When I was working on my doctorate, part of my schooling involved training new students just starting their Masters in Counseling. There was one thing that EVERY new counseling student did (myself included) that caused their clients to shut down. And that was to offer advice too soon. Each week, I would sit in a small conference room [ read more…]
The following is an email I sent to my list this morning. At first, I didn’t even consider putting it up on my blog. Even though I’ve had quite a few people unsubscribe from my list today, I’ve had several people take the time to reply to my email to thank me and/or let me know [ read more…]
I’ve had a few clients worry about choosing a niche that is too saturated. And if they’re worried about it, I’m guessing you might be too. That there are too many coaches doing the same thing. And I get it. I had the same worry when I decided to focus on helping coaches. I mean, c’mon, the Coaches Helping Coaches [ read more…]
I have a new client who confessed to me that she’s worried that clients won’t stick once she starts coaching. And it got me thinking about how important it is to show up in a way that we’re proud of disregarding the response we get from others. Back in 2012, I got in a huge fight with [ read more…]
Early Tuesday morning I received this email…”Are you serious with this spam email?!? There’s a pandemic! I lost my home AND job! Fuck off & don’t send me anymore emails!!!!”It was in response to an email asking for feedback for why people didn’t buy the Coaches Accelerator, a promotion I was running last week.While this [ read more…]
As I’ve worked with coaches over the past several years, I’ve come across some who are naturally good “salespeople.” Meaning, they can sell their coaching services without even trying. They have a chat with a random stranger and before they know it, the random stranger is asking how they can work with them. I even knew a [ read more…]