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Questions and Answers
How to become a personal life coach?
1. How did you get started in coaching?
This would take some time to explain. the brief answer is, ever since I can remember (age 2 or so) I have always had an interest in helping the world in some massive way and had an interest in understanding what we can achieve beyond what we think is possible. I eventually took courses in various healing modalities as you can see in my bio www.joshuazuchter.com/Joshua_bio_Toronto.html and they helped me to begin to understand principles about energy. I became involved with two what I would call master teachers, one whom I studied with for 5 years, the other each week for 8 years. My work in that group that involved learning how to connect with our intuition and inner wisdom was also my introduction and beginning study of metaphysics. And although they did not call themselves personal life coaches, they really were using many principles associated with life coaching and through my interactions with them I developed my own style and technique for helping people.
While involved in that group and after the group ended I began my own work and came up with a new technique called Core Journaling. From this process I have furthered my understanding of the human mind, consciousness, and principles of attraction. I started a part-time practice in 1998 and went full time in 2002. My practice started out very slowly being in a conservative city at the time and not really having the connections I needed in the community to really establish myself. Eventually I moved to Toronto and have had a full practice ever since.
2. Is it easy to get a life coaching business off the ground or is it a struggle?
I can say without a doubt it is not easy for most (about 80% of the life coaches who begin coaching). The main thing I recommend to those who want to become a busines coach or life coach, specifically a law of attraction coach is to practice and play with, over and over, the tools that they know. I often come across law of attraction coaches who don't really understand the principles but think that they can teach them easily because they have read and understand them. I recommend to most coaches who are starting to find a niche, a market of people that they already connect with and know and then once they feel they have to a certain degree mastered their craft of law of attraction coaching, that they can then start promoting themselves as such. The other recommendation I have is to hire a coach early on so that you can learn about the business side of coaching as this is why many coaches either don't get their business going or struggle. And as a side, it is also beneficial to have a mentor. someone who has a practice in another city or province or country (who you won't be competing with) who you can call on every now and then and learn more about what's involved in creating the kind of practice that you are wanting.
3. What is the lifestyle of a coach like?
This depends on the success of the coach. The lifestyle is essentially the same as any other business owner except that if you are coaching executives or individuals you will be working a great deal after 5 pm and possibly on weekends if you create your practice like that. If you work mostly with entrepreneurs you will find your schedule will be more of a 9-5 schedule if you create it and promote it as such. On average, coaches earn approximately $20,000.00 - 80,000.00 per year depending on your fees and the number of clients you see in the week. Executive coaches who have full practices tend to earn much more and can earn as much as $250,000.00 per year depending on the number of clients they are working with and their coaching fees.
4. Do you have any recommendations regarding what training school is best?:
I don't actually recommend any coaching school as I have noticed that most people who go through their trainings get more into their head rather than their intuition or heart. This being said, I also know of some coaches who are very good at what they do who are certified. But I have noticed that those individuals were already very good before they became certified. So I don't believe certification is necessary unless you want to work with corporations who normally ask for it.
One of the best coaching schools and resources for becoming a life coach is Coachville. www.coachville.com. I consider this to be the best resource for life and business coaching on the planet and knowing how they work I recommend taking their coaching program if you are looking for one. Of the other schools I know of, CTI and others would be okay to look into as well.
5. I know it is in my best interest to hire a coach for myself - should this be done during my training or afterwards?
I highly recommend hiring a life coach during your training and continuing afterwards, rather than hiring one just afterwards. It would be useful to hire one not associated with your coaching training program as this will give you a connection and a more well-rounded coaching experience with someone who may have a different coaching style.
6. Is it better to specialize as a coach or be more general for a wider audience?
It is nearly always best to specialize or focus on a specific niche for a couple of reasons: 1. As you do that, you become recognized for that specific group and more and more people are able to easily refer friends and colleagues to you (ie - You specialize in coaching families - as more families find out about you and you help them, when their friends ask if they know of someone that can help their family, you would come to mind. If you were just promoting yourself as a personal life coach, because there are already many personal life coaches, they wouldn't necessarily think of you.
2. There is a saying, "Jack of all trades, master of none." It is far greater to become a master in one particular area not only for others but also for yourself. My particular area of expertise is energy, the mind, and consciousness. Because these aspects of self-discovery underlie all things, it allows me to apply the principles that I teach to all other areas very easily. This is why you will notice all of the different types of people that I have worked with and have helped.
Once you have specialized and are much more recognized in your particular specialty, then it would be fine to branch out into another or others.
If you are new to coaching or would like to experience a coaching consultation with Joshua, contact us at 416-388-1135 or by e-mail at info@joshuazuchter.com.
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"I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank you. Joshua. You are an inspiration, a great motivator and a gifted speaker. You have this incredible energy about you and a genuine and natural way of sharing your enthusiasm and joy through your life's work. Since I've started your coaching program I have seen such wonderful shifts happen in my life. Even my friends and family have commented on the positive changes. I feel more peaceful, I've been writing with more soul and as a result of trusting my intuition and releasing self doubts, I've drawn and attracted wonderful opportunities and people into my life. You have helped me open up to the music of my own heart. You are a gift to me and so many others. Thank you!"
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