COACHING 101

Daniel Lucas/Karen Deloach/Jackie Peligrin
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Coaching 101 is a practical, growth-driven podcast built to develop stronger leaders, more effective coaches, and impactful change-makers. Each episode distills proven coaching frameworks, communication strategies, and mindset disciplines that unlock individual and team performance. The emphasis is on application—learning how to ask powerful questions, build accountability, and facilitate real transformation instead of offering surface-level advice. Listeners gain clarity, structure, and repeatable methods they can immediately bring into conversations, organizations, and leadership environments. Coaching 101 prepares you to coach with intention and lead with measurable impact.

Episodes

  1. 17H AGO

    Coaching 101, in its first season, features Listening Beyond Words: The Core Skill Every Coach Must Master

    Coaching 101, in its first season, features Listening Beyond Words: The Core Skill Every Coach Must Master a powerful exploration of deep, transformative listening as the foundational competency of effective coaching. This episode unpacks the distinction between passive hearing and active, attuned listening, emphasizing emotional intelligence, somatic awareness, tone recognition, and contextual interpretation. True coaching mastery lies not merely in asking strategic questions, but in perceiving what is unspoken hesitations, shifts in energy, contradictions between language and body cues, and the underlying beliefs shaping a client’s narrative. By cultivating presence, suspending judgment, and resisting the impulse to immediately solve or advise, coaches create psychological safety and open space for insight to emerge organically. This episode equips listeners with practical frameworks for reflective listening, calibrated responses, and precision inquiry, ensuring that every coaching conversation moves beyond surface dialogue into meaningful transformation.

    28 min

  2. 1D AGO

    In its first season, Coaching 101 expands beyond mindset work and enters the powerful dimension of somatic awareness—the practice of coaching through the body as well as the intellect.

    This episode explores how emotional states, stress patterns, and behavioral habits are not only cognitive experiences but physiological ones. The body often reveals what the mind has not yet articulated. Posture, breath, muscle tension, and nervous system regulation all influence decision-making and resilience. When coaches learn to observe and work with these signals, transformation deepens. Somatic awareness begins with presence. Clients are guided to notice physical sensations without judgment—tight shoulders, shallow breathing, clenched jaws, or restless movement. These cues frequently indicate unprocessed stress or protective responses. By slowing down and increasing interoceptive awareness, clients gain insight into how their nervous system shapes behavior. Coaching shifts from abstract discussion to embodied understanding. This episode also introduces foundational concepts from neuroscience and polyvagal theory. The autonomic nervous system—sympathetic activation, parasympathetic recovery, and states of regulation—plays a central role in performance and emotional control. Coaches who understand these mechanisms can help clients transition from reactive states to grounded clarity. Regulation becomes the prerequisite for strategy. Breathwork is presented as a primary intervention tool. Controlled breathing patterns can shift physiological arousal within minutes. Coaches may incorporate short centering exercises to stabilize clients before addressing complex goals. The body becomes a gateway to emotional alignment rather than a distraction from it.

    24 min

  3. 2D AGO

    Coaching 101, in its first season, features The Coach–Client Relationship: Trust, Boundaries, and Ethics, examining the foundations that create safe, effective, and transformational partnerships.

    Coaching 101 in its first season features The Coach–Client Relationship: Trust, Boundaries, and Ethics, a foundational conversation about the architecture that makes meaningful transformation possible. At the center of every effective coaching engagement lies trust, built through consistency, confidentiality, and genuine presence. This episode explores how clearly defined boundaries create psychological safety, allowing clients to be honest, vulnerable, and open to growth. Without structure, coaching can drift into advice-giving or dependency, but with professional agreements in place, empowerment remains the priority. Listeners are guided through the ethical responsibilities that protect both parties, including transparency, informed consent, and respect for autonomy. The discussion highlights that integrity is not optional; it is the operating system of credible coaching practice. When expectations are explicit, communication improves and progress becomes measurable. Coaches learn how to maintain warmth without losing professionalism, while clients understand their active role in the partnership. The result is a relationship that balances compassion with accountability and support with challenge. This episode ultimately demonstrates that when trust, boundaries, and ethics are honored, coaching becomes a powerful container where sustainable change can truly occur.

    22 min

  4. 3D AGO

    Coaching 101, in its first season, features Behavioral Change Models Every Coach Should Know

    Coaching 101, in its first season, features Behavioral Change Models Every Coach Should Know an essential exploration of the frameworks that transform insight into measurable progress. This episode maps the psychology behind why clients resist, adapt, and ultimately sustain growth, equipping coaches with practical lenses for diagnosis and intervention. From motivation dynamics to habit architecture, listeners will understand how structured models create clarity, accountability, and repeatable results. Whether working in leadership, health, or life design, mastering these foundations elevates coaching from conversation to transformation. If change is the goal, methodology is the bridge.

    21 min

  5. 4D AGO

    Coaching 101: What Coaching Is and What It Is Not Understanding boundaries, roles, and the path to real transformation

    Coaching 101, in its first season, features What Is Coaching—and What It Is Not. In this foundational conversation, the show clarifies the true discipline of coaching by separating it from consulting, mentoring, therapy, and management. Listeners discover how coaching is built on powerful questions, deep listening, accountability, and forward movement rather than advice-giving or problem-solving on behalf of someone else. The episode explores the mindset, ethics, and structure that define professional coaching and why these distinctions matter for leaders, entrepreneurs, and individuals pursuing meaningful growth. Whether you are considering hiring a coach or becoming one, this installment provides the vocabulary and clarity needed to understand how real transformation happens.

    28 min

  6. 5D AGO

    Coaching 101, in its first season, features What Is Coaching—and What It Is Not, a foundational conversation designed to bring clarity to one of the most misunderstood disciplines in leadership and development.

    This episode separates coaching from mentoring, consulting, managing, and advising, helping listeners understand the unique power of facilitative dialogue and guided discovery. We explore why true coaching is less about providing answers and more about unlocking awareness, responsibility, and forward movement in the person being supported. By defining the boundaries, principles, and mindset that distinguish coaching from other helping roles, the episode equips leaders to operate with greater precision and effectiveness. Whether you are new to coaching or refining your approach, this conversation sets the standard for practicing coaching with purpose, structure, and impact.

    24 min
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About

Coaching 101 is a practical, growth-driven podcast built to develop stronger leaders, more effective coaches, and impactful change-makers. Each episode distills proven coaching frameworks, communication strategies, and mindset disciplines that unlock individual and team performance. The emphasis is on application—learning how to ask powerful questions, build accountability, and facilitate real transformation instead of offering surface-level advice. Listeners gain clarity, structure, and repeatable methods they can immediately bring into conversations, organizations, and leadership environments. Coaching 101 prepares you to coach with intention and lead with measurable impact.

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  • Creator
    Daniel Lucas/Karen Deloach/Jackie Peligrin
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    6
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Show Website
    COACHING 101

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