn from others’ journeys, understanding what has worked well, what hasn’t, and the questions they bring…
What do most people know and understand about the coaching profession? You may be surprised at how much people DON’T know and DON’T understand. My guest today has taken an “outside the box” approach to using creativity and opportunities to showcase the coaching profession and its potential. She used a medium that we all know…
How do you manage internal conflict, facing the challenge of frustration, confusion and overwhelm? Inside all of us is a collection of internal voices, beliefs that sometimes are in harmony and sometimes are in conflict. They influence our decisions and help us walk the path toward solution. When we become uncertain, stuck, confused and maybe…
What are the key elements of thriving leadership? That’s the focus of today’s show and the life work of my guest. We learn how leadership has changed over the last 20 years and has become holistic and all-encompassing, not just to survive, but to thrive. Dr. Renee Moorefield is CEO of Wisdom Works, a firm…
Have you witnessed the miraculous changes that can occur through coaching? If we take an honest look at true transformation, then we see that the most effective changes that take place are not the outward moves our clients make, but the inward ones. True transformation takes place first in the brain via the new pathways…
Welcome to our 100th episode of the show! I created this platform in order to connect coaches with resources, and that continues to be my driving force behind doing the podcast. I want coaches to know the importance of new learning, of having conversations between and among coaches, to provide avenues to strengthen coaching skills…
What do your dreams mean? Does dream work intersect with the world of coaching? Today’s guest shows you exactly how dream work and coaching can combine to bring meaningful value to clients. Will Sharon spent the first 13 years of his career working in psychiatric facilities, experiencing the clinical side. He was a teacher in…
Do you need more clarity about how to gain more confidence in your coaching business? Today’s show is a solo episode where we’ll discuss how to quiet the self-doubt that seems to reign supreme in our heads at times and how to increase overall clarity. Show Highlights: Five areas where we need to build clarity…
How important is your LinkedIn profile or your website bio? Do they present you as you want to be seen? Do they tell your target audience what you want them to know? Today’s show covers these topics and more, including how you can differentiate yourself from the crowd. Marie Zimenoff is CEO of Career Thought…
As a coach or small business owner, how much thought do you give to your online presence? Can people find you on Google? In today’s world of technology, your website and your SEO should be at the top of your list of priorities, because your clients have to find you! Join me today for practical…
Have you taken the proper legal steps to protect your assets? If you’re a business owner, then today’s show is for you, as we discuss the need to protect your assets, the options available to you, and the dangers of being a sole proprietor. Jason Amon is an attorney who has been practicing law since…
Are you considering hiring a coach for your organization? Do you need clarification on what coaching could do for you and your business? Helping others achieve their maximum potential is one of the many areas in which today’s guest excels and she will discuss the transformational impact coaching can have on a business or organization…
Could you use more flow and organization in your life? How about in your office space? Whether you work at home or not, you probably need help with your paper piles, systems, and structures of organization. This is the show that WILL help! Kathi Burns is a board certified Professional Organizer, Image Consultant, and the…
How can you use your coaching to bring about social change? Maybe you’ve never thought about coaching in that role before, but it certainly can bring awareness to issues that need attention. Today’s show is a powerful interview with lots of practical information and advice on the specific role that coaching can play in addressing…
This week we explore the importance of perspective and mindset. The corporate world is full of opportunity and challenge, how we choose to view and respond to each is key to how we show up and engage with the around us and how we are able to create a path to success. For those in leadership…
What are the challenges faced by our military service members who transition to civilian life? Have you ever thought about this as a potential coaching field? You probably haven’t, unless you are a veteran who has experienced this drastic life change yourself. That’s where today’s guest comes in! Dr. J. Howard works with veterans who…
This week we are re-visiting our interview with Master Coach Judy Feld to acknowledge and honor her recent induction to the ICF Inaugural Circle of Distinction. The Circle of Distinction (COD) program celebrates the best of the coaching profession and ICF. Those invited into the COD are experienced coach practitioners who have made their mark…
What sets you apart as a coach? You don’t have to look far to find coaches of every shape, size, and principle. We, as coaches, know the value that we bring to the world and to our profession, but how do we bring distinction? How do I “stand out” in the coaching world? If I’m…
How many of life’s problems can be boiled down to simple conflict resolution? If we stop and think about it, most likely there are MANY common problems that come down to resolving conflict. Make no mistake about it, though, conflict resolution is rarely a simple or easy undertaking. It takes practiced skill, insight, and vision…
As human beings we are wired to focus on the negative more than the positive, we look for the deficit, the problem, and the “thing” that needs to improve. Perhaps it comes from our inherent need to survive and to tune into those things that may threaten our ability to thrive. Today’s show is guaranteed to…
There is a new acronym floating around the coaching world, and that is VUCA. This phrase describes situations that are Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous. Today, my guest and I are going to talk all about this perspective and how we as coaches can engage with a world that feels more VUCA than ever before.…
What is intuition and how do we use it in coaching? Whatever your approach to coaching, intuition is a tool that you may access to further the coaching process, if we know what to tap into. Sometimes, we need a little help figuring out what that looks like. That’s where this week’s guest comes in.…
Today, we are bringing our focus back to executive coaching! I am excited to take a deep dive into some of the biggest issues an executive coach might face around how an organization views the coach. How can we align needs of the sponsor organization with the needs of our client? My guest today is…
We have so much to learn from the successes and failures of others. As we gather new strategies and resources that you can use to be the best professional coach you can be, we are also collecting stories. Today on the Star Coach show, we have a dynamic guest who is here to share his…
Sometimes, life can feel absolutely overwhelming. Our clients often experience it and so do we as coaches. What can a savvy coach do to continue to do their best coaching work even when feeling overwhelmed? How do we best coach a client who is overwhelmed? This is exactly the mission my guest is going to tackle on…
I am committed to bringing to you the very best resources to grow your coaching practice and would like to shift our focus today to those coaches who are working within an organization. Even if you are not an executive or industrial coach, I think there is so much for you to glean from our expert…
Meg Mann is Master Certified Coach who is passionate about coaching and living a purposeful life. Meg has been in the coaching business for a while. She received her formal coach training in 2004 and has been an MCC since 2008. Meg has been involved in ICF Global events and committees and 4 different ACTP…
Welcome back to another informative and inspiring installment of the Star Coach Show. When it comes to building your coaching practice, you need to have systems and structures in place that help your clients grow. That is why I wanted to take a closer look at some of the metrics we can use within coaching,…
We often discuss the importance of focusing in strengths for our clients, but how often do we turn the lens back on ourselves? Coaches, you can use your own unique strengths to grow your business and strengthen your client base. The same skills that help your clients zero-in on their strengths and talents can also…
So many people are living their lives in a blur, losing their passion and zeal for life. The beautiful thing about a coaching relationship is that we are in the perfect position to encourage and inspire people to follow their dreams. That is exactly the position DJ Mitsch has taken in her book, Zombies to…
If you are feeling overwhelmed and out of focus in your coaching business then it might be time for you to organize for success! I am sitting down with Angela Andrews today, and she is going to help you transform any area of your life with simple, easy-to-use tools and resources that will bring a…
This week on the Star Coach Show, I am excited to bring you another business building strategy! We’ve talked at length about ways to build up your coaching business and today I want to shift our focus to an interesting aspect of business we may not fully leverage. We have unique backgrounds and areas of expertise to that…
We are all energetic beings, and we all bring our energy into a room with us. The coaching process takes a good amount of energy and to be effective we pay attention to the energy that we bring into the coaching relationship. As coaches, we are also responsible for helping our clients manage their energy.…
What is the secret to a genuine connection? I don’t think its similarity, but curiosity. I believe to the core of my being that we are all connected-that every living being is a part of a force greater than ourselves. Society has a responsibility to each other to honor that connectedness and as coaches we…
What does running a business have to do with coaching a baseball team? It turns out, the two have a lot more in common than you might think! My guest today is Earl Bell, author of Winning in Baseball and Business, Transforming Little League Principles into Major League Profits for Your Company. Earl is a…
Relationship Coaching sits beneath the umbrella of life coaching as its own specialty. So many people are looking for happiness in their relationships. Whether they are single and looking to find “The One,” or they are having hard times with their current partner. Deep down, many of us want a partner for life, a soul…
Having a daily mindfulness practice can alter our perception in just about every area of life. We often use mindfulness as a calming or centering practice for our clients, but have you ever stopped to consider it as another coaching tool? Dr. Patricia Thompson visits the show to speak on her experiences combining executive coaching with…
Coaches have the opportunity to make a lasting impact, but we often struggle to find numerical ways to back up our promise. That is why Return On Investment (or ROI) is such a hot topic right now! If you are like many coaches who want to know a little more about ROI and why it…
Today on the podcast, I am so excited to be sharing a brand new perspective with you all today. Let’s take a deep dive into the impact of technology on the coaching business. It’s 2018, and the world is transforming fast! You need to be informed about how the pace of technological development and the…
The Star Coach Show has been gifted with so much incredible wisdom and practical applications for running a coaching business, that I decided now would be the perfect time to revisit some of those key messages. There is so much inherent value in reviewing these episodes for coaches in every phase of their business. I’ve…
It’s a new year, and I know that many of us are working on some brand new goals. The new year sets the stage for our personal growth, but self-doubt often gets in the way of real growth. How can we battle our own self-doubt and the doubts that our clients share with us? What…
Donnie Boivin is a first-generation entrepreneur, success coach, and keynote speaker with over 18 years’ experience in motivating and inspiring thousands of people to get out of their own way and succeed in life and business. He’s known as the go-to coach for helping people achieve higher levels of success by discovering their passions and…
As coaches, we have the ability to help bring our clients to an awareness of emotional intelligence. It is not enough to just make a grade or exhibit a skill. Now more than ever, employers and organizations are looking for someone with a high Emotional Intelligence. Emotional Intelligence Assessments are an excellent way to begin…
As a coach, we have the capacity and the skillset to effect change at any level. When we coach leaders in any capacity, those positive changes trickle down to their organization or company, and revolutionize their success. Executive coaching programs utilize company infrastructure to create a company culture that emphasizes company values and personal fulfillment.…
This is a busy time of year, and there’s usually lots of holiday parties to attend, preparations to make, and time is spent with the people you love most. This is also the time of year that we begin to start assessing how we ran our business this year, and what we would like to…
You are a coach and you want to transform lives with your coaching practice. How are you going to get the message out? What is going to make your content so engaging and dynamic that your audience will be clamoring for more? That is just the tip of the iceberg as far as today’s guest is concerned! You…
What is the value of having an online presence and how can you engage with the virtual world on a way that creates an impression on your target audience? That is the essence of what Mel De Paoli does and she shares her strategies with us in this episode of STaR Coaches. Mel works with her clients…
What do you believe about your clients capabilities? How do we help our clients enjoy sustainable excellence? What does it mean to have personal and professional sovereignty? This week’s guest, Janet Harvey, MCC answers these questions and more as we explore the transformational power of coaching. Janet is a former president of ICF Global and an…
You’re a coach who is confident and well-trained in the skills of your coaching practice, but do you feel just as skilled in building your business? For many coaches, the skill set required to transform lives does not overlap with business savvy. Lucky for us, we have people like Jayne Warrilow in the world. Jayne…
Have you ever been in that place of networking where you feel uncomfortable, unsure, or even out of sorts, when walking into a room of strangers? If so, you will really enjoy listening to today’s interview with Susan RoAne, where she will share some specific strategies, that you can use for working any room and…
Today we have Valerie Sokolosky, a very talented executive coach with so many different gifts to offer, as our guest on the show. This is the second time that she’s appeared on the show and she is back here today to talk about one of her specialties, which is working with Executives around their Image and their…
For Coaches, it is so important that we reach out to our audience in a personal way. When potential clients can see our face and hear our voice, they are much more likely to trust our expertise and advice in the future. One of the most powerful tools at your disposal is Online Video. Have…
Would you like to learn how to partner with your clients in a way that will really help them to transform themselves? Did you know that this transformation actually begins with you and your development as a coach? If so, you will really enjoy this show, Vicki Escude joins us and she talks to us about Transformational…
Would you love to have an online system that could really help you to streamline all the necessary processes for running an efficient Coaching practice? If so, you will really gain a lot from today’s show, because at the ICF Converge Conference in Washington DC in August, Meg met the creators of a software program,…
Are you ready to build up your client base and your credibility without spending a dollar? Do you wish you had the confidence you needed to win people over in an instant? Then we have a fabulous show for you today! Our guest is Patricia Fripp, a legend in the speaking industry who is here…
Welcome to this milestone episode of the show, episode number 50 and thank you all for being a part of it! Our guest for this milestone show is Steve Sosland, who started out in the US Military, as an Army Infantry Officer and is now the Chief People and Performance Officer and also the Founder…
Today we have Jen Thornton, a Certified Strengths Coach, on the show and we will be exploring some of the specialities that she brings into the field of Coaching. Listen in to find out about Jen, what brought her into the Coaching world and how she leverages different tools to differentiate and maximize the value…
The guest for today’s show is Eileen McDonald. Eileen and her business partner, Pilar Angel, are partners at Axeos Performance Institute, in Dallas, where they work with Executives and Business Leaders to help them to become extraordinary every day, by teaching them to understand how their physiology impacts their behavior. Eileen has a particularly unique approach to…
Today’s guest, Michelle “Missy” Gonzales, is the Director of Coaching and Leadership Development in a large Health Care Organization, which has thirty thousand employees. Today, she starts out by explaining what motivated the organization to begin focusing on and investing in the Internal Coaching Program that Missy and her leaders are piloting. Listen in as…
This week, we are excited to bring Kristine Conway to the Star Coaches Podcast. Kristine’s greatest strength is teaching clients how to make choices about the way they respond to events. We all have those moments where we are frazzled, out of focus and out of luck. How do you usually respond? Is it with…
Welcome to this week’s show! Today, we are excited to bring to the show Dr. Lisa Lentino, a passionate therapist and coach who is dedicated to help the world realize self-actualization. As coaches, we know the life-changing power of finding your purpose. So how can we help our clients better become aware of their own talents? What…
Donna Jajonc, MCC returns to today’s episode to discuss applying the concepts around The Power of TED * (*The Empowerment Dynamic), which is a book written by her husband, David Emerald. Donna has spent 15+ years as a professional coach, in addition to her work as a politician, speaker, and author. Donna teaches coaches how…
Today, we’re talking to Rick Carson, the author of the book Taming Your Gremlin: A Surprisingly Simple Method of Getting Out of Your Own Way. Rick’s work is legendary, his concept of helping people to gain freedom from their self-defeating behaviors and beliefs has evolved for him over the last almost 4 decades when his popular book was first published.…
Today’s guest is Donna Zajonc, MCC, she joins us to explore the concepts and roles within drama triangle and the importance of empowering rather than rescuing our coaching clients. Donna starts out by explaining her journey from the drama of rescuing towards healthy dynamics in her own relationships. Listen in as she explains how to stop rescuing…
The guest for today’s show is Teresa Pool and we’re going to be picking her brain today to find out all about what it takes to become an MCC (Master Certified Coach), which is really a pinnacle that many people reach for. There are a lot of different parts that go along with that, some…
Dr. Marcia Reynolds is the expert that organizations call on to breathe life into their connections, conversations, and cultures. She has influenced and coached multiple thousands of people around the world, in addition to writing three books and serving on the International Coaching Federation. She continues to research how coaching can help organizations prosper in…
While today’s guest, Susan Chritton is very well versed in many areas, the focus on today’s show will be on her expertise in branding. Listen in as Susan talks to Meg about why branding is really so important. Today, Susan talks about going to the core of who you are with your brand and looking…
Do you have your Coach Credential coming up for renewal shortly? Are you a little panicked at the thought of that? If so, today’s show will really help you, as Meg will be explaining about managing your credential, particularly when it comes to renewing it. She’s been getting an increasing number of inquiries about this,…
Have you ever noticed any “holes” or problems in something you use regularly? Did you try to fix those problems? Jen Ostrich and Pete Berridge noticed some issues that most 360’s have, so they created their own. Listen to this episode to hear the story of how the Shift Positive 360 came into existence and…
What lies just outside your client’s Comfort Zone? Is it a dream that feels just out of reach? Do you have a vision for your life and your coaching practice, but seem to be unable to stick with the hard work of getting it all done? Then this week’s guest on the “Star Coach” podcast…
How would you like to be personally coached to dispel your limiting beliefs and achieve the unachievable? Listen in today and find out how you can make it happen! This week, Meg is delighted to have Dr. Jayne Gardner back on the show to share her incredible coaching success story that you’ll have to hear…
My guest today is Ron West, a former student of mine in the University of Texas at Dallas’ coaching program. Ron is a successful businessman who made major changes as he trained in executive coaching. He created the kind of business that he wanted, found clarity around his ideal client, and created his “2020 Plan”…
My guest today is Peggy Dean, who has built her 35-year career around coaching with NLP, or Neuro Linguistic Programming. She first learned about the technique in the 70’s, and was immediately drawn to the power and effectiveness of this tool. She began training with the NLP founder, Richard Bandler, and soon became a certified…
The guest on today’s show is Meg’s friend and mentor, Ed Allen. Ed has done many things in his life and Meg has learned so much from him over the years, that she really wanted to have him on the show, to share his experiences with you. Listen in today to find out more. Although…
Have you ever felt like you needed a new paradigm for coaching clients? Shifting from coaching from a place of “what’s wrong” to focusing on “what’s strong” can dramatically change the results for you and your clients. Coaching a client from a place of strengths allows them to flourish in a way that is not…
In this episode, Dr. Bill Behrendt talks about coaching elite professionals who are very strong technically yet may benefit from partnering with a coach to strengthen their leadership skills. One such group of elite professionals is physician leaders. Bill shares his perspective on physicians who are accustomed to excelling professionally yet may struggle with leadership…
Is Divine Intelligence playing a role in your life? Do you know how to tap into Divine Intelligence? Many people find themselves spiritually seeking something, but may be unsure where to find what they are looking for or how to manifest it. Today we are talking about how you can live an authentic life by…
This week’s episode continues our series on Wholeheartedness. This is the concept taught by Dr. Brené Brown, that focuses on owning our stories and choosing to love ourselves through the good and bad. It also focuses on embracing our vulnerability and imperfection. So as a follow-up to last week’s episode, today we are discussing the…
There have been a number of wonderful guests on the show over the past months and occasionally Meg goes solo and focuses on a relevant topic. Meg, who has been trained in both Psychotherapy and in Coaching, has been working with people for for over thirty years, helping them to bring about positive change in…
If you keep hearing that video is the way to go with coaching, yet you find it intimidating and you’re not sure exactly what to do with it, or how it functions, listen in today, and learn how to get going from Meg’s Video Expert guest, Lou Bartone. Lou says that although many people do…
If you’re thinking about expanding your practice to include Team or Group Coaching and you would like to know more about what you can do, in order to get there, listen in to today’s show, with Meg’s guest, Ann Deaton. You will really benefit from listening to her expert advice. Ann was one of Meg’s coaches…
Our world is so connected to the internet that it is almost impossible to live without it. How can social media help you build your business? My special guest to today, Tanya Smith, is going to help us with that. She has helped hundreds of people free up more of their time by using the…
If you’re plagued by past experiences, or you would like to move beyond where you are, right now, listen in to today’s show, with guest, Kathy Sparrow, who appeared on the show a few weeks ago, when she shared about being a coach for authors and explained how to get your book out there, so…
If you would like to learn how to have courage as a coach and get the most out of your engagements with your clients, then listen to this today’s episode with Susan Shapiro, a Leadership and Executive and former president ICF North Texas Chapter and find out how to network with other coaches and to…
If you would like to learn about generational perspectives and find out how this understanding will help you, when coaching your clients, listen in to today’s episode, with Judy Feld to gain a better understanding of the behavioural and thought patterns which are specific to each generation. “Our role as coaches is to guide them…
If you would like to discover a whole new way to reach people and help them get in touch with their feelings, listen in to today's show, with Meg's guest, Max, to find out about Equine Assisted Learning and how it can help you as a coach.
If you would love to focus on the positive, rather than on the problem when coaching, listen in to today’s show, with Megan McDonough of the Whole Being Institute and find out about how you can implement Positive Psychology in coaching and how this can help you to partner with your clients as a coach…
As coaches, we love to partner with clients toward change, to coach people toward next steps, goal achievement and to excel. How focused are we on setting and meeting a business plan that creates clarity and a foundation for our small business? Business Coach, Connie Whitesell, joins the show discuss being strategic with your own…
In today’s episode, Meg hosts a returning guest, Terri Levine, the Coaching Guru. Terri is the founder of the Heartrepreneur Network and works with companies to create 6-7 figure incomes. Terri is sure to fire you up and get your creative instincts going. In her warm and transparent way, she discusses how to gain clarity…
What is the common thread that weaves through your life that makes you uniquely qualified to partner with your target clients? Stories bring us together. Stories allow us to connect with each other, learn from each other, and many times hearing another person’s story gives us a better understanding of who they are. Stories are…
Do you know specifically how you are helping your clients? Can you guide your clients to a specific outcome, even if they can’t articulate the goal? How you deal with these situations in your coaching business will determine how much your business can grow. Today we are talking about growing your business and serving your…
Whether you have chosen to work in an educational setting or not, we all have experience in the realm of education. As a participant in the educational system, it’s pretty easy to spot the flaws. However, when your chosen career is in education and you become a part of the system and in many ways…
Would you like to be free of self-limiting behavior patterns and become the best possible version of yourself? Today, Meg Rentschler, an Executive and Mentor coach and host of Star Coaches, shares a resource that she finds helpful, both professionally and personally, on the last show for 2016.
It's been said that "everyone has a book in them", and as a coach, that may be truer than ever. Have you ever thought about writing a book? Have you ever wondered why other coaches aren't just writing one book, but many? What's it doing for their coaching practice?
So many people seek out coaching to improve their career, business, relationships and other aspects of their lives. Today’s show focuses on a different aspect of coaching – learning to coach can completely change your life. It can help you step into your potential in a way that nothing else can. Today’s guest literally wrote…
Today we present the second part of the Mina Brown interview. If you haven’t already listened to Part 1, please go back and take a listen. In today’s interview, Mina talks about networking, resources for helping clients with their careers, and the difference between a professional bio and a resume. You may not realize how…
Today’s guest is Mina Brown. I’ve known her for years and am so excited to be able to have her on the show. Mina is joining us today to talk about career coaching. The decision process around what type of coach you want to be is worth discussing. This interview is packed with so many practical…
We all know the benefits of having a grateful heart – it improves sleep and physical, emotional, and psychological health; it improves social relationships, enhances empathy and reduces aggression. It also improves self-esteem. The increased confidence helps us to become better coaches. On this Thanksgiving episode, our special guest is Dan Wilson, a very special friend…
Our guest today is Shari Barth, Founder and President of Optimal Training Solutions. They provide training, coaching, project management, and other types of solutions for organizations. She brokers solutions for those companies and helps them have all of the training and support they need. Today’s discussion centers around the importance of identifying the unique skills…
Coaching for Executives in a healthcare environment – that’s something that Lisa Reynolds is passionate about at CHRISTUS Healthcare. The organization, whose vision is to extend the healing ministry of Jesus Christ, has a roster of board-certified primary care doctors who create innovative health and wellness solutions. Lisa has been with CHRISTUS for almost 18…
In this episode, Meg describes a brief history of the coaching profession in comparison to other helping professions. While the fields of psychotherapy and consulting date back to the 1800’s, it wasn’t until the mid-1990’s that professional guidelines began to be established for professional coaching. The International Coaching Federation (ICF) is currently the most…
Renee Robertson is the founder in CEO of Trilogy Development, a boutique learning and consulting firm in Bernardsville, NJ, with a proven track record in designing and implementing internal coaching programs, sales force performance initiatives and talent development solutions. She is also a 2-time winner of the Prism Award from the International Coach Federation (ICF)…
Your STaR coach guest today is Dr. Robert Hicks, the Director of Executive Coaching at the UT Dallas, Naveen Jindal School of Management. His book,“Coaching as a Leadership Style: The Art and Science of Coaching Conversations for Healthcare Professionals” introduces a unique and practical coaching style as a way of interacting with colleagues, managing direct-reports,…
Valerie Sokolosky started her career in journalism and broadcasting and she has published 8 books. She is a popular writer, speaker, and coach on leadership development and personal branding. Her articles have appeared in a wide variety of local, regional and national publications. She founded Valerie & Company in 1981, an international leadership development consulting…
Meg mentions a few details about her introductory episode at the beginning of this episode 1 then she presents her very first STaR coach guest, Cynthia Loy Darst. Cynthia is a life coach for TV shows and was once named as “One of the Top 10 Most Influential Coaches in the U.S.” She had served…
Welcome to the introductory episode of STaR Coaches, a podcast that Host Meg Rentschler, LCSW, PCC recently founded. In this first episode, she discusses the reasons she set up this podcast as a resource for the professional coaching community.
Meg is an Executive and Mentor Coach and licensed Clinical Social Worker. She has worked with others to effect positive changes in their lives for over 30 years. Her work with individuals and organizations to improve their relationship dynamics and create healthier workplaces is one of her true passions. As an instructor in a university-based coaching certification program, Meg is also passionate about helping others build coaching knowledge, expertise and their businesses. That passion is what led to the creation of this podcast.