Have you ever been in a coaching session with a client who was "stuck" and the more you talked about it, the more they just kept saying that they were...stuck? When that happens, you need a way of gaining an entry point to explore not just why the client is stuck, but how to start thinking of their situation differently so that they can get unstuck.

Today I'm going over 5 questions to ask clients who are stuck--and I have an additional resource available for you (several of them!). Head to TeamCLCC.com/begin and become a subscriber, and you'll get immediate access to several CLCC resources for coaches, including a worksheet on the 5 Questions that you can share with clients as a journaling or reflection exercise.

Coaching + Courage + Community = TeamCLCC. We're a life coach training program for a different kind of coach.

Head to https://TeamCLCC.com to get our catalogue and the free "Become a Coach" video series to learn more about becoming a life coach, choosing a coaching niche, how coaches make money, and more.

Relationships to others mirror our relationship to ourselves. Today’s Craft of Coaching guest has been a coach for more than 15 years and has a wealth of information to offer on modern dating and relationships. Kira emphasizes the importance of foundational skills in dating, such as setting boundaries, managing expectations, and understanding the nature of healthy relationships—and in particular, she wants her clients to understand how modern dating has fundamentally changed in recent years.

Coaching + Courage + Community = TeamCLCC. We're a life coach training program for a different kind of coach.

Head to https://TeamCLCC.com to get our catalogue and the free "Become a Coach" video series to learn more about becoming a life coach, choosing a coaching niche, how coaches make money, and more.

Marketing can feel tricky for coaches—you want to do something heart-centered, not “market to people.” Today’s Craft of Coaching guest, Cory Huff, understands how to walk that line in helping artists and creatives (and coaches!) to effectively leverage strategies that make more money and help your business thrive.

Coaching + Courage + Community = TeamCLCC. We're a life coach training program for a different kind of coach.

Head to https://TeamCLCC.com to get our catalogue and the free "Become a Coach" video series to learn more about becoming a life coach, choosing a coaching niche, how coaches make money, and more.

Coaches feel some pressure when they're first standing up a business because there are a lot of decisions to make--what do I call myself? who do I want to work with? what should my branding be?--and every decision feels like it's set in stone. In reality, you can pivot as often as you need to, and in today's episode with coach Michelle Ward, we're talking about how to pivot as a coach when you want to change up your business.

Coaching + Courage + Community = TeamCLCC. We're a life coach training program for a different kind of coach.

Head to https://TeamCLCC.com to get our catalogue and the free "Become a Coach" video series to learn more about becoming a life coach, choosing a coaching niche, how coaches make money, and more.

Continuing education and self-coaching for life coaches are critical to advancing your skill-set even after you’ve finished life coach school. Self-coaching is a process of being able to evaluate your own life’s strengths and weaknesses, set new intentions and goals, and start seeing progress--all while addressing the challenges that come up along the way. In this episode, I talk about the essential continuing education and self-coaching resources that will help you advance your coaching skill-set.

:: Brand new episodes of the Craft of Coaching podcast will resume on 06/17/24. Until then, enjoy this one from the archive! :: 

Coaching + Courage + Community = TeamCLCC. We're a life coach training program for a different kind of coach.

Head to https://TeamCLCC.com to get our catalogue and the free "Become a Coach" video series to learn more about becoming a life coach, choosing a coaching niche, how coaches make money, and more.

People have confusion over what life coaching is. How is it different than therapy or counseling? On today’s episode, I’m getting into how to explain life coaching to people, including how I suggest you handle coaching skeptics.

A few highlights:

• Be discerning when talking to people who are committed to being skeptical about life coaching—because no matter how well you explain it, if someone has already made up their mind about “what life coaching is,” they are not likely to shift their opinion. In fact, paradoxically, they may dig in on their skepticism even more.
• One way to explain coaching is to highlight how it is different than therapy, since therapy is a profession more people are familiar with.
• Being confident at explaining what life coaching is will help you not only in personal situations when you meet new people or when family members ask what you do, it will also help you when you meet potential clients who are curious about life coaching.
  
  

:: Brand-new Craft of Coaching episodes will resume on 06/17/24. Until then, enjoy this from the archive! ::

Coaching + Courage + Community = TeamCLCC. We're a life coach training program for a different kind of coach.

Head to https://TeamCLCC.com to get our catalogue and the free "Become a Coach" video series to learn more about becoming a life coach, choosing a coaching niche, how coaches make money, and more.

Today's episode is all about pulling back the curtain and talking about the real-real truth: the hardest part of running a coaching business and what you can do to make it easier. You might be surprised--the hardest part of running your coaching business isn't what to name your signature program or developing your coaching skills. In this episode, I'm getting into what I and every other successful coach I've met has struggled with, and sharing how to navigate it so that you can see success with your coaching business.

Coaching + Courage + Community = TeamCLCC. We're a life coach training program for a different kind of coach.

Head to https://TeamCLCC.com to get our catalogue and the free "Become a Coach" video series to learn more about becoming a life coach, choosing a coaching niche, how coaches make money, and more.

Should coaches be working with clients who have extreme trauma? What does the data say about the level of skill and competence needed for coaches to adequately work with trauma? In today’s Craft of Coaching episode I’m getting into trauma-informed coaching, where I’ll talk about what trauma is, what to be aware of if clients exhibit trauma, and how coaches can be trauma-informed without overstepping their role.

Coaching + Courage + Community = TeamCLCC. We're a life coach training program for a different kind of coach.

Head to https://TeamCLCC.com to get our catalogue and the free "Become a Coach" video series to learn more about becoming a life coach, choosing a coaching niche, how coaches make money, and more.

Are you trying to design a course or training for your coaching clients, or create a group coaching program? Today's episode gets into the foundational elements of instructional design that life coaches can use to apply to their courses or group coaching programs so that you can design your group coaching course. Learn how to target your course content for your audience so that you can see greater engagement and success for every course you create.

Coaching + Courage + Community = TeamCLCC. We're a life coach training program for a different kind of coach.

Head to https://TeamCLCC.com to get our catalogue and the free "Become a Coach" video series to learn more about becoming a life coach, choosing a coaching niche, how coaches make money, and more.

In this conversation with Laura Simms, we get into whether or not you need to choose a niche as a life coach and how even when you do choose a niche, you aren't cutting yourself off to opportunities to work with different people as long as you keep the client's way of being at the forefront of your mind.

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Laura Simms is an expert in meaningful work who challenges conventional wisdom by asking people to ditch their passions and start with purpose.

She’s the creator of Your Career Homecoming, a celebrated career change program that helps people discover the meaningful work that’s right for them. Her work has been featured by The US News & World Report, Business Insider, and Psychology Today.

Laura’s colorful career history includes a history degree, an MFA in acting, getting fired from a dream project, quitting multiple jobs (including one after the first day), teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and a successful career as an actor where she worked on network television, performed in every state on the Eastern seaboard, received multiple callbacks from Cirque du Soleil, and shared a sound booth with Sandra Oh.

She lives in Atlanta with her husband and son, where she loves walking in the woods and trying to find the best whiskey cocktail in town.

Coaching + Courage + Community = TeamCLCC. We're a life coach training program for a different kind of coach.

Head to https://TeamCLCC.com to get our catalogue and the free "Become a Coach" video series to learn more about becoming a life coach, choosing a coaching niche, how coaches make money, and more.