HeyJaredService & Creativity for the Prosperous Coach
Hosted by coaches and friends Melissa Ford and Levina Li, Service & Creativity for the Prosperous Coach is an ongoing conversation about what it takes to build a thriving coaching practice.In their conversations, Melissa and Levina go behind the scenes of how they (and their…
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007. From Conversations to Clients (opens the original)
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In this episode, we're talking about another part of the client creation process that we've seen coaches get confused by: the space between an initial coaching conversation and making a proposal, where it's easy to end up either endlessly coaching with no direction or flipping into trying to convince someone to hire you. We share about learnings from our own years of flopping around in part of the process and the realization that changed things for both of us: people don't invest in coaching, th
006. Leadership in Getting Paid (opens the original)
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Today, we're talking about what happens after a client says yes - specifically, that moment when it's time to handle payment. We talk about the internal freak-out that shows up for almost every coach at this stage, even years into building their practices, and why slowing down here is an act of leadership, not just logistics. We reflect on our own early discomfort talking about money, the stories we made up about what clients would think of us, and how avoiding the conversation actually costs tr
005. Creating Clients as a Craft (opens the original)
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In this episode, we're unpacking a frustration we've heard from many coaches: I've been doing this for years, so why isn't it working yet? We get it. Looking back across our own journeys, we can point to so many moments of chasing magic bullets, testing tactics, and looking for any sign of proof that what we were doing was actually working - all while quietly wondering why our years in the game hadn't translated into the results we wanted. What we've come to see, from our own experiences and our
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