Building a coaching business can be hard. Not only are you working hard to help people with their careers, but you need to take care of yourself as well. Plus, what about all the personal issues your clients come across, but you still need to help address because it affects their career. Beth Rashleigh is a career coach and she shares how to choose your niche as a new coach, take care of yourself, and develop resilience so you can help your clients even better.

Rachel Fritz joins us to share how taking care of yourself really helps to grow your coaching business. Rachel is a Registered Nurse who transitioned into career coaching. Rachel is also a life coach who specialized in the Enneagram. She shares her journey to discovering her true type, connecting all the dots in her own life, and how she implements what she’s learned with her coaching clients.

One of the struggles when starting or growing a coaching business is wondering if you’re actually connecting with your target audience. Today, we get to hear from Dr. Benjamin Ritter of Live For Yourself Coaching. He works with individuals to develop their personal brand, get clear on the work they were meant to do, and grow that into a meaningful career. As a career coach, you also want to develop both your personal and professional brand so you can really resonate with your target audience.

Many people that start a coaching business start their business while working a full-time job. This enables them to have a consistent income through their day job, but start working with clients and slowly building their business on the side. Rachael Gatling works a full-time job, but she is also the founder of ‘Change Your Story’ professional development coaching. Rachel shares her productivity tips, her processes to keep things running smoothly, and how to be intentional with your resources.

It would be great if building a business was easy. But entrepreneurship does have its (many?) struggles. What if you could strategically choose your struggles? Chris Villanueva learned how to choose his own struggles, which actually was the best thing for his business. Listen to this conversation to hear you can strategically layer success by listening to where the opportunities are.

Change is inevitable and, many times, out of our control (2020 has been a prime example of this). But the question is: How do you deal with the change? Specifically, how can you adapt your coaching business when facing changing circumstances in your life. Jeff has spent 40 years as an IT professional in a wide variety of industries and roles. In March of 2020, he left IT to go out on his own to start his own coaching business (he transitioned into full-time coaching during Covid AND at 62...

There isn’t just one way to become a career coach or build your coaching business (which we talk about a lot on the podcast). The best way to be successful is to make your business fit you. Lydia Lee started her career coaching business 7 years ago. In this conversation, she talks about how you need to rewrite the story in your head, adapting marketing strategies to fit who you are (not just make yourself fit into someone else’s business model), and how to grow from one stage to the next.

Many times, there isn’t a straight line from your first career to becoming a career coach. This isn’t a bad thing, and it can lead to some really great opportunities; but not everyone sees or understands the potential benefits. Jenny Foss was one that didn’t take a straight line in her life in general, so her mom called her a unicorn. Jenny shares how she used her unique skills and approach to life and careers to transition from journalism to career coach to adding other career services.

One of the struggles that new coaches have is imposter syndrome. It keeps them from having the confidence they need while working with their clients. It keeps them from helping their clients to their full potential.It keeps them from raising their rates. So what is imposter syndrome? How can you overcome it? Keep listening to this conversation I’m having today with Goli Kalkhoran. She’s a lawyer-turned-entrepreneur, but that’s just a quick summary of her story.

Many new coaches get tripped up on the idea of how they help people and how they figure out what they want. Mo Chanmugham, one of our amazing coaches here at HTYC, joins us to break down how new coaches can help people start figuring out what they want and how you can begin figuring this out for yourself in your coaching journey.

Part of taking your coaching business to the next level is honing your skills, setting up systems, and knowing your target client. Another, and equally important, aspect is surrounding yourself with the right people. If you’re the smartest person in the room, you won’t be on a growth track - you need to surround yourself with those that you aspire to be like. Brad Finkeldei joins Phillip to talk about how he leveraged relationships to grow himself and his coaching business.

We are at a time when anybody can call themselves a coach. The hard thing is getting yourself to stand out from the rest so people can understand how you’re different and how you can help them. So today, I’m excited to start season 5 of this podcast by bringing on Scott Anthony Barlow, the founder of Happen To Your Career. We talk about how you can differentiate yourself as a coach and how running a coaching business is more than just having 1-on-1 conversations with clients.

There are 3 main stages or types of coaching businesses. Jenny Blake went through all three of them as she grew her business. She not only learned how to help her clients pivot in their career, but she also learned how to pivot her own business through each of the 3 stages. Listen to this episode to learn what these stages are, decide both where you are now and where you want to go, and then create a plan to pivot and grow.

If you were to list some of the hardest things to do in life, it would include things like getting married, having a baby, starting a business, and moving. Now imagine moving internationally and starting a coaching business at the same time. Rosie McCarthy joins us today to show us how to do the hardest things in your life all at the same time.

As you work on building your coaching business, you have to make the decision how you want to build it. For example, you can do it all yourself or you can build a team. If you build a team, there are then different options on how you do that. We have discovered that there is a difference between running a coaching business and being the CEO of your coaching business. Jena Viviano joins us to share how she has made several bold moves to build her coaching business.

Finding and growing a relationship with your audience is a key aspect of your career coaching business. Austin Belcak is one of those people who is really great at his craft, both coaching and really creating his own career coaching business while working a full time job at Microsoft. You’ll learn how he developed his SEO, LinkedIn strategy, and Instagram strategy in developing his business and ultimately creating an audience, cultivating relationships along the way.

Today, we get a glimpse behind the scenes of our Professional Career Coach Training program as we have a conversation with Stephanie Constant. Stephanie has vast experience: working at large tech companies (like Adobe and Amazon), owning her own businesses. She has conducted over 500 plus interviews at Amazon. She has this world-class ability to listen. You'll hear how that's projected her now and in her coaching business to build her success and earn the opportunity to help people.

Jess Smith spent years in a role that didn’t fit. She then moved into a role as a recruiter in a tech firm, utilizing her skills and strengths. She breaks down the first steps of becoming a coach and takeaways from her experience starting her own coaching business a year and a half ago. On the podcast, you'll hear the biggest insights, lessons, and takeaways Jess had in her first year and a half of going full time into her coaching business.

Many beginning career coaches think, “We've got this brand that came with the idea, it's gonna go forever!” But at the end of the day, it changes it more as you grow as a person, because that's this whole process that your business grows as well. And with that growth that comes challenges. Lisa Lewis-Miller joins us on the podcast to share her advice as she has gone through 3 big changes in her coaching business in 5 years.

Every superhero has an origin story. What you see when Iron Man is fighting Thanos in Avengers: Endgame is not his whole story. He started as a very different person - a self-indulgent billionaire playboy - and had a journey of change and growth to become the hero we love. On the podcast today, we’ll be looking at the origin story of our company, Happen To Your Career, and pulling out the lessons you can learn as you start your career coaching business.

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That's a wrap for season three of the How to Become a Career Coach podcast! Thank you for listening and for rating, reviewing and sharing the show. Stay tuned for some bonus episodes soon and for season four later this year. Season 4 is not about just getting started, but transitioning to full-time coaching and diving deeper into what this could look like for you

In this last episode Season 3 of How To Become a Career Coach, Scott Anthony Barlow, CEO of Happen To Your Career and founder of the professional Career Coach Training and Certification, shares what makes the most successful coaches, what failures he’s had along the way, and the surprising place you should focus your time if you want to become a phenomenal coach that truly helps others get insane results.

As you become a career coach, you go through different stages. But how do you figure out when and how to make the leap to full-time coaching? Well, today, we’re going to hear from someone has recently made that leap. She officially decided to become a career coach full-time back in 2018, but had some mind gremlins to deal with. So you’re going to hear how she overcame those mind gremlins to make the leap.