Professional Christian Coaching Today: Recent Episodes

Chris McCluskey & Kim Avery

Welcome to Professional Christian Coaching Today with Chris McCluskey and Kim Avery, a weekly podcast dedicated to informing, inspiring, and equipping Christians in the art and science of professional-grade Christian coaching. Along with cutting-edge content, you'll hear great interviews with guests such as Dan Miller, Michael Hyatt, Dr. Gary Collins, Kary Oberbrunner, Dr. Marilee Adams, Dr. Richard Swenson, C.J. Hayden and more. Our goal is to raise the standard in coaching and change the world.

As coaches, we know that awareness is the first step toward transformation.

Yet for many leaders, the awareness they most need—the way others actually experience their leadership—remains hidden just beyond their view.

That’s why today’s conversation with Bryan Brown is so essential.

In this insightful and practical discussion, we’ll explore:

Why feedback is one of the rarest and most valuable gifts a leader can receive
The critical role coaches play in helping leaders interpret and apply 360° feedback
Common pitfalls to avoid when using a 360° assessment
How leadership blind spots can quietly derail influence—and how to uncover them
Why trust is the true currency of leadership today, and how 360°s can strengthen it
How often leaders should engage in a 360° feedback process for sustained growth

Bryan also shares a glimpse into a newly developed, Christ-centered 360° tool designed to help leaders grow in emotional intelligence, relational trust, and lasting impact.

If you coach leaders at any level—or desire to—you’ll find practical insights, powerful reminders, and tangible tools you can begin applying right away.

About Bryan Brown:

Bryan Brown, MDiv, MCC is the President and Founder of Coaching To Lead, LLC. With 35 years experience in developing leaders, Bryan enjoys increasing the capacity and confidence of emerging leaders as well as coaching established leaders to maximize their influence. Bryan also enjoys using his experience to work with teams on strategic planning and team development.

Bryan currently serves as the International Director for Life on Life at Perimeter Church in Atlanta, working with pastors and church leaders who seek to ignite movements of Life on Life Discipleship around the world.

Bryan also engages leaders through his private coaching practice, www.coachingtolead.com, to clarify and intentionally pursue their callings. He has also developed the Trusted Leader 360° Assessment to help leaders grow in their understanding and effectiveness.

He has been happily married to Jackie for 33 years. Together they have three children – Abbie, Lindsey and Barker – and live in Johns Creek, Georgia, a northern suburb of Atlanta.

Bryan Brown: www.coachingtolead.com Trusted Leader 360: www.trustedleader360.com Coupon Code: PCCI2025

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As coaches, we know that awareness is the first step toward transformation.

Yet for many leaders, the awareness they most need—the way others actually experience their leadership—remains hidden just beyond their view.

That’s why today’s conversation with Bryan Brown is so essential.

In this insightful and practical discussion, we’ll explore:

Why feedback is one of the rarest and most valuable gifts a leader can receive.
The critical role coaches play in helping leaders interpret and apply 360° feedback.
Common pitfalls to avoid when using a 360° assessment.
How leadership blind spots can quietly derail influence—and how to uncover them.
Why trust is the true currency of leadership today, and how 360°s can strengthen it.
How often leaders should engage in a 360° feedback process for sustained growth.

Bryan also shares a glimpse into a newly developed, Christ-centered 360° tool designed to help leaders grow in emotional intelligence, relational trust, and lasting impact.

If you coach leaders at any level—or desire to—you’ll find practical insights, powerful reminders, and tangible tools you can begin applying right away.

About Bryan Brown:

Bryan Brown, MDiv, MCC is the President and Founder of Coaching To Lead, LLC. With 35 years experience in developing leaders, Bryan enjoys increasing the capacity and confidence of emerging leaders as well as coaching established leaders to maximize their influence. Bryan also enjoys using his experience to work with teams on strategic planning and team development.

Bryan currently serves as the International Director for Life on Life at Perimeter Church in Atlanta, working with pastors and church leaders who seek to ignite movements of Life on Life Discipleship around the world.

Bryan also engages leaders through his private coaching practice, www.coachingtolead.com, to clarify and intentionally pursue their callings. He has also developed the Trusted Leader 360° Assessment to help leaders grow in their understanding and effectiveness.

He has been happily married to Jackie for 33 years. Together they have three children – Abbie, Lindsey and Barker – and live in Johns Creek, Georgia, a northern suburb of Atlanta.

Byran Brown: www.coachingtolead.com

Trusted Leader 360: www.trustedleader360.com

Coupon Code: PCCI2025

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What if coaching wasn’t about having to ask the perfect question, but about trusting the space between the words? What if silence, curiosity, and presence were the most powerful tools in your coaching toolkit?

In this episode, you’ll listen in on a masterfully conducted coaching session with Master Certified Coach Jaime Slingerland, joined by commentary from Master Certified Coach Cindy Schmelzenbach. You will enjoy this rare open window into a deeply moving conversation—one that shows how transformation can quietly unfold when a coach partners with the whole person, not just their goal.

Listen in to discover:

How a coach’s spacious presence can create room for unexpected breakthroughs.
When to gently invite new awareness without interrupting the flow.
The power of noticing what really matters to your client—and staying with it.
Why asking less can sometimes reveal more.

You’ll walk away inspired, encouraged, and reminded that powerful coaching isn’t about performance—it’s about partnership.

ICF MCC Minimum Skills Requirement: https://coachingfederation.org/credentialing/performance-evaluations/criteria-for-assessing-mcc/

About Jamie Slingerland, MCC

Jamie B. Slingerland, MCC & Ruthie P. Slingerland, PCC co-founded Freedom Life Journey, LLC to help leaders, business owners & entrepreneurs successfully invest in themselves so they could grow their businesses & “retire early” allowing them to do meaningful work for as long as they choose. In the last 12 years, they have logged over 8500+ hours of coaching and served more than 800 business leaders and executives.

Over a decade ago, Jamie & Ruthie were able to pay off almost $90K in debt. After their businesses took off, they were able to step away from the classroom. Now, they are passionate about helping others like them unlock true freedom in work and life through coaching.

Buffalo & Puerto Rico natives, they now live in Franklin, TN with their four children & two Toy Goldendoodles where they all work, learn and play together.
Learn more at: https://freedomlifejourney.com

About Cindy Schmelzenbach, MCC

Cindy has a passion for supporting coaches in their personal and professional development and journey. Having lived and served internationally in leadership roles for 27 years with her husband, she is energized by the variety of cultures and human experiences that benefit from coaching interactions.

Cindy holds her ICF MCC credential, she is a certified Mentor Coach and Coach Supervisor; she is a Gallup Certified Strengths Coach and has an MA in Counseling. She is the Director of Education and serves on faculty at Professional Christian Coaching Institute, an ICF accredited level 1 and level 2 coach education provider.

In her private practice, she offers life coaching, CliftonStrengths coaching, ICF mentor coaching and coach supervision.

Learn more at: coachingwithcindy.com

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Coaching has come a long way—and today, we’re celebrating just how far.

In this episode, we honor key milestones in the growth of professional coaching and Christian coach training, reflect on where the field stands today, and cast a hopeful vision for what’s ahead.

Whether you’re new to coaching or have been part of the journey for decades, this conversation will encourage, inspire, and remind you of the sacred calling behind the coaching profession.

You’ll hear:

A celebration of some major anniversaries in the field of coaching
Surprising statistics about the growth and global impact of coaching today
Why Christian coaching uniquely matters in a noisy, fast-paced world
How the rise of AI is highlighting—not replacing—the need for deep, Spirit-led connection
A compelling vision of coaching’s role in the emerging “wisdom economy”

Join us as we mark this meaningful moment in coaching history—and look with anticipation toward all God is still unfolding.

Access Your Resources for International Christian Coaching Day at www.ProfessionalChristianCoaching.com/day

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What makes a team thrive? If you’ve ever been part of a dysfunctional team, you know how frustrating it can be—miscommunication, lack of trust, and an endless cycle of unmet expectations. But what if there was a way to turn that dysfunction into deep connection and shared success? In this episode, we explore the power of team coaching, how it differs from individual and group coaching, and why it’s essential for creating cohesive, high-performing teams.

Drawing from the principles taught in Coaching for Work Teams, we’ll dive into practical strategies for building trust, fostering productive conflict, and aligning around a shared mission. Whether you’re a coach looking to expand your skills or a leader wanting to strengthen your team, you’ll walk away with actionable insights you can apply immediately.

About Sandra Black

Sandra Black, PCC is an ICF certified coach, having dual certification as a Professional Leadership and Life Coach, and is a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach. She is passionate about developing leaders and teams to unleash their gifts and talents for their passion and purpose while crushing their limiting beliefs and mindsets. She partners with executives, next generation leaders, and teams to further their development of strengths, structures, and systems to support their growth and vision through a Christian lens. Her coaching and consulting practice focuses on equipping leaders to lead boldly and courageously through increased self-awareness.

Sandra has over 25 years of leadership experience in various business sectors, client and program management, project management, ministry, teaching, coaching, and consulting. She has served in various leadership roles, partnering with leaders and teams to move from chaos to purpose. She is a change agent and catalyst for thriving leaders and teams, community development, catechetical programs, and team engagement.

Sandra’s diverse educational background ranges from Industrial Engineering – Human Factors and Management focus to an Executive Program in Strategy, Management, and Leadership with supplementals in Program and Project Management, and group and team coaching.

She loves to cook and create, influence as a CGS Catechist, accompany youth and adults, focus on the family and marriage through her ministries, and teach Human Formation. Sandra has been married to her husband John for over 27 years, and has two boys.

You can learn more about Sandra at: www.SandraBlackCoaching.com

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Feeling overwhelmed and unsure how to break free from the cycle of stress? In this episode, we dive into the heart of stress resilience, unpacking what stress really is, how it affects our brains and bodies, and why it’s essential to approach it with both practical strategies and spiritual wisdom. If you or your clients are looking for simple habits to build resilience, this conversation with Dr. Charles Stone offers hope and actionable steps.

Tune in to:

Understand what stress is and how it impacts your brain and body.
Learn proven practices for building resilience.
Discover one daily habit that can help reduce stress immediately.
Explore how biblical truths address stress and offer lasting peace.
Gain practical advice for supporting loved ones who are overwhelmed.

About Dr. Charles Stone

With over 40 years of pastoral experience, Charles Stone has served as a lead pastor, associate pastor, and church planter, bringing biblical truth and practical leadership wisdom to countless congregations. He is the author of seven books, including If Jesus Gave a TED Talk and Holy Noticing: The Bible, Your Brain, and the Mindful Space Between Moments, with his new book called Stress Less: 9 Habits from the Bible and Brain Science to Build Resilience and Reduce Anxiety set to release in March 2025. Charles has also contributed over 300 articles to leading Christian leadership platforms. As a seasoned coach and consultant, he has trained over 3,000 leaders across seven countries, equipping pastors and ministry leaders to thrive in their calling.
Charles combines his rich pastoral experience with cutting-edge insights from neuroscience, holding a Ph.D., an M.Div., and a D.Min., as well as advanced certifications in the neuroscience of leadership and psychological safety. A certified coach through the International Coaching Federation, Charles specializes in helping pastors and leaders elevate their preaching, improve self-care, and navigate the unique challenges of ministry.

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Speaking can be a powerful tool for building your coaching business. In this episode, Dale Wilsher shares her inspiring journey from being a single mom speaking in faith-based spaces to earning five figures per keynote. From starting with simple survey cards to leveraging coaching success stories, Dale unpacks the strategies and pivotal moments that transformed her speaking into a thriving coaching business.

You’ll also discover how to navigate different environments as a faith-based speaker, create signature talks that balance warmth and competence, and turn speaking engagements into coaching clients.

Tune in to receive:

Insights on combining speaking with coaching to accelerate trust and build your client base.
Practical strategies for creating signature talks and using personal stories effectively.
Tips for navigating professional spaces while staying true to your values.
A process for turning speaking engagements into coaching clients using tools like survey cards and follow-ups.
Inspiration from Dale’s journey, from faith-based beginnings to keynoting major leadership events.

About Dale Wilsher

Dale Wilsher is an executive leadership coach and personal development expert, specializing in personality dynamics, authenticity, and mental resilience. She is an award-winning author, certified DISC trainer, and faculty member for the US Chamber of Commerce’s Institute of Organizational Management. She holds accreditations from the International Coach Federation as a Professional Certified Coach and is a member of both the National Speakers Association and Forbes Coaches Council.

As a keynote speaker, Dale combines her background in sales and science to provide fresh insights into identity and purpose, leveraging the latest findings in positive psychology, leadership, and neuroscience. She helps audiences discover their untapped strengths, core values, and authentic purpose.

Dale lives in Boulder, Colorado, with her husband and four daughters. She is on a mission to help people rise into their fullest lives and truest work.

Learn more about Dale’s upcoming class, The Inspirational Coach, at www.yourauthenticpersonality.com.

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Join us as we wrap up the year with six of our favorite things from 2024—some practical, some inspiring, and all centered on God’s faithfulness in every season. From memorable moments to fresh insights that have shaped our lives and work, this conversation is packed with encouragement and reflection.

Whether you’re looking to discover something new, be reminded of God’s goodness, or simply enjoy a meaningful recap of the year, tune in to reflect and rejoice in what God is doing in and through us all.

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Looking to help your clients bring clarity and intention to their family life? In this insightful episode, Geremy Keeton, Senior Director of the Counseling Services Department of Focus on the Family and a licensed marriage and family therapist, dives deep into family values, vision, and creating a purpose-filled family mission statement. Christian coaches will gain practical insights on how to foster healthy dynamics in both family and work environments.

If you’ve been feeling the pressure of balancing personal and professional life, or are helping your clients align their values with their actions, this episode is packed with actionable takeaways.

Key Takeaways:

Learn how to create a family mission, purpose, and values statement.
Gain clarity on fostering healthy family dynamics and team collaboration.
Equip your clients to live more intentionally in alignment with their core values.

Learn more about Focus on the Family:

www.FocusOnTheFamily.com/gethelp

Success that leaves you drained and burned out isn’t really success at all. In today’s conversation, we explore what it means to pursue sustainable success—success that doesn’t sacrifice your soul on the altar of achievement. We’ll unpack:

The Pitfalls of Hustle Culture: Why chasing bigger, faster, and more can lead to diminishing returns in both business and life. Biblical Principles for Lasting Impact: How Jesus’ rhythms of work and rest can transform your approach to coaching and business. Practical Strategies for Coaches: Tips and tools for making each day and each season align with God’s pace and purpose.

Discover how to cultivate a life and business that flourish, not just for a season, but for the long haul.

Pace of Grace Community: You can learn more about The Pace of Grace Community here: www.PaceOfGrace.com/community.

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Understanding and living out God’s calling is one of the most significant pursuits in our Christian walk. While it’s easy to grasp the concept of calling, translating it into our daily lives can often be challenging. But knowing our purpose and calling keeps us aligned with God’s design, inspires others, and brings clarity and intentionality to our every action.

Listen in to reflect on your journey and consider how you can better attune to God’s voice, trust Him more deeply, and follow Him more faithfully.

Key Takeaways:

Clarity and Direction: Gain a clear understanding of your God-given purpose.
Fulfillment: Experience the joy and fulfillment that comes from living out your calling.
Inspiration: Inspire others by aligning your actions with God’s plan.
Intentionality: Transform daily tasks into meaningful acts of worship and service.
Faithfulness: Strengthen your ability to trust and follow God more faithfully.

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to deepen your walk with Christ and ignite your calling. Tune in and be encouraged!

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God created us for connection—with Him and with one another. The clients we serve are hungry for it. They crave real relationships, genuine warmth, deep caring, and healthy community. Now, more than ever, we as coaches have the opportunity to help our clients combine learning with community through group coaching.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

The documented ROI of group coaching.
How to choose a compelling and relevant topic.
The best ways to foster connection and engagement within your coaching groups.

About Jordan Mercedes, MCC

Jordan Mercedes, MCC is an executive coach, coach educator, ethics instructor, and mentor with more than 15 years of experience. She has authored two accredited International Coaching Federation training programs, Leaders Coach Forward™ and Foundations™.

Known as a “fire starter,” Jordan helps clients recognize and connect the power of their inner fire to create outward momentum. She works with leaders of corporations, faith-based organizations, small businesses, and startups. For each client, Jordan’s goals are to define personal and professional success, connect the heart and head to maximize impact and influence, and create a strategic path forward.

Learn about Brave Coaching Mastermind here: https://www.jordanmercedes.com/

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As coaches, we have the privilege of partnering with individuals to help them move toward their goals.

Goals around:

Career Advancement
Health and wellness
Personal growth and self-improvement
Relationship building
Entrepreneurship and more

However, the non-directive nature of coaching often leads us to overlook its powerful potential in evangelism.

In today’s episode, we dive into a compelling example of the intersection of coaching and evangelism from the Pregnancy Resource Center in Rolla, Missouri. You'll also learn discover the ICF’s competencies can guide us during these powerful conversations.

This episode promises to equip you with practical tools and heartfelt insights, enabling you to make a lasting impact on the lives of those you coach.

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Coaching is renowned for helping people grow and change in profound ways: enhancing self-awareness, boosting performance and productivity, increasing confidence, improving communication skills, achieving goals, enjoying work-life balance, and much more.

However, something we don’t often hear about is how coaching can be a powerful tool in fulfilling the Great Commission. Thankfully, this topic was recently addressed by Chris McCluskey at the Navigator’s annual Coach Camp. Today, we have the privilege of listening in to his impactful presentation.

In this episode, you will learn:

The best standards for ethical practice.
How coaching can be utilized as a leadership tool.
The six styles of evangelism and the transformative power of a coach approach.

Join us for an enlightening episode on using coaching as a tool to fulfill the Great Commission.

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Coaching is renowned for helping people grow and change in profound ways: enhancing self-awareness, boosting performance and productivity, increasing confidence, improving communication skills, achieving goals, enjoying work-life balance, and much more.

However, something we don’t often hear about is how coaching can be a powerful tool in fulfilling the Great Commission. Thankfully, this topic was recently addressed by Chris McCluskey at the Navigator’s annual Coach Camp. Today, we have the privilege of listening in to his impactful presentation.

In this episode, you will learn:

The best standards for ethical practice
How coaching can be utilized as a leadership tool
The six styles of evangelism and the transformative power of a coach approach

Join us for an enlightening episode on using coaching as a tool to fulfill the Great Commission.

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In this rapidly changing world, few things are as important as equipping the next generation of leaders, assisting them in identifying their values, discerning their gifts, and living out their callings.

In today’s episode, we will hear from John Basie, Director of the Residency Experience at Impact 360 Institute, as he shares how they employ coaching with their students and staff to achieve these important goals.

Tune in to learn more about:

Why obtaining a coaching credential is crucial.
How they have cultivated a coaching culture.
The transformations they have witnessed.

About John Basie

Dr. John Basie is an alumnus of PCCI. He serves as Director of the Residency Experience at Impact 360 Institute in Pine Mountain, Georgia. He also holds a faculty appointment with North Greenville University (SC) as Affiliated Professor of Leadership. He has served in various leadership capacities in Christian higher education since 1997, and has extensive experience in the for-profit and nonprofit sectors as a certified executive and career coach.

John’s competencies include EQ assessment and coaching, life purpose planning, and next-generation leader development. He has also served as consultant to a church planting agency in the assessment and selection of ministry leadership candidates.

John is a member of the Association for Talent Development and the Evangelical Theological Society. His latest book is Know.Be.Live.: A 360° Approach to Discipleship in a Post-Christian Era (Forefront, 2021). John has been married to his bride, Marana, since 1997 and they have three college-aged kids.

Get John’s free book, Know. Be. Live.®: A 360 Degree Approach to Discipleship in a Post-Christian Era here: https://www.impact360institute.org/freebook/

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In this rapidly changing world, few things are as important as equipping the next generation of leaders, assisting them in identifying their values, discerning their gifts, and living out their callings.

In today’s episode, we will hear from John Basie, Director of the Residency Experience at Impact 360 Institute, as he shares how they employ coaching with their students and staff to achieve these important goals.

Tune in to learn more about: • Why obtaining a coaching credential is crucial • How they have cultivated a coaching culture • The transformations they have witnessed

About John Basie

Dr. John Basie is an alumnus of PCCI. He serves as Director of the Residency Experience at Impact 360 Institute in Pine Mountain, Georgia. He also holds a faculty appointment with North Greenville University (SC) as Affiliated Professor of Leadership. He has served in various leadership capacities in Christian higher education since 1997, and has extensive experience in the for-profit and nonprofit sectors as a certified executive and career coach. John’s competencies include EQ assessment and coaching, life purpose planning, and next-generation leader development. He has also served as consultant to a church planting agency in the assessment and selection of ministry leadership candidates.    John is a member of the Association for Talent Development and the Evangelical Theological Society. His latest book is Know.Be.Live.: A 360° Approach to Discipleship in a Post-Christian Era (Forefront, 2021). John has been married to his bride, Marana, since 1997 and they have three college-aged kids.

Free Book: Know. Be. Live.®: A 360 Degree Approach to Discipleship in a Post-Christian Era https://www.impact360institute.org/freebook/

Fostering connections with others can significantly boost our physical and emotional health. Such interactions cultivate mutual support and accountability, pool wisdom and talents, and pave the way for teamwork. However, finding a community that's both Christ-focused and genuinely nurturing can be challenging.

In today's episode, we explore ways you can participate in our growing Christian coaching community. Plus, we share complimentary resources designed to help you honor International Christian Coaching Day—a day dedicated to recognizing the transformative power of Christian coaching, fostering fellowship among Christian coaches, and raising awareness about this profound instrument for personal growth and change.

Get your free resources for International Christian Coaching Day here: www.ProfessionalChristianCoaching.com/day

Join us as we delve into the captivating intersection of coaching and artificial intelligence (AI). As technology evolves at a rapid pace, grasping AI's significance becomes increasingly vital for Christians and Christian coaches alike.

In this episode, we'll trace the origins of AI, discuss its limitations, and unveil exciting opportunities for leveraging AI in your coaching practice. From enhancing research capabilities to augmenting brainstorming sessions and aiding marketing efforts, discover how AI can empower and elevate your coaching journey.

About Michael Pfau: Michael Pfau is the Founder and President of Crossways Life Coaching, LLC. Michael has 25-years working in corporate I.T. departments of several Fortune 500 companies and over 21-year’s experience as a coach giving him a unique blend to understand and apply technology into the field of coaching. Along with his own coaching practice, Michael serves as an instructor for the Professional Christian Coaching Institute.

Learn more about Michael, receive your free AI prompts, and explore his upcoming class, Using Artificial Intelligence In Your Coaching Practice, at www.Aiforchristiancoaches.com

Professional coaching is experiencing remarkable growth and evolving in its global significance. In this episode, we'll dive into insights gathered from the latest ICF Research Global Coaching Study, shedding light on the journey of coaching thus far and the promising horizons that await.

Join us to uncover valuable information, including:

Global benchmarks for coaches' yearly earnings
Insights into the typical client load
An exploration of coaching sponsorship
The significance of professional credentials
An array of additional services coaches provide
Prevalent coaching niches
Other intriguing findings

About Cindy Schmelzenbach, PCC

Cindy is an ICF Professional Certified Coach, a Gallup-Certified Strengths® Coach, and a Conversational Intelligence® Practitioner. She also has a Master of Arts in Human Services Counseling and serves on faculty and as Director of Education at PCCI. As an ICF mentor coach and Certified Coach Supervisor, she has a passion for supporting coaches in their personal and professional development and journey.

Having lived and served internationally in leadership roles for 27 years with her husband, she partners with teams and clients to build bridges in inter-cultural and inter-generational environments through her group coaching journey, Different Like Me: https://coachingwithcindy.com/different-like-me/

Website: https://coachingwithcindy.com/

As a coach and a solopreneur, you find yourself wearing numerous hats. From customer acquisition and coaching to accounting and bookkeeping, the responsibility falls squarely on your shoulders. How do you do it all?

In this episode, we have the privilege of welcoming Kris Kelso, the Dean of Entrepreneurship at PCCI, who shares invaluable insights. He offers a fresh perspective that can empower you to not only comprehend each of the roles you undertake but also discover effective strategies for managing them well.

About Kris Kelso, PCC Kris is a professional keynote speaker, an author, and a Professional Certified Coach. His writing has been featured in Fast Company Magazine and Yahoo Finance, and he's coached and taught entrepreneurs on 6 out of 7 continents. He is a growth coach at Heroic Public Speaking, and he serves as the Dean of Entrepreneurship and teaches several courses here at the Professional Christian Coaching Institute.

Connect with Kris and download his helpful worksheet at www.KrisKelso.com/hats.

As the year draws to a close, we extend a heartfelt invitation for you to join us in this special episode. Together, we'll reflect on the ways God has encouraged us, the invaluable tools that have helped us, the books that have inspired us, and the insights we want to carry into the New Year.

Tune in to learn about spiritual practices, unexpected pets, the life-giving wisdom found in the Psalms, and other treasures that will enrich your coaching journey in the year to come.

Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

A Non-Anxious Presence by Mark Sayers The Pace of Grace Podcast with Kim Avery

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Welcome back, everyone! Following Chris McCluskey's unexpected medical sabbatical, we're delighted to hit 'record' once again on a brand-new episode of the Professional Christian Coaching Today podcast. In today's conversation, we're diving into:

The latest update on Chris McCluskey's health journey
The power of taking intentional breaks and vacations
The challenges and hidden benefits of unplanned pauses
Fresh changes to our podcast schedule and what you can expect in the year to come

Join us as we explore how rest—both planned and unexpected—can be an enriching part of your personal and professional journey.

Leadership development is a $350 billion industry across the globe and a portion of that money is spent on coaching. In the past, access to coaching was restricted to senior leaders, but what if that person got coached earlier? How would that impact their leadership skills, their workplace, their families, and their lives? A growing number of colleges and universities are excited by these possibilities and are offering coaching to students to help prepare them for leadership roles even before they’ve been hired.

Listen to today’s episode to learn:

How colleges and universities are incorporating coaching into their programs.
Potential opportunities for coaches to work in this capacity.
Measurement and metrics for coaching programs.
How coaches can find out about this work.

About Wende Gaikema

Wende is an executive and leadership coach who helps leaders develop their business and their people. Wende’s work includes executives and leaders building skills in leadership presence, EQ, influential communication, change management, personal and team effectiveness.

She works with leaders in corporate and non-profit settings, including coaching students at Rice and Vanderbilt Universities. Wende believes that everyone can be a leader as they choose to influence the world around them.

She is credentialed as a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) through the International Coach Federation and holds certifications in leadership, career and brain-based coaching as well as in emotional intelligence. She comes to coaching out of a business background in sales and marketing at Procter & Gamble. Wende is also on the faculty at Professional Christian Coaching Institute.

Resources:

5 Keys to Emotional Intelligence: www.coachwende.com

Leadership Reckoning: https://doerr.rice.edu/leadership-reckoning-book

ICF Converge presentation by Rice: https://learning.coachingfederation.org/products/1371/icf-converge-2019-coaching-emerging-leaders-in-the-defining-decade

Coaches use their skills in a number of different ways and in a variety of settings. Today, Mike Howerton shares with us how his journey of self-discovery and self-leadership led him to a full-time position as an EntreLeadership Executive Coach with Ramsey Solutions.

Tune in to learn:

How to step out in faith, with a blurry vision, and then rely on the Lord to reveal the true vision for your business.
Ways to blend the gifts and talents God’s given you to build a thriving career.
New ways of thinking & being that can open doors you never thought possible.
About Mike Howerton

Mike serves as an EntreLeadership Executive Coach for Ramsey Solutions. He is skilled in partnering with leaders, giving them space to talk about what is really going on, as he helps them make decisions that are in alignment with what matters most so they can lead with confidence.

Prior to joining the EntreLeadership team, Mike spent most of his career in Nashville, TN, leading several teams for Embraer, the world’s 3rd largest aircraft manufacturer, as well leading an aircraft maintenance team for an international charter airline in Miami, FL.

As fulfilling as his profession can be, Mike’s greatest enjoyment comes from spending as much intentional time as he can with his wife and 4 children, as well as in his hobbies as an award winning beekeeper, market gardener, and managing his Christmas Tree Farm.

This week, we are giving you a rare, behind-the-scenes view of what it really takes to become a professional coach. In this candid interview with Kris Kelso, PCC, you’ll hear the ups and downs, the successes and the mistakes Kris has experienced in his transition from owning a technology company to becoming an author, entrepreneur, and executive coach.

Tune in to learn the importance of:

Emphasizing mindset more than mechanics.
Growing personally as well as professionally.
Integrating multiple passions into a portfolio career.
Figuring out the blend of services that’s right for you.

About Kris Kelso

Kris Kelso, PCC is an entrepreneur who has founded and run multiple companies in the technology and healthcare industries. Today, he works primarily as an executive coach, a keynote speaker, and a contributing author for publications including Fast Company, Yahoo Finance, and The Nashville Business Journal.

His book, “Overcoming The Impostor: Silence Your Inner Critic and Lead with Confidence“, offers entrepreneurs and leaders a practical look at impostor syndrome, and explores that inner voice that downplays our own accomplishments while amplifying those of others.

Kris has coached and consulted with hundreds of entrepreneurs, business owners, and their leadership teams. He is a faculty member at the Professional Christian Coaching Institute, an advisor and instructor at the Nashville Entrepreneur Center, and has served on the boards of directors of several non-profit organizations.

He is an active member of Cornerstone Nashville, where he serves, teaches, and coaches other leaders. He lives with his wife and three teen aged sons in a suburb of Nashville, Tennessee.

Connect with Kris at www.KrisKelso.com.

Join us for a thought-provoking conversation on spiritual maturity and finishing well, a critical aspect of life for Christians and Christian coaches. Our guest, Bryan Brown, MCC, a Global Outreach Pastor and experienced executive and leadership coach, will provide insights on how to deepen our understanding of God’s purpose for our lives, how to align our thoughts, actions, and decisions with His will, and ways to increase our intimacy with Christ.

Join us as we explore:

A comprehensive definition of spiritual maturity.
The reasons why some Christian leaders struggle to stay the course.
The six essential traits of individuals who finish well.
The coach-approach to aid clients in their spiritual growth.

About Bryan Brown

Bryan Brown, MCC , loves helping leaders embrace their identity and calling, then live and lead as a follower of Christ. Bryan is the Global Outreach pastor at Perimeter church located in the northern suburbs of Atlanta. In addition to his role at Perimeter, Bryan enjoys being an executive and leadership coach where he works with leaders and churches around the world in areas of spiritual formation, leadership development, and healthy team dynamics.

Bryan lives in Johns Creek, GA together with Jackie, his wife of 30 years. They have three children and one very energetic golden retriever.

Bryan has a passion and track record for developing leaders so that they can effectively influence others for a lifetime. For more information on Bryan and his private coaching practice visit www.coachingtolead.com.

As Christian coaches we spend a lot of our time asking genuinely curious, open-ended, and exploratory questions so that our clients can wrestle and discover the answers that only they can find. Yet, most of us are not naturally comfortable sitting in question, but instead, prefer rushing to an answer. Today, Nancy Lopez, PCC, shares her own journey to becoming comfortable in questions.

Tune in to hear:

Why questioning is more than a skill, it’s a mindset.
The importance of coaching the person, not the problem.
How breathing can help center you in the moment.
Ways to deepen your comfort level with questions.

About Nancy D. Lopez, PCC

Nancy is a former C-Level executive with a diverse background in Human Resources. She is a Certified Professional Leadership, Life and Career Management Coach and carries the ICF Professional Certified Coach designation (PCC).

Nancy’s demonstrated impact around leadership and career development with corporate professionals has led her to specialize her practice, NDL Leadership, LLC as a professional leadership and career transition coach and consultant. She works with emerging leaders to executive levels and has the reputation as a trusted partner who is approachable and credible. She’s also enjoys teaching and is on faculty with the Professional Christian Coaching Institute. Nancy helps leaders catch their breath so they can navigate with clarity the challenges they face.

A native Floridian and graduate of both Stetson University (BBA) and Penn State University (MSBA), Nancy resides in the Greater Rochester, NY area with her husband, Wayne and their two children, Nathan and Catherine. Nancy has a passion for immersing herself in God’s creation through travel, long walks, bird watching, sunrises, sunsets, good food, great espresso, and savoring moments with her family and friends.

You can learn more about Nancy at www.NDLLeadership.com and LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/nancydlopez/ or contact at nlopez@NDLLeadership.com.

You are a culture-shaper. As a Christian coach, you are uniquely equipped to draw out of others “the Good, the True, and the Beautiful” that God has placed in them.

Join Chris McCluskey as he shares a behind-the-scenes look from his speaking engagement with coaches Greg Leith and Helen Mitchell at the C.S. Lewis Foundation and learn practical ways to influence culture in the 21st century.

Discover how to…

Find and fulfill the central purpose of your life so you can influence generations to come Use direct communication to irrigate the spiritual deserts in our everyday world Align your life with your day-to-day activities to intentionally live out your calling in the world

What could be more important in these disturbing and uncertain times than tapping into God’s perspective, His wisdom, His plan, and His provision? Join us as Chris shares his thoughts on why Spiritual Vision is perhaps more important now than ever before in our lifetime.

As you listen, you’ll be reminded of the:

The love and light shining even now as an anchor for your soul.
Importance of Spiritual Vision, especially now when our physical vision is limited.
Promises of God that transcend uncertain outcomes and loss.

Raising your standard of professionalism and changing the world requires asking important questions. What does it mean for coaches to keep raising their own standard? What sabotaging mindsets might need to be addressed? What does the future of coaching look like, and what role can you play?

Tune in to this valuable episode with Master Certified Coach, Charles Hooper, and learn more about the valuable contribution your coaching can make.

About Charles Hooper

Charles Hooper, Jr, MCC, is an Atlanta-based Executive Coach and Leadership Development Trainer. He has worked with senior leaders in a variety of industries and organizations domestically and internationally to design and deliver leadership development processes and systems. Charles is especially skilled at accelerating leaders who are HiPo, NuRo, and YoGo (High Potential Leaders, Leaders in New Role, Leaders Developing New Leaders). Clients regularly gain clarity and confidence as they go through the change and transition process in their professional role. In addition to his private practice, Charles trains coaches with two international coaching training companies. He is married and has 6 adult sons.

Learn how to get your complimentary 90-minute strategy session at www.HooperCoaching.com

As professional coaches, we are called to a world of expansive cultural diversity. In this global and multicultural context, it is more important than ever that we have a deep awareness, consideration, and appreciation of how we are alike and how we are different as humans. Coaches need to be aware of and manage our own biases to serve our clients effectively.

Dive in with today’s guests and:

Grasp the importance of going into each coaching relationship and session with an open mind that’s culturally competent and ready to serve people from all walks of life.
Learn the unforced rhythms of grace that abound when we approach coaching with curiosity so we can become more aware of and honor the variety of cultures in our world.
Experience the value of better understanding various people and setting aside bias to help our clients follow the call of God on their lives.

(#280) Greatest Hits: Raising Your Standard of Professionalism with Charles Hooper, MCC Raising your standard of professionalism and changing the world requires asking important questions. What does it mean for coaches to keep raising their own standard? What sabotaging mindsets might need to be addressed? What does the future of coaching look like, and what role can you play?

Tune in to this valuable episode with Master Certified Coach, Charles Hooper, and learn more about the valuable contribution your coaching can make.

About Charles Hooper

Charles Hooper, Jr, MCC, is an Atlanta-based Executive Coach and Leadership Development Trainer. He has worked with senior leaders in a variety of industries and organizations domestically and internationally to design and deliver leadership development processes and systems. Charles is especially skilled at accelerating leaders who are HiPo, NuRo, and YoGo (High Potential Leaders, Leaders in New Role, Leaders Developing New Leaders). Clients regularly gain clarity and confidence as they go through the change and transition process in their professional role. In addition to his private practice, Charles trains coaches with two international coaching training companies. He is married and has 6 adult sons.

Learn how to get your complimentary 90-minute strategy session at www.HooperCoaching.com.

Are you a counselor considering a new vocation? Have you wondered what the differences are between coaching and counseling? Then join this lively discussion between three former counselors turned coaches as they compare and contrast these two amazing professions. Listen in to discover:

What to learn and unlearn when moving from counseling so you can thrive in the coaching world.
The role of emotion in the coaching relationship.
The 4 levels of development that will help you continue to embrace your identity as a coach.

About Andrew Gorter

Dr. Andrew Gorter, PCC is a leadership coach with a passion to help leaders navigate the interpersonal challenges of leadership. He earned a doctorate in family therapy and has over 30 years of experience working helping leaders build trust, elicit true buy-in, and inspire passion for their vision and values.

In addition to his work with leaders, Andrew has developed an internal coach training program for Franklin Covey a large international training corporation, and serves on the faculty of a Professional Christian Coaching Institute, a virtual coach training school where he has opportunity to multiply his influence, promoting high standards of effective credentialed coaching in the marketplace.

Andrew and his wife, Karen, live in Holland, MI, near the beaches of Lake Michigan. They have two married daughters, four grandsons and one granddaughter. He enjoys cycling, watercolor painting, reading and woodworking.

Learn more about Andrew Gorter at www.plusonecoaching.com.

As professional coaches, we are called to a world of expansive cultural diversity. In this global and multicultural context, it is more important than ever that we have a deep awareness, consideration, and appreciation of how we are alike and how we are different as humans. Coaches need to be aware of and manage our own biases to serve our clients effectively.

Dive in with today’s guests and:

Grasp the importance of going into each coaching relationship and session with an open mind that’s culturally competent and ready to serve people from all walks of life.
Learn the unforced rhythms of grace that abound when we approach coaching with curiosity so we can become more aware of and honor the variety of cultures in our world.
Experience the value of better understanding various people and setting aside bias to help our clients follow the call of God on their lives.

Welcome to an Encore of Episode 7 of Professional Christian Coaching Today in which we sit down with our show’s host, Christopher McCluskey, PCC, for part two of his inspiring story.

In the previous podcast, Chris talked about the challenges and obstacles he faced after shutting down his successful counseling practice to move his wife and children cross-country to the family farm and launch a private coaching practice.

Shortly after relocating, Chris was struck by a debilitating illness that took years to diagnose. He entered a “dark night of the soul” that took a toll on both he and his family. But instead of allowing difficult circumstances to harden their hearts, they served to strengthen their faith and resolve. During these difficult years, God inscribed valuable life lessons on Chris’ heart, which he shares with us today.

Chris identifies five critical beliefs that shaped his life and decisions during these years:

Discern your life’s call and listen to the song of your heart.
Count the cost and do your due diligence when launching your coaching business and in honoring your values.
Commit for the long haul. After putting your hand to the plow, resist the temptation to look back (Luke 9:62).
Persevere through the dark times and allow nothing to deter you from God’s plan and purpose for you, both personally and professionally.
Work creatively and collaboratively. Say, “Lord, show me something fresh here.” Ask, “Collaboratively, who else can help me?”

How might these key takeaways mold your life and coaching practice?

If after listening to today’s broadcast, you’re asking yourself, “So, what’s next?” or “How can I do a similar examination of my life and priorities?” download the “Align Your Life Inventory” for free. Just go to our website, ProfessionalChristianCoachingToday.com, and enter your name and email below the masthead. Signing up for this free resource will also add you to our mailing list and keep you up-to-date on new topics and podcasts.
Until next time, keep Raising the Standard and Changing the World!

Welcome to an Encore of Episode 6 of The Professional Christian Coaching Today podcast in which today we sit down with our show’s host, Christopher McCluskey, to hear his story as he has dared to answer the song of his heart, a song placed there by God.
Raised in a healthy Christian family, Chris was blessed beyond measure, but that didn't mean his path would be without countless challenges and overwhelming obstacles to answer God’s call on his life—a call that has not only touched his professional and personal life but also the lives of thousands.

Chris’s story offers important life lessons we could all learn from:

The importance of honoring the song God has place in your heart
Choosing to persevere in the face of adversity
Committing to running and finishing the race God has set before you
Sacrificing short-term pleasures for long-term gains
How a supportive family or community helps us weather life’s storms
And more…

Be sure to tune in for part two of Chris’ story next week and learn how the worst—and the best—was yet to come.
Until then, keep Raising the Standard and Changing the World!

Announcement: The Professional Christian Coaching Today podcast is currently taking a brief sabbatical. Unfortunately, Chris McCluskey, the founder of the Professional Christian Coaching Institute and co-host of this podcast, is on a temporary medical leave due to a flare-up of his Lyme disease, and we wanted to update you, our valued listeners, of our temporary break from recording new episodes.

While we understand this pause might be disappointing for some, we see this as an excellent opportunity to revisit some incredible content from our podcast archives. Each week, we’ll be sharing one of our "Greatest Hits" with you. These are the same powerful episodes that have contributed to making Professional Christian Coaching Today the Number 1 Christian Coaching podcast in the world.

Be sure to follow us in your favorite podcast app, and together we’ll explore such vital topics as:

Professional coaching skills and competencies
Launching and building a coaching business
Growing as an entrepreneur
- Marketing
- Networking
- Social media
- Technology
- Public speaking
- Group coaching
- Leadership coaching
- Spiritual formation coaching
- Coaching missionaries, church planters, and pastors
- And so much more!
Most of all, join us in praying that God will supernaturally use this time to help Chris heal so that he can quickly return to all aspects of this work he loves.

Until we return, keep raising the standard of coaching, and changing the world. God’s richest blessings to you.

From stay-at-home mom to becoming a business professional to ultimately embracing the coaching field, Maggie Meylor joins us today to share her inspiring coaching journey.

Tune in to learn:

The powerful questions that have impacted her clients
How value of not trying so hard
The difference between coaching and being a coach
How the Clifton Strengths Finder opens doors
Four ways to attract individual and business clients

About Maggie Meylor, CPLC
Maggie Meylor, is a CPLC, Certified Strengths Champion, e2grow facilitator, mentor, public speaker, enthusiastic owner of True Forward Coaching, and Academic Advisor for Professional Christian Coaching Institute.

Throughout Maggie’s life, she has enjoyed intentionally investing in those around her. In 2019 she was introduced to professional coaching and in late 2020 the Holy Spirit directed her steps to Professional Christian Coaching Institute where she promptly enrolled after binge listening to this podcast and attending an online 5-day challenge, hosted by PCCI.

On a personal note, Maggie hails from Wisconsin and has since relocated to South Central Illinois, where she currently resides with her loving husband of 39 years, Mark. Together, they have raised two incredible daughters, both of whom are happily married and have blessed them with the joy of two beautiful grandchildren.

In her free time, you can find her playing golf, pickleball, riding bikes and taking long walks with her dog, Olive.

Connect with Maggie at: maggie@trueforward.biz

In our fast-paced and demanding world, finding moments of stillness and nourishing our souls has become essential. A soul care or reflective retreat offers a still space, a haven where we can pause, reflect, and renew. It is an opportunity to sit with God to reconnect with our purpose, our passion, and His plan in the midst of life's chaos.

Planning a soul-care retreat is an art in itself, a delicate balancing of focus, stillness, connection, and creativity. It requires crafting an experience that not only nourishes the body but also rejuvenates the mind and nurtures the soul.

In today's episode, we invite you to join us on a journey behind the scenes, as we explore the key ingredients that make a soul care retreat truly transformative.

About Soul Flourishing: www.SoulFlourishing.com

Executive Team coaching is one of coaching's hottest trends. In this episode, John Ramstead, a former fighter pilot turned coach, shares about his work with leadership teams in the Air Force, Space Force, successful corporations, and more.

Tune in to learn:

Practical ways to leverage your time and talent to maximize your impact and income.
The power of courageous coaching to attract ideal clients.
Tools and techniques to successfully coach teams.
Stories that will empower and inspire you.

About John Ramstead

John combines his experience as a Navy combat fighter pilot, Fortune 500 manager, and serial entrepreneur with his passion for helping you and your team reach your full potential…all while incorporating the very valuable lessons he learned from surviving a near-fatal horseback riding accident in 2011. Recovering from a severe traumatic brain injury--that required 25 surgeries and put him under hospital care for almost two years—radically transformed his thinking and forced him to connect with who he was meant to be. He learned how to create his best life and is excited to help you and your team do the same!

Connect with John at: www.BeyondInfluence.com

In the post-Covid world, frontline workers continue to encounter various challenges, including low-level anxiety, difficulty concentrating, increased irritability, and a decreased window of tolerance. However, coaching can offer invaluable support to assist them in overcoming these effects and reclaiming clarity, calmness, and focus. Join us in this episode as we welcome Doreen Steenland to explore the empowering combination of neuroscience and coaching, enabling frontline workers to navigate their challenges and flourish.

Tune in to discover effective ways to support your clients in:

Enhancing clarity of thought
Cultivating a calm and composed response
Harnessing the power of possibilities
Developing incredible focus

Coaching can be immensely beneficial for frontline workers and others in the post-Covid world, enabling them to conquer challenges, embrace new possibilities, and truly thrive.

About Doreen Steenland

Doreen Steenland is a Registered Nurse, International Coaching Federation Certified Coach & Certified Mental Fitness Coach. Doreen’s diverse nursing experience and neuroscience training provide a unique approach to her coaching. She is the founder of Living Full Life Coaching and empowers over-committed medical professionals to rise above their stress patterns, get anchored, and take control again.

Doreen coaches women who have conquered survival mode and are now ready to live again! Empowering women to disrupt autopilot living, be present and walk in freedom is her passion using brain based tools.

Doreen’s coach training includes IPNB, somatic and Trauma Informed techniques, emotional intelligence, and positive intelligence. Mental Fitness incorporates Positive Intelligence, Positive Psychology, Cognitive Behavioral Science, and Performance Science and is backed by metric-driven scientifically proven tools. Using these tools, we rewire your brain & reset your energy for success.

She is a speaker and author of “Transform Your Brain, One Thought At A Time: Stress Patterns, Anxiety and Overthinking Rewired.”

She lives by grace through faith in New Jersey with her hubby of 32 years and three adult kids. She loves golfing, hiking, and all things outdoors. Her favorite place to rest is her front porch!

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Listen on Apple Podcasts | Download Join us today as we explore the valuable role that coaching plays in supporting parents as they homeschool their children. As more and more parents take charge of their children's education, whether through traditional or creative methods, homeschooling has become an increasingly popular choice. However, the path [...]

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Join us today as we explore the valuable role that coaching plays in supporting parents as they homeschool their children. As more and more parents take charge of their children's education, whether through traditional or creative methods, homeschooling has become an increasingly popular choice. However, the path of a homeschooling parent can be fraught with challenges. Fortunately, coaching offers incredible support along the way.

In this episode, we will explore the following key aspects of coaching homeschooling parents:

Differentiating Homeschool Consulting and Homeschool Coaching: Gain a clear understanding of the distinction between these two approaches, as we explore how each can contribute to the success of homeschooling parents and their children.
Addressing Common Topics in the Coaching Relationship: Discover the range of topics that are commonly addressed in the homeschool coaching process. From curriculum selection to time management, we will explore the essential areas where coaching can provide invaluable guidance.
Navigating Challenges Faced by Homeschooling Parents: Homeschooling presents unique challenges, and our guest today will shed light on issues such as maintaining motivation, overcoming self-doubt, and finding a balance between parental roles and teaching responsibilities.
Strategies for Homeschooling Success: Learn effective strategies that empower homeschooling parents and set them up for success. From establishing routines to fostering a supportive learning environment, we will share practical tips and techniques that can make a significant difference in the homeschooling experience.

About Crystal Wagner

As a business owner, home educator, and former Certified Public Accountant, Crystal knows what it feels like to juggle many demands. She understands that you need a safe, judgment-free place to step away from the hustle and bustle of life and take a deep breath so you can calm the chaos and discern your next step forward.

A veteran homeschool mom with over 13 years of homeschool experience, she delights in inspiring and equipping parents to cultivate an atmosphere where they and their children can thrive. She loves supporting parents as they calm the chaos, manage their emotions, develop richer relationships, and train their children.

Crystal is a speaker, host of the All in a Homeschool Day podcast, and certified life and homeschool coach. You can connect with Crystal and download free resources at https://www.triumphantlearning.com/resources/

What is homeschooling?

There are many flavors of homeschooling, but the common theme is that parents direct the education of their children.
In recent years, especially since COVID, there has been a rise in public school-at-home options and hybrid options of attending in a classroom setting several days a week and at home the rest of the week.

Why would someone consider homeschooling their children?

Religious
Academic
Learning challenges
Family-focused
Meet the needs of the child

How did you get started in Homeschool Coaching?

I started serving the homeschool community 11 years ago - started by sharing my resources on a blog so I wouldn't have to email every friend who asked what we were using.
Over the years, I created products and courses, wrote a book, and started speaking at homeschool conferences. I enjoyed these, but I burned out trying to run my business the way everyone else did.
Then I discovered coaching through a friend and now fellow PCCI student.
I started working with a coach while I was pursuing training. I discovered what I love and what I have to offer. I've now shut down my courses and other products and only offer coaching, speaking, and live training for co-ops and support groups. Those are the services that bring me joy and excitement.

What is the difference between Homeschool Consulting and Homeschool Coaching?

talk about ICF-aligned coaching and how I apply that to homeschool situations
I had a client before coach training and after. I called it all Homeschool Coaching but before was consulting, and the results were vastly different!
Many people call it coaching when they mean consulting.

What do you talk about with clients?

Sometimes we talk about curriculum choices for the next year or if they should join a co-op.
But also more than curriculum! What often gets homeschool parents stuck is not related to curriculum at all. For one mom, it was because she had lost an external drive full of pictures. Another mom needed to clean up a file cabinet of papers. And another one wanted to explore what she should be considering as she looked into the near future when her kids graduate.

Where do you see homeschool parents struggle the most?

Many homeschool parents struggle with comparison and worry.
Your children are unique. You are unique. Your homeschool will not look the same as anyone else's.
You will miss something. But that would happen even if your children go to a traditional school.

What are some strategies parents can use to be successful?

Know your why. Families who homeschool long term generally do not look like the picture-perfect homeschool family. It's messy and full of ups and downs. To stick with it long-term, homeschool parents need to know why they are homeschooling so they can lean on that mission and vision when the days are rough. I help new homeschool parents uncover their "why." Knowing their reasons for homeschooling also helps them have a decision-making framework. We use ours a lot when making decisions related to our dyslexic daughter's curriculum.
Create margin. You need to learn to say no to good so you can say yes to the best.
Tame the chaos. This might be physical chaos but could also be character issues, mental health challenges, or health challenges.
Set the tone. Be a thermostat instead of a thermometer.
Focus on relationships. When you have a relationship, you have more influence with your children and this helps during homeschool lessons and as they navigate the teenage years.
Be a student of your children. What do their children need? How can you satisfy the legal requirements and take advantage of their children's interests and abilities? Example - the different way we approached history with our daughters
Embrace who you are and the unique skills and strengths you bring to your homeschool. I don't do a lot of hands-on projects, but we have an extensive home library. But a friend uses hands-on projects for most aspects of their homeschool. I know that I plan long-term really well, but I struggle with creating plans on the fly. So I plan out our entire school year before it begins. I can make adjustments as we go, but I don't have a plan, it won't happen. One client prefers to have a plan, but has learned to embrace their current season of needing to be more flexible due to health challenges and recording what they do after the fact.

How can someone get started homeschooling?

I have a lot of posts about what it's like to homeschool and how to homeschool. One of my favorites is the interview with my daughters several years ago about their experience.
I also have a free webinar and Quick Start Guide.
Would be happy to work with them to help them uncover their homeschool decision-making framework and determine their first steps.

If neuroscience seems intimidating to you, then listen in to learn why brain science is so important to coaching and how it can enhance your coaching presence. Also, glean what you can do to bring simple concepts from neuroscience into your coaching practice; so your clients can receive the value of understanding what beliefs may be blocking their success. But that's not all!

Come to understand how 3 key areas of the brain greatly impact things like creativity, decisions, and change so your clients can get the most out of their coaching sessions and outcomes
Learn how people relate in regard to their brain function and emotional intelligence, so you can integrate a coach approach to how you interact with others
Apply basic working knowledge of neuroscience into your practice and watch your credibility as a coach soar

About Michael Pfau

Michael Pfau is the Founder and President of Crossways Life Coaching, LLC. Michael is an author, speaker, coach, mentor, and trainer. He holds a Master’s degree in Education and has over 4,200 hours of coaching business and individual clients. Michael partners with Christians in mid-life around career development, performance, and transitions. He also mentors new coaches around skill and business development. He developed an interest in Neuroscience through the work he does to help clients get unstuck, which often centers around mindsets and beliefs.

Along with his own coaching practice, Michael serves as an instructor for the Professional Christian Coaching Institute and the Life Calling Institute. You can learn more about Coaching and The Brain by visiting www.crosswayslifecoaching.com/resources/braincoaching/.

Would you like to press pause on the endless cycle of hurry and worry? If yes, then tune into this extremely important podcast. Because we all have unconscious beliefs, unspoken fears, and hidden habits we so easily rely on that feed our fast-paced culture. Whether the disembodied voices you hear are from others or yourself… past or present… it’s time to silence them.

Stop mentally rehearsing all your self-sabotaging thoughts so you can start moving ahead with the things you intend to do.
Shed light on unseen factors and the specific mindsets that convince you that you can’t accomplish your goals and find out how you can reach your greatest potential.
Learn more about “hurry sickness” (yes: it’s a real thing!) and how you can heal from the harrowing effects of time urgency.

Without exception, there’s one common denominator at the core of every single coaching session you hold. It’s the most essential part of that coaching session, and it’s something you have complete control over. What is it? It’s you! Your use of self, your awareness of yourself, and your self-management as a child of God, a person, and a coach.

In this episode, we dive into a deep exploration of who you are, how you show up as a coach, and how you differentiate yourself from your client in a way that’s beneficial to you and to them.

Tune in to hear:

How to maintain a sense of autonomy instead of reactivity.
The beautiful ways that coaching is a reflection of our Trinitarian God.
Using the competencies as a tool for spiritual love.

About Steve Cromer

Steve has been most blessed by his marriage to Geneva for over 42 years. She has encouraged his love of learning and exploration in the fields of archaeology, chaplaincy, Bowen Family Systems Theory, pastoral ministry, coaching and teaching, and, most recently, owning and operating a restaurant! Together they reared four sons and now celebrate having three wonderful daughters-in-law – with a fourth one on the way – and seven grandchildren. They have recently relocated to Williamsburg, VA, where they will continue their explorations together.

Steve joined the PCCI family as a student in 2012 and as an instructor in 2017. Through his business, Steve Cromer Coaching, Steve works as a mentor coach for those seeking certification, as a leadership coach for those wanting to improve their soft skills in the workplace, and as a life coach for leaders who struggle in the over-functioning, “go-to” position in the workplace and in the family.

Learn more about Steve at www.SteveCromerCoaching.com

Welcome to another episode of "Opening the Mailbox," where we dive deep into your coaching questions and provide valuable insights to help you navigate your coaching journey. Today, we have an exciting lineup of questions from coaches just like you.

Tune in to learn more about:

Starting a coaching business as your encore career
Technology tools that are a win/win for both you and your client
Coaching firms you may want to join
How to coach an introvert in a way that’s helpful to them

In today's episode, we're delving into the world of coaching tools and the value they bring to the coaching process. As coaches, we bring the essential core competencies of questioning, curiosity, and reflection to each coaching session. However, we also have the opportunity to harness the power of various tools that can greatly support our clients in exploring their thoughts, achieving clarity, and taking actionable steps.

Teresa McCloy, ACC, is our guest today as we explore the topic of coaching tools. Together, we'll cover the following key points:

The value of incorporating additional tools into your coaching practice.
Effective methods for creating and developing coaching tools.
Discovering helpful resources to aid in the creation of coaching tools.
And much more!

Get ready to expand your coaching toolkit and unlock new possibilities in your practice.

About Teresa McCloy, ACC

Teresa McCloy is an ACC Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation and the creator and founder of the REALIFE Process®, which helps others grow personally and professional to DO WHAT MATTERS and Live Life from Rest Not Rush. She is the author of a new book that released in the fall by that title Do What matters live from Rest not Rush.

Her business not only offers coaching services but certifies other to use her content, assessments and process in the work they are doing as coaches, speakers, and organizational leaders. Teresa lives on their family grain farm, enjoying a great cup of coffee with a friend, and traveling as much as possible.

Connect with Teresa and enjoy your free resources at: www.therealifeprocess.com/bookresources

The integration of creative arts into coaching offers a powerful and dynamic approach to personal and professional growth. By leveraging non-verbal expression, stimulating imagination, exploring metaphors and symbolism, embracing the whole self, and fostering playfulness, coaches can unlock new avenues for a client’s self-discovery and transformation.

In this episode, Mark Ross joins us as explore the possibilities that arise when coaches integrate painting, writing, music, or movement into the coaching conversation.

About Mark Ross, MBA, ACC

After a 30-year career in leadership and public service, Mark longed to start a new chapter. He ultimately worked with a coach to help determine his Next Thing. Now he helps others discover their Next Thing as they move into a new season as an Encore-preneur: enjoying the freedom to pursue the life, work and relationships that matter most. In addition to private clients who are navigating transitions, Mark also serves as a Team Host with the Rock Retirement Club and as a Strategic Coach with The REALIFE Process.

Mark lives in Texas with his wife, and is the proud father of two grown daughters. One of his deepest joys is to create art; “visual music to inspire the world” through expressionistic paintings, which is an important part of his Next Thing.

You can learn more about Mark and contact him at: www.nextthinggroup.com

Join us for an exciting episode as we delve into the Navigators Coaching ministry, where coaching is being integrated into all aspects of their global mission. In this episode, we bring you an update on the remarkable growth of coaching within The Navigators, both nationally and internationally. Additionally, we share details about the highly anticipated Coach Camp 2023, a transformative event for igniting coaching skills and fostering personal growth.

Don’t miss these key takeaways:

Impact of Coaching on Disciple-Making Ministry:

Discover how coaching has made a significant impact on The Navigators' disciple-making ministry. Hear inspiring stories of individuals who have experienced transformation, gained clarity, and overcome obstacles through the guidance and support provided by coaching.

Connecting with Younger Generations:

Explore how The Navigators effectively uses coaching to connect with younger generations. Learn how coaching, with its culturally relevant and creative approach, empowers young individuals to take ownership of their personal growth and navigate the challenges they face.

Internal Shifts and Organizational Integration:

Uncover the internal shifts that The Navigators have experienced through the integration of coaching. Hear how staff members are actively seeking coaching, recognizing its potential to enhance their leadership skills and effectiveness in disciple making. Discover specific ways coaching is being utilized within the organization, such as 360 Reviews, Leader Development Programs, and supporting transitions.

Learn more and sign up for Coach Camp 2023 here: https://tdc.navigators.org/coach-camp-2023/

About Aimee Hodges

Aimee Hodges is founder and President of Hodges Leadership Coaching, a coaching business focused on helping leaders lead with courage and compassion. She is a Professional Certified Coach with a Master of Science degree in Organizational Leadership. She serves as the Chief of Staff for The Navigators’ Training, Development and Care department.

She is committed to coming alongside leaders as they lead through the dynamics of diversity among their teams. She encourages leaders to work towards creating environments and systems that reflect equity, justice and inclusion. She is passionate about leaders leading out of who they are.

Aimee is a Colorado native but has lived in Atlanta since 2014. She enjoys living in the city and being able to go home to the mountains in Colorado!

About Sean McKelvey

Sean McKelvey serves as the Director of Navigators Life and Leadership Coaching and is also the President and Founder of New Culture Coaching, LLC. He’s been in ministry for 17 years and loves to develop the next generation of Leaders to live and lead like Jesus. Sean has been married for 16 years to his wife Andrea and they have two children, Nayelli and Caelan. He loves to cycle, run, play soccer, and go on hikes with his family.

Sean has received certification as a PCC, CPLC, Navigators Life and Leadership Coach, a top 5 Strengths Coach, and Prepare and Enrich Marriage Coaching. Sean is also a graduate of California State University of Long Beach.

Life can be complicated and overwhelming at times, leaving us searching for solutions that are equally complex and well-thought-out. But sometimes, all it takes is one quick tip, simple recommendation, or inexpensive tool to make a big difference. That's why we're excited to kick off our new quarterly series, "A Few of Our Favorite Things," with seven treasures that are informing, inspiring, and impacting us.

Join us for our first episode, where we'll discuss a variety of topics, including... A four-fold reflection practice that will improve your coaching and your life How informally coaching your kids can make a generational difference A one-stop shop writing tool that simplifies and organizes all your thoughts Kim’s favorite coffee mug and how it helps her slow down and lean in when coaching And much more

Links to tools and products mentioned in this episode:

Scrivener Writing Tool: https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener Ember Coffee Mug: Ember Coffee Mug Eaton Leather Books: Easton Press IncYouBetter Instagram: IncYouBetter

It’s time for the fourth annual International Christian Coaching Day (ICCD) which takes place on Friday, May 12th, 2023. ICCD is a day where we gather as a community to celebrate and a unique way to spread the word about the power of Christian coaching.

Over the past three years, the world has undergone significant changes, but thankfully the need for professional coaching has only increased. In fact, clients are experiencing tremendous success in their personal and professional lives.

To showcase some of these successes, this episode highlights four current client success stories and the principles their coaches used to help them.

We also want to invite you to join us on Monday, May 22nd for a Virtual Meet Up where you can connect with an experienced panel of Christian coaches as they share inspiring stories about the impact coaching is having on their clients.

Get your free ICCD resources and sign up for the May 24th Virtual Meet Up at www.ProfessionalChristianCoaching.com/day.

Connect with Jordan Mercedes at: www.JordanMercedes.com Connect with Emily Eichstadt at: www.EmilyLifeCoach.com

Young women with unplanned pregnancies often experience incredible stress during this time of unexpected change. Operating from a state of panic and self-protection, it can be challenging for them to think creatively and consider what they truly want for themselves and their babies.

Coaching can help. In this episode, you’ll hear part of Chris McCluskey’s opening talk at a recent Banquet for Life event, where he shared encouraging updates, such as:

How coaching creates a space for women to think calmly, and creatively, and make informed decisions
Real-life examples of the impact coaching have had on young women in the Rolla, MO area
The dramatic statistics showing the effectiveness of Options Coaching
The power of coaching in supporting young women with unplanned pregnancies and helping them create the life they truly want.

Raising the standard of coaching, it’s not just a slogan, it’s a way of life. And if you’re a professional grade Christian coach or thinking of becoming one, you want to be the best you can be. For most of us, that includes receiving mentor coaching and coaching supervision. Join us today as we explore how these practices can help you enhance your skills and support your clients.

Tune in to learn:

The definition of mentor coaching and how it is used to increase a coach's capability in coaching, in alignment with the ICF Core Competencies
The experience of mentor coaching, whether in a group or individual setting
What to expect from mentor coaching, including skills development, identifying a recording for a credential application, and discovering and developing your unique coaching style
How to choose a mentor coach based on fit, learning style, and feedback preferences
Who can be a mentor coach, their responsibilities, and the mentor coach requirements
The benefits of having an ongoing relationship with a mentor coach
The definition of coach supervision, how it differs from mentor coaching, and its importance in developing a coach's capacity

About Cindy Schmelzenbach

Cindy is an ICF Professional Certified Coach, a Gallup-Certified Strengths® Coach, and a Conversational Intelligence® Practitioner. She also has a Master of Arts in Human Services Counseling and serves on faculty at PCCI. Cindy and her husband have lived and served internationally in multi-cultural leadership roles for 27 years and she has a passion for coaching those who live and work in inter-cultural and inter-generational environments. She is a registered ICF Mentor Coach and her current practice includes Life Coaching, Strengths® Coaching, Team or Group Coaching, and Coaching Supervision.

Connect with Cindy at: www.CoachingWithCindy.com

Joining us in our "How I Became a Coach" series is Dale Young, PCC, who comes from a diverse background in IT work, corporate management, and co-founding a tech company. However, despite his success, Dale still felt like he had a "job" instead of a career he loved. This awareness was the first step in Dale's journey towards becoming a professional coach.

Though the transition into coaching wasn't always smooth, Dale persevered through health problems, financial difficulties, and an unwanted divorce. Today, Dale is thrilled to have found the career he loves.

Tune in to this candid conversation as Dale shares his experiences and insights, offering you encouragement, wisdom, and godly inspiration.

About Dale Young

Dale is an ICF Professional Certified Coach, WeAlign Executive Coach, Gallup Strengths Coach, and helps Christian entrepreneurs and business owners find and follow their calling. He uses the CliftonStrengths assessment and his own Calling Framework to help them Tame their Chaos, Focus their Clarity, and Pursue their Calling.

Dale is a co-author in Next Level Your Life, which was released in January 2023 and achieved #1 bestseller status in 31 categories on Amazon, 10 of them International. Dale is also a speaker with real-life stories from his multiple-decade career in I.T. and leadership. He’s known for his out-of-the-box thinking, and his ability to connect with people from all walks of life. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin.

Dale is married to his new bride Kayla for 2 years and lives in the country west of Fort Worth, Texas. When he’s not coaching or learning something new, they enjoy traveling, Christian concerts, and serving at Solid Rock Church.

Connect with Dale: Dale@CoachDale.com For a free download of Dale’s story in Next Level Your Life plus the Calling Framework, go to https://CoachDale.com/locusts

As coaches, it's easy to get caught up in helping others and neglect our own spiritual health. However, we cannot pour into others from an empty cup. To be effective coaches, we must prioritize our own soul care and cultivate a deep connection with God.

In this second episode of our “Soul Care for Coaches” series, we focus on “seasons of serving.” Just as a vinedresser carefully tends to the grapevines, God lovingly tends to us in different ways during different seasons. Tune in as we explore the value of looking at our work and ministry lives from a “seasonal” perspective and the ways we can best cooperate with God during each vital season.

Learn more about the upcoming Soul Flourishing Group at www.SoulFlourishing.com.

Today, we are unpacking ICF Competency #7: Evokes Awareness. When we show up in coach mode, our primary purpose is to enable a client to draw forth things that are already in them, evoking awareness of the things God has already placed within them. Each part of this new competency will help you be a better coach when applied to your practice.

Listen in to learn:

The full definition of ICF Competency #7 and how you can use related tools to facilitate client insight and learning.
How to make a smooth transition from the “being” part of coaching to the “doing” piece so you can get to the core of coaching.
Strategies that will help you show up in a curious manner that calls forth things your clients may have forgotten or perhaps were never aware of before.
Bring a coach approach to your questions and style of communication so that each session is impactful for your clients.

About Erica Vinson

Erica Vinson, M.S.Ed., is the Dean of Academics for Professional Christian Coaching Institute. She serves as a part of the PCCI Core Leadership Team and oversees Class Implementation, as well as working in tandem with the Provost to oversight Curricula and Credentialing. Erica serves as the main contact and support to the PCCI Faculty.

Erica is a CPLC and ACC Credentialed Coach, founder of Fear < less Living™, and the Director of the REALIFE Facilitator Network. She is a certified ©iEnneagram Motions of the Soul Practitioner and has a certificate in Spiritual Transformation through the Transforming Center.

Erica served several years as an Elementary Education teacher in a public school system and also in full time ministry as a Family Minster and Creative Arts/Communication Minister. As a Life Coach, Erica uses the tool of the Enneagram to help clients gain deeper self-awareness and grow in relationships with others both personally and professionally. With her teacher’s heart, she loves serving educators to expand their impact as they serve on teams, empower their students, and partner with parents. Erica also has a passion to see folks courageously face their fears and move forward in greater freedom through “fear < less” living!

She lives in South Central Illinois and loves playing golf, waterskiing, traveling, spending time with friends and family and is especially fond of being an Auntie to her nieces and nephew.

You can connect with Erica at www.EricaVinson.com, where you can find her free gift called “Evoking Awareness through the Three Centers of Intelligence.”

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Everyone, everywhere get stuck sometimes, and getting unstuck is one of our client’s most frequent requests. In today’s podcast, our guest Kim Anderson shares tremendous insights on the most common lies our clients tell themselves, the hidden mindsets that trip them up, and best of all, how to deal with the underlying causes at the root of each one.

Tune in to learn how to help your clients move past:

Perfectionism
Comparison
People-pleasing
Negative self-talk
Boundaries, and more

About Kim Anderson

Kim Anderson is a board-certified licensed therapist, certified life coach, speaker and team builder. She is also co-host of the iTunes Podcast Coming Unglued, which provides skills and tools for women to become unstuck and live free. Kim works with clients, helping them overcome limiting beliefs that keep them stuck, or worse, anxious, depressed and hopeless. She also leads retreats and corporate team-building events that help individuals and teams identify the best ways to work together toward a common goal. She is passionate about walking with others and providing them skills and tools to live their best lives. As a former military wife, and mother of two teenagers, Kim and her husband, Dave, live in the Nashville area.

You can find out more about Kim at www.kimanderson.life and listen to her podcast at: www.comingunglued.org.

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Everyone, everywhere, gets stuck sometimes, and getting unstuck is one of our client’s most frequent requests. In today’s podcast, our guest Kim Anderson shares tremendous insights on the most common lies our clients tell themselves, the hidden mindsets that trip them up, and best of all, how to deal with the underlying causes at the root of each one.

Tune in to learn how to help your clients move past:

Perfectionism
Comparison
People-pleasing
Negative self-talk
Boundaries, and more

About Kim Anderson

Kim Anderson is a board-certified licensed therapist, certified life coach, speaker and team builder. She is also co-host of the iTunes Podcast Coming Unglued, which provides skills and tools for women to become unstuck and live free. Kim works with clients, helping them overcome limiting beliefs that keep them stuck, or worse, anxious, depressed and hopeless. She also leads retreats and corporate team-building events that help individuals and teams identify the best ways to work together toward a common goal. She is passionate about walking with others and providing them skills and tools to live their best lives. As a former military wife, and mother of two teenagers, Kim and her husband, Dave, live in the Nashville area.

You can find out more about Kim at www.kimanderson.life and listen to her podcast at: www.comingunglued.org.

Have you ever wished you had a map to guide you through a coaching conversation? A one-sheet snapshot capturing the delicate coaching dance that leads to such powerful results? Now you do! The Professional Christian Coaching Institute has developed a visual schematic of the coaching process, and today we are going to share it with you.

Tune in to:

Explore the map that helps coaches navigate all of the ICF’s 8 Core Competencies.
Learn the 3 specific phases that help clients and coaches close the gaps.
Understand more about the collaborative process that helps clients get clear, make progress, and commit to effective action.

Download and print The Coaching Process at: www.ProfessionalChristianCoaching.com/process

About Gary Wood

Gary Wood, PCC, CMCC, BCC has decades of experience and expertise in business, non-profit and ministry environments. Over that time he has played a respected role in training, developing and building into the lives of hundreds of leaders who make significant contributions worldwide.

Since 1998, through his professional coaching firm, G.E. Wood & Associates, Gary has worked with an international clientele of executives, leaders and professionals across a broad range of personal, professional and organizational concerns.

He is frequently retained to help individuals deal with burnout and by corporate, government, small business, nonprofit and ministry leaders to get clarity and find solutions to problems that are impacting progress on causes, projects and programs of importance.

Gary was the past President and Director of Christian Coaches Network International, a support and credentialing organization for professional Christian coaches, many of whom were trained at PCCI.

Gary is a designated Professional Certified Coach (PCC) through the International Coach Federation, a Board Certified Coach through the Center for Credentialing and Education, and a Certified Master Christian Coach through Christian Coaches Network.

Connect with Gary and get your free copy of Balance Not Burnout at www.gewood.com.

About Andrew Gorter

Andrew Gorter, D.Min., PCC is the owner of Plus One Coaching, LLC and has more than 25 years experience working with people to help them clarify what’s next for themselves and to take action to fulfill their calling and achieve their goals.

He is a trained and licensed as a Marriage and Family therapist and has practiced family therapy through a non-profit counseling practice he established in 2002. He is an expert in healthy interpersonal communication, and since establishing Plus One Coaching, LLC he has brought together his passion for coaching and his expertise in family therapy to establish a niche coaching family business leaders.

Throughout his career Andrew has endeavored to lead and serve people and organizations as they face necessary challenges to move forward and to do that in healthy creative ways. From his early career in pastoral ministry to his development of a non-profit counseling ministry and, most recently, Plus One Coaching, Andrew has gained a wealth of experience joining with people to solve problems.

Andrew and his wife, Karen, live in Holland, MI, near the beaches of Lake Michigan. They have two married daughters and three grandsons. He enjoys hiking, watercolor painting, reading and woodworking. He and Karen love just hanging out, especially in beach chairs with their toes in the sand.

Connect with Andrew and pick up your copy of Reflections for Coaches www.plusonecoaching.com.

Welcome to "Opening the Mailbox," where we'll be answering four insightful questions from our listeners. From ethical dilemmas to incorporating art into coaching, we're excited to share our thoughts on a range of topics.

Question 1: Is it ethical to coach friends or family members, and how can you structure that in a way that honors both relationships?

As a coach, you may find yourself wanting to help those closest to you. We'll discuss the ethical considerations of coaching friends and family, and provide tips on how to maintain healthy boundaries while still providing support.

Question 2: How can art be incorporated into coaching?

Art can be a powerful tool in coaching sessions, allowing clients to explore their emotions and express themselves in new ways. We'll discuss different ways to incorporate art into your coaching practice and share some examples of how it can be effective.

Question 3: Would Professional Christian Coach training be of benefit even if you don’t plan to coach full-time?

Even if you're not planning on becoming a full-time coach, pursuing Professional Christian Coach training can still be beneficial. We'll discuss the advantages of this training and how it can enhance your personal and professional growth.

Question 4: What are some ways to take a business trip in a vacation-type location?

Taking a business trip in a beautiful location may seem like a dream, but there are important considerations to keep in mind. We'll share tips and tricks for small business owners to make the most of their business trips while still enjoying the location.

Discover how Focus on the Family's Counseling Services Department aligned their vision with the parent organization's goals while carving out their unique purpose. Geremy Keeton, the Counseling Services Senior Director, walks us through the process of crafting values, vision, and purpose statements for their department.

In this episode, you'll learn:

How to articulate your core values as a team

When to lead from the front and when to empower others as a team leader
The power of letting the Holy Spirit guide your process
How cultivating values, vision, and purpose statements can prevent mission-drift in your organization.

Join us to gain insights on creating powerful statements that can inspire and motivate your team, while also aligning with your organization's mission and goals.

About Geremy Keeton Geremy Keeton is the senior director of the counseling services department of Focus on the Family and a licensed marriage and family therapist. He leads Focus’ team of mental health clinicians and pastoral specialists as they serve as safe and trusted guides on a wide range of family-related issues.

You can reach out to the Focus on the Family’s Counseling Services Department at 1-800-A-FAMILY or www.FocusOnTheFamily.com/counseling.

Are you eager to reduce stress, increase productivity, improve focus, and enhance your creativity? Join us to learn how personal order can set you and your clients up for future success.

Don’t miss:

Practical tips and insights on how to develop and maintain personal order
The latest neuroscience research on the benefits of ordering your life
Ways to coach your clients in this area without giving them advice
Our free tool that will equip you to coach your clients around aligning their lives with their deepest values

Get your FREE copy of the “Align Your Life: A Quick Check-up with God” inventory here: www.professionalchristiancoaching.com/bundle

Sign up for the FREE Refresh & Renew Virtual Mini-Retreat here: www.KimAveryCoaching.com/retreat

Join us for a thought-provoking conversation on spiritual maturity and finishing well, a critical aspect of life for Christians and Christian coaches. Our guest, Bryan Brown, MCC, a Global Outreach Pastor and experienced executive and leadership coach, will provide insights on how to deepen our understanding of God's purpose for our lives, how to align our thoughts, actions, and decisions with His will, and ways to increase our intimacy with Christ.

Join us as we explore:

A comprehensive definition of spiritual maturity The reasons why some Christian leaders struggle to stay the course The six essential traits of individuals who finish well The coach-approach to aid clients in their spiritual growth

About Bryan Brown

Bryan Brown, MCC , loves helping leaders embrace their identity and calling, then live and lead as a follower of Christ. Bryan is the Global Outreach pastor at Perimeter church located in the northern suburbs of Atlanta. In addition to his role at Perimeter, Bryan enjoys being an executive and leadership coach where he works with leaders and churches around the world in areas of spiritual formation, leadership development, and healthy team dynamics.

Bryan lives in Johns Creek, GA together with Jackie, his wife of 30 years. They have three children and one very energetic golden retriever.

Bryan has a passion and track record for developing leaders so that they can effectively influence others for a lifetime. For more information on Bryan and his private coaching practice visit www.coachingtolead.com.

As Christian coaches we spend a lot of our time asking genuinely curious, open-ended, and exploratory questions so that our clients can wrestle and discover the answers that only they can find. Yet, most of us are not naturally comfortable sitting in question, but instead, prefer rushing to an answer. Today, Nancy Lopez, PCC, shares her own journey to becoming comfortable in questions.

Tune in to hear: Why questioning is more than a skill, it’s a mindset The importance of coaching the person, not the problem How breathing can help center you in the moment Ways to deepen your comfort level with questions

About Nancy D. Lopez, PCC

Nancy is a former C-Level executive with a diverse background in Human Resources. She is a Certified Professional Leadership, Life and Career Management Coach and carries the ICF Professional Certified Coach designation (PCC).

Nancy’s demonstrated impact around leadership and career development with corporate professionals has led her to specialize her practice, NDL Leadership, LLC as a professional leadership and career transition coach and consultant. She works with emerging leaders to executive levels and has the reputation as a trusted partner who is approachable and credible. She’s also enjoys teaching and is on faculty with the Professional Christian Coaching Institute. Nancy helps leaders catch their breath so they can navigate with clarity the challenges they face.

A native Floridian and graduate of both Stetson University (BBA) and Penn State University (MSBA), Nancy resides in the Greater Rochester, NY area with her husband, Wayne and their two children, Nathan and Catherine. Nancy has a passion for immersing herself in God’s creation through travel, long walks, bird watching, sunrises, sunsets, good food, great espresso, and savoring moments with her family and friends.

You can learn more about Nancy at www.NDLLeadership.com and LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/nancydlopez/ or contact at nlopez@NDLLeadership.com

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Whether you are a leader or a leadership coach, this episode has something for you. Join us as Pamela Mertz, PCC, transparently shares how God led her into this field and some of the key lessons she has learned.

Tune in to hear:

Why listening is the language of love.
The difference between listening and hearing.
A level of listening that only Christians can bring.
How powerful questions come from powerful listening.

About Pamela Mertz, PCC

Pamela Mertz, CPLC, PCC is the President and Founder of BluePrint Life Coaching, LLC. She brings over 35 years of experience as a business owner and strategist in the high-tech electronics industry and earned her coach certification during her transition into the coaching field. She is trained by PCCI and Dartmouth Institute Microsystems Academy as a certified Quality Improvement Coach for healthcare and is also a certified Strengths Finders Coach.

Pamela is an active member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and Christian Coaching Network (CCN) and sits on the Board of Directors of Promised Land Living, a nonprofit, national ministry. She also has served in various leadership roles in other for profit and nonprofit sectors which has brought her much experience and national networking, including the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. She has lead women’s ministry for over 20 years in her local church and is a licensed pastor in the state of Minnesota. Her passions are studying the Word of God, sharing what God is actively doing in her life, coaching those looking for insight into the “more” and “next” that God has for them. Her many faceted experiences in life have given her depth and discernment, and most of all, deep intimacy with Father God. Her belief that coaching is the fastest way to move forward aligns perfectly with her gifting to encourage and equip others.

She is the mother of 3 grown sons and lives with her husband in Minnesota.

Connect with Pamela Mertz at www.Blueprintlife.com

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Team coaching is one of the fastest-growing disciplines in our profession and an area that the ICF is now offering advanced certification in. Why? Team coaching helps teams establish an inspiring vision, align around a common purpose, create healthy relationships, reach their goals, and so much more.

Our guest today, Helen Mitchell, helps answer such important questions as: How does team coaching differ from coaching an individual or group? What are some of the challenges or complexities in coaching and working with a team? What role does the team leader play in this type of coaching, and what happens when the leader seems to be a part of the problem? Why do organizations hire coaches to work with their teams?

About Helen M. Mitchell

Helen Mitchell started her business career with AT&T becoming an Area Vice President at the age of 30 with Lucent Technologies. Known for turning around organizations, she was promoted six times in eight years. As a licensed pastor, she was the architect and visionary of the Saddleback@Work ministry at Saddleback Church. Today, she is an ethics, leadership, and strategy professor in the Crowell School of Business at Biola University. As the Director of the Talbot Center for Faith, Work & Economics at the Talbot School of Theology, she works with churches and pastors on faith and work integration. Helen is also a certified leadership and strategy coach, consultant, speaker, author, a faculty member for Professional Christian Coaching Institute, and oversees the leader learning initiative for Convene Corporation. Helen holds a master’s in organizational leadership from Biola University, and a master’s in biblical and Theological Studies from the Talbot School of Theology, at Biola University. She also attended the Senior Executive Program at Columbia University.

Connect with Helen at: www.helenmitchell.org

Group coaching creates a powerful and supportive environment where participants can learn from one another, gain new perspectives, and achieve their goals more quickly and effectively than they would be able to on their own. But for the group coaching to have truly lasting impact, the role of a coach is critical.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

The five pillars of a remarkable group coaching session
How to keep the focus on the client’s agenda
Ways to build trust in a group of unrelated people
The one essential ingredient the coach should bring even before the session begins

About Jordan Mercedes:

Jordan Mercedes is the founder of Jordan Mercedes, LLC Coach Training for Mission Inspired Coaches & Leaders and the Dean of Community Life at PCCI. She knows that every leader has a vision, sometimes they need a little help & support to get there! Jordan believes the power and impact of coaching can change a company, a city or even a nation. She enjoys helping leaders and coaches use coaching skills to move their people, projects and missions forward.

She is the creator of Leaders Coach Forward training for C-Level leaders. Jordan is a program developer who often helps her clients create progressive workshops & live events for the demographic they serve. She is the author of two 30-hour curricula approved by the ICF for entry level coach training & development.

In her dedication to support women in their personal/professional growth and development she speaks for various organizations and churches. She’s known for her fun and inspiring presentations such as The Flight Plan, Love in the Workplace and Greet the Gift.

Jordan comes from a family of ministers and was herself ordained in 2014 by Servant Ministries. She is a life-long student of coaching and believes a great instructor never stops being a dedicated student. She’s an accomplished glass artist and will tell you that she has the best family, friends and clients in the world. She is the President of 31 Crowns Unusual Leadership Development.

Learn more about Joran and the “Brave Coaching Mastermind” group at: www.JordanMercedes.com

It's easy to get discouraged when we're faced with challenges or setbacks in our journey. To start to question our abilities or wonder if we're on the right path. In today’s episode, you’ll be encouraged to hear the story of how a single mom, battling a chronic illness, persevered and became a professional coach.

Tune in to learn lessons for your own journey, such as:

How to trust God in the hard decisions
Using multiple sources of income to ease your transition
Why hiring your own coach provides clarity
Ways that ICF approved training can set you up for success

About Linda Hedberg

As a life and leadership coach, Linda Hedberg helps those asking “What’s next for

me?” discover and activate greater purposes in their lives. She is a coach, writer and

speaker with an unwavering belief that we are all created for greater purposes and she

wants to see those purposes activated in everyone!

In addition to working with coaching clients, Linda is a coach educator to life and

leadership coaches, on faculty with Professional Christian Coaching Institute. She serves

as a mentor coach to new coaches pursuing their professional (ICF) credentials and

has helped hundreds of aspiring Christian coaches consider their training options since

2009, through her book The Complete Guide to Christian Coach Training.

Linda's most treasured role is mom to her young adult son. They both agree that one of

the best ways to rest and recharge is an annual trip to Grand Marais, Minnesota, on the

North Shore of Lake Superior.

Get you free copy of The Complete Guide of Christian Coach Training at www.ChristianCoachingResources.com.

As coaches, we are often focused on helping others, but it is important to remember that we also need to take care of ourselves. In this episode, we will explore the concept of soul care and discuss how it can help Christian coaches avoid burnout and maintain a healthy balance in their personal and professional lives.

Tune in to learn:

11 warning signs that you’re headed towards burnout
How a daily “soul care” check-up can make a big difference
A simple practice to help you feel closer to God

Get your FREE copy of Practice the Presence of God: 50+ Ways to Enjoy God All Day here: www.kimaverycoaching.com/presence

Warning: after you press “play,” you’ll be transformed.

Tune in to hear what is perhaps the most powerful presentation we’ve ever shared with you, here on Professional Christian Coaching Today. It. Is. Simply. Powerful. Transformational may be an understatement, but it’s one of the best words we can think of to truly describe what will happen as you listen to this world-changing, life-poured-out message.

There’s no introduction that could even begin to describe what you’re about to hear. And your takeaways will truly be your own… what God whispers into your spirit as you sit at His feet.

About Cindy Schmelzenbach

Cindy Schmelzenbach is an ICF Professional Certified Coach, a Professional Certified Life and Leadership Coach through PCCI, a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach and a Conversational Intelligence® Enhanced Practitioner. She also has a Master of Arts in Human Services Counseling and serves on faculty at PCCI.

Cindy and Harmon, her husband of 38 years, believe in fully engaging life, wherever God invites them, every moment, every day. They’ve spent 19 years in successful entrepreneurial businesses in the US and Caribbean and another 19 years internationally in cross-cultural leadership roles within a global ministry organization. Their passion for wholistic health and enhanced team dynamics moved Cindy to develop a Member Care initiative which she then successfully launched and coordinated across 46 countries in the Asia Pacific region. In addition, while serving as Internal Coach, Cindy facilitated coach training for international leaders across Asia Pacific and played a major role in the development and cultivation of a coaching culture within the organization.

“I am passionate about co-creating a space where powerful things happen that simply may not happen anywhere else!” Whether in one-on-one or group coaching contexts, clients discover the next steps in their journey to resilience, authenticity and thriving. Cindy is privileged to partner with clients who range from individuals quietly changing their world to public leaders who influence thousands with their decisions. Her current practice includes Life Coaching, Strengths® Coaching, Team or Group Coaching, and ICF Mentor Coaching.

Connect with Cindy at: www.coachingwithcindy.com

Being where you are is tough when your personal vision is in the midst of turmoil. Can you relate? It’s easy to become disoriented, discouraged, and paralyzed. But especially now, we need to be out and engaged. Both in conversations and productive work. With people and organizations facing turmoil. However, in order to be a sharpened tool, equipped with a strong grounding in who you are, you need a clear vision.

Be here:

Examine your personal vision (who you are, where you are, where the Lord might move you next) so you can bring your whole self to what you do.
Establish a fresh, personal vision for the coming season so you can move from the here and now into your promised future.
Envision having peace with where you are so you can find purpose and live out a vision that inspires others.

About Sackeena Gordon-Jones, PhD, MCC

Sackeena Gordon-Jones is an executive and leadership coach, speaker, trainer and organization development consultant residing in Raleigh, NC. She works with leaders who want to realize their professional and personal potential, and achieve both success and happiness. She holds the credential of Master Certified Coach (MCC) with the International Coach Federation (ICF). Sackeena especially enjoys working with women and leaders who are intentional about bringing their whole life into harmony, while achieving meaningful professional and personal goals. She specializes in transformational coaching and strategic planning. She has coached leaders in the government and the private sectors, throughout five continents.

A leader in the coaching field, Sackeena has served as two-time president of the ICF Raleigh Chapter, leading the chapter to winning the Internationally recognized ‘Breaking Barriers’ award. She is the current Chair of the NC Community Coaching Outreach, leading the chapter to winning the inaugural international ‘Gift of Coaching’ award. Sackeena is also a professional coach trainer, and serves as the director of the Business Coaching Certificate Program at NC State University.

In addition to her coaching experience and credentials, Sackeena has over 20 years of relevant executive level business, leadership and board experience in private, public and non-profit sectors. She has worked with organizations and teams to deliver leadership and talent development focused on creating a sustainable culture of engagement, through leadership agility, emotional intelligence, coaching and communication skills. She has completed advanced studies in leadership, strategy, change management, human development and behavior, theology, neuroscience of coaching, organization development, and Philosophy.

Are you a multi-passionate coach? An entrepreneur who wants to define yourself by just one role? Today, our guest, Coach Michael McGreevy, will share how he has merged multiple paths, from construction to real estate to leadership coaching, into a portfolio career that supports a lifestyle he loves.

Listen in to discover:

How to create other outlets for income, based on your interests, and carve out more space to make memories with your friends and family.
Ways to overcome self-doubt and have fun exploring things you’re great at and that you really like to do.
A vision for diversifying in authentic ways so you can discover the overall freedom & flexibility you want.

About Michael McGreevy

Michael McGreevy is a full-time coach who helps growth-minded owners and executives discover the clarity and confidence they need to become remarkable leaders. He also serves leaders and teams through group trainings, workshops and masterminds. Michael has intentionally built his business in a way that provides a significant amount of space for making memories with his family. He and his wife Lydia own and operate a short term rental property business and host a marriage Podcast called “The Fight of Your Lives.” They have 3 wonderful kids Gunnar 6, Skylar 5 and Asher 3.

Connect with Michael at Michael@McGreevyLeadership.com or www.McGreevyLeadership.com.

Whether your questions are intensely practical or deeply philosophical and theological, this Opening the Mailbox episode has answers for you. On the practical side, be sure to catch our best low-cost tips and tricks for getting your Zoom lighting just right.

On the philosophical and theological side, you don’t want to miss this helpful explanation of the different roles that coaching, counseling, and therapy play around issues of sexual health, sexual addiction recovery, and more.

Interested in digging deeper? Here are some recommended books on Sexual Health for Christians:

When Two Become One: Enhancing Sexual Intimacy in Marriage by Christopher & Rachel McCluskey

https://www.amazon.com/When-Two-Become-One-Enhancing/dp/0800731158/

A Celebration of Sex: A Guide to Enjoying God’s Gift of Sexuality by Douglas Rosenau (includes a chapter by Christopher & Rachel McCluskey on Sex During the Child-Rearing Years)

(Doug Rosenau was a co-founder with Chris McCluskey of the Institute for Sexual Wholeness)

https://www.amazon.com/Celebration-Sex-Enjoying-Sexual-Intimacy/dp/0785264671/

Secrets of Sex & Marriage: 8 Surprises That Make All the Difference by Shaunti Feldhahn & Michael Sytsma

(Mike Sytsma was a co-founder with Chris McCluskey of the Institute for Sexual Wholeness)

https://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Sex-Marriage-Surprises-Difference/dp/0764239554/

Secrets of Eve: Understanding the Mystery of Female Sexuality by Archibald Hart, Catherine Hart Weber & Debra Taylor

(Debra Taylor was a co-founder with Chris McCluskey of the Institute for Sexual Wholeness)

https://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Eve-Archibald-D-Hart/dp/0849990629/

The Married Guy’s Guide to Great Sex by Clifford & Joyce Penner

(Cliff & Joyce Penner serve on the teaching faculty at the Institute for Sexual Wholeness)

https://www.amazon.com/Married-Guys-Guide-Great-Sex/dp/1589979389/

Enjoy! The Gift of Sexual Pleasure for Women by Clifford & Joyce Penner

(Cliff & Joyce Penner serve on the teaching faculty at the Institute for Sexual Wholeness)

https://www.amazon.com/Enjoy-Gift-Sexual-Pleasure-Women/dp/1589978021/

A Celebration of Sex After 50 by Douglas Rosenau and Jim & Carolyn Childerston

(Jim Childerston serves on teaching faculty at the Institute for Sexual Wholeness and Doug Rosenau was a co-founder)

https://www.amazon.com/Celebration-Sex-After-50/dp/0785260811/

Recommended books on Healing for Sexual Brokenness for Christians (not generally the work of coaches):

The Wounded Heart: Hope for Adult Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse by Dan Allender

https://www.amazon.com/Wounded-Heart-Victims-Childhood-Sexual/dp/1600063071/

Healing the Wounds of Sexual Addiction by Mark Laaser

(Mark served on the teaching faculty at the Institute for Sexual Wholeness until his death 3 years ago)

https://www.amazon.com/Healing-Wounds-Sexual-Addiction-Laaser/dp/0310256577/

When Children Come Out: A Guide for Christian Parents by Mark Yarhouse & Olya Zaporoshets

(Mark Yarhouse serves on teaching faculty at the Institute for Sexual Wholeness)

https://www.amazon.com/When-Children-Come-Out-Christian/dp/1514000083/

Enjoy!: The Gift of Sexual Pleasure for Women

Healing the Wounds of Sexual Addiction

A Celebration of Sex: A Guide to Enjoying God's Gift of Married Sexual Pleasure (A Christian Couple's Manual)

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The Married Guy's Guide to Great Sex

Wounded Heart: Hope for Adult Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse

When Two Become One

Everything we do as coaches, no matter who we serve, is cross-cultural. As the saying goes, we don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are. Thus, one of the foundational skills we want to bring into our coaching relationships is the ability to “see” our clients as they really are.

Today our guests, Cindy and Harmon Schmelzenbach help us do that by unpacking:

The importance of self-awareness
Curiosity and the key role it plays
Why our differences are a cause for celebration
How neuroscience helps us understand bias
Ways to grow in cultural competency

About Cindy and Harmon Schmelzenbach

Cindy Schmelzenbach is an ICF Professional Certified Coach, a Professional Certified Life and Leadership Coach through PCCI, a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach and a Conversational Intelligence® Enhanced Practitioner. She also has a Master of Arts in Human Services Counseling and serves on faculty at PCCI as well as having her own coaching business.

Harmon was born and raised in Africa to a third-generation missionary family. He’s a licensed Captain as well as having led ministries across Melanesia and the South Pacific. Harmon is also a PCCI Professional Certified Life and Leadership Coach as well as a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach.

Cindy and Harmon have been married for over 40 years, believe in fully engaging life, wherever God invites them, every moment, every day. They’ve spent 28 years so far, living and working cross-culturally in successful entrepreneurial businesses and leadership roles within an international ministry organization.

Their passion for wholistic health and enhanced multi-cultural team dynamics moved Cindy to develop a Member Care initiative which she then successfully launched and coordinated across 46 countries of Asia Pacific. In addition, while serving as internal coach, Cindy facilitated coach training for international leaders and played a major role in the development and cultivation of a coaching culture within the organization.

Cindy says: “I am passionate about co-creating a space where powerful things happen that simply may not happen anywhere else!” Her current practice includes Life Coaching, Strengths® Coaching, Team or Group Coaching, and ICF Mentor Coaching and Coach Supervision.

Group Coaching and Learning Opportunity: Different Like Me, the Art and Science of Conversation www.CoachingwithCindy.com

Transitions are a part of all our lives, but they bring many challenges and questions: “Am I still valuable? What is my role? What are my choices? Where do I belong?” Whether it’s marriage, divorce, career change, or retirement, coaches can play a key role in helping others stay curious, look carefully at all aspects of their lives, generate positive possibilities, and transition well.

Today’s guest, Michael Pfau, shares important insights about:

The kinds of transitions that cause people to look for a coach
The role of the brain in transitioning well • How to grow a client’s awareness of their internal state
Ways to embrace positive perspectives

About Michael Pfau

Michael Pfau is Founder and President of Crossways Life Coaching, LLC. Michael is an author, speaker, coach, mentor and trainer. He holds a Master’s degree in Education and has over 4,200 hours of coaching business and individual clients. Michael partners with Christians in mid-life around career development, performance and transitions. He also mentors new coaches around skill and business development. He developed an interest in Neuroscience through the work he does to help clients get unstuck, which often centers around mindsets and beliefs.

Along with his own coaching practice, Michael serves as an instructor for the Professional Christian Coaching Institute and the Life Calling Institute.

You can learn more about Developing Mental Fitness by visiting www.crosswayslifecoaching.com/resources/mental-fitness-training/

Connection, we all long for it, and yet it can be hard to find. So, we have good news for you
today. In this special episode, we not only inform and inspire you to make deeper connections
with other Christian coaches, but we also give you a FREE tool to help make that happen.

Tune in to hear:

• How God has been moving throughout the history of the Christian coaching movement
• The shared longing we all have to connect more deeply with one another
• A practical and free tool that will help you initiate and grow your relationships

Get Your FREE Christian Coach Directory Listing: https://www.findachristiancoach.com/

The Christian Coaching movement is growing all over the globe, and in

today’s episode, we get to hear first-hand accounts of what God is doing in the continent of Africa. Brian and Debi Zaas, Co-Directors of Navigators

Life and Leadership Coaching, Bora Francois from Rwanda, and Levi

Ndimubanzi from Uganda shares exciting stories, glowing testimonies, and

tremendous insight from their recent “Coach Camp Africa.”

Listen in to learn:

• Key drivers that led Navigators Life and Leadership Coaching to

expand to 36 different countries

• The developing coaching culture among the African leaders

• Personal stories of how the Holy Spirit is at work in Africa

• Insights we can learn from Africans and their commitment to coaching

Connect with our guests at: www.Navigators.org/coaching.

About Brian Zaas

Brian Zaas, MA, PCC, CPLC, has the privilege of serving as Co-Director,

Navigators Life and Leadership Coaching as part of their Train, Develop,

and Care organization, serving alongside his wife, Debi. They are also

founders and transformational coaches with Pursuing Promise,

www.pursuingpromise.com.

Within Navigators, Brian & Debi have expanded their coaching presence in

more than 15 countries crossing all continents with the goal of equipping

leaders through a coach approach to achieve the God-sized goal of raising

up 1 million disciples in the next 10 years.

Brian and Debi coach business and ministry leaders and their teams,

integrating a biblical worldview and values into their vision and mission.

They coach influential leaders, exceptional entrepreneurs, and industrious

innovators who guide mid-sized and emerging business enterprises and

ministries seeking to achieve breakthrough goals with boldness and

steadfastness. We also come alongside pastoral and ministry leaders in

their missional organizations and churches to help them grow a disciple-making culture.

Brian’s emphatic belief is that lordship and stewardship precede

entrepreneurship and leadership. God knows our full potential, He created

our passion, and through His Word, prayer, circumstances, and godly

counsel, God will grow us to be both difference-makers and disciple-makers in every life we touch and every enterprise we build.

Brian and Debi have been married for 31 years and live near Tampa, FL. They are blessed with two daughters, Jenna & Kayla; and twin grandsons,

Noland & Nash.

About Debi Zaas

Debi Zaas – Lives in Tampa Bay area in Florida. She and Brian have been

married for 32 years and have two daughters and twin three-year-old

grandsons.

She is Co-Director of Navigators Life and Leadership Coaching. After eight

years of serving with Navigator Church Ministries, she transitioned to HQ

with Navigators Train-Develop-Care in hopes of having a greater impact

within Navigators cross-missionally, cities, and beyond. Debi is passionate

about coaching and sees this as an important tool to reach the God-sized

goal of Navigators raising up 1 million disciple-makers in 2030.

She earned her Master’s degree in Sports Psychology at the University of

Maryland where she ended a 20-year career in coaching gymnastics. Debi

obtained a Master level of coaching with the Institute of Professional

Excellence in Coaching and has a Professional Coaching Credential (PCC)

with the International Coaching Federation. (ICF). She is a Mentor Coach

and Instructor for Professional Christian Coaching Institute (PCCI) where

she has had the opportunity to walk alongside over 50 Navigators to grow

in their coaching skills to make disciples. Several of these Navigators are

Certified Coaches with the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and

many are in pursuit of their ICF credential.

About Bora Francois

Bora Francois lives in Rwanda where he serves as Navigator’s National

Director. He is married to Francine and has a 2-year-old son, Robero. Bora

is a PCCI student, Certified Navigator Life and Leadership Coach, and

Mentor in Training.

About Levi Ndimubanzi

Levi Ndimubanz lives in Uganda where he serves as Navigator’s National

Director. He is married to Irene and has 2 daughters. He will soon be a

Certified Navigator Life & Leadership Coach, and he is a student at PCCI.

In a success-driven world focused on outcomes and results, coaching
helps clients live and lead in a different way. In a new book, Lead Like it
Matters to God, Richard Stearns, Former President of World Vision, offers a
roadmap and guide for those who want to live in a more values-focused,
character-driven way.

Tune in to hear some of our key takeaways from this book, including:
• Why the starting point for all leadership is surrender
• How trusting God allows us to flourish when times are tough
• The importance of apology and forgiveness in promoting organizational
health
• The reason that excellence is important, but perfection is not

You can learn more about this book at https://www.ivpress.com/lead-like-it-matters-to-god.

Kevin Jackson can be found at: www.todayforyourtomorrow.com

Imagine a coaching session when absolutely nothing is wasted, where every word and every moment builds on the next. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you could hear a coach responding to the entirety of the client, the entire time? That’s just a few of the golden nuggets you’ll glean from this recording of a live coaching session with Master Certified Coach Brent O’Bannon and added commentary from Master Certified Coach, Cheryl Scanlan.

Listen to learn:
How to have a truly client-centered conversation
When to introduce a new concept for added perspective
The importance of creating new awareness and connecting the dots to forward the client’s movement
How using a simple question to expand the reward of the hard work the client has done

About Brent O’Bannon, MCC
Brent O’Bannon is a PCC and the first GALLUP-Certified Strengths Coach in the world.
He coaches and champions leaders, entrepreneurs, and multi-million dollar companies to grow stronger, work smarter, and live richer with their strengths.

Brent teaches the PCCI Strengths Based Coaching course and is a recent Amazon #1 best-selling author of Selling Strengths: A Little Book for Executive and Life Coaches About Using Your Strengths to Get Paying Clients.

Join his vision to champion strengths for global excellence at www.brentobannon.com

About Cheryl Scanlan, MCC
Cheryl Scanlan, MCC, CMCC is a former executive with a multi-million dollar firm in New York, and combines strong business acumen with a passion for the Christian coaching industry, to facilitate the development of confident ambassadors for Christ in both corporate and ministry environments.

Cheryl began coaching in 2004 after a long battle with a difficult disease served as a Divine incubator for growing a focused love for the Lord and His church body. In 2003, her husband and best friend of 34 years, Tom, was the first to suggest coaching as a possible vehicle of ministry to the body. Her work began in her local church of 4000 where she continues to serve as a coach, and leadership developer/trainer after formerly serving in the capacities of Women’s Minister and Care Director.

Cheryl is primarily a business and executive coach, having worked with hundreds of C-Levels 1-1 and trained over 1000 CEOs. Examples of work over the past 15 years include developing high-performance organizations, fostering executive health, and preparing organizations for critical transitions. For more information visit www.c3advantage.net. She has clocked over 10,000 hours of coaching.

Her core passion is to see God’s people walk in step with Him. An ardent student of God’s Word, she is a trained Precept Bible Teacher and has studied the Word inductively for over 20 years. She has recently developed a one-year and six-month Bible reading plan that will be made available through her non-profit, Promised Land Living beginning in 2020.
www.PromisedLandLiving.com

Listen on Apple Podcasts | Download We all want to do what matters. To go beyond productivity to investing in the people and things that matter most. But that’s much easier said than done. In this episode, author and coach Teresa McCloy transparently shares her personal story of how God helped her move [...]

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We all want to do what matters. To go beyond productivity to investing in the people and things that matter most. But that’s much easier said than done. In this episode, the author and coach Teresa McCloy transparently shares her personal story of how God helped her move from being
a workaholic to enjoying a whole new way of living.

Tune in to learn:
• How to move from rush to rest
• The beauty in slowing down and savoring the life God has given you
• Ways a modern-day Rule of Life can set you up for daily success
• Coaching tools and techniques to help your clients focus on what’s most important to them

About Teresa McCloy
Teresa McCloy is as ACC Certified Coach with the ICF and a Certified Spiritual Director. She is the creator and founder of the REALIFE Process®, a faith-focused business that helps entrepreneurs, coaches, and consultants develop and diversify their business by providing certification and training using the signature content of the REALIFE Process® as well as coaching and community to grow their impact and increase their income.

When she is not on the road speaking, coaching clients, recording her podcast, The REALIFE Process Podcast, or training new REALIFE Process® Certified Facilitators, Teresa enjoys being on the family farm, tending her wildflower garden where she loves to cut fresh flowers, enjoying a
great cup of coffee with a friend, and of course, traveling as much as possible!

Teresa is also the CEO at Professions Christian Coaching Institute and and Instructor for Successful Coach and the Leadership Bridge Class

Get the book “Do What Matters: Live from Rest, Not Rush, Using The REALIFE Process” at www.DoWhatMattersBook.com.

Listen on Apple Podcasts | Download Whether you are new to the coaching field or a seasoned professional, you’ll glean great wisdom from this interview with Coach Scott Frickenstein. Drawing from his background as a senior military officer and academic department chair, Scott shares key insights he’s gained on his journey to becoming [...]

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Whether you are new to the coaching field or a seasoned professional, you’ll glean great wisdom from this interview with Coach Scott Frickenstein. Drawing from his background as a senior military officer and academic department chair, Scott shares key insights he’s gained on his journey to becoming a leadership coach.

Tune in to learn:

• How God can take the various streams of experience in our lives and use them in our coaching
• Ways to shift from telling and teaching to asking and coaching
• Why good coaching starts with noticing
• The importance of growing your skilling and sharpening your trust in the coaching process

About Scott

Scott served as an Air Force officer for over 25 years and was privileged to lead thousands of Airmen. He launched Leading by Design in 2017 to help pastors and other Christian leaders understand God’s design for leading and His unique personal design for each leader. Thru this ministry, Scott coaches individuals, couples, and teams, and he leads retreats and seminars on topics related to leader development.

Sco< also serves as a PCCI faculty member and is an executive coach and team leader in the WeAlign Coaching movement. He is married to Kristi; they are blessed with two grown sons.

Contact with Scott at www.LeadingByDesign.us

Listen on Apple Podcasts | Download Values undergird everything we do as coaches. But like many broad themes, the temptation is to talk about values in a theoretical or philosophical way without understanding how they play out in everyday life. In today’s podcast, Chris McCluskey is going to use the Professional Christian Coaching [...]

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Values undergird everything we do as coaches. But like many broad themes, the temptation is to talk about values in a theoretical or philosophical way without understanding how they play out in everyday life. In today’s podcast, Chris McCluskey is going to use the Professional Christian Coaching Institute as a case study, so you can put real meat on the bones of this
critical concept.

In this episode, you’ll get a backhand-the-scenes to peek at:

• How key values are identified and chosen

• The importance of weaving core values into every area of life and business

• Operationalizing values on a daily basis

• Getting and keeping the buy-in of the entire team

Listen on Apple Podcasts | Download If you want to transform lives through sharing hope, skills, and encouragement, so you and others can move from success to significance to legacy, then tune in to hear from Tom Ziglar, a world-class leader and motivator. Today, meet a Legacy Coach who: Knows the truth of [...]

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If you want to transform lives through sharing hope, skills, and encouragement so you and others can move from success to significance to legacy, then tune in to hear from Tom Ziglar, a world-class leader and motivator.

Today, meet a Legacy Coach who:

• Knows the truth of leaving an inheritance to someone and the power of leaving a legacy in someone.
• Shows people how to teach and transfer wisdom, so others can make decisions for themselves that ripple into eternity.
• Lives for the value of significance, not just temporary success.
• Shares openly about how you can become a person who bears fruit, which creates a legacy worth leaving

About Tom Ziglar

Tom Ziglar has had the rare privilege of spending his entire life surrounded by world-class leaders, innovators, and motivators. Family dinner included the presence of the world’s TOP motivator, his father, Zig Ziglar.

“You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.”

Tom speaks around the world to billion-dollar companies, small business owners, and well-known academic institutions like Cambridge and Harvard.

Through Tom’s leadership, the Ziglar brand is more relevant today than ever:

• Over 4 million fans on the Ziglar Facebook page.
• Over 40 million downloads of one of the top business podcasts on iTunes, The Ziglar Show Podcast.
• Over 200 Ziglar Legacy Certified trainers in over 17 countries around the world

The Ziglar Mission, and Tom’s mission, is simple:

“To transform lives through hope, skills, and encouragement, and to help you move from Success to Significance to Legacy.”

Learn more at https://www.ziglar.com

Listen on Apple Podcasts | Download Sound pretentious? It’s not an oversell. It’s valid. One year after becoming an “adjunctpreneur” one man sought to replace his regular income with coaching income in 365 days. It didn’t happen by dabbling about or attempting osmosis. Tune in to hear about Andy Wood’s personal journey and [...]

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Sound pretentious? It’s not an oversell. It’s valid. One year after becoming an “adjunctpreneur” one man sought to replace his regular income with coaching income in 365 days. It didn’t happen by dabbling about or attempting osmosis. Tune in to hear about Andy Wood’s personal journey and glean the insights you need to build your own fully sustainable coaching practice.

You’ll hear more about:

• How to get specific and bold about your goals so you can make the shift from skill development to business-building. • How having a “bias for action” helps you answer the question, “What 3 things do I need for my coaching business to succeed?”

• How to make a difference in someone else’s life by being an instrument of growth and transformation.

• How to take the mystery out of networking and zone in on value-added relationships, with no hook attached.

About Andy Wood

You won’t find MADISEL in the dictionary… yet. But hang out with Andy Wood for any length of time and you’ll hear about it. MADISEL is an acronym for “Make a difference in Someone Else’s Life,” and that is what has driven Andy for the last 40 years.

Whether as an author, professor, church leader, consultant, coach, or seminar leader, Andy has invested his life in communicating truth with passion and personally encouraging others. He has a Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership, 32 years of pastoral ministry experience, and 14 years’ experience as a university professor, where he has taught more than 10,000 future leaders.

Andy started transitioning into professional Christian coaching in March 2017 and in just over a year has seen 45 clients in various settings. His main focus is on leaders and performance-driven professionals, including business owners, pastors and ministry leaders.

He’s about to celebrate 35 years of marriage to Robin, his wife. Together they have three married children and nine little champions of the heart who call them “Papa” and “Grammy.”

Learn more about Andy Wood at http://www.lifevesting.com

Listen on Apple Podcasts | Download Living the coaching lifestyle affords you the freedom, flexibility, and ability to live the life you want to live. Today, we’ve got 4 seasoned professionals who are eager to share the ins and outs of living out your dream while you build a portable business and serve [...]

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Living the coaching lifestyle affords you the freedom, flexibility, and ability to live the life you want to live. Today, we’ve got 4 seasoned professionals who are eager to share the ins and outs of living out your dream while you build a portable business and serve others through coaching.

Together, we’ll:

• Unpack how you can work from anywhere in the world, at any time of the day, so you can spend more time with those you love most.
• Discover how to earn a living from your home so you’re not just making a living financially but making a living relationally and experientially as well.
• Why coaching doesn’t have to fit into your lifestyle because you can fit your lifestyle into coaching and engage in your personal, practical everyday life, more often!

Listen on Apple Podcasts | Download This week we are opening the mailbox to answer these great questions. How is coaching different than discipling? When writing copy for your website, what’s the most effective way to describe yourself on the “About Me” page? What are some quick and easy ways to create a [...]

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This week we are opening the mailbox to answer these great questions. How is coaching different than discipling? When writing copy for your website, what’s the most effective way to describe yourself on the “About Me” page? What are some quick and easy ways to create a high-value free offer that builds your mailing list without taking weeks to write? And lastly, can a coach who has been trained elsewhere still take classes at PCCI?

Tune in to learn all the information you need to keep raising the standard of coaching and changing the world.

Listen on Apple Podcasts | Download What happens to our brains as we age? The facts are sobering. And while Scripture assures us that we can grow in wisdom as we advance in years, there are also pitfalls to avoid. Tune in today to learn the latest neuroscience findings on brain health and [...]

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What happens to our brains as we age? The facts are sobering. And while Scripture assures us that we can grow in wisdom as we advance in years, there are also pitfalls to avoid. Tune in today to learn the latest neuroscience findings on brain health, and be sure to take notes as Dr. Charles Stone shares five key ways to keep your brain healthy for decades to come.

About Charles Stone

Charles has been a pastor for forty years in the US and Canada. He has authored seven books, and his writing has appeared over 300 times on leading Christian leadership websites. His passion is neuroministry, intersecting Biblical truth with neuroscience. He has earned four degrees and is currently completing his PhD.

Charles has been married forty-one years to his wife Sherryl, and they have three adult children and four grandchildren. He is a certified coach through International Coaching Federation, ACC designation. His current book is If Jesus Gave a TED Talk: 8 neuroscience principles the Master Teacher used to persuade His audience (2021, Freiling Publishing).

You can learn more about Charles at www.charlesstone.com

Learn about our upcoming course: Coaching with the Brain in Mind

We are living in uncertain times and walking through uncharted territory. Old solutions no longer fit, and our surefire strategies are failing. In times like these, coaching is needed more than ever before.

Coaches are willing to sit with their clients as they ask the big questions. They are comfortable with experimentation, iteration, and adaptation. Coaches embody hope.

To equip and encourage you in the important work you do, we are offering a FREE virtual summit: Professional Christian Coaching: Right People. Right Places. Right Time.

Just a few of the things you’ll learn are:

Key industries where coaching is being used
Specific niches that are meeting specialized needs
Why now is the perfect time to use your coaching skills

Save your spot at: www.ProfessionalChristianCoaching.com/summit

About Jordan Mercedes, MCC, Dean of Community Life Jordan Mercedes is an Executive Coach, coach educator, and mentor. Her clients call her a “fire starter” for the way she helps them recognize and connect with the power of their inner fire to create outer momentum. She has over fifteen years of experience working with clients, supporting them in next-level growth, vision realization, and sustainable personal and corporate leadership.

Jordan is driven to help leaders and organizations make the necessary heart-and-head connection, so they can have the impact they want to have in their work and in the world. Her work includes one-to-one coaching; group coaching and facilitation. She serves as the Dean of Community Life, and the Chair for the Cultural Celebration Committee. Jordan is an MCC credentialed with the International Coaching Federation.

www.JordanMercedes.com

About Greg Tosi: VP of Marketing Bio Greg serves as the VP of Marketing for PCCI. He provides vision and direction for our promotions and outreach as well as helping streamline our marketing systems and processes internally. As a marketing consultant and business coach, he helps online businesses fine tune their marketing strategy to help them create meaningful connections with their customers and grow their bottom line.

He’s a husband and father of 4 and enjoys being outdoors and never seeing snow where he resides in Florida.

www.GregTosi.com

Listen on Apple Podcasts | Download Don’t miss this rare opportunity to be a “fly on the wall” during a truly masterful coaching session. For the first time ever, we have secured permission (from both coach and client) to share with you the recording of an actual coaching session that was recently approved [...]

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Don’t miss this rare opportunity to be a “fly on the wall” during a truly masterful coaching session. For the first time ever, we have secured permission (from both coach and client) to share with you the recording of an actual coaching session that was recently approved by the ICF for the highest designation in our field, Master Certified Coach.

Even better, Cheryl Scanlan, MCC is also joining us in this episode to give you a behind-the-scenes commentary unpacking some of the skills, techniques, and qualities that Coach Todd Kemp used to make this session truly powerful.

About Todd Kemp

Todd coaches leaders and teams who need to adapt to new realities, reimagine how they create value, and grow their leadership capacities – so that they, their noble missions, and families can flourish. He also serves as a coach for a Convene peer advisory group of Christian CEOs and business owners in the Denver, Colorado area. He helps these leaders to integrate their faith and leadership to build healthy companies and cultures that love well, do good work, and honor God while earning a fair profit for a purpose.

Todd has earned his Master Certified Coach credential from the ICF, a Certified Professional Leadership Coach designation from PCCI, and a Team Coaching certification. He also holds an MA degree in Positive Psychology and Coaching. He and his bride live outside of Denver where they are open-nesters with two young adult children, and enjoy hiking, skiing, and building into people who want to create meaningful change in their lives.

Get your FREE copy of: 25 Extravagant Listening Tips for Leaders at www.northwisegroup.com

About Cheryl Scanlan, MCC

Cheryl Scanlan, MCC, CMCC is a former executive with a multi-million dollar firm in New York, and combines a strong business acumen with a passion for the Christian coaching industry, to facilitate the development of confident ambassadors for Christ in both corporate and ministry environments.

Cheryl began coaching in 2004 after a long battle with a difficult disease served as a Divine incubator for growing a focused love for the Lord and His church body. In 2003, her husband and best friend of 34 years, Tom, was the first to suggest coaching as a possible vehicle of ministry to the body. Her work began in her local church of 4000 where she continues to serve as a coach, and leadership developer/trainer after formerly serving in the capacities of Women’s Minister and Care Director.

Cheryl is primarily a business and executive coach, having worked with hundreds of C-Levels 1-1 and trained over 1000 CEOs. Examples of work over the past 15 years includes developing high performance organizations, fostering executive health and preparing organizations for critical transitions. For more information visit www.c3advantage.net. She has clocked over 10,000 hours of coaching.

Her core passion is to see God’s people walk in step with Him. An ardent student of God’s Word, she is a trained Precept Bible Teacher and has studied the Word inductively for over 20 years. She has recently developed a one year and six month Bible reading plan that will be made available through her non-profit, Promised Land Living beginning in 2020. https://www.facebook.com/PromisedLandLiving/

Currently, Cheryl serves as Provost of PCCI (professional Christian Coaching Institute) where she has partnered with Chris McCluskey for 8 years and oversees the instructors, mentor coaching, CPLC certification process and curriculum management. Cheryl mentors other coaches primarily through her membership platform, Coach’s Edge (www.mentorcoachinsights.com).

You can learn more about Cheryl at www.CherylScanlon.com.

Our world is experiencing massive change, and with that change the need for emotionally intelligent coaches and leaders continues to grow. Based on a poignant example, Kelli Porcaro helps us unpack what emotional intelligence really is, why it is so important, and gives us three simple practices to help each of us increase our EQ.

Learn how to:

Notice and name your emotions
Identify the loudest and the brightest emotions
Watch out for the emotional escalator
Pause to choose the best course of action

About Kelli Porcaro

Kelli brings 30 years of Organizational Development experience to her work as a Consultant and Coach. She works in a wide range of industries partnering with organizations to develop leaders, navigate change, and unlock infinite possibility. Using a combination of assessment, training, and coaching, Kelli works to equip her clients to reach their professional and personal goals.

Kelli is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coach Federation (ICF), a Master Certified Emotional Intelligence Assessor and Practitioner (EQAP), a Certified EQ Coach (EQCC), and a Hogan Certified Assessor.

Kelli is the creator of THE PRACTICE™, a turn-key, mobile platform focused on developing your emotional intelligence.

She is on faculty with Lake Forest Graduate School of Management and Professional Christian Coaching Institute.

Kelli earned her degree in Organizational Behavior from Northwestern University.

Discover more about Kelli and The PracticeTM at www.EquipStudios.net

Learn about the upcoming class: Developing Emotional Intelligence through Coaching at https://professionalchristiancoaching.com/emotional-intelligence/.

A great marriage involves teamwork, and a great marriage coach helps couples become a winning team. Tune in today to learn how to work with couples on assessing their current relationship, identifying and acquiring important communication skills, and creating a compelling vision for the road ahead.

Learn more about the Pre-Marital and Marriage Coaching class that begins August 17, 2022 here: Pre-Marital and Marriage Coaching.

About Rudy and Wilmer Graham

Rudy Graham is a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach and Managing Partner of Fruitful Journey Coaching. He brings over 38 years of experience as a Corporate Sales Professional in the technology industry. He coaches and trains individuals and teams pursuing performance growth in government and commercial organizations.

Wilmer holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and she is a Certified Public Accountant. She earned credentials in Executive Leadership and is a Senior Excellence in Government leader.

Rudy and Wilmer have been married just celebrated 39 years of marriage and enjoying coaching marriages and teaching Pre-Marital and Marriage Coaching together at PCCI.

You can learn more about Rudy and Wilmer Graham at: www.FruitfulJourneyCoaching.com.

Internal coaching is growing, and it’s helping companies and ministries build strong leaders and loyal employees. Research shows that coaching increases workplace engagement, improves performance, retains talent, and so much more. In today’s episode, Emily Eichstadt, PCC shares how she became an internal coach and some key things she’s learned.

Tune in to hear:

How Emily became an internal coach
Basic systems she set up for success
Creating coaching agreements to ensure confidentiality
Getting employee buy-in so that clients are eager to come

About Emily Eichstadt

Emily Eichstadt is a Professional Certified Coach who loves people and is energized when she sees individuals, organizations, and communities thriving. She serves on staff at PCCI, is an internal coach, and has a successful private coaching practice. On a personal note, Emily has been married to her college sweetheart, Chad, for 24 years, and they are raising two teenage daughters.

Get Emily’s “Welcome to Coaching” email or connect with Emily at https://www.emilylifecoach.com/.

Imagine how excited your clients would be if you helped them add an extra eight hours of productivity to each month. What if your clients also experienced a greater quality of life and exponentially improved their employee’s engagement? These are the kinds of proven results people get when they know and use their strengths.

Join us today to learn:

The four domains of strengths-based leadership and teamwork
The four needs of followers and how knowing this will help you be a better leader
Practical team building exercises
Biblical examples of strengths-based leadership

Learn more about the Strengths Based Coaching Class here: https://professionalchristiancoaching.com/strengths-based-coaching/

About Brent O’Bannon

Brent struggled to find the right career fit, but finally landed on his feet as a human potential expert facilitating Workplace Training & Executive Coaching for leaders, teams, & organizations over two decades with his company Strengths Champion Solutions.

Brent is an ICF Master Certified Coach who has facilitated more than 27,000 coaching sessions, spoken to 500+ organizations, become an Amazon #1 Best Selling Author, is a Strengthspreneur® & global strengths champion as the world’s 1st GALLUP Certified Strengths Coach.

His top 6 strengths are: Focus, Individualization, Achiever, Command, Competition, & Woo.

He enjoys being a foodie with his college sweetheart of 38 years, being a grandfather, team tennis, and giving back to non-profits.

Connect with Brent at www.brentobannon.com/resources

If you’re getting tired of always looking for your next client, you’ll be delighted to learn that your best new client is the one you already have. In today’s episode, you’ll hear five key reasons why the fastest, easiest, and most profitable way to grow your coaching practice is through repeat business.

Tune in to learn why returning clients:

Spend more money
Are easier to reengage
Cost less to acquire
Promote your business for you
Increase profitability

See all the statistics cited today and more at: https://www.constantcontact.com/blog/repeat-customers.

About Nathan Kreger

Nathan Kreger currently lives in the Indianapolis area where most people think he's in the Central time zone but is really on Eastern time.

He originally grew up in Michigan, and moved down to the Indy area in 2010, so he's not a native Hoosier, doesn’t care about the Colts, and misses the Detroit Tigers and Red Wings. However, he does NOT miss telling people where he lives by pointing to a spot on his hand.

Nathan is married to Erin, his wife of over 10 years, and they have two kids: Tank (aka Tank the Turkey) and Eden (aka Chicken).

He's been consulting for 15+ years and coaching for 10+ years. He enjoy working with people – preferably with lives – and brings a wide array of talent and skill to the people he serves.

Nathan integrates various methodologies in his work, whatever serves the person in front of him best. He loves to learn and practice – lately about who we are, the nature of thought, being present, the human experience, head vs. heart, etc. He likes to learn other things too, but you can talk about that later with him if you decide to connect.

To find out more about Nathan and connect, visit his website at www.NathanKreger.com.

Whether you’re an experienced coach, new to the field, or just pondering the possibilities, you’ll be encouraged and challenged by today’s interview with Todd Kemp. Although Todd is a Master's Certified Coach, his coaching career didn’t begin until an unexpected layoff led to a crisis in his career and life.

Tune in to hear how becoming a coach impacted Todd’s faith and character formation, the up and down path of entrepreneurship, and the true joy of pursuing what was most meaningful to him

About Todd Kemp:

Todd coaches leaders and teams who need to adapt to new realities, reimagine how they create value, and grow their leadership capacities – so that they, their noble missions, and families can flourish. He also serves as a coach for a Convene peer advisory group of Christian CEOs and business owners in the Denver, Colorado area. He helps these leaders to integrate their faith and leadership to build healthy companies and cultures that love well, do good work, and honor God while earning a fair profit for a purpose. Todd has earned his Master Certified Coach credential from the ICF, a Certified Professional Leadership Coach designation from PCCI, and a Team Coaching certification. He also holds an MA degree in Positive Psychology and Coaching. He and his bride live outside of Denver where they are open-nesters with two young adult children, and enjoy hiking, skiing, and building into people who want to create meaningful change in their lives.

Get your FREE copy of: 25 Extravagant Listening Tips for Leaders at www.northwisegroup.com

Now, more than ever, we need leaders who can lead in all
directions. Leaders who can lead in ministry and in the
marketplace, during our very volatile, uncertain, complex,
and ambiguously changing times. Great partnerships
between leaders and coaches are critical in making the
world a better place.

Listen in as Kim and her guest, Jon Lockhorst, discuss a
coach-approach to leadership, and hear how to:

• Overcome the challenges in leadership that stem from
learned skills, habits, and behaviors, so you can
acquire the mindset you need to lead in all directions.
• Manage the different kinds of investments that come
with broader responsibilities in organizations, so you
can step into leadership roles with confidence.
• Walk away with the awareness of life and leadership
coaching skills that help equip powerful leaders so
they can positively impact the world

About Jon Lockhorst

Jon Lokhorst, CPA, PCC, is a leadership coach, keynote
speaker, corporate trainer, and author of the new
book, Mission-Critical Leadership: How Smart Managers
Lead Well in All Directions. He works with organizations to
develop leaders everyone wants to follow, build teams no
one wants to leave, and deliver exceptional results. Before
launching Lokhorst Consulting LLC, Jon enjoyed a 30-plus
year career as a CPA, CFO, and organizational leader. He
has a Master’s in Organizational Leadership and is
recognized by the International Coach Federation as a
Professional Certified Coach. He also serves as adjunct
faculty in the School of Business and Nonprofit
Management at North Park University. Jon is a member of
the National Speakers Association and serves as
President-Elect of the Minnesota chapter. On a personal
note, Jon loves grandparenting and being “Papa” to his
four adorable littles, as he calls them.

Contact Jon and pick up a copy of Mission Critical
Leadership here: https://lokhorstconsulting.com

Love it or hate, the world has gone virtual. Today’s guest, Jennifer Britton, author of Reconnecting Workspaces, is here to help us navigate these ever-changing virtual waters. Tune in to learn how you and your clients can move from surviving to thriving in virtual, remote, and hybrid spaces.

She’ll help you:

Discover unique pathways that allow you and your clients to have conversations that matter.
Pause and ponder what’s next and what’s possible in the face of uncertainty.
Move forward with adaptability so you can operate successfully in today’s highly virtual world.

About Jennifer Britton

Coach, author, and thought leader in the area of group and team coaching, Jennifer has also been an early pioneer in the virtual and remote space. Since the early 1990s she’s led teams and programming virtually, first in the international humanitarian sector leading teams for the UN, and later through her company, Potentials Realized, an award-winning coaching skills training company. Virtual, remote, and hybrid work is the focus of her recent TEDx talk, and her latest book series, Reconnecting Workspaces: Pathways to Thrive in the Virtual, Remote, and Hybrid World.

Most days you’ll find Jenn leading a myriad of virtual programs – from remote team coaching sessions, to virtual retreats for business owners, to group coaching programs for entrepreneurs.

She is the author of six books including Reconnecting Workspaces, along with Effective Group Coaching (Wiley, 2010 – the world’s first book to be published on group coaching), From On to Many: Best Practices for Team and Group Coaching (Jossey-Bass, 2013), Effective Virtual Conversations (2017), and PlanDoTrack Workbook and Planner for Virtual and Remote Professionals (2019).

Jenn’s also the co-host of the Remote Pathways podcast which explores the people, places, and processes of remote work.

She offers a number of ICF CCE-approved programs for coaches in the areas of group and team coaching and virtual conversations.

Learn more about Jennifer’s work at

www.ReconnectingWorkspaces.com

"What should I charge?" "I feel so awkward quoting my fees," "Is it right for this to be a business or should it be a ministry instead?" Christian coaches often struggle with knowing what to charge and make a profit while still maintaining a servant's heart. Money mindsets are the base of every single business decision, and today, we want to help you know how to better align your mindsets with what God says in His word. Don't miss these great resources:

Free Money Mindsets Quiz to help you uncover the hidden mindsets you already have: www.MoneyMindsets Quiz.com

Money Mindsets Course: An inexpensive on-demand program that will walk you through a God-honoring process to determine what's best for YOU! www.MoneyMindsetsCourse.com

Listen on Apple Podcasts | Download In this powerful episode of Opening the Mailbox, we are taking a deep dive into two important questions. First, we’ll address the changes the ICF recently made in their standards of accreditation for coach training schools. Chris will walk you through a simple, but thorough, explanation so [...]

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In this powerful episode of Opening the Mailbox, we are taking a deep dive into two important questions. First, we’ll address the changes the ICF recently made in their standards of accreditation for coach training schools. Chris will walk you through a simple, but thorough, explanation so you can be fully informed and fully prepared. Secondly, if you are new to coaching and wondering how to get the word out to family and friends, Kim will explain how to write a “grand opening” letter to announce your coaching business and you’ll get a proven, word-for-word template you can adapt and use as your own.

Pick up your “Grand Opening Letter Template” here: www.professionalchristiancoaching.com/letter.

Winning in sports takes more than physical conditioning and mastering a few technical skills. True success comes from the inside out. In today’s episode, Life Coach Erica Vinson shares how coaching can help athletes adopt a growth mindset to overcome their fears, reframe false beliefs, and take new actions so they can achieve better results.

Listen to learn:

How what we are thinking impacts what we are feeling, the actions we take, and the results we get
Ways that coaching young people differs from coaching adults
Why all three centers of intelligence must be harnessed to create transformational change
The importance of visioning to prewire the brain for success

About Erica Vinson:

Erica Vinson is a CPLC and ACC Credentialed Coach. She is the founder of Fear < less Living Coaching™, the Dean of Academics at PCCI and serves as the REALIFE Process® Facilitator Network Director. She has a certificate in Spiritual Transformation through the Transforming Center. Erica served several years as an Elementary Education teacher in a public school system and also in full-time ministry as a Family Minster and Creative Arts/Communication Minister. As a Life Coach, Erica uses the tool of the Enneagram to help clients gain deeper self-awareness and grow in relationships with others both personally and professionally. With her teacher’s heart, she loves serving educators and coaches to expand their impact as they serve on teams, empower their students and athletes, and partner with parents. Erica also has a passion to see folks courageously face their fears and move forward in greater freedom through “fear < less” living!

She lives in the Metro East STL area and loves playing golf, waterskiing, traveling, spending time with friends and family, and is especially fond of being an Auntie to her nieces and nephew.

Get your free copy of Evoking Awareness through Three Centers of Intelligence at www.EricaVinson.com

How I Became a Coach with Kris Kelso

This week we are giving you a rare, behind-the-scenes view of what it really takes to become a professional coach. In this candid interview with Kris Kelso, PCC, you’ll hear the ups and downs, the successes and the mistakes, Kris has experienced in his transition from owning a technology company to becoming an author, entrepreneur, and executive coach.

Tune in to learn the importance of:

Emphasizing mindset more than mechanics
Growing personally as well as professionally
Integrating multiple passions into a portfolio career
Figuring out the blend of services that’s right for you

About Kris Kelso

Kris Kelso, PCC is an entrepreneur who has founded and run multiple companies in the technology and healthcare industries. Today, he works primarily as an executive coach, a keynote speaker, and a contributing author for publications including Fast Company, Yahoo Finance, and The Nashville Business Journal.

His book, “Overcoming The Impostor: Silence Your Inner Critic and Lead with Confidence“, offers entrepreneurs and leaders a practical look at impostor syndrome, and explores that inner voice that downplays our own accomplishments while amplifying those of others.

Kris has coached and consulted with hundreds of entrepreneurs, business owners, and their leadership teams. He is a faculty member at the Professional Christian Coaching Institute, an advisor and instructor at the Nashville Entrepreneur Center, and has served on the boards of directors of several non-profit organizations.

He is an active member of Cornerstone Nashville, where he serves, teaches, and coaches other leaders. He lives with his wife and three teenaged sons in a suburb of Nashville, Tennessee.

Connect with Kris at www.KrisKelso.com.

For many, entrepreneurship provides the ideal route for coaches to choose their own schedule, set their own pace, and head towards the destination of their choice. But being an entrepreneur can be more difficult than it sounds. In today’s episode, you’ll discover the core issues you need to think about when it comes to owning your own coaching business. Tune in to learn:

Why there has never been a better time to become an entrepreneur
How a graduated approach may serve your needs
The benefits of keeping your day job while you build your business
Why mistakes shouldn’t slow you down

Paul Klein is a business consultant and entrepreneur. From his days as 1980s hair band guitarist and lifelong entrepreneur to starting and scaling a successful SAAS company to consulting for some of the biggest brands including Target, Neiman Marcus, Starbucks, Holiday Inn, and other global brands, Paul helps Consultants, Freelancers, and Solopreneurs price their services, stop undercharging in order to build 7 figure businesses. Paul is the host of the Pricing Is Positioning Podcast and The Rock Your Pricing Online Course and Community.

Get Insider’s Access to Bizable TV at: https://bizabletv.com/orders/customer_info?o=62553

Do you long to grow your impact as a Christian Coach? If so, we have exciting news for you today! The 3rd Annual International Christian Coaching Day is coming up on Friday, May 20, at the end of the ICF’s International Coaching Week. So, get ready to capitalize and benefit from new findings in the coaching industry and so many other amazing statistics. Coaching is growing!

Tune in to find out:

4 great benefits you’ll receive from participating in International Christian Coaching Day, plus all the details you need to show up strong.
How we are advancing the field of Christian Coaching and how it’s not just for the entrepreneur anymore. Learn more about how diversified coaching has become.
The 2 regions where coaching is exploding globally so you can be a part of impacting lives.

This is a must-listen for anyone who’s serious about coaching as a profession!

In our always-on culture, it’s easy for coaches and their clients to become so focused on setting and achieving their goals, that they quickly move from one to another without any time in-between.

Today, we want to invite you and your clients to celebrate more deeply and more often.

Tune in to learn:

Why we don’t stop to celebrate
The brain science behind the celebration
Various ways to celebrate
Key questions to spark celebration for you and your clients

Leadership development is a $350 billion industry across the globe and a portion of that money is spent on coaching. In the past, access to coaching was restricted to senior leaders, but what if that person got coached earlier? How would that impact their leadership skills, their workplace, their families, and their lives? A growing number of colleges and universities are excited by these possibilities and are offering coaching to students to help prepare them for leadership roles even before they’ve been hired.

Listen to today’s episode to learn:

How colleges and universities are incorporating coaching into their programs
Potential opportunities for coaches to work in this capacity
Measurement and metrics for coaching programs
How coaches can find out about this work

About Wende Gaikema

Wende is an executive and leadership coach who helps leaders develop their business and their people. Wende’s work includes executives and leaders building skills in leadership presence, EQ, influential communication, change management, personal and team effectiveness.

She works with leaders in corporate and non-profit settings, including coaching students at Rice and Vanderbilt Universities. Wende believes that everyone can be a leader as they choose to influence the world around them.

She is credentialed as a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) through the International Coach Federation and holds certifications in leadership, career and brain-based coaching as well as in emotional intelligence. She comes to coaching out of a business background in sales and marketing at Procter & Gamble. Wende is also on the faculty at Professional Christian Coaching Institute.

Resources:

5 Keys to Emotional Intelligence www.coachwende.com

Leadership Reckoning: https://doerr.rice.edu/leadership-reckoning-book

CF Converge presentation by Rice https://learning.coachingfederation.org/products/1371/icf-converge-2019-coaching-emerging-leaders-in-the-defining-decade

Business Network International is the world’s leading business referral organization with over 10,600 chapters worldwide, and its mission is to help business professionals develop long-term, meaningful referral relationships. Teresa McCloy is an active member and in this episode, Teresa shares her experience with BNI and answers our key questions so that you can determine whether this might be a good fit for you. Tune in to learn:

BNI’s core business values
Ways that membership can help you develop your marketing skills
Key membership considerations for coaches
The average time and financial commitment involved

About Teresa McCloy

Teresa McCloy is the creator and founder of the REALIFE Process®, a faith-focused business that helps entrepreneurs, coaches, and consultants develop and diversify their business by providing certification and training using the signature content of the REALIFE Process® as well as coaching and community.

When she is not on the road speaking, coaching clients, recording her podcast, The REALIFE Process Podcast,or training new REALIFE Process® Certified Facilitators, Teresa enjoys being on their family grain farm, enjoying a great cup of coffee with a friend, and of course, traveling as much as possible!

Teresa’s first book Do What Matters, Live from Rest Not Rush will release in the fall of 2022.

Certifications include:

CPLC Credentialed Life & Leadership Coach – Professional Christian Coaching Institute – 2018
ACC Credentialed Coach through the International Coaching Federation - 2019
Certified Spiritual Director through Sustainable Faith – 2017

Get your FREE Realife Needs & Values Assessment at https://www.therealifeprocess.com/

Christian coaches bring an important voice to the table when it comes to the cultural conversation around diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice. But it can be hard to know how to dive into the deep waters of this weighty topic. Today’s guest, Sackeena Gordan-Jones, who serves on the ICF’s DEIJ Task Force, helps us look at these subjects through a Scriptural lens.

Tune in to learn more about:

What does DEIJ mean?
What is the goal of embedding DEIJ in coaching?
How did the ICF get started on the DEI Journey?
How do we get an entire organization onboard?
What is the most difficult part of implementing a DEI focus?
Where does DEIJ align with a spiritual lens?

About Sackeena Gordon-Jones, PhD, MCC

Sackeena Gordon-Jones is an executive and leadership coach, speaker, trainer, and organization development consultant residing in Raleigh, NC. She works with leaders who want to realize their professional and personal potential and achieve both success and happiness. She holds the credential of Master Certified Coach (MCC) with the International Coach Federation (ICF) and is currently serving on the ICF’s DEIJ Task Force.

Sackeena especially enjoys working with women and leaders who are intentional about bringing their whole life into harmony, while achieving meaningful professional and personal goals. She specializes in transformational coaching and strategic planning. She has coached leaders in the government and the private sectors, throughout five continents.

A leader in the coaching field, Sackeena has served as two-time president of the ICF Raleigh Chapter, leading the chapter to win the Internationally recognized ‘Breaking Barriers’ award. She is the current Chair of the NC Community Coaching Outreach, leading the chapter to win the inaugural international ‘Gift of Coaching’ award. Sackeena is also a professional coach trainer and serves as the director of the Business Coaching Certificate Program at NC State University.

In addition to her coaching experience and credentials, Sackeena has over 20 years of relevant executive-level business, leadership, and board experience in private, public, and non-profit sectors. She has worked with organizations and teams to deliver leadership and talent development focused on creating a sustainable culture of engagement, through leadership agility, emotional intelligence, coaching, and communication skills. She has completed advanced studies in leadership, strategy, change management, human development and behavior, theology, neuroscience of coaching, organization development, and Philosophy.

Connect with Sackeena and learn more about her Business Coach Institute and coaching at www.TransformationEdge.com

Coaches use their skills in a number of different ways and in a variety of settings. Today, Mike Howerton shares with us how his journey of self-discovery and self-leadership led him to a full-time position as an EntreLeadership Executive Coach with Ramsey Solutions.

Tune in to learn:

How to step out in faith, with a blurry vision, and then rely on the Lord to reveal the true vision for your business
Ways to blend the gifts and talents God’s given you to build a thriving career
New ways of thinking & being that can open doors you never thought possible

About Mike Howerton:

Mike serves as an EntreLeadership Executive Coach for Ramsey Solutions. He is skilled in partnering with leaders, giving them space to talk about what is really going on, as he helps them make decisions that are in alignment with what matters most so they can lead with confidence.

Prior to joining the EntreLeadership team, Mike spent most of his career in Nashville, TN, leading several teams for Embraer, the world's 3rd largest aircraft manufacturer, as well as leading an aircraft maintenance team for an international charter airline in Miami, FL.

As fulfilling as his profession can be, Mike’s greatest enjoyment comes from spending as much intentional time as he can with his wife and 4 children, as well as in his hobbies as an award-winning beekeeper, market gardener, and managing his Christmas Tree Farm.

Reach out to Mike at mike.Howerton@RamseySolutions.com

Do you have questions about certification as a coach? You’re not alone. Understanding and obtaining certification can feel like a long road and we know the importance of not walking it alone. Join us as we take away the ambiguity and help you get well on your way to the goal!

Discover:

The differences between certification and credentialing processes and requirements so you’re clear about how you want to move forward.

More about the largest and most recognized organization representing the field of professional coaching and what to look for in a training organization.

How long it takes to go through the certification/credentialing process and how to get a plan in place so you can become competent and confident as a coach.

Let’s get started!

Click here to view “The Path to Professional Coaching.”

Click here to contact an Academic Advisor at PCCI.

About Jessica Fall

Jessica brings 20 years of professional experience in process creation/improvement, project management and training. A true “activator” & “connector” at heart, she is fueled by helping people and processes work well together. She currently serves as the Dean of Admissions for PCCI and oversees the Academic Advisory team.

Alongside of her professional pursuits, ministry leadership has always played a strong role in Jessica’s life. From the early days of youth ministry to more recent roles as Director of Women’s Ministry and MOPS Ministry, she holds a deep passion for helping others grow in their spiritual life.

After a break from the business world to begin a family, the Lord prompted her to begin coach training with PCCI. Now a Certified Professional Life & Leadership Coach, she is privileged to partner with female Christian leaders who desire to live a life they love.

Jessica and her husband James are southern-California transplants, now living in the Knoxville, TN area. There they are raising two elementary-aged sons and living the minivan dream. Jessica enjoys coffee, life-giving friendships, and little adventures with her family.

You can connect with Jessica by email here: Jessica@ProfessionalChristianCoaching.com

In this world, both we and our clients will face sorrow and loss. While grief is rarely the primary focus for our coaching, it is a part of living. Knowing that, as coaches, how can we help our clients grieve well?

In today’s episode, Chris shares:

The different mindsets, healthy and unhealthy, that are both a part of grief, so you can decide how you want to approach a season of grief.
How to embrace a season of grief, without avoidance or plowing through, so you can honor God and keep moving forward.
Principles that will help both you and your clients move forward during times of grief, so you can discover hope!

If you’d like to hear the entire interview with Roger Whitney and Chris McCluskey, you can find that on Roger’s podcast, The Retirement Answer Man: https://www.rogerwhitney.com/blog/292-retirement-plan-live-2019-how-to-navigate-uncertainty

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Excellence wins: an interview with Horst Schultze is a conversation you truly can't afford to miss. We'll unpack how and why excellence wins. Listen as both a business owner and a skilled coach explains how it’s not about tasks but tapping into your being and purpose. You'll uncover valuable principles that will enable you to help raise up a powerful culture and absolutely change the world.

Cash in:

Learn how to define yourself as a person of excellence so you can receive the respect you deserve and serve people well.
Understand how your essence, being, and personhood are more important than your doing, so you can rise above the noise of your tasks.
Bolster the culture of your business or organization so you can refuel your working environment and create unshakable alignment.

About Horst Schulze

A legend and leader in the hotel world, Horst Schulze's teachings and vision have reshaped the concepts of service and hospitality across industries.

Mr. Schulze's professional life began more than 65 years ago as a server's assistant in a German resort town. Throughout the years he worked for both Hilton Hotels and Hyatt Hotels Corporation before becoming one of the founding members of The Ritz Carlton Hotel Company in 1983. There Mr. Schulze created the operating and service standards that have become world-famous.

During his tenure at The Ritz Carlton, Mr. Schulze served as President and COO responsible for the $2 billion operations worldwide. It was under his leadership that The Ritz Carlton Hotel Company was awarded the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award- twice- making it the first and only hotel company to ever win even one.

In 1991, Mr. Schulze was recognized as "corporate hotelier of the world" by HOTELS Magazine. In 1995, he was awarded the Ishikawa Medal for his personal contributions to the quality movement. In 1999, Johnson & Wales University gave him an honorary Doctor of Business Administration degree in Hospitality Management. Most recently, Mr. Schulze has been honored as a “Leader in Luxury” by Travel Agent Magazine and its sister publication, Luxury Travel Advisor.

After leaving The Ritz Carlton Hotel Company, Mr. Schulze went on to found The Capella Hotel Group. This luxury hotel company managed some of the most elite properties worldwide and gave Mr. Schulze the opportunity to further define the luxury hotel industry, receiving countless awards and recognitions.

Today, Mr. Schulze serves on various boards and acts as a consultant across industries. He is currently completing his seminal book on creating excellence.

We're wrapping up another exciting season and eager to answer your questions! As always, we've selected 4 questions we've received via social media, email, and phone. Let's dive right in!

1) The economy is tight, with no strong indicators of improving soon. How should I be thinking about this as a business owner, in the face of that?

2) In these changing times there are so many conflicting messages about how to market my coaching business. How do I know what will be really worth my time and effort?

3) I saw on social media that you are Pa Ingles in the musical Little House on the Prairie, along with several members of your family... How in the world do you find the time to do something like that? You must be incredibly busy... how do you work in starring in a musical?

4) I was planning to do some public speaking to grow my coaching business but it's hard to find groups meeting in person. Should I just host a webinar?

Life rarely unfolds in a linear fashion, and choosing a niche is no exception. The path to clarity often comes as a result of listening to God, obediently taking the steps He lays out, learning from each step, and then beginning again. In this episode, Kim Avery transparently shares about the huge transition she is making in her business journey, and some of the lessons she is learning along the way.

Tune in for insights on:

How to know and understand the needs of the marketplace
Ways to identify and move through any internal resistance
Practical considerations when making key niching decisions

About Kim Avery

The start of Kim's entrepreneurial journey was anything but smooth. While the client work went amazingly well, unfortunately, the business-building did not. In her first year as an entrepreneur, she wasted hundreds of hours and burned through thousands of dollars, yet saw only mediocre results.

There had to be a better way. So, she pored through Scripture searching for God's principles and provision for today's busy entrepreneurs. What she discovered was a treasure trove of specific, actionable promises and an ongoing opportunity to fully partner with our all-loving, all-powerful, and all-knowing CEO, almighty God.

She has now turned those discoveries into a best-selling book, The Prayer Powered Entrepreneur: 31 Days to Building Your Business with Less Stress and More Joy.

It’s now her joy to help others build (or rebuild) their lives and businesses in a completely different way: God-shaped, grace-infused, actively walking in God’s good and perfect provision for them.

Get your free copy of Practice the Presence of God: 50+ Simple Ways to Enjoy God All Day at: www.KimAveryCoaching.com

Without exception, there’s one common denominator at the core of every single coaching session you hold. It’s the most essential part of that coaching session, and it’s something you have complete control over. What is it? It’s you! Your use of self, your awareness of yourself, and your self-management as a child of God, a person, and a coach.

In this episode, we dive into a deep exploration of who you are, how you show up as a coach, and how you differentiate yourself from your client in a way that’s beneficial to you and to them.

Tune in to hear:

How to maintain a sense of autonomy instead of reactivity
The beautiful ways that coaching is a reflection of our Trinitarian God
Using the competencies as a tool for spiritual love

About Steve Cromer:

Steve has been most blessed by his marriage to Geneva for over 42 years. She has encouraged his love of learning and exploration in the fields of archaeology, chaplaincy, Bowen Family Systems Theory, pastoral ministry, coaching and teaching, and, most recently, owning and operating a restaurant! Together they reared four sons, and now celebrate having three wonderful daughters-in-law – with a fourth one on the way – and seven grandchildren. They have recently relocated to Williamsburg, VA, where they will continue their explorations together.

Steve joined the PCCI family as a student in 2012 and as an instructor in 2017. Through his business, Steve Cromer Coaching, Steve works as a mentor coach for those seeking certification, as a leadership coach for those wanting to improve their soft skills in the workplace, and as a life coach for leaders who struggle in the over-functioning, “go-to” position in the workplace and in the family.

Learn more about Steve at www.SteveCromerCoaching.com

As adults, we spend the majority of our waking hours at work. Yet, this is often a neglected area when it comes to spiritual growth. Thankfully, all work is kingdom work. In this episode, author Tom Lutz shares key insights on taking a coach approach to discipline others in and through their work.

Tune in to hear:

The importance of seeing each person as an image-bearer
The impact on people when they discover the kingdom purpose of their work as an image-bearer
Practical examples and short stories of people finding God’s purpose in their everyday work

About Tom Lutz

Tom Lutz, DMin, served as a Teaching Elder in the PCA Denomination before entering the business world where he brings decades of entrepreneurial experience to his work coaching marketplace leaders as a Convene CEO Roundtable chair and through his consulting company, Vision Planners. Tom also teaches biblical studies at Metro Atlanta Seminary and leads workshops to help Christians work with Kingdom purpose.

Click here to pick up your copy of the book, Equipping Christians for Kingdom Purpose in Their Work

Equipping Christians for Kingdom Purpose in Their Work: A Guide for All Who Make Disciples

In our digital age, people have all the information they need, yet they still aren’t experiencing the transformation they desire. Where is the gap? In today’s episode, Cheryl Scanlan, Master Certified Coach and Founder of Promised Land Living, shares how her ministry uses coaching skills to allow their participants time to breathe, to process, to feel, and to think. Using a slowed-down coach approach, 100% of participants who go through Promised Land Living report leaving more deeply connected to God.

Listen in to learn:

What coaching uniquely brings to the ministry environment
How to help learners take ideas from their heads to their hearts
Ways to train ministry leaders in coaching skills

About Cheryl Scanlan

Cheryl Scanlan, MCC, CMCC is a former executive with a multi-million dollar firm in New York who loves the Lord.

In 2003, Tom, her husband and best friend of 35+ years, suggested coaching as a possible ministry for Cheryl. She followed his advice. In 2004, Cheryl began coaching even as she battled one of the worse cases of Lyme Disease on record at the time. Her work began in her local church of 4,000, where she had previously held numerous positions, such as Women’s Minister and Care Director.

Cheryl is primarily a business and executive coach with over 12,000 hours of coaching experience. She has worked with thousands of C-Levels and business owners within C3Advantage to develop high-performance organizations, foster executive health, and prepare organizations for critical transitions.

Currently, Cheryl serves as Provost of PCCI (Professional Christian Coaching Institute), and has partnered with Chris McCluskey for ten years and oversees the instructors, mentor coaching, and the CPLC certification process, and curriculum management.

As discussed in the podcast, Cheryl’s core passion is to see God’s people walk in step with Him. Within her nonprofit, Promised Land Living, Cheryl and her team equip certified coach presenters with tools to guide participants through a curriculum as they learn to walk in step with the Lord. Through a group and individual coaching method, Promised Land Living helps participants move into God’s best for their life.

For coaches looking to leverage coaching in ministry and group settings, please visit promisedlandliving.com to learn more about the growing team of coaches.

Coaching consistently brings new and fresh insights. Yet, insight without action will never result in lasting transformation or change. That’s why the new ICF Competency #8, Facilitates Client Growth, is so important. This final and critical step of each coaching conversation will help your client take all their awareness, insight, and learning, and translate it into effective, doable action.

Tune into to discover:

Tips on helping your client transform learning and insight to action
The importance of client autonomy even as they work with a coach
The helpful SIDES acronym and how it can assist you and your client in developing a robust growth plan

About Stephanie Gow:

Stephanie Gow serves as a Coach and Consultant for the Education Division of Franklin Covey. She also has her own private coaching practice, Chapelhouse Coaching where her mission is to spotlight the potential and worth that lives in every human being.

You can reach out to Stephanie at www.OurChapelHouse.com

Would you like to press pause on the endless cycle of hurry and worry? If yes, then tune into this extremely important podcast. Because we all have unconscious beliefs, unspoken fears, and hidden habits we so easily rely on that feed our fast-paced culture. Whether the disembodied voices you hear are from others or yourself... past or present... it's time to silence them.

Stop mentally rehearsing all your self-sabotaging thoughts so you can start moving ahead with the things you intend to do.
Shed light on unseen factors and the specific mindsets that convince you that you can't accomplish your goals and find out how you can reach your greatest potential.
Learn more about "hurry sickness" (yes: it's a real thing!) and how you can heal from the harrowing effects of time urgency.

Pregnancy Resource Centers around the world are discovering that taking a coach approach in their ministries is key to saving lives and bringing hope to women in crisis.

Listen in as Jane and Joe Dalton and Pam Sluder share how coaching provides the key to:

Setting the initial appointment with an abortion-minded woman
Providing a space for her to feel heard, respected, and valued
Helping her come to that critical life decision

About Joe and Jane Dalton

Joseph Dalton – CEO Jane Dalton – Executive Director

Joseph and Jane Dalton were born and raised in Missouri. They moved from St. Louis to Rolla sixteen years ago and are the proud parents of eleven children and ten grandchildren.

In 1997, God called the Daltons to step away from their corporate careers and into a life of service.

Now prominent figures in the pro-life industry, Jane is a Professional Certified Life Coach and Joe is a Professional Certified Leadership Coach. The Daltons successfully established thirteen pregnancy centers in Missouri including Pregnancy Resource Center of Rolla where Jane serves as Executive Director under the leadership of her husband who serves as CEO.

More than a decade ago, Jane integrated coaching conversations into the decision-making process when working with abortion minded mothers. She is an expert in option coaching techniques and is passionate about equipping other pregnancy centers with the knowledge and skills needed to use coaching conversation to empower the abortion determined mother to make a decision that both she and her child can live with.

Currently, Jane is writing her latest book, Coaching a Life-or-Death Decision, due for release in 2022.

About Pam Sluder

Pam Sluder – Client Services Director

Pam was born and raised in the state of Kansas. She and her husband Ron have been married for 26 years and blessed with 7 children and 15 grandchildren which bring them great joy!

Pam has an Associates of Arts Degree and a Certificate in Culinary Arts. She has over 20 years of experience in Food Service and Management.

Pam and her husband were called to Pastor the Rolla Church of the Nazarene and moved to Rolla, Missouri in 2013. It was at that time Pam left the food service arena.

In 2015 Pam joined the team at the Pregnancy Resource Center in Rolla and began options coaching training under the direction of Jane Dalton, coaching mothers facing an unplanned pregnancy. Pam also coaches single mothers in the PRC BRIDGES program along with coaching in church ministry.

Pam is working toward becoming a Certified Professional Life Coach through PCCI.

If neuroscience seems intimidating to you, then listen in to learn why brain science is so important to coaching and how it can enhance your coaching presence. Also, glean what you can do to bring simple concepts from neuroscience into your coaching practice; so your clients can receive the value of understanding what beliefs may be blocking their success. But that's not all!

Come to understand how 3 key areas of the brain greatly impact things like creativity, decisions, and change so your clients can get the most out of their coaching sessions and outcomes
Learn how people relate in regard to their brain function and emotional intelligence, so you can integrate a coach approach to how you interact with others
Apply basic working knowledge of neuroscience into your practice and watch your credibility as a coach soar

About Michael Pfau

Michael Pfau is Founder and President of Crossways Life Coaching, LLC. Michael is an author, speaker, coach, mentor and trainer. He holds a Master’s degree in Education and has over 4,200 hours of coaching business and individual clients. Michael partners with Christians in mid-life around career development, performance, and transitions. He also mentors new coaches around skill and business development. He developed an interest in Neuroscience through the work he does to help clients get unstuck, which often centers around mindsets and beliefs.

Along with his own coaching practice, Michael serves as an instructor for the Professional Christian Coaching Institute and the Life Calling Institute. You can learn more about Coaching and The Brain by visiting www.crosswayslifecoaching.com/resources/braincoaching/.

Great coaches ask great questions, and so do great leaders. In fact, knowing what questions to ask, how to ask them, and how long to wait for an answer will yield better results than knowing all the right answers. Join today’s guest, Bob Tiede, author of Leading with Questions, as he shares invaluable insights on creating a coaching culture within Cru.

You’ll walk away knowing:

· The “8 Second Rule” for asking great questions

· How to make your team 10 times more effective

· The best way to help others feel loved

About Bob Tiede

Bob has been on the Staff of Cru for 50 years. He serves on the U.S. Leadership Development Team. Bob's blog LeadingWithQuestions.com recently marked its 9th Anniversary and is followed by Leaders in over 190 Countries. Bob is also the author of 4 popular books including "Great Leaders ASK Questions" & "Now That's a Great Question." Bob and his wife Sherry live in Plano, Texas and are blessed with 4 - now adult and married children and 7 (soon 8) remarkable Grandchildren!"

Get FREE access to all of Bob’s book and resources at www.LeadingWithQuestions.com

The speed of change progresses constantly. Our world accelerates daily. Change is inevitable. But organizations can adapt and even thrive. Our guest today, Steve Greer, is here to help you manage organizational change in the marketplace and the world.

In this episode, you'll:

Learn the 3 keys for leading change
Identify the 5 triggers that help drive change
Begin to retrain your brain to activate change and manage it more effectively
Equip yourself with the 3 R's that cause people to want to change

About Steve Greer

Steve Greer is an Executive / Leadership Coach and Consultant at Genesis Assist, a company he co-founded with his wife to help others achieve their dreams.

Steve has over 34 years of experience with the Procter & Gamble Company. In his current role, he is the Quality Assurance External Engagement Leader which involves working with FDA and leaders from consumer & pharmaceutical companies. In 2017, he was awarded the James N. Gamble Award, the highest recognition to individuals at P&G in Quality Assurance who have made outstanding leadership contributions.

Steve is a sought-after speaker and has helped lead numerous conferences and workshops in the US and internationally.

Steve began his coaching journey over seven years ago (late 2011) with PCCI and now coaches executives and leaders. He and his wife also own Genesis Counseling Center with multiple offices on the coast of Virginia serving close to 5,000 clients a month.

You can contact Steve and receive a copy of the slides for his presentation on leading Change in a Changing World at:

www.GenesisAssistCoaching.com

sgreer@genesisassist.com

LinkedIn: SteveAGreer

Nothing is permanent in this world except change. If we want to be effective in coaching our clients, we have to self-lead and become agents of change. In this episode you'll not only learn how to lead change effectively; you'll be encouraged to step out in healthy fear, as you build your confidence to grow into the role of your calling. Say goodbye to discouragement, so long to unhealthy caution, and hello to your abundant future!

Increase your awareness of change and learn:
* 3 keys to personal change that will help you unlearn fears and develop a growth mindset, so you can change and promote change from the inside out with your clients
* How to discern the difference between unhealthy and healthy fear, so you can unmask the prewired knowledge that keeps you stuck
* How to view challenges as a way to improve instead of proving so you can turn your situation around and walk alongside your clients so they can do the same
* One truth bomb that will catapult you toward success!

About Steve Greer

Steve Greer is an Executive / Leadership Coach and Consultant at Genesis Assist, a company he co-founded with his wife to help others achieve their dreams.

Steve has over 34 years of experience with the Procter & Gamble Company. In his current role, he is the Quality Assurance External Engagement Leader which involves working with FDA and leaders from consumer & pharmaceutical companies. In 2017, he was awarded the James N. Gamble Award, the highest recognition to individuals at P&G in Quality Assurance who have made outstanding leadership contributions.

Steve is a sought-after speaker and has helped lead numerous conferences and workshops in the US and internationally.

Steve began his coaching journey over seven years ago (late 2011) with PCCI and now coaches executives and leaders. He and his wife also own Genesis Counseling Center with multiple offices on the coast of Virginia serving close to 5,000 clients a month.

You can contact Steve and receive a copy of the slides for his presentation on Leading Change in a Changing WorldÊat:
www.GenesisAssistCoaching.com
sgreer@genesisassist.com
LinkedIn: SteveAGreer

In this episode, we're setting aside shop talk to focus on who we are and Whose we are in Christ. If there's ever been a time to renew your mind, then it's now. In these troubled times. CS Lewis said it best. So we're drawing on a virtual gathering we had last year in what we're calling Family Devotions. We hope it brings both help and hope to you and yours.

Renew your mind with:

• Insights that focus on your identity in Christ during troubled times, not only now with COVID-19 but also in any time of tribulation.
• Tips on how to live in this age without being of it, while you take captive the fears that run through your mind.
• Romans 12 and Paul's words from the Word of God, so your soul can be transformed during such a time as this.
• Strategies to support those in your family who struggle with stuffing their emotions, so you and yours can stay strong in spirit.

We're opening the mailbox for the 17th time here during this holiday season, and we are addressing some very practical questions this time as well as some holiday marketing thoughts.

Listen in to find out more about...

How to think about using an income-based or sliding scale as part of your pricing strategy
How to keep your clients' long term goals in front of them without it being about "your" agenda
How to coordinate care with other professionals
Marketing over the holidays without seeming to take advantage of the season

When you speak, teach, or present in front of a group, you want your points to stick. Lessons to be learned. Listeners to be truly engaged and eager to take their next step. But this is easier said than done. Tune in as today’s guest, Charles Stone, shares 8 core principles for communication found at the intersection of how Jesus taught and neuroscience.

Listen in to learn:

How to help your listeners prepare to listen, learn, and take action on what you say
The power of beginning with a concept map
How to use the primacy-recency principle to help you organize your material
Key brain-science principles that make your talk memorable

About Charles Stone

Charles has been a pastor for forty years in the US and Canada and is certified as a coach with the ICF. He has authored seven books, and his writing has appeared over 300 times on leading Christian leadership websites.

His passion is intersecting Biblical truth with neuroscience. He has earned four degrees and is currently completing his PhD. He has been married forty-one years to his wife Sherryl, and they have three adult children and three grandchildren.

You can learn more about If Jesus Gave a TED Talk: 8 neuroscience principles the Master Teacher used to persuade His audience (2021, Freiling Publishing) here: https://www.jesustedtalk.com/

Coaching is gaining a foothold in the Catholic church. Once the distinction of professional-grade coaching was recognized and the idea of coaching being sort of new-age was laid to rest, the desire for coaching and the need for professionally trained coaches has grown. Today we are exploring the Catholic coaching movement

Listen in today with our guest Lisa Mladinich to discover:

Where the Catholic church has been in terms of coaching and where is it going?
What stigma is associated with counseling and coaching within the Catholic church?
How many valuable, people-helping modalities are available within the Catholic church, and where's the gap that coaching fills?
What are the exciting opportunities available for people in the Catholic World who want to know more about coaching?

About Lisa Mladinich

Lisa Mladinich is an ICF-Certified Life Coach and Gallup-Certified CliftonStrengths® Coach dedicated to helping clients glorify God by living powerfully in their natural talents.

A best-selling author and media host, Lisa has appeared on EWTN TV’s Women of Grace, Sunday Night Prime, BookMark, and Catholic Mom’s Café, as well as CatholicTV’s This, is the Day, the Son Rise Morning Show, The Jennifer Fulwiler Show, Busted Halo, and much other television, radio, and podcast programs.

Lisa is the founder of “Wonderfully Made,” an online membership that includes original strengths-development courses, live events, and mastermind groups.

Her new internet TV program called, “Wonderfully Made: Your Talents. God’s Purpose,” can be accessed from the home page of her website.

Lisa has been married to the love of her life, Charlie, for 36 years. They have a grown daughter and live in the wilds of suburban Long Island.

Find Lisa at www.WonderfullyMade139.com.

Sometimes as a leader, instead of soaring high, we crash and burn, and face the question, “How can I ever recover from this?” Our special guest today, Warwick Fairfax, has walked through that fire and has recovered.

Join us today to see how God can turn ashes into beauty as Warwick shares:

Philosophical and practical breakthroughs that will get you through the thick of your leadership issues, so you can turn your crucible into a defining moment
Insight on the common denominators among people who rise above and those who meltdown but never rise back up... so you'll have what you need to overcome blind spots
The choices you can make right now, to let your pain be used for a God-given purpose, so He can do some of His mightiest work in and through you

About Warwick Fairfax

Warwick Fairfax is the founder of Crucible Leadership, a philosophical and practical breakthrough in turning business and personal failures into the fuel for igniting a life of significance. He has been hailed by Forbes as offering “compelling insights for anyone who would like to wake up feeling inspired by their work but doesn’t” ... insights rooted not in a checklist of glib to-do’s but in his own experience at the epicenter of one of the most spectacular business failures in the history of his home nation of Australia.

Fairfax was only 26 when, as the fifth-generation heir to a media empire bearing his family name, he led — and lost — a multibillion-dollar public takeover bid. The result? The company founded by his great-great-grandfather slipped from family control after 150 years, leaving him to examine not only his own shortcomings and losses but also his life’s principles and the lessons he learned from family members who came before him and some of history’s greatest leaders. It has been by shaping these insights as a leadership adviser that Fairfax has enabled others to learn from what he describes as their own “crucible experiences” and emerge to lead a life rooted in who they are. His journey has opened a door for men and women from all walks of life to not only bounce back from failure but to become the leaders they were born to be.

Fairfax is the author of Crucible Leadership: Embrace Your Trials to Lead a Life of Significance (Mount Tabor Media, 2021). The book discusses for the first time his thoughts and actions in launching the John Fairfax Ltd. takeover and explains what he learned about himself from that devastating failure — who he was and was not his unique design, purpose, passions, and vision really were.

He shares insights from his experience and interviews other leaders who have leveraged their crucible moments to live and lead with significance on the podcast BEYOND THE CRUCIBLE, available through all major podcasting channels.

Fairfax holds an undergraduate degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Oxford University and earned his MBA from Harvard Business School. He is an International Coach Federation (ICF) certified executive coach. He is an Elder at Bay Area Community Church. He lives in Annapolis, Maryland, with his wife, Gale. They have three children who are in the process of developing their own unique paths to lives of significance.

Learn more at https://crucibleleadership.com/.

You know that coaching has gone mainstream; but did you know that it's part of the team culture at the IRS? Today, we have a front-row seat in exploring this decade-long and growing, movement within the IRS. Our guest, Carolon Donnally, leads the coaching and change movement at the IRS, and today she shares unique insights that you can use in your own workplace or with organizational and leadership coaching clients.

Tune in to:

Unpack the "coaching culture" buzzword so you can understand what it really means and leverage it for effective leadership and learning.
Explore the difference between coaching and mentoring so you and others can truly receive the benefit of distinctly different coaching.
Get insider tips on what went well and what needed improvement during the IRS's coaching culture journey, so that you can replicate success in your organization and your coaching business.

About Carolon Donnally:

Carolon Donnally is a Professional Certified Coach through the International Coach Federation. She has over 20 years of experience in leadership development, employee engagement, organizational development, curriculum design, and leadership and executive coaching. Carolon was the head of leadership coaching for the Internal Revenue Service for 8 years and now leads coaching and change management in one of the IRS’ largest business units. Carolon has the distinguished honor of recently receiving an IRS Commissioner Award for efforts in starting up a peer-to-peer employee coaching program. She earned a Master of Science degree in Organizational Development from Pepperdine University and has worked with clients in France, Costa Rica, and China. As an extension of her passion for leadership development, in 2019, she founded Carolon Donnally Consulting where she helps leaders and organizations become burnout resistant.

Connect with Carolon at: www.Carolon-Donnally.com

“What should I charge?” “I feel so awkward quoting my fees,” “Is it right for this to be a business or should it be a ministry instead?” Christian coaches often struggle knowing what to charge and making a profit while still maintaining a servant’s heart.

Money mindsets are the base of every single business decision, and today, we want to help you know how to better align your mindsets with what God says in His word.

Don’t miss these great resources:

Free Money Mindsets Quiz to help you uncover the hidden mindsets you already have: www.MoneyMindsetsQuiz.com

Money Mindsets Course: An inexpensive on-demand program that will walk you through a God-honoring process to determine what’s best for YOU! www.MoneyMindsetsCourse.com

Are you ready to help your clients move their ideas and dreams into reality? Cultivate a life of abundance, impact, and freedom? Tune in as coach and author, Andy Wood shares practical ways to help your clients take ownership of their futures and fulfill their most cherished dreams.

Learn:

Simple and powerful beliefs to move from scarcity thinking to abundance living
The impact that’s possible when we let go of “what’s in it for me”
The five laws that govern the success or failure of the choices we make each day

About Andy Wood

Andy Wood is an executive coach, speaker, author, professor, and former pastor who has taught and coached thousands of leaders worldwide.

Andy has devoted his life to one simple idea: MADISEL – an acronym for “make a difference in someone else’s life!” That’s what has driven Andy for the last 40 years as he has invested his life in communicating truth with passion and personally coaching, challenging, and encouraging others.

His latest book is titled LifeVesting: Cultivate a Life of Abundance, Impact, and Freedom and it is scheduled for release in January 2022.

He now lives as the sixth generation on the family farm in southwest Alabama with his wife of 38 years, Robin. Together they have three grown children and eleven grandchildren.

Connect with Andy at: www.Lifevesting.com

Are you a multi-passionate coach? An entrepreneur who wants to define yourself by just one role? Today, our guest, Coach Michael McGreevy, will share how he has merged multiple paths, from construction to real estate to leadership coaching, into a portfolio career that supports a lifestyle he loves.

Listen in to discover:

How to create other outlets for income, based on your interests, and carve out more space to make memories with your friends and family
Ways to overcome self-doubt and have fun exploring things you're great at and that you really like to do
A vision for diversifying in authentic ways so you can discover the overall freedom & flexibility you want

About Michael McGreevy

Michael McGreevy is a full-time coach who helps growth-minded owners and executives discover the clarity and confidence they need to become remarkable leaders. He also serves leaders and teams through group training, workshops, and masterminds. Michael has intentionally built his business in a way that provides a significant amount of space for making memories with his family. He and his wife Lydia own and operate a short-term rental property business and host a marriage Podcast called “The Fight of Your Lives.” They have 3 wonderful kids Gunnar 6, Skylar 5, and Asher 3.

Connect with Michael at Michael@McGreevyLeadership.com or www.McGreevyLeadership.com.

Today, we are unpacking ICF Competency #7: Evokes Awareness. When we show up in coach mode, our primary purpose is to enable a client to draw forth things that are already in them, evoking awareness of the things God has already placed within them. Each part of this new competency will help you be a better coach when applied to your practice.

Listen in to learn:

The full definition of ICF Competency #7 and how you can use related tools to facilitate client insight and learning.
How to make a smooth transition from the "being" part of coaching to the "doing" piece so you can get to the core of coaching.
Strategies that will help you show up in a curious manner that calls forth things your clients may have forgotten or perhaps were never aware of before.
Bring a coach approach to your questions and style of communication so that each session is impactful for your clients.

About Erica Vinson

Erica Vinson, M.S.Ed., is the Dean of Academics for the Professional Christian Coaching Institute. She serves as a part of the PCCI Core Leadership Team and oversees Class Implementation, as well as working in tandem with the Provost to oversight Curricula and Credentialing. Erica serves as the main contact and support to the PCCI Faculty.

Erica is a CPLC and ACC Credentialed Coach, founder of Fear < less Living™, and the Director of the REAL-LIFE Facilitator Network. She is a certified ©iEnneagram Motions of the Soul Practitioner and has a certificate in Spiritual Transformation through the Transforming Center.

Erica served several years as an Elementary Education teacher in a public school system and also in full-time ministry as a Family Minster and Creative Arts/Communication Minister. As a Life Coach, Erica uses the tool of the Enneagram to help clients gain deeper self-awareness and grow in relationships with others both personally and professionally. With her teacher’s heart, she loves serving educators to expand their impact as they serve on teams, empower their students, and partner with parents. Erica also has a passion to see folks courageously face their fears and move forward in greater freedom through “fear < less” living!

She lives in South Central Illinois and loves playing golf, waterskiing, traveling, spending time with friends and family, and is especially fond of being an Auntie to her nieces and nephew.

You can connect with Erica at www.EricaVinson.com, where you can find her free gift called “Evoking Awareness through the Three Centers of Intelligence.”

Warning: after you press "play," you'll be transformed.Tune in to hear what is perhaps the most powerful presentation we've ever shared with you, here on Professional Christian Coaching Today. It. Is. Simply. Powerful. Transformational may be an understatement, but it's one of the best words we can think of to truly describe what will happen as you listen to this world-changing, life-poured-out message. There's no introduction that could even begin to describe what you're about to hear. And your takeaways will truly be your own... what God whispers into your spirit as you sit at His feet.

About Cindy Schmelzenbach

Cindy Schmelzenbach is an ICF Professional Certified Coach, a Professional Certified Life and Leadership Coach through PCCI, a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach and a Conversational Intelligence® Enhanced Practitioner. She also has a Master of Arts in Human Services Counseling and serves on faculty at PCCI.

Cindy and Harmon, her husband of 38 years, believe in fully engaging life, wherever God invites them, every moment, every day. They’ve spent 19 years in successful entrepreneurial businesses in the US and Caribbean and another 19 years internationally in cross-cultural leadership roles within a global ministry organization. Their passion for wholistic health and enhanced team dynamics moved Cindy to develop a Member Care initiative which she then successfully launched and coordinated across 46 countries in the Asia Pacific region. In addition, while serving as Internal Coach, Cindy facilitated coach training for international leaders across Asia Pacific and played a major role in the development and cultivation of a coaching culture within the organization.

“I am passionate about co-creating a space where powerful things happen that simply may not happen anywhere else!” Whether in one-on-one or group coaching contexts, clients discover the next steps in their journey to resilience, authenticity and thriving. Cindy is privileged to partner with clients who range from individuals quietly changing their world to public leaders who influence thousands with their decisions. Her current practice includes Life Coaching, Strengths® Coaching, Team or Group Coaching, and ICF Mentor Coaching.

Connect with Cindy at: www.coachingwithcindy.com

Neuroscience is teaching us that words hold tremendous power to either ignite positive growth or slow our forward movement. As coaches, we want to pay attention to the words that our clients use and to thoughtfully choose our own words as we summarize, reflect, reframe, and ask curious questions.

In today’s episode, you’ll learn how to use words to:

Create powerful shifts
Highlight important insights
Notice hidden mindsets
Uncover negative self-talk

What could be more important in these disturbing and uncertain times than tapping into God’s perspective, His wisdom, His plan, and His provision? Join us as Chris shares his thoughts on why Spiritual Vision is perhaps more important now than ever before in our lifetime.

As you listen, you’ll be reminded of the:

The love and light shining even now as an anchor for your soul.
Importance of Spiritual Vision, especially now when our physical vision is limited.
Promises of God that transcend uncertain outcomes and loss.

If the journey from your calling toward obtaining sustainable compensation has been more of an up and down ride than a straight path, you’re not alone. We’ve been there and we’ve seen the predictable pattern that occurs in the lives and businesses of Christian entrepreneurs.

In today’s podcast, we’ll show you how to step off the emotional roller coaster and unfold a practical roadmap you can use to navigate your next steps.

Learn more about:

5 phases of the entrepreneurial journey we identified: from Eager Anticipation to Mount Optimism.
How to identify which stage you’re currently in and how Scripture relates so you can stay encouraged along the way.
What you can do when you hear that little voice say, “Get a real job!” so you can recommit instead of quit.
How to persevere and build the consistency you need to stay on track.

You can download your free graphic illustration of the Emotional Roller Coaster of the Christian Entrepreneur at www.KimAveryCoaching.com/emotional.

Owning your own coaching business is a wonderful thing, but growth always comes with questions. In today’s “Opening the Mailbox,” we are here to help you answer those questions.

Tune in to learn more about:

§ How to write a formal proposal for contract work

§ Enjoying the benefits of entrepreneurship even in the midst of setbacks and struggles

§ Finding time to grow your business

§ Why coaches are a “secret weapon” in the work of racial and cultural reconciliation

Are you a counselor considering a new vocation? Have you wondered what the differences are between coaching and counseling? Then join this lively discussion between three former counselors turned coaches as they compare and contrast these two amazing professions.

Listen in to discover:

What to learn and unlearn when moving from counseling, so you can thrive in the coaching world
The role of emotion in the coaching relationship
The 4 levels of development that will help you continue to embrace your identity as a coach

About Andrew Gorter:

Dr. Andrew Gorter, PCC is a leadership coach with a passion to help leaders navigate the interpersonal challenges of leadership. He earned a doctorate in family therapy and has over 30 years of experience working helping leaders build trust, elicit true buy-in, and inspire passion for their vision and values.

In addition to his work with leaders, Andrew has developed an internal coach training program for Franklin Covey a large international training corporation and serves on the faculty of a Professional Christian Coaching Institute, a virtual coach training school where he has the opportunity to multiply his influence, promoting high standards of effective credentialed coaching in the marketplace.

Andrew and his wife, Karen, live in Holland, MI, near the beaches of Lake Michigan. They have two married daughters, four grandsons, and one granddaughter. He enjoys cycling, watercolor painting, reading, and woodworking.

Learn more about Andrew Gorter at www.plusonecoaching.com

Love it or hate, the world has gone virtual. Today’s guest, Jennifer Britton, author of Reconnecting Workspaces, is here to help us navigate these ever-changing virtual waters. Tune in to learn how you and your clients can move from surviving to thriving in virtual, remote, and hybrid spaces.

She’ll help you:

Discover unique pathways that allow you and your clients to have conversations that matter
Pause and ponder what’s next and what’s possible in the face of uncertainty
Move forward with adaptability so you can operate successfully in today’s highly virtual world

About Jennifer Britton:

Coach, author, and thought leader in the area of group and team coaching, Jennifer has also been an early pioneer in the virtual and remote space. Since the early 1990s she’s led teams and programming virtually, first in the international humanitarian sector leading teams for the UN, and later through her company, Potentials Realized, an award-winning coaching skills training company. Virtual, remote, and hybrid work is the focus of her recent TEDx talk, and her latest book series, Reconnecting Workspaces: Pathways to Thrive in the Virtual, Remote, and Hybrid World.

Most days you’ll find Jenn leading a myriad of virtual programs – from remote team coaching sessions, to virtual retreats for business owners, to group coaching programs for entrepreneurs.

She is the author of six books including Reconnecting Workspaces, along with Effective Group Coaching (Wiley, 2010 – the world’s first book to be published on group coaching), From On to Many: Best Practices for Team and Group Coaching (Jossey-Bass, 2013), Effective Virtual Conversations (2017), and PlanDoTrack Workbook and Planner for Virtual and Remote Professionals (2019).

Jenn’s also the co-host of the Remote Pathways podcast which explores the people, places, and processes of remote work.

She offers a number of ICF CCE-approved programs for coaches in the areas of group and team coaching and virtual conversations.

Learn more about Jennifer’s work at www.ReconnectingWorkspaces.com.

Active listening is at the core of all good communication, but it’s not as easy as it sounds. Join us today as we help you hone your ability to focus completely on what the client is saying and is not saying, better understand the client’s meaning, and fully support your client’s self-expression.

Join us and our guest, Brent O’Bannon, MCC, to:

Understand what is being communicated in the context of the client's environment
Ponder the differences between professional and casual listening, so you can coach the person, not the problem.
Help your client hear their inner dialogue more clearly.
Learn how listening to God connects with listening to clients

About Brent O’Bannon

Brent O’Bannon champions business leaders and world-class workplaces to grow stronger, work smarter, and live richer. He’s the world’s 1st Gallup Certified Strengths Coach and recently awarded ICF Master Certified Coach. His real-life joy and wisdom come from 36 years of marriage to his college sweetheart, being Papa O to his two grandsons, and giving back to non-profits.

Connect with Brent and get your special strengths-based resources at https://brentobannon.com/resources/

Now, more than ever, we need leaders who can lead in all directions. Leaders who can lead in ministry and in the marketplace, during our very volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguously changing times. Great partnerships between leaders and coaches are critical in making the world a better place.

Listen in as Kim and her guest, Jon Lockhorst, discuss a coach-approach to leadership, and hear how to:

Overcome the challenges in leadership that stem from learned skills, habits, and behaviors, so you can acquire the mindset you need to lead in all directions.
Manage the different kinds of investments that come with broader responsibilities in organizations, so you can step into leadership roles with confidence.
Walk away with the awareness of life and leadership coaching skills that help equip powerful leaders so they can positively impact the world.

About Jon Lockhorst

Jon Lokhorst, CPA, PCC, is a leadership coach, keynote speaker, corporate trainer, and author of the new book, Mission-Critical Leadership: How Smart Managers Lead Well in All Directions. He works with organizations to develop leaders everyone wants to follow, build teams no one wants to leave, and deliver exceptional results. Before launching Lokhorst Consulting LLC, Jon enjoyed a 30-plus year career as a CPA, CFO, and organizational leader. He has a Master’s in Organizational Leadership and is recognized by the International Coach Federation as a

Professional Certified Coach. He also serves as adjunct faculty in the School of Business and Nonprofit Management at North Park University. Jon is a member of the National Speakers Association and serves as President-Elect of the Minnesota chapter. On a personal note, Jon

loves grandparenting and being “Papa” to his four adorable littles, as he calls them.

Contact Jon and pick up a copy of Mission Critical Leadership here: https://lokhorstconsulting.com/

Do you long to bridge the gap between issues that separate us? If so, then step into a sacred space with us today. Even though we live in wonderful, beautiful times, we are more divided than we have ever been before. But the Holy Spirit is still at work, often through powerful coaching conversations. Today, we get to listen in on a special conversation, a truly sacred space. We invite you to turn off your earthly ears. Don't listen for answers to complex questions. Instead, open up your spiritual ears and learn to ask the right questions, be in the questions, and seek God on what he wants for us in this culture.

For such a time and place as this:

Consider the bigger, better vision of true unity so you can see and appreciate dynamic diversity.
See our differences, but do not be impaired by them.
Practice plugging things into the context of Scripture, instead of lifting things out of context.

Using online resources to build your business is a great idea... but there are also huge pitfalls we need to avoid. Today's guest, Greg Tosi, shares that building your business using social media is similar to building a house on rented land: ultimately you have no control. Thus, having diversified online strategies, as well as income streams, is wise. Today, we'll walk you through insightful blueprints that you'll want to implement to plan, launch, and/or grow your online business.

Turn up the volume and learn:

The one thing you can do that no algorithm can block, so you can reach your ideal audience no matter what.
How to create shareable, scalable content and has a multiplier effect... but is also personal... so you can amplify your message and reach more people.
Marketing mindsets you can employ so that people don't just read your post but catch your heart, so you can build authentic relationships.

About Greg Tosi:

Greg is a husband, father of 3 boys (4th on the way), Business Coach, and host of the Cutting Corporate Ties podcast. Greg helps aspiring entrepreneurs plan, launch, and grow online businesses, aligning them with work they love and a life of more impact and fulfillment.

Connect with Greg Tosi and get your free copy of Facebook Ads for Building Your Email List here: www.gregtosi.com.

Do you feel like your coaching business has become "just another job?" It might be that you're working in your business more than on it. If that's the case, then tune in. We'll help you examine your business as it currently exists and identify how you can control your business, so it doesn't control you. If you want to work less and make more, then we've also got tools you can implement that will help you create more work/life balance.

Find your talents and your skill sets, then:

Systematize your business, as you build it, so you can later leverage experts who love to do the things you don't.
Focus on how you want to be used in your business and how you serve best, so you can delegate energy-draining work.
Build a 3-legged stool of wealth, so you can flourish, making a living at something you really love to do!

About Chris Niemeyer:

Chris Niemeyer helps business owners design a business lifestyle they love by working smarter, not harder. As a business advisor and consultant, Chris’ FREEDOM Business System™ helps you work in your sweet spot so you work less, make more - and spend more time with your loved ones.

For years Chris ran his first multi-million dollar company mostly alone. When he became a father, he systematized, hired and raised up a team to run his business so he could be more engaged at home and travel with his family. Nowadays you’ll find him coaching and consulting other entrepreneurs how to work smarter, not harder by systematizing your business. He’s a family man to the core and is likely with his wife and 4 young kids at a beach in Florida or coaching their sports activities when not traveling the world together. Learn more about Chris at Website: www.ChrisNiemeyer.com.

Download our free Planning Your Ideal Week template here: www.professionalchristiancoaching.com/planning

Do you love coaching but yearn to use your other gifts and skills as well? In this installment of our Diversified Coach series, you’ll meet Mark Ross, a professional coach who is successfully coaching while at the same time multiplying his impact and income in a variety of ways. Listen in today for ideas and inspiration you can integrate into your coaching business.

Discover:

How to do what you really want to do
Opportunities for Kingdom work through serving people
Creative ways to build a life and business you love

About Mark Ross:

Retired Executive. REWIRED Encorepreneur—Pursuing the Life and Work that matters most in the second half! Mark is the owner of Next Thing Group, an Artist, Landscape Architect, a Certified Professional Life, and Leadership Coach, is credentialed with the International Coach Federation, and holds several other related certifications. Mark also serves as a Team Host with Rock Retirement Club.

Get the “7 Powerful Questions for Midlife Career Changers” free at www.NextThingGroup.com

Contact Mark at Mark@nextthinggroup.com

Leaders in government face incredible challenges, and also have tremendous opportunities to effect positive change. Today, we'll give you a glimpse into the quiet work Christian Coaches do with those in privileged positions of influence and authority. Coaches help leaders in the military and government to discern, to hear, and to move with clarity of vision and direction. Decisions these leaders make impact lives in powerful ways.

Coaching is key to helping those in government and military positions to:

Know what it's like to trust God and let Him lead people into what He designed for them to do.
Leverage a growth mindset so clients embrace who they're becoming.
Consider powerful questions that create new possibilities

About Sackeena Gordon-Jones

Sackeena Gordon-Jones, Ph.D., MCC, is a leadership development expert, author, coach educator, executive coach, personal and mentor coach. Sackeena’s clients include executives, academic medical centers, US Military, Government Agencies, family businesses, and leadership teams. Her work with clients often focuses on succession planning, leadership agility, authentic leadership, expanding leadership capacity, leading through change, diversity and inclusion, work-life integration, culture change, and emotional intelligence. Her approach gives leaders the edge to transform the way they think, lead, work and live.

Sackeena is the founder and CCO for Transformation Edge Coaching & Consulting and Business Coach Institute. Their signature coaching programs are the Business and Professional Coaching Program, Inclusion Coaching, and the Coaching In Organization.

A leader in the coaching field, Sackeena has served as chapter president, Regional Chair, Global Board Director of the Association of Coach Training Organizations (ACTO), ICF-CIO (Coaching in Organizations), and current Editorial Board Member of Choice Coaching Magazine.

Learn more about Sackeena at www.TransformationEdge.com.

Would you like to experience greater success, improved relationships, reduced conflicts, and increased self-mastery for yourself as well as working with your clients to do the same? In this episode, you’ll hear why emotional intelligence is a key factor in creating those outcomes and how you, as a coach, can help your clients develop a higher EQ.

Listen in to...

• Understand the definition of emotional intelligence and how thoughts are just as important as feelings
• Discover the correlation between EQ and effectiveness, relationships, health, and a life well-lived so you can enhance every coaching relationship
• Move from reactions to responses and from surface-level conversations to core-driving transformations

About Kelli Porcaro:

Kelli is the founder of EQuip Studios, a leading provider of emotional intelligence

training, assessment, and coaching.

As a Consultant and Coach, Kelli is using her 25+ years of instructional design,

leadership development, and coaching experience to help organizations, leaders, and

teams develop and practice the learnable and measurable skills of emotional

intelligence.

EQuip Studios is proud to be a Preferred Partner with Six Seconds for the last two

years. Six Seconds is 20+ years strong and the largest global network of EQ

professionals working to promote the skills of emotional intelligence. As a partner, Kelli

has access to the latest in research and a suite of scientifically validated assessment

tools to equip her clients with what they need to develop their EQ.

Connect with Kelli at: www.EQuipStudios.net.

Learn more about the Developing Emotional Intelligence Through Coaching course at: https://professionalchristiancoaching.com/emotional-intelligence/

Is marketing a terrifying word for you? Does it feel like an imposition instead of a service? If you said yes, you’ll want to listen to this important podcast with best-selling author C.J. Hayden.

You’ll get practical, actionable advice on:

How to serve, not sell, so you can customize a strategy that will fill your pipeline and increase your income.
How to use your marketing time efficiently so you can take the guesswork out of marketing and know-how to move forward.
How to mobilize the ability to connect with other people and tell them what you need and see if they can help with that, so you can redefine marketing and grow your business.

About C. J. Hayden

C.J. Hayden is the bestselling author of Get Clients Now! A 28-Day Marketing Program for Professionals, Consultants, and Coaches. Since 1992, she’s been helping coaches and other self-employed professionals get clients, get strategic, and get things done. C.J. is a Master Certified Coach and has taught marketing for John F. Kennedy University, Mills College, and the U.S. Small Business Administration. She leads workshops internationally, and licenses her tried-and-true Get Clients Now! program to coaches and trainers around the world. Find out more about C.J. at www.getclientsnow.com.

For information about the Marketing Made Easy course at the Professional Christian Coaching Institute, which uses C.J. Hayden’s book, go to https://professionalchristiancoaching.com/marketing-made-easy/

People hire coaches so they can achieve results. If you want to be the kind of coach that helps people imagine possibilities beyond their boundaries, you can certainly help them get the incredible results they seek. Just ask today's guest. He's been described as "someone who has quietly become one of the most influential people in America" (New York Times Reporter), and today he's sharing the tools he uses to help some of the world's largest corporations and organizations grow in competence and compensation.

Sharpen your results-oriented skillset and:

Gravitate from a limited perspective to a possibilities perspective, so you and your clients can suspend disbelief and allow for the best potential results
Broaden the bank of choices that will usher your clients from good to great to best, so they can establish habits that will lead them to where they've merely dreamed of going
Deepen the wisdom required to pursue life/work choices while you notice the little things that will truly make a big difference in attaining results
Turn concrete details from the past into future-oriented context that will catapult success!

About Andy Andrews

Hailed by a New York Times reporter as "someone who has quietly become one of the most influential people in America," Andy Andrews is the author of multiple New York Times bestsellers including The Traveler's Gift and The Noticer. He is also an in-demand speaker, coach, and consultant for the world's largest organizations.

Zig Ziglar said, "Andy Andrews is the best speaker I have ever seen."

Both The Noticer and The Traveler's Gift were featured selections of ABC's Good Morning America and continue to appear on bestseller lists around the world. His books have been translated into over 40 languages.

Andy has spoken at the request of four different United States presidents, worked extensively with the Department of Defense, and regularly addresses the world’s largest corporations. Arguably, there is no single person on the planet better at weaving subtle yet life-changing lessons into riveting tales of adventure and intrigue—both on paper and on stage.

Find out more about Andy at www.AndyAndrews.com.

Do you struggle with feeling confident as a coach? Are you overwhelmed by all the marketing messages flooding your inbox? Do you find it difficult to keep up with your clients, or wonder if video or audio calls are better for coaching? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you're in the right place. Today, we're taking questions and comments from our listeners and responding to these specific topics:

How to "dance at the moment" so you can help your clients gain greater focus and increase your confidence.
How to discern what's right for you when marketing messages flood your inbox: buyer beware and buyer be aware tips that you can use today.
How to systemize your client tracking process, so you can manage your business and have energy left over for your personal life.
How to discern if it's better to coach via Zoom or phone, so you can serve your clients well by meeting them where they are.

Coaching is about much more than what we do, it involves our very being. Your presence is important. You are important!

In today's podcast episode, listen in and be refreshed, refocused, and reenergized for all the coaching you do.

Join us as we discuss:

The "inefficiency" and priority of genuine relationships
How to be fully present with your clients even in this digital world
True transformation takes more than additional information

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we took a “coach-approach” to travel? Imagine the possibilities if we asked ourselves powerful questions while visiting the historical sites important to our faith? Those experiences would truly become defining moments. Join us and our guests, Rick and Susan McCarthy, authors of the new book, Defining Moments, as we unpack ways everyone can create defining moments when they travel.

Join us and explore:

How to use coaching as a tool during travel, so you can help people see things from a different perspective.
Powerful questions that add a layer of depth to travel itineraries, so that information can lead to transformation.
A format that will enable travelers to not only enjoy sights but also experience defining moments that shape their lives long after the trip is over.

About Susan & Rick McCarthy

Susan & Rick McCarthy were transformed during their travels to Israel and found themselves wanting others to have the same divine moments with the Creator. This inspired them to write a book to help others transform faith-based travels into Defining Moments, thus the title: Defining Moments: The Transformational Promises of Faith-Based Travel.

Rick coaches Christian CEOs through Convene, & has been self-employed as a CPA in private practice since 1978. He serves numerous ministries, including The Sheepfold, The Master’s Program, The Barnabas Group, Standing Stone Ministry, Africa New Day, Pacific Justice Institute and Evangelical Christian Credit Union.

His personal mission statement is: To use my gifts to lovingly equip and Influence the Influencers, by challenging their thinking and behaviors and by connecting them with growth and service opportunities, to achieve God’s will.

Susan is also the author of Captive to Captivated, which shares her faith journey of being set free from the captivity of lies to being captivated by God’s love & her calling “To set the captives free”. She also has a calling to pray with ministry leaders and give them a safe place to process hard places on their journeys. She mentors women through spiritual direction and intercession.

Rick has traveled to over 80 countries & Susan to over 70, so far. They reside in Newport Beach, California, and have a shared passion to mentor & coach Christian couples, whether in healthy or troubled marriages.

Learn more at www.DefiningMomentsBook.com.

Would you like to hear how a Master-FULL Coach navigates a real-life coaching session? Not a role play. Not teaching on coaching. Actually listening in, like a quiet mouse in the corner, who gets to observe the real deal. If that's you, hit the play button. Then, be prepared to pause often and take generous notes. You'll walk away with a Masterclass in coaching, which you'll be hard-pressed to find anywhere else.

Master-Full Insights:

• Techniques you can use to get a clear agreement from the get-go, so you and your clients can understand the topic, specific focus, and intended outcome of a coaching session.
• Create curious awareness around the focus, so your clients can see problems from a different perspective and consider possibilities they may have never dreamed or imagined.
• Let your clients confidently stick the landing at the end of every coaching session, as you co-create action steps that will propel them into the future God has designed for them.

BONUS: Download your own copy of The Coaching Process, and follow the flow, rhythm, and structure of a coaching session, from behind the scenes. You'll be able to use it again and again in your own sessions:  http://ProfessionalChristianCoaching.com/process

Coaching is an amazing tool and a great profession, but that doesn’t mean coaching has to be the only service you provide. Many coaches have multiple streams of income and influence. In today’s episode, you’ll hear from Jamie and Ruthie Slingerland. They are both professional coaches, yet they have very diversified coaching practices.

Tune in to learn more about:

The importance of knowing your personality and your strengths as you design a business best suited to you
3 skills that benefit you as you diversify
4 streams of income that will inspire you as you brainstorm new ways to contribute to the world while earning additional income.

About Jamie and Ruthie Slingerland:

Jamie & Ruthie are both PCCI-trained & ICF-certified coaches, and they are serial entrepreneurs. They love people, adventure, and endless variety in everything they do.

Jamie & Ruthie’s coaching practice, Freedom Life Journey, helps executives and entrepreneurs improve their effectiveness as leaders. They’ve helped clients launch products, supported authors & speakers with their thought-leadership ventures, consulted as e-commerce/Amazon experts, and help clients clarify vision for out-of-the-box family lifestyles.

The Slingerlands have been married for 18 years and have 4 children whom they homeschool. They live in Franklin, Tennessee where they also serve as marriage mentors at their church and on the local board for Hope International.

Learn more about Jamie & Ruthie at: www.FreedomLifeJourney.com.

Are you sick of Zoom meetings, audio messages, and trying to do life via phone or computer? You're not alone. Since virtual life is here to stay, we want to share valuable relationship-building techniques you can use to build real relationships, even virtually. Say goodbye to loneliness. Say hello to living and thriving, in community, online!

Important because:

Virtual is the interaction space in which we most often find ourselves these days. We need to up-level our expertise, so we can build quality relationships.
Collaboration happens when people are willing to be vulnerable over a virtual connection, when they can't meet in person, so God can still work in and through us... even in the virtual world.
Over the last decade, virtual connections have exploded, but never have they ever been as integral to life as they are now.

About Jennifer Freeman

Jennifer Freeman is a certified professional life and leadership coach. She thrives on helping others discover and maximize their natural gifts and talents in order to live fulfilling lives. She loves coaching clients individually and leading retreats. She is also the Dean of Students at PCCI where she has the privilege of meeting and assisting students from around the world! She lives in Michigan with her husband and 2 children...and since Covid, her goldendoodle puppy. Her perfect day involves sunshine, a quaint beach town along Lake Michigan, friends, family, and coffee.

Learn more about Jennifer: https://www.jenfreemancoaching.com/

About Emily Eichstadt

Emily Eichstadt is the Community Coordinator at PCCI and loves connecting with fellow coaches. She has been coaching since 2017 and is incredibly thankful for the clients God has brought her way. Emily lives in west-central Wisconsin with her husband of 23 years and their two witty and adventurous teenage daughters.

Learn more about Emily: www.emilylifecoach.com

Do you long to grow your impact as a Christian Coach? If so, we have exciting news for you today! The 2nd Annual International Christian Coaching Day is coming up on Friday May 21, at the end of the ICF’s International Coaching Week. So, get ready to capitalize and benefit from new findings in the coaching industry at large and so many other amazing statistics. Coaching is growing!

Tune in to find out:

4 great benefits you’ll receive from participating in International Christian Coaching Day, plus all the details you need to show up strong.
How we are advancing the field of Christian Coaching and how it’s not just for the entrepreneur anymore. Learn more about how diversified coaching has become.
The 2 regions where coaching is exploding globally so you can be a part of impacting lives.

This is a must-listen for anyone who’s serious about coaching as a profession!

Coaching continues to grow at a rapid pace both locally and around the globe. Today’s guests, Brian and Debi Zaas share how Navigators is cultivating a coaching culture that allows them to shift from preaching, teaching, mentoring, or discipline only focus to employing coaching competencies to successfully reach over cultural lines and into the hearts of many.

Lean in and learn:

How to have a better awareness of other cultures and cultivate an appreciation of the nuances and differences that make people unique
Not only how to build your own coaching skill set but also call forth the coaching gifts and talents in others
How to lead through influence, using a coaching model, so you and your organization can multiply and accelerate the global Christian coaching movement

About Brian and Debi Zaas, Co-Directors for The Navigators Life and Leadership Coaching

Over the past 8 years, Brian and Debi Zaas have served as Co-Directors for The Navigators Life and Leadership Coaching organization, God has called us to teach, train, and develop a team of more than 75 coaches who are shifting the culture of Navigators and impacting the lives of hundreds of pastors, ministry, missionary, non-profit and business leaders. We focus on helping these decision-makers and disciple-makers to become tomorrow’s difference-makers by pursuing the potential of God’s promises in churches, missions, workplaces, and communities around the globe.

Brian and Debi Zaas have been sharing years of coaching experience as reflected in their Professional Certified Coaches (PCC) with the International Coaching Federation. Brian completed his CPLC for Life and Leadership through PCCI. As a couple, they are now teaching and training Essentials of Leadership Coaching to a global Navigator cohort.

Brian and Debi have been married for the past 30 years. They have two beautiful young adult daughters, Jenna and Kayla. We recently became grandparents to twin boys - Noland and Nash. We enjoy abundant life in Florida – St. Petersburg-Tampa-Clearwater area. We enjoy getting together with others and developing deep, intimate friendships, hiking, biking, and exercising along the waterfront.

You can learn more about Brian and Debi Zaas and 2021 Coach Camp here:

www.navigators.org/coachcamp

In these uncertain times, now more than ever we need to know where we are headed and how to get there. In this interview, Executive Coach John Ramstead shares the critical component that most people overlook as they try to live their lives on purpose, with purpose.

We invite you to:

Step into a self-coaching experience that will help you rewrite your story and live into your true purpose.
Walk a path of personal and professional development that will increase your impact, engagement, and legacy.
Run a race at a pace set just for you and finish strong, so you really can get to where you want to go.

About John Ramstead

There are those rare moments when substance, subject matter, and a personal story coalesce and create inspiration. John Ramstead’s is one such story. A native Minnesotan, John attended St. Thomas Military Academy where he developed a love for military history (especially WWII) and became immersed in ROTC. Graduating at the top of his class in high school, a theme repeated many times in his academic and professional life, John was accepted into the Naval Academy but opted for Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. At RPI, John studied electrical engineering. Again, John made Dean’s List and graduated RPI at the top of his class.

It was clear through his college career and young-adult life that John wanted to serve his country. John was the 1 in 10,000 to apply to the US Navy Flight School that got in. Like several other important milestones, this changed John’s life. When he arrived at flight school surrounded by extraordinary competitive peers, his father made a suggestion. “Find the best, the ace of the base, and get to know him. Then ask him how he does it.” John followed his father’s advice and this approach helped John to go on to graduate #1 in his class and #1 in Naval Aviation Training Command allowing him to be the only graduate to get his choice of aircraft.

John went on to serve our country by flying combat sorties in the Persian Gulf during Desert Storm. Over the following few years, John became a flight instructor, teaching America’s “best + brightest” to fly as he did. Of 40 elite pilots, John was selected for one of two spots at TOPGUN, the most advanced, competitive, and elite fighter pilot training program the world over. He continued his aviation career until it was cut short by a softball accident where he sustained nerve damage to his eye.

Things happen for a reason: John would go onto a highly successful career as an entrepreneur in the tech space, spending time at Focus Technology, Synera Systems in the data mining field, and then EMC, focusing on their $1B and below client portfolio where he managed a $100 million P&L. Regular 70 to 80 hour a week work schedules were common. Long days away from family and other important things began to take their toll. John began to ask a lot of penetrating questions about what he was good at and re-evaluated how to accomplish those goals. Transitioning from tech into financial services and planning, John has held several senior positions at Bernstein Global Wealth Management and Financial Designs, where he was a respected colleague and major contributor to those firms’ success.

Then came the accident. In 2011, John was thrown several feet from a galloping horse, impacting a fence. His doctors have told him he is nothing less than a living miracle. Twenty surgeries, six titanium plates later, and the likelihood that he would not live, John is not only here, but he is also thriving. His thinking and analytical capacity are operating at the same advanced level as before, but the accident shifted something profound in John and his outlook.

A calling: John believes that his life has been spared so that he can pursue his life work – to give back to other leaders what has been given to him. Having been a successful, proven leader of men and women, whether as part of executive teams or as a combat veteran, John has a unique perspective on establishing a template for success that goes beyond achieving financial goals and the mission.

John’s perspective is unique in that it not only encompasses critical performance metrics, but also critical life aspects of balance, family, happiness, joy, and laughter. John was born to lead. He has proven his valor and ability on the battlefield and in the boardroom. His aim is to apply those skills to other leaders struggling to find clarity and happiness in the pursuit of their own success and enjoy those things that matter most.

Strategic thinking, leadership skills, development, and execution – these form the framework for John’s approach. But John’s coaching style and methods go well beyond how to write and execute a brilliant plan. His message is about living life fully, making a lasting contribution, and understanding not only the how, but the why we are driven to achieve. He helps uncover these truths for his client-leaders and helps them to establish their own priorities to achieve what William James called “the life worth living.”

John has worked with hundreds of leaders in nine countries. His clients range from CEOs of Fortune 500 companies to start-up entrepreneurs and leadership teams of non-profits.

John has been interviewed on leadership, creating high-performing teams, and corporate coaching strategies multiple times on radio, TV, summits, and podcasts. John is also a frequent speaker on these topics and was asked to speak at the Jim Collins, author of Good To Great, Finishing Great event this summer.

John’s new book, On Purpose, with Purpose, will be released on 4/27/21, and you can pre-order your copy now at https://www.beyondinfluence.com/book/

If you struggle with being present during coaching sessions, then tap into a coaching style that is open, flexible, grounded, and confident. You really can stay focused and remain fully conscious with your clients during each session, and today, we'll show you how. Not only will you benefit from maintaining presence throughout coaching sessions, but also your clients will reap great rewards from what you sow.

Lean in and learn:

How you can be fully present and tuned into your client's agenda so you can hold the coaching process while your client determines his or her progress.
In/outs of creating and allowing space for comfortable silence so you and your client can hear what's not being said as well as important nuggets of truth crucial to the coaching conversation.
The benefits of curiosity, stability, and security that come when the coach manages his/her emotions while remaining focused and observant with empathy and responsiveness.

About Pamela Mertz:

Pamela Mertz, CPLC, ACC is the President and Founder of BluePrint Life Coaching, LLC. She is a Leadership Life Coach, trained at PCCI, and serves on faculty. She is also IEHSS Team Coach, certified in Quality Improvement Coach for healthcare, and a certified Strengths Finders Coach. Her passion to see people living in the abundant “Zoe” life, that Jesus came to bring us, led her to volunteer and now serve on staff at Promised Land Living. She has also served as a women’s ministry leader for over 20 years and is a licensed pastor in Minnesota. She does inner healing prayer ministry with her husband. She has 3 adult sons and lives in St. Michael, MN with her husband, Lou.

Her leadership in for-profit and nonprofit sectors has brought her much experience and national networking.

Pamela is an active member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and Christian Coaching Network (CCNI) and sits on the Board of Directors of the Minnesota/Dakotas CFF Board as well as Promised Land Living, a nonprofit, national ministry.

She has coached CEOs, entrepreneurs, teams, and many groups over the 7 years she has been coaching. Prior to coaching, she had a 30+ year career in the technology industry, with her own company.

Writing is a passion of Pam’s and she has a workbook that will soon be available. It is The Truth About Church Wounds. She is also working on a book that will be out in 2021 as well, a detailed journey of intimacy with the Father.

Learn more about Pamela at www.BluePrintLife.net.

Are you ready to truly change the world? If we can shape the 7 mountains of society, we can shape the world. Join us as we unpack a frontlines account on how we can use our coaching tools, for ourselves and others, to influence culture.

Find out more about:

The 7 distinct areas you need to be aware of so you can become a culture-shaper, beginning with your sphere of influence
How coaching can be applied to the 7 mountains so you can fulfill your potential for God’s Kingdom calling
The needs of people that routinely come up in coaching sessions and how you can maximize your coaching tools to serve your clients and send ripples of change into the world.

In our scroll and go culture: Can people 1) easily find you online 2) stay engaged with what you’re sharing and 3) act on what you’re hoping they’ll do? While it can seem daunting to create compelling content, it doesn’t have to be complicated. We have an easier way—a way that will cost you less time, energy, and money. Tune in to discover the 7 keys and marketing principles that will help you keep your content creation simple, relevant, and powerful!

You'll walk away with a 7-step checklist and:

• Marketing principles designed to help you deliver exactly what your audience wants so they can find your content and share it with others.
• The questions you need to ask so you can provide the simple, yet effective answers people need to move toward their goals.
• Information on how to share, instead of sell, so you can honor your values and provide life-giving content to others.
• Conversation starters are proven to convert prospects into clients so you can build the know, like, trust factor with your audience.

If you haven’t tried a coach approach to your leadership, you’re missing a key opportunity to focus on serving instead of selling, and getting buy-in from your team and your clients. We’ll share how superior performance is learned by leaders developing leaders, instead of spending thousands of dollars on courses and conferences. We’ll also provide insights that are integral as you implement a coach approach to servant leadership:

• how to turn the performance into service so you can change results into rewards
• how to NOT be the leader you’ve dreaded working for so you can be the leader everyone wants to follow
• how to employ the 6 behaviors critical to serving people well so you can reap a return on your investment

About Cheryl Bachelder

Cheryl A. Bachelder is a passionate restaurant industry executive and former CEO of Popeyes® Louisiana Kitchen, Inc. Cheryl is known for her crisp strategic thinking, franchisee-focused approach, superior financial performance, and the development of outstanding leaders and teams.

Cheryl joined Popeyes, Louisiana Kitchen, Inc., in November 2007, after serving as an active member of the Board for a year. She brought more than 35 years of experience in brand building, operations, and public-company management at companies like Yum Brands, Domino’s Pizza, RJR Nabisco, The Gillette Company, and The Procter & Gamble Company.

At Popeyes, Cheryl promptly established a Road Map for Results. This strategic framework led to market share gains of eight points, improved guest ratings, and increased restaurant margins (400 basis points in seven years). The improvement in restaurant performance led franchisees to remodel the system and accelerate new unit growth both in the U.S. and abroad. In eight years, the enterprise market cap grew from less than $300 million to over $1.3 billion. At fiscal year-end 2015, Popeyes’ system-wide revenues were $3.1 billion. These revenues were generated by over 2,539 restaurants operated by 360 franchisees and more than 60,000 restaurant employees in the United States, three territories, and 27 foreign countries.

Have you ever wondered when (and how) to make the leap from your day job to coaching full-time? Where in your busy schedule can you carve out time for your business building activities? Join us in this episode as we open the mailbox to answer these questions and more.

You’ll learn:

· How to keep your clients on track when their agenda seems to wander

· The power of making videos to connect with your future clients

· Out-of-the-box ways to bridge the gap between your day job and coaching fulltime

· Where to find time in your current schedule to do what God is calling you to do

Do you feel like an imposter in your life? Do you doubt your accomplishments? Fear being exposed as a fraud? Whether it’s your saboteur, a gremlin, or a supervillain holding you back, we’ve got new glasses for you to try on today. It’s not a Pollyanna perspective. It’s a mindset shift that will improve your self-efficacy and confidence.

Tune in to grab the top tools that help you:

Uncover the source of your personalized imposter syndrome, so you can learn on the fly and grow.
Squash your mental objections so you can focus on reality and shift your mind’s set point.
Fill the cracks in your path with truth so you can walk boldly into your future.

About Kris Kelso

Kris Kelso, PCC is an entrepreneur who has founded and run multiple companies in the technology and healthcare industries. Today, he works primarily as an executive coach, a keynote speaker, and a contributing author for publications including Fast Company, Yahoo Finance, and The Nashville Business Journal.

His book, “Overcoming The Impostor: Silence Your Inner Critic and Lead with Confidence“, offers entrepreneurs and leaders a practical look at impostor syndrome, and explores that inner voice that downplays our own accomplishments while amplifying those of others.

Kris has coached and consulted with hundreds of entrepreneurs, business owners, and their leadership teams. He is an advisor and instructor at the Nashville Entrepreneur Center, is a Facilitator / Coach with The Alternative Board, and has served on the boards of directors of several non-profit organizations.

He is an active member of Cornerstone Nashville, where he serves, teaches, and coaches other leaders. He lives with his wife and three teenaged sons in a suburb of Nashville, Tennessee.

Find Kris’s book here: OvercomingTheImposter.com, and he is generously providing a 10% discount and free shipping for our listeners. Just use the coupon code PCCT at checkout.

You don’t want to miss this “live,” unscripted Master-full coaching session so you hear the ICF’s 8 New Core competencies in action. In addition, we’ll equip you with a heads-up on what to listen for, give you a simple roadmap to guide you, and end with a full debrief on what happened and why.

Learn how to:

Create a solid agreement by embodying a coaching mindset and asking powerful questions that build trust and safety.
Develop keen awareness by listening well and then engaging in an examination of what is possible via various perspectives.
Establish action steps and explore needed supports, so your client walks away with clarity and purpose!

About Beverly Lucas

Hello everyone, I'm Beverly Lucas. I was born in PA, raised in NJ, and now call MD my home. I have three incredible adult sons and one fabulous daughter-in-love. My long, winding road to coaching started in higher education, then to graduate school for a Master's Degree in Marriage & Family Therapy, home to the rear and homeschool my three sons, then back to work after divorce.

God wastes nothing!

I now direct the Counseling & Soul Care Ministries at my church and witness first-hand the healing power and grace of God in the lives of hurting people. While running a small professional organizing business, I discovered the sheer joy of encouraging and empowering healthy women to dream big and win. Although I love working at my church, life coaching provides a nice balance and a career that I hope to maintain for years to come. When I'm not counseling, organizing, or coaching, I enjoy a good book, the company of a good friend, a good seafood meal, and an I Love Lucy marathon.

Learn more about Beverly Lucas at www.NUYUlifecoaching.com

Download The Coaching Process at www.ProfessionalChristianCoaching.com/process.

Trust trumps everything. Today we will explore why that's true, and how to cultivate a deep level of trust within a coaching relationship. Join us and Executive Coach, Michael Powers, as he shares practical examples and unpacks the powerful principles of trust that will take your coaching to the next level.

Learn: How to cultivate trust and safety with powerful questions that will help you gauge the current level of trust - Signs and signals to gauge how trust is going - Tools you can use to build trust - 5 layers of the trust pyramid that will help you get results

About Michael Powers:

Michael Powers has a passion for helping leaders continue to take their next best step upward. He’s a trusted advisor to CEOs, executives, and leadership teams in Nashville, where he lives, and across the country.

He admits to being a strange combination of left and right brain thinking with an engineering degree and MBA focused in marketing. He's been a top executive at fast-growing companies - and now focuses on assisting even more organizations to learn how to grow through his work as an executive and leadership team coach. He asks tough questions and facilitates teams through the barriers they need to conquer. The results? Leaders are even better able to positively impact their company, colleagues, communities, and families. He is a professionally certified coach with the ICF and is a certified professional leadership coach with PCCI.

Michael and his wife are parents of four children, ages 30 to 15, have two daughters-in-law, and have two grandchildren. You can reach him via email at michael@upstairsconsulting.com.

Download your copy of The Coaching Process at http://www.professionalchristiancoaching.com/process

Raising your standard of professionalism and changing the world requires asking important questions. What does it mean for coaches to keep raising their own standards? What sabotaging mindsets might need to be addressed? What does the future of coaching look like, and what role can you play?

Tune in to this valuable episode with Master Certified Coach, Charles Hooper, and learn more about the valuable contribution your coaching can make.

About Charles Hooper:

Charles Hooper, Jr, MCC, is an Atlanta-based Executive Coach and Leadership Development Trainer. He has worked with senior leaders in a variety of industries and organizations domestically and internationally to design and deliver leadership development processes and systems. Charles is especially skilled at accelerating leaders who are HiPo, NuRo, and YoGo (High Potential Leaders, Leaders in New Role, Leaders Developing New Leaders). Clients regularly gain clarity and confidence as they go through the change and transition process in their professional roles. In addition to his private practice, Charles trains coaches with two international coaching training companies. He is married and has 6 adult sons.

Learn how to get your complimentary 90-minute strategy session at www.HooperCoaching.com.

Millennials represent the largest, most diverse generation in the history of the United States, and by 2030 they will make up 75 percent of the workforce. Thus, it’s critical that we know how to coach Millennials and those who work with them. Today, Chris Tuff, author of the USA Today best-seller, The Millennial Whisperer, shares important insights that will inspire and equip you to coach this next generation of leaders.

Tune in to learn:

The unique challenges Millennials face
Why Millennials aren’t “the” problem, they simply expose the problem
The best ways to connect and co-create powerful win/win relationships
Key motivators for Millennials and how to tap into them

About Chris Tuff:

A graduate of Vanderbilt, Chris is an accomplished digital marketer, investor, business development leader, youngest partner in the history of a 100-year-old advertising agency, bestselling author, public speaker, husband, father of two and advocate of empathy and connection.

When Chris isn’t finding creative ways to inspire and lead, you will find him spending time with his family, on a run or kiteboarding.

Get your FREE book: https://quiz.themillennialwhisperer.com/

Culturally Competent Coaching: https://professionalchristiancoaching.com/culturally-competent-coaching/

What if building a coaching business wasn’t an “either/or” proposition but a “both/and”? What might be possible if you could continue using your current skill set and add coaching to it? In today’s episode, Nathan Kreger, a multi-passionate entrepreneur, takes us behind-the-scenes of his hybrid coaching business and shares some practical steps to consider if this sounds like a fit for you.

We’ll unpack:

How past contacts and contracts contain clues on creative ways to serve your clients.
How to match your passions with a marketplace problem you can solve.
Ways to build a flexible, nimble coaching business that will support you until you retire.

About Nathan Kreger:

Nathan Kreger is a business coach and consultant to independent service professionals and small businesses with 10-100 employees. He’s a small business change agent, student of marketing, speaker, and above anything else, a passionate entrepreneur.

A Professional Certified Coach through the ICF with Masters degrees in both Organizational Leadership and Practical Theology, Nathan is a zealous believer in free enterprise and entrepreneurship, and is devoted to creating healthy work environments with freedom and flexibility.

In addition to his coaching & consulting business, Nathan also serves as the Chief Information Officer at Professional Christian Coaching Institute. If you’ve been to our website or receive our periodic promotional offerings, you have seen some of his handiwork – he keeps things humming on the back-end of all-things-tech here at the Institute.

Nathan is happily married to his sweetheart, Erin, and they have two beautiful children. Erin serves on our support staff, and together she and Nathan lead worship in the praise band at their church.

To find out more about Nathan, visit his website at www.NathanKreger.com and connect with him on LinkedIn.

What do the photos you use to represent you and your business say about you? Do they convey the image you want to project? Tune in today to find out why your promotional photos are critical to your image, and how you can maximize their impact.

You'll learn how to...

Capture people’s attention with beautiful, professional images that will cause your ideal audience to stop scrolling.
Share your story through your photos and let others know who you are so they feel comfortable doing business with you.
Find the best photographer for you, one that will capture you in your best light, so you get the most out of your photo shoot.

About Alyssa Jean Lewis:

Alyssa Jean Lewis is a Lifestyle & Documentary Photographer with her studio in Rolla, Missouri. She specializes in shooting candid moments and makes it her goal to tell the story of her clients’ lives by capturing their authentic selves, enabling them to feel confident, professional, and beautiful.

Alyssa holds a bachelor's degree in Psychology and is currently training as a Life Coach at the Professional Christian Coaching Institute.

Her husband, James, owns the website development company FreshEyesInc.com, and the two of them work from home as they parent their darling son, George.

Learn more and picture up your free copy of 5 Tips for Gorgeous Photos at www.alyssajeanstudios.com.

Group Coaching is powerful both for your business and your clients. In group coaching. clients benefit from the shared group wisdom, the real-time interaction, and the relationships that form, and so much more. At the same time, your business benefits because you are leveraging your time and your skills, all while increasing your income.

Tune into today, as Jordan Mercedes shares:

Specific skills you need to hone, in order to facilitate transformational results for the individuals in your group.
Topics and themes that work well in the group coaching
The benefits of having a co-facilitator
Why group coaching may become one of your favorite ways to coach

About Jordan Mercedes
Jordan Mercedes is the founder of Jordan Mercedes, LLC Coach Training for Mission Inspired Coaches & Leaders and the Dean of Community Life at PCCI. She knows that every leader has a vision, sometimes they need a little help & support to get there! Jordan believes the power and impact of coaching can change a company, a city, or even a nation. She enjoys helping leaders and coaches use coaching skills to move their people, projects, and missions forward.

She is the creator of Leaders Coach Forward training for C-Level leaders. Jordan is a program developer who often helps her clients create progressive workshops & live events for the demographic they serve. She is the author of two 30-hour curricula approved by the ICF for entry-level coach training & development.

In her dedication to supporting women in their personal/professional growth and development, she speaks for various organizations and churches. She’s known for her fun and inspiring presentations such as The Flight Plan, Love in the Workplace, and Greet the Gift.

Jordan comes from a family of ministers and was herself ordained in 2014 by Servant Ministries. She is a life-long student of coaching and believes a great instructor never stops being a dedicated student. She’s an accomplished glass artist and will tell you that she has the best family, friends, and clients in the world. She is the President of 31 Crowns Unusual Leadership Development.

Download a self-coaching tool and connect with Joran at www.JordanMercedes.com

Learn more about the upcoming Group Coaching Classes at https://professionalchristiancoaching.com/group-coaching/

Passing on a rich legacy… it’s what Christian coaches help others do, and when you’re a coach who is also a grandparent, it’s what you want to do in your own family.

Today we have two very intentional and wise grandparents, Anne and Don Denmark, joining us to help you:

· Create a high impact vision for you and your grandchildren

· Design purposeful activities that give lasting value

· Use your coaching skills to bring out the best in this important relationship

About Anne and Don Denmark:

Anne Denmark is a Professional Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation. After 12 years of coaching, Anne remains passionate to partner with ministry leaders as they discover their best for God’s glory.

Anne serves on the faculty for the Professional Christian Coaching Institute as a co-assessor for Oral assessments and required mentor hours.

She has also been a break out presenter and facilitator at the Speak Up Conference for over 30 years. She frequently coaches speakers in both their preparation and presentation skills.

Others describe her as gracious and wise with a dramatic and creative flair. She is a farm girl at heart from rural Ontario, Canada, a storyteller, and a sweet tooth. She is a high drive firstborn and remains loyal for life. She says if you are looking for her in heaven you will find her in the garden.

Don Denmark, MD, is a retired physician and hospital administrator who has an encore career training medical professionals at Ascension Health in CORE (Communicate Openly and Resolve Early.)

Anne and her husband Don live in Franklin, TN, and actively invest in the lives of their three grown children and six lively ‘grands’.

Learn more about the GrandKids Matter at https://grandkidsmatter.org/.

If you or your clients want to gain greater awareness of your true self so you can live well, consider using The Enneagram. It’s a beneficial tool for self-discovery and it helps you, as a coach, be more effective in coaching others around relationships, workplace dynamics, purpose, and practically every other area of life and work.

You’ll expand your awareness and your impact as you:

Look at the assessment results with your clients and explore new insights with powerful questions.
Assess habits and mindsets so you and your clients can operate out of and develop primary strengths.
Uncover the 9 personality types that emerge from the center of the true self and understand how the Enneagram can aid in self-discovery.
Operate out of your best true self.

About Teresa McCloy

Teresa McCloy is a Certified Life and Leadership Coach with PCCI and creator of the REAL-LIFE Process™ she is also an Enneagram Accredited Professional with the International Enneagram Association and a Certified Practitioner with the Enneagram Motions of the Soul©. Teresa partners with her clients as a coach, consultant, and professional speaker to FORGET being productive and discover what really matters. Prior to coaching, Teresa was an entrepreneur with several businesses, from owning her own music studio to establishing a retail clothing store. She also served 15 years as a Creative Arts Minister.

As a recovering workaholic who was addicted to all the latest apps, software, and best-selling books on productivity. Teresa is now passionate about helping entrepreneurs, creators, and leaders to assess their habits and mindset, know their true self through the tool of the Enneagram, and create a new REAL-LIFE Process™ to do what really matters.

Learn more about your Enneagram type: www.TeresaMcCloy.com/type

Just being a skilled coach isn’t going to get you clients. You need a special mindset to develop a successful coaching business, and today we get to benefit from Chris McCluskey’s years of training coaches to do just that.

Become a successful coach with a thriving business:

Turn the questions you have now into the answers that will get your caseload booming so you can focus on what you do best—coaching.
Receive an insider’s view into valuable information you can use to move forward today.
Develop the foundational business mindset that every coach needs to turn prospects into profit.

God is certain: life is not. So how do you find clarity in the midst of all the uncertainty in life? It all depends on what you’re listening for and looking for. The gifts and the call of the Lord are irrevocable. We want certainty and clarity… but what if all we really need is trust? This is one podcast you truly can’t afford to miss.

Tune in to listen for:

How God shows up in the midst of uncertainty and shows us what He will do when we trust Him.
The gifts and the call clearly defined in Scripture so you can take the next step on your journey.
How to move with the light you’re given so you can listen to God and ask Him the questions that will show you the way.

One of the most important things coaches bring about in sessions is clarity–what matters, what’s most important, what would be different if a change occurs. Since clarity comes up over and over in coaching and is core to the work coaches do, Gary Wood joins us today to share and explain his ground-breaking Clarity & Momentum Model.

Learn:

How using the Clarity & Momentum Model can crystallize your client’s awareness.
How to help clients move from overwhelm to achievement as they minimize burnout potential and zero in on the most important things.
How to turn information into new knowledge and potential so your clients can move forward more effectively.

About Gary Wood

Gary Wood, PCC, CMCC, BCC has decades of experience and expertise in business, non-profit and ministry environments. Over that time he has played a respected role in training, developing, and building into the lives of hundreds of leaders who make significant contributions worldwide.

Since 1998, through his professional coaching firm, G.E. Wood & Associates, Gary has worked with an international clientele of executives, leaders, and professionals across a broad range of personal, professional, and organizational concerns.

He is frequently retained to help individuals deal with burnout and by corporate, government, small business, nonprofit and ministry leaders to get clarity and find solutions to problems that are impacting progress on causes, projects, and programs of importance.

Gary was the past President and Director of Christian Coaches Network International, a support and credentialing organization for professional Christian coaches, many of whom were trained at PCCI.

Gary is a designated Professional Certified Coach (PCC) through the International Coach Federation, a Board Certified Coach through the Center for Credentialing and Education, and a Certified Master Christian Coach through Christian Coaches Network.

Gary works from his office in the beautiful Muskoka region of Ontario, Canada. He is married to Alice who he fell for in Grade 8. Visit his website at www.gewood.com.

Learn more about Clarity & Momentum here: www.actionplanachiever.com

Get in touch with Gary Wood: www.gewood.com

We’re opening the mailbox #13 this holiday season, and all the presents are for you. It’s our joy to hear from you and find out what’s on your heart and mind as you move forward in your Christian coaching journey and business. Whether you’re new to the podcast or have been in the community a while, we’ve got insights around some of the things you likely think about most.

Listen today as we discuss these topics:

What is the value of social media? Is it worth my time? And how do I avoid negativity?
What helpful tips and what information can I provide to a niche, a specific people group, so that I can narrow my focus and give value to my audience?
How do I include seekers in my marketing materials for my Christian coaching business, without making them feel like I have it all together or that I have all the answers?
How can coaching be useful in a crisis when the very nature of coaching is centered on not giving advice?

Join our special guest today, Dan Miller, as we discuss the powerful question, What does this make possible? In the face of our current challenges, there is a tremendous need to look ahead. Yet, with the current COVID crisis, it’s all too easy to stay focused on our current struggles – which could leave us in a state of fear, loss, and floundering. Today, we're going to step back from the chaos and do some visioning about what lies ahead.

Walk away with insight and inspiration for a fresh new year:

Remembering what God says about the state of our world.
Leaning into the true Author of our stories
Soaring past expectations and limitations so we can choose a new adventure for 2021 and beyond!

Join the 5 Day Coaching Challenge atwww.ProfessionalChristianCoaching.com/challenge

About Dan Miller

As a career thought leader, New York Times best-selling author Dan Miller helps high potential individuals understand and apply their unique and most powerful talents and passions so they can make a larger impact, leave a legacy and thrive financially.

He believes that meaningful work blends our natural skills and abilities, our unique personality traits, and our dreams and passions.

He has been a guest on CBS’ ‘The Early Show,’ MSNBC’s ‘Hardball with Chris Mathews,’ and Fox Business News with Dave Ramsey Show…to hit some highlights.

He hosts a weekly podcast that is consistently ranked #1 under Careers on iTunes. Dan is also a frequent speaker at conferences including Social Media Marketing World, Podcast Movement, New Media Europe, Launch and Coaching with Excellence.

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Research shows that coaching benefits our relationships, businesses, ministries, and all aspects of our lives. And the good news just gets better. The more our coaching skills grow, the more we, our clients and our employees benefit.

Today, we are going to unpack the power of world-class coaching and offer you a unique (and free) opportunity to grow your coaching skills.

1 – Learn how to listen for the small things that have a large impact

2 – Gain confidence as you grow your competence

Bonus: Join us for the FREE “5-Day Coaching Challenge” for the once in a lifetime opportunity to grow your coaching skills with some of the world’s leading Christian coaches! You can learn more and sign-up here: www.ProfessionalChristianCoaching.com/challenge

For coaches and clients, hurry has been an accepted, and even applauded, way of life. It is the new normal. But it doesn’t have to be this way. We really can slow down, enjoy more, and live the abiding, abundant life Jesus offers.

Join us today as we unpack some key concepts from the book, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry by John Mark Comer, and discover:

§ The problem with hurry and some of its devastating effects

§ The solution to hurry (which ironically, is not having more time)

§ The four practices to unhurrying your life and helping your clients do the same

If you’ve ever felt that “time management” just doesn’t work for you, today’s interview may hold the solution to your problem. Join us as Teresa unpacks the benefits of Time Blocking with a Twist.

You’ll gain insights into:

How time blocking results in more energy, harmony, and freedom
Why time blocking brings greater clarity and more energy
4 types of time blocks that help you integrate your business and personal life instead of seeing them as competitors

About Teresa McCloy

Teresa McCloy is a Certified Life and Leadership Coach with PCCI and creator of the REAL-LIFE Process™ she is also an Enneagram Accredited Professional with the International Enneagram Association and a Certified Practitioner with the enneagram Motions of the Soul©. Teresa partners with her clients as a coach, consultant, and professional speaker to FORGET being productive and discover what really matters. Prior to coaching, Teresa was an entrepreneur with several businesses, from owning her own music studio to establishing a retail clothing store. She also served 15 years as a Creative Arts Minister. She is also CEO of the Professional Christian Coaching Institute (PCCI).

As a recovering workaholic who was addicted to all the latest apps, software, and best-selling books on productivity. Teresa is now passionate about helping entrepreneurs, creators, and leaders to assess their habits and mindset, know their true selves through the tool of the Enneagram, and create a new REAL-LIFE Process™ to do what really matters.

You can find out more about Teresa and how she helps her clients at www.TheReaLifeProcess.com. And while you’re there, don’t forget to download her free gift: "5 Things to STOP doing in your workday!"

Have you ever wished you had a map to guide you through a coaching conversation? A one-sheet snapshot capturing the delicate coaching dance that leads to such powerful results? Now you do! The Professional Christian Coaching Institute has developed a visual schematic of the coaching process, and today we are going to share it with you.

Tune in to:

Explore the map that helps coaches navigate all of the ICF’s 8 Core Competencies
Learn the 3 specific phases that help clients and coaches close the gaps
Understand more about the collaborative process that helps clients get clear, make progress, and commit to effective action

Download and print The Coaching Process at: www.ProfessionalChristianCoaching.com/process

About Gary Wood

Gary Wood, PCC, CMCC, BCC has decades of experience and expertise in business, non-profit and ministry environments. Over that time he has played a respected role in training, developing and building into the lives of hundreds of leaders who make significant contributions worldwide.

Since 1998, through his professional coaching firm, G.E. Wood & Associates, Gary has worked with an international clientele of executives, leaders and professionals across a broad range of personal, professional and organizational concerns.

He is frequently retained to help individuals deal with burnout and by corporate, government, small business, nonprofit and ministry leaders to get clarity and find solutions to problems that are impacting progress on causes, projects and programs of importance.

Gary was the past President and Director of Christian Coaches Network International, a support and credentialing organization for professional Christian coaches, many of whom were trained at PCCI.

Gary is a designated Professional Certified Coach (PCC) through the International Coach Federation, a Board Certified Coach through the Center for Credentialing and Education, and a Certified Master Christian Coach through Christian Coaches Network.

Connect with Gary and get your free copy of Balance Not Burnout at www.gewood.com.

About Andrew Gorter

Andrew Gorter, D.Min., PCC is the owner of Plus One Coaching, LLC and has more than 25 years experience working with people to help them clarify what’s next for themselves and to take action to fulfill their calling and achieve their goals.

He is a trained and licensed as a Marriage and Family therapist and has practiced family therapy through a non-profit counseling practice he established in 2002. He is an expert in healthy interpersonal communication, and since establishing Plus One Coaching, LLC he has brought together his passion for coaching and his expertise in family therapy to establish a niche coaching family business leaders.

Throughout his career Andrew has endeavored to lead and serve people and organizations as they face necessary challenges to move forward and to do that in healthy creative ways. From his early career in pastoral ministry to his development of a non-profit counseling ministry and, most recently, Plus One Coaching, Andrew has gained a wealth of experience joining with people to solve problems.

Andrew and his wife, Karen, live in Holland, MI, near the beaches of Lake Michigan. They have two married daughters and three grandsons. He enjoys hiking, watercolor painting, reading and woodworking. He and Karen love just hanging out, especially in beach chairs with their toes in the sand.

Connect with Andrew and pick up your copy of Reflections for Coaches www.plusonecoaching.com

As professional coaches, we are called to a world of expansive cultural diversity. In this global and multi-cultured context, it is more important than ever that we have a deep awareness, consideration, and appreciation of how we are alike and how we are different as humans. Coaches need to be aware of and manage our own biases to serve our clients effectively.

Dive in with today’s guests and:

Grasp the importance of going into each coaching relationship and session with an open mind that’s culturally competent and ready to serve people from all walks of life.
Learn the unforced rhythms of grace that abound when we approach coaching with curiosity so we can become more aware of and honor the variety of cultures in our world.
Experience the value of better understanding various people and setting aside bias to help our clients follow the call of God on their lives.

Learn more about the upcoming Culturally Competent Coaching course which begins 11/10 at https://professionalchristiancoaching.com/culturally-competent-coaching/

About Cindy Schmelzenbach

Cindy is a Professional Certified Coach, a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach, and a Conversational Intelligence® Enhanced Practitioner. She also has a Master of Arts in Human Services Counseling.

Cindy and her husband, Harmon, spent 19 years in successful entrepreneurial businesses in the US and Caribbean and another 19 years internationally in cross-cultural leadership roles within a global ministry organization. Their passion for wholistic health and enhanced team dynamics moved Cindy to develop a Member Care initiative which she coordinated across 46 countries in the Asia Pacific region. In addition, while serving as an Internal Coach, Cindy facilitated coach training for international leaders across the Asia Pacific and played a major role in the development of a coaching culture within that organization.

Learn more about Cindy at CoachingWithCindy.com

About Rudy Graham:

Rudy is a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach and Managing Partner of Fruitful Journey Coaching. He brings over 38 years of experience as a Corporate Sales Professional in the technology industry. He coaches and trains individuals and teams pursuing performance growth in government and commercial organizations.

Rudy also Co-Coaches in marriage and parenting with his wife of 37 years and business partner, Wilmer. He received his coach training at PCCI and has certifications in SYMBIS and Gottman. Rudy & Wilmer are parents of two adult children, grandparents of one, and reside in Maryland.

Learn more about Rudy at FruitfulJourneyCoaching.com

Options Coaching has a truly astonishing rate of success in helping “abortion-minded” women identify their deepest values, examine all their options, and then choose life for their baby.

In today’s episode, you’ll hear Chris McCluskey share helpful statistics and hopeful stories about how God is using coaching in pregnancy centers around the country to save baby's lives.

Learn more about the resources mentioned in this episode here:

www.SupportAfterAbortion.com

www.prcrolla.com

Slides from today’s episode: https://professionalchristiancoaching.s3.amazonaws.com/options-coaching.pdf

Establishing and maintaining a coaching agreement with your client is the foundation of everything else you do. It’s an invitation to genuine exploration as you begin a coaching relationship, but it’s also a process, something you will want to do early, often, and in-depth throughout the relationship.

Our guest today, Todd Kemp, unpacks the newly updated ICF Core Competency #3 and shares the key skills we need to practice this competency well.

Learn from a Seasoned Professional:

How coaching agreements are at the heart of everything you do
Zero in on the co-created relationship that makes coaching both relational and collaborative, so you can maximize the experience for your clients.
Master the partnership with not only clients but also stakeholders, to make clear agreements about processes, plans, and goals.

About Todd Kemp

Todd Kemp, PCC is Principal of NorthWise Group (northwisegroup.com), a leadership growth coaching and facilitating firm that inspires leaders to ignite flourishing. Todd is a Professional Certified Coach and also serves as a Chair for Convene (convenenow.com), a peer advisory group of Christian CEOs and Business Owners.

After a 12-year career of systems engineering and management roles at a Fortune 150 technology company, and earning considerable scar tissue from 3 different entrepreneurial ventures including a business brokerage, a software firm, and a retail disaster, Todd sensed a clear calling in 2008 to coach business leaders who wish to grow exceptional organizations and honor God with their leadership.

A graduate of Stanford University, Todd is married to his college sweetheart, Julianne. They have two children and live near Denver, Colorado where Todd enjoys mountain biking and hiking in the majestic Rockies, investing time with family, and being a lifelong learner.

Connect with Todd at www.NorthwiseGroup.com.

Discovering the self through the arts is a key part of the work that coaches and their clients engage in to better discover and understand who God created them to be. Today's guest, Grace Anne, reminds us that enjoying and exploring aspects of God and His creation is never a waste of time. When we give space for our clients to explore their fullness and wholeness through artistic endeavors, possibilities multiply and everyone grows!

Dial-in your imagination and tune in to...

Discover ways you can fully express yourself in the world, and encourage your clients to do the same.
Learn how you can use creative expression (the arts) to become a more effective coach.
Create an environment where creativity and imagination are welcomed and embraced.

About Grace Anne:

Daughter of Chris & Rachel McCluskey and recent psychology graduate, Grace Anne is the founder of Grace Anne Originals, an online mixed mediums art studio, and is the author of a new children's book, "The Winter Elf." She is a writer, painter, and musician who delights in exploring a wide range of emotional, relational, and spiritual experiences through the arts. Inspired especially by the fiction of CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien, she seeks to express “the good, the true and the beautiful”.

Learn more about Grace Anne and The Winter Elf at www.thewinterelf.com

Register for the October Christian Coaches Café on "Creativity in Coaching" at www.ProfessionalChristianCoaching.com/cafe

Today, we continue discussions with Jeff Goins on the importance of embracing your passions and gifts, and how to share them with the world. If you haven’t already, listen to part one and embrace your identity. Then, continue with part two and begin to let your activities flow from your identity.

Market your artistic work as you embrace the:

Importance of being connected with people and places in support of what you do so you can stay in community and collaborate with like-minded folks
Importance of being an apprentice under a master and embracing healthy competitiveness to grow your income
Importance of being stubborn—developing and harnessing the grit it takes to accept obstacles as opportunities to persevere

About Jeff Goins

Jeff Goins is a full-time writer who lives just outside of Nashville, Tennessee, with his wife and kids. He has authored four other books: The Art of Work, The In-Between, Wrecked, and You Are a Writer. His website, Goinswriter.com, has been visited by more than four million people from all over the world. He humbly considers himself the world’s foremost expert on guacamole.

Find “Real Artists Don’t Starve” and the bonuses here:
https://dontstarve.com

Many coaches wonder if they can really make a living doing what they are passionate about. Today, we’ll discuss the importance of embracing your passions and gifts and taking the necessary risks to bring them to the world.

Unlock your potential as you discover:

The difference between your vocation and occupation so you can listen to the song of your own heart and have the courage to sing it
How to choose your role and own your identity so you don’t have to fake it till you make it, but you can believe it until you become it
How to develop a healthy, productive, wildly successful mindset so the stories you want to believe will come true
How to overcome the fear of not being unique and original so you can understand how to be innovative in today’s world

About Jeff Goins

Jeff Goins is a full-time writer who lives just outside of Nashville, Tennessee, with his wife and kids. He has authored four other books: The Art of Work, The In-Between, Wrecked, and You Are a Writer. His website, Goinswriter.com, has been visited by more than four million people from all over the world. He humbly considers himself the world’s foremost expert on guacamole.

Find “Real Artists Don’t Starve” and the bonuses here:
https://dontstarve.com

You are a culture-shaper. As a Christian coach, you are uniquely equipped to draw out of others “the Good, the True, and the Beautiful” that God has placed in them. Join Chris McCluskey as he shares a behind-the-scenes look from his speaking engagement with coaches Greg Leith and Helen Mitchell at the C.S. Lewis Foundation and learns practical ways to influence culture in the 21st century.

Discover how to…

Find and fulfill the central purpose of your life so you can influence generations to come
Use direct communication to irrigate the spiritual deserts in our everyday world
Align your life with your day-to-day activities to intentionally live out your calling in the world

Once again, it's time to address the questions from your e-mails, voicemails, texts, and online messages. Are you are having a hard time getting clients? Finding it difficult to coach clients around their vision? Need creative ways to keep your business moving forward during the COVID-19 Coronavirus Crisis?

We've got answers to your questions and ideas that will move your business forward:

1) I don't like selling, pressuring, or pestering people. Am I looking at coaching enrollment the wrong way?

2) What suggestions and resources do you have/use to help clients draw out their dreams?

3) If you had 10 hrs. a week to grow your coaching business, how would you spend it?

4) What are creative ways to differentiate my business during COVID, so I can keep it alive?

Excellence wins: an interview with Horst Schultze is a conversation you truly can't afford to miss. We'll unpack how and why excellence wins. Listen as both a business owner and a skilled coach explains how it’s not about tasks but tapping into your being and purpose. You'll uncover valuable principles that will enable you to help raise up a powerful culture and absolutely change the world.

Cash in:

Learn how to define yourself as a person of excellence so you can receive the respect you deserve and serve people well.
Understand how your essence, being, and personhood are more important than your doing, so you can rise above the noise of your tasks.
Bolster the culture of your business or organization so you can refuel your working environment and create unshakable alignment.

About Horst Schulze

A legend and leader in the hotel world, Horst Schulze's teachings and vision have reshaped the concepts of service and hospitality across industries.

Mr. Schulze's professional life began more than 65 years ago as a server's assistant in a German resort town. Throughout the years he worked for both Hilton Hotels and Hyatt Hotels Corporation before becoming one of the founding members of The Ritz Carlton Hotel Company in 1983. There Mr. Schulze created the operating and service standards that have become world-famous.

During his tenure at The Ritz Carlton, Mr. Schulze served as President and COO responsible for the $2 billion operations worldwide. It was under his leadership that The Ritz Carlton Hotel Company was awarded the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award- twice- making it the first and only hotel company to ever win even one.

In 1991, Mr. Schulze was recognized as "corporate hotelier of the world" by HOTELS Magazine. In 1995, he was awarded the Ishikawa Medal for his personal contributions to the quality movement. In 1999, Johnson & Wales University gave him an honorary Doctor of Business Administration degree in Hospitality Management. Most recently, Mr. Schulze has been honored as a “Leader in Luxury” by Travel Agent Magazine and its sister publication luxury Travel Advisor.

After leaving The Ritz Carlton Hotel Company, Mr. Schulze went onto found The Capella Hotel Group. This luxury hotel company managed some of the most elite properties worldwide and gave Mr. Schulze the opportunity to further define the luxury hotel industry, receiving countless awards and recognitions.

Today, Mr. Schulze serves on various boards and acts as a consultant across industries. He is currently completing his seminal book on creating excellence.

Multiplying strengths for Kingdom results in yields outcomes beyond your wildest dreams or imagination. But don't take our word for it. Today, you'll hear from our guest expert: the first Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach in the world. Together, we'll glean both practical and theoretical information on how to maximize the CliftonStrengths StrengthsFinder Assessment.

Authenticate your calling and purpose as you:

Learn how to unpack your specific strengths so you can lean into and lead with multiplied talents and investments.
Think through your personal and professional vision, as you stand on Bedrock Truths and become stronger with a fortified vision.
Clear up the mess and confusion around figuring out what work God has called you to, so you can become clear about how to carry out your mission.
Understand how to apply strengths to emotional intelligence, so you can become more adept in an area crucial to great leadership.
Apply your strengths to business-building, so you can catapult your coaching practice, even in the midst of the COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic.

About Brent O’Bannon
Brent O’Bannon is a PCC and the first GALLUP-Certified Strengths Coach in the world.

He coaches and champions leaders, entrepreneurs, and multi-million dollar companies to grow stronger, works smarter, and live richer with their strengths.

Brent teaches the PCCI Strengths-Based Coaching course and is a recent Amazon #1 best-selling author of Selling Strengths: A Little Book for Executive and Life Coaches About Using Your Strengths to Get Paying Clients.

Learn more about Brent www.brentobannon.com.

Strengths-Based Coaching Class starts on September 28, 2020. Learn more here: http://professionalchristiancoaching.com/strengths-based-coaching/

Creating a virtual studio in your home is easier and more accessible than you think. In today's podcast, we're sharing how to use free or low-cost tools to build your own virtual studio relatively easily, quickly, and powerfully. Your coaching practice can potentially explode by tapping into some of these possibilities.

Tune in to discover:

How to employ technology by using the latest technological advances as you work with people from around the world
All about camera quality, lighting, and backgrounds. We've got the simple steps you need to tackle the barriers that keep you from presenting a professional image online.
How to build a portfolio career and maximize various ways you can use technology from anywhere in the world, so you can grow your business, right from your own home.

Learn More about our Strengths-Based Coaching course: https://professionalchristiancoaching.com/strengths-based-coaching/

About Rudy Graham:

Rudy resides in Maryland with his college sweetheart, wife, best friend, and coaching business partner, Wilmer. They met in college at the University of NC at Charlotte and have been married for 37 years.

Rudy has worked for three global companies of very different scales in the past thirty-eight years, selling technical solutions to people who use technology to advance and change the world.

The technologies and technical solutions have changed over the years, but the positive experience of working with people has remained constant.

In parallel to his sales career, he launched and operated a Specialty Coffeehouse for four and a half years. He also served on the Diaconate Ministry in his local church for ten years, caring for and supporting about fifty families.

Rudy is a self-trained chef and a baker of all things made with Einkorn flour.

Learn more or connect with Rudy at www.soar.com/RudyGraham

We have encouragement for you today, Coach, so you don't let the dream die. Whether you just started out, were already in the midst of business-building, or ran a thriving practice before COVID-19 came onto the scene, no matter your situation, if you have a coaching dream, today’s episode will give you the tools you need to stay the course.

You'll takeaway:

3 Biblical truths to help you remain rooted so you remember how this will all end.
3 things you need to keep top of mind, in the middle of the mess, so you can engage your heart and mind to thrive in these challenging times.
3 ways to reground so you can apply practical action steps, today, and keep coaching.
3 paths to help you navigate the way from the pandemic, through your Godly passion, to the Promise.

Sign up for Kim Avery’s Free Bite-Sized Business Building Bootcamp, five days of mini-marketing training overflowing with prizes, tools, templates, resources, and lots of fun. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to move your business forward. For more information and to sign up, go to www.KimAveryCoaching.com/biz.

The circumstances we find ourselves in today provide fertile ground for difficult emotions. There’s something new to cope with Every. Single. Day. And many times we find our emotions getting the best of us. Today we are going to take charge of those feelings with emotional intelligence, the antidote that will help you, and those you serve to navigate those difficult emotions.

Turn down the heat on your emotional pressure cooker so you can release steam in a healthy way.
Name it and tame it. Fear, anxiety, concern, frustration, and anger sometimes boil together into an overwhelming soup of emotions. Identifying individual emotions takes much of their power away.
Stop the fight/flight emotional firing in your brain and reengage the thinking regions of your brain to regain control of runaway emotions.

About Kelly Porcaro

Kelli brings 30 years of Organizational Development experience to her work as a Consultant and Coach. She works in a wide range of industries partnering with organizations to develop leaders, navigate change, and unlock infinite possibilities. Using a combination of assessment, training, and coaching, Kelli will equip you to reach your professional and personal goals.

Kelli is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coach Federation (ICF), a Master Certified Emotional Intelligence Assessor and Practitioner, and a Hogan Certified Assessor.

She is on faculty with Lake Forest Graduate School of Management and Professional Christian Coaching Institute.

Kelli earned her degree in Organizational Behavior from Northwestern University. Learn more about her consulting and coaching practice at EQuipStudios.net.

Marriages are in trouble and quick-fix solutions aren’t enough for lasting change. Thankfully, Marriage Coaches can help. With targeted assessments, powerful questions, and other tools, our married clients can experience a transformational change in their relationships from the inside-out.

Tune in today to learn:

The power of attitude in marriage
How to build an above par marriage
The secret of happy couples and more.

Find the Pre-Marital and Marriage Coaching Class here: https://professionalchristiancoaching.com/pre-marital-marriage-coaching/

Learn more about Rick & Britt Erisman:

With over 12 years of working with married couples in pastoral settings, Rick and Britt Erisman, have a passion for seeing individuals and couples discover and live out God’s purposes in their lives.

Rick started Redivive Coaching LLC in 2015 and has spent his years as a coach working with individual leaders and teams within the church and various organizations. Together they have worked with both married and pre-marital couples in coaching & ministry settings.

While Britt spends a large portion of her time homeschooling their 7 children, she also finds great joy in coaching individuals and couples alongside Rick. They are SYMBIS certified together. Rick is certified in RightPath Resources & a Strengths Champion Certified Coach.

They are active in an international ecumenical community of communities. In 2019 Rick and Britt discerned a call to move from Minnesota to help build a new Christian community in Tallahassee Florida.

Together, they enjoy spending time with their family, long talks, the ocean & serving within the church. They reside with their family in Tallahassee, Florida.

Sign up for your free Marriage or Life Coaching Session here: https://www.redivivecoaching.com/make-an-appointment.html

Visit Rick & Britt Erisman here: www.RediviveCoaching.com

Recently, the International Coaching Federation (ICF) reduced it's Core Competencies from 11 to 8, and today we will talk about Competency #2, Embodies a Coaching Mindset. This competency delves into the heart of coaching.

The new ICF Competency #2 addresses:

How the "doing" of the coach emanates from the "being" of the coach so you can show up and deliver the best possible value for each of your clients.
How an open, curious, flexible, and client-centered mindset sets the coach up for meeting clients where they are and closing the session with the maximum benefit for the client.
How clarifying and simplifying the original 11 Core Competencies closes the gap on coaching presence and helps you increase self-awareness before your coaching sessions.

About Andrew Gorter

Andrew Gorter, D.Min., PCC is the owner of Plus One Coaching, LLC, and has more than 25 years of experience working with people to help them clarify what’s next for themselves and to take action to fulfill their calling and achieve their goals.

He is trained and licensed as a Marriage and Family Therapist and has practiced family therapy through a non-profit counseling practice he established in 2002. He is an expert in healthy interpersonal communication, and since establishing Plus One Coaching, LLC has brought together his passion for coaching and his expertise in family therapy to establish a niche coaching family business leaders.

Throughout his career, Andrew has endeavored to lead and serve people and organizations as they face the necessary challenges to move forward and to do that in healthy creative ways. From his early career in pastoral ministry to his development of a non-profit counseling ministry and, most recently, Plus One Coaching, Andrew has gained a wealth of experience joining with people to solve problems.

Andrew and his wife, Karen, live in Holland, MI, near the beaches of Lake Michigan. They have two married daughters and three grandsons. He enjoys hiking, watercolor painting, reading, and woodworking. He and Karen love just hanging out, especially in beach chairs with their toes in the sand.

Connect with Andrew and pick up your free "Reflections for Coaches Tool" at www.plusonecoaching.com.

Everyone, everywhere gets stuck sometimes, and getting unstuck is one of our client’s most frequent requests. In today’s podcast, our guest Kim Anderson shares tremendous insights on the most common lies our clients tell themselves, the hidden mindsets that trip them up, and best of all, how to deal with the underlying causes at the root of each one.

Tune in to learn how to help your clients move past:
- Perfectionism
- Comparison
- People-pleasing
- Negative self-talk
- Boundaries, and more

About Kim Anderson:
Kim Anderson is a board-certified licensed therapist, certified life coach, speaker, and team builder. She is also the co-host of the iTunes Podcast Coming Unglued, which provides skills and tools for women to become unstuck and live free. Kim works with clients, helping them overcome limiting beliefs that keep them stuck, or worse, anxious, depressed, and hopeless. She also leads retreats and corporate team-building events that help individuals and teams identify the best ways to work together toward a common goal. She is passionate about walking with others and providing them skills and tools to live their best lives. As a former military wife, and mother of two teenagers, Kim and her husband, Dave, live in the Nashville area.

You can find out more about Kim at www.kimanderson.life and listen to her podcast at www.comingunglued.org

Being where you are is tough when your personal vision is in the midst of turmoil. Can you relate? It's easy to become disoriented, discouraged, and paralyzed. But especially now, we need to be out and engaged. Both in conversations and productive work. With people and organizations facing turmoil. However, in order to be a sharpened tool, equipped with a strong grounding in who you are, you need a clear vision.

Be here:

Examine your personal vision (who you are, where you are, where the Lord might move you next) so you can bring your whole self to what you do.
Establish a fresh, personal vision for the coming season so you can move from the here and now into your promised future.
Envision having peace with where you are so you can find purpose and live out a vision that inspires others.

About Sackeena Gordon-Jones, PhD, MCC

Skeena Gordon-Jones is an executive and leadership coach, speaker, trainer, and organization development consultant residing in Raleigh, NC. She works with leaders who want to realize their professional and personal potential and achieve both success and happiness. She holds the credential of Master Certified Coach (MCC) with the International Coach Federation (ICF). Sackeena especially enjoys working with women and leaders who are intentional about bringing their whole life into harmony, while achieving meaningful professional and personal goals. She specializes in transformational coaching and strategic planning. She has coached leaders in the government and the private sectors, throughout five continents.

A leader in the coaching field, Sackeena has served as two-time president of the ICF Raleigh Chapter, leading the chapter to win the Internationally recognized ‘Breaking Barriers’ award. She is the current Chair of the NC Community Coaching Outreach, leading the chapter to win the inaugural international ‘Gift of Coaching’ award. Sackeena is also a professional coach trainer and serves as the director of the Business Coaching Certificate Program at NC State University.

In addition to her coaching experience and credentials, Sackeena has over 20 years of relevant executive-level business, leadership, and board experience in private, public, and non-profit sectors. She has worked with organizations and teams to deliver leadership and talent development focused on creating a sustainable culture of engagement, through leadership agility, emotional intelligence, coaching, and communication skills. She has completed advanced studies in leadership, strategy, change management, human development and behavior, theology, neuroscience of coaching, organization development, and Philosophy.

An avid student of Theology, Sackeena completed postgraduate studies in theology through Manhattan Bible College and Tabernacle Bible Institute, before serving alongside her husband, former Pastor of Bethel Christian Life Center and Director of Redeeming the Time Youth Ministries. Sackeena believes we should live on purpose and live fully. She also hosted a radio program “The Abundant Life”, based on John 10:10 “I have come that you might have a life to the full”.

When not working, Sackeena enjoys the beach, reading, and time with her family. Her favorite quote currently is “Moments Matter”.

Coaching is fast becoming a staple in the local Church. Today, we address the importance of coaching within the Body of Christ and how coaching for spiritual formation helps bridge a gap in believer’s lives and the ministries of most churches.

Listen in to find out more about:

The important distinctions between coaching for spiritual formation, discipleship, and spiritual growth.

How spiritual formation work integrates so beautifully into other areas of coaching and ministry.

The keys to development in spiritual formation.

About Bryan Brown

Bryan Brown, MDiv, PCC is the President and Founder of Coaching To Lead, LLC. With 25 years of experience in developing leaders, Bryan enjoys increasing the capacity and confidence of emerging leaders as well as coaching established leaders to maximize their influence. Bryan also enjoys using his experience to work with teams on strategic planning and team development.

Bryan studied Human Resource Management at Samford University then received his M.Div. from Birmingham Theological Seminary. As a missionary, pastor, entrepreneur, husband, and father, he has learned to apply the principles of Biblical leadership and team development in multiple contexts.

Bryan currently serves as the International Leadership Director at Perimeter Church in Atlanta, working with pastors and church leaders who seek to ignite movements of Life on Life Missional Discipleship around the world. In this role, he has the privilege to regularly train and coach leaders in Australia, South Africa, and Brazil among others. Bryan also engages leaders through his private coaching practice, www.coachingtolead.com, to clarify and intentionally pursue their callings. His passion and experience are coming alongside leaders to accelerate their growth and influence, while at the same time maintaining their personal health and enjoying the opportunities before them.

He has been happily married to Jackie for 22 years. Together they have three children –Abbie, Lindsey, and Barker – and live in Johns Creek, Georgia, a northern suburb of Atlanta.
Download your free exercise from the Personal Compass Workbook http://www.coachingtolead.com/.

If you’re a coach, leader, speaker, writer, or legacy-leaver, we have an inspiring and intensely practical episode for you today. Tune in to discover a new tool that can be used in a variety of settings, as you pull forward the best of the past and use a coach approach to empower others in sharing their stories.
Learn more about:

3 ways to use the discovery tool so you can serve others in a variety of ways

3 ways to implement coaching techniques and competencies throughout the discovery process

The value of self-awareness, the over-view perspective, story, and using a tool or method to highlight a Life Story Timeline to celebrate for a long time!

About Anne

Anne Denmark is a Professional Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation. After 12 years of coaching, Anne remains passionate to partner with ministry leaders as they discover their best for God’s glory.
Anne serves on the faculty for the Professional Christian Coaching Institute as a co-assessor for oral assessments and required mentor hours.

She has also been a break out presenter and facilitator at the Speak Up Conference for over 30 years. She frequently coaches speakers in both their preparation and presentation skills.
Others describe her as gracious and wise with a dramatic and creative flair. She is a farm girl at heart from rural Ontario, Canada, a storyteller, and a sweet tooth. She is a high drive firstborn and remains loyal for life. She says if you are looking for her in heaven you will find her in the garden.

Anne and her husband Don live in Franklin, TN, and actively invest in the lives of their three grown children and the lively “grands.”
Connect with Anne at http://lifediscoverycoaching.com/.

As coaches, we know that living a life based on one’s deepest values brings clarity, confidence, fulfillment, and more. This is what we want both for ourselves and our clients.

Personal values also represent the core, the essence of who we are. These values have incredible nuances that really show the uniqueness of each individual and serve as important guideposts as we and our clients make choices to live lives of great purpose and meaning

Today we are going to talk about:

What values are and what they are not so you can live abundantly from the inside out

Why values are important so you can make effective decisions, get clarity in relationships, choose the best fit career environment, and much more!

Ways to help others identify their values and the tools you need to get started

How to live a values-based life, starting today!

Resources

Values Word Sort: http://bit.ly/2qoANnd

Values SkillScan: http://bit.ly/2yD57A6

Needs and Values by Cheryl Weir: http://bit.ly/2fZaA8J

Values In Action: http://bit.ly/245jGpJ

Align Your Life Inventory: http://professionalchristiancoachingtoday.com/inventory

Coaches work with clients to help them create positive changes—in relationships, careers, finances, self-care practices, and more. Often our clients have lots of energy when it comes to dreaming and designing the changes they want to make, but they begin to lose motivation when it comes to long term implementation. Today, we’ve got solutions to help you support your clients in making changes that last.

Discover:

· 7 key forces for long-lasting change · Why quick rewards trump delayed rewards when it comes to change · 6 characteristics of communities that support change · Important principles to honor when going through change · Key neuro hacks for faster change

In opening the mailbox #11, we've got some pandemic related questions to answer. It is time to rethink some of our strategies, and in doing so, we’ll not only be able to move forward now, but we will be repositioning ourselves for future growth.

In today's episode, we address these topics: Are people still paying for coaching? If so, how can I encourage people to sign up sooner versus later so they can flourish in uncertain times? I run into a brick wall when discussions turn to client acquisition. Business development is the least favorite part of what I do. So, what can I do to get clients? The digital world has become much noisier since EVERYbody has jumped in with their offers. Should I jump in? How can I get noticed? And more importantly, how can I serve well?

The ICF updated their Coaching Core Competency Model in late 2019, and in this episode, our expert guests will give you an inside look into what’s changed and what hasn’t.

Tune in and stay up-to-date by learning: The entirely new competency #2 Where and why the emphasis was changed from “coach-focused” to using partnership language The beautiful balance between being and doing The four types of coaching agreements And more...

About Our Guests:

Cheryl Scanlan - Cheryl is primarily a business and executive coach, having worked with hundreds of C-Levels 1-1 and trained over 1000 CEOs. Examples of work over the past 15 years include developing high-performance organizations, fostering executive health, and preparing organizations for critical transitions. For more information visit www.c3advantage.net. She has clocked over 10,000 hours of coaching. Her core passion is to see God’s people walk in step with Him. An ardent student of God’s Word, she is a trained Precept Bible Teacher and has studied the Word inductively for over 20 years. She has recently developed a one year and six month Bible reading plan that will be made available through her non-profit, Promised Land Living beginning in 2020. https://www.facebook.com/PromisedLandLiving/ Currently, Cheryl serves as Provost of PCCI (professional Christian Coaching Institute) where she has partnered with Chris McCluskey for 8 years and oversees the instructors, mentor coaching, CPLC certification process, and curriculum management. Cheryl mentors other coaches primarily through her membership platform, Coach’s Edge (www.mentorcoachinsights.com).

Michael Pfau - Michael is Founder and President of Crossways Life Coaching, specializing in life mission, vocation, and wellness coaching. He began coaching in 2002 after serving 16 years as assistant pastor of a church he co-founded in Philadelphia. Michael worked and presented with best-selling author Bruce Wilkinson as part of his Dream Giver Coach Network from 2003 to 2005, helping individuals discover and live their dreams. He is a designated Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coaching Federation (ICF). Crossways Life Coaching has grown into an international coaching business whose clients are literally changing the world. Michael is passionate about equipping others in distinctly Christian coaching to empower them in fulfilling God’s call on their lives and businesses. For more information, visit his website at www.crosswayslifecoaching.com.

Bryan Brown - Bryan is the President and Founder of Coaching To Lead, LLC. With 25 years of experience in developing leaders, Bryan enjoys increasing the capacity and confidence of emerging leaders as well as coaching established leaders to maximize their influence. Bryan also enjoys using his experience to work with teams on strategic planning and team development. Bryan studied Human Resource Management at Samford University then received his M.Div. from Birmingham Theological Seminary. As a missionary, pastor, entrepreneur, husband, and father, he has learned to apply the principles of Biblical leadership and team development in multiple contexts. Bryan currently serves as the International Leadership Director at Perimeter Church in Atlanta, working with pastors and church leaders who seek to ignite movements of Life on Life Missional Discipleship around the world. In this role, he has the privilege to regularly train and coach leaders in Australia, South Africa, and Brazil among others. Bryan also engages leaders through his private coaching practice, www.coachingtolead.com, to clarify and intentionally pursue their callings. His passion and experience are coming alongside leaders to accelerate their growth and influence, while at the same time maintaining their personal health and enjoying the opportunities before them. He has been happily married to Jackie for 22 years. Together they have three children – Abbie, Lindsey, and Barker – and live in Johns Creek, Georgia, a northern suburb of Atlanta.

What could be more important in these disturbing and uncertain times than tapping into God's perspective, His wisdom, His plan, and His provision? Join us as Chris shares his thoughts on why Spiritual Vision is perhaps more important now than ever before in our lifetime.

As you listen, you'll be reminded of the: The love and light shining even now as an anchor for your soul Importance of Spiritual Vision, especially now when our physical vision is limited Promises of God that transcend uncertain outcomes and loss

If the title Emerge Stronger: Effective Executive Coaching grabbed your attention, then know it grabbed ours as well! And it's also caught the attention of top leaders in businesses, corporations, and organizations around the world. Today Executive Coach, John Ramstead, shares powerful ways that coaches can help their clients not just survive this current crisis but actually emerge stronger.

Listen in to learn how you can help your clients:

Move beyond the survive or thrive paradigm, and instead, embrace the current challenges in a way that helps them grow stronger.
Become a leader who faces adversity with a mindset of strength.
Care for their people as much as they care for the bottom-line, knowing that it will benefit both.

Learn more about the Effective Executive Coaching class that starts May 27th: https://professionalchristiancoaching.com/effective-executive-coaching/

About John Ramstead

You know that you were designed to accomplish great things…but first, you must help your team eliminate conflict and take full ownership of their roles. You want to make an impact and not only retain your best people, but also create an environment for all of you that delivers the joy of living on purpose. Here’s what I know for a fact:

Living life fully alive is not only possible, but it is also right in front of you! The secret is figuring out exactly WHO you are and HOW you lead, then designing a flight plan so that your strengths and gifts take you to the destination you have dreamed of, but didn’t know quite how to reach.

My name is John Ramstead, and I love combining my experience as a Navy combat fighter pilot, Fortune 500 manager and serial entrepreneur with my passion for helping you and your team reach your full potential…all while incorporating the very valuable lessons I learned from surviving a near-fatal horseback riding accident in 2011. Recovering from a severe traumatic brain injury--that required 25 surgeries and put me under hospital care for almost two years—radically transformed my thinking and forced me to connect with who I was meant to be. I learned how to create my best life, and I am excited to help you and your team do the same!

Learn more about John Ramstead at www.EternalLeadership.com.

Whether you’re learning to love remote working or already loving it, today’s guest, Michelle Mullins, is here to help you maximize your remote work and learn how to serve no matter where you are.

Don’t miss these 10 tips to gain greater focus, manage uncertainty, and build community even as you work from home.

About Michelle Mullins

Michelle is a Coach, Trainer and Mentor for Remote Professionals around the World. She is an ICF Associate Certified Coach, Plan Do Track Facilitator and Co-Host of the Remote Pathways Podcast with Jennifer Britton. Her greatest joy is her family and she is happily married with two sons she calls her heart with legs. She loves partnering with business women, ministry leaders, virtual team leaders and work-at-home moms from around the globe. She is passionate about helping leaders and their teams to thrive in the Remote Space! Having over 20 years of experience working remotely, Michelle has held various remote roles including Corporate Coach and Trainer, Ministry Leader, Sales Professional, E-Learning Designer, and Voice-Talent. Michelle recently joined the team at Jennifer Grote Coaching where they're launching programs around the 9 Habits of Mojo Success. Mojo is a fun way to say MORE JOY and Mojo Matters now more than ever!

FREE DOWNLOAD Mojo Map where you get to practice a little EQ Mojo. Go to JenniferGroteCoaching.com, Click Mojo Life in top right corner and You will find the Mojo Map OR direct link below) Mojo Map

Website: JenniferGroteCoaching.com

Creating a coaching culture in an organization will help your for-profit and non-profit truly flourish. Tune in today to meet Brian and Debi Zaas, who are growing a coaching culture inside The Navigators, and learn how you can do the same wherever you are in the world.

In this rare, behind-the-scenes view of how coaching is affecting their far-flung ministry, you’ll learn: ¥ How The Navigators has implemented a coaching culture into their organization ¥ The difference coaching makes in discipling, particularly in international cultures ¥ Opportunities for coaches with The Navigators

About Brian and Debi Zaas, Co-Directors for The Navigators Life and Leadership Coaching Over the past 8 years, as Co-Directors for The Navigators Life and Leadership Coaching organization, God has called Brian and Debi to teach, train, and develop a team of more than 75 coaches who are impacting the lives of hundreds of pastors, ministry, missionary, non-profit and business leaders. They focus on helping these decision-makers and disciple-makers become tomorrow’s difference-makers by pursuing the potential of God’s promises in churches, missions, workplaces and communities around the globe. They describe their work this way, “Our passion is to walk alongside church, missional and community leaders to help them achieve their God-given potential and become difference-makers in the world around them. We love helping others discover God’s unique design for their lives, find their purpose, and pursue a meaningful path forward to attaining the abundant life God promises us. We help these leaders embrace the vision of creating a disciple-making culture, disciples can grow in spiritual maturity and go into the world around them joining with Jesus to make disciples who make disciples.”

Learn more and register for Navigator’s Coach Camp 2020: https://navigators.regfox.com/2020coachcamp

International Christian Coaching Day is coming, and we want to help you commemorate, celebrate, and spread the word about the power of Christian coaching. On Friday, May 8th, 2020 Christian coaches from around the globe will gather (virtually) and we want you to join us. Listen in to learn more about this special day and also how to take advantage of these FREE resources we’ve put together just for you: · Shareable Graphics. Professional images you can use on social media. · Business-Building Ideas. Ways that you can promote your coaching during this time. · Group Guide. How to coordinate virtual and in-person meetups with other Christian coaches. · Worldwide Map of Coaches. Find other coaches in your area of the world and add yourself to the map · Access to our Private Facebook Group. Join our private community of Christian coaches from all over the world.

Today we're setting aside shop talk to focus on who we are and Whose we are in Christ. If there's ever been a time to renew your mind, then it's now. In these troubled times. CS Lewis said it best. So we're drawing on a recent virtual gathering in what we're calling Family Devotions. We hope it brings both help and hope to you and yours.

Renew your mind with:

• Insights that focus on your identity in Christ during troubled times, not only now with COVID-19 but also in any time of tribulation.
• Tips on how to live in this age without being of it, while you take captive the fears that run through your mind.
• Romans 12 and Paul's words from the Word of God, so your soul can be transformed during such a time as this.
• Strategies to support those in your family who struggle with stuffing their emotions, so you and yours can stay strong in spirit.

Join us live for our Family Devotions by registering here: https://professionalchristiancoaching.com/devotions.

Have you tasted and seen the incredible impact of coaching? Whether you’re a coach, leader or influencer in business or in ministry, we’re unpacking the reasons for replacing top-down, directive managerial models with a coach approach to your leadership. Get ready to tackle your greatest challenges in new, improved ways.

Listen in to benefit from:

• A coach approach that replaces traditional command and control approaches with a co-created process so you can powerfully come alongside the people you influence
• The 3 components of a coach approach that will maximize the resources you already have so implementation is successful and seamless
• Strategies on how to provoke thought, encourage creativity and foster inspiration among your team so you can uncover and overcome current challenges

During this current world health crisis, here on the Professional Christian Coaching Today podcast, we have interrupted our regular schedule to bring you some:

encouragement from God's Word
perspective on how this impacts the coaching field
hope for today and for tomorrow

May God richly bless you, provide for you, and grant you His peace during these uncertain times.

How often do you rush into action as soon as you hear of a problem? It’s common for coaches to want to offer a solution, but it’s imperative to consider all six stages of change in order to provide effective coaching. Today, we’ll walk you through a model that can support people in the decision-making process of behavioral changes—a tool you can begin implementing at your next coaching session!

Tune in to understand more about:

• How people change and sustain over time, so you and your clients don’t become microscopically focused on completing tasks
• How to encourage decisions that flow out of a state of being so the doing (action) is maintainable and not rushed
• How to linger and listen through the cyclical stages of change and meet clients where they are in taking the next right step