How Coaches Can Use AI Wisely Without Losing What Matters Most I recently had a conversation that I have been turning over in my mind ever since. My guest was Chris Papin, a dual-licensed CPA and attorney who thinks about AI in business with a level of rigor and nuance that most of us simply have not been exposed to. What struck me most was not a warning or a prediction. It was a framework. And once I heard it, I could not unsee it. The question Chris keeps coming back to is not whether coaches should use AI. That ship has sailed. The question is whether we are using it with enough awareness to actually serve our clients well....
You've Done Everything Right. Why Does It Still Feel Empty? There is a feeling that is very common among accomplished professionals and almost never named openly. It’s not burnout. It’s not depression. It’s not ingratitude. It’s something quieter: a sense that you’ve done everything right, built something real, and still feel like something is missing. Like you are going through the motions of a life that looks right but does not quite feel like yours. Most conversations about fulfillment are aimed at people who are struggling or just starting out. This one is for the person who has made it. And is privately wondering: is this it? What Hollow Actually Feels Like Hollow does not announce itself dramatically. It...
I recently had a conversation with Jean Border that I keep coming back to. Jean is a holistic intuitive coach with 36 years of leadership experience, a world traveler who has been to all 50 US states, dozens of countries, and Antarctica. She is also, as she was quick to point out, a deeply logical and practical person. That combination is exactly what made our conversation so useful. The thread running through everything Jean said was personal power. Not power in a forceful or aggressive sense. Power as in: the ability to trust yourself, make your own choices, and stop outsourcing your inner authority to everyone else around you. As someone who works with coaches every day, I found...
Coaching Business Mindset: When Being Realistic Becomes a Ceiling Being realistic is almost universally praised. It sounds like maturity. Like responsibility. Like the kind of wisdom that only comes from experience. And in many seasons of life, it is exactly that. Realism keeps us grounded. It helps us make decisions that do not blow up what we have built. It protects stability. There is real value in that. But there is a quieter side to realism that does not get talked about enough. The side where it becomes a ceiling. These three concepts are at the heart of this episode: The real fear is not of failure. It's of destabilizing what you've already built. Some goals aren't unrealistic. They're...
I recently had the pleasure of welcoming back one of my favorite guests, Nancy O'Keefe, for her second conversation on She Coaches Coaches. Nancy is a certified human design business and leadership coach, certified executive coach, and the author of the brand new bestselling book Lead with Your Light. Our conversation picked up where we left off and went places I did not expect. I came away with a renewed sense of what leadership actually is, and what it is not. The thing that struck me most was how simply Nancy defines leadership. Not as a title, not as something you earn or are appointed to. She defines it as influence. And by that definition, every single one of...
