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Sarah Lewis
The coaching marketplace is crowded. More people qualify as coaches every year, and the noise keeps getting louder. It can feel overwhelming, especially for women new to coaching, or trying to build a practice alongside everything else they have to manage. How do you stand out when everyone seems to...
Sarah Lewis
Many coaches, and women coaches in particular, struggle with the idea of selling. There's something about the word "selling" that feels uncomfortable, even a little slimy. You went into coaching because you genuinely want to help people, not because you want to convince anyone of anything. The idea of being...
Sarah Lewis
Pricing is one of the most emotionally charged decisions a coach makes. It's not just a business calculation, it's a statement about your own worth, your confidence in your work, and your belief that you deserve to be paid fairly. And because of how women have been conditioned around money,...
Sarah Lewis
Getting your first coaching client is one of the most exciting, and most terrifying, milestones in any coach's journey. You've done the training. You have the certification. You believe in the work. And yet the gap between being qualified and actually having someone sit across from you, someone who has...
Sarah Lewis
Limiting beliefs are the invisible walls that keep your clients exactly where they are: quiet, taken-for-granted assumptions running beneath conscious awareness, the ones that tell her she's not good enough, that success is for other people, that she doesn't deserve what she wants, that the life she's living is as...
Sarah Lewis
The phrase "emotional control" can be misleading. When I talk about building emotional control in coaching, I don't mean suppression, pushing feelings down, ignoring them, pretending they don't exist. That kind of control isn't just ineffective long term, it's actively harmful. What I mean is something different: being in charge...
Sarah Lewis
Why Coaching Frameworks Matter Every coach, regardless of experience, benefits from having a clear framework to guide their work. A framework is not a script or a rigid formula. It is a structure that supports consistency while still allowing flexibility. Without it, coaching can rely too heavily on intuition, which...
Sarah Lewis
Why time matters in coaching sessions Time is one of the most valuable elements in a coaching session. Managed poorly, it can leave clients feeling unfinished or unclear. Managed well, it creates focus, depth, and clarity. Effective time management isn't about controlling the clock. It's about structuring the session so...
Sarah Lewis
Every coach faces this tension at some point. You've prepared a structure for the session: you know where you want to start, what you want to cover, and what you want to leave your client with. Then the session begins and something unexpected happens. Your client brings up something urgent....
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