Julia Stewart Coaching Has Moved

We've consolodated our blogs and moved them to the School of Coaching Mastery site. Several new posts are waiting for you now. In fact, there's a lot more going on there. If you've subscribed to us in the past and liked what you read, then you'll probably want to change your subscription to the Coaching Blog. 

School of Coaching Mastery

Okay, there it is. The new School of Coaching Mastery logo. Putting it out here on my blog is an announcement of sorts. SCM has been a kind of brain child for several months. Maybe longer. I think it was gestating for a couple of years, while I was saying, "I don't want to start another coaching school, there are too many out there, already."

I didn't choose SCM though, it chose me... Read entire blog post at the Coaching Blog.

Do you Get Paid to Plerk?

Cool new word: Plerk. The combo of play and work. Reminds me of my definition of work : Problems as playthings or Having fun playing with problems... Read entire post at the Coaching Blog.

Featured in Blogwild

Hey! I got this little graphic from Andy Wibbels, today. Cool. He used my blog testimony in his newly released Blogging Bible, BLOGWILD! Basically, I talked about how this blog attracts new coaching clients to my business. (Very cool. Check it out on page 138.)

Read entire post at the Coaching Blog.

The Best of Times and the Worst of Times

I thrive on change. And for that reason, I have a special fondness for transitional periods (a.k.a. chaos). It's one of those things that I've learned not to overindulge in, like caffeine and alcohol, because it's so draining, but I must say I do enjoy it, now and then!

The coaching industry seems to be in a transitional period, right now. Rumors are flying and alliances are forming. I can't remember a week when I've had so many coaches call me up or email me just to say "'zup?"

The thing I like about transition is that it's ripe with opportunity. If you're a quick mover with a creative eye for the future, this is your time...Read entire post at the Coaching Blog.

The Servant Entrepreneur

Most coaches are attracted to coaching because they want to help make the world a better place. They love people, want to help people have better lives and often see their coaching work as a kind of spiritual practice. It's a way of giving and receiving, all at once. Very fulfilling.

Do you believe coaching is a spiritual practice?

Something else that makes coaching particularly attractive, is that it promises to be a lucrative career. Most of us are thrilled to discover that there is a profession where we can be the givers that we like to be and still make a six-figure income. Or seven figures, even!

Giving, helping, spiritual fulfillment, plus lots of money; that's an intoxicating combination! It's even a little addictive...Read entire post at the Coaching Blog. 

Starved for Inspiration?

OK, I'm re-inspired to the max.

Just attended a one-day seminar with the EnlightenmentNext people in NYC with Andrew Cohen, their founder, and Dr. Don Beck, the world's expert on Spiral Dynamics. This, following a 5-day intensive certification program with Dr. Beck in Boston, at Andrew's center, there.

I've been checking these guys out for a while and every time I go deeper and come out even more excited about what they're doing...Read the entire post on the Coaching Blog.

Did Coaching Go Mainstream Without You?

I've been at odds with all the experts on this one for years and I read it again in Andrea Lee's book, Multiple Streams of Coaching Income, recently (which I recommend, btw).

Everybody who knows anything about coaching knows that coaching hasn't gone mainstream, yet, but when it does, it'll be really BIG. Have you heard that one?

Guess what? Coaching already went mainstream!

How do I know? Read entire article at the Coaching Blog.

REALL Marketing for Coaches

Well, our Confab meeting with guest mentor coach, Barbra Sundquist, on "Do Coaches Need to Get Real?", was very high energy! There are a lot of smart coaches on the calls and they're not shy about sharing. Barbra didn't get to talk as much as we expected, but gracious as she is, she recognized that it was a great call, anyway! (If you're not a member, yet, go here: http://www.coachingconfab.com. You can also access the free recording of the call and previous calls, there.)

Several callers mentioned my recent post, "No Wonder Clients Aren't Buying", so the call became a discussion on marketing; what works, what doesn't, and what's just plain repugnant. I'm getting lots of feedback on that post and on the Confab meeting. We've really struck a nerve in the coaching community! Read entire post at the Coaching Blog.

Are You Stuck in the Green Meme?

I've been fascinated by Spiral Dynamics, lately. It's a theory of human development that helps to explain people's paradigms, both individually and culturally. (You can read a brief synopsis of it in Ken Wilber's A Theory of Everything, or the whole enchilada in Spiral Dynamics by Don Edward Beck and Christopher C. Cowan.)

This theory neatly explains why people think what they do and why there is so much disagreement about values in today's world - and it's weirdly color coded...Read the entire article at the Coaching Blog. 

Inspiration is for Amateurs

"Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up." I heard Chuck Close say this the other night on a PBS interview. It pricked my ears, because inspiration is a big part of what I do as a coach. It's for amateurs? But the more he talked, the more I agreed with him. Listening to Close took me back to my years of training in the arts... Read the whole article at the Coaching Blog.

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