A Podcast for Coaches
Mark Butler
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[Full Coaching Call] Slapped with Reality: Difficult Conversations About Money in Marriage
Coaching Session with Joyce: Money Mindset & Relationship DynamicsEpisode SummaryIn this coaching session, I help "Joyce" explore her beliefs around money, particularly how she feels responsible…
My Best Friend Might Kill Me, Some Thoughts on Claude(.ai)
I alternate between awe and terror when I work with Claude. One minute I'm watching 5,000 lines of code appear like I'm in The Matrix, the next I'm having existential panic about robots taking my…
Development over Diagnosis
You Are Not Your LabelI've noticed a concerning trend: clients who filter their experience through diagnostic labels rather than their actual thoughts and feelings. They're essentially "othering"…
Two Types of Coaching: Hygiene vs Repair
In this episode, I explore two fundamental coaching approaches that impact your practice's financial stability. "Hygiene coaching" serves clients who view coaching as essential maintenance—like…
The Coach with a Superiority Complex
In this episode, I explore the territory of superiority - that place where I position myself as right, evolved, or "above" while seeing others as wrong or behind. This pattern emerges most in…
How to Build a 5-15 Session per Week Coaching Practice Without Chasing Clients
In this episode, I share a new hypothesis about how coaching practices can get full without spending too much time or money pursuing clients. I've reduced my ideas into a simple mantra: "As I spend…
Managing the Unpredictability of a Coaching Practice
Most months I start with no idea who will hire me. That uncertainty creates anxiety, even though I've learned to manage it well.Here's what helps: While my practice feels unpredictable…
Grow Your Practice By Doing the Inner Work -- A Conversation with Chantel Allen
My friend Chantel Allen uses personal practices like "the hour of silence" to calm her mind, heal her pains, and prepare herself to coach her clients in the way that feels right to her. I brought her…
Build Listening Skill as a Coach
In this episode, I talk about an experience with a friend in high school that shaped my love for listening. She shared the details of a tough season in her life, and then thanked me for the way I…
The importance of tracking true "utilization" in a coaching practice.
Along with a few other ideas about what numbers a one-on-one coach might want to track in order to keep the practice healthy.
The hardest and easiest parts of growing a one-on-one practice.
Part of the appeal of a one-on-one practice is that its hard parts aren't as hard as other business models (like "scalable" training), and its easier parts are even easier (and more…
A utility vs luxury view of coaching.
Coaching can be a utility the client views as a semi-permanent part of their life, or a luxury they view as a special one-off event. Both approaches offer great experiences for both coach and client,…
An Invitation to the Pain of Coaching
The best coaching is an invitation to productive pain in pursuit of the reward on the other side. Today's episode inspired by this essay, shared with me by my coach, Liz.
Ending the Launch-Based Adrenaline Addition - Conversation with Kristen Boss
Kristen Boss's coaching business started in 2019 with pajama-clad Facebook lives at 6am. In the five years since, she's generated millions of dollars in revenue -- mostly using the launch-based…
Conversation with Paula Engebretson - Why Can't I Publish Consistently?
Paula Engebretson coaches people with an ADHD diagnosis (or ADHD tendencies). Since I know she has ADHD, and since I may or may not be a member of her target audience, I've been surprised at how…
The Rise and Fall of My $50,000 per Month Membership Business
I've been wondering whether a membership model would be the best way to set up a practice space for coaches (discussed a few episodes back). You may not know that between 2009 and 2012 I ran a…
Go where your people are (or bring them to you).
Two weeks ago I went to Tennessee to speak at an event hosted by my friend, Edie Wadsworth. This week, Kate (my wife) taught some classes at a church camp for young women. We both loved our…
Look alive on the internet.
I've recently taken a walk through dozens of coaches' websites and social media profiles. I found many of them are just like me: we tend to forget, ignore, and/or abandon our web presence. I've…
If you're putting in the effort and no one is hiring you.
You may feel like you're working as hard (or harder) than your peers but not seeing the same (or any) results. This episode explains what I think you're experiencing, what you can do about it, and…
Succeeding as you, not as someone else.
As we grow our practices, it's helpful to know the big picture (what I call strategy) and the specific actions (tactics) that flow from the big picture. But if we don't know ourselves, we'll look to…
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A Podcast for Coaches has published 49 episodes since October 2022, covering topics in Business, Entrepreneurship.
A Podcast for Coaches is currently dormant with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 34m.
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