I had a conversation recently that completely reframed something I thought I already understood. My guest was Dr. Abiola Oladoke, founder of ONA Wellness Group, and she introduced me to a concept called metabolic leadership. By the end of our conversation, I was looking at coach burnout in a way I never had before. Here is what stopped me: one of Dr. Abiola's clients was a coach who could not bring herself to make her sales calls. She was always finding something else to do. Running errands. Doing housework. There was always a reason. Most coaches, and honestly, I would have been in this camp too, would call that a mindset problem. Dr. Abiola called it a clue. Your Body...
Build a Coaching Business Your Way - What That Actually Looks Like in Practice Why the Step-by-Step Coaching Blueprint Isn't Working for You Here's a question worth sitting with. Have you ever followed a program or a framework correctly - done the steps, showed up, put in the work - and still felt like something was off? Not that you failed. Just that it felt like wearing someone else's shoes. It fit well enough to walk in. But it was never quite right. And after a while, you got a blister. If that sounds familiar, this episode is about why - and what to do instead. Why the Blueprint Feels Wrong Most business blueprints are not built for you....
How to Find and Fix Revenue Leaks in Your Coaching Business I had a conversation recently that gave me a fresh way of looking at something coaches struggle with constantly: the feeling that you are doing everything right and still not getting the results you want. My guest was Jennifer R. Glass, a 25-year business growth veteran who has built a whole diagnostic framework around exactly this problem. She calls it revenue friction, and once she explained it, I could see it everywhere. Revenue friction, as Jennifer describes it, isn’t about working harder or having a better offer. It is about the hidden gaps in your process, your positioning, your marketing, and your sales conversations that are quietly leaking...
Why Your Coaching Business Isn't Growing (Your Inner Critic Found the Perfect Hiding Place) There is a very specific pattern I see repeatedly in coaching businesses. The coaching package that's almost ready but needs just one more revision. The niche that was settled, and then you spend time second-guessing. The email that's been written and is sitting in draft. From the outside it looks like procrastination or indecision. From the inside, it feels like being thorough, being careful, wanting to get it right. But underneath both of those things is almost always the same thing: the inner critic doing its job. What the Inner Critic Actually Looks Like The inner critic doesn’t show up and say, I'm scared. You...
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....
