CHRISTIAN LIFE COACH COLLECTIVE~ Impact and Income as a Coach
You have just tapped in to the Christian Life Coach Collective. I’m your host Laura Malone and I love to equip and encourage coaches in their skills and business, as well as their personal life and faith. I believe you are already 100% worthy, capable, and called for such a time as this, so let’s get you walking it out with courage and confidence so you can become an amazing coach who sees transformation and great results in both your life and the lives around you. Let’s get started.
In this podcast you’ll learn about:
✨ Taking Ownership and Responsibility for Your Life
✨ Getting Creative and Figuring Out What’s Possible
✨ Spirit-led Life and Business Strategies
✨ Business with God as Your CEO
✨ Learning to Coach Yourself and Others
It all starts with changing your mind so you can change your life!
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Wednesday Nov 26, 2025
Wednesday Nov 26, 2025
PRESENCE IS MORE POWERFUL THAN PERFORMANCE. You don’t need perfect words; you need stability. Holding space means staying with tension long enough for truth to surface instead of rescuing or redirecting.
Key Takeaways:
Don’t relieve tension too early—let it reveal truth.
Your steadiness becomes the client’s safety.
Transformation unfolds when you stop forcing it.
Action Guide:In your next session, notice one moment you want to jump in too soon. Pause instead. See what emerges when you let the client sit with what’s happening.
If you want to go deeper into identity, purpose, and belonging as a woman of faith, listen to my companion podcast: StoryMakers.
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Thursday Nov 20, 2025
Thursday Nov 20, 2025
PEOPLE HEAL WHERE THEY FEEL SAFE. You can’t rush transformation; you can only make it safe to happen. Emotional safety isn’t soft—it’s strategic. Clients won’t explore what feels dangerous, but they will open up where peace is modeled.
Key Takeaways:
Safety begins with your tone, pace, and posture.
A calm presence regulates the entire session.
Validation is more powerful than advice.
Action Guide:In your next session, slow your pace and soften your tone. Ask yourself, “Would I feel safe being coached by me right now?”
If you want to go deeper into identity, purpose, and belonging as a woman of faith, listen to my companion podcast: StoryMakers.
To explore working together, visit SterlingAndStoneMentoring.com.
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Thursday Nov 13, 2025
Thursday Nov 13, 2025
WHEN FACTS & INTERPRETATIONS SEPARATE-Most confusion comes from mixing what happened with what we think it means. Helping clients tell those apart creates immediate freedom and responsibility.
Key Takeaways
Facts are neutral; interpretations give them emotional weight.
This distinction restores agency and reduces blame.
Naming facts grounds emotion in truth.
Action GuideAsk in your next session, “What’s the fact, and what’s the meaning you added?” Notice how quickly clarity returns.
If you want to go deeper into identity, purpose, and belonging as a woman of faith, listen to my companion podcast: StoryMakers.
To explore working together, visit SterlingAndStoneMentoring.com.
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Thursday Nov 06, 2025
Thursday Nov 06, 2025
STUCKNESS ISN’T FAILURE— When clients loop, defend, or go quiet, they’re not resisting you—they’re protecting themselves. Your job isn’t to push; it’s to stay calm and create safety until their system can settle and see again.
Key Takeaways
Stuckness often signals pain, not rebellion.
Silence and curiosity regulate the moment better than pressure.
Presence builds trust that allows insight to emerge naturally.
Action GuideWhen a client gets stuck, wait five full breaths before speaking. Let the stillness do its work.
If you want to go deeper into identity, purpose, and belonging as a woman of faith, listen to my companion podcast: StoryMakers.
To explore working together, visit SterlingAndStoneMentoring.com.
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Thursday Oct 30, 2025
Thursday Oct 30, 2025
FIND THE BELIEF, NOT JUST THE STORY-Clients come in describing details, emotions, and people—but the real coaching moment happens when you hear the belief underneath it all. Transformation begins when you can separate circumstance from interpretation and help the client uncover what they’re making it mean.
Key Takeaways
The root issue is rarely the situation—it’s the paradigm behind it.
Ask questions that get to meaning instead of adding more detail.
Awareness of interpretation brings breakthrough faster than advice.
Action GuideListen for repeated words or emotional spikes in your next session. Ask, “What are you making this mean about you?”
If you want to go deeper into identity, purpose, and belonging as a woman of faith, listen to my companion podcast: StoryMakers.
To explore working together, visit SterlingAndStoneMentoring.com.
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Thursday Oct 23, 2025
Thursday Oct 23, 2025
‘BUSINESS’ CAN FEEL INTIMIDATING- You feel called to offer your services, but the business aspect freaks you out. You wish you didn’t have to create everything from scratch. In this episode, I’m talking about why that feeling is normal, how to move from fear to focus, and what simple actions can help you build a business that supports your calling instead of stifling it. You can do this!
Key Takeaways
Business isn’t separate from calling- it’s the structure that sustains it.
You don’t really need to start from scratch. You need a system you can make your own.
Easy is allowed and it’s possible. Structure multiplies impact and creates the freedom you want.
Listener Challenge
Choose one of the ten steps I mention and do it this week. Don’t overthink it, just pick the one that gives you the most peace or creates the most curiosity. Maybe it’s naming your calling, writing your first offer, or reaching out to serve one person. The goal isn’t to build it all: it’s to just take action.
Then, journal what you learn as you take that step. What did you feel? What did you discover about your gifts, your courage, or your resistance? Ask God to meet you in that space and show you how He’s already preparing the way. Small obedience will open doors that striving never could.
If you want to go deeper into identity, purpose, and belonging as a woman of faith, listen to my companion podcast: StoryMakers.
To explore working together, visit SterlingAndStoneMentoring.com.
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Thursday Oct 16, 2025
Thursday Oct 16, 2025
SAYING YES WITH GOD- Saying yes isn’t just about self-permission—it’s about alignment. In this episode, we’ll talk about how saying yes to yourself becomes a way of partnering with God’s will, reducing decision fatigue, and taking the next right step in faith. You’ll learn how to hear what He’s saying, how to recognize when you’re in alignment with Him, and why this matters for you personally and for the clients you coach. And if you’ve been wondering whether it’s time to step into your calling as a coach, this may be your invitation to finally say yes.
Key Takeaways:
Saying yes to yourself creates clarity, reduces mental fatigue, and honors God’s design for your life.
You can discern God’s leading by checking it against His Word, listening for peace, and looking for the fruit of the Spirit.
As a coach, your lived yes models courage and alignment, and it invites clients into their own partnership with God’s will.
Listener Challenge:This week, pause before a decision—big or small—and ask: “Lord, what’s Your heart in this?” Pay attention to the peace or clarity that rises, and take the next right step by saying yes in faith.
If you want to go deeper into identity, purpose, and belonging as a woman of faith, listen to my companion podcast: StoryMakers.
To explore working together, visit SterlingAndStoneMentoring.com.
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Thursday Oct 09, 2025
Thursday Oct 09, 2025
VALUE ISN’T A CURRICULUM- When it comes to coaching, a lot of us feel pressure to prove our worth by stacking on more — more hours, more worksheets, more bonuses. But the truth is, people don’t come to you asking for a 20-step plan or an entire curriculum. Coaching is nuanced and client-led. In this episode, I’ll show you how to think about value in a way that’s both simple and powerful, how to communicate it through real-life examples, and why clients are willing to invest when they see transformation in action.
Key Takeaways
Value isn’t about extras — it’s about the shift from confusion to clarity, fear to peace, stuck to action.
Clients don’t need your whole toolbox upfront — they need cultivated value, offered in real-time.
Sharing short, real examples of transformation communicates value better than laying out a whole curriculum.
Listener ChallengeWrite down one example from your own coaching (or your personal story if you’re just starting) where someone moved from stuck to clear. Share it out loud this week — with a friend, a peer, or even on social media — and notice how confidently you can communicate value without explaining your whole process.
If you want to go deeper into identity, purpose, and belonging as a woman of faith, listen to my companion podcast: StoryMakers.
To explore working together, visit SterlingAndStoneMentoring.com.
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Thursday Oct 02, 2025
Thursday Oct 02, 2025
YOUR CORE BELIEFS MATTER- If I asked you right now, “What are your core beliefs?”—could you answer? Most of us can’t, not because we don’t have them, but because we’ve never slowed down to write them out and name them out loud. In this episode, I’ll walk you through ten questions to help uncover your own core beliefs about your audience, transformation, faith, values, and legacy. I’ll share mine as examples, and then you’ll have space to discover yours. Once you clarify your core beliefs, you’ll have a filter for every decision you make and a foundation for the business God is calling you to build.
Key Takeaways
Core beliefs are already shaping how you serve, decide, and lead—even if you haven’t named them yet.
Clarifying your core beliefs gives you a filter for every opportunity, choice, and commitment in your business.
Your beliefs about God, people, and transformation determine the kind of coaching or leadership legacy you’ll leave behind.
Listener ChallengeWork through the ten questions shared in this episode. Write your answers without overthinking. Then pray over them and ask God which beliefs He wants you to stand firm in as you lead, serve, and build your business.
If you want to go deeper into identity, purpose, and belonging as a woman of faith, listen to my companion podcast: StoryMakers.
To explore working together, visit SterlingAndStoneMentoring.com.
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Thursday Sep 25, 2025
Thursday Sep 25, 2025
THE PAYOFF AND PITFALLS OF BEING SOMEONE’S SOLUTION-There’s a real emotional payoff when you realize you’ve been part of someone’s solution. It feels good because God designed us for connection and contribution. But what happens when we start chasing that feeling instead of staying rooted in truth? In this episode, we’ll talk about the joy of being a solution, the hidden pitfalls like over-responsibility and the dopamine trap, and how to find the healthy middle ground as a coach and as a woman of faith.
Key Takeaways
Being someone’s solution affirms your value, strengthens connection, and builds legacy.
Pitfalls include tying your worth to helping, overextending, resentment, missed boundaries, and chasing the dopamine “high.”
The healthy middle ground is remembering you’re a vessel, not the source—you’re responsible to people, not for them.
Listener ChallengeReflect on a recent time you were someone’s solution. Did it bring joy, or did it leave you drained? Pay attention this week to whether you’re offering from overflow or chasing the emotional high.
If you want to go deeper into identity, purpose, and belonging as a woman of faith, listen to my companion podcast: StoryMakers.
To explore working together, visit SterlingAndStoneMentoring.com.
BOOK A FREE CONSULTATION
Read the Life Coach Blog
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Learn how to become a S&S Life Coach
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