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 transformational change.

When you first heard about coaching, something in you sparked with new life and hope.

You awakened to a calling. You broke out of your mold. You saw yourself and relationship to others with new eyes.

This is your ORIGIN STORY.

When imposter syndrome sets up a refrain in your mind, remember that spark and fan it back into a roaring fire!

Let’s talk about the potential gravity pull to go back to your old life and how can you stay inspired.

I'd love to hear from you. Stay inspired and make things happen! - Rhonda Hess, Prosperous Coach

• Rhonda Hess helps new coaches leverage their zone of genius into a profitable coaching niche and launch with confidence.
• For VIP step-by-step support apply for Rhonda's VIP Coaching Business Breakthrough Program here and she'll be in touch to invite you a discovery call.
• Or if you're stuck on your coaching niche, grab a Nail Your Niche Strategy Session with Rhonda here.

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 each single person I was serving.

I asked questions to discover what they wanted and then, brought them options that fit.

They felt heard and understood.

But when I became a coach, I got up in my head about selling and forgot about connection.

I worried what hearing ‘No’ would mean about me. And that was my big mistake.

Sales is not really about you.

Let’s dissolve old wrong-headed ideas about selling that get in your way with 5 selling secrets for coaches.

I'd love to hear from you. Stay inspired and make things happen! - Rhonda Hess, Prosperous Coach

• Rhonda Hess helps new coaches leverage their zone of genius into a profitable coaching niche and launch with confidence.
• For VIP step-by-step support apply for Rhonda's VIP Coaching Business Breakthrough Program here and she'll be in touch to invite you a discovery call.
• Or if you're stuck on your coaching niche, grab a Nail Your Niche Strategy Session with Rhonda here.

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 permission for you to share some part of it.

· Setting personal and time boundaries with clients.

Beyond that, no one talks much about ethics and integrity in coaching.

Coaching is not currently a regulated field so it’s doubly important that you, as the professional coach, regulate yourself. That helps all coaches and the future of coaching.

Complaints about coaches hurt the field of coaching. And we really don’t want this field to be regulated, as it would greatly change the coaching industry for the worse.

Have you realized that YOU are a PROFESSIONAL? Take this in.

Own the fact that what you do is a professional service and you are a trained professional offering serious and consequential experiences through your coaching.

When I say serious and consequential, I mean that you could hurt someone just as easily as you could help them.

I'd love to hear from you. Stay inspired and make things happen! - Rhonda Hess, Prosperous Coach

• Rhonda Hess helps new coaches leverage their zone of genius into a profitable coaching niche and launch with confidence.
• For VIP step-by-step support apply for Rhonda's VIP Coaching Business Breakthrough Program here and she'll be in touch to invite you a discovery call.
• Or if you're stuck on your coaching niche, grab a Nail Your Niche Strategy Session with Rhonda here.