Confidence

Can You Be A Successful and Effective Life Coach If You Don’t Have Your Life Together?

Can You Be A Successful and Effective Life Coach If You Don’t Have Your Life Together?

One of the most common misconceptions we hear from people about life coaching is that you must have your life entirely ‘together’, (aka borderline or actually perfect) to be a good coach. Whether you’re thinking about stepping into life coaching as a career, a trainee life coach, newly graduated or even well established, this is a pervasive narrative we regularly hear whereby life coaches should be perfect or near to it, including having perfect lives, never struggling with things like mental health difficulties or relationships and that their lives and businesses should be on a straightforward trajectory upwards, never experiencing anything challenging or difficult. And so when we were asked this question for an episode of Inspired Coach Podcast by Beautiful You Coach Tanya Jones...

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Must Read Personal Development Books For An Amazing Life (Especially If You Are Thinking About Becoming a Life Coach!)

Must Read Personal Development Books For An Amazing Life (Especially If You Are Thinking About Becoming a Life Coach!)

Here’s something we know for sure... People start to feel a desire to become a life coach for many different reasons. It can be a life altering event. A spiritual awakening. A great experience of being coached themselves. Or simply a longing and desire they have in their heart to be in deep service to people in an amazing way.   Along the way to exploring the path of becoming a life coach, or actually making the leap to becoming one, incredible and life affirming BOOKS are so often a welcome companion on that path. Books that are inspiring, challenging, heart opening and more. If you are considering becoming a life coach the following books are ones we highly recommend as amazing reading for your personal development and growth. Each of them will support you in different ways to...

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Seven Myths About Being a Life Coach We Need To Talk About!

Seven Myths About Being a Life Coach We Need To Talk About!

Life Coaching is a truly amazing way to be in service to people and create your own business.  We should know! We’ve now trained over 2,500 life coaches from all corners of the globe - with we know more to come. And we’ve seen countless times what people can achieve in their life when they have the support of an incredible life coach AND what coaches can achieve in a business of their dreams too.     Every day we speak with people dreaming about taking the leap to become a life coach. Yet one of the things we see, (more often than we’d care to!) are incredible humans who want to make a difference, see others grow and shine, work with people they love and create their own incredible business and a life they love, hold back from stepping fully into that dream because they’ve been...

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Having The Courage To Invest In Yourself

Having The Courage To Invest In Yourself

Investing in yourself in any way, shape or form can be exciting, yet daunting. Whether it’s signing yourself up to a new gym or buying tickets to that amazing concert, making a commitment to yourself and following through on your desires can be met with some resistance. As a coach, there will be times in your life and business where you will be called to step up and invest more of your time, money and energy into your dreams. The question that tends to worry most people about taking the leap forward is: will this investment be worth it? Perhaps you’re feeling overwhelmed as to what to invest in first with the money that you have? Or maybe you’re wondering whether now is in fact the right time to move out of your comfort zone and say yes to change? Instead of shying away from taking that...

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The Power of Self-Love – Awaken Radio with Connie Chapman

The Power of Self-Love – Awaken Radio with Connie Chapman

Being a life coach trainer and entrepreneur I feel so blessed to have amazing opportunities presented to me every day.  The biggest and best opportunities are always where I get to meet new and incredible people, or deepen my relationships with people I already know and love. And so when Connie Chapman asked me to be a guest on her incredible podcast Awaken Radio to share my thoughts about self-love and all areas of our life - business, career, finances, relationships and more I was a big 'Yes!'  I was going to get to spend time with this beautiful and inspirational coach and also share with you all about the most important thing in the world - love - and how we can harness the power of self-love to live our best lives in a powerful and soul connected way. If you would like to listen in...

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Learning From Your Critical Inner Voice As A Life Coach

Learning From Your Critical Inner Voice As A Life Coach

[break] I'm delighted today to be hosting a guest post from Beautiful You Life Coach Libby Thompson. Libby is not only an incredible life coach, but a psychologist as well and recently she has become interested in the incredible role that self-compassion can play in our lives. She has been learning from the 'Godmother' of self-compassion based work, Kristen Neff, at a retreat, who is the best of the best in this field.  I love Libby's post on how as life coaches we can harness the power of self-compassion in our lives more.  You can connect in with Libby further and her wonderful work at All You Can Be Psychology.  We all have it. (Yes!  Even as a life coach who is trying to ‘help’ people be their best and live an amazing life.) A critical self. That mean voice in your head that tells...

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