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Learn how to become a life coach with a strong skillset in the craft of coaching through the Craft of Coaching podcast. The Craft of Coaching is hosted by Kate Swoboda, Director of Training for the ICF-accredited life coach training program, the Courageous Living Coach Certification. Learn more about our coach training program at https://TeamCLCC.com
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Boundaries are not just for our clients. Life coaches also need to be aware of client boundaries that set up their relationships for success. In today's episode, you'll learn the four areas where boundaries for life coaches are most important, both so that your clients are happy with the direction of their coaching process, and so that your coach-c…
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Ep89: Business Operations for Life Coaches
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Yes, you know that you need to market your business--but what about actually running your business? That's the domain of business operations, and in today's podcast we're going to explore the different domains of business operations for life coaches, and the questions to ask to identify your most important high priority tasks. Coaching + Courage + …
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Ep88: Identifying Cognitive Distortions with Clients
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The biases and assumptions that your clients hold will either help them or hinder them. In psychology, these narratives/Stories are called "cognitive distortions" and there are specifically identified cognitive distortions that are particularly common. In today's Skill Drill series, I'm going over common cognitive distortions and how life coaches c…
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Ep87: 5 Ways to Be Authentic When Marketing
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Life coaches love to coach their clients, but most dislike marketing to find clients--but it doesn't have to be that way. As a coach, you can learn approaches to marketing that are authentic and aligned with who you are and the body of work that you are creating in the world. Today's episode will guide you through 5 ways to be authentic when market…
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Ep86: Help Clients Focus on What they Can Control
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Today's episode is part of our Skill Drill series and we're offering an exercise that you can use with your clients to help clients focus on what they can control. We live in a world full of things that we have no control over, and getting attached to outcomes and frustrated when we can't control things does not serve our clients. Using this exerci…
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Ep85: The Top 5 Best Coaching Questions to Ask Clients
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Wondering where to start with what questions to ask your clients? Or do you already have your questions that you love to ask, and you want some new questions to explore to energize your client sessions? These are the top 5 best coaching questions to ask clients to stimulate new ways of thinking, mindset shifts, and help clients move into proactivel…
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When most people think of becoming a life coach, they're imagining a one-on-one private practice working with clients. The growth of the life coaching industry has paved the way for far more career options than just a one-on-one coaching practice, and in today's skill drill I'm giving you an overview of careers in coaching that go beyond just one-o…
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Ep83: Morning routines that maximize your potential
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If you're running a coaching business as a side hustle while you juggle a full-time job, parenting, or other responsibilities, then you definitely want to listen in on today's episode to maximize your personal morning routine. With a few simple shifts to your morning routine, you can maximize each day's potential by starting off feeling more resour…
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Ep82: Design Your Client Onboarding Experience
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We're introducing a new series as part of the Craft of Coaching Podcast: The skill-drill series, where we offer a short-form episode on a coaching exercise or topic related to the craft of coaching or running your coaching business. Today's skill drill is on how you design your life coach client onboarding experience, thinking through the questions…
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Ep81: Simple Pricing Strategies for your Coaching Business
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How do you set your rates and price your coaching packages, group offerings, and more? That's what I'm diving into in today's Craft of Coaching episode, where we look at the business side of coaching as you figure out what to charge. Pricing doesn't have to be complicated and you can identify simple pricing strategies for your coaching business usi…
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Ep80: 5 Questions to Ask Clients Who Are Stuck
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Have you ever been in a coaching session with a client who was "stuck" and the more you talked about it, the more they just kept saying that they were...stuck? When that happens, you need a way of gaining an entry point to explore not just why the client is stuck, but how to start thinking of their situation differently so that they can get unstuck…
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Ep79: Relationship Coaching with Kira Sabin
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Relationships to others mirror our relationship to ourselves. Today’s Craft of Coaching guest has been a coach for more than 15 years and has a wealth of information to offer on modern dating and relationships. Kira emphasizes the importance of foundational skills in dating, such as setting boundaries, managing expectations, and understanding the n…
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Marketing can feel tricky for coaches—you want to do something heart-centered, not “market to people.” Today’s Craft of Coaching guest, Cory Huff, understands how to walk that line in helping artists and creatives (and coaches!) to effectively leverage strategies that make more money and help your business thrive. Coaching + Courage + Community = T…
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Ep77: How to Pivot Your Business with Michelle Ward
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Coaches feel some pressure when they're first standing up a business because there are a lot of decisions to make--what do I call myself? who do I want to work with? what should my branding be?--and every decision feels like it's set in stone. In reality, you can pivot as often as you need to, and in today's episode with coach Michelle Ward, we're …
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Ep76: IKYMI - Continuing Education for Coaches
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Continuing education and self-coaching for life coaches are critical to advancing your skill-set even after you’ve finished life coach school. Self-coaching is a process of being able to evaluate your own life’s strengths and weaknesses, set new intentions and goals, and start seeing progress--all while addressing the challenges that come up along …
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Ep75: IKYMI - How to Explain Coaching to People
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People have confusion over what life coaching is. How is it different than therapy or counseling? On today’s episode, I’m getting into how to explain life coaching to people, including how I suggest you handle coaching skeptics. A few highlights: Be discerning when talking to people who are committed to being skeptical about life coaching—because n…
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Ep74: The Hardest Part of Running a Coaching Business (And what to do about it!)
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Today's episode is all about pulling back the curtain and talking about the real-real truth: the hardest part of running a coaching business and what you can do to make it easier. You might be surprised--the hardest part of running your coaching business isn't what to name your signature program or developing your coaching skills. In this episode, …
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Should coaches be working with clients who have extreme trauma? What does the data say about the level of skill and competence needed for coaches to adequately work with trauma? In today’s Craft of Coaching episode I’m getting into trauma-informed coaching, where I’ll talk about what trauma is, what to be aware of if clients exhibit trauma, and how…
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Ep72: How to Design Your Group Coaching Course
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Are you trying to design a course or training for your coaching clients, or create a group coaching program? Today's episode gets into the foundational elements of instructional design that life coaches can use to apply to their courses or group coaching programs so that you can design your group coaching course. Learn how to target your course con…
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Ep71: Choosing a Niche (Or Not) With Laura Simms
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In this conversation with Laura Simms, we get into whether or not you need to choose a niche as a life coach and how even when you do choose a niche, you aren't cutting yourself off to opportunities to work with different people as long as you keep the client's way of being at the forefront of your mind. ==== Laura Simms is an expert in meaningful …
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Debate over which coaching style is best often boils down to two different lenses: a more strategic and action focused lens, and a more embodied and "feeling based" lens. Both lenses have value, so which coaching style is best and when should you use them? Dig in to today's episode to learn more and get a free exercise for how to evaluate and expan…
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When most people think of becoming a coach, they think of one-on-one client sessions--but there's another way to build a coaching business, and that's through coaching in organizations. Listen to this episode to learn the top things you'll want to keep in mind when adding coaching in organizations to your life coaching business (strategic tips on h…
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After a long break, the Craft of Coaching podcast is back, plus--we're opening up enrollment for CLCC! Head to https://TeamCLCC.com to learn more about our program and get the free Become a Coach video series. Coaching + Courage + Community = TeamCLCC. We're a life coach training program for a different kind of coach. Head to https://TeamCLCC.com t…
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In 2022, the Courageous Living Coach Certification program is on sabbatical. What does that mean for the program, and how did we arrive here? That's what I'm covering in today's episode. https://TeamCLCC.com Coaching + Courage + Community = TeamCLCC. We're a life coach training program for a different kind of coach. Head to https://TeamCLCC.com to …
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Ep 65: Questions for resistant coaching clients
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Coaching resistant clients can be frustrating--all you want to do is help, and the client is resistant. Some people in the coaching industry simply label such clients as “uncoachable” and say they should be “fired.” I suggest a different approach, because your clients don’t *want* to be resistant! They want help getting out of the resistance. This …
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Ep63: Clarifying Your Coaching Philosophy
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“But what am I ‘doing’ when I coach someone?” New and emerging coaches often feel a sense of wanting a coaching philosophy that they can explain to others. Grab a pen and paper as you listen to this episode, so that you can start clarifying your coaching philosophy. https://TeamCLCC.com Coaching + Courage + Community = TeamCLCC. We're a life coach …
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