Can every talented coach run a successful coaching practice?

Can every talented coach run a successful coaching practice? 🧐 If you think about your fellow student coaches you admired for their skill in the training school – how many of them ended up building a thriving practice?

I’ve always felt disheartened and puzzled that very few of them do… Unfortunately, COACHING and RUNNING A COACHING BUSINESS are two VERY different sets of skills and activities.

Here’s a throwback picture to 2012 when I started working while travelling for the first time. I’ve always valued a high degree of freedom and independence in my work. And access to tropical islands too! 🏝️

Even though in this image I’m still ‘working for a boss’ – I was always blessed with super-bright Managers who quickly figured out my personality, and let me run ‘my own thing’ inside their team.

I feel that this quality has helped me to get through the thick and thin of building a coaching practice, esp in the first two years of much uncertainty.

In my opinion, you’re likely to enjoy long-term success running your own practice if you’re at ease with:

✅ working INDEPENDENTLY (or part of a small team)

✅ making your own DECISIONS and having full OWNERSHIP of the project

✅ a degree of RISK being a constant in your life

✅ quickly shrugging off REJECTIONS and recovering swiftly from occasional epic fails

✅ CREATIVE activities, eg coming up with new solutions when you hit a wall, as well as creating engaging content

✅ less exciting OPERATIONAL activities required

✅ putting in a full DAY’S WORK without anyone kicking your ass If this sounds like you, I’ve got some good news! You’re likely to not only do splendidly financially in your practice but also ENJOY the process of running it!

I created a coaching-business-in-a-box programme specifically for YOU 🙂 It’s called the Fully Booked Coach and we are launching our cozy Summer cohort (max 6 coaches) on the 23rd of June.

You get ALL the tools you need to set strong foundations for your practice and know exactly what to do every month to hit around £5-10k CONSISTENTLY 🎉

If you’re curious to hear how we are supporting coaches in creating such results – let’s meet! I’m running 2 free Workshops in June called GAMELPAN for £5K MONTHS where I will share our key strategies. And you’re invited!

Pick your session in June: https://calendly.com/fully-booked-coach/1?month=2023-04

BUT

if you’re feeling disheartened by this post and thinking that you don’t really enjoy the things I mentioned –> there are OTHER WAYS you can practice coaching and empower Humans without having to deal with the whole business shebang.

I can share 3 other directions you can take – just type ’tell me more’ in the comments and I’ll post it next week. Have a great self-care-full weekend! 🛀🏻