Born to Coach®️

At 39 weeks pregnant, I’m learning one of the biggest lessons of this season: how to surrender in life and business.

In what may be my final podcast episode before giving birth, I’m sharing some raw reflections on what pregnancy and preparing for birth are teaching me about self-trust, boundaries, business, coaching, and letting go of the invisible rules about how we’re “supposed” to do things.

I talk about slowing down without feeling guilty, stepping away from social media and hustle culture, trusting my intuition, allowing business to feel more creative and free, and why becoming a coach is often an identity-level transformation.

I also share a personal birth update, including baby moving from transverse to head-down, preparing for my home birth, and what these final days are teaching me about being present rather than rushing toward what’s next.

I don’t know exactly who I’ll be on the other side of this birth but I have a feeling a lot is going to change. ❤️

In this episode, I talk about:

• The parallels I see between birth, coaching, and transformation

• Why coaches need to be incredibly mindful about giving advice, predictions, or intuitive guidance to vulnerable clients

• Stepping away from social media and protecting what I allow into my energetic space

• Why slowing down does not mean my business has stopped growing

• Questioning whether the things we desire are actually ours or desires we’ve absorbed from other people

• Letting business become more creative, artistic, playful, and personal

• What I hope to bring back into my coaching, teaching, and business after this birth

Ready to Take Your Next Step as a Coach?

⁠⁠⁠Download the FREE Life Coach Starter Kit:⁠⁠⁠ If you’re just getting started in coaching, this will help you take those first steps and you’ll also join my email community, where I share coaching and business insights each week.

⁠⁠⁠Join the Born to Coach Membership:⁠⁠⁠ Come find your coaching business besties, learn strategies like networking and connection calls, attend monthly business trainings, and start building your coaching business alongside other coaches.

⁠⁠⁠Enroll in the Born to Coach Training Academy:⁠⁠⁠ Our ICF-accredited coach training program teaches you how to become a confident professional transformational coach, structure powerful coaching sessions, and signing paying clients.

⁠⁠⁠Apply for the Born to Coach Mastermind:⁠⁠⁠ Already certified and ready to turn coaching into your full-time career? The Mastermind is designed to help established coaches fill the gaps in their business, clarify their marketing, build their lead-generation systems, and work toward consistent $5K–$10K months.

In this episode, I sit down with Dan Vincent, ACC, a Gallup Certified Strengths Coach and leadership development professional, to explore how coaching skills can completely change the way we lead, communicate, manage people, and navigate the workplace.

Dan shares what he learned coaching financial advisors despite never being a financial advisor himself, why great coaches don't need to be the expert in the room, and how learning to ask better questions instead of immediately giving people the answers can create more capable employees and give overwhelmed leaders some of their time back.

We also talk about:

• Why you don't need “coach” in your job title to use coaching skills
• The difference between coaching, managing, mentoring + consulting
• How CliftonStrengths can change the way leaders think about performance
• A powerful example of one coaching question completely shifting a difficult employee conversation
• Why listening, curiosity, communication + empathy may become even more valuable in the age of AI
• How to find out whether your employer might pay for some or all of your coach training

Because learning how to coach isn't only valuable if you want a coaching business. These are people skills you can use for the rest of your damn life.

R​​eady to Take Your Next Step as a Coach?

⁠⁠Download the FREE Life Coach Starter Kit:⁠⁠ If you’re just getting started in coaching, this will help you take those first steps and you’ll also join my email community, where I share coaching and business insights each week.

⁠⁠Join the Born to Coach Membership:⁠⁠ Come find your coaching business besties, learn strategies like networking and connection calls, attend monthly business trainings, and start building your coaching business alongside other coaches.

⁠⁠Enroll in the Born to Coach Training Academy:⁠⁠ Our ICF-accredited coach training program teaches you how to become a confident professional transformational coach, structure powerful coaching sessions, and start building your online coaching business and signing paying clients.

⁠⁠Apply for the Born to Coach Mastermind:⁠⁠ Already certified and ready to turn coaching into your full-time career? The Mastermind is designed to help established coaches fill the gaps in their business, clarify their marketing, build their lead-generation systems, and work toward consistent $5K–$10K months.

What does becoming a life coach actually look like?

Not the polished Instagram version. The real version...the fear, awkward first coaching sessions, self-doubt, life changes, practice, and moments when you wonder, “What the hell am I doing?”

In this episode, I sit down with Born to Coach® Training Academy graduate Sharon to reflect on the transformation that happened during her year of coach training.

When Sharon started, she was navigating a divorce after spending nearly two decades as a stay-at-home mom. She was facing major financial fears and knew one thing for sure:

“I don’t need a job. I need a career.”

One year later, she owns a business, manages her own finances, confidently calls herself a life coach, has paying clients, has developed a specialty in recovery coaching and became the first Born to Coach student to complete 100 coaching hours during the program.

And nope, she didn't magically stop being afraid.

She learned how to be afraid and keep moving anyway.

In this conversation, we talk about:

• How Sharon went from financial fear to seeing herself as a business owner

• Why she now believes fear means she’s leveling up

• How her own sobriety journey led her toward recovery coaching

• Why finding your coaching niche sometimes takes time

• How practicing with real people not just other coaches strengthened her coaching skills

• How that practice unexpectedly turned into two paying clients

• Why becoming a confident coach requires being willing to be awkward, messy, and uncomfortable

• Why coach certification isn't the finish line it's the beginning

If you've been thinking about becoming a life coach but you're waiting to feel more confident, more certain, or more “ready,” this episode is your reminder:

You can be scared shitless and still take the next step.

R​​eady to Take Your Next Step as a Coach?

⁠Download the FREE Life Coach Starter Kit:⁠ If you’re just getting started in coaching, this will help you take those first steps and you’ll also join my email community, where I share coaching and business insights each week.

⁠Join the Born to Coach Membership:⁠ Come find your coaching business besties, learn strategies like networking and connection calls, attend monthly business trainings, and start building your coaching business alongside other coaches.

⁠Enroll in the Born to Coach Training Academy:⁠ Our ICF-accredited coach training program teaches you how to become a confident professional transformational coach, structure powerful coaching sessions, and start building your online coaching business and signing paying clients.

⁠Apply for the Born to Coach Mastermind:⁠ Already certified and ready to turn coaching into your full-time career? The Mastermind is designed to help established coaches fill the gaps in their business, clarify their marketing, build their lead-generation systems, and work toward consistent $5K–$10K months.

What If You Didn’t Have to Push So Hard?

What if slowing down doesn’t mean you’re falling behind in your business or any area of life?

At almost 36 weeks pregnant, I’m finding myself in a season where my body, my life, and even my business are asking me to operate differently.

In this episode, I’m reflecting on my lifelong tendency to push, achieve, and measure my worth through productivity and what I’m learning as I give myself permission to create more rest, pleasure, spaciousness, and trust in my life.

In this episode, I talk about:

• ​Giving yourself permission to slow down before your body forces you to
• ​Untangling your worth from how much you accomplish
• ​Why I skipped a networking event for a prenatal massage and what that represented for me
• ​What climbing Mount Kilimanjaro taught me about my tendency to push through discomfort
• ​Looking back at nursing school and realizing how often I ignored what I actually wanted
• ​What my six-year-old son is teaching me about saying “no”
• ​Listening when your body and nervous system are asking for a different pace
• ​Creating more spaciousness as I enter my 40s and prepare to become a mom of two
• ​Stepping back from parts of Born to Coach so my team can lead more
• ​Making space for the next evolution of my work and the opportunities that are beginning to emerge
• ​Trusting that slowing down might actually be part of your next assignment

R​​eady to Take Your Next Step as a Coach?

Download the FREE Life Coach Starter Kit: If you’re just getting started in coaching, this will help you take those first steps and you’ll also join my email community, where I share coaching and business insights each week.

Join the Born to Coach Membership: Come find your coaching business besties, learn strategies like networking and connection calls, attend monthly business trainings, and start building your coaching business alongside other coaches.

Enroll in the Born to Coach Training Academy: Our ICF-accredited coach training program teaches you how to become a confident professional transformational coach, structure powerful coaching sessions, and start building your online coaching business and signing paying clients.

Apply for the Born to Coach Mastermind: Already certified and ready to turn coaching into your full-time career? The Mastermind is designed to help established coaches fill the gaps in their business, clarify their marketing, build their lead-generation systems, and work toward consistent $5K–$10K months.

What if growing your coaching business didn’t require constantly posting, creating Reels, checking Instagram, or feeding the social media machine?

At 35 weeks pregnant, preparing for maternity leave, and navigating a lot behind the scenes in my personal life, I’ve been taking a serious look at what is and isn’t working in my life and business.

And I realized something: social media was starting to control me instead of support me.

Now I’m giving myself a new challenge:

How simple can I make my business and can I continue growing it without relying on social media?

In this very real, very unfiltered episode (recorded in sweats after eating a BLT 😂), I’m sharing what’s changing in my business as I prepare for baby girl, why I’m craving more simplicity, and why I believe human connection may become one of the most powerful marketing strategies we have.

We talk about:

• ​Why I decided to step away from Facebook and Instagram
• ​The overwhelm and overstimulation I’ve been feeling from social media
• ​Protecting my energy as I prepare for maternity leave
• ​Why coaches don’t necessarily need to be everywhere online
• ​Simplifying your marketing instead of adding another strategy
• ​Using networking and connection calls to find coaching clients
• ​Why getting out into the real world can create unexpected opportunities
• ​The problem with becoming a coach to help people—and then spending all your time creating content and funnels
• ​Why podcasts, YouTube, and email feel different to me than traditional social media
• ​Letting your content be messy, imperfect, and human
• ​Why I’m questioning how much editing and production our content actually needs
• ​How AI may make authentic human connection even more valuable
• ​Trusting your intuition when it comes to how you want to run your business
• ​My experiment with creating shorter, simpler content
• ​What my business and marketing may look like after maternity leave

If you’ve been wondering, “How do I grow my coaching business without being on social media all the time?” this episode is for you.

Ready to Take Your Next Step as a Coach?

Download the FREE Life Coach Starter Kit: If you’re just getting started in coaching, this will help you take those first steps and you’ll also join my email community, where I share coaching and business insights each week.

Join the Born to Coach Membership: Come find your coaching business besties, learn strategies like networking and connection calls, attend monthly business trainings, and start building your coaching business alongside other coaches.

Enroll in the Born to Coach Training Academy: Our ICF-accredited coach training program teaches you how to become a confident professional transformational coach, structure powerful coaching sessions, and start building your online coaching business and signing paying clients.

Apply for the Born to Coach Mastermind: Already certified and ready to turn coaching into your full-time career? The Mastermind is designed to help established coaches fill the gaps in their business, clarify their marketing, build their lead-generation systems, and work toward consistent $5K–$10K months.

What happens when the business you built for freedom starts depending on you for everything?

Krista and leadership and operational efficiency expert Adrienne Dorison unpack how to build a business that supports your life instead of slowly taking it over.

As Krista prepares for maternity leave, she and Adrienne get real about what it takes to step away without your income, clients, or business grinding to a halt.

Adrienne shares why business owners often become the biggest bottleneck in their own companies, how to start removing that dependency before burnout forces you to, and why giving your team more autonomy can actually make your business stronger.

They also explore how coaches can “bottle their magic sauce” so clients can get incredible results without everything depending on the founder personally delivering the work.

In this episode:

• Why the freedom you started your business for can disappear when everything depends on you

• How to “bottle your magic sauce” and turn what you do naturally into processes other people can deliver

• The four different ways you can eventually exit or step back from your business without necessarily selling it

• Why trusting your team and removing yourself as the bottleneck can create more freedom, growth, and long-term value

You don’t have to choose between doing work you love and having a life outside your business.

This conversation will get you thinking about how to build your business differently now, so you have more freedom, flexibility, and options later.

Connect with Adrienne:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adriennedorison/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/adrienne.dorison

Website: level11leaders.com

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Krista sits down with coach and mentor Faisal Ensaun for an honest conversation about what it really takes to build a sustainable coaching business.

From leaving a successful engineering career to embracing years of uncertainty, growing through collaboration instead of competition, and creating a referral-based business built on trust. Faisal shares the lessons that only come from doing the work.

Together, they explore why coaching is a long game, and why becoming a better coach starts with becoming a better leader.

In this episode:

• Why building a successful coaching business takes patience, practice, and a willingness to grow

• How collaboration and genuine relationships can create more opportunities than trying to do everything alone

• The leadership, communication, and sales skills every coach needs to develop

• Why serving people well and continuing to coach is the foundation of a thriving referral-based business

Lasting success isn't built through shortcuts, it's built through service, meaningful relationships, and showing up again and again.

Trust the process, keep growing, and let your work speak for itself.  

Connect with Faisal:

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@faisalensaun

Website: https://www.faisalensaun.com/Unlock-Your-Legacy-Life

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/faisalensaun/

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Krista shares a real life update on everything that's been unfolding as she enters her third trimester.

From preparing for birth and navigating unexpected pregnancy challenges to setting difficult family boundaries and building a business that can thrive while she's on maternity leave, this is an honest conversation about making space for what matters most.

In this episode:

• How Krista is preparing mentally, emotionally, and practically for baby number two

• The powerful boundaries she's setting to protect her peace and break generational patterns

• What unexpected pregnancy challenges are teaching her about flexibility and self compassion

• How she's building a business that supports both her family and her future
  

A new season often asks us to protect our energy, let go of old patterns, and embrace support. We hope this conversation reminds you that you don't have to do it all alone.

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What does it take to stop coaching for free and start getting paid?

Born to Coach graduate Madison Doherty shares how she overcame self-doubt, people-pleasing, and learned to set boundaries, leading to her first paying coaching client. She opens up about the mindset shifts, courageous steps, and imperfect action that helped her build an authentic coaching business instead of waiting for everything to be "perfect."

In this episode:

• Why you don't need a perfect niche, website, or business plan before signing clients

• How Madison transitioned from free coaching sessions to confidently charging for her coaching

• The surprising role honesty played in helping her make her first paid offer

• Why confidence isn't something you're born with, it's something you build through action

• Practical mindset and nervous system tools for overcoming fear and taking the next step

Whether you're still thinking about becoming a coach, practicing your first coaching sessions, or getting ready to make your first paid offer, this episode will remind you that confidence comes after action, not before.

Every successful coach starts exactly where you are today.

Connect with Madiosn:

https://www.instagram.com/mad_axx/

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Krista sits down with Ben Pages, trainer and ICF assessor at Born to Coach and coach in his own private practice, to explore what it really takes to achieve a goal that feels impossible.

Through the story of coaching an ultramarathon runner who completed a 37 hour race, they unpack the mindset, identity shifts, and coaching conversations that help people keep going long after motivation disappears.

In this episode:

• Why success is about so much more than discipline and willpower

• How coaching helps people move through fear, self doubt, and the urge to quit

• Practical mindset tools for staying grounded when life gets hard

• What every coach, entrepreneur, and dreamer can learn from pursuing extraordinary goals

Whether you're building a business, becoming a coach, preparing for birth, or pursuing a dream that stretches you, this episode will remind you that extraordinary results are built one step at a time. 

Connect with Ben Pages:

Instagram: @Benpages

Website: www.benpages.com

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