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13th Mar 2025

The Coaching Industry Has It Wrong—Here’s What Actually Works

As a former perfectionist, I spent years on personal development, leadership growth, therapy, and coaching—but I still felt stuck. If this is you, you’re not alone.

In this episode, I reveal the fundamental flaw in the coaching industry and why two dominant coaching approaches—emotional processing and mindset work—often keep people spinning their wheels. You could say I'm the anti-personal development coach.

✅ Why mindset shifts, reframing, and subconscious work don’t always lead to real transformation (this is my biggest pet peeve...)

✅ The hidden trap of emotional processing (and why it sometimes makes things worse)

✅ The missing piece in most coaching models—and how it unlocks real clarity

✅ What insight coaching is and how it helps you break free from endless self-work

I hope this gives you something fresh to ponder. Especially if you’re tired of working on yourself but still feeling like something is missing.

It's not you. You've processed and worked on yourself plenty. Maybe it's time for insight. Simple, powerful, with no work.

🔔 Listen now and discover how insight—not analysis or emotional deep dives—can create lasting change.

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About the Podcast

All Things Human with Adele Wang
How power works, in people and in machines.
How power works, in people and in machines. Especially in this time of massive and hyper-rapid change.

Adele Wang watches how people behave, in organizations and in ordinary life, and says the part most people leave out.

Some episodes are about work. Who decides, who gets blamed, what happens when nobody quite owns a decision. Some are about relationships. Why you know your neighbor's dog's name and not theirs. What we want from each other and what we're willing to admit we want.

The through line is the same either way. What's really going on underneath the thing everyone agrees to say.

💌 Join the conversation and get more exclusive insights at https://adelewang.substack.com