As I talk with people about how they got into coaching, it’s always interesting to hear about all the different ways. It reminds me that there is no one path to becoming a coach. Our guest on the How to Become a Career Coach podcast today started as a marketer that was terrible with analytics but was great with the psychology aspects. Tired of the networking events he attended, he started hosting his own events that fostered great conversation, eventually leading him to becoming a career...

So you've been working with some coaching clients - congratulations! But... You are coaching for free or much less than you would like. As much as you love working with and helping people, you know that continuing doing this path is not sustainable in the long term. But you don't know how to make the transition. Good news - you're just like almost every coach out there. We have all been there, done that, got the t-shirt (or coffee mug, because we need coffee, right?).

Tara Padua faced her fear of becoming a career coach, even though creating a full-time business was terrifying to her. But Tara knew that it was the right move to make. She joins Philip on the How to Become a Career Coach podcast to share her journey to become a career coach, jump the hurdle of her first 10 paid clients, and build her successful career coaching business.

"There’s a reason why free gym memberships don’t work: if you don’t put your own skin in the game, you aren’t going to prioritize it in your own life." That's a quote from Alex Durand, our guest on the How to Become a Career Coach podcast. Alex made this statement talking about how he learned to charge his clients for the coaching sessions. This thought process helped him (and his clients) to see the value in what he was offering while coaching.

Whether you’ve never led a formal coaching session life or you’ve been coaching for many years, this model can help you piece together an entire coaching conversation from beginning to end. With our Coaching Conversations Model (a 5-part framework), you’ll end in success again and again and most importantly… this will create progress for your client (which we know creates momentum). You’ll have raving clients who feel like they’re getting an immense amount of value .

With the world in turmoil, it looks like the way work is done may be changing. Scott Anthony Barlow and Phillip Migyanko kick off season 3 with discussing how the future of career coaching will evolve.

Do you feel unsatisfied with your job? Perhaps you’re just yearning for something new or maybe you’ve already thought about becoming a career coach. Either way, this episode will surely help you find direction! Join us in today’s episode as Rosa Andrews talks about her own experience in making a career change and how she was inspired to become a career coach. She also shares with us some useful tips and strategies for shifting careers and landing jobs.

Jennifer Seaver Stokes is driven by her passion about the power of professional coaching partnership. With more than 7 years and 2000 hours of delivering highly effective coaching experiences, she’s been able to work with a wide variety of exceptional professionals and emotionally intelligent individuals. Today, she continues to inspire others to actively leverage their inner assets for outer success.

Phillip is the Director of Student and Client Success here at Happen To Your Career. And he helped to put the Professional Career Coach Training and Certification program together with me. Phillip is the one that you talk to when you schedule a conversation, and he has had the privilege of talking with everyone that has joined our program. He's here to address some of the best questions we get about our PCC program and how to become a career coach.

Allison was on the How to Become a Career Coach podcast about two months ago. But, then, a week later, Allison had an emotional breakdown. She started to feel overwhelmed by the thought that "everyone" is becoming a career coach, so how would she distinguish herself from all the others. But she soon had a breakthrough!

Many people that think their dream is impossible. Sharissa Sebastian had been in the tech industry for years, but was wanting to make a transition out of that field. She was eventually introduced to coaching through Groupon. Her coach began talking with her about what her ideal situation would look like, but she was holding herself back. She didn't think that "ideal" wouldn't be realistic. But Sharissa's coach asked her, "But what if it is possible?"

"How do you determine what to charge for coaching?" "Should I do one-on-one coaching or group coaching?" "What if my target market can't afford my rates? Do I go broke, or do I just lose out on clients?" (and they don't get the help they need) These are common questions that new coaches often ask. In fact, these are questions that all coaches face when they hit a plateau or brick wall in finding new clients. There is not just a single answer.

Ever considered becoming a coach? If so, this is the episode for you! Grab a pen and take notes! Honorée Corder is a best-selling author of over a dozen books, the latest of which is Business Dating: Applying Relationship Rules in Business for Ultimate Success.  She’s also a business coach, speaker, and serial entrepreneur. She shares the story of how she started her coaching business and gives us some valuable tips on building a mindset for success!

Today Gia Ganesh joins the conversation about researching careers. Gia a coach with us here at HTYC and like many people that listen to the HTYC podcast, she didn’t always have her career figured out.

Out of all the examples of career coaches that I've shared with you, many of them didn't realize their passion for coaching until they were in their career for at least a few years (sometimes a couple decades). Sarah is an exception to that. She identified her desire to "help individuals find careers where they thrive" when she was 21 and in college. Granted, she didn't know exactly how this would play out, and she came across some fantastic opportunities and some hard road blocks.

If you were previously interested in PCC, the world’s best training on how to become a skilled and confident career coach, but weren’t able to commit to class sessions or a specific time. It’s the exact same information, knowledge, skills, scripts to help you become a certified coach and get your future clients results as in the regular program, but minus the live class environment - at a lower price point!

She realized that there was an opportunity to help people by creating extreme value (a $30,000 raise with a job you love is pretty substantial)! Kimberly didn't waste time by trying to learn everything - she just took what she already knew. She began helping others get into the travel, tourism, and hospitality industry. Then in 2014, she formalized her coaching business and began to narrow and fine-tune her target market.

Everyday I’m in conversations with aspiring, new or even established coaches. And as you can imagine it’s a lot of conversations, and time and time again I see the same… well…. The same 7 things pop up that restrict these folks from becoming amazing coaches, trip people up from starting and having profitable coaching business. We see these time and time again

When I say the word “badass,” what comes to mind? Someone who knows what they want? Someone who breaks down walls standing in their way? Someone who finds, and keeps finding, ultimate career and life happiness? Last year, I interviewed Jen Sincero, NYT bestselling author of hilarious, sarcastic, and no-nonsense self-help books. During our chat, Jen told me the 5 ways she’s currently making sure she maintains her high level of badassery.

Having opened his eyes to a world of extreme poverty combined with the life-threatening situations of Civil War, Luis Velasquez suffered through and survived 3 brain tumors, lost his career and his relationships, and still found the resilience in him to “bloom where he was planted.” This resilience expert explains his life as a series of severe and happy accidents that taught him how to thrive, rather than just survive.

“My overall definition of success is helping other people succeed.” Allison Curbow has staked this claim for herself. Her journey to become a career coach started only 18 months ago. Allison went from being a person with a background that was scattered between different industries, and who lived in an environment where entrepreneurship was considered a scary and alien entity.

Over the last 6 years, I’ve learned something crazy about helping people just like you start (or grow) coaching businesses. It’s something that I wouldn’t have anticipated (even though I went through it myself) It has to do with making the decision to become a coach.

Last week, we announced that PCC was opening for our next cohort starting in September. While we announced that price was increasing, we failed to mention the bonuses that we've added if you act quickly. If you register by August 9, 2019...

If becoming a career coach or growing a career coaching practice and experience the flexibility and exhilaration of helping people in that very direct way that a coaching practice can bring then here’s what I would suggest to you.  Drop me personally an email and say “I want to be one of the 20” and we will send you more information, the application and if we think you could be a great fit for the program. 

Christie Mims built a business around career coaching. But some of the ways that I would say she has even really, really crafted that, that fit within her business I'm going to go so far as to say, shaped the industry in a lot of different ways. But she was terrified when she quit her job to start coaching full-time. But Christie started her career coaching business anyway. Her business grew and adapted over the years.