Are You Listening?: Stories from a Coaching Life

Why I recommend it

I recommend these stories for showing what coaching feels like when real lives refuse to fit a neat model. Rogers brings the reader into conversations shaped by work, identity, shame, ambition, relationships, and the rare experience of being heard without judgment.

What stayed with me

Listening is not passive and it is not merely waiting for a turn to ask the next good question. It creates the conditions in which another person can hear themselves more honestly.

Who it’s useful for

Coaches, leaders, people considering coaching, and anyone interested in the complicated human reality behind a professional conversation.

A tension

Stories make the work vivid, but they are not scripts. What helped one client cannot be copied into another relationship without attention to context and consent.