Probably the funnest part of running a coaching biz is the part where you actually get to coach your clients. Unfortunately, your coaching day is made up of a lot more tasks than simply connecting with your beloved clients on your weekly coaching call. You are also promoting your coaching services by sticking to your marketing plan. Getting on discovery calls with potential clients. Not to mention the administrative tasks that, even though you may have already outsourced to someone, they're stil...
Jul 07, 2021•24 min
If you're feeling like you're not getting coaching clients, and are on the verge of wanting to quit your coaching biz before it even gets started, you're going to want to listen up. These feelings you're feeling might be intense. That's not all bad. Feelings are like the flashing indicators on the dashboard of your car. They serve a purpose. We need to honor them, allow them flow through this and remember that this too shall pass. Then it's time to roll up your sleeve and do something about it. ...
Jun 30, 2021•27 min
Hiring a business coach is one of the fastest ways to see you hitting your income goals. But it can also be scary plunking down that chunk of change when nobody can absolutely guarantee your results. Working with a coach is like tango. It takes two. And as a coach yourself, your know this to be true. So when hiring a coach yourself consider what it takes to not only make back your investment but how can you multiply that investment 10 to 20 fold. This consideration is gold because not only will ...
Jun 23, 2021•25 min
Sometimes just really really wanting coaching clients so bad isn't going to cut the mustard. In fact, it might even be jeopardizing your client acquirement efforts. There are a few things you need to have in place to be attracting, and then signing on your ideal clients. It's just a matter of having an awareness of what to have in place and what to let go of to be meeting your monthly income goals and be helping the clients who are waiting desperately to learn of your existence and how you can h...
Jun 16, 2021•40 min
Can't decide whether to offer free consults or clarity calls to a potential clients. Or aren't even 100% sure what the difference is between these names and how to refer to the fact you simply want to get on the call with someone you can help with your fabulous coaching superpowers? There is a simple way to answer this question. You get to decide what whatever you end up calling this first face to fact interaction as. You just need to be crystal clear on what it entails, what's to be expected an...
Jun 09, 2021•17 min
One brilliant option you have around deciding on a coaching niche is to decide to not having a niche at all. If you're a general life coach embrace that delightful part of your business that is having the tools and ability to solve any problem any human can experience. And trust you can sell this service of yours - with a clear and concise offer still. Here's how to do that without leaving anyone, or any problem, out yet still be super clear on how amazing your client's life is going to be after...
Jun 02, 2021•23 min
Creating consistent clients in our coaching, mentoring or other one on one service providing biz comes from creating consistent content. And as much as it would be sweet to outsource this task the heart of all your copy, engagement and reaching out to your ideal client needs to come from you. And come from you on the regular. And with anything else in life that we know is good for us, and will either bring us what we want (more clients) or prevent what we don't want (no clients) our brain's goin...
May 27, 2021•26 min
When you first hear that my signature coaching package is six months of weekly one on one coaching sessions, it might feel like you're going to be in for the long haul. The truth is that that's how long it takes for you to really start to see what you've signed up for working with me - creating a regular flow of clients to your mom coaching or other soloprenereur biz. Not only does six months of weekly calls fly by way faster than you can imagine, it's designed to accommodate what happens on the...
May 19, 2021•17 min
One of my favourite parts of running my coaching biz was showing up and serving inside my Facebook group. I created something I was quite proud of, nurtured many of my soon to be clients and it was inside a social media platform I was comfortable with. I even hit that sweet tipping point where Facebook was even starting to recommend the group to people who fit my ideal client profile: moms who coach moms. Problem was though, like my other babies, my business started to grow and it was entering i...
May 12, 2021•20 min
If you're coaching moms you're going to get to be your number one client. Remember that all the self-coaching we do for ourselves is a gesture of coaching for our clients. All the self-love we dose on ourselves is a a gesture of love toward our clients. To grow our coaching biz is also an act of honoring all our clients. Even if a mama is quietly observing from the sidelines, chances are very good just by the simple act of you showing up in your coaching biz is going to have an impact on her lif...
May 05, 2021•37 min
While there are hundreds, if not thousands of coaching niches to choose from the last thing I want for any of my clients to do is to be stuck at this phase of their coaching biz for too long. Choosing niche. In fact, it's best to choose none at all if it means you are stuck in indecisive land and not doing what is going to bring you clarity on who and how you serve. Which is getting on there and actually coaching moms. When I work with my clients we aim to spend no more than the first month of o...
Apr 28, 2021•29 min
Life coaches are a special breed of entrepreneur. They want to encourage their clients to change their lives in deeply profound ways. Problem is is that the typically want to capture all the life transformation magic that happens when their own clients work with them by saying things like 'life transformation'. Which isn't a bad thing. It's just going to make signing on new clients that much more trickier. Because while that's saying what's going to happen, it's really not saying much. I'm going...
Apr 21, 2021•30 min
Want to know what's truly holding you back from getting the mom coaching clients you want? Your brain. More specifically, the way you're thinking about your ability to coach. Your creeping self-doubt that you can even make a difference. And on a deeper level, it could be a deeply ingrained belief that you're only allotted a certain amount of happiness. The good news is, this is perfectly normal. You're not an imposter. This is just your brain doing that thing again. Trying to keep you comfortabl...
Apr 14, 2021•26 min
One of the greatest perks of having a one on one coach is having that weekly check in to remind you of how awesome you are. Fresh out of a session with my own coach she asked me. Are you forgetting how awesome you are? I think for a split moment I had. So to remind me, and to remind you OR if you're new to my world and you don't know, I'd like to share a bit about my journey and how this makes me an awesome coach for you if you're a mom coach seeking a mentor to find, and sign on, your next hand...
Apr 07, 2021•36 min
As a business coach for mom coaches I always begin with the same question. What are your income goals with your business this year. Second question: what are your available work hours? This is just part of the puzzle that makes up the definition of what being booked out as a coach. Is a combination of a few things. Where you're currently at in your biz, the time you have available to take one on one clients and what your income goals are. Being booked out is just basic math. But it's also a subj...
Mar 31, 2021•23 min
Ever wonder about the state of the branding of your mom coaching biz? Maybe it's time to think about it. And I know I have been ever since my conversation with Maria Platusic - a brand strategist who owns Platusic Design Creative Studio. She helps established entrepreneurs like us who are looking to rebrand, combat branding and website overwhelm. She has been in the design industry now for over 20 plus years and I'm so excited to share with you on this episode this area of expertise of hers. Her...
Mar 24, 2021•28 min
As a business coach for mom coaches I seem to attract a lot of multi-passionate mamas. Which makes sense. Being an entrepreneur takes a lot of fire in your belly to be success. Having a successful coaching biz, just like any business, is a marathon. You will reach your income level goal IF you don't give up. Not only is it about tenacity it's also about coaching yourself back to the mindset needed when you feel yourself wanting to throw in the towel. So what do you use to stay in the race? Your ...
Mar 17, 2021•29 min
I typically only work 20 hours a week as a coach. But lately those work hours have been inconspicuously creeping up. And it took a doctor's appointment to shine a light on that fact and remind me that a successful mom coaching biz can be run on only 20 hours a week. And probably more efficiently than if you had 40 hours a week in your home office. I wasn't quite at 40 hours a week but I was starting to creep up there. And to be honest it wasn't like it was solid work hours. More like sitting the...
Mar 10, 2021•27 min
You want to coach moms but the building a website for your coaching biz is holding you back from taking action. Don't let the fact you don't have a slick website yet, or even a website at all, hold you back from getting out there and finding your next coaching client. You can find clients leaning on a simple online marketing plan without a website. You just have to get a little creative. But most importantly you have to get out there and serve. I"m not saying never ever have a website - there is...
Mar 03, 2021•24 min
As a coach yourself you know that investing in a business coach is just that. It's an investment in your business. And as a coach, either for life or biz, you can wrap your mind around what it is to invest in a coach as a mom. It's an investment in not only your future but your children's future as well. Everything that you're getting coached on in your business will affect how you show up in your mothering. Just like how your own clients will have all areas of their lives affected from their in...
Feb 27, 2021•32 min
Many begin life coaching moms as a side hustle. In fact, so side hustle it's practically not a hustle any more. More like a side dawdle. There comes a point where you have to make the conscious decision. Are you in this for the hobby or are you in this for the jobby? Meaning, do you want to make a real go at this as a profession. Create a career, and an income, that will surpass your wildest expectations. Because the truth is the sky's the limit with how much we can earn with our coaching biz. T...
Feb 18, 2021•30 min
There are many different stances on whether to start broad in your coaching business and then niche down. Or start with a niche and then course correct as you go. I'm team niche in case you haven't figured out yet. All my freebies and trainings typically begin with 'start with your niche statement'. But let's clarify what this actually means. Because I don't want you thinking that you shouldn't me moving forward with getting out there and helping your ideal clients until you have a solid niche. ...
Feb 14, 2021•29 min
Guilty pleasure alert! Yes, another one. I love watching the Bachelor. And when I'm not watching the Bachelor I love listening to podcasts about the Bachelor. There is the one podcast in particular that brought into light for me some ways that getting the lead's eye is a little bit like selling your coaching services. This podcast brings in a couple of concepts I'm by no means an expert in: numbers and sports. But it marries these concepts quite impressively with the overall romantic notion of t...
Feb 06, 2021•29 min
What do you think of when you hear organic marketing? Farmers market come to my mind. And then a farmer. Tending to a field of new coaching clients. Homegrown with no added chemicals. Let's talk about how to grow your coaching biz the organic way. Building your mom coach business one client at a time by focusing on a simple plan and relationship building. Technically, organic marketing refers to not having to pay for leads. But beyond that it can start to get pretty subjective. In this week's po...
Jan 31, 2021•30 min
Building a coaching business is not for the faint of heart. Luckily, as moms, we're designed to ride through the array of emotions that are promised to be delivered to you as you stretch outside of your comfort zone, over and over again. It's not only the headspace of taking on the personae of someone who is a life coach but it's also the mind drama of riding the waves of entrepreneurship. There's highs, and lows. Again, we're lucky we can lean on our role as coaches and do what comes naturally ...
Jan 23, 2021•26 min
It's natural to want to take a pause when you're starting to feel your coaching business is starting to gain traction. You're starting to attract consistent clients. You have a plan in place to continue on this trajectory to get yourself fully booked with the moms you know you can help. Sometimes you just need to take a moment to evaluate what's working, what's not and celebrate all the exciting milestones along the way. But what happens when these pauses turn into hesitations that make you lose...
Jan 16, 2021•28 min
Don't let perfectionist tendencies hold you back from reaching your income goals. Nothing can be more paralyzing in your momentum moving forward toward your goals and dreams than waiting until everything is just so. I want to introduce to you in this episode some ways you can fall in love a little bit more with your self, flaws and all, and how you can apply this to your coaching practice so that you can pass along this self-love to the moms you serve.
Jan 09, 2021•38 min
A wonderful way to ring in the new year in both your life and biz is to choose a word of the year. This practice has served as anchor for me over the years to help me live my days intentionally and memorably and see my growth in different areas. I can remember the words of years past and what was most alive for me in the time I choose it, and I can pick up immediately the lessons learned during that specific year when I conjure them up again. For 2021 I'm choosing the word FUN. After a year of m...
Jan 02, 2021•27 min•Ep. 93
Being a coach, a large part of our work is guiding our clients to all the big and little decisions that make up our life experience. And there is no lack of decisions to be made at any turn in both our life and in our business. And being a sensitive creature myself I notice how my stress levels quickly creep up when I'm confronted with too many choices , or ones that feel like my whole success as a human being is hanging on this one do or die moment. Today I want to share how to make the decisio...
Dec 18, 2020•31 min
Sending out a weekly newsletter to your email list is one of the task to dive into as part of the simple marketing plan I help my mom coaches create. And there are plenty of ways to encourage your ideal clients to opt-in to your list - including creating challenges, webinars, joining your Facebook group or free training - but the easiest way to do it is to whip up a simple to create and simple to digest freebie offer. There are two kinds I've been guiding my clients to lately. The inspiring list...
Dec 12, 2020•32 min
