Two different concepts that are quite opposite but end up completing each other very well, are Confidence and Humility. When it comes to being a coach or a mentor, it’s important to have the confidence to provide knowledge and results, but it’s also important to be open to accept that your knowledge and information may not be the best option for a specific client. Balance, in this situation, is the key.

In this episode of Take Care Radio, Danny takes you through this idea that we all have beliefs, blind spots, and biases that ultimately do not serve us or our clients. Identifying those and looking at things through a different lens, while changing our perspective and being mentally flexible, really helps us better our coaching practice, leading us to be more adaptable coaches and cooperative humans. Tune in!

“We all have our health, fitness, or coaching beliefs and foundations and this isn’t necessarily bad, this is a human trait. […] But they can be bad when they don’t lead us to success.” – Danny Coleman

Related Links

Think Again by Adam Grant

Mark Manson’s The Subtle Art School 

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The idea of ‘Success Threads’ is a pretty simple, easy-to-use perspective that can be utilized by coaches when working with different clients. Everybody is good at something and the key elements that eventually made a person good at something can be the same key elements that can help them with other areas, like fitness and nutrition. Pulling this thread to find useful solutions can be an option for coaches.

In this episode of Take Care Radio, Danny dives deep into this concept. Humans love to be good at things and love to be competent with tasks. Each person is an expert in something, so what allowed you to be an expert in something can also allow you to improve other areas of life, specifically an area that you’re currently struggling with.

The confidence in one part of our life translates into another. Tune in!

“A lot of our clients show up and are great at what they’re great a, but maybe they’re not great at health and fitness. So our job is to pull away at those threads to find what they’re really good at, and then dig deeper to see why they’re good at it.” – Danny Coleman

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It’s really easy to get frustrated and upset when a client doesn’t follow the plan. As a coach and as a professional, we might think that there’s a personal issue of why the program is not being followed or that we are not ready to work with people. This is simply a matter of understanding your client, exploring the situation, and looking for solutions that, not only help the client, but also make sense for them.

In this episode of Take Care Radio, Danny talks about some behaviors that coaches might find when working with clients. Danny explains that true change is different for each person but remains the same for everyone in one specific aspect: it’s not linear. 

You will also learn the idea of ambivalence and why two contrasting thoughts can be opposites but honest at the same time. Tune in!

“Don’t get frustrated. If change was easy then there would be no need for us as coaches.” – Danny Coleman

Episode Resources

Motivational Interviewing in Nutrition and Fitness by Dawn Clifford and Laura Curtis

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Unlike what is generally believed, motivation is not a gift, it’s a skill. And like any other skill, it takes practice, dedication, and patience to get to a certain level where you’re really good at it. The difference between motivation and any other given skill is that we need motivation everyday: to go about our day, to get to the gym, to make a healthy meal… but what if we’re really bad at being motivated?

In this episode of Take Care Radio, Danny talks about how to motivate people in general, but from a coach perspective. It’s really important to understand that motivation comes after action, and not the other way around and that’s a really helpful concept and mindset shift to teach a fitness client. Danny also explains that taking action itself is also a skill, which requires repetition. Tune in!

“We ultimately need to understand as coaches that people change when it makes a difference for them to do so.” – Danny Coleman

Episode Resources

Nudge: Improving Skills about Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein

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Helping someone to go from inaction to action is very rewarding, but also very challenging. At the beginning of their practice, most people who work in the coaching industry think that the client will blindly follow the plan and reach the goal in no time. The reality, though, is different. Every action is based on a belief and most of the times finding the root of the problem is the very solution for it.

In this episode of Take Care Radio, Danny gives you a new perspective on how to solve your client’s problems in an effective and honest way. You will learn 3 simple steps to apply into your work methodology to really help your client get unstuck on their journey. Certain behaviors are only the top of the iceberg, and as a coach, it is your job to help the person find what is hidden below the surface.

“Great coaches aren’t great because they’re great at answering questions; they’re great because they know how to ask probing questions.” – Danny Coleman

Episode Resources

To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others

Motivational Interviewing

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The act of coaching means much more than the word “coaching” symbolizes. A coach that is truly engaged in getting results for their client needs to understand the client, what are their strengths and weaknesses, and how the teachings and processes can best be applied for that person in particular. It’s important to realize that coaching is not a “one size fits all” type of thing and that everyone is unique.

In this episode of Take Care Radio, Danny welcomes Jill Coleman to talk about the ups and downs of being a coach and how this professional can preserve their energy and not get too involved with potential failures or setbacks of a client. Jill explains her methodology, highlighting the importance of taking the whole process seriously but not personally, and trying to transform client discouragement into simple action.

Episode Resources

The Power of Full Engagement by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz

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Just like pretty much everything in life, it’s wise not to expect too much from a situation. Learning how to navigate emotions and manage expectations for any goal is the first step to feel good about the process and avoid feeling overwhelmed. When we take this idea and apply it to the process of losing weight, for example, it makes even more sense to trust the process and let the chips fall where they may.

In this episode of Take Care Radio, Danny explains the importance of expectation management, which is a simple but not easy concept. More important than managing the expectations of a client is managing the expectations as a coach: it’s normal to feel responsible for creating results for someone but feeling anxious about your client’s journey will only affect a relationship that should be based on trust and reliance.

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How we see ourselves and how we perceive the world is the result of a collection of thoughts and beliefs commonly known as mindset. Over the years, this small but super significant word has become really popular and has been spread all over social media, especially in the coaching industry. But how can we use mindset to achieve goals in different areas of life? And how can we use it to make others achieve goals as well?

In this episode of Take Care Radio, Danny subverts the well-known idea of mindset to make it easier to understand. Applied to the coaching industry for example, mindset is the missing piece on a fitness journey that people don’t quite get it. That’s why it’s important to know what mindset represents, how we can change it, and how it helps us see things from a different perspective and get different results. Tune in!

Episode Resources

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D.

The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact by Chip Heath and Dan Heath

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Fitness coaching goes way beyond setting up training programs or organizing meal plans for someone. These tools might work in the short term, but in order to create change and reach a goal the client (your client, maybe) must learn new habits and modify old behaviors. The psychological part of coaching is the foundation in which your client’s goals will be placed and that is what’s going to work in the long term.

Welcome to Take Care Radio! In this podcast, Danny Coleman will take you through all things behavioral change, mindset, psychology, and the mental side of fitness. The first episode highlights Danny’s background with fitness and what he intends to share on this platform. If you are a fitness coach or a health coach and was looking for a good source of helpful information and good content, you found your place! Tune in and see you all in the next one. 

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