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...
How to Price Your Coaching Services (Without Asking Your Price to Prove Your Worth) Charge what you're worth is meant to be empowering. But for many coaches, it quietly does the opposite. It turns pricing into a referendum on self-worth. It makes every no feel personal. It adds emotional weight where clarity should exist. Here is the truth I want you to hear clearly: there is no such thing as charging what you are worth. Your Worth Is Not Billable As a human being, you are worth more than you could ever charge. Your intelligence. Your lived experience. Your empathy. Your resilience. Your capacity to see and support others. None of that is negotiable. And none of it belongs...
I recently sat down with Sarah Doyle, executive leadership coach, former communications executive, and founder of Coach for Success, for a conversation that I am still thinking about days later. Sarah works with high-performing women stepping into senior leadership roles, and what she brought to our conversation was both deeply practical and genuinely refreshing. Her core message is one that I think every coach and leader needs to hear right now: you do not need to perform leadership. You need to transmit it. That distinction opened up a conversation about what is actually happening in most boardrooms, most leadership teams, and most coaching programs, and why so much of what passes for leadership training is actually teaching people to...
Do You Need Social Media to Build a Coaching Business? Here's What Actually Creates Clients Do You Need Social Media to Build a Coaching Business? I want to speak directly to the coach who is feeling quietly behind. You have been coaching for months or years. You have taken the training, held space, asked the powerful questions, practiced the deep listening. You have sat with people through some of the most difficult and meaningful moments of their lives. You have developed a perspective that is specific and hard-won and genuinely yours. And yet you open social media and you see coaches with fifty thousand followers posting sixty-second videos about their morning coffee. Something in you wonders whether you...
