Lots of musicians leaves this world with their music within.

During this episode Karim talks about the: ” You’re not good enough” inner voice that stop many coaches of practicing their skill and add value to those who need them.

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As I’ve shared you in previous podcast, I kept always asking myself,

” does this stuff really works? “

“Can I make a good living from it only? “

I was driving uber, and investing most of my income to find an answer to my question.

I loved “ubering”, but it was not the dream that I’ve left my highly paying job for.

The number of hours and fatigue to be able to make enough to feed your family and get a good roof, pay for its rent and to pay for your learning, was not easy at all.

It was until one day when I was in event in Orlando, I’ve met one of my most respected Italian friend and one of the most successful New York business coaches, Mrs Ingino.

I was quite direct and with no prefaces, as both originally Mediterranean, we knew how things works in these situations, so I asked her “How much shall I charge if I get the chance to have a client”?

And she hit me with an answer that I was quite not expecting, “well!”, she said, “with your background, you should focus on corporate coaching, where you can have contracts of $100Kto $200K/ company per year.”

And I said : “Whaaat? Do you mean 200 thousand dollars, per contract? Is that feasible?” She told me sure it’s feasible, that’s very feasible, you need to find these clients, get them a good program to cover their needs, and boom.

I can easily say that during almost 4 days of the big event where I met Mrs.Ingino, this was the most important take, and it was enough for me.

When I think back to my years as employee, working at least 50 Hours per week, and figure out after that I can work 80% less time and do 20% more income, I simply feel pity for my self and the years I’ve spend stuck in a positing, just because I was scared to leave my comfort zone.

At first, It was only fear that chained me to move further and after braking that chain of fear and quit my job, It was the bad feeling of thinking.

You’re not good enough as coach,

you still need to be trained,

and still not ready.

I can tell you from someone who was there, If you’re waiting for the moment to be ready, wait forever,

it will never come, there always something you gonna learn tomorrow and will get you better.

For now you’re good enough,

You’re good enough.

Those who gonna jump, and start , they will start laughing at themselves after experiencing the joy of adding value to their clients and getting their cheques, man this is true, this is working, while others will always find ways to justify that this work only for others, but for us, we still need to improve. May be no one shared it as simple as that with you before. You are already a good coach, you’re good enough.

Lots of musicians leaves this world with their music within, not getting the chance to share it, you have a skill that can change the life of people, organizations and countries, start the movement, and you’ll get the support from your tribe.

Henri Ford put it in the simplest way possible: Whether you think you can, or whether you think you can’t you’re right” Both cases you’re right, so what do you think ?

During this episode Karim will talk about the D personality type within the DISC personality Model. Who are the Dominant people? What are their strength and what are their weaknesses and how they should connect with the other personality types.

The key to be creative and have new ideas to keep your customer.

During this episode Karim highlights the importance of market awareness, learning and updates to be always ready with new value to add to your customers.

What’s up everybody? This is Karim Amri . And welcome back to the Coaching Secrets podcast

When I started thinking differently about coaching and searching for answers outside the archaic regular training, I’ve figured out that along the journey, I’ve learned lots of other skills and mastered lots of techniques.

Not necessarily linked to coaching at that time, but with the new vision, I start thinking framework wise, creating coaching packages.

Avoiding reducing my prices, I started adding Team building workshop to execution teams, to push my Executives Coaching contract to be signed.

In other situations, I’ve offered team members personality assessment, I was never aware at that time that I had these golden spoons in my possession and I can use them to finalize my coaching deals.

I discovered also at that point, that what I have it may serve me for a while but I need to always seek more, learn more, to be innovative, and that’s the way any coach should be, Thus was the idea behind creating this community around this podcast, where :

ideas,

concepts,

cutting edge techniques,

and especially, I will answer some of the most common questions coaches have.

We’ll walk the journey together.

It’s important to remember that your coaching clients mostly will not renew if you’re not bringing something new for the new round, and that’s mostly the challenge many active coaches face.

The most challenging factor for us as coaches, it that you need to bring something new for the next round, else your client won’t renew.

One of the main reasons behind it, is the lack of creativity and ideas to take him to another level, with another program and another bigger payment.

One of the key factors that helps, overcome the creativity challenge is Identifying and Understanding the different submarkets around The coaching market and within the big umbrella of people development.

You will master the right message, by being around others, with up-to-date and fresh ideas for them.

At the end clients needs results, and being holistically updated, leads to both: increase the level of connection with your clients, and better clarity on the best ways to help them.

I wanna finish this podcast with this idea from Russell Brunson’s expert secrets book, where he refers to the concept of place your hook in the right hot market, where both understanding the reality of the market as well as having a good variety of hooks is what a coach need to rock.

Thank you everybody for listening. And I’ll talk to you soon. Bye for now..

As a newly trained coach, I spent years looking for an answer to this question: “how could you become a confident and inspired coach?”. During this episode Karim describes, how thousands of coaches struggle for years after getting their coaching training course, to know how to build their business without getting the answer.

— Transcript — What’s up everybody? This is Karim Amri. And welcome back to the Coaching Secrets podcast.

I’ve attended the first coaching training over 5 years, ago, and I was amazed about this powerful, life and business changing concept.

I remember I’ve conducted 1 or 2 practice sessions during the training, and get a certificate as Professional Coach, it was strange, the feeling I’ve felt the first day after the training, I’ve said to myself: “does this thing really works “?

In fact, I’ve almost forgotten everything I’ve been taught the previous 5 days, and kept for weeks asking myself that question.

While my wife reminding me : “Karim, we’ve paid x amount of time and money for that, It must work”. I’ve used my influence to convince someone that I can help him change his life with coaching, that I told him I master it, and started conducting a series of sessions, it was funny at that time, how in a coaching relationship, while everyone believes in the process, the coach is not.

Coming from numbers, drawings, and MEP background it was still challenging for me to accept that we can change things just by talking.

As I decided already to quit my job, and start a career in personal Development and coaching, I had no option other than looking for another advanced coaching training to enrol in it, and so it was, I’ve attended my second coaching training, with a goal to find answers to all my questions:

How does this thing work?

How can we measure its efficiency?

How can we build a business around it?

Unfortunately, despite the fact that skill wise the training was good, I couldn’t get a satisfying answer to any of my questions, in fact it was not about the training or trainer quality, but everything was set in a way not to cover this part.

Years later I discovered that great coaching training content are available, for less than $100 on the web.

It was hard, to accept that after spending thousands of dollars, and days of training, I’m still not able to answer my 3 basic questions.

As I was determined to find a way to make it work, so I looked for bigger names, and bigger schools. I’ve said to myself, “these are the guys who will answer my questions”.

And again the same thing happened, with a slight difference, the cost was bigger and the certificate more valuable, but the poor trained Coach is still not sure how to get this thing to work and how to build a business around it.

I started shifting my focus towards training, until one day, I was listening to an audio-book while “Ubering”, taking home a Walmart employee, and the voice, reading the book, said this sentence:

“You are good enough the way you are now, If your client went daily to speak to the streetlight and shares his issues, he will feel better after a week of doing so, and I think you’re not lighting like a streetlight, but you can at least share a smile and interact with your client”.

It was like a lightening that hit my head that night. I’ve dropped off the customer at home, put myself off-line and headed home to digest that and avoid losing the insight I’ve got.

In fact, I discovered that day, that most of what I needed to build my career as a coach, is not covered by the Coaching programs themselves, but by others in different books and programs, whether about leadership, marketing, organizational behavior or business building and others.

So, I’ve shifted my focus from coaching books and coaching courses to anything else but coaching.

Some weeks later I’ve got my first contract for $6000

On this episode Karim talks about how after years in production and construction fields, he ended up shifting completely to Coaching and people development world. He also shared his why, behind this podcast, and how this will add value to coaches.

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Hey what’s up everybody? This is Karim Amri, welcome to the Coaching Secrets podcast. Today I’m going to take you a couple of years back, when I shifted completely my career and life and the reason behind this podcast.

5 years ago, I was cruising the land with my Hummer H₃, running between dozens of contractions site, while managing hundreds of employees and over 40 Nationality. At that time, I was enjoying a great 6-figure yearly income into my bank account.

Unfortunately, and in parallel I had a blackberry provided by the company, ringing 24/7, hundreds of urgent emails per day, and no singly 100% free day with my family, even during the supposed vacation I had to reply to urgent emails, and attend calls, over a decade, stuck in a position with no growth.

During these years of people management, I learned very well, and mastered what we call : the art of delegation. For me at that time, it was not just removing works from my shoulders, which I can’t deny that it was happening, but it was a way of helping others, discover their true strength and potential, try and experience things .

I was really enjoying doing it and that brought me to the world of Coaching. It was the end of Feb, when my wife finally getting the chance to enrol in a 21 days TOT program, I was the one who’s going to finalize the payment, and, with the person I am, I went there with only one goal, bargaining to the maximum to save some dollars.

I was not really well positioned to get any discount, as it was a field far from the dust, design and piping, where I’ve learned during years how to win a discussion so my last shot was : “What’s gonna be the best offer if we enrol both?”

To my surprise, The offer was so interesting, that I decided to go for an emergency leave, extended it to 21 days, to end up certified as a Professional trainer and start a long journey of Coaching, self-development, and mind exploring, that took me to over 30 Countries meeting some top ranked people in the industry.

This is my Story and this me is Karim Amri Why this podcast ?

Whenever I asked myself, Why I’m doing this , I found the reason getting more and more convincing to me.

We believe that everyone is full of potential, and that Coaches like you and I , are the best partner to help these people unleash it.

To succeed in this mission, coaches need to be: Well equipped, Well established and updated. Unfortunately, this is not usually the case, simply because most of the coaches were just taught the coaching skill and left alone to figure out how to monetize it and build a business around it.

These lost coaches and thousands of other people interested in this life changing and growing industry all over the world.

They are asking questions on a daily basis, seeking practical and clear answers to unlock themselves and kick off their practice and take their skill to the next level.

We’ll answer all these questions.

We’ll unveil the secrets behind building a solid, profitable and growing coaching business, we’ll build a community of like-minded coaches.

Everything will be updated with all the cutting edge coaching techniques and coaching business secrets to be every day on the top of our industry.

During this episode, Karim will continue on the same subject started in the previous episode and will explore more dysfunctions that teams face in small and medium business and what are their reasons.

During this episode Karim will start talking about one of the main issue and reason behind the failure and lack of results of most of the small, and medium businesses, which is the the dysfunctions of the different teams, their cause and effects.

During this episode, Karim talk about the decision any coach faces when stating his business, is it better to be the brand of the business, in other words your name is the name of your business, or just open a company with another name we choose.

During this episode Karim will talk about how a coach can structure his sessions and business, from deciding to work in person or virtual, 1 to 1 coaching or group coaching as well as the packages details and durations

During this episode, Karim Talk about the journey a Coach should take with his dream customer from identify who he is to get him as a paid client.