Choosing a niche is one of the first places many health coaches get stuck. The problem is not always a lack of ideas. It is the fear of choosing the wrong one.

In this episode of The How-To School for Health Coaches, Tina-Marie de Lamerens explains how to choose a niche without treating it like a permanent decision.

You will learn why a population is not the same as a niche, what makes a niche clear enough to test, and why your first choice does not have to become your final business direction.

Tina-Marie also walks through the thinking behind her 7-Part Niche Scorecard, including:

• How to find out if you understand the person
• How to recognize whether or not they recognize and are trying to solve the problem,
• whether you can reach them
• what they want to change
• whether you would still want to do this work if the niche became successful

You will also learn why five real research conversations can tell you more than another month of planning, rewriting your website, or creating a program before you know what people actually want.

Free resource:
Download --Certified. Now What? — 7 Steps to Turn Your Health Coaching Certification Into a Clear Offer People Will Pay For

Inside you will find:
• The 7-Part Niche Scorecard
• The five-conversation research exercise
• The First-Client Filter
• A 30-day starting plan

https://www.theconfidenthealthcoach.com/certified-now-what-guide

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In this episode of The How-To School for Health Coaches, Tina-Marie de Lamerens shares what 27 years in the classroom taught her about becoming a stronger health coach.

Before coaching, Tina-Marie spent decades learning how people understand, avoid, struggle, follow through, and surprise themselves. Those lessons did not stay in the classroom. They became part of the way she coaches.

This episode looks at the difference between giving information and helping someone use it in real life. Tina-Marie talks about recognizing patterns, asking better questions, letting clients think, and learning how to guide a session without taking it over.

If you are newly certified, or you have been coaching for a while and still wonder whether you are doing enough in your sessions, this conversation will help you see that good coaching is not about proving how much you know. It is about paying attention to what your client needs next.

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The How-To School for Health Coaches is back — with a new owner, a new voice, and the same commitment to helping health coaches build businesses that actually work.

In this first episode, Tina-Marie de Lamerens introduces herself as the new owner of The Confident Health Coach and explains what is changing, what isn't, and where the podcast is going next.

She also tackles a problem many health coaches know well: the gap between knowing what to do and actually doing it.

In this episode:

• Why more information doesn't always create more clarity
• When preparation becomes avoidance
• The business questions your health-coaching certification may not have prepared you to answer
• The three areas this podcast will focus on: building the business, getting clients, and staying in it when life gets complicated
• A simple exercise to identify the one thing you've been putting off — and move it forward

Your action for this week:

Finish these two sentences:

The thing I keep putting off is __________.

The smallest thing I can do to move it forward is __________.

Then do that one thing.

Coming next:
What 27 Years in a Classroom Taught Me About Coaching — and why giving people more information isn't necessarily what helps them change.

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Connect with other health coaches, ask questions, and get practical support for building your coaching business.

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