Craft of Coaching Podcast
Self-Improvement
About
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 Credentialed Life Coach Collective. Learn more about our coach training program at https://TeamCLCC.com
Episodes
- Ep 114 - How to Truly Start Embracing Imperfection (In Your Coaching, With Your Clients, and in Your Life)
This episode of the Craft of Coaching Podcast discusses the importance of embracing imperfection in coaching, leadership, and community. It explores the challenges of performing perfection and the benefits of owning imperfection and repair…
- Ep 113 - Why You (And Your Clients) Can't Do It Alone - The Role of Nervous System Regulation and Relationships
This episode discusses the challenges coaches and clients face when working alone, highlighting the importance of nervous system regulation and relationships. It explores the science behind why regulation may not be fully achievable in iso…
- Ep 112: Launching a Group Coaching Program? Here's How to Build Community
This episode explores the essential skills and strategies for coaches to build authentic community within group programs. It covers key concepts like cultivation, trust signaling, and behavioral integrity to foster genuine connection and b…
- Ep 111: When can you call yourself a coach?
This episode challenges the notion that a packed calendar defines a coach, arguing that legitimacy comes from commitment to craft, ethical standards, reflective practice, and skill development. It separates coaching skill from marketing ou…
- Ep 110: Stop the Comparison Spiral: Coaches Comparing Themselves to Other Coaches
This episode of the Craft of Coaching Podcast addresses the common comparison spiral among coaches, explaining how it negatively impacts intuition and business decisions. It offers practical strategies to help coaches stay focused, build t…
- Ep 109: Coaching Clients Through Workplace Conflict: Melody Wilding on Managing Up, Communication Styles, and the Conversations That Change Everything at Work
This episode features executive coach Melody Wilding discussing how coaches can help clients manage workplace conflict and difficult relationships with superiors. Key strategies include focusing on alignment and communication styles, illus…
- Ep 109: Live Like You Give a Damn with Andrea Owen
Andrea Owen joins the Craft of Coaching Podcast to discuss the importance of honesty and facing difficult topics in coaching and life. The episode explores the evolution of the coaching industry towards deeper work and strategies for coach…
- Ep 107: Coaching vs. Mentoring vs. Therapy: What's the difference?
This episode of the Craft of Coaching Podcast explores the distinctions between coaching, mentoring, and therapy, addressing ethical considerations for coaches when clients present issues beyond the scope of coaching, such as childhood tra…
- Ep 106: Real Talk: Is the Coaching Market too Saturated?
The Craft of Coaching podcast discusses the saturation of the coaching market and provides actionable advice on building trust and relationships for business growth, rather than just trying to stand out.
- Ep 105: Struck a Nerve With Your Client? That's "Identity Threat" in Coaching
This episode of the Craft of Coaching podcast discusses "identity threat," where clients resist insights that challenge their self-image. It explores the psychology behind this defense mechanism, how to identify it, and strategies for coac…
- Ep 104: Why You Can't Rush Client Readiness (Even if You Want to)
This episode of the Craft of Coaching podcast addresses client readiness, explaining that resistance is often a defense mechanism. It offers guidance for coaches on how to support a client's inner pace without pushing too hard, focusing on…
- Ep 103: Stop Over-Focusing on 'Clarity' and Help People With This, Instead
This episode of The Craft of Coaching discusses the pitfalls of over-emphasizing "clarity" as a coaching outcome. It suggests that coaches should instead focus on helping clients build the capacity to navigate uncertainty, reframing both m…
- Ep 102: Challenging a Client Without Losing the Relationship
This episode of The Craft of Coaching explores how coaches can challenge clients to promote transformation without damaging the relationship. It provides practical tools and phrases for offering honest, compassionate challenge that builds…
- Ep 101: How To Know When You're People-Pleasing In Coaching
This episode of The Craft of Coaching explores people-pleasing behaviors in coaching, helping coaches differentiate between kindness and avoidance. It provides guidance on recognizing when effectiveness is sacrificed for likability and how…
- Ep 100: Supporting your clients (and yourself!) in these messy times
This episode discusses how coaches can support clients experiencing chaos, uncertainty, and grief, while also managing their own well-being. It covers staying present, listening without fixing, and seeking support, linking these practices…
- ep99: Your Client Voted for WHO?! Now What? What to do when a client's political values are wildly different from yours
This episode of The Craft of Coaching explores how coaches can navigate political differences with clients, focusing on maintaining integrity, setting boundaries, and staying grounded when values collide.
- Ep 98: Overwhelmed and Over It? Design a Coaching Roadmap That Actually Works
This episode of The Craft of Coaching discusses how to build a sustainable, seasonally-aware business roadmap for coaches, focusing on avoiding burnout by aligning goals with personal capacity. It covers setting realistic objectives and pr…
- Ep 97: What Coaches Get Wrong about Nervous System Regulation and How to Help
This episode features somatic coach Kim Kimball discussing authentic nervous system regulation for clients, differentiating it from emotional bypassing. It covers helping clients understand their bodies, work within their capacity, and bui…
- Ep 96: From Coach to Founder: How Megan Hale Turned Her Vision Into a Multi-Million-Dollar Company
Megan Hale shares her journey from coach to founder of DreamMoney.co, detailing the shift in mindset required to build a tech startup, secure funding, and lead a vision larger than oneself.
- Ep 95: Shift Your Money Mindset and Support Clients to Make Money Breakthroughs
This episode of The Craft of Coaching Podcast addresses common money mindset challenges for coaches, including underpricing and avoiding financial conversations. It offers guidance on shifting personal money beliefs and supporting clients…
- Ep 94: How to Know When It’s Time to Pivot Your Coaching Business (and Trust That You’ll Find Your Way)
CLCC graduates Kim Romain and Louise Neil discuss pivoting a coaching business, sharing insights on recognizing when to shift direction, prioritizing joy as a success metric, and overcoming the sunk-cost fallacy. The episode frames pivotin…
- Ep 93: Been Gone Too Long? Here’s How to Reboot Your Coaching Business Without the Shame Spiral
This Craft of Coaching episode addresses how coaches can return to their business after a break, offering a 3-part framework for reconnection and action. It aims to help coaches overcome shame and re-enter their practice with self-compassi…
- Ep 92: How to Change Your Marketing Strategy: Pivots, Permission, and the Strategy That Finally Worked (with Jen Vertanen of We The Unruly)
Jen Vertanen discusses evolving marketing strategies on the Craft of Coaching Podcast. She shares insights on clarity, point of view over niche, and selling before a flawless plan, along with her permission question for unlocking direction.
- Ep91: How to Rebrand
This episode of Craft of Coaching discusses rebranding, using the CLCC's transition from "Courageous Living Coach Certification" to "Certified Life Coach Collective training program" as a case study. It covers the ups and downs of rebrandi…
- Ep 90: Boundaries for Life Coaches
This episode discusses the importance of boundaries for life coaches, not just for clients. It covers four crucial areas where coaches should set boundaries to ensure client satisfaction and maintain a high level of trust and accountabilit…
- Ep89: Business Operations for Life Coaches
This episode of the Craft of Coaching Podcast discusses business operations for life coaches, focusing on identifying high-priority tasks. It also mentions the Credentialed Life Coach Collective (CLCC) and their ICF-Accredited program for…
- Ep88: Identifying Cognitive Distortions with Clients
This episode of the Craft of Coaching Podcast discusses cognitive distortions, which are the biases and assumptions clients hold. It explains how life coaches can help clients identify these common distortions that hinder their progress.
- Ep87: 5 Ways to Be Authentic When Marketing
This episode guides life coaches through 5 authentic marketing approaches, helping them align their messaging with their work and feel good about client outreach.
- Ep86: Help Clients Focus on What they Can Control
This episode of the Craft of Coaching Podcast introduces a skill-drill exercise designed to help clients focus on what they can control, rather than becoming frustrated by uncontrollable outcomes. The Credentialed Life Coach Collective (CL…
- Ep85: The Top 5 Best Coaching Questions to Ask Clients
This episode of the Craft of Coaching Podcast covers the top 5 best coaching questions to ask clients to encourage new ways of thinking, mindset shifts, and proactive change.
- Ep84: Careers in Coaching
This episode of the Craft of Coaching Podcast discusses career paths in coaching that extend beyond private one-on-one client work, offering an overview of various options within the growing industry.
- Ep83: Morning routines that maximize your potential
This episode of the Craft of Coaching Podcast focuses on maximizing your potential through morning routines, especially for those balancing coaching with other responsibilities. It discusses biological factors that aid in waking up and sta…
- Ep82: Design Your Client Onboarding Experience
This episode of the Craft of Coaching Podcast focuses on designing a client onboarding experience for life coaches. It discusses the questions to consider for a successful onboarding process that paves the way for client growth, from both…
- Ep81: Simple Pricing Strategies for your Coaching Business
This episode of The Craft of Coaching breaks down simple and effective pricing strategies for life coaches, emphasizing clarity, sustainability, and accessibility. It advises coaches against unnecessary complexity or chasing industry hype,…
- Ep80: 5 Questions to Ask Clients Who Are Stuck
This episode of the Craft of Coaching Podcast covers five questions coaches can use when a client is feeling stuck. An accompanying worksheet is available for subscribers at TeamCLCC.com/begin.
- Ep79: Relationship Coaching with Kira Sabin
Kira Sabin discusses how relationships with others reflect our relationship with ourselves, the evolution of modern dating, and essential dating skills like boundary setting and managing expectations on the Craft of Coaching Podcast.
- Ep78: Creative Marketing with Cory Huff
Cory Huff discusses heart-centered marketing strategies for coaches and creatives on the Craft of Coaching Podcast, focusing on leveraging effective methods to increase revenue and business success. The episode also briefly mentions the Cr…
- Ep77: How to Pivot Your Business with Michelle Ward
In this episode of the Craft of Coaching Podcast, host Michelle Ward discusses how coaches can pivot their businesses. Ward, a business coachsultant and CEO of Hello Business, shares insights on making decisions about branding, niche, and…
- Ep76: IKYMI - Continuing Education for Coaches
This episode discusses the importance of continuing education and self-coaching for life coaches to enhance their skill-set. It highlights resources for self-evaluation, goal setting, and progress tracking, while also addressing challenges…
- Ep75: IKYMI - How to Explain Coaching to People
This episode of the Craft of Coaching Podcast addresses the common confusion surrounding life coaching, explaining how to effectively communicate its purpose and differentiate it from therapy. It also offers strategies for handling skeptic…
- Ep74: The Hardest Part of Running a Coaching Business (And what to do about it!)
This episode of the Craft of Coaching Podcast discusses the most challenging aspect of running a coaching business, offering strategies for success. It also briefly mentions the Credentialed Life Coach Collective (CLCC) and its ICF-Accredi…
- Ep73: Trauma-Informed Coaching
This episode of the Craft of Coaching Podcast discusses trauma-informed coaching. It addresses whether coaches should work with clients experiencing extreme trauma, the skills required, what to do if clients exhibit trauma, and how coaches…
- Ep72: How to Design Your Group Coaching Course
This episode of the Craft of Coaching Podcast focuses on instructional design for life coaches building courses or group coaching programs. It covers how to target content for audience engagement and success.
- Ep71: Choosing a Niche (Or Not) With Laura Simms
In this episode of the Craft of Coaching Podcast, Laura Simms shares her insights on whether life coaches need to choose a niche. She explains that selecting a niche does not prevent coaches from working with diverse clients, provided they…
- Ep70: Which style of coaching is best?
This episode discusses the debate between strategic, action-focused coaching and embodied, feeling-based coaching, noting both have value. It aims to help listeners determine which coaching style is best and when to apply them, offering a…
- Ep 69: Coaching in Organizations
This episode of the Craft of Coaching Podcast discusses coaching in organizations as an alternative to one-on-one client sessions. It offers strategic tips for structuring coaching program proposals when expanding a life coaching business.
- Ep 68: The Craft of Coaching is Back
The Craft of Coaching podcast is back and has opened enrollment for its ICF-Accredited CLCC program, offering coaching skills and personal growth for aspiring life coaches.
- Ep67: Taking a Sabbatical
This episode of the Craft of Coaching Podcast explains the 2022 sabbatical for the Courageous Living Coach Certification program. It details the reasons behind this decision and provides information about the program's coaching, community,…
- Ep 66: Make Some Noise Andrea Owen
In this episode, Andrea Owen explains how coaches can "make some noise" by increasing their visibility online and in their personal lives. The discussion covers self-coaching, white feminism, white exceptionalism, and biases around interse…
- Ep 65: Questions for resistant coaching clients
This episode of the Craft of Coaching Podcast offers a different approach to coaching resistant clients, providing specific questions to help them move past resistance and allow progress for both the client and coach.