Your business doesn't become real the day you qualify. It becomes real the day someone says yes, and pays you to coach them...

This episode is about that first yes, and why most newly qualified coaches are sitting further away from it than they need to be. Coach training teaches you to coach. It rarely teaches you to get paid. So you land in the gap between qualified and paid, and start believing the answer is a better website, a tidier Instagram grid, a cleverer funnel.

It isn't. Your first handful of paying clients won't come from your content marketing. They'll come from conversations. It's a proper rewilding move: stripping away everything that doesn't belong so the real work of these early days can actually happen.

If this is your sticking point, come to my free live workshop on the 21st of July, How To Get Your First (Or Next) Paying Coaching Clients. It's a hands-on 90-minute session where we sort your coaching edge, start your list, build a simple starter offer, and I coach you on the conversations that turn into clients. You'll leave knowing exactly what to do.

How To Get Your First (Or Next) Paying Coaching Clients...

21st July, 1pm UK / 8am EST. Free, live, limited places.

Register for the workshop: https://www.gillmoakes.com/first-paying-clients-workshop

Get the Your First Yes workbook: https://www.gillmoakes.com/your-first-yes

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