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 coach, and I did not even balance my own checkbook. My friend Brenda Lomeli and I later coined a term for what that transition felt like: barf club, the experience of being nauseous about taking action and doing it anyway.

If you are waiting to feel ready before you become a coach, invest in your business, or make any real pivot, this episode explains why that feeling is never arriving, and why waiting for it is the actual risk. I am walking through the two decision-making tools I use with clients instead of waiting around: values-based decision making, and connecting to your future self.

Ready is not a feeling. This episode is your invitation to barf club.

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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 actually looked like. First up: my guest posted a single flyer on a street in Israel, charged $20 an hour, and when that flyer landed her exactly one client who never came back, she logged into an online forum under a fake name and recommended herself to strangers. I laughed for a full minute when she told me this. Then she told me about her first group program: nobody signed up, so she just told the one person who asked that it had sold out.

If you think every successful coach had a clear plan and an audience before they started, this episode explains why that is a comforting lie. I'm talking with Hadar Shemesh, who has built an online business now reaching over a million people on YouTube, about the 18 years it took to get there, the years of 200-view videos before anything caught on, and the one thought that wasted more of her time than any actual failure ever did: making a decision, and then unmaking it for months.

There is no version of this where she had it figured out from day one. This episode is the proof.

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Mentioned in this episode:

FREE GUIDE: The Top Three Things I Wish I Had Known Before Becoming A Coach

There are three absolutely crucial concepts that have contributed to my success today as a coach that I wish I had known when I started, and I'm sharing them with you in this free guide. Grab yours at https://the-future-coach.captivate.fm/three

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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 pay, they're giving both their time AND their money, while she's only giving them coaching. I paused for ten seconds and then burst out laughing. She laughed too, and then said: "I hear how insane that sounds but I still believe it."

If you've ever felt fine coaching for free but completely frozen the moment it came time to charge, this episode explains exactly where that comes from. I'm walking through the three core thought patterns that make charging feel impossible for so many women coaches, why this isn't a personal failing, and the specific thoughts worth practicing instead.

The world needs your work. This episode is about making sure you actually get paid for it.

Get full show notes, transcript, and more information here: https://socraticcoaching.com/11

Follow along on Instagram: instagram.com/karaloewentheil/

Mentioned in this episode:

FREE GUIDE: The Top Three Things I Wish I Had Known Before Becoming A Coach

There are three absolutely crucial concepts that have contributed to my success today as a coach that I wish I had known when I started, and I'm sharing them with you in this free guide. Grab yours at https://the-future-coach.captivate.fm/three

Click here to download: The Top Three Things I Wish I Had Known Before Becoming A Coach