How To Become a Career Coach

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That's a wrap for season three of the How to Become a Career Coach podcast! Thank you for listening and for rating, reviewing and sharing the show. Stay tuned for some bonus episodes soon and for season four later this year.

Season 4 is not about just getting started, but transitioning to full-time coaching and diving deeper into what this could look like for you

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In this last episode Season 3 of How To Become a Career Coach, Scott Anthony Barlow, CEO of Happen To Your Career and founder of the professional Career Coach Training and Certification, shares what makes the most successful coaches, what failures he's had along the way, and the surprising place you should focus your time if you want to become a phenomenal coach that truly helps others get insane results.

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As you become a career coach, you go through different stages. It's a little different for everyone, but the basic stages are:

• You realize that you love helping people and having deep conversations
• You realize that coaching is something that you can actually do
• You start coaching on the side of your full-time job
• You eventually make the leap to full-time coach

But when you're standing on that dock ready to get into the boat, how do you figure out when and how to make the leap?

Well, today, we're going to hear from someone has recently made that leap. She officially decided to become a career coach full-time back in 2018, but had some mind gremlins to deal with. So you're going to hear how she overcame those mind gremlins to make the leap.

You'll also hear how she used Linkedin to get her first paid client, the value of investing in herself, and how she was able to go from crawling to jogging in just a matter of months.

I want to introduce you to our guest today, Erin Allett, a career coach at the University of Michigan.

She is also enrolled in our Professional Career Coach Training and Certification program.

If you want to schedule a conversation with Phillip to see if PCC is right for you, click here.

To binge-listen to all the Career Coach episodes: https://www.happentoyourcareer.com/how-to-become-a-career-coach-podcast/

Or check our our Professional Career Coach Training program

Check out the Ultimate Guide to Becoming a Career Coach!

As I talk with people about how they got into coaching, it's always interesting to hear about all the different ways.

It reminds me that there is no one path to becoming a coach.

Our guest on the How to Become a Career Coach podcast today started as a marketer that was terrible with analytics but was great with the psychology aspects. He got tired of the networking events he attended and started hosting his own events that fostered great conversation. These events led to elevator pitch coaching, then to Personal brand coaching, and then a podcast. Through the podcast, he met people at the Muse, which brought him on as a career coach.

That was just the beginning, though. It took years before he took his coaching full-time, and he's going to share how a 6-month review at work led him to realize that his coaching on the side is what actually fit his life.

We are accepting application for the Professional Career Coach Training program. Your first step is to schedule a conversation with Phillip, our Director of Student and Client Success (no commitment or obligation).

Is the future of your career coaching business worth the investment of 45 minutes?

To binge-listen to all the Career Coach episodes: https://www.happentoyourcareer.com/how-to-become-a-career-coach-podcast/

Or check our our Professional Career Coach Training program

Check out the Ultimate Guide to Becoming a Career Coach!

So you've been working with some coaching clients - congratulations!

But...

You are coaching for free or much less than you would like.

As much as you love working with and helping people, you know that continuing doing this path is not sustainable in the long term.

But you don't know how to make the transition.

Good news - you're just like almost every coach out there. We have all been there, done that, got the t-shirt (or coffee mug, because we need coffee, right?).

Earlier this week in our training session, I addressed this question from Lara (and I want to share this with you, too):

"I'm switching from unpaid to paid coaching. How to I explain my various services?"

To binge-listen to all the Career Coach episodes: https://www.happentoyourcareer.com/how-to-become-a-career-coach-podcast/

Or check our our Professional Career Coach Training program

Check out the Ultimate Guide to Becoming a Career Coach!

Tara Padua faced her fear of becoming a career coach.

Yes, she had many instances in her life that pointed to her skills and abilities as a coach.

Yes, she had proven to be successful doing coaching sessions.

But creating a full-time business was terrifying to her.

But Tara knew that it was the right move to make.

She created a plan that if she could get 10 paid clients successfully for six months, and save up six months worth of salary, then she would resign.

It was an arbitrary goal at the time, but she felt like she needed a little runway just in case she didn't get enough new clients.

Those 10 paid clients made a huge difference in her coaching business and life.

Tara was able to gain the confidence she needed to know that she really could build a business around coaching.

She was able to establish systems and routines to keep new clients coming.

And Tara joins Philip on the How to Become a Career Coach podcast to share her journey to become a career coach, jump the hurdle of her first 10 paid clients, and build her successful career coaching business.

You'll also learn:

• Tara's formula for a successful coaching business
• How to overcome internal interferences
• How to help yourself reach your potential while helping your clients do the same
• What Brene Brown and Stephen Pressfield have to do with coaching

To binge-listen to all the Career Coach episodes: https://www.happentoyourcareer.com/how-to-become-a-career-coach-podcast/

Or check our our Professional Career Coach Training program

Check out the Ultimate Guide to Becoming a Career Coach!

"There's a reason why free gym memberships don't work: if you don't put your own skin in the game, you aren't going to prioritize it in your own life."

That's a quote from Alex Durand, our guest on the How to Become a Career Coach podcast.

Alex made this statement talking about how he learned to charge his clients for the coaching sessions.

This thought process helped him (and his clients) to see the value in what he was offering while coaching.

During the conversation that Phillip had with Alex on the podcast, there are a bunch of other great take-aways:

• What is coaching, really?
• Confronting the depression and burnout.
• Connecting the brain and body and know when to make a change - knowing when to take the leap.
• The 'holy s*** what am I doing' moment. Managing the feast or famine cycles
• Clinging to the identity of coach and being a coach.
• Taking action, building value, and delivering valuable services to the client.

To binge-listen to all the Career Coach episodes: https://www.happentoyourcareer.com/how-to-become-a-career-coach-podcast/

Or check our our Professional Career Coach Training program

Check out the Ultimate Guide to Becoming a Career Coach!

Over the years, we have analyzed a ton of coaching conversations to identify critical moments that lead to change. Then, we pulled out those moments and built a framework that delivers effective results over and over again.

Whether you've never led a formal coaching session life or you've been coaching for many years, this model can help you piece together an entire coaching conversation from beginning to end. When you trust this model, you'll go into each session confident that you're providing value to your client.

To understand the "why" behind the model, think of bumpers on a bowling lane.

When you go bowling WITHOUT bumpers, there's no telling where your ball could end up. Maybe you'll make it all the way down the lane and hit a pin, or maybe you'll drop it into one of the gutters and get a giant goose egg on the scoreboard.

But when you add in bumpers, you're basically guaranteed to score a lot of points. Whether you're the best bowler in the world - staying perfectly on track for a strike - or a newbie bouncing back and forth between the boundaries, your ball will end in success

That's exactly what happens with our Coaching Conversations Model. When you follow this 5-part framework, you'll end in success again and again and most importantly… this will create progress for your client (which we know creates momentum). You'll have raving clients who feel like they're getting an immense amount of value .

This week on the How to Become a Career Coach podcast, Jennifer Stokes joins Phillip Migyanko to talk about having these coaching conversations.

Jennifer and Phillip have both been on the podcast before. Phillip is the one that helped develop the Professional Career Coach Training and Certification program and Jennifer is one of the coaches we have here at HTYC, and she helps the PCC program in the background.

To binge-listen to all the Career Coach episodes: https://www.happentoyourcareer.com/how-to-become-a-career-coach-podcast/

Or check our our Professional Career Coach Training program

Check out the Ultimate Guide to Becoming a Career Coach!

With the world in turmoil, it looks like the way work is done may be changing.

Scott Anthony Barlow and Phillip Migyanko kick off season 3 with discussing how the future of career coaching will evolve.

Also, Scott is passing the baton to Phillip as the host of this podcast for the season! It's going to be exciting as we get to dive further into what you can do to start or accelerate your career coaching business.

To binge-listen to all the Career Coach episodes: https://www.happentoyourcareer.com/how-to-become-a-career-coach-podcast/

Or check our our Professional Career Coach Training program

Check out the Ultimate Guide to Becoming a Career Coach!