This episode is an audio recording of one of our Soulful Success calls. This call is what we call the Growth/Achievement BizCall. We also have a regular biz call that’s open to everybody but we do a special call twice a month for members who are in the growth and achievement phase of their business. These members have been in business from five to 30 years. Today, we did not do a lot of coaching. I brought a context to share a conversation around that I think you might find enlightening. I would love to hear after you listen to this episode, what your takeaways are.
And so before I unleash the recording of this session, I want to share a little bit about what I believe coaching is and what I see is in the marketplace. So I distinguish between coaching, training, and consulting and I personally believe that coaching is actually a facilitation process that involves conversation, insight, self-discovery, visioning, strategy, inner work and flushing out ideas. And then obviously there are some performance-based business coaches that hold accountability, track goal progress, et cetera.
I am capable and able and often do a combination of both pure coaching where I am drawing out only the knowledge of my clients and then other times I am in a teaching or facilitation mode. Today’s session is bringing up a context, having a conversation and then sharing insight and exchanging ideas. And I think it’s interesting because we see that term “business coach” out in the world and I guess everybody has different meanings, but I think a lot of people are calling themselves business coaches when they’re actually consultants or trainers.
My clients, the ones that thrive best in the environment that I provide, are people who know how to take insight and run with it. I used to do a lot, a lot, a lot of training. I’ve done a lot of training, but I really enjoy facilitating the conversations like we had today. Part of what you won’t see because we were on a Zoom call is the chat, and so one of the members that actually participated in the conversation today, she was not able to be on video or audio because she had her one-year-old daughter with her, but she was texting in her questions and we actually had a really amazing conversation.
She is actually leading a class today on healing trauma as a business person. So I think that you’ll really enjoy this advanced conversation and what I mean by advanced is that it’s a little esoteric. It goes much deeper than the actions of building a business and that aligns with my philosophy of who we be and how we’re being impacts all of our doing.
And so with that today, I’m delighted to share behind the scenes. I did get permission from all of my clients to share this. I didn’t realize I would be sharing this recording with you but it worked out perfectly to just go ahead and instead of translating one lesson, we had this call was so thick and juicy, I wanted you to be able to eavesdrop in on one of the mini sessions we have behind the doors of Soulful Success.
With that also I really want to encourage you to give our community a try. At the time of this recording, there are 60 members. 30 of them have been in the program for over a year and around 15 of them are approaching their two year anniversary in September, October and many other people are approaching their one year anniversary as we come up.  We also have a couple of brand new members. There are business owners of all different stages and phases. There are some people that don’t own businesses. They’re just there for the life coaching part, but what it is that I find my people are really wanting and needing, they’re very capable of doing life, business, work, thinking, growing on their own, but they want a place to anchor their soul. Sometimes they want to be witnessed and seen,