STRENGTHENING YOUR SKILLS

Building Your Confidence and Competence

When we confidently partner with our clients in the coaching relationship we are honoring the process of coaching by being present, listening actively, asking questions and using reflection to evoke awareness and being useful in the process of designing forward movement. This collection includes episodes that:

 

  • Sharpen coaching skills and mastery
  • Explore different coaching niches
  • Do deep dives into competencies
  • Explore growth and learning journeys
  • Provide ideas for self-care and compassion
  • Look at mindset and neuroscience
  • Increase awareness on credentialing

Focus on the Coaching Partnership

Let’s Strengthen Your Skills

514: Coaching A to Z with Dr. Haesun Moon
514: Coaching A to Z with Dr. Haesun Moon

What if the most powerful coaching tool isn't the next question you ask, but the words you choose to use? As we celebrate the 10th anniversary of the STaR Coach Show, I'm delighted to welcome Dr. Haesun Moon, a communication scientist, educator, author, and...

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513: Rethink Resistance with Travis Hahler
513: Rethink Resistance with Travis Hahler

What if your client’s resistance isn’t something to overcome—but valuable information about what they need in order to move forward? As coaches, it can be frustrating when a client says they want change, then suddenly pulls back just as real transformation...

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507: Depth Before Doing with Meg Rentschler, MSW, PCC
507: Depth Before Doing with Meg Rentschler, MSW, PCC

Today, host Meg Rentschler dives into the idea of “the thing beneath the thing,” those deeper beliefs and stories that are really driving our clients’ surface-level issues. Meg talks about some common traps coaches can fall into, like jumping too quickly...

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506: Mentor Coaching is Changing: What You Need to Know
506: Mentor Coaching is Changing: What You Need to Know

The biggest changes in decades are coming to mentor coaching. Today’s show walks you through the research behind the new Mentor Coaching Competencies, explains the brand-new Mentor Coach Specialization (MCS) credential, and lays out exactly what mentors and...

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504: Metaphors are Idea Containers with Lyssa deHart, MCC
504: Metaphors are Idea Containers with Lyssa deHart, MCC

Metaphors matter and, whether intentional or not, they exist in every coaching conversation. The metaphorical images we use have a strong impact on our clients’ brains, and we need to understand the neuroscience behind this power. Today’s guest explains how...

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488: Team Coaching Unpacked with Katerina Kanelidou, MCC
488: Team Coaching Unpacked with Katerina Kanelidou, MCC

The fundamental truth is that who you are is how you coach. That’s the principle that we are unpacking in today’s episode. Today’s guest opens up about her personal experience with neurodivergence, chronic illness, and burnout as a model to demonstrate how...

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482: All Coaching is Play with Paul Sanbar, MCC
482: All Coaching is Play with Paul Sanbar, MCC

We learn best when we are actively building and creating. Think Legos! All coaching is fundamentally play, and purposeful play transforms leadership development. Today’s guest is a certified hands-on thinking coach who brings Lego bricks into executive...

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481: The Trust Triangle with Meg Rentschler, MSW, PCC
481: The Trust Triangle with Meg Rentschler, MSW, PCC

Trust is everything in the coach-client relationship. In this solo episode, Meg explores “The Trust Triangle,” a three-dimensional framework that reframes trust in coaching beyond simply the coach-client relationship. Drawing on client stories and 17+ years...

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477: Artful Interruption with Meg Rentschler, MSW, PCC
477: Artful Interruption with Meg Rentschler, MSW, PCC

How are your “artful interruption” skills? This is a challenging yet essential skill for countering advice-giving patterns when facilitating coaching circles, peer learning groups, or team meetings. Inspired by a former student’s question about redirecting...

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461: When Values Collide with Meg Rentschler, MSW, PCC
461: When Values Collide with Meg Rentschler, MSW, PCC

How do you react when a client shares a perspective that fundamentally contradicts everything you believe about fairness, justice, or human dignity? In that moment, you face a choice that could define this session AND the entire coaching relationship. We...

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457: Transform Your Coaching with One Simple Word Change
457: Transform Your Coaching with One Simple Word Change

What if you could strengthen your communication and change the way you ask questions by switching one small word? In today’s episode, you’ll discover how replacing “why” questions with “what” and “how” can revolutionize your coaching conversations. Host Meg...

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445: Transform Sabotage Into Success with Carol Look
445: Transform Sabotage Into Success with Carol Look

As service providers, it’s imperative that we emphasize our own well-being before we can be there fully to help others. My guest is the ideal person to help us understand this concept of transforming sabotage into success. Join us to learn more! Carol Look...

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435: Disciplined Listening with Mike Reddington
435: Disciplined Listening with Mike Reddington

A good coach MUST be a good listener. Beyond that, they must be a “disciplined listener.” Today’s guest covers this topic with information and expertise. Join us to learn more! Mike Reddington is a Certified Forensic Interviewer and the president of...

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425: Path from PCC to MCC: Insights from a MCC Mentor and Assessor with Fran Fisher, MCC
425: Path from PCC to MCC: Insights from a MCC Mentor and Assessor with Fran Fisher, MCC

When should you consider the path from PCC to MCC? In this episode, you’ll learn the ICF designations for MCC and PCC, along with the different levels of coaching certifications. Fran Fisher joins us to discuss this topic, which is the sweet spot of her expertise. Explore this topic with us today!

Fran Fisher, MCC, is recognized as a pioneer in the coaching industry. She’s a published author, international speaker, and founding ICF executive board member who helped develop the credentialing program for aspiring coaches and training schools. She specializes in mentoring experienced coaches for their MCC accreditation, and she offers advanced certification mentor training. Fran founded one of the first coach training schools to be accredited by the ICF, and she’s an executive ICF board member as chair of the credentialing development committee, serving as an ICF credentialing assessor since 1998. In 2022, Fran received the ICF Circle of Distinction Award.

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423: The Bittersweet Nature of Change with Meg Rentschler, MSW, PCC
423: The Bittersweet Nature of Change with Meg Rentschler, MSW, PCC

Can you believe this is our final episode of 2024? At this time of saying goodbye to one year and opening the possibilities of a new one, it’s the perfect time to focus on change. Change is an inevitable and unpredictable part of life. Change is a process that requires us, as coaches, to look at the impact of change on ourselves and help our clients navigate change through the lens of growth, opportunity, and possibility. Join me for more about the bittersweet nature of change.

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421: Confident Communication: Your Key to Success with Bailey Massey
421: Confident Communication: Your Key to Success with Bailey Massey

Today’s guest is an expert in speech and communication training, and we are diving into the importance of our communication in building confidence and getting our work into the world. What an important concept for every coach to understand! Communication is everything in our effectiveness with clients and our success in putting our message out. Join us to learn practical tips for upgrading your communication!

Bailey Massey is the owner and founder of Bailey Massey Global, located in Denver, CO. She uses her expertise and master’s degree in communication to help people understand the profound influence of our voices and the ways we communicate. Bailey customizes training and coaching needs for organizations and professionals to successfully support them in meeting their goals related to speech and communication clarity, accent and dialect coaching, vocal projection, public speaking, presentation skills, non-verbal communication, internal communication, trust and relationship building, leadership and development, executive communication, cross-cultural communication, and client relationships. In this conversation, she helps us learn how we can tailor what we do and say to show up with clarity in our communication.

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420: Gratitude & Choice: Navigating Despair with Empowering Decisions with Meg Rentschler, MSW, PCC
420: Gratitude & Choice: Navigating Despair with Empowering Decisions with Meg Rentschler, MSW, PCC

In the face of life’s many ups and downs, how can we leverage gratitude, intention, and choice to face challenges and set our path forward? The reality is that despair and overwhelm can happen because so much of life is completely out of our control. How can we respond with empowering decisions instead of getting caught in the swirl of overwhelm and despair? The answer lies in adopting a mindset shift to embrace an attitude of gratitude, and this is a timely discussion for this week as we celebrate Thanksgiving here in the US. Join me for a closer look at today’s topic!

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419: Unlocking Success: A Collaborative Conversation on Effective Coaching with Candy Motzek
419: Unlocking Success: A Collaborative Conversation on Effective Coaching with Candy Motzek

Today’s episode is an experiment. We are having a joint collaborative conversation with a fabulous coach in Canada. We are interviewing each other for our podcasts, but we are doing it simultaneously. Join us as we explore the barriers that coaches hit, our passion for coaching, and details about the coaching partnership. Join us!

Candy Motzek is a coach, business mentor, and podcast host who is passionate about helping coaches launch successful businesses. Candy hosts the She Coaches Coaches podcast and has a unique background as a former senior leader in the corporate world. She brings a wealth of knowledge and actionable insight and her specialty is in empowering intelligent professionals to launch and grow successful coaching businesses. She uses this unique blend of practical strategies and mindset mastery to help clients achieve greater clarity. Her calming and personalized approach enables coaches to play bigger, find more clients, and create meaningful and profitable success.

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417: Master Your Coaching Mindset with Ann Fogolin, MCC
417: Master Your Coaching Mindset with Ann Fogolin, MCC

I’m excited to bring you this conversation today! My guest and I are in perfect alignment regarding the value that coaching brings to the world and the importance of giving coaches the skills and techniques they need to partner with their clients. Let’s dive into the topic of your coaching mindset. Join us to learn more!

Ann Fogolin is a Master Certified Coach who has been working with, learning from, and growing with her clients for nearly 20 years. Like many coaches, Ann came from another career path to coaching; utilizing her background in education, she continues teaching coaches today at the University of Texas-Dallas. Her business, Becuz I Matter, focuses on leadership coaching, and she serves as an ICF Assessor to help new coaches on their journey. Our discussion centers around the relatively new coaching competency of “a coaching mindset” (added in 2019).

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415: Strategic Self-Investment: Grow and Thrive with Meg Rentschler, MSW, PCC
415: Strategic Self-Investment: Grow and Thrive with Meg Rentschler, MSW, PCC

When was the last time you decided to invest in yourself and felt good about how it moved the needle toward your goals? On the flip side, you may have felt disappointed when an investment turned out to be a waste of time and effort—and no one wants to feel that way. I believe there is a strategy to help us focus on opportunities to invest in ourselves that pay off and deliver the desired results. Let’s take a closer look!

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