Practical workflows, templates, and honest tool reviews for coaches who'd rather be coaching. Written by someone who does this work.
I'm an executive coach. Nine years in. I didn't set out to become "the AI person" in my coaching circle. I was just drowning in notes and proposals and Sunday-afternoon admin, and I started experimenting out of pure survival.
Somewhere along the way, I got eight hours a week back. Colleagues started asking how. So I started writing it down. This is that.
It's a Sunday in March and I'm at my desk with a cup of green tea that stopped being warm about an hour ago. I have five sessions' worth of notes to write. My shorthand from Tue...
There's a paragraph in the middle of my coaching contract that lived there for almost four years before I actually read it carefully. I'd copied the bones of my original agreeme...
The worst first session I ever ran wasn't because the client was difficult. She was smart, articulate, genuinely motivated. The problem was me. I walked in knowing her name, her...
Last November I was onboarding a new client, a VP of product who'd been referred by someone I'd worked with two years ago. Good energy on the chemistry call. She signed the prop...
Six weeks into a promising engagement last year, my client texted me a photo of his resignation letter at 10:47 PM on a Sunday. Not a draft. The final version, already in an env...
Last March I had one of those weeks. Two clients wrapped their engagements within days of each other, a third paused to deal with a family situation, and suddenly my calendar ha...
A client wrote this on her end-of-engagement form last March: "I think you pushed me harder than I wanted to be pushed, and I'm grateful for it." I read it standing at my kitche...
I used free Calendly for three years. It worked fine. My clients booked, I showed up, nobody complained. Then one morning a client, a COO I'd been working with for about four mo...
I was at a coaching conference in Denver last fall, standing at one of those too-tall cocktail tables during a networking break, when a colleague I respect said something that s...
No tools roundups. No AI hype. Just what's actually working in my coaching practice, written the way I'd explain it to a colleague.