There’s a difference between having experience and knowing how to coach. A good coach doesn’t hear your story and immediately filter it through their own life.
They don’t assume that because something worked for them, it must be the answer for you. They listen. They ask better questions. And they create enough space for you to get underneath the story you’ve been telling yourself and find the answer that is actually yours.
This week on COACHED, I’m sitting down with someone who knows my coaching from the other side of the conversation: my client and friend, @lesliefraley .
Leslie came to coaching after building a successful business and a life that, on paper, worked. But she knew there was another chapter asking something different of her. Our work together became part of her journey from founder of Fine Folk to stepping into her own work as a coach and founder of Second Act.
So yes, we talk about what makes a great coach. But we also talk about what it feels like to actually be c...