Coaching craft, with room to breathe.
The Coaching Show pairs loose host banter with substantial interviews about coaching practice, career direction, presence, sincerity, and personal change. It suits listeners who like professional-development talk that leaves room for humor, repetition, and real-time reflection.
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The Coaching Show is a conversational podcast about coaching as a craft, a business, and a way of being with people. It has the feel of a professional room that does not mind leaving the door open. Episodes often begin with familiar banter, names, updates, and a little teasing before the guest conversation takes shape. That looseness is part of the texture. Recent episodes have focused on social confidence, deeper conversation, mindfulness, diversity, equity, and inclusivity, abundance, career stuckness, sincerity, resilience, grief, and self-leadership. The show keeps returning to presence. Coaches are asked to lean back, trust themselves, create space, and notice when the next question is being rushed. Language matters here. A discussion of sincerity, for example, turns everyday phrasing into a lesson about self-centered habits and more other-centered communication. Career conversations are similarly reflective, favoring direction and vision over a narrow job-title goal. The personal material can be candid. Stories about love, illness, retreats, grief, and feeling not good enough are treated as material for learning rather than as spectacle. The show’s coaching vocabulary is real, but it stays accessible. It is comfortable with terms like authenticity, mindfulness, values, presence, diversity, equity, inclusivity, and self-leadership, while still sounding like people talking in the moment. Guests usually bring a framework or lived experience, and the hosts shape it through follow-up, paraphrase, and occasional humor. The pacing is brisk in exchange but roomy in structure. Some episodes spend as much energy warming up the conversation as they do landing the central idea. That makes the show less polished than a tightly edited business program and more like a working conversation among coaches. Its appeal is in the way it lets insight arrive gradually. The Coaching Show is best for coaching practitioners and coaching-curious professionals who want to hear the human habits beneath the method.
Made for: Designed for coaches, coach trainees, facilitators, and professional-development listeners who like reflective conversations about practice, presence, and client relationships. It also fits people exploring coaching through stories rather than formal instruction.
What sets it apart: The show stands out for its mix of professional coaching vocabulary, candid personal context, and loose host chemistry. It lets ideas develop through stories, reframes, and follow-up instead of reducing every guest to quick tips.
The Coaching Show is a weekly podcast hosted by Master Certified Coach Christopher D. McAuliffe with CoHost Professional Certified Coach Alex Terranova. Whether you’re a veteran of the coaching industry with your own practice, new to professional coaching or are just considering entering the field, TCS is the perfect show to educate and entertain you. Christopher’s guests over the last 10 seasons have ranged from fledgling private practice life coaches to board members at ICF International, and have covered every corner of the business.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Guest conversations make the coaching business legible through practical questions about career direction, client communication and presenting a professional method.
The Coaching Show turns professional coaching into a working conversation about judgment, communication and building a practice. Christopher McAuliffe and Alex Terranova bring an easy, teasing rapport to guest interviews, then keep asking for the practical move beneath an idea.
This is where your next coaching question may be silence, not a smarter question.
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A grounded coaching episode on using authenticity, presence, and breath to create freer social connection.
The Coaching Show treats social confidence less like a performance trick and more like a matter of flow: authenticity, presence, and breath working together so conversation can feel freer and more connected.
A spacious coaching conversation connects mindfulness with attention, patience, and trust.
Mindfulness lands here as a practical coaching tool, not a decorative idea. The guest traces meditation from early uncertainty into a steadier habit of self-awareness, and the conversation is best when it connects that inner check-in to the work of coaching itself.
A candid coaching conversation about self-acceptance, visibility, and feeling enough as one is.
The episode frames self-acceptance as something practical rather than ornamental: a way to feel happier, more present, and less governed by the idea that life begins after some personal upgrade.
A thoughtful case for replacing rigid career goals with a direction that can guide real decisions.
Career drift gets a clear, useful frame here. The episode separates a fixed career goal from a broader sense of direction, then uses that distinction to examine why early ambitions around proving intelligence or work ethic can eventually stop motivating people.
A coaching conversation about how everyday language can drift toward self-focus and make sincerity harder to practice.
Sincerity becomes a practical concern when rapport-building language quietly turns back toward the speaker. With Christopher McCullough out, Alex Terranova steps in as host alongside Craig Gassi for a discussion that separates sincerity, framed as other-centric, from…
A coach's unwritten book becomes a way to clarify the work and sell the practice.
The Coaching Show frames a coach's book less as a finished product than as a business-development instrument: a way to give prospective clients a movie-trailer feel for what working together might be like.
A grounded coaching conversation on mindfulness, space, and the self-awareness that supports more present practice.
The Coaching Show explores mindfulness as part of coaching's interpersonal craft, linking meditation, self-awareness, and the capacity to stay present with clients.
Strengths coaching, made practical.
Stephen Dubner tests bourbon economics, Alzheimer's research, and money advice against hard data.
Daily business news with Kai Ryssdal, tracking Fed policy, oil shocks, and private credit.
Galloway rotates Office Hours Q&A, Raging Moderates politics, and China Decode geopolitics weekly.
Joel and Matt answer listener money questions weekly in the show's Ask HTM segments.
Guest Orvel Ray Wilson, co-author of the 26-million-copy Guerrilla Marketing series, discusses how to write a book that builds your coaching business.
The Coaching Show hosts Christopher McCullough and Alex Terranova interview Merlinder Orjela, an executive coach specializing in DEI, mindfulness, and mentor coaching.
Host Christopher McAuliffe and guest Craig Cassie discuss the coaching profession, with Cassie introducing himself as a life, executive, and sex coach.
This episode discusses book publishing and authorship from the perspective of professional coaches.
Hosts Christopher McAuliffe and Alex Terranova discuss their recent COVID experiences and the coaching profession.
Hosts Christopher McAuliffe and Alex Terranova discuss the coaching industry, with a personal update on Christopher's year-long vegan journey.
A sad day opens the show.
The Coaching Show with Christopher McCullough and Alex Terranova centers on Merlinder Orjela, a London-based PCC coach educator who works with ACC and PCC candidates and does DE&I coaching.
The Coaching Show with Christopher McCullough and Alex Terranova centers Rebecca Whitman's seven pillars of abundance: spiritual, physical, emotional, romantic, mental, social, and financial.
["The Coaching Show episode on getting unstuck in a career pairs Christopher McCullough and Alex Terranova with Verena Jankovic, a master certified coach with 17 years in business management, talent development, and executive education.", "Jankovic says more than half of the UK workforce feels stuck in their jobs, and she cites a survey in which 35% described their work as \"soul destroying.\"", "The conversation uses two concrete examples: a wife facing another reorganization after 20 years at a biotech company, and a senior accountant role that lost three hires during training.", "Jankovic also discusses Your Time to Shine: Awaken Your Greatness to Shape the World, which she says grew from client stories, her move from marketing into coaching, and her focus on values, career direction, and practical exercises."]
The Coaching Show episode The Power of Sincerity with Tom Tonkin pairs Alex Terranova and Craig Cassidy with Tom Tonkin, CEO and founder of The Conservatory Group.