The Future Coach: How to Succeed As A Life Coach Today, Tomorrow & Beyond
This podcast explores the world of coaching, answering questions about who is cut out for the career, where the industry is heading, and what it takes to succeed. Host Kara Loewentheil, a master coach instructor who has made over $25 million as a coach, shares insights from her decade of experience. Episodes cover topics like building a fulfilling, mission-driven career that also generates income, whether as an entrepreneur, in-house coach, or within another business. The show is aimed at mindset coaches, career coaches, executive coaches, and anyone who works with people to help them grow.
Episodes
13. How to Know When You're Ready to Start
When I quit running a think tank to become an internet life coach, I did not feel ready. I had spent a decade building a legal career, I had just gotten certified as a coach, and I did not even balance my own checkbook. My friend Brenda Lomeli and I later coined a term for what that transition felt like: barf club, the experience of being nauseous about taking action and doing it anyway.If you are
12. Coaching Confessions: How Hadar Shemesh Faked Her Way to a Million Followers (Sort Of)
This is the first episode of a new series I am calling Coaching Confessions, where I sit down with coaches who are seven figures and above and ask them what the beginning actually looked like. First up: my guest posted a single flyer on a street in Israel, charged $20 an hour, and when that flyer landed her exactly one client who never came back, she logged into an online forum under a fake name a
11. How to Get Over Your Drama About Charging
During a recent call in my coach certification program, one of my students explained, with complete sincerity, that charging for coaching felt unfair because when clients pay, they're giving both their time AND their money, while she's only giving them coaching. I paused for ten seconds and then burst out laughing. She laughed too, and then said: "I hear how insane that sounds but I still believe
10. When Is It Too Late to Start As A Coach?
A sixty-three year old nurse showed up to a coaching call in her pajamas, hadn't brushed her hair, and got on camera anyway because she didn't want to miss her chance to ask one question: am I too old to become a coach?It's a question I've heard from women at every age from 30 to 70. And I have a real answer for it, not just a coach-y "you can do anything" pep talk. You'll hear why age isn't the l
9. You're Not Starting Over & It Wasn't A Waste
Your brain has done something sneaky. The moment you started thinking about becoming a coach, it decided that everything you've built in your career no longer counts. That you'd be starting over from zero.That's not a fact. It's a thought. And it's one worth questioning, because it might be the only thing standing between you and making the leap. I'm walking through exactly why this thought isn't
8. What Clients Actually Want (And Why You Can't Get It Wrong)
One of the biggest things that stops new coaches from charging, or charging more, is the fear that they won't be able to deliver what their clients want. It feels responsible, even. But it's based on a misunderstanding of what clients are actually paying for.In this episode, I break down why you don't have to guarantee a specific outcome in order to be an extraordinary coach worth every penny you
7. The Mindset Work That Actually Gets You Started
Getting started as a coach isn't really a skills problem. It's a mindset problem — and nobody talks about what to actually do about that. This episode is pulled from the daily mindset broadcasts I shared inside Coach Curious Prep School, and it covers the three things I think every aspiring coach needs to hear before they take the leap. First, why nerves are not a signal that something is wron
6. Highlights from Coach-Curious Prep School: The Traits That Make Someone a Great Coach
Most people who are drawn to coaching spend too long asking the wrong question. It's not whether you're good enough yet. It's whether you have the traits that make coaching a natural fit — and most people who are seriously asking already do.This episode is pulled from highlights of my live Coach Curious Prep School, where I walk a room full of aspiring coaches through the core traits that actually
5. How to Evaluate a Coaching Certification
Do you actually need a coaching certification? Technically, no. Life coaching is unregulated, and nobody can stop you from hanging a shingle. But I really don't recommend skipping it, and in this episode I break down exactly why, and how to find the right one.There are three categories of certification programs: university-based, ICF-accredited, and independent. Each has tradeoffs, and I walk you
4. Why Coaching Will Thrive in the Age of AI
The headlines have it backwards. Coaching isn't going to be replaced by AI. It's going to become more valuable because of it.I'm making the case, with five specific reasons, for why this moment is actually one of the best times to become a coach. You'll also hear where AI genuinely helps coaches who are building a practice and, just as importantly, where letting it take the wheel will quietly unde
3. 3 Ways to Use Coaching in Other Jobs
If you've ever thought "a coaching certification isn't really for someone like me," you might be wrong about that. The most valuable thing it could ever do for you might happen in a meeting, a performance review, or a conversation with your teenager.I'm walking through what actually changes when you understand how the brain works: why the problems most professionals keep trying to solve are the wr
2. What Being a Life Coach Actually Requires (And What It Doesn't)
The bar for becoming a coach is different than you think, and so is what actually makes someone good at it. You don't need a psychology degree, a perfect life, or shared experience with every client you'll ever have.I'm breaking down the real objections that stop people from getting started, why most of them are rooted in how women are socialized to see themselves, and what three qualities actuall
1. What Life Coaching Is and Isn't
Most people who could be extraordinary coaches never get started because they believe something about coaching that simply isn't true.I'm tackling the three biggest coaching misconceptions head-on: you’ll learn what coaching actually is, why it's nothing like therapy, and why the "wellness grifting" criticism says more about sexism than it does about the profession. You'll also hear what real coac
Introducing: The Future Coach Podcast
I'm Kara Loewentheil, host of Unf*ck Your Brain and author of the New York Times bestseller Take Back Your Brain. After a decade coaching thousands of women and building a multi-million dollar business, I'm putting everything I've learned about succeeding as a coach in one place.I created The Future Coach for anyone who wants to coach: whether you're starting a business, working in-house, or bring
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