What can you do when you find yourself in a position where a client presents something they’re struggling with that you haven’t come close to resolving within yourself? At some point we all arrive in this uncomfortable place with a client. At first, we may straight up avoid poking that bear because we feel too unqualified to support our clients through something we clearly haven’t found the answers to. But do you need to resolve everything in your life before helping a client with that same...

Something that feels really alive within me right now and I've witnessed being mirrored back to me from many of you is this longing for space.... ...this craving for presence within that space, and the permission to take up space without feeling guilty for what we're not doing with that time. There are many layers to this that I have personally been moving through recently that I want to share with you from personal experience in hopes that it will allow you to explore this for yourself. I...

We’ve all experienced those periods of painful disinterest, lack of desire to work towards what we say we want and overall discomfort with our present situation without the “energy” we think is required to escape it. Especially as business owners, it’s easy to fall victim to the pressure to push forward and do something (literally anything) to numb the discomfort of staying where we are… which sometimes just means “doing” unhelpful things like scrolling, unnecessarily working and keeping our...

The moment you decide as a coach that you are no longer okay skirting along the surface, offering your clients the expected external result that they've come to crave, and you actually want to take them beneath the surface to better understand the inner workings of their mind, the inner workings of their emotions and how they're orienting to the world...curiosity needs to come into play.  In this episode, we're going to explore curiosity and awareness through the lens of coaching.  Take...

This is a clip from our new workshop inside The Secret Garden. This month we explored strengthening our business through building community.  In this episode, Laura takes us on a journey through a visualization practice that she guided us through in the workshop.  This visualization is designed to tap into your value system, what you envision yourself holding experientially for your people, and creating an opportunity to experience what it might look like and feel like from the position of...

In today's episode, Laura takes us through a journey of common, relatable experiences we have when we're seeking alignment in our coaching business, both internally & externally.  If you've gone back and forth between striving for growth in your business and wanting to find more internal peace and space within yourself, listen to and save this episode for the future.  You will go through many phases on your journey, and as Laura gently reminds us in this episode, it's all about how we...

This is a clip from one of our weekly live coaching calls from inside The Secret Garden. Inspired by questions + themes from inside our community, these rooms are designed to guide your exploration of new ways of being, thinking & leading. This week, we explore what happens within us as we start going deeper and more niched in our work. It can feel like we’re speaking to such a smaller group of people who are willing to raise their hand and admit they “have this problem” (more so than...

When it comes to hiring a business mentor, so many of us are used to searching for someone who we think can give us the outcomes we think we need to be successful. Maybe that's a promise to grow our business, make a certain amount of money, or automate things so that we don't need to be 'in the weeds' and can work on other things or have more free space. We've all experienced these promises in different ways - sometimes they're helpful, and other times we learn that it's not for us. In this...

This is a clip from one of our weekly live coaching calls from inside The Secret Garden. Inspired by questions + themes from inside our community, these rooms are designed to guide your exploration of new ways of being, thinking & leading. This week, we jam on our experiences + learned techniques for supporting clients who put up a stone wall anytime you try to go deep with them.  There are plenty of clients who are going to struggle opening up because their default is to protect...

Today on EXPAND, we're joined by a special guest, Jonah Richman, who is best known for his expertise in compassionate marketing for coaches & wellness practitioners. Laura & Jonah discuss the ins-and-outs of business trauma and what trends they're seeing in the coaching space when it comes to marketing our services. Jonah shares his insights and how he found his way back to his purpose after feeling jaded by deceptive practices. You will also learn how to transition from a program...

Download Power Questions Here 🌹 In this episode, we take a deeper dive into our bodies ability to constantly take in information from our environment through our senses and how it naturally orients us based on what it perceives to be safe or unsafe.  When we are in session with clients, it is normal for our stress response to be activated. This activation can sometimes signal to our body that we are under attack, and that we are being threatened. When we can better understand this process...

Download Power Questions Here 🌹 The 'patterns' that our clients come to us with and are wanting us to help them change are often the same coping patterns that they're using in their day-to-day life to help them manage their feelings.  In this episode, Laura leads us through a beautiful lesson that even though there might be an expectation that we want to create change rapidly & efficiently, we actually don't want to try to remove their coping patterns immediately.  She teaches us that...

Download Power Questions Here 🌹 As we begin to deepen our coaching practice and invite our clients into conversations that involve emotional awareness or exploration of their thought patterns, it's really important that we also invite in the conversation with ourselves around the line between our scope of practice as a coach and what would be better served in a therapeutic environment.  This line is going to be different for all of us depending on our formal training and the...

Download Power Questions Here 🌹 Today, we chat through the importance of obtaining consent from clients before delving into deep, unconscious work. As coaches, we cannot assume that just because we desire our clients to move through deeper work, that they are ready and willing to engage in that kind of work. This episode teaches us how to pre-frame the journey and offers us ways to confirm whether our client feels safe to be engaged in that type of relationship with us, and whether they are...

Download Power Questions Here 🌹 Have you ever experienced a moment with a client where you offered a solution, idea, or action item...& they agree to give it a try, but somehow you sense that they aren't fully onboard with what you're offering? Perhaps it's something in the tone of their voice, or their facial expression changes suddenly...you might even sense a shift in their body language. Chances are, if what you offered was pre-planned, you may have been blocked from witnessing the...

In this episode, we explore the concept of spiritual bypassing, a phenomenon that was first introduced in the 1980s by Buddhist teacher John Welwood.  Throughout this discussion, Laura helps us to better understand the ways in which we might use spiritual practices to avoid facing the emotional undercurrents that are taking place within us.  & while it's meaningful to embrace spiritual practices in the coaching space, Laura shines a light on how we might be using this to avoid or remove...

In this episode, Laura coaches listeners of the show through questions that they've been coming up against over the last month.  Today, we cover topics from listeners about their morning routines and how to create an adaptable practice so that they can meet themselves with the demands of their day, regardless of how much time they have.  We also talked about what it's like to begin a coaching journey when you feel like you're different or you don't fit in with what you see other coaches...

This month, Laura guides us through a practice of presence.  Simple in theory, presence is one of the most challenging states to consistently live inside of. It asks us to learn how to stay WITH the full experience of a moment that would previously cause us to unconsciously react or mentally spiral. The techniques Laura teaches us in this ritual are ones we can use inconspicuously right in a client session or on a sales call to stay grounded and open...or can be layered together to create a...

There has been an ongoing conversation around authenticity circulating the greater coaching community. What it means to be authentic, what authenticity looks like in practice, how to build an authentic business, realigning with what feels authentic to us...sound familiar? In this episode, Laura offers us a beautiful & hard truth around authenticity, vulnerability, and showing ourselves to the world without a calculated outcome. She helps us to better understand when vulnerability is...

This is a clip from our new workshop this month inside The Secret Garden. In this workshop we explored creating an experience where our unique energy guides our creation. Where we ascend from being a coach to being a leader for our people. Where we create intimacy, connection, potency, and transformation from within. In this clip Laura leads us through a beautiful discussion on the illusion of control. If you've found yourself in a constant spiral of wanting to 'fix' your clients or have had...

"Our capacity to hold a space for our clients to feel safe, to transform, to access their innate capacity to heal, to shift perspectives and to open themselves up to a new way of engaging with the world is dependent upon our ability to hold that same space in ourselves, first." In this episode, Laura invites us to explore our own ability to regulate our emotions, widen our capacity for intense energy, and respond intentionally and consciously to what's happening within us during session with...

This is a clip from one of our monthly coaching calls from inside The Secret Garden. In these hot seat style sessions, Laura answers your questions + guides you through your friction points so you leave feeling deeply aligned with your path, connected to yourself and held by each other. In this discussion, we explore the definition of 'coach' and what it means to embody true leadership. Laura discusses the importance of creating an experience that goes beyond the program bones and what is...

On today's episode of EXPAND, we're joined by Lucas Rubix - Lucas is a creator, a freedom-fighter, and an entrepreneur who is obsessed with helping others live in their full potential. Laura & Lucas invite us into a conversation around the struggles of finding a balance between being tough and being a ball of love, and how the journey is worth pursuing for a lifetime. You'll hear more about the importance of compassion in leadership and how to navigate getting results while still...

This is a clip from one of our monthly coaching calls from inside The Secret Garden. In these hot seat style sessions, Laura answers your questions + guides you through your friction points so you leave feeling deeply aligned with your path, connected to yourself and held by each other. This month our conversation was based around creation, systems & the rules that we set for ourselves as we move forward in our businesses...and in this clip in particular Laura guides Julia through a...