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.

There’s a tendency in coaching for everyone to emphasize the problems and what’s not working. How can we integrate more fun, even if the problems are still there? Let’s start helping clients have more fun with these new ideas for energizing your coaching sessions.

Because coaches are empathetic, many struggle with knowing the line between care for clients, and crossing a line into care-taking. How can we practice more respectful client boundaries? When you try to control what’s happening in a session or save the client from any negative feelings, you end up care-taking, not caring. This podcast episode on respectful client boundaries gets into the differences.

What are the essential life coach skills that every coach needs? Often, coaches know that something powerful is happening in their sessions, but they don’t necessarily have the ability to define or describe what the skills are. In this episode, I’m breaking them down and describing each one--and this episode is a great refresher for coaches who know that there’s wisdom in revisiting the basics!