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Ep #357: MVP: Increasing Your Coachability

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Oct 15, 2025
Unlocking your coachability could transform your business! Explore why coaching often triggers resistance and how to overcome it. Stacey shares her journey from a resistant client to a master of extracting value from coaching. Learn to embrace different coaching styles and understand that the real responsibility for applying insights lies with you. Discover how viewing general coaching as personalized advice can accelerate your growth. It’s all about shifting your mindset and maximizing every coaching interaction!
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INSIGHT

Why Coaching Feels Threatening

  • Your brain protects you by keeping you the same, which makes coaching feel unsafe and trigger fight-or-flight reactions.
  • Increasing coachability means retraining your alarm systems to create safety and openness for growth.
ANECDOTE

From Resistant Client To Persistent Student

  • Stacey describes being an extremely resistant client for her first two to three years of coaching and having intense physical and emotional reactions.
  • Her coach persisted, which required Stacey's vulnerability to keep returning and ultimately led to breakthroughs.
ADVICE

Own Coachability As Your Responsibility

  • Define coachability as your ability to use any coaching or value to create value for yourself and own that responsibility.
  • Focus on your thoughts and actions rather than blaming the coach when coaching feels challenging.
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