Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share 240: Finding Alignment: Kristin Kaufman
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
240: Finding Alignment: Kristin Kaufman
What does it mean to live a well-aligned life? The concept of alignment is essential for the effective coach to understand. Today’s focus brings a different perspective than our recent discussion of soul alignment back in Episode 238, so I hope you’ll join us to learn more.
Kristin Kaufman is the founder of Alignment, Inc., which is a unique consultancy firm formed in 2007 to help individuals, corporations, boards of directors, and other groups find alignment within themselves and their organizations. After 25 years of corporate experience, Kristin woke up one day and realized that she was out of alignment, and this led her to look through a different lens at different work. She wrote a trilogy of books under the title, Is This Seat Taken? We’ll talk about her books and her work, along with challenging your thinking about your engagement and encounters with others.
Show Highlights:
● Kristin’s path from global corporate work into a pivot that brought alignment
● Kristin’s books, Is This Seat Taken? Autobiographical collections of stories based on “random encounters, it’s never too late, and this seat is saved for you.”
● What is alignment?
● Commonalities that run through the stories that make up Kristin’s books:
○ You have to define success on your own terms.
○ Everyone has the power of choice.
○ Incidental encounters are not accidental.
○ As long as we have breath, we have a purpose in being here.
● What makes a story fascinating and captivating?
○ Divine inspiration
○ An “arc” in the story
○ Their uniqueness has beauty
● What Kristin has learned about alignment in life: “We are put on this planet to learn, teach, and serve. It’s all mixed up and glued together with the magical elixir called love.”
Resources:
Kristin Kaufman
Books by Kristin S. Kaufman:
Is This Seat Taken? Random Encounters That Change Your Life
Is This Seat Taken? It’s Never Too Late to Find the Right Seat
Is This Seat Taken? No, I Saved it for You
Mentioned in this episode:
Join Mentoring Program!
If you’re a coach who wants to grow—not just check a box—this is for you.
I’m enrolling coaches now for my Spring Mentoring Program. Some are here for credentialing hours. Others are here because they want to become the coach their clients rave about.
Inside the program, we work on your actual coaching.
You’ll hear yourself differently.
Learn from other coaches.
Develop more presence.
And ask questions that create real transformation.
If you’re ready to deepen your skills and your impact, I’d love to support you.
Learn more at starcoachshow.com/mentor
I’d love to work with you.
Enroll More Clients: Clarity Sprint
Do you love coaching, but when it comes to enrolling clients, writing your bio, or posting online, you freeze? Or fall into “coach speak” that doesn’t actually connect?
That’s not a you problem. It’s a messaging problem—and it’s costing you clients.
Join me for my free, live five-day experience: Enroll More Clients: Clarity Sprint. From March 16–20 at 9 a.m. Central, I’ll help you get crystal clear on your ideal client, refine your message so it actually resonates, and create a confidence statement that makes booking a call the obvious next step.
No fluff, just clarity, you can use immediately.
Grab your free spot at:
https://starcoachshow.com/5day
Enroll More Clients: Clarity Sprint
View all episodes
By Meg Rentschler
5
132132 ratings
What does it mean to live a well-aligned life? The concept of alignment is essential for the effective coach to understand. Today’s focus brings a different perspective than our recent discussion of soul alignment back in Episode 238, so I hope you’ll join us to learn more.
Kristin Kaufman is the founder of Alignment, Inc., which is a unique consultancy firm formed in 2007 to help individuals, corporations, boards of directors, and other groups find alignment within themselves and their organizations. After 25 years of corporate experience, Kristin woke up one day and realized that she was out of alignment, and this led her to look through a different lens at different work. She wrote a trilogy of books under the title, Is This Seat Taken? We’ll talk about her books and her work, along with challenging your thinking about your engagement and encounters with others.
Show Highlights:
● Kristin’s path from global corporate work into a pivot that brought alignment
● Kristin’s books, Is This Seat Taken? Autobiographical collections of stories based on “random encounters, it’s never too late, and this seat is saved for you.”
● What is alignment?
● Commonalities that run through the stories that make up Kristin’s books:
○ You have to define success on your own terms.
○ Everyone has the power of choice.
○ Incidental encounters are not accidental.
○ As long as we have breath, we have a purpose in being here.
● What makes a story fascinating and captivating?
○ Divine inspiration
○ An “arc” in the story
○ Their uniqueness has beauty
● What Kristin has learned about alignment in life: “We are put on this planet to learn, teach, and serve. It’s all mixed up and glued together with the magical elixir called love.”
Resources:
Kristin Kaufman
Books by Kristin S. Kaufman:
Is This Seat Taken? Random Encounters That Change Your Life
Is This Seat Taken? It’s Never Too Late to Find the Right Seat
Is This Seat Taken? No, I Saved it for You
Mentioned in this episode:
Join Mentoring Program!
If you’re a coach who wants to grow—not just check a box—this is for you.
I’m enrolling coaches now for my Spring Mentoring Program. Some are here for credentialing hours. Others are here because they want to become the coach their clients rave about.
Inside the program, we work on your actual coaching.
You’ll hear yourself differently.
Learn from other coaches.
Develop more presence.
And ask questions that create real transformation.
If you’re ready to deepen your skills and your impact, I’d love to support you.
Learn more at starcoachshow.com/mentor
I’d love to work with you.
Enroll More Clients: Clarity Sprint
Do you love coaching, but when it comes to enrolling clients, writing your bio, or posting online, you freeze? Or fall into “coach speak” that doesn’t actually connect?
That’s not a you problem. It’s a messaging problem—and it’s costing you clients.
Join me for my free, live five-day experience: Enroll More Clients: Clarity Sprint. From March 16–20 at 9 a.m. Central, I’ll help you get crystal clear on your ideal client, refine your message so it actually resonates, and create a confidence statement that makes booking a call the obvious next step.
No fluff, just clarity, you can use immediately.
Grab your free spot at:
https://starcoachshow.com/5day
Enroll More Clients: Clarity Sprint
More shows like STaR Coach Show
View all
Hidden Brain
43,687 Listeners
The Moth
27,011 Listeners
Coaching for Leaders
1,470 Listeners
HBR IdeaCast
154 Listeners
Excellent Executive Coaching: Growing Your Business and Enhancing Your Craft.
67 Listeners
The Daily
113,121 Listeners
Modern Wisdom
4,025 Listeners
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
27,584 Listeners
Huberman Lab
29,272 Listeners
ReThinking
645 Listeners
The Ringer-Verse
3,210 Listeners
We Can Do Hard Things
41,512 Listeners
The Coaching Studio with Lyssa deHart
24 Listeners
The Mel Robbins Podcast
20,222 Listeners
The Curiosity Shop with Brené Brown and Adam Grant
368 Listeners