Credibility is crucial for coaches—so, how can coaches make sure they are walking it like they talk it? Longtime S&C Coach, speaker, and author Missy Mitchell-McBeth joins Episode #7 of the podcast to talk about ways to narrow down core values…and more importantly, promote values that you can model and execute.

Coach Mitchell-McBeth discusses how consistency and transparency are her foundational principles, which then support countless other important qualities: hard work, integrity, honesty, and more. With an extensive professional background to pull from, she explains how she learned from her mistakes as a young high school coach, how expertise and deep knowledge can be sources of credibility in place of surface factors, and how she emphasizes the concept of “embracing discomfort” as a key part of the growth and development process. For Mitchell-McBeth, that growth process has taken her from the D1 coaching ranks to now balancing a professional day job and her own entrepreneurial career, all while still training competitive club volleyball athletes.

Those values of consistency of transparency also come into play as Coach Mitchell-McBeth discusses some of the routine professional challenges facing entrepreneurial coaches: managing their content on social media platforms, setting professional boundaries for when to say yes and when to say no, and recognizing how to draw the line between answering questions for an inquisitive younger coach or peer and when that time/expertise needs to be invoiced as a paid professional consult.

Chapter List

00:00 Introduction to Coach Missy Mitchell-McBeth

01:42 Intrinsic Motivation in Coaching

04:11 Modeling Values as a Coach

10:28 Balancing Professional and Personal Life

15:55 Getting Comfortable with Discomfort

20:52 Setting Boundaries as a Coach

33:13 Effective Communication for Coaches