Craft of Coaching Podcast
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
Episodes
96 episodes
Ep90: Boundaries for Life Coaches
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, ...
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Ep89: Business Operations for Life Coaches
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 co...
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Episode 89
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Ep88: Identifying Cognitive Distortions with Clients
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...
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Episode 88
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Ep87: 5 Ways to Be Authentic When Marketing
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 tha...
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Episode 87
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Ep86: Help Clients Focus on What they Can Control
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 atta...
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Episode 86
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Ep85: The Top 5 Best Coaching Questions to Ask Clients
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 questio...
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Episode 85
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Ep84: Careers in Coaching
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 practi...
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Episode 84
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Ep83: Morning routines that maximize your potential
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...
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Ep82: Design Your Client Onboarding Experience
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 ski...
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Episode 82
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Ep81: Simple Pricing Strategies for your Coaching Business
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 do...
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Episode 81
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Ep80: 5 Questions to Ask Clients Who Are Stuck
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 ...
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Episode 80
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Ep79: Relationship Coaching with Kira Sabin
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...
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Episode 79
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Ep78: Creative Marketing with Cory Huff
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 ...
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Episode 78
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35:47
Ep77: How to Pivot Your Business with Michelle Ward
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. ...
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Episode 77
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Ep76: IKYMI - Continuing Education for Coaches
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 ne...
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Episode 76
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28:53
Ep75: IKYMI - How to Explain Coaching to People
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 hig...
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Episode 75
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Ep74: The Hardest Part of Running a Coaching Business (And what to do about it!)
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 coachin...
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Episode 74
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Ep73: Trauma-Informed Coaching
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-infor...
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Episode 73
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Ep72: How to Design Your Group Coaching Course
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 grou...
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Episode 72
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23:34
Ep71: Choosing a Niche (Or Not) With Laura Simms
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 ...
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Episode 71
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28:47
Ep70: Which style of coaching is best?
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 y...
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Episode 70
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26:45
Ep 69: Coaching in Organizations
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...
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Episode 69
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31:44
Ep 68: The Craft of Coaching is Back
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....
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Episode 68
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Ep67: Taking a Sabbatical
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.co...
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Episode 67
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Ep 66: Make Some Noise Andrea Owen
Andrea Owen is our guest today, here to talk about how coaches can start to “make some noise” in their personal lives as well as how they show up with visibility online. “Make some noise” isn’t just about speaking up--it’s about living your ...
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Episode 66
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