Dec. 4, 2025

How Life Coaching Helps You Grow (And Your Clients Too)

Send us a text What if the fastest way to grow as a coach is to realize you’re transforming too? We open up about the mirror effect that happens in every session—how a client’s breakthrough expands our own awareness, sharpens our presence, and upgrades how we lead, parent, and partner. Instead of treating coaching as something we do to others, we frame it as a practice that works through us, shaping identity and belief with every conversation. We get practical about honoring that growth, sha...

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What if the fastest way to grow as a coach is to realize you’re transforming too? We open up about the mirror effect that happens in every session—how a client’s breakthrough expands our own awareness, sharpens our presence, and upgrades how we lead, parent, and partner. Instead of treating coaching as something we do to others, we frame it as a practice that works through us, shaping identity and belief with every conversation.

We get practical about honoring that growth, sharing a simple post-session ritual you can start today: reflect on what shifted in you, name one lesson you’re taking forward, and translate it into a tiny action within 24 hours. That rhythm turns insight into traction and builds quiet confidence over time. We also dig into why staying curious matters more than being clever, and how to ask yourself the same brave questions you pose to clients. The result is a compounding flywheel—client wins fuel your evolution, your evolution lifts your coaching, and the cycle continues.

We also talk candidly about certification. Yes, you’ll learn frameworks, ethics, and methods—but the deeper value is the space to transform as a person. Many who enroll aren’t chasing a business; they’re seeking a reset for their life, relationships, and leadership. Experiencing coaching from the inside out shifts your self-concept, strengthens your belief, and makes your presence more grounded and effective. When you help someone rise, you rise a little too—by design, not by accident.

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Chapters

00:00 - Coaching Changes The Coach

00:28 - The Mirror Effect Of Breakthroughs

00:44 - Lessons Coaching Taught Us

01:01 - Practices To Honor Your Growth

01:17 - Transformation Is Mutual

01:39 - Certification As A Space To Transform

01:57 - Personal Change Beyond Building A Business

Transcript
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Now, after mentoring a lot of coaches and bringing a lot of them through our certification, one thing that we both say is that coaching really changes us too.

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So why do you think that happens?

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So think of a time when you were coaching or inspiring or mentoring someone who was going through something you were going through too.

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After you were done, how did that help you?

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I have found that coaching others gives so many gifts.

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It helps them transform.

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But the person it helps out the most is you.

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Coaching others mirrors the coach's development.

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You can't coach someone else without learning something yourself.

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Every breakthrough you witness expands your own awareness.

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And that's why today's quote is every time you help someone rise, you rise a little too.

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So I'm curious, what's something that coaching has actually taught you?

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It has taught me so much.

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It has really helped me to be more introspective.

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And as a result, I've become a better mother, a better spouse, and a better leader.

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So how can coaches honor their growth as they serve others?

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By reflecting after each session for themselves.

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You celebrate not just the client's wins, but your own transformation as well.

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And stay curious.

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Ask yourself, how could this session I just had apply to me?

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So what do you hope coaches take away from this series?

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My hope is that transformation is mutual.

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It happens through you, not from you.

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Every session that you guide, every transformation that your client is going through, know that you're also transforming.

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If you make sure that you reflect and to stay open to all the growth that happens to your clients that is happening to you too.

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This is why we say in our certification, we just don't teach you the coaching skills.

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We create the space for coaches themselves to transform.

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Think about what it's like when you've transformed yourself and now you're talking to somebody else about how you can help them.

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Your belief is next level.

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That's why this step is critical.

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I remember when I signed up for my certification, more than half of the people in there actually didn't want to create a business.

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What they wanted was their own personal transformation.

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And what we found is that going through that process is exactly what you need to do to fully transform yourself and to become somebody different in every area of your life.