The Coach's Journey - build a coaching business with integrity #119: Dorie Clark – Fear Not, Coaches! Dorie is Your Colleague, not Your Competitor
If coaching was a competition, Dorie Clark would be a truly fearsome competitor. A university graduate at the age of 18, she has since embarked on a unique career spanning journalism, politics, writing, coaching, consultancy, education and community building. And that’s without mentioning her musicals, stand-up comedy, TED talks and conferences!
Thankfully, Dorie is with us on this episode of The Coach’s Journey Podcast to insist that coaching is not a competition. On the contrary, she says we all need each other and must find a community of practitioners who can support us in our goals as we navigate an ever-changing coaching landscape.
Dorie launched her first consulting and coaching practice in 2006, before rising to the very top of her profession. She was named the world’s #1 communication coach in the Marshall Goldsmith Leading Global Coaches Awards, and is the bestselling author of books like The Long Game, Entrepreneurial You, and Stand Out, which was named the #1 Leadership Book of the Year by Inc. magazine.
In conversation with Alex Swallow, Dorie draws on her vast and varied experience as she shares personal and professional insights about overcoming barriers to success in coaching, debunking commonly held myths and barriers to personal development that keep many of us from fulfilling our potential.
She offers an invaluable perspective on what coaches can do to future-proof themselves in the age of AI, and shares learning from her Trajectory Mastermind thought-leadership group and her Recognized Expert reputational development course.
Dorie also speaks about her long-term goal to be US ambassador to a foreign country, and reveals an exciting announcement she is about to make that will be important for coaches everywhere to pay attention to!
Dorie and Alex also talk about:
- The challenge of being a beginner and how to cultivate an authentic, confident stance
- Where to find the roots of our self esteem and how to strengthen it
- Handling knockbacks and rejection in a way that actually drives you and your business forward
- How to spot structural risks in your coaching business and how to protect yourself against the winds of fortune
THINGS WE TALKED ABOUT THAT YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN:
- Cheryl Richardson https://cherylrichardson.com/
- Recognized Expert https://learn.dorieclark.com/courses/expert
- Dorie’s work in Harvard Business Review https://hbr.org/2011/03/reinventing-your-personal-brand
- Dorie’s podcasts https://dorieclark.com/resources/podcasts/
- Dorie’s TED Talks https://www.ted.com/speakers/dorie_clark
- Dorie’s LinkedIn newsletter https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/dorie-clark-newsletter-6640647216497209344/
- Jim Rohn, You are the Average of the Five People You Spend the Most Time With https://www.jimrohn.com/wisdom/articles/average-of-five-people-you-spend-time-with
- Dorie’s musicals https://dorieclark.com/musicals/
- RExCon/REx Summit conference for Recognized Expert https://learn.dorieclark.com/courses/rexsummit
- Marshall Goldsmith https://www.marshallgoldsmith.com/
- Dorie’s books https://dorieclark.com/books/
- Dorie’s course on Writing for High Profile Organisations https://learn.dorieclark.com/courses/highprofile
- Trajectory Mastermind https://learn.dorieclark.com/courses/mm