The Coach Approach Ministries Podcast

🎧 Podcast Notes: Third Generation Coaching with Motoki Asai

Connect with Motoki Asai
Find Motoki on LinkedIn to learn more about his work with CAM Japan.

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🎧 Podcast Notes: Cognitive Linguistics with Motoki Asai

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Learn more or connect with Motoki Asai via LinkedIn (Motoki Asai).

Big Idea

Writing isn't just content creation—it's a tool for clarity, growth, and impact. For coaches and leaders, writing helps you think better, communicate better, and ultimately serve people better.

Big Idea

Great coaching isn't about having the best answers—it's about creating the kind of space where clients discover their own. The difference between average and masterful coaching comes down to mindset, humility, and how deeply you engage the per...

Big Idea

Healthy churches are not defined by programs or personalities—but by clarity, culture, and conversations. Coaching provides the mindset and structure that helps churches rediscover purpose, develop leaders, and navigate change.

Episode Summary

In this Maundy Thursday episode, Brian explores the meaning of the gospel through the lens of forsakenness and belonging. Reflecting on Jesus' cry from the cross—"Why have you forsaken me?"—he reframes the good news not as what we must do, but what Christ has already done.

Episode Summary

Brian Miller reflects on a growing

Episode Summary

Brian Miller sits down with Dr. Angie Ward (Denver Seminary) for an honest, wide-angle conversation about what's happening to the Western church—and what might come next. Angie argues that "Christendom" (church as cultural establishment) is collapsing, and that COVID accelerated trends already underway: declining trust in institutions, shrin...

Episode Summary

In this reflective and candid conversation, Brian Miller sits down with Angie Ward, Director of the Doctor of Ministry Program at Denver Seminary, to explore what it means to lead from...

Doug Foltz explains how he used AI to solve a real coach-development bottleneck: mentor coaching doesn't scale. By building a competency rubric and an AI "agent" that evaluates coaching transcripts, Doug's team reduced hours of expert analysis to minutes—then re-centered the human work where it matters most: reflection, agency, and a short mentor-coaching conversation. The bigger idea:

Dr. Brent Sleasman argues that leaders who cling to certainty—predictability, control, and stable cause-and-effect—are setting themselves up to fail in today's environment. In an uncertain age, organizations must separate mission from program, experiment without over-attaching to solutions, and build teams that balanc...

Brian Miller (Coach Approach Ministries) is joined by Robert & Kaylee Fukui, authors of Tandem: The Married Entrepreneur's Guide for Greater Work-Life Balance, with special guest Danelle Miller (CAM Operations Director… and Brian's wife). They talk about what happens when marriage and business share the same kitchen table: role confusion, taking things personal...

Brian Miller (Coach Approach Ministries) sits down with Brent Sleasman (Winebrenner Seminary) to unpack a hard reality: important kingdom-focused organizations are disappearing—not because the mission isn't needed, but because leaders fail to see the bigger picture and adapt to a changed world. They explore how "little-kingdom thinking," nostalgia-driven decisi...

In this "presidential summit," Brian Miller talks with Brent Sleasman, president of Winebrenner Theological Seminary, about why human-to-human interaction is becoming more important—not less—in an age of remote work, economic pressure, and ac...

Coaching isn't just useful for discipleship—it may be the missing skill set for making disciple-makers. The conversation is candid, funny, and quietly sharp: COVID exposed shallow formation, and the church's "information-first" approach is often producing people who can pass the quiz but can't live the life.

What this episo...

Brian Miller and Rev. Dr. Brian Tracy keep the January theme rolling—escaping the tyranny of the urgent—but this episode zeroes in on leadership coaching: why leaders get stuck, what beliefs jam the gears, and how a coach helps a leader climb out of survival mode and back into purpose. It opens with some playful "Brian spelling reform" banter (the Y can repent)...

🔑 Three Insights from the CAM Leaders Meeting

Drawing from Coach Approach Ministries' first leaders meeting without any of its founders, Brian shares three convictions that will shape the future of coaching—and the church.

1️⃣ Human-to-Human Interaction Is Becoming More Valuable, Not Less

In this episode, Brian Miller and Brian Tracy continue January's theme of resisting the tyranny of the urgent by exploring why "moving fast" isn't the same as "moving forward." They talk about Sabbath as a spiritual act of trust, Cal Newport's Slow Productivity, and how focus, rest, and even fun are not distractions—they're f...

In this episode, Brian Miller and Brian Tracy kick off January's theme—Escaping the Tyranny of the Urgent—by looking back at Brian's 2025 goal list (10 goals… 3 achieved… baseball Hall of Fame, real life: "ouch"). They explore what a "failed" goal year can teach you: you can't predict what's coming, God opens doors you didn't even know existed, and the real win...