About CHRISTIAN LIFE COACH COLLECTIVE~ Spirit-Led Life and Business Strategies
You have just tapped in to the Christian Life Coach Collective. I’m your host Laura Malone and I love to equip and encourage coaches in their skills and business, as well as their personal life and faith. I believe you are already 100% worthy, capable, and called for such a time as this, so let’s get you walking it out with courage and confidence so you can become an amazing coach who sees transformation and great results in both your life and the lives around you. Let’s get started.
In this podcast you’ll learn about:
✨ Taking Ownership and Responsibility for Your Life
✨ Getting Creative and Figuring Out What’s Possible
✨ Spirit-led Life and Business Strategies
✨ Business with God as Your CEO
✨ Learning to Coach Yourself and Others
It all starts with changing your mind so you can change your life!
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A WILLING HEART IS YOUR QUALIFICATION - Most people think they need more knowledge before they can guide others, but coaching is built on presence, not perfection. In this episode, we unpack why willingness matters more than expertise and how everyday roles already reflect the posture of a coach.
Key TakeawaysAnyone can learn the core skills of coaching, including curiosity, non judgment, and holding space.A lack of credentials or a perfectly resolved life does not disqualify someone, but the need to control or be the expert will.Many roles already involve coaching, the difference is choosing to do it with structure and purpose.
Action GuideNotice one conversation this week where you would normally give advice. Pause, ask a thoughtful question instead, and allow space for the other person to think through their own answer before you respond. How could you see yourself helping this person even beyond the conversation if you were a coach?
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26 Mar 2026
348-What It Means to Be a Sterling and Stone Coach
MODERN DAY DISCIPLERS- There is a difference between learning how to coach and becoming the kind of person who can guide transformation. In this episode, I unpack the heart, posture, and responsibility behind Sterling and Stone coaching. This is not about collecting tools or asking better questions. This is about stepping into a role of influence, leadership, and discipleship in everyday life. Coaching becomes a way to help people renew their minds, align with truth, and move forward with purpose, creating ripple effects that impact families, communities, and generations.
Key Takeaways• Coaching is not just conversation, it is leadership in someone’s transformation and growth• Personal transformation comes first, your life becomes the foundation of how you guide others• Coaching is a modern day expression of discipleship, lived out in real relationships and real life decisions
Action GuideTake a moment to reflect on your own posture as you help others. Are you focused on being helpful, or are you stepping into responsibility for guiding real transformation? Ask God to show you one area in your own thinking or life that needs renewal, and begin there. The depth of your impact will always flow from the depth of your own transformation.
To explore working together, visit SterlingAndStoneMentoring.com.
BOOK A FREE CONSULTATION
Read the Life Coach Blog
If you want to go deeper into identity, purpose, and belonging as a woman of faith, listen to my companion podcast: StoryMakers.
Find me @coachlauramalone on IG
Learn how to become a S&S Life Coach
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19 Mar 2026TRANSCRIPT
347-From Conversations to Clients: How to Be Intentional with Your Help
FROM INFORMAL HELP TO INTENTIONAL LEADERSHIP- You are probably already helping people more than you realize. The conversations, the questions, the perspective you offer in everyday moments are not random. They are patterns. And for many women, those patterns are the early evidence of a coaching call. In this episode, we talk about the shift that has to happen, not in skill, but in identity. Moving from casually helping to intentionally leading requires ownership, structure, and a willingness to be seen. This is where conversations begin to turn into clients, and where influence becomes responsibility.
Key Takeaways• You are likely already doing the work of coaching through everyday conversations, you just have not named it yet• Coaching is different from helping because it requires intentional leadership, structure, and responsibility for results• The biggest barrier is not skill, it is the identity shift from helper to someone who leads others through growth
Action GuidePay attention this week to where people are already coming to you for support, perspective, or clarity. Notice the patterns, not just the moments. Then ask yourself, what would it look like to be intentional with this instead of casual? Where could you create a defined space for that kind of conversation to actually lead somewhere?
To explore working together, visit SterlingAndStoneMentoring.com.
BOOK A FREE CONSULTATION
Read the Life Coach Blog
If you want to go deeper into identity, purpose, and belonging as a woman of faith, listen to my companion podcast: StoryMakers.
Find me @coachlauramalone on IG
Learn how to become a S&S Life Coach
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Inside a recent episode
349-Who Can Be a Coach?
Published 7 May 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] I don't know. It's silly now looking back at it. But in the moment where you might be, it's very real. I totally understand it. But I think most of the time it's because you're lacking information like I was about what it is. There's a tension around your identity, your personality. calling the anointing on your life maybe the worthiness that you feel the capability right so let's just clear it up coaching is not reserved for the perfect people in the world There's no one certain type of person who can be a coach. It's not like all of the loud people, all the confident people, all of the ones who already have it figured out who are experts on all of these things. […]
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