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Every coach has clients who leave them feeling drained, confused, or quietly frustrated. You prepare well, you show up fully, and the session still feels like it is working against you.
The fourth call of the day starts in six minutes. You're still thinking about something the client in the third session said.
You are 20 minutes into a session. Your client started talking about a goal they'd been working toward.
Running a group coaching session is not the same as running a 1:1 session with extra people in the room. The skills are related but the job is different.
When you're new to coaching, models feel like guardrails. They give you somewhere to go when you're not sure what to ask next.
If you ask most coaches how long their sessions are, they'll say 60 minutes. Ask them why, and many will pause.
Most coaches don't send recap emails. Not because they've decided against it, but because it never became a habit.
Every coach hits this tension. You're in a session, the client just said something important.
When video coaching first became widespread, coaches worried it would make sessions feel thin. Surface-level.
Most coaches have a silence problem. Not because they enjoy talking too much, although some do.
A coaching session can go beautifully for fifty-five minutes and still fail in the last five. That is not an exaggeration.
The first five minutes of a coaching session are doing more work than most coaches realize. While it might feel like warm-up time, the opening is actually when the client decides whether to show up fully.