Okay, you’ve got your life coaching certification and finished life coach school--now what? It’s natural to feel overwhelmed by building your business and figuring out marketing as you step into your new career. This podcast episode breaks down the essential things to focus on when you’re figuring out what to do after you’ve got your life coach certification.

People have confusion over what life coaching is. How is it different than therapy or counseling? On today’s episode, I’m getting into how to explain life coaching to people, including how I suggest you handle coaching skeptics.

There’s a tendency in coaching for everyone to emphasize the problems and what’s not working. How can we integrate more fun, even if the problems are still there? Let’s start helping clients have more fun with these new ideas for energizing your coaching sessions.

Because coaches are empathetic, many struggle with knowing the line between care for clients, and crossing a line into care-taking. How can we practice more respectful client boundaries? When you try to control what’s happening in a session or save the client from any negative feelings, you end up care-taking, not caring. This podcast episode on respectful client boundaries gets into the differences.