The Modern Leadership Coaching Podcast
Modern Leadership Coaching is where Marc and Teresa Hildebrand help driven people get out of their own way and reach their next level. Real conversations about what actually holds people back, how to get your own thinking working for you instead of against you, and how to show up as who you know you can be in your business, your family, and your life. No hype. Just honest talk that helps you see what you couldn't see on your own.
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Episodes
373 episodes
How to Show Up as Your Best Self When the Pressure Is On
There’s a calm, grounded version of you that you trust and then there’s the version that shows up when pressure hits and you don’t even feel like you chose it. We’re Marc and Teresa, and we’re digging into why that happens, how your brain grabs...
How to Break the Pattern You've Been Trying to Fix for Years
You can be the kind of person who runs toward the work and still feel trapped in the same loop. That tension is what we unpack here: why smart, driven leaders and coaches can read the books, hire the mentors, try the strategies, and still hit t...
How to Stop the Spiral Before It Takes Over
You can feel it starting: a comment lands wrong, your chest tightens, your mind races, and even while you’re watching it happen you still can’t stop the explosion. Marc unpacks why that experience isn’t a character flaw and isn’t a lack of self...
Bonus Episode - The Missing Piece — How to Coach Yourself Through the Moments That Keep Stopping You
You can be disciplined, self-aware, and deeply committed to growth and still feel like you are living the same week on repeat. That is exactly why we recorded this bonus conversation: to go inside our Growth Model and hand you a practical piece...
The Coaching Skill Nobody Knew to Teach Me
Someone comes to you stuck and you can feel the pressure to say the perfect thing. You reach for advice, a pep talk, or a quick solution, and somehow it still doesn’t help. We name what’s really happening: you’re not failing because you don’t c...
From Stuck to Wealthy and Well Known
You can be disciplined, coachable, and genuinely hungry to grow and still feel like nothing is changing. That’s the kind of stuck we’re tackling here: the version that hides under effort, learning, and nonstop action, then quietly turns every n...
What If You Aren't Burned Out...You're Just Carrying Too Much Alone?
Everyone calls it burnout, but we’ve learned a hard truth the long way: sometimes the thing draining you isn’t the work. It’s the isolation. When you’re the person everyone leans on, it can feel “normal” to carry the pressure alone, keep your d...
Why People Ignore Great Advice And How Leaders Create Action
You can give someone a genuinely great answer and still watch nothing change. That gap between “I understand” and “I did it” is where leadership and coaching either level up or break down. I’m Mark, and I’m digging into why advice so often fail...
The Conversation You Keep Avoiding
You know the conversation. The one you’ve played in your head a dozen times, where you finally say what needs to be said and everything might change. That’s the real reason so many leaders, parents, and partners avoid difficult conversations. I...
Why The Best Leaders Stop Waiting to Feel Ready
Confidence feels like the missing ingredient when you want to lead with authority, coach clients well, or make clear decisions under pressure. But what if the reason you feel stuck is that you’re chasing a feeling instead of building proof? We ...
Coaching Standards: Are You Coaching Or Quietly Influencing The Outcome?
Everyone wants to be influential. Almost no one stops to ask what their influence is teaching the people around them. Mark and Teresa unpack a coaching truth that can change how you lead: the questions you ask can be just as directive as the ad...
Stop Winging Sessions - The Standard Your Clients Can Feel
Your client can feel it the moment a session turns into a friendly chat. Marc and Teresa unpack the uncomfortable truth a lot of coaches avoid: improvising might sound intuitive, but it rarely produces consistent client transformation. We talk ...
What Undercharging Is Really Costing You
Undercharging can look like generosity, but it often becomes a slow leak that drains your confidence, your business, and even your client results. We get real about the internal stories that push well-intentioned coaches to discount their coach...
What Keeps Your Clients (and YOU) Stuck
Feeling stuck can look like “I don’t know what to do,” but it usually sounds more like “I know what to do, and I still can’t move.” Mark and Teresa get honest about what keeps coaches, leaders, and entrepreneurs trapped in place and why the pro...
Why Coaches Know What to Do But Won't Do It
You can feel it in your gut: you know what would grow your coaching business, and you still don’t do it. Not because you’re lazy. Not because you’re “bad at sales.” It’s because something deeper is protecting you from the discomfort of being se...
Why You’re Not Seen As A Coach Yet
Ever wonder why people don’t reach out, even when you know you can help? We dig into the gap between calling yourself a coach and being seen as a trusted coach, and we make it practical with a four-part roadmap you can apply today. No fluff, no...
Why Most Coaches Confuse Excuses with Explanations
What if the “smart” reasons you give yourself are the very thing keeping you stuck? We peel back the layers on excuses vs explanations and show how fear often hides behind logic that sounds responsible: I need more clients before I invest, I ne...
Why Most New Coaches Can't Get Clients (And What Actually Works)
If getting clients feels like pushing a boulder uphill, you might be solving the wrong problem. We dig into the quiet reason most new coaches stall: not weak content or missing scripts, but identity and adaptive challenges that leak doubt into ...
Why "I'm Exhausted" Is Rarely the Real Issue for Your Clients
Ever hear a client say “I’m exhausted” and feel the urge to fix it fast? We’ve been there too. Today we unpack why that phrase is usually a surface signal pointing to deeper beliefs, sneaky scarcity stories, and a quiet fear of saying no. Inste...
Why High Impact Coaches Have to Go First
The coaches who create real change don’t have louder voices or flashier frameworks—they lead themselves first. We dig into what “going first” actually looks like in practice: staying with discomfort, confronting patterns without excuses, and ch...
What Coaches Often Misread Right Before a Breakthrough
Ever have a client go quiet, tear up, or say they’re stuck—and feel your stomach drop? We pull back the curtain on why those moments are not red flags but green lights for real change. When someone edges toward a new identity, their old beliefs...
Why Most Coaching Certifications Don’t Create Real Coaches
Scripts crumble the moment a client surprises you. What holds is identity. We dig into why traditional certifications often stop at information and how real growth happens when you train your way of being: emotional presence, grounded attention...
Not Everyone Grows With You — Here’s Why
Change your identity and your world changes back. That sounds bold, but as we unpack how growth reshapes friendships, marriage, parenting, and career, the pattern becomes impossible to ignore. We trace the arc from a tight-knit LAPD circle—poke...
How One Mother Turned Pain Into A Movement To Support Grieving Moms
Some stories arrive like a storm and leave the shape of everything changed. Our guest, coach and mother Heather Lane, shares how the stillbirth of her daughter Riley shattered her world, the years of silence that followed, and the day a quiet q...
You Can Do Everything Right And Still Stay Stuck
Stuck on the treadmill of doing more but moving nowhere? We’ve been there. Today we unpack why high performers can check every box—workouts done, outreach sent, content posted—and still feel stalled, and how a shift toward presence, energy, and...