How To Become a Career Coach Happen To Your Career

We are at a time when anybody can call themselves a coach. The hard thing is getting yourself to stand out from the rest so people can understand how you’re different and how you can help them.
So today, I’m excited to start season 5 of this podcast by bringing on Scott Anthony Barlow, the founder of Happen To Your Career. We talk about how you can differentiate yourself as a coach and how running a coaching business is more than just having 1-on-1 conversations with clients.
 
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!

Part of taking your coaching business to the next level is honing your skills, setting up systems, and knowing your target client.
Another, and equally important, aspect is surrounding yourself with the right people. If you’re the smartest person in the room, you won’t be on a growth track - you need to surround yourself with those that you aspire to be like.
Brad Finkeldei joins Phillip to talk about how he leveraged relationships to grow himself and his 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!

Many new coaches get tripped up on the idea of how they help people and how they figure out what they want. Mo Chanmugham, one of our amazing coaches here at HTYC, joins us to break down how new coaches can help people start figuring out what they want and how you can begin figuring this out for yourself in your coaching journey.
You'll see how we help train people to become world-class level coaches (specifically in our PCC program), how people decide what they want in their career and ultimately lives, and validate those decisions by setting up career experiments.
 
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!

One of the struggles that new coaches have is imposter syndrome. It keeps them from having the confidence they need while working with their clients. It keeps them from helping their clients to their full potential.It keeps them from raising their rates.
So what is imposter syndrome? How can you overcome it?
Keep listening to this conversation I’m having today with Goli Kalkhoran. She’s a lawyer-turned-entrepreneur, but that’s just a quick summary of her story.
 
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!

Many times, there isn’t a straight line from your first career to becoming a career coach. This isn’t a bad thing, and it can lead to some really great opportunities; but not everyone sees or understands the potential benefits.
Jenny Foss was one that didn’t take a straight line in her life in general, so her mom called her a unicorn.
Jenny shares how she used her unique skills and approach to life and careers to transition from journalism to career coach to adding other career 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!

There isn’t just one way to become a career coach or build your coaching business (which we talk about a lot on the podcast). The best way to be successful is to make your business fit you.
Lydia Lee started her career coaching business 7 years ago.
In this conversation, she talks about how you need to rewrite the story in your head, adapting marketing strategies to fit who you are (not just make yourself fit into someone else’s business model), and how to grow from one stage to the next.
 
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!