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The 12 Best Life Coach Directories You Can Join Right Now to Get More Coaching Clients
If you’re like most beginning life coaches, one of your biggest challenges is probably finding your next client. The struggle is real! It can take such a long time for your client-getting efforts to pay off, especially when you don’t have the budget to advertise...
11 Life Coaching Exercises for Powerful Breakthroughs
Using life coaching exercises is a great way to help your clients assess their current life situation and get to know themselves at a deeper level. These exercises provide more context for the challenges and dreams of your clients, so that they can step out of their...
Where Did Coaching Originate? Here’s the Full History of Coaching
If you’re relatively new to the coaching world, it seems like coaching suddenly popped up out of nowhere! Now, coaches are everywhere, and there are more people than ever looking for coaches to guide them through their personal development or hard life transitions....
13 of the Best Life Coaching Apps We Can’t Live Without
Starting a coaching business looks simple at first. But if you’re already a life coach, you know there are infinite nuances that can make or break the coaching experience. But there are so many powerful and intuitive apps available to help you run your business more...
The 17 Life Coaching Skills That Every Top Coach Has Mastered
Life coaching may look easy when you see fabulous influencers share wisdom posts on Instagram, but on the inside, it’s a little (a lot…) more than just an inspiring feed. Like any other profession, life coaching has its own core competencies and foundational...
53 Powerful Life Coaching Questions That Work With Every Client
Coaching questions are the most powerful tools in your arsenal as a life coach. When you go round and round in circles with an issue your client is facing, the right coaching question at the right time can bring key insights that will change their perspective forever....
60 Life Coaching Podcasts: The Ultimate List
One of the best ways to grow your life coaching business is to learn from other coaches who have been there before. And there’s no better way to do this than by listening to some of the best life coaching podcasts, hosted by a rich variety of coaches from all walks of...
12 Life Coaching Tips That Even Seasoned Coaches Forget
Every life coaching business is unique. But our challenges? Not so much. When we get stuck with a client or feel overwhelmed by our everyday “business as usual,” we often blame ourselves. We feel like an impostor and we question whether we are really right for the...
How to Solve the 9 Most Annoying Scheduling Issues That Plague Coaches and Consultants
Starting a coaching business in 2021 opens up the door to a world of opportunities. There has never been such a low barrier to entry to start your own business! For example, automated booking systems can help even the busiest of coaches simplify their booking process....
What Is a Life Coach? (The Difference Between Coaching, Consulting, and Therapy Explained)
What is a life coach? Life coaching has a number of definitions, and what two different life coaches offer can vary widely. But pretty much all life coaching practices can be distilled into this one definition: helping people bridge the gap between where they are and...
How to Send a Reminder Email: 6 Templates That Stop No-shows and Late Payments
As a coach or consultant, you’ve probably had to deal with a dreaded late payment from a client, or even no-shows at coaching sessions. These things happen, but not because your clients have the worst intentions. The truth is that your clients probably have a lot...
8 Types of Life Coaching Services (And How to Find Your Perfect Coach)
Life can feel lonely sometimes - even when we’re surrounded by friends and family. When we’re struggling with our own issues, it can feel like no one understands exactly what we’re going through. That’s where life coaching services come in. Let’s explore what they...
How to Ask for a Testimonial: Our Exact Email Template + 10 Juicy Questions
Picture this: A potential client is scrolling through your website and reading all about the wonderful things you can do for them. They keep scrolling and scrolling. It all seems too good to be true. How can they be sure that what you’re claiming is true? Can you...
How to Pick The Best Scheduling Software for Coaches (8 Tools Reviewed)
If you’re a coach, your schedule is everything. From managing your client sessions to figuring out when you’re going to squeeze in lunch, a clear-cut calendar makes for a streamlined business. But let’s be honest: it doesn’t take much for that ever-so-perfect schedule...
Why Is Time Management Important? The Top 5 Danger Signs You’re Wasting Time
Time management just might be the number one essential life skill in our busy, modern-day life. But what most people don’t tell you about time management is that it’s way more than just squeezing more work and productivity out of your limited schedule. In fact, if you...
The 8 Questions That Reveal Your Coaching Philosophy
If you’re a coaching professional, that means you possess a coaching philosophy — whether you’re currently aware of it or not. It is the very thing that drives all your decisions in your work: from the direction in which you stir the coaching conversation to the way...
This Is the Best Honeybook Alternative If You’re a Coach or Consultant
You’re here because you’re considering starting with Honeybook, or switching away from it. Maybe Honeybook is feeling too cumbersome, or maybe you just want to make sure you’re making a smart buying decision before you commit to set-up. In this post, we’ll go over the...
3 Ready-made Coaching Disclaimer Templates to Use Today
As coaches, we work with people to help them go through life transitions, build awareness of themselves, and get to the place they want to be in their lives. We do our best to hold space for our clients and guide them with the knowledge and perspective we have....
What Makes a Life Coaching Business Legal?
Life coaching is one of the least regulated professions globally. Just like anyone can become a copywriter or designer without accredited training, being a “life coach” is a title that technically anyone can acquire. However, just like for any other business, there...
Here’s What You Need to Know Before Starting A Coaching Franchise
Running a coaching business has its own set of challenges, and buying a coaching franchise might take some of that load off your shoulders. Starting a franchise business equips you with a tried and tested methodology and business model, so you don’t have to walk the...
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