Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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With increasing regularity, I see posts on social media criticising coaching as a pyramid scheme or defending it against such accusations. As people tend to do, they paint a nuanced field with a very broad brush, whichever side they support.

In this episode of The Gentle Rebel Podcast, I discuss a recent argument I came across and use it to illustrate how the term 'coaching' is understood and used in two distinct ways.

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