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What Actually Separates Authentic Coaching From a Coaching Script
Your story is not your product. Your craft is. It’s also the real difference between authentic coaching and traditional coaching.That distinction sits underneath nearly every version of “what’s the difference between authentic coaching and traditional coaching” I’ve…
How to Know When a Session Has Actually Gone Well
The question of whether a coaching session went well is one most coaches carry home. Here’s a more honest measure than the ones you’re probably using.
You Don’t Need More Marketing. You Need to Be Easier to Refer.
You don’t need more coaching marketing — you need to be easier to refer. Here’s what building a referral-based coaching practice actually looks like.
The Client Who Argues With Everything You Offer
A coaching client who argues with everything you offer is rarely being difficult. Here’s the reframe that changes how you sit with the resistance.
What To Do When a Client Cries and You Don’t Know What To Say
When a coaching client cries and you don’t know what to say, the most useful thing isn’t a technique. Here’s what actually matters in those moments.
Why Every Coaching Strategy You’ve Tried Feels Like Starting Over
If every coaching strategy you try feels like starting from scratch, the problem isn’t the approach — it’s what quietly disappears each time you switch.
The Difference Between Depth and Stagnation (And How to Tell Which One You’re In)
At some point in a coaching practice, sessions start to feel familiar. The question worth asking is whether that familiarity is depth developing — or a plateau you’ve stopped noticing. Here’s how to tell the difference, and a practical audit to help you find out.
Staying or Leaving — How to Tell the Difference
Two and a half years of genuine effort can still leave you exactly where you started — if that effort has been distributed across too many directions to build real momentum in any of them. Here’s how to tell the difference between productive exploration and movement d…
Choosing the Work (Again)
How to structure your practice so client work remains central There’s a version of business building that assumes the goal is to need clients less. To automate. To leverage. To create systems so efficient that your presence becomes optional. And for some…