Coffee House Coaching – Details, episodes & analysis

Some highlights:

• 🏢 Immersing in an organization to understand its dynamics before coaching individuals.
• 🧭 Pinpointing where coaching fits within the organization (HR / L&D / Business Unit).
• 📜 The journey leading up to contracting the coaching engagement.
• 🔄 Establishing a consistent approach to succession planning through coaching.
• 📈 Developing a maturity model for coaching, from performance to succession planning.
• 💪 Doing your upfront work—trust us, it pays off in the end!
• 🔗 Ensuring alignment within the organization on the required leadership skills.
• 🧩 Mastering the best ways to align and sell your coaching services to an organization.
• 🧠 Adapting to the client's unique thinking—our job is to align with them.
• 📏 Measuring the tangible impact of coaching.
• 🌍 Understanding how the buyer views the world—seeing through their eyes.

Highlights:

• 🌟 Discovered the power of coaching in high school, empowering others from a young age.
• 📚 As an Executive and Professor, Nada identified critical gaps in skills and knowledge.
• 🚀 Founded "Rise Up For You," inspired by her dad's strong influence.
• 💵 Started with just $100 and built a 7-figure business spanning 50 countries.
• 🧠 Placed a heavy focus on Emotional Intelligence.
• 🛠️ Providing solutions for companies to better support their people.
• 🌍 Embracing Daniel Goleman's perspective on the 18 components of Emotional Intelligence.
• 🏅 Proud of overcoming immense hardships and challenges throughout her life.
• 🔥 Believes in the mantra: "Don't waste your pain."
• 📉 83% of professionals identify "Self Confidence" as their top challenge.
• 📝 Encourages everyone to "Take the quiz!", found on her website (It's free)
• 🎭 Balancing the roles of performer and observer.
• 🔄 Not afraid of uncertainty—able to pivot and adapt instantly.
• 🏆 Exuding Macro Confidence in every aspect of her work.

Highlights:

• 🌟 Discovered the transformative power of coaching during a tough time.
• 📚 Battled with editors over her book's unique style—she stood her ground!
• 💭 Always asking, "How do I want this person to feel?"
• 💼 Empowering coaches to confidently sell their services.
• 🔄 Changing the game by shifting perspectives on selling.
• ❌ Don’t just give it away—know your worth!
• 🔍 Selling the process vs. selling yourself—what's the secret sauce?
• 🎉 Celebrating when clients resonate with her book's stories—she nailed it!
• 🤝 Highlighting the surprising similarities between coaching and sales calls.
• 🤔 What’s crucial about selling? Always start with the “why.”
• 🎓 Leveraging her coaching faculty experience to shape her unique viewpoint.
• 🚧 Embracing boundaries as a powerful positive force.
• 🚀 No one-size-fits-all in sales—find what clicks for you!
• 📈 Prepping you for success with winning sales calls.
• 🧠 Checking in on your emotions during sales calls—mindset matters!
• 📚 Mastering sales skills right from your coach training days.
• 🔀 Distinguishing the roles of marketing and sales—know the difference.
• 🔄 Most coaches have a built-in pipeline—do you?
• 🎭 Channeling Jim Carrey’s authenticity from "Liar Liar"—keeping it real!

Highlights

Getting into coaching from an Entrepreneurial perspective and Overcoming some downfalls / Experiencing the power of coaching / Clients love Danielle's Engineering background / Coaching connects to the human side / Lead Authentically works with clients / Be yourself and still get what you want / How she helps clients and her style, great stuff / "running through your head" point of view / The stories going through your mind may not be true / What is the evidence around the Story / When you know better . . . you do better / Recognizing your Triggers / "Hey, what is that" funny moment / Starting of with advisory / coaching now it's 100% coaching / When coaching "Clicked" for Danielle / Tough questions / You don't have to answer the question to me, but answer it to yourself / Science Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Focus / Being challenging as a coach

Highlights

Being in a toxic situation and struggling to get out / Completing a "Value" Exercise that was extremely helpful / Coaching got a little bit uncomfortable / Wanting to leave her job and wanting to control all elements of leaving / Coaching helped Sarah get to a place she had struggled to get to for years / Working together to reframe her goals and define a meaningful career transition  / Challenging at times to reset thoughts and goals / "What's wrong with that?" / Resigning prior to having everything figured out / A value of a coach is NOT knowing all the players and pieces / Taking time out to evaluate her dreams and goals / Being in the Hamster wheel / Don't "Should" yourself

Highlights

Never planned to be an Executive Coach / Abrupt ending and had to Re-think a new role in the world / LOVED to hold people up and informal coaching / Being a woman in an industry of the Boy's Club / Figuring out how coaching fit into her life / Finding a coach to help "vocalize" her thoughts / Changing her identity and starting over / Workaholic background and fitting into Coaching / Bringing successful career to her coaching practice / Her philosophy on coaching her clients / Helping woman take up space similar to the way men do and taking credit / Being team oriented and still take credit for YOUR role / Coaching is a team approach / Having a less than positive initial coaching approach / Doing and initial Value Assessment / Coaching is a lot about marinating and allowing time for it to "sink in" / Mom influencing coaching and Coaching influencing Mom / Standing behind the leader now

You can find Victoria here - http://www.exceptionalfutures.com/

Highlights

• The Salt Lake city bookstore epiphany / What made people tick / No marriage and family therapist, career counseling emphasis was the focus / Coaching the whole person / Advice on group coaching, start with the most challenging group first / Coaching during the Global financial crisis / Global job 1,500 Executives and 200 coaches to manage / The fit between a coach and a client / Clients sometimes want to be challenged / Assessing when to move on from a client / Recommending other coaches to assess fit / Book working title - The Slingshot Quest - Discover your identity to design your destiny / What is the story behind the work / Sometimes we are conditioned / Coaching can and perhaps should be uncomfortable / Getting your Hours "gifted" / With her kids leaning towards asking instead of telling 

Hear Victoria's complete story on my "Wish I knew podcast . . ." Episode # 40

Highlights

• Found Rita on Linked In based on her tag line of "I help successful women professionals in male dominated industries"
• Feeling stuck in her career 
• Had mentors and curious about coaching
• Results
   
  • Increased awareness 
  • Limited beliefs 
  • What narrative do you tell yourself 
  • Language you use
• Be that person that you want to be
• Great use of reframing
• Great impact story for other areas of her life

 https://www.linkedin.com/in/ritahausken/
Featured on my "Wish I Knew . . . " podcast episode #44

Highlights

• 2003 coaching started when her son lost his ability to speak
• Started with using coaching in her career not AS a Coach directly
• Asking questions to her customers to gain loyalty
• In a team meeting asking "What else, what else, what else . . "
• Teaching clients to be able to coach their own team
• Creating space to allowing people to think
• Let all thoughts come out to open up for silence
• Being more human driven NOT number driven during her corporate career
• Growing during a crisis, using the human approach
• Coaching women in a masculine world
• Living in her genius zone
• Who are being rather than what are you doing?
• Using Visualization
• What do they really NEED, not just about the want
• Self sabotage
• Do you believe in it
• Do you trust yourself
• Shifted from being a provider to being a giver
• Having deep conversations at age 13

Highlights

• Understanding the impact of coaching
• Directing less and asking more
• Having the power
• CFO example on softening communication skills
• The "fluffy" email and seeing progress
• Watching the mindset shift
• Building trust
• Courage to gently challenge your clients
• Listening in an unbiased way
• The unexpected benefits of couching outside of a coaching session
• Helping others to be their best