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Tools, ideas, and inspiration to support your leadership journey.
We created this page for those quiet moments when you want something solid to lean on.
A worksheet. A reading list. A guide to help you reframe what’s in front of you.
Everything here is free. No forms, no pressure. Just tools we’ve used, loved, or created with care.
What You’ll Find Here
Free Tools
Reflection guides, checklists, and practice prompts for boundary-setting, values clarification, and sustainable leadership.
Recommended Reads
Books that have shaped our thinking and articles we have written on leadership, equity, transformation, reinvention, and joy.
Leadership Guides
Mini-guides on leading with clarity, coaching with presence, and navigating systems without losing yourself.
Why We Share
- Because not everyone has a coach.
- Because sometimes you just need a page, a quote, or a question to start shifting something.
- Because generosity is one of our favorite leadership strategies.
Recommended Reads
Choice: The Magazine of Professional Coaching, Volume 23, Number 4 (December 2025)
Choice: The Magazine of Professional Coaching, Volume 23, Number 3 (October 2025)
Check out the related Podcast Episode: “Trust Starts Within”
Choice: The Magazine of Professional Coaching, Volume 23, Number 1 (June 2025)
Check out the related Podcast Episode: “Bridging Racial Divides in Coaching”
* Published in, and reproduced with permission from Choice, the magazine of professional coaching. www.choice-online.com
Leadership Guides
Coaching Conversations About Joy: A Companion Guide for Coaches
A companion guide that helps coaches work with joy thoughtfully and ethically. It names common pitfalls in joy-focused coaching and offers reflections that support presence without bypassing pain or imposing optimism. Best used when: Coaching clients who feel distant from joy, carry complicated histories with it, or when joy and suffering appear together in the work.
The Self-Trust Reset: A Companion Guide for Coaches
A reflective guide that supports coaches in rebuilding steadiness after difficult sessions, confidence dips, or moments of self-doubt. It frames self-trust as a practice—grounded in presence, permission, perspective, patience, and purpose—rather than certainty or performance. Best used: After a challenging session, critical feedback, assessment pressure, or anytime self-trust feels wobbly.
Coaching Across Difference: A Reflection Guide
A practice-centered reflection guide for coaches working across race, culture, and identity. It offers prompts and commitments that support awareness, humility, and ethical presence without centering the coach’s comfort or relying on intent alone. Best used when: Preparing for or reflecting on sessions where identity, power, or cultural difference are present—or when discomfort signals something worth noticing.
Podcast Episodes
"Trust Starts Within" - Beyond the Page podcast - Episode 169
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What happens when coaching doesn’t unfold neatly, confidence wavers, or the “right” move isn’t obvious?
In this Beyond the Page conversation, Gloria Custodio, PCC, reflects on self-trust as a foundational coaching capacity. Drawing from training experiences and real client work, she explores why grounded presence often matters more than perfect structure and how coaches can stay steady in moments of uncertainty.
The central insight is simple and powerful: you don’t need certainty to be trustworthy. When coaches model presence and honesty in the unknown, clients learn to trust themselves—and that shift ripples outward to teams and systems.
This episode offers clear language, real stories, and practical takeaways coaches can use immediately.
"Bridging Racial Divides in Coaching" - Beyond the Page podcast - Episode 148
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In this episode of Beyond the Page, Gloria Custodio, PCC, explores what it means to coach across racial and cultural differences with integrity, humility, and real-world awareness. The conversation focuses on how identity, power, and lived experience show up in coaching sessions—often subtly—and how coaches can respond without defaulting to neutrality, avoidance, or intent-based reassurance.
The discussion moves beyond theory to examine common coaching missteps, including rushing to reframe, centering the coach’s discomfort, or relying on generic notions of “professionalism” that obscure difference rather than engage it. Gloria shares practical ways coaches can stay present, curious, and accountable while maintaining trust and relational depth.
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