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. To binge-listen to all the Career ...
Feb 12, 2021•37 min•Season 5Ep. 12
Rachel Pritz 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. To binge-listen to all the Career Coach episodes: https://www.happentoyourcareer.com/how-to-become-a-ca...
Feb 05, 2021•40 min•Season 5Ep. 11
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. To...
Jan 29, 2021•32 min•Season 5Ep. 10
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. T...
Jan 22, 2021•42 min•Season 5Ep. 9
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. To binge-listen to all the Career Coach episodes: https://www.happentoyourcareer.com/how-to-become-a-career-coach...
Jan 15, 2021•37 min•Season 5Ep. 8
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 years ...
Jan 08, 2021•35 min•Season 5Ep. 7
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. To bin...
Dec 18, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Season 5Ep. 6
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. To bing...
Dec 11, 2020•44 min•Season 5Ep. 5
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. To binge-listen to all the Career ...
Dec 04, 2020•45 min•Season 5Ep. 4
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. You'll see how we help train people to become world-class level coaches (specifically in our PCC program), how people decide what they want in their career and ultimate...
Nov 27, 2020•31 min•Season 5Ep. 3
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. To binge-listen to al...
Nov 20, 2020•32 min•Season 5Ep. 2
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. To binge-listen to ...
Nov 13, 2020•35 min•Season 5Ep. 1
There are 3 main stages or types of coaching businesses. It’s not like you have to progress to the 3rd stage or that you are less successful at the first stage, but you do need to understand what they are and which stage you’re in. You also need to decide what stage you want to be in (if you’re not already there). Jenny Blake went through all three of these stages 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 o...
Sep 16, 2020•40 min•Season 4Ep. 8
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 on the How to Become a Career Coach podcast today to show us how to do the hardest things in your life all at the same time. You’ll learn how to focus on just one simple method to building a coaching business that works (even if you’r...
Sep 09, 2020•48 min•Season 4Ep. 7
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. To binge-listen to all the Care...
Sep 02, 2020•47 min•Season 4Ep. 7
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. To binge-listen to all the C...
Aug 26, 2020•45 min•Season 4Ep. 5
Everyone loves getting a behind the scenes look. 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 ...
Aug 19, 2020•38 min•Season 4Ep. 4
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. To binge-listen to all the Career Coach episodes: http...
Aug 12, 2020•46 min•Season 4Ep. 3
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. You’ll learn: Breaking down some of the biggest challenges Lisa had in s...
Aug 05, 2020•46 min•Season 4Ep. 2
Every superhero has an origin story. When you look at Iron Man (you can substitute your favorite superhero), what you see when he 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 ca...
Jul 29, 2020•46 min•Season 4Ep. 1
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 To binge-listen to all the Career Coach episodes: https://www.happentoyourcareer.com/how-to-become-a-career-coach-podcast/ Or check ou...
Jun 11, 2020•44 sec•Season 4Ep. 1
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. To binge-listen to all the Career Coach episodes: https://www.happentoyourcareer.com/how-to...
May 20, 2020•41 min•Season 3Ep. 7
As you become a career coach, you go through different stages. It’s a little different for everyone, but the basic stages are: You realize that you love helping people and having deep conversations You realize that coaching is something that you can actually do You start coaching on the side of your full-time job You eventually make the leap to full-time coach But when you’re standing on that dock ready to get into the boat, how do you figure out when and how to make the leap? Well, today, we’re...
May 13, 2020•40 min•Season 3Ep. 6
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. He got tired of the networking events he attended and started hosting his own events that fostered great conversation. These events led to elevator pitch coaching,...
May 06, 2020•48 min•Season 3Ep. 5
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?). Earlier this week in our tr...
May 02, 2020•56 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Tara Padua faced her fear of becoming a career coach. Yes, she had many instances in her life that pointed to her skills and abilities as a coach. Yes, she had proven to be successful doing coaching sessions. But creating a full-time business was terrifying to her. But Tara knew that it was the right move to make. She created a plan that if she could get 10 paid clients successfully for six months, and save up six months worth of salary, then she would resign. It was an arbitrary goal at the tim...
Apr 29, 2020•43 min•Season 3Ep. 4
"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. During the conversation that Phillip had with Alex...
Apr 22, 2020•48 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Over the years, we have analyzed a ton of coaching conversations to identify critical moments that lead to change. Then, we pulled out those moments and built a framework that delivers effective results over and over again. 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. When you trust this model, you’ll go into each session confident that you’re providing...
Apr 15, 2020•36 min•Season 3Ep. 2
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. Also, Scott is passing the baton to Phillip as the host of this podcast for the season! It's going to be exciting as we get to dive further into what you can do to start or accelerate your career coaching business. To binge-listen to all the Career Coach episodes: https://www.happentoyourcareer.co...
Apr 08, 2020•26 min•Season 3Ep. 1
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! Rosa Andrews has 15 years of experience in Human Resource Management and Talent Acquisition. She has worked with entrepreneurial tech start-ups and Fortune 500 companies. Since making a move of coming out of her comfort zone in Chicago to teach in South Korea, Rosa has been introduced to ...
Feb 26, 2020•31 min•Season 2Ep. 12
