Today We have with us Kelly Poulson who has been a coach for a long time. We have worked together in several capacities over the past few months.

In today's discussion, we will talk about:

• The journey that led to her coaching career, how different professional roles and conversations led to a full-time coaching career and how she discovered coaching.
• The books that triggered her career transition when she first discovered coaching. (The Dream Manager by Matthew Kelly)
• What qualifies someone to be a career coach - the important pieces that prepare you for becoming a successful career coach. Listening, creative space, safe space to think out loud.
• What are the most effective things we can do to develop necessary skills to become an effective career coach?
• The little experiences that built up to her leaping into a full-time coaching career.
• The most difficult decisions and biggest hurdles she had to face and how she melded her approach, developing strategies to overcome them.
• Kelly's advice to aspiring coaches out there and how she chose her way into coaching full time.
• The importance of choosing your niche target market in your coaching career.
• Her journey's evolution from deciding she wanted to go leap full time into career coaching to getting her first few clients.

Given the chance, Kelly shares the following insights upon being asked how she would shape her coaching career and strategize given the resources available if she hadn't had the relevant coaching experience already.

• Jump into coaching with the available resources and build them up as you go.
• Get professional training for coaching, business development and any other areas you feel you need professional help with.
• Get support to get the business up and running.

If you have any further questions, you can connect with Kelly on her website or on her LinkedIn.

Do you find yourself ending up in conversation about other people's careers repeatedly? If you find yourself helping people with these areas and enjoy yourself while at it. Then you'll enjoy coaching full time tremendously!

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