Not a Trainer. Not a Mentor. A Coach.
- Dilpreeta Vasudeva
- Oct 11
- 2 min read
Dilpreeta Vasudeva
CMO at First Living Spaces
No advice. No fixes. Just your truth finding form.
I am baffled by how loosely everyone calls themselves a “coach” these days.
Teach an AI hack? Coach.
Run a finance workshop? Coach.
Give life advice over cocktails?
Apparently, also a coach.
Speaking of cocktails, coaching has been blended into a sloppy cocktail equal parts trainer, consultant, and mentor but that’s not what it is.
The role of a coach being stretched thin, confused and misused had me itching to nuance it.
A coach is not:
A trainer who equips you with content and skills.
A mentor who shares their story and trajectory.
A consultant who gives you a plan and solutions.
An advisor who points to the road ahead.
A therapist who tends to the past so you can heal.
A counsellor who helps you steady the present.
All valuable. But none of them are coaching.
Coaching gives you:
No advice. No fixes. No rescuing. No prescriptions.
Coaching is the journey from “knowing to becoming”.
It restores “your” power of choice.
It invites “you” to dream boldly and unapologetically.
It awakens “your” playfulness, curiosity, and experimentation.
It calls forth “your” courage to see clearly.
It integrates the whole of “you” both light and shadow.
It connects “you” to meaning and the deeper why.
It nudges gentle shifts in “you” that unlock transformation.
It practices inquiry that unlocks answers “you” already carry.
It grounds “your” awareness into action.
In doing so, a coach walks beside you.
Neither ahead. Nor pushing from behind.
A coach helps you stand whole.
To choose consciously and author your life.
Coaching is “Sovereignty in Motion”.
You with your coach are the “House of Sovereign”.
Where clarity co-creates the future,
and you become the person who lives it.
Interested? Lets sit and talk today
Dilpreeta Vasudeva
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