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10/07/2026

I’m not a small talk person.

If we’re chatting, I’m probably going to skip “so what do you do?” and ask you something deeper.

Partly because it makes conversations way more fun. No one really wants to give their 30sec work spiel or talk about the weather.

And partly because, I’m genuinely interested in who people really are. And I can’t get that from your opinion about the rain.

This translates heavily over into coaching practices, coaching relationships, too.

Talking about the weather = talking about hitting protein targets.

Neither one will actually help you better understand the person on the other side.

And the MOST effective coaching practices are based on deeper level understanding of the person.

This week’s new podcast episode got personal, about how mindset and psychology expertise shows up in my personal relationships 👇

Comment 118 and I’ll send you the full episode 🎧

One of our Health Mindset Coaching Certification (HMCC) program mentors said it perfectly on a call recently: learning t...
10/07/2026

One of our Health Mindset Coaching Certification (HMCC) program mentors said it perfectly on a call recently:
 
learning to coach from a mindset and behavior change perspective is like learning a new language.
 
Because it’s not just learning new stuff. You have to rethink the way you present information to your clients. Get comfortable asking different kinds of questions. Recognize how to spot patterns you never noticed before.
 
This feels awkward and clunky at first, just like when you’re learning a new language.
 
But once you reach a level of “fluency” it’s hard to even turn it off 😅
 
That’s where our students get. Even unable to turn it off in OTHER relationships in their lives outside of coaching
 
Comment 118 and I’ll send you this week’s new episode about how this kind of “fluency” shows up in my own life... for better or worse 😆 🎙️

Your client says “I’m an emotional eater”Most coaches hear that as just a description of what they do, gloss over it, an...
10/06/2026

Your client says “I’m an emotional eater”

Most coaches hear that as just a description of what they do, gloss over it, and move on...

Then, those coaches get frustrated because no solution seems to “fix” the problem of their client who always turns to snacks when they’re stressed.

The part those coaches are missing 👇

Decades of research on identity and self-concept suggests people are motivated to act in ways that stay consistent with how they see themselves... even when that self-view isn’t serving them.

It’s not an issue of “discipline” it’s the desire to stay congruent with the story they already believe about themselves.

So when a client hands you an identity statement (not “I ate more cookies than I planned to” but “I’m the kind of person who does this”)... that’s a signal.

How they see themselves (“the kind of person”) is likely part of the reason they’re doing the behavior (“I ate more cookies than I planned to”)

This shows up everywhere, not just food:
“I’m just not a morning person.”
“I’ve never been someone who enjoys exercise.”
“I’m bad with money.”

Before you jump to providing solutions to change the behavior, get curious about the identity that might be supporting it.

Where did that story come from? What’s it currently protecting them from?

It’s a really good thing September was filled with so much joy to help offset the stress of being a McLaren Mastercard F...
10/05/2026

It’s a really good thing September was filled with so much joy to help offset the stress of being a McLaren Mastercard Formula 1 Team 🧡 😅🧡☀️

I don’t share much about my relationships on here.. anymore 😅But if you listen to the podcast, you get more details (yal...
10/05/2026

I don’t share much about my relationships on here.. anymore 😅

But if you listen to the podcast, you get more details (yall get more of everything over there)

And this week’s episode turned into a conversation about hard conversations. How I see my expertise in psychology show up in those conversations, for better or for worse

I still have to be intentional. I have to deliberately pause before responding, think about how I’m framing questions, and really pay attention to how I respond.

Being “fluent” in this stuff doesn’t mean you always know exactly what to say.

But it DOES mean you know how much what you say matters.

And coaches, so much of what we use in the coaching relationship, the mindset, the psychology, the communication, shows up in every other relationship too.
 
Comment 118 and I’ll send you the full episode 🎧

10/02/2026

You’ve probably done this without realizing it...

Miscounted the weight on the bar.
Grabbed dumbbells you thought were lighter than they were.
Then got to the end and went “wait, I just accidentally hit a PR???”

That wasn’t luck. That was your belief about what you could handle getting out of the way for one set, because you didn’t know enough to set the ceiling in advance.

Which kind of proves the whole point.

Your limit was never really the number. It was the story you were telling yourself about the number.

This week’s new podcast episode is about how your mindset and beliefs impact your strength training (and coaching considerations with this)

COMMENT 117 and I’ll send you the full episode! 🎧

A client misses half their workouts this month, and the first instinct is to go straight to what’s broken. Why aren’t th...
10/01/2026

A client misses half their workouts this month, and the first instinct is to go straight to what’s broken.
 
Why aren’t they showing up. What’s the barrier. What do we need to fix.
 
Optimization doesn’t mean ignoring what’s not working.
 
It’s about making sure what IS working doesn’t get overlooked just because it’s not the metric you were trained to look for.
 
Comment 117 and I’ll send you this week’s full episode about strength training mindset and coaching practices

AI can’t catch when “I just don’t have time for this” actually means “I don’t believe this is going to work for me.” AI ...
09/30/2026

AI can’t catch when “I just don’t have time for this” actually means “I don’t believe this is going to work for me.”
 
AI can’t notice that a client isn’t actually struggling with the plan at all...
 
They’re struggling because they don’t feel like they belong in this process, or they don’t believe they’re capable of changing, or they feel like they’re doing this for someone else instead of themselves.
 
None of this has to do with the nutrition plan or training program. And it has everything to do with being human.
 
This is the part that’s actually getting more valuable, not less, while AI gets good at every other part of your job as a coach.
 
The answer isn’t competing with AI on the stuff AI is good at. It’s getting better at the stuff it can’t do at all.

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