10/29/2025
Coaching vs AI
I was thinking about the benefits of AI. After all, I use AI a lot to brainstorm ideas, concepts, utilizing it to trailblaze a different path of ideas than what I am currently seeing things as. I see it as a personalized Virtual Assistant than I can reach out to at any moment. This assistant polishes my grammar, titles, big ideas, etc. However, this is also an assistant that I have to be suspicious of and not fully trust as well…sometimes even yell at…because it will suggest ideas that are just not in alignment with Jesus. Even though I have preprogrammed prompts for AI to be within parameters that I have set, from time to time, these worldy ideas slip in.
I was thinking about all of this with how successful leaders will look to AI for advice, brainstorming, bounce ideas off of, etc. Just recently, I saw a video of Gary Vee saying he did a 39-minute verbal prompt on Chat GPT. I have done a similar thing, though not as long. Compared to typing my ideas out, sometimes it’s much more freeing and beneficial for me to TALK my ideas out, brainstorm, and have them structured and laid out in the way I have requested and then even have AI give some ideas I didn’t think of. But then I thought of AI and COACHING.
There are different niches of Coaching-Life, Business, Executive, Transformational, and more. Since becoming a Coach, and more specifically seeing my purpose as a KINGDOM DEPLOYMENT COACH, I have seen a variety of beliefs, methods, and viewpoints of coaching—both from the view of client as well as the coach. For some reason there is this method of coaching that involves giving advice to the client…practically taking a mentor/consultant approach. Although those are beneficial at times in their separate arenas, I don’t think that method honestly aligns with what a true coaching partnership is. It certainly isn’t in alignment with how a client’s partnership with me as a Coach operates as. And if potential clients see that AI is no different, if not BETTER, than a single coach’s perspective of advice and expertise, then why not just rely on AI. I know I would do that!
What is missing in the AI/ User exchange or even with the Coach acting as the “expert”, consultant, mentor in the coaching partnership?
Sure, the ideas that get generated from the source of AI and this type of “coach”, could be fantastic ideas and create a detailed plan of strategy and action for people. It’s creating Preparations for people to commit to for success.
However, what is missing?
Presence.
Presence with Jesus.
Presence with Him produces the passion, then that leads to preparations alongside Him.
If you want cookie cutter ideas that could be effective, successful, helpful tools/strategies, then great. But what an advising/expert/consultant style “Coach” or AI is offering are preparations created from the surface level.
It’s easy to apply past wins, or what others are successful people are doing, for you to handle future obstacles, problems, decisions, etc.
As for me, I don’t want to know what I CAN do, I want to know what I am CALLED to do in that moment. What did God DIVINELY DESIGN me to do?
I don’t want any of my COACHING SESSIONS to be similar from one client to the next…even any coaching session to be the same from one session to the next with the SAME client. I certainly don’t want to give them MY ideas. I don’t even want them to act on their OWN ideas that are based out of fear, pleasing others, false identities, etc. I want to redirect them to Jesus…I want them to receive their Kingdom Identity from God Himself, operating from that foundational truth in their Kingdom Assignments, under the overall Kingdom Mission.
That’s the EXPERT I want to listen to and take the next step with.
