Prosperous Coach Podcast

  Find the full transcript and other resources for coaches at prosperouscoach.com/235. Other episodes related to this episode include: 62 and 63 With coaches' big hearts, the drive to help everyone and the desperation to get clients — they spread themselves too thin on offers and marketing efforts that don’t pay off. What about you? Are you feeling desperate for more clients and income? Have...

Find the full transcript for this episode and other resources for new coaches at prosperouscoach.com/234. When you are starting something new — learning how to coach and build your business — what’s the most natural way to feel? Like an imposter. Everyone experiences that feeling. It’s human. You won’t likely feel confident when you’re new at something so don’t try for confidence right away. Inste...

Find the full transcript and other resources for coaches at prosperouscoach.com/233. I was having the last session with a favorite client the other day.  Last sessions are a bittersweet time for all. Your clients lose an accountability partner and the structure that helps them stay inspired and make things happen. From here on out they’ll have to hold themselves accountable. You lose their unique...

Find the full transcript and other resources for coaches at prosperouscoach.com/232 . All of my clients are unique human beings who bring different skills and challenges to the table when we build every aspect of their coaching business. As part of our work together we look at the best way for each coach to market. It’s not a good idea to casually follow what other coaches are doing. If you market...

Two openings for my VIP Coaching Business Breakthrough program where we do everything to set your business up strategically. Apply on this page and we'll talk! When I started coaching, I acted as if I didn’t deserve to earn well and have the life I want. Here is what that looked like: 1.     I over-complicated my business model by offering too many coaching packages.  2.     I undervalued mys...

Get Your Special Download of the 5 Rules Get it. Print it out. Keep it next to your desk so that —whenever you write — you’ll apply and ultimately integrate these tools into your writing. Writing smart copy is both an art and science. You’ll be amazed how using these rules will turn you into a significantly better writer. And, you will attract and enroll more coaching clients because your communic...

Because I know it will help I wanted to bring back one of my most popular episodes that is essential for all coaches.  This might blow your mind. But I hope that it OPENS your mind instead. And I think that you've probably suspected the truth of this already, but you haven't known what to do about it. Here’s what it boils down to … Coaching is a hard sell. Few people wake up knowing that...

Did you know I started as a spiritual coach? It was the seed of a coaching niche idea that I never fully formed. I put up a vague website that sat there collecting cyber dust. I had a few short-term clients but no consistent income. Is that happening in your coaching business? Many coaches get attached to being what I call a fill-in-the-blank coach. A transition coach, a confidence coach, a leader...

Coaches have similar origin stories. I’m a 2 on the Enneagram – The Helper. In my last corporate job, it was difficult to get work done because people would stop by all day to tell me their problems. I joked that I needed a sign saying “The Doctor is Out”.   Observing that confidante talent in me, motivated a friend to ask “Have you ever thought about being a life coach?”   Within days I enrolled...

Recently, one of my VIP clients read an article about SEO — search engine optimization — and quickly went down a rabbit hole trying to figure it out for her new coaching business. And it stressed her out. I assured her that we had already addressed important aspects of SEO by doing market research on her chosen target audience. We’d applied what she heard from them to develop the language for her...

Do you ever have FOMO about aspects of your coaching business? For example, maybe you want to keep your audience and niche broad because you don’t want to exclude anyone. Or it could be that you bend over backwards to make something easy or more appealing for a potential client even though that doesn’t jive with your preferences.  Or maybe it’s just not being able to say ‘no’ to opportunities. Whe...

A new VIP client of mine hired me because she wants to enroll more clients at higher prices than she’s been charging. She wants to end this year with significantly higher income. Can you relate? Some of the clients that hire her through LinkedIn posts just aren’t ideal and many of her new clients are low hanging fruit— colleagues from her previous corporate career — that flow will taper off soon....

You’ve invested in training … likely more training than you'll ever need. Hopefully, you’ve targeted a viable audience and unique niche to stand out in the crowd. And hopefully, your website and social profiles are customized for the outcomes that audience most wants. Now, you are longing for paying clients to coach. Where are they? You’ve spent endless hours creating social posts and admitte...

I was chatting, recently, in a patch of sunshine, with one of my brothers about how some hard things from our past have made us who we are today. . We connected the dots about what drives us and how that repeatedly influences our behaviors, choices, failures and successes. Thanks brother, if you’re listening! That conversation brought home again something I’ve acknowledged before but sometimes for...

Aren’t coach training skills so juicy? You can’t wait to get out there and use them. For new coaches that’s where most of their investment of time, money and energy is spent – on coach training. Soaking in the techniques. But the reality is that it’s tricks of the trade that will help you earn well and stay in business. Coaches need business training specialized to coaching businesses as much as c...

How do people make buying decisions? Is it always about price? Well, it’s different for each person and each buying situation. If you’re in the grocery store and your primary goal is to save on groceries then you will look at the price of each similar product and choose the least expensive. Someone else with different priorities will read the label to see what is in the product and choose that way...

It’s easy to get bogged down in the daily details of your coaching business especially when you’re not yet earning the way you want to. You are developing content, posting on social channels, speaking, networking — hustling in every way you can. But have you ever tried doing nothing to build your business? I’m talking about scheduling at least a half day each quarter to just be with yourself, thin...

It’s not unusual when coaches first start their business to bend over backwards to enroll a client. But people pleasing can become a reliable method of self-sabotage. This 218th episode covers 3 ways to know if you are people pleasing and 3 ways to set your coaching business up so you will quickly stop that habit. Find the full transcript and other resources for new coaches here. Also mentioned in...

You’ve spent money and time to train as a coach. You’ve chosen a narrow and viable niche (at least I hope you have!) You’ve branded, put up a website and faithfully posted on social media … so MANY times! And now you’ve got a Discovery Call scheduled. You want to enroll this client! You need to enroll this client! But already, before the call, you can feel imposter syndrome creeping in. You don’t...

I can hear you thinking … “I’m not good at selling!” Not true. It’s all about mindset. Yes, mindset AGAIN! Coaches are masters at helping others shift their mindset – to get out of their own way. Guess who else needs mindset shifting? Old stories about marketing, selling and rejection have crystallized in your mind. Let’s dissolve them now. There’s an authentic, caring and detached way to sell tha...

The biggest downside to being a solopreneur coach is that you are ... SOLO! Unless you do something strategic about that to reduce isolation, which is a contracting force that could make you want to quit your coaching business. Find the full transcript and other resources for new coaches at prosperouscoach.com/215 This 215th episode of Prosperous Coach Podcast has 4 practical ideas to help you put...

On too many new coach's websites, I’m seeing either: 1.     No lead magnet but instead an offer for a free call high up on the website. Truly, offering a free call as a first offer is like asking a first date to meet your parents. It’s too much too soon. There’s a better way. 2.     Or a lead magnet that with a Google search for the topic would turn up hundreds of thousands of articles on the...

Have you decided what format you’ll use for your coaching? It’s simple but important. There are tradeoffs to all 3 real time methods — in person, on web cam, or simply by phone. (For the sake of this episode, I’m not going to talk about coaching online through writing. While I have coached some through writing it’s my belief that real coaching is done in real time, where you and your client can he...

I made 4 big mistakes during the start-up of my coaching business and lived to tell the tale. But I've also experienced multiple magical turning points in my business as well. Wonderful things will come to your coaching business if you don’t let mistakes stop you. I’ll dish the dirt about my 4 big mistakes in coaching business startup guessing that you'll recognize yourself in some or al...

Branding may be the first thing people will see on your website. Is your brand/company name relevant to your coaching audience? After all if your website is (your name) Coaching, how will a client know they have come to a place where they will feel served and understood? This episode is 2 best approaches for coaches to choose their coaching business brand and 1 to avoid unless ...