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Epic Coaching Moments

Short, true stories from the coaching room. Names changed, moments intact. Most take three minutes to read and rather longer to stop thinking about.

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Total Attitude Turnaround

Passed over for CEO, he was running at twenty percent. One question about music changed the last years of his career.

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I Define Myself Through My Work

Everyone told her to quit. We looked first at why she was overworking — and one sentence explained everything.

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Want to Talk About Monsters?

Delegating the bedtime story to my six-year-old seemed clever. The crying that followed taught me three things.

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Why Are We Doing This?

An internal coach opened the session with the bravest possible question. Neither of us had a ready answer.

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Marriage Turn-Around

Her one wish was that her husband would leave her, so she wouldn't have to do it herself. It went differently.

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Transforming Self-Criticism into Confidence

Encouraging to her team, brutal with herself. One simple rule made her feel noticeably lighter within days.

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Don't Quit a Job You Love (Part 2)

She had it all and wanted to quit anyway. The reason was an inner voice that had been ignored for years.

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Don't Quit a Job You Love (Part 1)

She loved her job, her clients and her team — and was about to resign over a few sentences her boss never said.

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Setting Boundaries

She blocked two mornings for her own strategic planning — then almost gave one of them away to me, thirty seconds later.

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The Very Depressed Lady Who Wasn't

She rated her mood below 10 out of 100. Four minutes later, pointing at a fern in a sunbeam, she said 98.

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From People-Pleaser to Leader: 4 Steps to Authenticity

A top executive who always put others first found four short sentences that changed how she leads — in under fifteen minutes.

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Who Are You, When You're Not Working?

You are not your hours. You are not your inbox. You are not your title. So who are you?

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