The Modern Leadership Coaching Podcast

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The Thing You Hide Might Be What Helps Others Most

2026-11-0225:36

Send us Fan Mail You can be talented, caring, and called to lead and still feel unqualified the moment it’s time to speak up. We’ve both been there, and we see it constantly in leadership coaching: people assume they have to be fully healed, fully confident, and fully “done” before they can help anyone else. The twist is that the messy middle might be the most powerful place you can lead from, because you still remember the ground someone else is standing on. We dig into why that “wait until...

What If Your Real Problem Is Not Your Tactics, But Your Thinking?

2026-10-2630:22

Send us Fan Mail You’ve probably felt it before: you did the course, earned the certification, sat through the workshop, took the notes and then the first real moment arrived and you still felt unprepared. That disconnect is not a character flaw, and it’s not proof you’re “bad at leadership.” It’s usually a training problem: you were taught tactics and steps, but not how to think when the situation is unclear, emotional, and moving fast. Marc shares a blunt lesson from his LAPD days. After n...

Four Levels Of Self-Coaching: The Self-Leadership Ladder

2026-10-1923:58

Send us Fan Mail Looking to lead yourself effectively? Sign up for our free Monday October 19th workshop, "It's Not a Discipline Problem: modernleadership.us/workshop You can be rock solid in one area of life and totally derailed in another, and it has nothing to do with “willpower.” Marc and Teresa map out a clear self-coaching framework that explains why: the four levels of self-coaching, which we also call the four levels of self-leadership. Once you can name the level you’re operati...

When to Lead and When to Listen

2026-10-1235:58

Send us Fan Mail Someone brings you a problem and your brain lights up with the perfect answer. That moment feels like leadership, but it is often the fastest way to lose trust, miss the real issue, and train people to stop coming to you at all. Marc and Teresa unpack how strong leaders choose between leading and listening, and why the secret is not a better script for guiding others but better self-leadership in the heat of a conversation. We walk through the three “hats” most of us w...

The Thing You Keep Talking Yourself Out Of

2026-10-0527:17

Send us Fan Mail Your brain is amazing at one thing that can quietly wreck your progress: it can take the exact action that would help you and file it under “danger,” “too much,” or “not worth it.” We dig into that mislabeling pattern and why it shows up as perfectly reasonable logic like I don’t have time, I’m too tired, or I can’t risk it right now, even when the truth is that the choice you’re avoiding is the breakthrough. Marc shares a simple fitness example that most of us have lived: s...

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