# 774. Coaching Across Cultures: What Every Coach Needs to Understand - With Tamara Tan

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Published: 2026-06-23T09:45:00+00:00
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In this episoden, I speak with cross-cultural coach Tamara Tan about the often-overlooked role culture plays in coaching, communication, relationships, leadership, and personal development. Drawing on her experience living and working across multiple countries, Tamara explores how culture shapes the way people build trust, express emotions, communicate feedback, approach authority, and make sense of their identity. We discuss why coaching models that work well in one culture can fall flat in another, and why cultural awareness is becoming an increasingly important skill for coaches working in a globalised world. We dive into the differences between American, European, and Slavic cultures, exploring how attitudes towards success, self-promotion, responsibility, conflict, vulnerability, and personal growth are deeply influenced by cultural conditioning. Tamara explains why some clients expect direct challenge while others need greater relational safety, and how coaches can avoid projecting their own cultural assumptions onto the people they work with. The conversation also explores trust-building across cultures, the impact of collective history and social norms, the challenges of cross-cultural relationships, and why curiosity is one of the most valuable qualities a coach can develop. Along the way, we examine identity, belonging, stereotypes, multiculturalism, and the balance between recognising cultural differences without reducing people to cultural labels. ------------------------------------------- Check out our new Certification for Coaching Neurodivergent Clients https://embodimentunlimited.com/coaching-neurodivergent-clients/ ----------------------------------------------- Become a certified embodiment coach. Coach beyond mere words and support clients to transf…

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