Ep 159 Michael Counts Gr8 Q's - "Your fear is Masquerading as your best thinking"!
Update: 2025-09-04
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1. Best Coaching Advice Ever Received
- Don’t give advice—facilitate the client’s best thinking.
- Tempting as it is, offering solutions disempowers clients.
- Coaching should affirm that the answers are within the client.
- Advice-giving is ego’s playground; humility is the path.
- A coach’s real job is to create space, not control the outcome.
2. Advice for Being a Good Client
- Treat coaching like your life depends on it—because it kinda does.
- Investing your own money increases commitment and transformation.
- Coaching is about what you want, not what you need.
- Full engagement includes prep, reflection, and accountability.
- If you’re not ready to lean in, coaching won’t work.
3. What He’s Still Working to Improve in Coaching
- Cultivating deeper humility.
- Avoiding ego-driven behaviors (like showing off credentials or jargon).
- Letting silence do the heavy lifting—“holding space” is a superpower.
- Resisting the urge to offer answers disguised as help.
- Constantly choosing presence over performance.
4. Most Outrageous Thing in a Coaching Session
- Uses wild brainstorming to stretch clients’ imagination.
- Embraces ideas like hang gliding from San Francisco to San Mateo to break linear thinking.
- Believes in shaking people out of limiting assumptions.
- Coaching is about thinking new thoughts, feeling new feelings.
- Asks “What impact do you want to have in 500 years?”
5. What Still Makes Him Uncomfortable in Coaching
- Seeing someone who has a great life but can’t see it themselves.
- Feeling the pain of their unconsciousness or negative lens.
- Encourages gratitude as a mindset-retraining tool.
- Uses practices to shift attention from lack to abundance.
- Believes coaching’s core purpose is to raise consciousness.
6. Advice for Aspiring Coaches
- First, become a great client—receive coaching deeply.
- Pay for coaching so you’ll truly value it.
- Go all-in with prep, reflection, and documentation.
- The more seriously you take it, the more transformative it is.
- Price your coaching to match the seriousness you want your clients to bring.
7. Something He’s Had to Conquer
- ADHD: a gift and a challenge.
- Commitment to one path—avoiding shiny object syndrome.
- Balancing persistence with knowing when to pivot.
- Recognizing fear when it masquerades as logic.
- “Your fear is not your best thinking.”
8. How He’s Using AI in Coaching
- Sees AI as a major unlock for coaching accessibility.
- Focused on using tech to enhance—not replace—human connection.
- AI can extend great coaches’ reach but can’t replicate empathy.
- Built apps and tools to embed coaching into daily life.
- Believes the coaching-AI combo will reshape personal development.
Bonus: What He’s Learned Through Coaching
- Learned how to consciously create the life he wants.
- Coaching helped him uncover his evolving desires.
- Sees life as an ongoing process of creating the best version of himself.
- Wants to be “in creation mode” until he’s 120.
- Lives with curiosity, optimism, and awe for what’s coming next.
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