Coaching with Confidence and Care

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...

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...

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...

<p>In this episode, I’m talking about one of the more uncomfortable dynamics in coaching: working with disengaged, resistant, or uncooperative clients.</p> <p>Many coaches take client disengagement personally or...

<p>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...

<p>In this episode, I’m talking about measuring coaching results and how to know if your work is actually effective.</p> <p>If you’re newer, this can be especially tricky. You don’t yet have a long track record, and...

<p>In this episode, I am talking about working with metaphors in coaching — one of the most powerful ways to deepen awareness in a session.</p> <p>Metaphors show up naturally in how clients speak. We look at how to...

<p>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...

<p>In this episode, I am talking about laser coaching sessions: those short, 15–20-minute conversations that can create a shift when done well.</p> <p>Most leaders don’t have an hour per team member every week. And even...

<p>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.</p> <p>Many leaders want to incorporate coaching into their leadership style, yet struggle...

<p>In this episode, we explore what makes a coaching question truly powerful and why lists of powerful questions are useless.</p> <p>I see powerful questions as an emergent outcome of a coach’s presence, listening...

<p>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.</p> <p>Rather...

<p>This final episode of the year is a reflective exploration of unlearning.</p> <p>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...

<p>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...

<p>Every coach bumps into these questions: “How do I structure my practice? Which business model actually works for me and for my clients?”<br> <br> This episode takes a practical look at the most common B2C coaching...