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Prosperous Coach Podcast is hosted by Rhonda Hess, international business mentor and niche strategist for new coaches. Her weekly show offers eye opening guidance and inspiration about how to choose a profitable coaching niche, create authentic messaging, design magnetic coaching programs and other topics to help you get noticed by ideal clients who will pay well. Rhonda also shares coaching tools, client management tips, money mindset and moving beyond limiting beliefs. Rhonda has over 20 years of experience in coaching, marketing, curriculum development, copy writing and editing. Learn about her VIP Coaching Business Breakthrough private step-by-step program to launch your coaching business. https://prosperouscoach.com/vip
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Find the FULL TRANSCRIPT and more resources for coaches at ProsperousCoach.com/370. Have you had the impulse to rescue your coaching client from themselves? No shame. Just tell yourself the truth here. It’s a knee jerk desire that’s belied by your · energy · words · over-delivery · attachment to outcome I get it! You want so much to have a big impact that the basic tenets of coaching—that your client is resourcefu...
Find the FULL TRANSCRIPT plus other resources for coaches at ProsperousCoach.com/369. When was the last time you did some deep reflection about your coaching business? If you’ve been in business for a year or more, you’re ready for real growth. Would you like to: Attract more or better clients? Significantly raise your income? Work less and reduce stress?Leverage your strengths or zone of genius?Stop doing what you don’t enjoy or learn how to master it? When you slow down...
Find the FULL TRANSCRIPT and other resources for coaches at ProsperousCoach.com/368. Coach, what’s your zone of genius? Many coaches will say it’s being a good listener or being able to hear more than what’s said. Those are highly valuable skills and quite common in coaches. What I’m talking about is a unique talent that, like a fingerprint, becomes central to your brand. It might be a method that’s all yours. An unusual or rare expertise. A brain child. Don’t worry if you don’t know yours ye...
Find the FULL TRANSCRIPT and other resources for coaches here. It's DISH THE DIRT time about me... I made 4 big mistakes during the start-up of my coaching business and lived to tell the tale. I've experienced multiple magical turning points in my business as well. Wonderful things will come to your coaching business if you don’t let mistakes stop you. Mistakes are still the best way to learn. It's a time-honored tradition. Growing a coaching business is a total experiment. It's a...
Find the FULL TRANSCRIPT and more resources for coaches here. Is your coaching business sustainable? 🤔 The usual top-of-mind issue for coaches is how to attract clients. That's part of sustainability for sure. But what if you put in place mindsets and habits that create a business you can easily run from the get go? What does that look and feel like? Less stress. ☺️Less work.Earning more for each effort. 🔥One of my VIP mentoring clients asked me to share the #1 lesson I’ve learned in my 25 ye...
Find the full transcript for this episode and more resources for coaches at ProsperousCoach.com/365. Becoming a coach and launching a coaching business is an evolutionary turning point in your life. Before your leap of faith, life was a familiar and possibly lackluster routine. Maybe you had a steady paycheck and set schedule. Your family knew what to expect of your time and attention. You knew what to expect of your day-to-day life. In part, those things might have led you toward trans...
Find the full transcript for this episode and more resources for coaches at ProsperousCoach.com/364. New coaches often say “I’m not good at selling.” That’s a fixed mindset based on misconceptions about what selling is. Believing it will make it so for you. When I was in my 20’s, I worked in the shoe department of Macy’s. It was a prized job in retail because commission sales can mean significant income without management responsibilities. I was good at it because I paid close attention to ea...
Find the full transcript for Episode 363 at ProsperousCoach.com/363. This episode is inspired by my own breaches in integrity over the 2 decades plus that I’ve been a coach and some I see other coaches stumble with as well. If you took coach training, hopefully you were provided with some standard ethical guidelines that need to be followed with your clients. Things like: · Keeping your coaching client’s contact info and what they say confidential unless they give express ...
Find the full episode transcript and apply to Rhonda's 5-month VIP Mentoring program here. Are you hoping to attract just any client for your coaching niche? There’s a significant difference between a client and an IDEAL client. Ideal clients: · Are “seekers” who are already actively seeking solutions in your niche. · Have urgent problems that your offers are designed to solve. · Know they want to hire you BEFORE the Discovery Call. ...
Find the full transcript and the 4 powerful questions to uncover keywords for your unique coaching audience at ProsperousCoach.com/361. A new VIP client of mine read an article about SEO—search engine optimization—and went down a rabbit hole of stress. I assured them that we addressed SEO for a coach by doing market research on their chosen target audience and applying smart keywords to everything we wrote for her coaching business. And, for the business model we created, with high-touch, hig...
Find the full transcript and more resources for coaches at ProsperousCoach.com/360. Also mentioned in this episode #271 Inspire Your Coaching Clients to Give You Dynamic Testimonials #292 Create a High Ticket Signature Program Your Audience Wants What exactly makes you credible to prospective coaching clients? You might be surprised. I used to think certifications and years of experience were the most critical factors. While those things can impress some, they aren’t even in the top 5 things ...
Full transcript and more resources for coaches at ProsperousCoach.com/359. Also mentioned — Rhonda's 5-month VIP Mentoring program Coaching Business Breakthrough. Will MORE training make you successful as a coach? Additional course work can be stimulating and potentially useful. It can also be addictive—a form of self sabotage. There’s even a term for it. Bright shiny object syndrome. Sometimes it’s an unconscious and conflicting goal to prolong student coach mode. Coaches in their early year...
Find the full transcript for this episode and other resources for coaches at ProsperousCoach.com/358. Ever have FOMO about aspects of your coaching business? 1. You keep your audience and niche broad because you don’t want to exclude anyone. 2. You bend over backwards to make something easy or more appealing for a potential client even though that doesn’t jive with your preferences. 3. Or, you're not able to say ‘NO’ to opportunities—if someone wants you, it doesn’t matter if it fits yo...
Find the full transcript for this episode and more resources at ProsperousCoach.com/357. RESOURCE: Hire a private business mentor exclusively for new coaches to get grounded and launch strategically. There are so many upsides to having your own business – lifestyle freedom, no caps on your income, the chance to be your own boss, put your unique voice and contribution into the world. And, no more company politics! But the biggest downside to operating as a solopreneur is that you are solo unle...
Find the full transcript and more resources for coaches at ProsperousCoach.com/356. Coach, would YOU be compelled to buy what you’re selling the way you’re selling it? Would the language you’re using to attract coaching clients generate a longing that inspires investment? It’s smart to take a step back and look at what you’re doing in your coaching business from the perspective of a potential buyer. When people invest in a coach or mentor, their perceptions and intuition are more ...
Find the full transcript for this episode at ProsperousCoach.com/355. Related episodes and FREE CHEAT SHEET mentioned in this episode: Episode 302 with a link to download the free cheat sheet called 10 Easy Steps to Enroll More Coaching Clients Fast! Episode 353 - Onboard New Coaching Clients So They Feel Safe and Seen Episode 309 - Handle Price Objections Like a Pro Imagine this… you’re in a Discovery Call to enroll a new coaching client into your Signature Program. You are conne...
Find the full transcript for this episode at ProsperousCoach.com/354. Related and mentioned episodes: Nail Your Niche session with Rhonda #160 How Can New Coaches Be Perceived As Credible #164 Why Your Personal Story is Valuable to Your Coaching Clients #292 Create a High Ticket Signature Coaching Program Your Audience Wants It’s so painful not knowing your coaching niche. It feels like a high-stakes decision, and, in a way, it is. But, desperation can paralyze you. Relax. Think differently a...
Find the full transcript for this episode at ProsperousCoach.com/353. Also mentioned Episode #186 called 4 Ways to Help Your Coaching Clients Feel Safe Here’s a cautionary tale for coaches about onboarding new clients. I once hired a social media coach whose onboarding process was… asking for my payment. That’s it! X They asked nothing about me X They did not provide next steps, set up our first session or provide a way to do that. I felt left out in the cold and...
Find the full transcript for this episode at ProsperousCoach.com/352. Is it ethical to teach your coaching clients? The hallmark of coaching is asking powerful open-ended questions that draw out the wisdom of your client so they arrive at their own solutions. If you are selling coaching then that’s exactly what you should deliver. Keep it clean and co-creative. One of the reasons why I suggest to some coaches that they not sell coaching sessions is to allow room for a more hybrid type of serv...
Find the full transcript for this episode at ProsperousCoach.com/351. Also mentioned Rhonda's 5-month VIP private business mentoring for coaches. Apply here. I didn’t want to be cheap with my coaching business when I first started, so I generously spent money on experts of all sorts and hired a full time VA to do all the little things I couldn’t be bothered with. I do believe my time is highly valuable—good mindset there—but, I only wanted to coach and that was short sighted. I delegate...
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