I’ve wanted to do this episode for a while now, all about my entire coaching framework. This is something I’ve developed over thousands of hours spent researching, reading, and coaching and I believe that if you can operate with this method, you will help people perform at a higher level, comply better, and get better results. There are 3 components to this philosophy and you can use it in any leadership role in your life, be it coaching, managing, in your personal relationships, and everything in between. 

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Today’s pod is a quick one, but I wanted to share a method I use both personally and clinically. It’s a tool with benefits across the board—it improves mood, lowers feelings of depression and anxiety, improves physical metrics like blood pressure and immune function, and even improves relationships, memory, and career success. Must be pretty complex to have all those benefits, right? It’s actually incredibly simple: just writing for 20 minutes every day. Use it for yourself, recommend it to your clients, and get ready to feel the immediate impact.

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As a coach, you’ll tend to fall into one of two categories: the Drill Sergeant or the Cheerleader. As listeners of this podcast, you’re most likely the Cheerleader—I am too! Positivity is an effective way to help our clients make change, but there is such a thing as giving too much praise, and that’s where most Cheerleader Coaches can go wrong. It comes from a good place: not wanting to hurt feelings, pass judgements, or deal with conflict and discomfort. But if everything is all-good all the time, our clients can start to second guess the truthfulness behind your coaching, and break the trust you’ve worked so hard to build. There’s nothing wrong with being the Cheerleader—you still can be!—but there’s a way to give feedback and be direct without straining the client-coach relationship.

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My siblings recently called me out for being a “people pleaser” and while my first instinct was to deny it vehemently, that defensiveness was a sign for me to investigate why they might think that. Sure, I’m a sensitive and caring guy, but people pleasers are known for putting everyone else’s needs above their own, and I don’t want to be that person. It’s been shown that people pleasing leads to increased anxiety, burnout, codependency, feelings of powerlessness… the list goes on. So if you’re a people pleaser too, and you don’t want to be, I’m sharing 3 reframes we can all use to feel more control in our lives and remember that it’s okay to put ourselves first.

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This episode is more geared towards my health and fitness pros out there, but it’s something everyone could learn from. There’s a lot of talk in the world about words like “lean” and “healthy” and whether or not those descriptors promote body shaming. And while that seems a little ridiculous at first, as health is something that can be objectively measured, it’s an important topic to be discussed. By now you know that shame is one of the least motivating factors for lasting change, and as health and fitness professionals, we want to be able to coach our clients to their best, healthiest selves and stay that way. Is that possible to do without body shaming?

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There’s a phenomena that occurs whenever we learn something new, where once we’ve learned something, we can’t un-know it. Not only that, but we have a hard time remember what it felt like not to know it at all. As coaches and leaders, this leads us to a big problem—we need this knowledge and expertise to help our clients, but we can’t always get our message across in a way that lasts. If you want to impact your clients’ behavior in a meaningful way, you have to speak their language and understand how to communicate your ideas so they actually stick.

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Most behavioral problems we see our clients struggle with aren’t behavioral at all—they’re emotional problems. The science behind weight loss or strength training doesn’t really matter much if your client just doesn’t care, or if they’ve got bigger problems at home to worry about. These emotional problems often lead to a cycle known as the “What the Hell Effect,” but you might recognize it by the phrase, “I’ll just start again on Monday.” The WTH cycle is driven by the shame of “messing up,” and then going all in on whatever “mistake” with the intent to start again the next week. We know that guilt and shame only lead to the WTH cycle perpetuating itself. If you want to help your clients get out of this hamster wheel for good, you have to learn to coach with empathy and non-judgement.

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Y’all know I love a good psychology study and while they’re far from perfect due to the fact that human behavior is damn-near impossible to predict, they can teach us a lot about high-level patterns we all tend to experience. A huge component of coaching is being able to understand our clients’ thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and with the right information, we can get to know our clients on a deeper level, as well as equip them (and ourselves!) with tools to set them on the right path towards success. This episode shares 5 of my favorite psychological studies that will change how you think about your life.

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Study Citations:

Crum, A. J., Corbin, W. R., Brownell, K. D., & Salovey, P. (2011). Mind over milkshakes: Mindsets, not just nutrients, determine ghrelin response. Health Psychology, 30(4), 424–429. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0023467

Mahmood, Syed S; Levy, Daniel; Vasan, Ramachandran S; Wang, Thomas J  (2014). The Framingham Heart Study and the epidemiology of cardiovascular disease: a historical perspective. The Lancet, 383(9921), 999–1008. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(13)61752-3   

Darley, J. M., & Batson, C. D. (1973). "From Jerusalem to Jericho": A study of situational and dispositional variables in helping behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 27(1), 100–108. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0034449

Langer, E. (2009). Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility. New York: Ballantine.

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We’ve all heard it (and have probably said it, ourselves) before: “I’ll start when life gets less busy!” The problem is, life never really calms down. Research has shows that we spend a majority of our lives experiencing and dealing with these “life-quakes,” both big and small. If we never took action until life settled down, then we’d never take any action at all. Instead of avoiding our life-quakes and using them as an excuse to stay the same, we have to find a way to work through them and just keep moving forwards.

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Human beings are complex. If we really want to help them make positive changes in their lives, it’s not enough to just understand what they do, we have to understand why they do the things that they do. And similarly, coaching is so much more than just telling your clients a laundry list of things to change. A great coach is so much more. In this episode, I’m sharing 4 skills you can practice to become the best coach you can be.

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