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- Self-belief Coaching Academy is ENROLLING NOW!
How do you know if you’re a good coach? Especially when so much of coaching happens behind closed doors, and your own self-doubt isn’t always the most reliable narrator.
For many coaches, there’s a strange gap between deeply valuing reflection and feedback, and at the same time feeling a bit exposed by the prospect of looking too closely at our client work.
In this episode, I’m joined by SBCA Head Support Coach Scott Robson, to explore what actually helps us become better practitioners.
We talk about the protective patterns we bring into the coaching room, learning to tolerate uncertainty without rushing to rescue or resolve, and why excellent coaching is less about being perfect and more about staying present.
We also share the new evidence-based assessment approach inside Self-Belief Coaching Academy: a way of examining real coaching conversations that turns assessment into part of your development, rather than a final verdict on whether you’re good enough.
If you want to find out more about SBCA: check out your invitation!
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If you've enjoyed Courage & Spice, please leave a review, subscribe on your favourite app, or share this episode with another coach. Sending all good things to you xx - Your most self-aware clients can already see what isn’t working and they know they want to change - that’s why they’re coaching with you!
So how frustrating is it when you have one of those glorious “Oh my God, that’s it” sessions together… and then nothing really changes for them?
In this episode, I’m breaking down why your client’s resistance to applying their insight and making actual changes is always useful information, and what it might be pointing to.
We’ll explore the difference between coaching the beliefs and behaviours a client can already see and working with the organising identity underneath them.
Want to learn how to do this in your coaching conversations?
🌼 Beyond the Story FREE MASTERCLASS: all about how to coach at the level where lasting change becomes possible. [Sign up here and come along!]
📚 PLUS: Beyond the Story is one doorway into the deeper coaching work we do inside Self-Belief Coaching Academy → enrolment is open NOW for the waitlist (with juicy bonuses!)
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If you've enjoyed Courage & Spice, please leave a review, subscribe on your favourite app, or share this episode with another coach. Sending all good things to you xx - What if doubling your coaching revenue didn’t require more followers, more sales calls, another offer or squeezing more clients into your already-full week?
Most coaches default to six sessions or three months without ever really questioning why. Beneath that arbitrary ending are often some very human doubts: What if I run out of tools? What if the client stops getting value? What if I can’t justify asking them to stay?
But the business you want may already be hiding inside the depth of work you’re capable of offering.
This is an invitation to think differently about what makes longer-term coaching valuable, ethical and genuinely developmental. Because when you trust your capacity to offer both meaningful support and meaningful challenge, brilliant coaching becomes your greatest business strategy.
FREE MASTERCLASS:
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📚 Join the waitlist for Self-belief Coaching Academy (for early access and juicy waitlist-only bonuses!)
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If you've enjoyed Courage & Spice, please leave a review, subscribe on your favourite app, or share this episode with another coach. Sending all good things to you xx Behind the Scenes of a Group Coaching Programme Launch with Stephanie Mackinnon
09/08/2026 | 39 mins.What actually happens when you launch your heart's work into the world?
We've all heard about the emotional rollercoaster of launching, but what if you designed this around the ways you naturally connect, promote your work in a values-led way, and allow yourself to be supported?
This is such a candid, joyful conversation about launching - with fab returning guest (and Ripen mentoring client), Stephanie McKinnon.
If you are carrying an idea that matters deeply, but still wondering - Who am I to do this? Will anybody want it? And can I bring it into the world without exhausting/abandoning myself in the process? - this episode is totally for you!
Connect with Stephanie:
Stephanie MacKinnon is a certified coach and community facilitator, dedicated to supporting people who give a shit as they navigate the tension between their values and the realities of living under late-stage capitalism.
For over 15 years, across community spaces and coaching rooms, she's created space for people to slow down, think clearly, and dream beyond this moment toward what could be.
She supports artists, care workers, public servants, and ethical business owners — people who refuse to give up on a better future but also refuse to abandon themselves in the process. Having supported more than 100 clients over the years, she's now channelled that work into ROOTED, a leadership programme for people who want to ground in their values, resist the pressures of capitalism, and take small, steady steps toward a future they believe in.
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If you've enjoyed Courage & Spice, please leave a review, subscribe on your favourite app, or share this episode with another coach. Sending all good things to you xx- Does your business feel a bit noisy and complicated, with a collection of loosely related offers you’re constantly trying to market?
Or maybe you're feeling overwhelmed by all the things you could be doing, so you aren’t doing very much at all?
Perhaps you’re longing for a business that feels simpler, but there's also a lot of resistance to this - the spacious business we say we want can feel surprisingly unsafe...
In this episode, I’m taking you behind the scenes of my very boring business (nb: this has been years in the making: let's massively shortcut this for you!).
We are talking about the structure, the seasons and the self-belief involved in building your client-centred offer ecosystem that supports your people, your preferences, and the practice you are dreaming of.
FREE TO YOU:
🌼 Beyond the Story is my free masterclass all about how to coach at the level where lasting change becomes possible. [Sign up here and come along!]
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Apply now for Ripen www.saspetherick.com/ripen
Join The Coaching Well for Group Supervision here
FREE Private Podcast Bold not Beige: Why your coaching isn’t selling and what to do about it here
Website: www.saspetherick.com | Instagram: @saspetherick
If you've enjoyed Courage & Spice, please leave a review, subscribe on your favourite app, or share this episode with another coach. Sending all good things to you xx
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A weekly podcast just for thoughtful coaches! Practical, actionable support, so you can impact more beloved clients with your coaching medicine, and build a practice that feels like a ripe f🍑cking peach.Hosted by Sas Petherick: Coach, Supervisor & Self-belief NerdI'm @saspetherick on the Gram - come say hello x
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