The Making of a Coach
The Making of a Coach
Podcast Description
The Making of a Coach takes you on the paths of succesful Coaches, Facilitators and People Developers. Learn how they turned their passion into profession.
Take inspiration for your own journey as a coach by listening in on deep conversations on how they became who they are, how they made coaching their business and the methods they use to help people grow.
Tobias Weghorn, co-founder of the global brand metaFox Coaching Tools, dives into coaching practice as well as pricing and positioning, taking a look behind the practice of successful coaches.
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Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast explores themes of coaching methodologies, personal growth, and business development within the coaching sector. Specific episodes delve into topics like outdoor coaching experiences, leadership development, multicultural influences in coaching, and the use of personality tools such as MBTI, with examples including walk-and-talk coaching and unique pricing strategies.
The Impactful Coach is a coaching podcast for coaches, facilitators, and people developers who want to make their coaching sessions more impactful.
On the show, metaFox Co-founder Tobi Weghorn interviews experienced practitioners to unpack concrete coaching skills, practical methods or even hops into the client role for hands-on coaching demos. Learn coaching from real coaching conversations and deep dives into Mindset, Methods, Skills & Tools.
More on https://metaFox.eu/podcast
A coaching podcast with Yatish Chandrasekhar and Tobias Weghorn about coaching skills through the lens of Indian scriptures and modern coaching. Yatish, an ICF PCC coach educator from Bengaluru and the mind behind the Yogi Compass, shares why he believes India didn’t “catch up” with coaching—it’s been practicing it for thousands of years through dialogue-based teaching. Together, they connect the ICF core competencies to stages of learning like listening (Shravana), reflection (Manana), and contemplation (Nididhyasana), and explore coaching presence as a state of being rather than a technique. You’ll also hear practical ways to build a not knowing mindset—especially relevant in leader as coach conversations—using ideas like Sakshi Bhava (witness consciousness), silence, journaling, and breathwork.
Key Learnings:
- Treat coaching skills like listening, reflection, and contemplation as a sequence: listen fully (Shravana), hold silence to let Manana happen, then help the client translate insights into action (ICF core competencies 6–8).
- Build coaching presence by “tending to zero”: reduce your need to contribute, rescue, or impress, so the client experiences more psychological safety and does more of the meaning-making.
- Practice a not knowing mindset (especially as a leader as coach) by asking curiosity-from-wonder questions like, “If you were taking all the decisions, how would you do it?” instead of jumping to solutions.
Resources:
- Find your Coaching Tool: https://metaFox.eu
- Try the metaFox Strengths Discovery: https://strengths-discovery.com
- Connect with Tobi on LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tobiasweghorn
Episode Chapters:
00:00 Not Knowing Mindset and Curiosity in Coaching
01:00 Indian Scriptures Meet ICF Core Competencies
09:00 Shravana, Manana, Nididhyasana as Coaching Skills
13:00 Sakshi Bhava: Coaching Presence as Witness Consciousness
19:00 “Coach to Zero, Client to 100” and Psychological Safety
23:00 Leader as Coach: Shifting From Answers to Wonder
44:00 Mentor Coaching: Silence, Reflection, and Avoiding the “Fixing” Trap
47:00 Pranayama and Box Breathing to Access Presence
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