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The Future Coach: How to Succeed As A Life Coach Today, Tomorrow & Beyond

by Kara Loewentheil

If you’ve ever thought about becoming a coach you want to know: Who is cut out for this career, where is the industry going, is coaching secretly a pyramid scheme, what does it take to succeed? Every episode of this podcast answers the questions you were afraid to ask, or didn’t even realize you needed to. Master Coach Instructor Kara Loewentheil made more than $25 million as a coach before she ever started training coaches (or offering business coaching). With the expertise drawn from her decade as an internationally renowned coach, her top-ranked podcast, and her New York Times-bestselling book, she’s sharing all her best secrets for making coaching a part of your career. Whether you want to be an entrepreneur, coach in someone else’s business, or bring coaching in-house in your current career, this podcast will walk you through how to build a fulfilling purposeful and mission-driven career that also makes money in every economic climate. You might be a mindset coach, a career coach, an executive coach, a parenting coach, a feminist coach, a business coach, a mentor, a manager, a team-leader, a C-suite executive - it doesn’t matter. If you work with people to grow and develop, this podcast will help you do it better. *What does it take to become a coach? *Who makes a good coach? *Do I have to be an entrepreneur to be a coach? *Do I need a license to be a coach? *Is coaching a MLM or pyramid scheme? *Do coaches just coach other coaches? *Is the coaching market saturated? *How do I build a profitable coaching business? *How do I become a better life coach? *How to improve work-life balance as a new coach? *How do I manage my time and stop feeling so busy? *How do I balance running my coaching business with my life? *Am I too old to become a coach? *Is coaching a real job? *How do I know if I’m helping clients? *What if my clients don’t get results?

Latest episodes

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13. How to Know When You're Ready to Start

When I quit running a think tank to become an internet life coach, I did not feel ready. I had spent a decade building a legal career, I had just gotten certified as a co

Oct 7
9 min

12. Coaching Confessions: How Hadar Shemesh Faked Her Way to a Million Followers (Sort Of)

This is the first episode of a new series I am calling Coaching Confessions, where I sit down with coaches who are seven figures and above and ask them what the beginning

Sep 23
24 min

11. How to Get Over Your Drama About Charging

During a recent call in my coach certification program, one of my students explained, with complete sincerity, that charging for coaching felt unfair because when clients

Sep 9
17 min

10. When Is It Too Late to Start As A Coach?

A sixty-three year old nurse showed up to a coaching call in her pajamas, hadn't brushed her hair, and got on camera anyway because she didn't want to miss her chance to

Aug 26
12 min

9. You're Not Starting Over & It Wasn't A Waste

Your brain has done something sneaky. The moment you started thinking about becoming a coach, it decided that everything you've built in your career no longer counts. Tha

Aug 12
11 min

8. What Clients Actually Want (And Why You Can't Get It Wrong)

One of the biggest things that stops new coaches from charging, or charging more, is the fear that they won't be able to deliver what their clients want. It feels respons

Jul 29
15 min

7. The Mindset Work That Actually Gets You Started

Getting started as a coach isn't really a skills problem. It's a mindset problem — and nobody talks about what to actually do about that. This episode is pulled from

Jul 15
28 min

6. Highlights from Coach-Curious Prep School: The Traits That Make Someone a Great Coach

Most people who are drawn to coaching spend too long asking the wrong question. It's not whether you're good enough yet. It's whether you have the traits that make coachi

Jul 1
28 min

5. How to Evaluate a Coaching Certification

Do you actually need a coaching certification? Technically, no. Life coaching is unregulated, and nobody can stop you from hanging a shingle. But I really don't recommend

Jun 17
29 min

4. Why Coaching Will Thrive in the Age of AI

The headlines have it backwards. Coaching isn't going to be replaced by AI. It's going to become more valuable because of it. I'm making the case, with five specific rea

Jun 3
28 min

1. What Life Coaching Is and Isn't

Most people who could be extraordinary coaches never get started because they believe something about coaching that simply isn't true. I'm tackling the three biggest coa

May 20
22 min

2. What Being a Life Coach Actually Requires (And What It Doesn't)

The bar for becoming a coach is different than you think, and so is what actually makes someone good at it. You don't need a psychology degree, a perfect life, or shared

May 20
22 min

3. 3 Ways to Use Coaching in Other Jobs

If you've ever thought "a coaching certification isn't really for someone like me," you might be wrong about that. The most valuable thing it could ever do for you might

May 20
26 min

Introducing: The Future Coach Podcast

I'm Kara Loewentheil, host of Unf*ck Your Brain and author of the New York Times bestseller Take Back Your Brain. After a decade coaching thousands of women and building

May 18
2 min

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