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Ally Machate, CEO of The Writer’s Ally, is on a mission to help authors make great books and reach more readers. Publishing a book can help coaches share their expertise, experience and methods with so many more people than they could ever reach one-on-one.

In this episode, Melinda and Ally help listeners sort through the whys and hows of writing a book and provide clarity on the reality of becoming an author.

In this episode we discuss:

• What are reasons a coach should not write a book?
• What are reasons a coach should write a book?
• How can a book benefit your coaching business?
• Overcoming common mindset blockages for writing a book.
• What is the process of writing a book?
• What are signs you are ready to write a book?
• What to do if you have way too much content for one book.
• What is a ghostwriter?
• Should you consider writing a book with others or contributing to an anthology?
• What are the different kinds of books a coach can write?
• Having realistic expectations about writing, publishing and selling a book.

Ally Machate is on a mission to help authors make great books and reach more readers. As an author and expert publishing consultant, Ally has served small and “Big Five” publishers, including Simon & Schuster, where she acquired and edited books on staff. Her clients include authors with such companies as Simon & Schuster, Penguin Random House, Rodale Inc., Chronicle Books, Kaplan Publishing, Sourcebooks, and Hay House, as well as independently published bestsellers. Ally leads a diversified team of professionals who specialize in helping serious authors to write, publish, and sell more high-quality books.

Resources or websites mentioned in this episode:

1. Mirasee
2. Coaches Console
3. Ally’s website
4. Ally’s LinkedIn

Credits:

• Guest: Ally Machate
• Host: Melinda Cohan
• Producer: Cynthia Lamb
• Executive producer: Danny Iny
• Scripted and assembled by: Michi Lantz
• Audio Post Supervisor: Evan Miles, Christopher Martin
• Audio Post Production: Post Office Sound
• Music soundscape: Chad Michael Snavely
• Making our hosts sound great: Home Brew Audio

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• Music and SFX credits:

•Track Title: Clouds

Artist Name(s): Acreage

Writer Name: Marshall Usinger

Publisher Name: BOSS SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTIONS

•Track Title: Coastline Dream

Artist Name(s): Wild Sky

Writer Name: Adam Simons

Publisher Name: BOSS SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTIONS

•Track Title: Coo Coos

Artist Name(s): Dresden, The Flamingo

Writer Name: Matthew Wigton

Publisher Name: A SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTION

•Track Title: Stars & Trees

Artist Name(s): Outside The Sky

Writer Name: Dustin Ransom

Publisher Name: A SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTION

• Episode transcript: Should You Write a Book? (Ally Machate) Coming soon.

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Jackie Cote is known as the “freedom empowerment mentor” for guiding her clients in creating their “freedom lives” rich with more time, money, and flexibility.

In this episode, Melinda and Jackie talk about:

• Jackie’s visualization of success and freedom through owning a lake house with a mountain view
• Emphasis on nature’s role in expanding Jackie’s personal and client-oriented vision
• Shifting to virtual client interactions and how it opens up new prospects
• Guiding clients’ self-discovery of desires and pathways to possibilities
• Rising above fear, living in future visions, and letting go of past concerns
• Taking risks as growth and outreach strategies
• Running a successful virtual coaching business while traveling
• The practical aspects and emotional considerations of mobile entrepreneurship
• The critical role of clarity in vision and desires while building a business framework
• Overcoming fear and complacency by reframing experiences as adventures
• Setting intentions to harness feelings of freedom and success
• Manifestation of desires over time and embracing change as a constant in life
• The turning point of Jackie going “all in” on her business

Jackie Cote is a “freedom empowerment mentor,” international speaker, and RV adventurist. After mentoring and developing over 300 leaders to new levels in her past 30-year restaurant career, Jackie decided to take her gifts to the world in her own business. Now she mentors ambitious professionals who no longer believe in the hustle and grind, but aren't quite sure how to get out of that without losing the success they've already built. After working with Jackie, they start doing what they’re meant to be doing instead of what they think they "should" be doing — all while still creating more time, money, and freedom.

Jackie believes in awakening, empowering, and owning YOU unapologetically is this world. As such, she is now living her “freedom life” traveling full time in an RV with her husband and two fur babies while doing what she loves on her own terms and helping others create their freedom lives.

Resources or websites mentioned in this episode:
Mirasee
Coaches Console
Melinda’s book: The Confident CoachJackie’s website: JackieCoteCoaching.com

For show notes, visit Making Coaching an Adventure (Jackie Cote)

Credits:
Host: Melinda Cohan
Producer: Michi Lantz
Supervising Producer: Cynthia Lamb
Audio Editor: Marvin del Rosario
Executive Producer: Danny Iny
Music Soundscape: Chad Michael Snavely
Making our hosts sound great: Home Brew Audio

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Music credits:
Track Title: Clouds
Artist Name: Acreage
Writer Name: Marshall Usinger
Publisher Name: BOSS SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTIONS

Track Title: Coastline Dream
Artist Name: Wild Sky
Writer Name: Adam Simons
Publisher Name: BOSS SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTIONS

Track Title: Coo Coos
Artist Name: Dresden, The Flamingo
Writer Name: Matthew Wigton
Publisher Name: A SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTION

Track Title: Stars & Trees
Artist Name: Outside The Sky
Writer Name: Dustin Ransom
Publisher Name: A SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTION

Special effects credits:
24990513_birds-chirping_by_promission used with permission of the author and under license by AudioJungle/Envato Market.

Episode transcript: Making Coaching an Adventure (Jackie Cote).

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In the coaching world, there's a bit of dogma around non-directive coaching according to Danny Iny, CEO of Mirasee. Also, the way he sees it, there are many similarities between a great coach and a great consultant, but huge differences between poor ones.

In this illuminating episode, Danny Iny, CEO of Mirasee, and Melinda discuss the dogma around directive vs. non-directive coaching and why he believes it isn’t either-or. He elaborates on how the hybrid version of the coach and consultant can be the best solution for your clients. And also explores the best practices for helping your client determine exactly what they need.

In this episode we discuss:

• The similarities and differences between a coach and a consultant.
• Whether the coach/consultant or the client has the authority in the relationship.
• When having a coach or consultant is most beneficial. And what Danny means when he says that a hybrid of these is often the best solution.
• Directive versus non-directive coaching.
• If strategy belongs in the coaching conversation.
• The best practices for working with your client to determine exactly what they need.

“I'm not saying that you want to be directive all the time, but I think in the coaching world, there's a bit of a dogma around non-directive coaching and never giving advice that I think just doesn't really hold water.”

“As much as mindset plays a huge role in your ability to get things done, I find that the umbrella of mindset is often a crutch for people to create excuses about why they're not getting things done.”– Danny Iny

Danny Iny, CEO of Mirasee

Guest Bio: Danny Iny is an educator, author, and entrepreneur who is on a mission to reimagine business and transform education. His love-hate relationship with education began when he dropped out of high school at age 15 to start his first business. His frustrations with education were driven home many years later when he completed his MBA from Queen’s University School of Business.

As the founder and CEO of Mirasee, a business education company, Danny has developed innovative training programs that have raised the bar for online education. These include the Course Builder’s Laboratory, Business Ignition Bootcamp, and ACES Club. Over 5,000 value-driven entrepreneurs have enrolled in these programs.

Danny is a sought-after expert known for his knowledge, insights, and integrity. His published books include Leveraged Learning, Teach and Grow Rich, The Audience Revolution, and Engagement from Scratch!

He has guest lectured at institutions including McGill and Yale universities and has spoken on stage at various industry conferences and at Mirasee’s biannual live event, LIFT. His writing has appeared on Inc, Copyblogger, Success, and other websites.

Danny’s entrepreneurial journey has had many twists and turns. He built Mirasee after his previous startup imploded in 2008, leaving him $250K in debt. But he’s fond of saying that “failure is only failure if it happens in the last chapter; otherwise, it’s a plot twist.”

Today, Mirasee is a seven-figure business with 30+ employees distributed all over the world.

His latest book, Online Courses: A Business Parable About How to Create Freedom by Teaching Your Gift, is based on a decade of research, testing, and working with thousands of students. Online Courses reveal the opportunities and challenges for online course creators in today’s market, where people around the world are waking up to the power and excitement of online education.

Resources or websites mentioned in this episode:

• Mirasee
• Coaches Console
• Danny Iny’s LinkedIn
• Danny Iny’s books

Credits:

• Guest: Danny Iny
• Host: Melinda Cohan
• Producer: Cynthia Lamb
• Executive producer: Danny Iny
• Writer: Michi Lantz and Melinda Cohan
• Assembled by: Michi Lantz
• Audio Post Supervisor: Evan Miles, Christopher Martin
• Audio Post Production: Post Office Sound
• Music soundscape: Chad Michael Snavely

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Here's the link to learn more about Danny's special offer: http://www.Mirasee.FM/intensive

It can be extremely challenging and difficult for coaches when we suspect a client is lying. There are nuances to lying; not all lies are detrimental, and some can even serve as self-protection. Wait, what? Isn’t a lie a lie? The answer, it turns out, isn’t so simple. Today’s conversation is all about how to tell when your client is lying, how to handle the situation, and whether or not the lie is even worth addressing.

In this episode, host Melinda Cohan has an eye-opening and lively conversation with Liz Scully, founder of Rethink Central, an organization that provides business strategies for entrepreneurs. Melinda and Liz discuss the motivations behind lying and ways to spot a lie, including uncontrollable micro-expressions. Liz explains the difference between big lies and so-called white lies, and the coaches address some compelling situations in which you might want to avoid challenging a client’s dishonesty.

•In this episode we discuss:

• How an animator became an expert in lie detection.
• The role of microexpressions in lie detection.
• The difference between big untruths and the so-called social lies.
• What are the signs of lying?
• What to do when you suspect your client is lying.
• Reasons to not challenge a client's lie or a story that they tell themselves.

“Because we all think that we're kind of a closed perfect circuit. And, obviously, we're not. We're leaking information all the time.” – Liz Scully

Liz Scully

Guest bio: Liz Scully spent 20 years working on big Hollywood films - she’s won an Emmy, and her work is multi-Oscar nominated. Now, she’s a business strategist and a Mastermind coach and KNOWS business can be ridiculously fun as well as highly effective.

She’s Irish, nomadic and as confused as everyone else why she has an English accent.

•Resources or websites mentioned in this episode:

1. Mirasee
2. Coaches Console
3. Rethinkcentral.com
4. Malcolm Gladwell’s book - Blink

•Credits:

• Guest - Liz Scully
• Host - Melinda Cohan
• Producer - Cynthia Lamb
• Executive producer - Danny Iny
• Writer - Michi Lantz, Melinda Cohan and Cynthia Lamb
• Assembled by - Geoff Govertsen
• Audio Post Supervisor: Evan Miles, Christopher Martin
• Audio Post Production by Post Office Sound
• Music soundscape: Chad Michael Snavely

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• Music and SFX credits:

• Track Title: Clouds

Artist Name(s): Acreage

Writer Name: Marshall Usinger

Publisher Name: BOSS SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTIONS

• Track Title: Coastline Dream

Artist Name(s): Wild Sky

Writer Name: Adam Simons

Publisher Name: BOSS SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTIONS

• Track Title: Coo Coos

Artist Name(s): Dresden, The Flamingo

Writer Name: Matthew Wigton

Publisher Name: A SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTION

• Track Title: Stars & Trees

Artist Name(s): Outside The Sky

Writer Name: Dustin Ransom

Publisher Name: A SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTION

• Episode transcription: Is Your Client Lying? (Liz Scully)
[00:00:01] Melinda : Mirasee.

Michi: Hi. Welcome to Just Between coaches. Now you may be wondering what's going on here. Where's Melinda. Well, I'm Michi, part of the team behind Melinda on this show, and we thought it would be fun to rerun a favorite episode to end the year. One particular topic I find intriguing and the episode I chose is the one where Melinda has a conversation with the Liz Scully about lies. They discuss why we lie, the difference between social lies and blatant untruths. Fas...

We all have felt at some point that we are on a hamster wheel, just can’t seem to focus or follow through, but for a lot of people, it’s a way of life. Carol Williams is the founder of Efficient Productivity Systems, a company that helps bring focus and clarity to entrepreneurs who are neurodiverse or just have difficulty creating organization and productivity in their lives.

In this episode, Melinda and Carol tackle the issues behind the unstructured behavior of the clients that Carol calls the “scattered people”. Carol breaks down the layers of her signature system, The Productivity Success CakeTM, and both she and Melinda share useful tools and tips to help clients turn chaos into peaceful productivity.

• In this episode we discuss:

• Why some clients get overwhelmed and unfocused and how to recognize that behavior.
• The importance of accountability and live check-ins with unfocused clients.
• How to work with procrastination using mini challenges and mini deadlines.
• How to help clients using bridging and transition planning.
• The Productivity Success CakeTM system and how to use it when working with unfocused clients.
• The importance of celebrating small victories.
• How coaches can help create a space for change through listening and compassion.
• Why onboarding clients can help them be more successful in your program.

Carol Williams is a Certified Executive Coach with 18 years experience in the design professions as a project manager. In 2009, Carol struck out on her own, combining her passion for psychology and her project management experience. What has resulted from this transition is a beautiful manifestation of her true self, empowering business owners to own their greatness. She helps those with AD/HD get out of their own way, to live the life of their dreams while having the business of their dreams. Her motto is, “If I can do it, you can too.”

When she’s not powerfully serving her coaching clients, Carol speaks professionally and plays in the outdoors near her home in Sutton, NH. She loves art, design, and dancing.

•Resources or websites mentioned in this episode:

1. Mirasee
2. Coaches Console
3. Carol’s website
4. Carol’s LinkedIn
5. The Productivity Success CakeTM Quiz

•Credits:

• Guest: Carol Williams
• Host: Melinda Cohan
• Producer: Cynthia Lamb
• Executive producer: Danny Iny
• Scripted and assembled by: Michi Lantz
• Audio Post Supervisor: Evan Miles, Christopher Martin
• Audio Post Production: Post Office Sound
• Music soundscape: Chad Michael Snavely

If you don't want to miss future episodes of Just Between Coaches, please subscribe to Apple podcasts or Spotify or wherever you're listening right now. And if you liked the show, please leave us a starred review. It's the best way to help us get these ideas to more people.

• Music and SFX credits:

•Track Title: Clouds

Artist Name(s): Acreage

Writer Name: Marshall Usinger

Publisher Name: BOSS SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTIONS

•Track Title: Coastline Dream

Artist Name(s): Wild Sky

Writer Name: Adam Simons

Publisher Name: BOSS SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTIONS

•Track Title: Coo Coos

Artist Name(s): Dresden, The Flamingo

Writer Name: Matthew Wigton

Publisher Name: A SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTION

•Track Title: Stars & Trees

Artist Name(s): Outside The Sky

Writer Name: Dustin Ransom

Publisher Name: A SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTION

•Episode transcript: The Scattered People (Carol Williams) Coming soon.

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