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EPISODE · May 11, 2026 · 30 MIN

Ep 114 - How to Truly Start Embracing Imperfection (In Your Coaching, With Your Clients, and in Your Life)

from Craft of Coaching Podcast · host Kate Swoboda

This episode gets into why naming imperfection — genuinely, not as false modesty — is foundational to coaching well, leading well, and building community that's actually real. We talk about assumed role power, the guru model that's quietly everywhere in the coaching industry, and what it costs coaches who are still performing perfection when a client brings them something messy.We also get into the flip side: owning imperfection means owning the cleanup. The repair. The willingness to stay in relationship rather than manage the optics. Adrienne maree brown and Nike Aurea both speak to this in community contexts, and it's just as true in a coaching relationship.How to embrace imperfection isn't a one-time reframe. It's a practice — built over time, in relationship, through the experience of being imperfect with other people and finding that the connection holds anyway.That's the work. And it turns out, it's also what makes a great coach.Coaching + Courage + Community = CLCC. We're a life-changing program, for you to become a life-changing coach. Our Level 1 ICF-Accredited program has worked with graduates from around the world. The first life you change? It'll be your own. We're the Credentialed Life Coach Collective, or CLCC, and we're here to give you a powerful coaching skill-set mixed with profound personal and professional growth.Head to https://TeamCLCC.com to get our catalogue and the free "Become a Coach" video series to learn more about becoming a life coach, choosing a coaching niche, how coaches make money, and more.Social:LinkedIn 

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This episode gets into why naming imperfection — genuinely, not as false modesty — is foundational to coaching well, leading well, and building community that's actually real. We talk about assumed role power, the guru model that's quietly everywhere in the coaching industry, and what it costs coaches who are still performing perfection when a client brings them something messy. We also get into the flip side: owning imperfection means owning the cleanup. The repair. The willingness to stay i...

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