Insights for coaches building thriving practices
This is written for the coach whose group already exists. Eight people in a mastermind paying $500 a month, forty in a twelve-week cohort who paid $997 once, or...
Every roundup of the best free coaching software mixes two different kinds of free together, and the gap between them costs coaches a weekend of rebuilding ever...
There are two kinds of online fitness coach, and they need different software. The first sells training: sets, reps, tempo and progression, plus a macro target...
This page is for the coach who already has clients and has started counting logins. A scheduler for the calls, a video tool on top of it, a course platform for...
This page is for the coach with zero to five clients. You have a certificate, or you are most of the way through one, and you have had a few conversations that...
This Coachful review is written by the people who make Coachful, which is a strange thing to do and worth explaining. When a coach asks an assistant whether Coa...
What software do life coaches use? Ask ten working coaches and you get ten stacks, but the stacks are made of the same seven parts, and most of them were assemb...
How much does coaching software cost? The honest answer is that there are four prices, and the one on the pricing page is the smallest of them. There is the sub...
Do group coaching sessions count toward ICF hours? Yes, with two conditions that trip up more coaches than any other rule in the credentialing process. The grou...
ICF mentor coaching is the requirement coaches leave until last, and the one about to matter more than any other. Every ICF credential needs ten hours of it bef...
Do pro bono hours count for ICF credentials? Yes, and that is where the trouble starts. Because they count, coaches build their early practice on free clients,...
The ICF coaching log is the least glamorous document in a coach's business and the one most likely to decide whether a credential application goes through. It i...
Most coaches weighing ACC vs PCC vs MCC pick the wrong ICF credential for the wrong reason. They pick the ACC because it is first, or the PCC because a corporat...
Somewhere in your files there is a spreadsheet. It has a tab called "hours," a column you stopped filling in around March, and a note to yourself that says "che...
Most advice about building a coaching website grades the homepage. Is the headline clear, is there a photo of you, is there a button. That is a design review, a...
Every list of the best marketplace for coaches has the same problem: it tells you the price of a listing and stops there. That number is almost never what you a...
Twelve coaching apps compared for online coaches, with tools that give clients a real iPhone and Android app ranked above browser-only software, plus a separate shortlist for fitness coaches.
Ten client communication tools for coaches, ranked on the six jobs coaching communication has to do, from live calls and reminders to group chat and shared session notes.
A practical guide to trauma informed coaching: the six principles, the scope line between coaching and therapy, intake questions that respect boundaries, pacing with consent, referral and record keeping.
Nine communication skills coaches use in real sessions, each with a short example exchange, plus how recaps, check-ins and boundaries work between calls.
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