STaR Coach Show

What if you could spend less time managing your coaching business and more time doing the work you love? Between client sessions, scheduling, marketing, and admin, it's easy to feel overwhelmed and wonder where your time went. What if AI could help you get that time back?

In today's episode, Meg Rentschler welcomes Kalyca Zarich, business strategist, AI educator, and founder of highMpact. Kalyca explains how coaches can build AI teams to handle repetitive tasks, streamline operations, and expand their impact without sacrificing the creativity and human connection that make coaching so powerful.

Kalyca also shares her deeply personal story of how working with a coach transformed her life after losing both parents within six weeks. That experience inspired her passion for helping coaches create meaningful change without burning themselves out.

Today, Meg and Kalyca explore practical ways AI can support business development, identify unnecessary expenses, research opportunities, and simplify content creation. You'll discover that getting started begins with understanding where your time and energy go, not mastering complicated technology.

Whether you're new to AI or ready to use it more effectively, this conversation will inspire you to build a more sustainable coaching business, reclaim your energy, and focus on the work that matters most.

About the Guest

Kalyca Zarich is a business strategist, AI educator, and founder of highMpact, a software platform built for coaches and speakers. She holds a Master of Science in Organizational Leadership with a specialization in Strategic Change Management and serves on the Arizona AI Council.

With a background in operations management and executive leadership, Kalyca helps coaches, speakers, and other impact-driven entrepreneurs create efficient systems that support sustainable business growth. Her approach emphasizes using AI to reduce repetitive work while preserving the creativity, relationships, and personal connection at the heart of service-based businesses.

Inspired by her own transformational coaching experience, Kalyca is passionate about helping coaches increase their impact without burning themselves out.

Show Highlights

• Why AI should support, not replace, the human side of coaching.
• How AI tools have evolved from answering questions to learning about a business and completing tasks on a schedule
• How working with a coach during a difficult season changed Kalyca's life and inspired her commitment to serving coaches
• What an AI team could look like in your business. Discover examples of AI employees, including a virtual chief of staff, a PR agent, and a content research assistant.
• Find the hidden inefficiencies in your business. Learn how AI-assisted analysis can identify unnecessary expenses, underused subscriptions, and opportunities to improve operations.
• Increase capacity without increasing burnout.
• Make content creation easier and more authentic. Explore how AI can research relevant topics and, with client consent, identify valuable insights from conversations that can inspire future content.
• Conduct an audit of your time and energy. Identify tasks you avoid, responsibilities that drain you, and the activities that keep you from focusing on your strengths.
• Take the first step without becoming a technology expert. Experimentation, repetition, and a willingness to begin matter more than mastering every AI tool before you start.

Resources

Connect with Kalyca!

• Website
• Free Gift for listeners! Kalyca's AI Leverage Kit - A free resource featuring five AI skills and examples of AI employees, along with prompts to help you begin building your own AI team.
• highMpact - Learn more about Kalyca's software platform and AI resources for coaches and speakers.
• Connect with Kalyca on Instagram - @kalycajinzarich
• Connect with Kalyca on LinkedIn.

Connect with Meg!

• Mentor Coaching with Meg — Strengthen your coaching skills and continue your professional development.
• STaR Coach Community — Connect with fellow coaches, access additional learning opportunities, and explore Meg's exclusive Pearl of Wisdom conversation with Kalyca.
• STaR Coach Show Website — Explore previous episodes, coaching resources, and opportunities to grow your coaching practice.

Ten years. More than 500 episodes. Countless conversations, connections, and growth opportunities. What does it take to build something meaningful that lasts? And what can ten years of podcasting teach us about building a successful coaching business?

As the STaR Coach Show celebrates its 10th anniversary, Meg Rentschler reflects on the journey that began on October 16, 2016. What began as a desire to strengthen coaching skills and build an intentional community has grown into a globally recognized podcast that reaches coaches and leaders worldwide.

In this special solo episode, Meg shares five powerful lessons learned from a decade of consistently showing up, building relationships, navigating challenges, and staying committed to her purpose. These aren't simply lessons about podcasting. They are lessons about creating a sustainable coaching practice, developing meaningful programs, building a community, and bringing your vision to life.

You'll discover why staying in your zone of genius is essential, how a clearly defined purpose helps you make better decisions, and why consistency is about building trust rather than working harder. Meg also explores the value of listening to your audience for content inspiration and the importance of confidently sharing your work with the people who need it.

Throughout the episode, Meg offers practical exercises and reflective questions to help you apply each lesson to something you're currently building. Whether you're launching a coaching practice, creating a new program, writing a book, or expanding your visibility, these insights will help you move forward with greater clarity and intention.

Join Meg for this milestone celebration and discover how small, intentional actions can create an extraordinary impact over time.

Show Highlights

• Stay in your genius and hand off the rest. Learn why delegating tasks outside your strengths protects your energy, restores momentum, and frees you to focus on the work only you can do.
• Know your why and let it filter everything. Learn how a clear purpose and three guiding pillars can help you evaluate opportunities, make confident decisions, and stay aligned with your mission.
• Consistency is a promise. Understand how sustainable rhythms, supportive systems, and planned rest help you build lasting trust with your audience and clients.
• Let real life write your content. Find inspiration in the questions, conversations, and challenges your clients and community bring to you.
• Don't be your best-kept secret. Explore why visibility requires intentional communication and how to make it easier for others to understand, discover, and share your work.
• The hidden cost of doing everything yourself. Consider how tasks that drain your energy can become obstacles to launching the projects that matter most.
• Build a business that can withstand difficult seasons. Create buffers, templates, and systems that support your commitments when life becomes unpredictable.
• Turn audience questions into meaningful content. Use your clients' actual language to create resources that address their needs and connect with the people you want to serve.
• From podcast to coaching community. Hear how Meg's original vision of creating a home for coaches evolved into the STaR Coach Community, where learning, connection, and professional growth continue beyond each episode.

A Key Takeaway for Coaches

You don't have to do everything, have every answer, or build your vision overnight. Meaningful success comes from knowing your purpose, focusing on your strengths, showing up consistently, listening to the people you serve, and being willing to share your work.

Think about one project you've been wanting to bring to life. Which of these five lessons would make the greatest difference right now? Choose one and take a single step forward this week.

Remember: You cannot be a secret and a success at the same time.

Resources

• STaR Coach Community — Connect with fellow coaches, deepen your learning, and continue the conversations beyond the podcast.
• Mentor Coaching with Meg — Explore opportunities to strengthen your coaching skills and grow professionally.
• STaR Coach Show Website — Explore previous episodes and resources for your coaching journey.

Episodes mentioned:

• Episode 514 — Coaching A to Z with Dr. Haesun Moon
• Episode 477 — Artful Interruption
• Episode 469 — Get Out of Coach Speak and Speak Your Client's Language
• Episode 372 — Using AI as an Asset
• Episode 352 — Responding to an RFP

Celebrate ten years with Meg!

Which STaR Coach Show episode has made the greatest impact on your coaching journey? Meg would love to hear from you. Share your favorite episode and how it helped you grow.

Here's to ten years of learning, connection, and growth—and to everything still ahead!

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What if the most powerful coaching tool isn't the next question you ask, but the words you choose to use?

As we celebrate the 10th anniversary of the STaR Coach Show, I'm delighted to welcome Dr. Haesun Moon, a communication scientist, educator, author, and executive director of the Canadian Center for Brief Coaching. Her research on coaching conversations shows how ordinary words can create extraordinary shifts, helping clients discover new possibilities while honoring their experiences and perspectives.

Dr. Moon is the author of Coaching A to Z: The Extraordinary Use of Ordinary Words and the creator of the Dialogic Orientation Quadrant, a research-informed framework that helps coaches recognize where clients are directing their attention and how to invite conversations toward purpose, possibility, and progress.

In today's conversation, we explore what it really means to curate a client's story, rather than simply asking questions, offering interpretations, or searching for problems to solve. Dr. Moon challenges familiar coaching habits, including the tendency to explore negative experiences, substitute our own language for a client's words, and rely on questions when acknowledgment might be far more useful.

You'll learn how the Dialogic Orientation Quadrant helps coaches distinguish what clients want and don't want, acknowledge difficult emotions without unnecessarily exploring them, and understand why the exact words clients choose matter so much. We also discuss the evolving role of coaches in an AI-driven world, where access to information is expanding but meaningful human connection remains essential.

Whether you're a new coach or a seasoned practitioner, this episode offers practical insights to help you listen more intentionally, strengthen your coaching partnerships, and recognize the possibilities already present in your clients' stories.

About Dr. Haesun Moon

Dr. Haesun Moon is a communication scientist, educator, author, and executive director of the Canadian Center for Brief Coaching. Her research on coaching dialogue at the University of Toronto led to the development of the Dialogic Orientation Quadrant, a framework that helps coaches and educators understand how language influences conversations and possibilities for change.

She is the author of Coaching A to Z: The Extraordinary Use of Ordinary Words, which explores how intentional word choices can transform everyday conversations. Through her research, teaching, and speaking, Dr. Moon encourages practitioners to listen more carefully to the language people use and the stories they create about themselves.

Show Highlights:

• Why coaching is about curating stories of purpose, possibility, and progress rather than simply asking questions or solving problems
• How curiosity, care, and intentional language help coaches create more meaningful conversations
• How Dr. Moon's research led to the development of the Dialogic Orientation Quadrant and its four areas of attention
• Why coaches should use their clients' actual words rather than replace them with interpretations or assumptions
• The difference between acknowledging difficult experiences and exploring them—and why that distinction matters
• How to recognize what clients cherish and value beneath their fears, frustrations, and struggles
• Why formulations and thoughtful reflections can be more useful than repeatedly asking questions
• How insufficient acknowledgment can lead clients to repeat their concerns and remain focused on problems
• How artificial intelligence is changing access to knowledge and why human curiosity and care remain essential to coaching
• The one question Dr. Moon encourages every coach to ask themselves throughout a coaching conversation

Resources:

Connect with Dr. Haesun Moon:

Coaching A to Z: The Extraordinary Use of Ordinary Words

https://www.coachingatoz.com/

Watch the YouTube presentation about the origins of the Dialogic Orientation Quadrant:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16yYtpEfBoQ&t=2s

Canadian Center for Brief Coaching:

https://briefcoaching.ca/

Connect with Meg:

Explore our mentor program! Click here for more information!

Learn more about the STaR Coach Community, including exclusive content from this episode. We would love for you to join us!

Explore past episodes and other resources at www.STaRcoachshow.com.

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What if your client’s resistance isn’t something to overcome—but valuable information about what they need in order to move forward?

As coaches, it can be frustrating when a client says they want change, then suddenly pulls back just as real transformation is within reach. In today’s conversation, Meg sits down with Travis Hahler, author of Rethink Resistance: Embracing Neuroscience to Lead Transformational Change, to explore what is really happening beneath that resistance. Instead of pushing harder, Travis encourages coaches to get curious.

Drawing on neuroscience and more than 15 years of guiding organizations through change, Travis explains six neurological barriers that can cause people to resist—even when they genuinely want the outcome on the other side. You’ll learn why high performers can be especially resistant to change, why every change involves some form of loss, and how curiosity, empathy, inclusion, transparency, and trust can help clients move forward.

Most importantly, Travis gives coaches a new lens for those moments when a client seems stuck: Rather than asking, “Why won’t they do this?” begin asking, “What is this resistance trying to tell me?”

About Travis Hahler

Travis Hahler is the author of Rethink Resistance: Embracing Neuroscience to Lead Transformational Change. His unique background includes conducting EEG research in Denmark, studying neuropsychology at Harvard, earning an MBA, and leading transformational work with major organizations including Google and Salesforce.

Over the past 15 years, Travis has guided more than 100 companies through change efforts, earning him the nickname “The Resistance Fortune Teller” for his ability to identify where transformation is likely to stall. His work reframes resistance not as a problem to eliminate, but as information that helps leaders and coaches better understand what people need to navigate change successfully.

Show Highlights:

• Why fighting resistance can create an “us versus them” dynamic—and why curiosity is a more effective response
• How coaches can avoid taking a client’s resistance personally or allowing their own ego to enter the coaching conversation
• The connection between curiosity, understanding, empathy, and meaningful change
• Why even positive, desired change involves loss—and why acknowledging that loss matters
• Why high performers may experience more resistance to change because their established routines have contributed to their success
• The importance of allowing time for learning, practice, integration, and rest when developing new behaviors
• The difference between natural resistance and intentionally choosing to resist change
• Travis’s six neurological barriers to change and how they can help coaches identify what may be keeping a client stuck
• How routines, energy demands, exclusion, ambiguity, anxiety, and loss can influence a person’s ability to move forward
• Why inclusion and opportunities for feedback can reduce resistance and create greater ownership
• How frequent, transparent communication helps reduce ambiguity and build trust
• Why anxiety and overwhelm can make change especially difficult—and how modeling can help people see that change is safe
• How understanding an individual’s specific resistance triggers can strengthen connection, psychological safety, and organizational culture
• Why coaches should replace “Why aren’t you doing it?” with deeper, more curious questions that uncover what is happening beneath the resistance
• How Travis’s six-barrier framework can become a practical checklist when a client wants change but struggles to take action

A Key Takeaway for Coaches

Resistance doesn’t automatically mean that your client is unmotivated, unwilling, or not ready for coaching. It may be a signal that a routine feels safer, the learning curve is consuming too much energy, the client feels excluded, the path ahead is too ambiguous, anxiety is taking over, or the change represents a loss they haven’t yet acknowledged.

Rather than pushing, parenting, or shaming a client into action, get curious. Identifying the barrier beneath the resistance can open the door to deeper questions that help your client move forward.

Resources:

Connect with Travis Hahler:

Visit Travis Hahler’s website

Connect with Travis Hahler on LinkedIn

Learn more about Rethink Resistance: Embracing Neuroscience to Lead Transformational Change

Connect with Meg:

Explore our mentor program! Now enrolling for Fall 2026! Click here for more information!

Learn more about the STaR Coach Community. We would love for you to join us!

Explore past episodes and other resources at www.STaRcoachshow.com.

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From Secret to Sensation Free Masterclass

Are you a talented coach who still feels like the best-kept secret in the room? Join Meg Rentschler for her free live masterclass, From Secret to Sensation. In just 60 minutes, you’ll discover why great coaches can struggle to grow their businesses, how to create messaging that attracts the right people, and why trying to do it all alone may be keeping you stuck.

If you’ve spent months building the curiosity muscle, how do you answer when asked, “So, what do you do?” The quiet skills that make you a great coach can work against you when it comes to marketing. Meg Rentschler shares a candid confession about her early years as a coach, when she found herself rambling, hedging, and accidentally coaching people at dinner parties. She introduces the “two rooms” of a coaching career and explains the main struggle that new coaches face. You’ll discover that what looks like a confidence problem is usually a clarity problem, and you’ll learn a doable exercise to use right now. Join us!

Show Highlights:

• Meg’s confession about her early years of coaching
• What successful marketing requires
• The two rooms: your coaching room and your marketing room (We can’t bring “room-one” furniture into “room-two.”)
• Building the curiosity muscle can seem like more of a struggle than building the business-building muscle.
• What I KNOW to be true about business building
• It’s NOT a confidence problem; it’s a clarity problem! (The wrong skillset in the wrong room makes it seem like we aren’t “cut out” for this profession.)
• One small, doable step to take right now: Try this exercise. Finish this sentence: “Here’s something I know to be true about the people I work with . . .” (State the belief plainly, without “coach speak.”)
• The facts: Curiosity makes a better leader than expertise. Presence beats performance, every time.
• Your assignment from Meg: Pick one belief you know to be true about the people you serve, say it aloud, and write it down. Say it once publicly this week in some capacity.

Resources:

Links mentioned in this episode:

“What’s Your Value Proposition?” https://www.starcoachshow.com/336

Moira Lethbridge’s interview in Episode 509 - https://www.starcoachshow.com/509

Connect with Meg

Learn more about the STaR Coach Community. We would love for you to join us!

Explore past episodes and other resources at www.STaRcoachshow.com.

Mentioned in this episode:

From Secret to Sensation Free Masterclass

Are you a talented coach who still feels like the best-kept secret in the room? Join Meg Rentschler for her free live masterclass, From Secret to Sensation. In just 60 minutes, you’ll discover why great coaches can struggle to grow their businesses, how to create messaging that attracts the right people, and why trying to do it all alone may be keeping you stuck.

Today’s guest shares his journey into “fixer” coaching, which later developed into ICF-style curiosity-based coaching. This switch transformed his approach and the performance of Team USA’s Olympic swim coaches as he prepares them for the highest levels of international competition. Our conversation moves from the mechanics of high performance under pressure to the vulnerability of unlearning the “I know what you don’t know” mentality. We land on a message every coach, sports or otherwise, needs to hear: knowing yourself is the prerequisite to building a high-performing team around you. This is a rich conversation about ego, identity, and staying curious, even when you are the most accomplished person in the room. Join us!

Brendan Hansen is a six-time USA Olympic medalist and 2008 gold medalist in Beijing. This highly decorated competitive swimmer has transitioned into a new career as an executive/leadership coach. Since retiring from competitive swimming at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, Brendan has worked with startups, long-standing businesses, and nonprofit organizations. He currently serves as Director of the National Junior Team at USA Swimming, developing the pipeline of athletes and coaches to compete in the 2028 and 2032 Olympics.

Show Highlights:

• Brendan’s journey: from being a competitive swimmer with Olympic gold medal success to a leadership coach
• Brendan’s biggest lesson learned from his journey: “Being comfortable is the worst drug on the planet.”
• “Coaching” in the swimming world is very different from what Brendan does today because he was accustomed to being the “fixer.” (Let go of your “fixer” mindset!)
• Shifting to a mindset that says, “I don’t have to know the answer.”
• The #1 question Brendan gets asked: “How do I create an environment for a high-performing team?”
• The key to creating a high-performing team is knowing who YOU are as a coach.
• Want to challenge yourself as a coach? Keep showing up in the spaces where you are NOT an expert.
• What’s next for Brendan?
• The power of the word WAIT (“Why Am I Talking?”)
• The value in keeping a curious mindset

Resources:

Connect with Brendan Hansen: Website

Connect with Meg:

Explore our mentor program! Now enrolling for Fall 2026! Click here for more information!

Learn more about the STaR Coach Community. We would love for you to join us!

Explore past episodes and other resources at www.STaRcoachshow.com.

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Mentor Program

If you're working toward your ACC or PCC credential, or if it's time to recertify your ACC mentor, coaching isn't just a requirement on a checklist. It's one of the most transformative investments you can make in yourself and your coaching. I've taught or mentored over 2000 coaches, and I hear the same thing again and again. I came because I had to, and I am so glad that I did. Coaches tell me they walk away with renewed energy, deeper confidence and a community of peers who genuinely support each other. Here's what you need to know right now. Mentor coaching must span a minimum of three months, so the time to start is not when your credential is just about to expire. And if you complete your hours in 2026, you get ahead of the upcoming ICF changes, which means peace of mind along with skill development. My fall cohort is already filling up. Every group is capped at ten.

Today’s episode explores a backdoor path to visibility that most coaches overlook. We explore backlinks, guest blogging, and directory listings as low-lift ways to build credibility and domain authority. Our expert guest, a self-styled “joyologist,” helps us reframe the core purpose of marketing: coaches aren’t pitching themselves; they are pitching the coaching profession. Ready to build your “constellation” with a fresh marketing mindset? Join us to learn more!

Christine Kutnick, PCC, is a speaker and certified professional coach focused on joy. She founded Coach LinkUp, an ecosystem that connects people to values-driven coaches. Before becoming a coach, she spent over 25 years in nonprofit leadership, fighting for equity in education and healthcare. After years of pouring everything into work and parenting, she realized she had lost sight of herself. With her youngest child off to college and a suitcase packed for Europe, Christine and her husband quit their careers and set off on a journey–one that led her back to a forgotten mission statement: To be a “change agent for joy, harmony, and inner peace.” Today, she helps others reconnect with that same spark. Christine now works with clients, aka “Joyriders,” who are navigating midlife reinvention, career change, and burnout. Her approach is both playful and profound, helping people ditch the stuckness and step into joy. She lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband and is the proud mom of two bold, thriving adult kids.

Show Highlights:

● Christine’s big leap: a massive career transformation (for her husband, too!)

● Turning a personal tragedy into a new mission and purpose

● The journey to create Coach LinkUp

● Helping coaches who feel like marketing takes ALL their time and energy

● A mission to educate the public about coaching and what it offers

● What Coach LinkUp can offer to invite people into the world of coaching

● Being messy and authentic makes you relatable.

● Maximizing a website or social media platform by using backlinks (Think “constellation.”)

● Christine’s best tips for getting started in establishing backlinks: guest blogs, client referrals, get listed on directories, link to prior content in your profile, etc.

● Change your mindset around marketing.

Resources:

Connect with Christine Kutnick: Website, Website for Coaches, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Christine’s FREE Giveaway.

Connect with Meg:

Explore our mentor program! Now enrolling for Fall 2026! Click here for more information!

Learn more about the STaR Coach Community. We would love for you to join us!

Explore past episodes and other resources at www.STaRcoachshow.com.

Mentioned in this episode:

Mentor Program

If you're working toward your ACC or PCC credential, or if it's time to recertify your ACC mentor, coaching isn't just a requirement on a checklist. It's one of the most transformative investments you can make in yourself and your coaching. I've taught or mentored over 2000 coaches, and I hear the same thing again and again. I came because I had to, and I am so glad that I did. Coaches tell me they walk away with renewed energy, deeper confidence and a community of peers who genuinely support each other. Here's what you need to know right now. Mentor coaching must span a minimum of three months, so the time to start is not when your credential is just about to expire. And if you complete your hours in 2026, you get ahead of the upcoming ICF changes, which means peace of mind along with skill development. My fall cohort is already filling up. Every group is capped at ten.

Today’s guest has focused her life’s work on closing the leadership gap for women. She spent years as a CEO in the corporate world, always trying to make herself fade into the background instead of letting herself shine. She shares what it took to overcome a multitude of limiting beliefs and how she finally realized that her methodology works—100% of the time. She shares a real-client example of applying her approach to flip the script and reap the results. You’ll also learn how she turned client testimonials into a mantra that keeps her going, even when life gets challenging. Join us to learn more!

Moira Lethbridge is a speaker, executive and leadership coach, and the creator of The Female Advantage, a unique leadership approach. She is the author of Savvy Woman: Make Time for a Life That Matters and The Gift of Receiving. Moira serves as adjunct faculty at the University of Richmond and is the principal and owner of Lethbridge & Associates. As a former president and CEO, she draws on 25 years of organizational experience and success to help individuals and companies boost productivity and improve performance. She works with business owners, executives, and individuals to help them grow their business, do more of what they enjoy, and balance health, well-being, and achievement.

Show Highlights:

• Moira’s experience: Being a stuck CEO who learned that the same behaviors (from men and women) result in very different outcomes.
• Listening to “the voice in the room” and learning that “to be successful, I had to be less.”
• Developing The Female Advantage
• Turning client testimonials into a useful mantra
• Finding the courage to “claim your lane”
• Moira’s revolutionary discovery: “My framework works 100% of the time.”
• It’s okay for revenue numbers to confirm and validate the work you do.
• Moira’s advice to leaders about having and showing courage
• What’s next? Moira shares her exciting next steps.
• Moira’s key takeaway for leaders: “You are magnificent.”

Resources:

Connect with Moira Lethbridge: Website, LinkedIn, and Stuck or Overextended? Resource

Connect with Meg:

Explore our mentor program! Now enrolling for Fall 2026! Click here for more information!

Learn more about the STaR Coach Community. We would love for you to join us!

Explore past episodes and other resources at www.STaRcoachshow.com.

Mentioned in this episode:

Mentor Program

If you're working toward your ACC or PCC credential, or if it's time to recertify your ACC mentor, coaching isn't just a requirement on a checklist. It's one of the most transformative investments you can make in yourself and your coaching. I've taught or mentored over 2000 coaches, and I hear the same thing again and again. I came because I had to, and I am so glad that I did. Coaches tell me they walk away with renewed energy, deeper confidence and a community of peers who genuinely support each other. Here's what you need to know right now. Mentor coaching must span a minimum of three months, so the time to start is not when your credential is just about to expire. And if you complete your hours in 2026, you get ahead of the upcoming ICF changes, which means peace of mind along with skill development. My fall cohort is already filling up. Every group is capped at ten.

What guidelines should coaches follow in using (and not using) AI? AI is here to stay, and we have to adjust. Coaches who niche down to one specialty become replaceable, while those who bring their full constellation of experience become irreplaceable. In this episode, you’ll learn three waves of AI use for coaches, along with the practical AI tools she has created to perform specific tasks on her team. You’ll learn about the new app that came from her personal history of childhood trafficking and coercive control. Join us to learn more!

Dr. Lisa Turner is the founder of CET Freedom and the creator of a suite of AI tools that help coaches and practitioners make the invisible visible. A Ph.D. engineer in mathematical modeling who transitioned into a consciousness and transformation specialist, she has spent over 20 years training coaches and practitioners. She builds AI that augments their work rather than replacing it. Her TEDx talk, "How AI Can Free Us From Invisible Control,” grew out of her experience of coercive control and her conviction that there is always an algorithm underneath human patterns, if you know how to find it. Known as the “Rational Mystic” for bridging engineering precision and deep inner work, she was recently named number 10 in TechRound’s Top 50 Women in Tech and Startups. As the author of five books, she helps coaches hear what their clients aren’t saying and shows clients the patterns they can’t yet see for themselves.

Show Highlights:

• Understanding the “Venn Diagram of You” (There may not be another person with the same “circles” of expertise as you. You are irreplaceable. Don’t niche down; niche OUT.)
• The big question: “Do your clients think they can replace you, their coach, with AI?”
• The 3 waves of AI: content creation, agentic AI, and pattern-revealing AI
• How coaches can use AI tools to better the client experience.
• The difference between “made by AI” and “made with AI”
• Try Lisa’s tool, BeliefScan, for free analysis of your sales conversations. (See Resources.)
• “Sometimes, what looks like an affordability issue is really a worthiness issue.”
• An overview of agentic AI in action: Lisa’s custom AI tools that serve as Lisa’s 14 team members
• Patterns: They are almost impossible to see from within; we have to step out to see them.
• Four core components of every powerful change: linguistic, somatic, energetic, and trans-personal (another YOU in the future)
• Lisa’s new app, Validate, identifies coercive behavior. She needs your help!

Resources:

Connect with Dr. Lisa Turner: Website and a FREE gift, the BeliefScan (Use discount code FREEBELIEF for a 100% discount!)

Connect with Meg:

Explore our mentor program! Now enrolling for Fall 2026! Click here for more information!

Learn more about the STaR Coach Community. We would love for you to join us!

Explore past episodes and other resources at www.STaRcoachshow.com.

Mentioned in this episode:

Mentor Program

If you're working toward your ACC or PCC credential, or if it's time to recertify your ACC mentor, coaching isn't just a requirement on a checklist. It's one of the most transformative investments you can make in yourself and your coaching. I've taught or mentored over 2000 coaches, and I hear the same thing again and again. I came because I had to, and I am so glad that I did. Coaches tell me they walk away with renewed energy, deeper confidence and a community of peers who genuinely support each other. Here's what you need to know right now. Mentor coaching must span a minimum of three months, so the time to start is not when your credential is just about to expire. And if you complete your hours in 2026, you get ahead of the upcoming ICF changes, which means peace of mind along with skill development. My fall cohort is already filling up. Every group is capped at ten.

Today, host Meg Rentschler dives into the idea of “the thing beneath the thing,” those deeper beliefs and stories that are really driving our clients’ surface-level issues. Meg talks about some common traps coaches can fall into, like jumping too quickly into action steps, assuming “I don’t know” means a client is being resistant, or relying too much on spotting patterns. She also shares some down-to-earth tips for slowing things down, asking questions that are easier for clients to answer, and staying genuinely curious. Tune in to hear Meg’s main point about real, lasting change for clients not coming from just fixing the problems they bring to the table, and helping them discover and explore the stories and beliefs that are really at play underneath it all.

Show Highlights:

• What I mean by “the thing beneath the thing”: The belief or self-story generating why the problem feels the way it does
• Content vs. meaning-making (“Depth before Doing”)
• The trap of moving to action too fast (It produces compliance, not durable change.)
• Reasons coaches rush to action
• “I don’t know” is rarely a dead end.
• Meet “Dana,” a hypothetical client (the key is to meet her where she is).
• Six practical moves for going deeper and expanding the lens: Ask about the story, ask what it means about them, name the energy shift, ask where the belief came from, slow down what they try to skip past, and resist the urge to solve too soon.
• Focus on belief and pattern work, not clinical trauma processing.
• The curiosity muscle vs. the knowing muscle framework

Resources:

Connect with Meg

Explore our mentor program! Now enrolling for Fall 2026! Click here for more information!

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Mentor Program

If you're working toward your ACC or PCC credential, or if it's time to recertify your ACC mentor, coaching isn't just a requirement on a checklist. It's one of the most transformative investments you can make in yourself and your coaching. I've taught or mentored over 2000 coaches, and I hear the same thing again and again. I came because I had to, and I am so glad that I did. Coaches tell me they walk away with renewed energy, deeper confidence and a community of peers who genuinely support each other. Here's what you need to know right now. Mentor coaching must span a minimum of three months, so the time to start is not when your credential is just about to expire. And if you complete your hours in 2026, you get ahead of the upcoming ICF changes, which means peace of mind along with skill development. My fall cohort is already filling up. Every group is capped at ten.