Amy Hager delves into the art of hot-seat coaching, emphasizing autonomy, practice, and safe environments. Sharing insights from her business, Amy explains her “hottie seat” approach, ensuring participants feel confident and heard, while highlighting the power of community and conversation.

Amy Hager is the co-founder of The Content Personality® Club and an organic-marketing mentor.

In this episode Melinda and Amy talk about:

• The fundamentals of hot-seat coaching and its facilitation techniques
• The autonomy of coaching recipients to explore and reject ideas
• The importance of practice for confident facilitation in hot-seat coaching
• Applying hot-seat coaching in various settings, including one-on-one, group, and online environments
• The necessity of creating a safe environment for effective hot-seat coaching
• The role of connection, one-on-one attention, and honest communication in creating a safe coaching environment
• The significance of making participants feel seen, heard, and held for deeper understanding and vulnerability
• A key mistake Amy made in a coaching session, emphasizing the importance of reading the room and maintaining emotional awareness of participants

“Clarity comes from conversation. We get spun up in the words and ideas in our head when we try to do it in our own mind.”

— Amy Hager

Amy Hager is an Organic Marketing Mentor and Co-Founder of The Content Personality® Club. She uses her years of experience and expertise to help service-based business owners around the world grow businesses they love at Joyful Business Revolution™. Amy’s yoga instructor says she has lived 12 lives already because she has so many experiences. She has raced cars, been a radio DJ, built sales and marketing teams,, worked at a group home to support adults with mental illness, led a B&B association, started a youth group, and been a military spouse — just to name a few things.

Her experiences help her relate and apply organic marketing strategies across many different industries by utilizing her background in marketing, communications, engagement, community development, and organizational growth.

Resources or websites mentioned in this episode:
Mirasee
Coaches Console
Melinda’s book: The Confident Coach
Amy’s website: JoyfulBusinessRevolution.com

Credits:
Host: Melinda Cohan
Producer and Editor: Michi Lantz
Executive Producer: Danny Iny
Music Soundscape: Chad Michael Snavely
Making our hosts sound great: Home Brew Audio

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Music credits:
Track Title: Clouds
Artist Name: Acreage
Writer Name: Marshall Usinger
Publisher Name: BOSS SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTIONS

Track Title: Coastline Dream
Artist Name: Wild Sky
Writer Name: Adam Simons
Publisher Name: BOSS SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTIONS

Track Title: Coo Coos
Artist Name: Dresden, The Flamingo
Writer Name: Matthew Wigton
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Track Title: Stars & Trees
Artist Name: Outside The Sky
Writer Name: Dustin Ransom
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Episode transcript: Mastering Hot-Seat Coaching (Amy Hager).