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Hosted by Luba Diasamidze PhD, PCC · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 31 episodes
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AboutThe “Coaching with Confidence and Care” podcast, hosted by Luba Diasamidze, offers weekly episodes that provide reflections, practical insights, and answers to common questions in coach training, mentoring, and supervision.I am Luba Diasamidze, the founder of UpThink Coaching, an ICF-accredited provider of coach training programs, mentoring, and supervision. I am passionate about helping coaches unlock their superpowers and be the best they can be for their clients.This podcast is designed to support aspiring and new coaches, as well as those engaged in ongoing professional development. If you’re looking for ways to grow, experiment, gain insights into delivering impactful coaching sessions to shape your own confident and caring coaching style, this podcast is for you!Please subscribe if you enjoy the content. Connect with me on LinkedIn to share ideas or suggest topics for future episodes.Explore Our Resources:• If you are new to coaching: download our Signature FREE Guide
Luba Diasamidze PhD, PCC hosts Coaching with Confidence and Care, a education show with 31 episodes published.
Being supportive is an essential part of coaching, and helping someone doesn't always mean agreeing, reassuring, or making the conversation comfortable. Sometimes the most useful thing we can do for a client is to be mor
Preparing for the ICF Credentialing Exam (PCC-MCC Exam) can feel overwhelming, especially when in scenario-based questions several answers seem reasonable. If you've ever wondered how to think your way through the exam i
If the word "marketing" makes you feel uncomfortable or overwhelmed, you're definitely not alone. Many coaches struggle with visibility, self-promotion, consistency, or the belief that marketing somehow requires them to
In this episode, I’m talking about one of the more uncomfortable dynamics in coaching: working with disengaged, resistant, or uncooperative clients. Many coaches take client disengagement personally or immediately assume
In this episode, I’m talking about energy shifts in coaching and what it actually means to work with them in a grounded, non-mystical way. For many coaches, this can feel unclear or even a bit uncomfortable. You might no
In this episode, I’m talking about measuring coaching results and how to know if your work is actually effective. If you’re newer, this can be especially tricky. You don’t yet have a long track record, and it’s not alway
In this episode, I am talking about working with metaphors in coaching — one of the most powerful ways to deepen awareness in a session. Metaphors show up naturally in how clients speak. We look at how to notice metaphor
In this episode, I talk about interruptions in coaching — a topic that brings up a lot of questions and uncertainty for coaches. Many coaches were taught that good coaching means letting the client speak without interrup
In this episode, I am talking about laser coaching sessions: those short, 15–20-minute conversations that can create a shift when done well. Most leaders don’t have an hour per team member every week. And even if they wa
In this episode, we explore what it really means for a leader to act as a coach and when it actually makes sense to do so. Many leaders want to incorporate coaching into their leadership style, yet struggle with the prac
In this episode, we explore what makes a coaching question truly powerful and why lists of powerful questions are useless. I see powerful questions as an emergent outcome of a coach’s presence, listening, relational attu
In this episode, let’s explore one of the most common questions that comes up in coach training and mentor coaching: how to establish clear and meaningful measures of success for a coaching session. Rather than treating
This final episode of the year is a reflective exploration of unlearning. In this final episode of the year, I spend some time with the idea of unlearning as making space for something new to emerge in our coaching. I lo
This episode takes a careful look at the Revised ICF Core Coaching Competencies released in 2025 as a professional reflection on what these changes signal about the maturity of our field and the evolving role of the coac
Every coach bumps into these questions: “How do I structure my practice? Which business model actually works for me and for my clients?” This episode takes a practical look at the most common B2C coaching business models
Every coach has faced that subtle tension “Am I doing enough for my client?” or “Should I feel responsible if they don’t act?” In this episode, we unpack the delicate balance between care and over-responsibility in coach
Working with Emotions in Coaching If you’ve ever found yourself unsure about what to do when a client gets emotional (whether to explore it, hold space, or turn the client’s attention back to the content) this episode is
Three-Party Agreements: Coaching in Organizations If you’re stepping into organizational coaching (or thinking about it) one of the first big questions is: how do you navigate a coaching engagement when there’s more than
When a Client Does Not Make Progress in a Coaching Session If you’ve ever left a coaching session wondering, “Was that enough?” or “Did my client actually make progress?” this episode is for you. Whether you’re a new coa
Many coaches associate a “coaching mindset” with being positive, open, or reflective. But in practice, it’s something deeper and more disciplined. In this episode, we unpack what it truly means to embody a coaching minds
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