Father Greg Boyle, founder of the largest gang-intervention, rehabilitation, and re-entry program in the world, was asked to describe humbleness. He shared a story about a man who had asked him how to reach a hardened gang member. Boyle’s response astounded me. “For starters, stop trying to reach them. Can you be reached by them?”

When you’re first learning to coach, we all learn that a good coach can coach a client on pretty much any topic.  The norm in coach training is that the coach will start the conversation with, “What would you like to talk about?” and then the client could come back with any variety of issues:

“How much should I charge for coaching?” is a question I get every week. Here are my best answers. A rate that makes you slightly uncomfortable A rate that doesn’t vary A Rate that Makes You Slightly Uncomfortable If you charge (as of 2019) $25 or less, you are working for less than minimum wage.

At CAM, we train people how to coach.  Learning to coach is not easy, but at least it’s rather straightforward.  What is way more mysterious, challenging, and downright discouraging is turning the ability to coach into an actual coaching practice.  Starting, growing, and sustaining a coaching practice is not that straightforward or simple. I believe

I don’t get clowns.  I find circus clowns troubling.  Stephen King’s Pennywise character is just plain terrifying.  Even Ronald McDonald freaks me out.  But perhaps the most disturbing type of clown isn’t of the painted face variety – it’s the ego-driven kind. The ego-driven clown covers up his/her insecurities with a false façade of confidence,

Last year there was an internet meme (is that what it’s called?) about how Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos earns a gazillion dollars a second (approximately) while some Amazon employees struggle to get by and others rely on food stamps because they can’t make ends meet on what they earn.  The contrast was meant to vilify