Life Coaching 101: How Do I Get My First Coaching Client?

Working with your first coaching client is a defining moment for any new coaching business. 

But you might have noticed by now that a fancy website, social media followers, and cool graphics might roll the red carpet out for your clients, but that’s about it:

It’s nice to have and makes people feel special, but it isn’t going to fill the seat. 

Which is why you’ll hear this saying a lot: The first client is the hardest to find.

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Are there cracks in your life coaching business?

In the same way that water seeps through a cracked cup, beginner life coaches often pour time and energy into their business only to see their results leak out.

But it can be a beautiful opportunity with the right mindset. For instance, a Japanese tradition known as Kintsugi mends broken pottery with gold!

Your dream of time freedom as a life coach isn’t far off from that concept. If you’re feeling overworked, overwhelmed, or overstressed, there’s a way to fill in the cracks with gold.

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With all the freedom and flexibility of running your own coaching business, a dream can come crashing down into a nightmare without a plan.

So, if you feel stuck or uncomfortable running your own life coaching session, take a deep breath and know that nothing’s wrong with you. Our Life Coach Certification Program experts can help you craft a perfect plan for your business if you feel like you need extra support.

Today, we’re going to take your perfectly normal concerns and prevent them from ever crashing your coaching sessions again.

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While it’s easy to understand what athletic coaches do and why they exist, would you be able to say the same about life coaching?

Life coaching is an increasingly popular career option and in high demand. But there are a lot of people who don’t know what transformational life coaching is. 

Some simply have the wrong idea about what they do.

So if you’re looking for clarity and interested in learning more about life coaching, today’s post will help you do three things:

1. Answer the popular question “what do life coaches…

It’s much easier to choose the right life coach training program when you have a gold standard of what you would love. 

Moving forward, your training program should make it easier to accelerate your results for success with a proven plan, a library of resources, and repeatable coaching tools, among other must-haves.

In this post, we will look at the 7 criteria for selecting the perfect life coach training program that best fits the career, business, and life you would love!

Do You Need a Certification to Be a Life Coach?…

Most people spend around 90,000 hours at work in their lives – or a third of most of our days alive! 

Imagine spending a third of your life “surviving” until the weekend, pushing through weeks of unfulfilling work just to save enough time and money for the one of the few vacations you’re allowed to have in a year. 

If you’re like most people, you don’t have to imagine it. You’re living it.

But I challenge you to consider this: If you’re going to trade your life for something, trade…

If you’re thinking of becoming a life coach…

And you want to make the most money and impact possible…

I want to suggest that you consider transformational coaching over traditional life coaching.

After reading this post, you’ll have a better sense of whether transformational coaching is the right fit for you. You’ll also know the best next steps towards building the career of your dreams as a difference-maker and coach!

What’s the Difference between a Transformational Life Coach and a Traditional Life Coach?

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After watching thousands of coaches build their careers and coaching businesses over the past decade, I’ve seen all the most highly successful coaches focus on the same 5 things.

These go beyond surface level business tactics like building a list, posting on social media or trying to gain a massive following.

While these kinds of business practices are important, the most successful life coaches focus on becoming extraordinarily good at 5 foundational principles. 

If you apply these same 5 principles, you too will be able to launch, sustain, and succeed as a…

In your role as a life coach, you will of course face challenges and make mistakes – often the same ones as your clients! But what matters most is how you respond to those circumstances, situations, and conditions.

In Mary Morrissey’s eBook “Stronger Than Circumstances”, she discusses how you can overcome any circumstance that comes your way using the power already inside of you.

If you remain open to learning and growing from your mistakes and challenges… well that changes everything.

This willingness to learn…

When Considering the Most Stable Industries & Best Career Fields of the Next Decade, It’s Clear: Life Coaching Is At The Top!

You’re intrigued by the idea of becoming an effective life coach who can take your ideal client on a coaching journey, shining light on their blind spots and helping them create the professional life – and personal life – of their dreams.

But one of the biggest pieces stopping you from achieving your career goal of diving into the coaching industry is a nagging question: 

Is life coaching a viable career option?…