March 22, 2023

Live Check in Q&A No.93

26 minutes

Looking back on your careers, what would you do differently?

Should you be friends with your clients or keep things professional?

Do you have advice/tips about how to keep a beginner's mind? I realise that I sometimes struggle to put myself in my clients' shoes and remember how it felt to start. In particular, I make things overly complicated because I don't want my sessions to be boring, only to realise afterwards that the basics would have been more than enough.

How do you deal with clients who go quiet?

I have seen it suggested that you should follow bigger accounts and engage with their content to help grow your audience and build connections.
As a personal trainer is there any point in following big pages like the body coach, fitness chef, james smith as they have a worldwide audience? or are you better off sticking to accounts from a similar location to yours as they have a more relevant audience?
Also do you have any suggestions for any other type of accounts you should be connecting with outside of the fitness space?

Would you say accountability is the most valued part of a coaches service in a client's mind?

What can I do to show I know what I’m doing and what I’m talking about to people outside my service, without posting transformations?

I've got a client who's husband will sometimes grab me on the gym floor and ask how she's doing because "she doesn't tell him anything". How would you recommend approaching those situations? I've just defaulted to saying things are going well and kept it vague. I'm sure its his name on the card thats paying for the service, but its a bit of an awkward one.

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