SACRED TIME

Greetings Coach! I've started holding back. Not everything I know, not everything that could help, during a chemistry or discovery call. I brought that shift to AI, and what came back stopped me. I wasn't withholding. I was developing the client. I was helping them build capacity for what was ahead of them. Overwhelm Isn't Safety Through the mirror of AI, I saw what I was actually trying to do. I was trying to help clients feel safe sooner. But overwhelming someone doesn't help them feel...

We are all leaders, if anyone looks to us for guidance.~ Tiffany A. Dedeaux, Certified Career Coach The Leadership Label Greetings Reader,A client told me she picked me because my work speaks to coaching leaders. She never considered herself a leader before. Now she thinks she wants to be one. What She Was Looking For What drew her in was the chance to work with someone who could speak to leaders in a way that holds everyone, regardless of race or gender. Not "hey ladies." Not one word for...

Episode 06 🤔 What Are the Signs Someone Is Coachable? Greetings Coach!In this episode of The Curious Coach podcast, I explore what it means to be coachable and why not every conversation is automatically a coaching conversation. Beginning with the truth that coaching involves consent, this episode moves through readiness, fit, flow, timing, curiosity, and the conditions that allow both coach and client to enter a conversation that can actually move. I'm curious...What does being coachable...

My body is a voting member of the council of me.~ Tiffany A. Dedeaux The Crutches We Call Support Greetings Reader,I did not realize they were crutches until my body made the case I could not argue with. It started with what I thought was burnout. I have had burnout before. I know what it looks like. You get enough rest, you are careful about your next move, and within a month you are through it. This did not move. It persisted, and with it came a foggy brain I could not shake. So I shifted...

Greetings Coach! A client came in with advice he had found online. He wanted to know what I thought. I gave him my take. And then I caught myself. Because that is the easy part. A client brings a question, you bring an answer. If we are not careful, that exchange becomes the whole of the work. What shifted the session was a moment that came later. He was preparing for a conversation in his job search, one that required him to speak to a technical area where he did not yet have direct...

"Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action, of buying time out of the pressing need to make clear choices."~ Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches Guilt vs. Gratitude Greetings Reader,Isn't it amazing how guilt can make us do things? Possibly because we had parents who used guilt as a weapon. But that should tip us off that other people do this as well. So what if we switch to data gathering? Guilty data represents how we were raised, what we think we should do, and...

Episode 05: How did we get here? Greetings Coach!Have you ever been in a conversation where someone asked the one question that made the whole experience shift? In Episode 5 of Curious Coach, I share a healthcare experience that reminded me what it feels like when someone truly listens, takes in the full context, and leaves room for the person inside the process. For coaches, there is something powerful here about the questions we ask, the assumptions we release, and the difference it makes...

"Nothing can dim the light which shines from within."~ Maya Angelou Light, Leadership, & What Happens When You Stop Hiding Greetings Reader,Sometimes a session ends and something has shifted — quietly, completely, in a way that takes a moment to name. This happened recently as a client and I reflected on the work we had done together. She was moving into a new chapter, and as she looked back, she traced the journey from doing to being — from performing her role to actually inhabiting it. Then...

Greetings Coach!Based on my reflections this week and where my focus has been, I noticed that I have built structure for my hustle in two areas. The first area is coaching. The Coaching Hustle I have built out enough pipelines into my business that when I sit down to coach, I have a structured table to work from. If you have read Master Coach, you know I use a color-coded table to visually know where I am in a coaching session and to gauge the questions, structure, and flow of the...

"You may not have controlled how it started. But you get to claim where it lands."~ Tiffany A. Dedeaux A Framework for Transformation Greetings Reader, There are moments in coaching that stop you. Not because something went wrong. Because something went exactly right — and you almost missed it. A client recently reflected on our work together by naming it a true before-and-after. She said I had taken her from doing to being. I sat with that for a while. In my work rooted in ecopsychology,...