How do coaches become clear about exactly who they want to coach? While that clarity might come easily for some in our profession, I know that many coaches struggle greatly to figure this out. My guest today found her coaching sweet spot, and she’s sharing helpful information that you can use in your quest to niche down. Join us to learn more!

Sarah Kenny is a certified coach, mentor, and positive role model for adolescent girls. She believes that self-empowered girls will change the world, and her mission is to create a more just, equitable society by helping them develop critical life and leadership skills, especially the ones they don’t learn in school. Sarah helps girls navigate the challenges of adolescence while developing higher self-esteem, confidence, and courage so they can thrive as young women and transform into impactful leaders. Based in Austin, Texas, Sarah has her master’s degree in Gender Studies and is an Accredited Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation. She is an avid yogi, the mama of two fur babies, and a diehard Parks & Rec fan. 

Show Highlights:

• Sarah’s long and winding journey to the work she does today and the Aha moment that led her to the perfect niche
• The most common areas in which Sarah coaches her young clients
• How Sarah works with her clients around emotions, relationships, and the anxiety that comes from people-pleasing
• The challenges inherent in the niche of coaching adolescent girls
• Why Sarah begins with an inquiry call with the girls’ parents first
• How it pays off to become known for your niche (the differentiators are what draws people to us)
• Sarah’s advice to those who want to find their niche
• Why Sarah views her coaching work as a vehicle that is a small part of a bigger, global mission to empower young girls and bring positive change

Resources:

Connect with Sarah: Website, Facebook, Instagram

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Today’s topic is one that comes up often. How do we approach coaching with the client who didn’t ask to be coached? We are taking a close look at the coaching relationship with someone who has volunteered or feels like they’ve been “sentenced” into coaching. There are some unique considerations in setting up this kind of partnership. Let’s talk about it.

Show Highlights:

• What might lead someone into coaching who didn’t ask for it themselves
• Why this could be a low-trust or uncertain situation for the client
• How the coach can find out what the organization’s expectations are for this kind of coaching relationship
• Why guidelines have to be established about confidentiality and communication
• How I like to start off, in the beginning, to set the client up for success
• How to be clear about what the coaching process requires from the client
• How to revisit the coaching agreement if they don’t show up or want to pull out of the program
• How I have noticed an overall lack of trust as a major issue with these clients
• An example of how I set up structured coaching around a resource with success
• How to handle those who simply don’t want to be coached
• Why it is always important to find out what the motivation is for a client to be coached

Resources:

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The Speed of Trust by Stephen M. R. Covey

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Today’s show covers a critical skill set for all coaches. An important part of our work involves engaging with people when they are in a state of crisis. For our clients, there are various reasons that their emotions and responses might escalate during these times, and the very best coaches learn how to meet people in their pain. Join us to learn more from the discussion!

Ken Jenkins is a professional emergency manager with extensive experience in planning, logistics, training, deployment, response, and after-action analysis in aviation disasters. He has been involved in the aftermath of 9/11 events, along with many other catastrophic events. He has provided strong leadership for over 30 years in the transportation disaster sector. His work has enabled him to use his collaborative skills under conditions of high stress, and, in becoming a coach, he knows how these skills relate to the coaching profession. He is a coach, trainer, and author, as well as the owner and president of his own emergency response company. His book is Resilience: Stories of Courage and Survival in Aviation Disasters. In today’s episode, Ken shares specific strategies that will be useful in your toolbox to appropriately and successfully engage with clients in crisis. 

Show Highlights:

• What brought Ken into trauma work early in his career
• Why Ken wrote his book, Resilience, which focuses on his experience in eight aviation disasters with fatalities
• Why Ken decided to add coaching to his skillset and become a certified coach
• How showing up for people in the aftermath of a disaster is how we should approach people in need every single day—with deep empathy and compassion
• How Ken learned to engage with people through tough, emotional conversations by building rapport, trust, and safety
• How Ken learned to lessen the internal and external noise that people are experiencing
• The importance of preparation and presence in a situation where someone is wounded and grieving
• How open-ended questions help someone focus on the question instead of the emotion they feel
• How to best engage productively with someone who shows anger
• What it means to validate someone’s feelings
• Why crisis communication is everyday communication

Resources:

Connect with Ken: Website, Facebook, and Twitter, LinkedIn

Find Ken’s book: Resilience: Stories of Courage and Survival in Aviation Disasters

Join the STaR Coach Community:  www.STaRcoachshow.com/register/.  

To join the Fall Mentor Program with Meg, visit www.starcoachshow.com/mentor. 

Visit my website for your FREE download: What I Know Now, That I Wish I Had Known When I First Started Coaching. 

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Today’s show covers key elements to help you thrive and soar to new heights as a business owner. If you are stuck in the struggle and wondering what you can do to turn things around and excel in achieving your goals, THIS is the show for you. Join us to hear more from today’s expert guest!

Hilmon Sorey is the co-founder of the CoachCRM sales coaching software platform and co-founder of ClozeLoop, a sales strategy training and enablement firm with offices around the world. He is also a partner in a seed-stage venture capital firm and the author of eight top-selling books on sales, sales management, and coaching. Throughout his career, he has helped build teams in companies ranging from early-stage startups to established companies like Salesforce, Box, and Survey Monkey. He is an award-winning trainer of over 15,000 salespeople and over 5,000 executives. Hilmon is a sought-after speaker around the globe, and I’m honored that he took the time to be on the show during his recent vacation in Milan. 

Show Highlights:

• What lights Hilmon up about the work he does today
• The four S’s for business success:
• Strategies–This is what you are doing in the marketplace, including awareness of direct and indirect competition.
• Systems–This includes the repeatable processes that allow you to deliver your offerings, but some type of feedback is crucial.
• Staff–To have the right people requires clarity and a competency model, whether those are employees, contractors, virtual assistants, etc. 
• Skills–We have to be honest in our evaluation of our skills and look for opportunities for growth. 
• Why you have to look at each category in light of the gap between where we are today and where we would like to be
• Why the implementation of the four S’s has to be an ongoing endeavor–and actually become part of your business–in order to have business success

Resources:

Connect with Hilmon Sorey: LinkedIn, Facebook (ClozeLoop), and Website

Join the STaR Coach Community:  www.STaRcoachshow.com/register/.  

 To join the Fall Mentor Program with Meg, visit www.starcoachshow.com/mentor. 

Visit my website for your FREE download: What I Know Now, That I Wish I Had Known When I First Started Coaching. 

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Today’s guest is sharing her perspective on diversity, equity, and inclusion. We will learn what we should consider to get it right in the coaching space and show up in partnership with our clients. Join us to learn more!

Deborah Harris is a certified personal and executive coach with an extensive background in leadership development, management, education, and training. Her work is focused in the diversity, equity, and inclusion space, and she is the perfect person to help us learn more. This is a wonderful interview that I’m very excited to share with you.

Show Highlights:

• How Deborah came into the work she does today
• What coaches should be aware of regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)
• Why it’s important to have a sense of belonging and connection in the coach/client relationship
• How DEI issues for coaches are not the same everywhere else in the world
• What Deborah advises about eliminating unconscious bias
• How to consider your “invisible suitcase” regarding how we judge and categorize others
• How to be reflective, aware, curious, and considerate of other perspectives
• Why coaches should allow the client to set the expectation regarding working with a person of another race/ethnicity
• How listening can be the best tool for coaches to pick up on clients’ cues about DEI
• What’s important for organizations to consider regarding DEI
• Why coaches should educate themselves about DEI in intentional ways

Resources:

Connect with Deborah:  LinkedIn

To celebrate our recent 300th episode, I held a FREE Masterclass series, The 6 C’s to Your Coaching Master Plan. You can catch it until August 18 at www.STaRcoachshow.com/register/. 

Join the STaR Coach Community:  www.STaRcoachshow.com/register/.  

 To join the Fall Mentor Program with Meg, visit www.starcoachshow.com/mentor. 

Visit my website for your FREE download: What I Know Now, That I Wish I Had Known When I First Started Coaching.

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Welcome to our 300th episode!! I’m so excited to celebrate this milestone, and I’m appreciative of every single step that brought me to this point. To mark this special moment in time, we are doing something very different: my coach, Rick Tamlyn, is turning the tables to interview me. Join us to see how this conversation unfolds!

Show Highlights:

• What it feels like to reach 300 episodes of the STaR Coach Show
• What it means to “receive” one’s impact
• A glimpse into the origin story for the STaR Coach Show
• How to find consistency and the motivation to keep going
• Meg’s perspective about the shadow and light moments of putting out the podcast weekly
• How Meg will celebrate this milestone with an upcoming rebranding in October
• What’s next for Meg and the STaR Coach Show
• A brief overview of the upcoming STaR Coach Show membership site
• Where Meg’s inspiration and positivity come from
• What Meg envisions if there were to be a 1000th episode
• Parting words from Meg about the beauty of coaching

Resources:

Join the STaR Coach Masterclass: The 6 C’s of Your Coaching Masterplan: www.starcoachshow.com/register/  

 To join the Fall Mentor Program with Meg, visit www.starcoachshow.com/mentor. 

Visit my website for your FREE download: What I Know Now, That I Wish I Had Known When I First Started Coaching.

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We all know that part of having a successful business is selling, but most of us cringe at the sound of the word “sales.” Today’s show will teach you how to embrace the reality of selling, including getting past the mindset issues that some of us have around selling ourselves and our services. Come join the conversation to learn more from today’s expert guest!

Catherine Brown is the author of How Good Humans Sell: The Proven Path to B2B Sales Success. As a veteran of 25+ years of B2B (business to business) selling, she understands what it means to build a business during challenging times. She launched her first sales consulting firm in 2003, and now runs the sales training firm, Extra Bold Sales, where she coaches others to sell with confidence. Her sales system includes psychology research that gets to the heart of why people don’t sell effectively, and she trains on the reasons people buy. With honesty and transparency, Catherine shares insights about her sales process that take the frustration and worry out of business development, along with how we can apply our coaching methods to our sales.  

Show Highlights:

• How Catherine came to the work she does today
• Why Catherine wants to help people overcome negative stereotypes about selling to get what they want in their businesses
• How to use “notice and naming” to choose what to believe instead of making up stories
• Catherine’s advice about how to reconnect with someone without using “just following up” and “just checking in” phraseology
• Why you want the prospective client to see you as a connector to resources and assets
• Why we need to have a growth mindset vs. a fixed mindset
• How we need different motivators for different domains in our lives
• How to have money conversations and make proposals with clients
• How to ask the right questions to go to a deeper level about what you sell

Resources:

Connect with Catherine:  www.extraboldsales.com or www.howgoodhumanssell.com

Catherine’s book:  How Good Humans Sell

To celebrate our upcoming 300th episode, I’m offering a FREE Masterclass series, The 6 C’s to Your Coaching Master Plan. Register at www.STaRcoachregister.com.  

To join the Fall Mentor Program with Meg, visit www.starcoachshow.com/mentor. 

Visit my website for your FREE download: What I Know Now, That I Wish I Had Known When I First Started Coaching. 

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Leadership is everything! We are taking a closer look at the importance of leadership and how coaching and leadership partner together in transformation. Our focus is on the roles that inquiry and feedback play in transformational leadership. 

Dr. William Torbert is a Leadership Professor Emeritus at Boston College. He has spent his career leading, consulting, teaching, and researching. In addition to consulting dozens of companies, not-for-profits, and governmental agencies, Bill has served on numerous boards. Since his retirement from academia in 2008, he continues his leadership work in various capacities. His most recent book is Numbskill In the Theater of Inquiry: Transforming Self, Friends, Organizations, and Social Science. We have a great conversation about his research around leadership and its accompanying thought patterns and behaviors, along with how those influence the way we receive feedback. 

Show Highlights:

• What lights up Bill about the work he does today and his path to get there
• How Bill was inspired to write Numbskull, a memoir that shares a personal look at his life
• What we need to understand about developmental transformation for leaders
• How our action logics come with choices about power
• How feedback is tied into the transformation of leaders
• How action logics represent the fundamental ways people think about themselves and the world
• Why people are sometimes resistant to their early action logics
• How coaching and feedback play into transformational leadership
• How we move from level to level as The Expert, The Achiever, The Diplomat, and The Over-Achiever
• The three loops of feedback and their differences: single-loop, double-loop, and triple-loop
• Why human nature determines that not everyone will invest in transformational leadership at the same level

Resources:

Connect with Dr. Torbert through his Website.

Find his book on Amazon.

To join the Fall Mentor Program with Meg, visit www.starcoachshow.com/mentor. 

Visit my website for your FREE download: What I Know Now, That I Wish I Had Known When I First Started Coaching. 

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We all need resilience to handle setbacks and adversity in life. Today’s focus is on building that “bounce-back muscle” that enables us to be resilient in the ways we show up in the face of change and grief. Join us to learn more!

Teresa Bitner is a Professional Certified Coach who partners with those who have been knocked down by life and are looking to bounce back to live boldly. She’s a speaker and author whose specialization is resiliency, change, and loss. Building resiliency and learning steps for surviving and thriving in the midst of constant change distinguish those who live boldly from those who live life in fear. Teresa is the author of Soul Love: How A Dog Taught Me to Breathe Again. She is passionate about giving back, as evidenced by her volunteer work with the ICF Austin chapter. She is a former board member and Community Outreach Director, and she serves on the Advisory Council. Through Women for Change and Stand Beside Them, Teresa provides pro bono coaching for women in poverty and veterans and their spouses. In today’s conversation, Teresa openly shares her personal grief journey and why she loves working with people around resiliency.

Show Highlights:

• How Teresa has built resiliency since her difficult childhood days and into adulthood when she suddenly found herself a widow and single mom
• Top resiliency traits that Teresa recognized in herself: having goals about what you need to do and being willing to accept help when you need it
• What resiliency means to Teresa: “To be able to withstand and recover quickly from difficult conditions”
• Why it’s possible to build resiliency if it doesn’t come to you naturally
• How Teresa assesses someone’s resiliency, beginning with your beliefs about change
• Characteristics of resiliency:
• Looking at change as an opportunity.
• Accepting change as a part of life.
• Being a constant learner about life.
• Being flexible.
• Having a growth mindset vs. a fixed mindset.
• How to approach a coaching client in dealing with change by identifying the angst, the facts, and what they CAN control
• How to ask the right questions about the changes a client is experiencing and point them to the best resources
• Considerations in coaching people toward resiliency:
• Acknowledge and celebrate their accomplishments so far.
• Help them begin a gratitude practice.
• Key takeaways from Teresa:
• Remember that there are different levels of resiliency.
• Take your resiliency pulse.
• Plan–and take action on your plan for resiliency. 
• How Teresa’s book, Soul Love: How a Dog Taught Me to Breathe Again, which tells her visceral story of grief, hope, and resiliency

Resources:

Connect with Teresa: Website, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

Check out Teresa’s FREE giveaway for STaR Coach Show listeners: 

Visit Teresa’s Website for lots of FREE resources and to buy her book, Soul Love: How A Dog Taught Me to Breathe Again!

To join the Fall Mentor Program with Meg, visit www.starcoachshow.com/mentor. 

Visit my website for your FREE download: What I Know Now, That I Wish I Had Known When I First Started Coaching. 

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Today’s show is all about business success. We are weaving thoughts about success concerning freedom in your life, which can make all the difference in creating the life you want. The foundation for the freedom you crave is a financial plan that works, and my guest today has the answers for you. Join us to learn more!

Brian Bogaert is the owner of Next Level Success Coaching. Brian is absolutely passionate about the value of freedom because working for years in corporate America brought him a lack of freedom that “crushed his soul.” He loves helping people reach their financial goals, and he’s totally dedicated to education and empowerment to help people reach the next level of success. In today’s conversation, we’ll look at ways to empower ourselves in creating a financial plan for freedom that allows us to step into our work in the fullest way and not be cut off at the knees when things like global pandemics occur. We want to engage in work that lights us up, but we need a plan in place that opens us up for financial freedom. Brian shares his expertise, mindset, and practical tips to create your financial freedom plan! 

Show Highlights:

• What led Brian to the work he does today
• What it means to “build a financial plan for freedom”
• How your goals and commitments play into your financial plan
• Why Brian’s work with any client begins with their financial mindset
• Why the entrepreneurial world can still be a prison for some people
• How to identify things in your business that give you leverage
• Why managing cash flow is the biggest challenge for entrepreneurs AND large companies
• Why gross revenue is NOT the best indicator of financial success
• Why venturing into entrepreneurship doesn’t have to burn the bridges behind you 
• Why a savings cushion is essential in launching a new business because you don’t have to operate with a scarcity mindset
• Why investing is a crucial element for your financial freedom plan; the time to start is TODAY!

Resources:

Connect with Meg

Find out more about my mentor coaching program:  STaR Coach Show: Mentor

Check out my free resources for you regarding your coaching certification hours:  www.STaRcoachshow.com/credential   

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Visit my website for your FREE download: What I Know Now, That I Wish I Had Known When I First Started Coac

Connect with Brian

Connect with Brian and schedule a FREE Success Snapshot call through his Website, Facebook, or LinkedIn

Find out more about Next Level’s Certified Secure Investor Program.

Books Mentioned:

Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki

Cash Flow Quadrant by Robert Kiyosaki

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