In everyday life and in business, shifts occur that cause us to rethink, reframe, and pivot. Our perspective means everything when we face these shifts, and the opportunity is there to make magic happen. Join us to explore this topic with today’s expert guest!

Kat O’Sullivan is a bestselling author, speaker, changemaker, and transitions coach. Her new book is From Doubt to Do: Navigating Your Pathway to Possibility. She believes that when shift happens, it’s time to make magic happen. In this episode, we dive into the growth opportunities when shift happens and how to establish a framework for embracing shift instead of resisting it. With over 25 years of experience in driving personal and organizational transformation, Kat brings her expertise forward in everything she does. 

Show Highlights:

• The facts about shift:
• Shift happens, whether it happens TO us or BECAUSE of our choices.
• Magic CAN happen in shift, but only when we embrace disruption as a BFF.
• Kat’s intentional use of “shift” instead of “change”
• A new perspective on disruption
• Two questions to ask when shift happens:
• “What if it IS possible?”
• “What am I not seeing YET?”
• Kat’s motivation to write From Doubt to Do: Navigating Your Pathway to Possibility
• The importance of having a WHY in making a decision (like packing up and moving to Mexico!)
• Kat’s 4 C’s Framework: Courage, Clarity, Commitment, and Capacity
• Kat’s personal experience in walking through the 4 C’s in moving to Mexico
• Understanding what it means to “learn into the future”
• A key takeaway from Kat: “What if impossible is just a story you are telling yourself?”

Resources:

Connect with Kat O’Sullivan: Website, Facebook, LinkedIn, and From Doubt to Do: Navigating Your Pathway to Possibility

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One question we ALL have as coaches and business owners is, “How do we get more people to work with us?” We must get in front of people with our message. Join us to learn how to use social media platforms to find and convert more clients and customers.

Jason Moss is a multi-six-figure business coach who helps online business owners scale in an ethical, high-integrity way, using marketing strategies that make sense. He started his business in 2016, but he was making about $5K in yearly revenue. With higher aspirations motivating him, Jason spent years refining strategies that actually work, and he’s sharing his wisdom with us. In this episode, he shares practical insight into social media messaging that connects you to your audience and builds a thriving community. You’ll learn Jason’s eight core beliefs that transform potential clients into loyal customers.

Show Highlights:

• Importance of effective messaging in client attraction strategies for coaches and business owners
• Understanding and addressing potential clients' pain points and desires

8 core beliefs about messaging:

1. Pain (Connect to someone’s pain with understanding.)
2. Desire (The “point B” of possibility on the other side of their pain.)
3. Help (The person has to get to the place where they want help.)
4. Cost (They have to weigh the cost of staying where they are vs. the cost of change.)
5. Process (Show proof that you have a road map and steps to follow.)
6. Guide (Connect the person to your expertise and the ability to guide them to transformation.)
7. Objections (What holds someone back from saying YES? Help them reframe.)
8. Timing (Connect them to the moment in which they say, “The time is now.”)

• The role of authenticity in messaging and building trust with potential clients
• Significance of creating awareness of clients' pain and connecting it to their desires
• Facilitating transformation and articulating the benefits of coaching services
• Differentiating coaching processes from past unsuccessful methods experienced by clients
• The power of personal storytelling in creating relatable and engaging content

Resources:

Connect with Jason Moss: Website, YouTube

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Balance is crucial in every aspect of life! Our clients look to us to create the structure and flow of the coaching process, and maintaining boundaries is part of that process. Today’s episode explores the importance of boundaries as a professional coach to create balance, safety, and trust with our clients. We will look at essential boundaries to maintain and workable strategies for their implementation. 

Show Highlights:

• Clear boundaries clarify roles and protect the integrity of the coaching relationship.
• Boundaries produce specific benefits for our clients’ empowerment, growth, and autonomy.
• Understanding how to model healthy, professional relationship dynamics
• Kinds of boundaries to set and maintain:
• Time and logistics of availability and structures
• Clear expectations and distinctions of coach/client roles to maintain professionalism
• Emotional boundaries MUST be maintained!
• Best strategies for maintaining boundaries and balance:
• Use clear communication
• Prioritize your professional development.
• Maintain energy levels through self-care practices.
• Actions to take on troubling boundary issues
• Keeping boundaries is KEY!

Resources:

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Selling more effectively is ALWAYS a topic that resonates with coaches. We all want to know how to overcome our mindset issues around selling. I have the perfect guest to help us embrace our uniqueness and be authentic and unafraid in the sales process. Join us to learn more about business—and flamingos!

Katie Hornor is an international keynote speaker, business owner, mom of five, and the award-winning author of more than a dozen best-selling books, including The Flamingo Advantage: How to Leverage Unique, Stay Relevant, and Change the World. She has been featured on NBC, CBS, FOX, and TEDx. Katie is a business strategist who loves using flamingo metaphors to teach timeless business and marketing principles. Her mission is to empower entrepreneurs and business owners to live their purpose boldly and create businesses in service of their life and calling so they can have more joy, sales, and impact. 

Show Highlights:

• Flamingos—the perfect metaphor for business!
• What makes YOU unique?
• Be confident and unafraid of the competition (like a flamingo who doesn’t fear the nearby crocodiles!)
• Mindset issues around making money and serving people
• Desperate energy vs. magnetic energy
• Katie’s TEDx talk journey
• Flamingo wisdom from Katie about fulfilling your purpose, being relevant, and not hiding who you are
• Katie’s parting advice to entrepreneurs

Resources:

Connect with Katie Hornor

Website

The Flamingo Advantage book

Katie's TEDx talk

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Many coaches find themselves stuck, unable to create the thriving coaching business they envisioned. As a result, they leave the field of coaching or flounder around, never reaching their full potential. This is not okay! The world needs coaches, so we must work smarter, use the right systems, and “Go for the Gold.” Think like an Olympic champion! Join us to learn more in today’s episode.

Show Highlights:

• Don’t “sell” coaching. Do this instead.
• Create the value proposition of what coaching is.
• Systems are the ways we manage our resources.
• Think TEMP: Time, energy, money, and people
• The Work Smarter philosophy: FANS: Framework, an attractive offer, nurture, and the sales process
• Utilizing your coaching skills can help you stand out from the crowd.
• Finding the core of who you are here to serve
• What are your values? Are you living them out day-to-day?
• “People come to you for WHO YOU ARE. YOU are the magic sauce.”

Resources:

Connect with Vena Sterling: Website and Resources

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The struggle is real! Research shows that 75% of business teams fail. Why do we find team building so difficult? In today’s show, we explore the psychology of teams, how to build effective teams, and how to work with teams. Join us to learn more!

James Scouller is an executive coach and celebrated author who has focused on team building during his 45-year career. After leading three international companies as CEO for over 11 years, he founded The Scouller Partnership in 2004, which is an executive coaching practice near London focused on growing leaders and building teams. James holds two postgraduate coaching qualifications and has undergone 4 years of deep training in applied psychology. He has written 4 books, including the trilogy, How to Build Winning Teams Again and Again. It’s the first series of handbooks to explain the psychology, action principles, and roadmaps behind team success. Book #1 explains what you need to KNOW about teams and their psychology, Book #2 outlines what to DO to build teams that last, and Book #3 explains HOW to apply Book #2’s models and tools in different scenarios. 

Show Highlights:

• An overview of James’ book trilogy
• James’ working experience and fascination with teams and business success
• Understanding James’ Team Progression Model
• A real team vs. a performance group
• Which one do you need, a team or a performance group?
• Understanding the characteristics of a pseudo-team
• Figuring out the #1 goal of the team is the first step in team building.
• Commit, Combust, and Combine–steps to understand the psychological model 
• James’ final words to coaches about team building

Resources:

Connect with James and find resources: Website, LinkedIn, and How to Build Winning Teams Again and Again

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The different phases of life are filled with transitions, and the transition to retirement means facing many unknowns. We may financially prepare for retirement for many, many years, but facing its reality challenges our mental and emotional health. Whether you are thinking of retirement on an individual level or as a service provider to those preparing for retirement, today’s show is packed with helpful information. Join us to learn more!

Suzanne Campi is a life transition coach and community builder who works with women in retirement. She helps women learn to live large after retirement, understanding that preparing for this transition is much more than saving money. “Retirement is an inside job” defines her holistic approach to bringing together women who are shaping their retirement to embrace freedom, create meaningful connections, and design more vibrance in the next stage of life. 

Show Highlights:

• Life transitions come in all forms throughout our life span.
• Finding joy in retirement goes far beyond saving a lot of money.
• Retirement: a time for recharging, reinventing, and redefining your purpose
• Suzanne’s advice to those coming from the corporate world into coaching in “retirement”: “Step back and honor yourself. Consider taking a gap year.”
• Assumptions about retirement
• Don’t forget to have FUN!
• Taking a holistic look at retirement with the “wheel model”
• The key to any change is making small, steady habits.
• Learning to “dial down the busy”
• Important considerations in life transitions around new beginnings and endings

Resources:

Connect with Suzanne Campi: Website, LinkedIn, and Facebook

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When should you consider the path from PCC to MCC? In this episode, you’ll learn the ICF designations for MCC and PCC, along with the different levels of coaching certifications. Fran Fisher joins us to discuss this topic, which is the sweet spot of her expertise. Explore this topic with us today!

Fran Fisher, MCC, is recognized as a pioneer in the coaching industry. She’s a published author, international speaker, and founding ICF executive board member who helped develop the credentialing program for aspiring coaches and training schools. She specializes in mentoring experienced coaches for their MCC accreditation, and she offers advanced certification mentor training. Fran founded one of the first coach training schools to be accredited by the ICF, and she’s an executive ICF board member as chair of the credentialing development committee, serving as an ICF credentialing assessor since 1998. In 2022, Fran received the ICF Circle of Distinction Award. 

Show Highlights:

• Requirements to go from PCC to MCC (It goes far beyond more coaching hours!)
• Understanding an MCC as “the space of the client’s greatness”
• Coaching as a partnership of two experts
• The shift from a habitual pattern mindset to a soulful-based mindset
• Offering choice and inviting the client to lead with a higher order of empowerment
• Unlearning and taking a new, masterful approach
• Fran’s experience in interviewing potential mentees to determine their motivation 
• Habits that need to be changed in asking questions of our coaching clients
• Using your coach’s intuition correctly
• The beauty of “inviting awareness”
• Highlights of ICF resources

Resources:

Connect with Fran Fisher: Website 

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I’m diving into one of the most asked questions I receive as a coach mentor and coach instructor: “What’s the optimal way to price my services?” Coming from the corporate world, as many coaches do, there are many questions about how to charge for coaching services, so this episode is the ultimate guide on this topic. We will cover different pricing models, a pricing structure, best pricing practices, and common pricing pitfalls. Join us!

Show Highlights:

• Understanding different pricing models: hourly dollars pricing, package pricing, and value-based percentage basis pricing
• Know what the market will bear.
• Your experience will influence what you charge.
• Take a business owner mindset and consider your business costs.
• Consider your market positioning, target market, experience/credentials/services, and business costs.
• Best practices: establish your clear value proposition, test different pricing tiers, clearly communicate your pricing, allow room for growth, and maintain flexibility
• Common pricing pitfalls: underpricing, overcomplicating your pricing structure, failing to review/adjust, and inconsistent pricing

Resources:

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Let’s talk about organization! How organized are you, digitally speaking? As coaches, it’s often the “office” part of our role that can feel overwhelming or get routinely pushed to the back burner. Are your digital spaces in chaos? How would it change your business to bring more organization and structure into that realm? Join us to learn more from my expert guest!

Jésabel DC is a digital organization coach who helps entrepreneurs and creatives turn their chaotic digital spaces (think inbox, calendar, files, etc.) into organized, playful spaces where they actually want to spend their time. She created The Lifestyle Lab to help people reduce digital anxiety through 1:1 organization sessions, workshops, and classes. Jésabel will join the STaR Coach Community in February to do a deeper dive on this topic for our members. Haven’t joined our community yet? Click here for more information!

Show Highlights:

• Understanding digital nesting and Jésabel’s low-tech approach
• Streamline your energy leaks to align your digital spaces to your overall vision
• Evaluating your digital space–learn how Jésabel works with clients
• Implementing flexible time management techniques
• Setting up your time task ecosystem and using buffers correctly for top performance
• Don’t forget to refuel yourself!
• Setting parameters around your calendar: Experiment with what works best for you!
• The importance of visual cues
• Considerations in designing your digital spaces
• Examples of a “digital mess” (Does this describe you?)
• Organization leads to more growth!
• An overview of Jésabel’s Lifestyle Lab: workshops, classes, resources, and more

Resources:

Connect with Jésabel DC

Website

 Instagram

Jésabel invites you to explore her offerings: 1:1 Sessions, Inbox Class, Free Inbox Workshop, and Calendar Class

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