Is Business Coaching for Fitness Coaches Worth the Investment?

I grew up in an age when getting a job could be opening up the newspaper, you know looking at the classified ads for job listing sending mailing in a resume or you know eventually became finding it on the online and emailing a resume i don't know if anybody's tried to do that lately um but it is a bloodbath out there of you know job listings being flooded with applications applications being screened by ai you know layer after layer after layer of process when most of the time working in a company, I certainly experienced it, that the person that would get hired was within the company or was within the network of whoever was hiring the hiring manager.

And the same is true with coaching or with whatever it is that you're trying to do professionally.

I've found that the network is priceless.

And the final piece that I think is really interesting, and CJ talks about this with the Academy a lot, is permission.

Getting permission to coach.

A lot of times, the first and the hardest part of coaching, I can remember vividly feeling like I was not allowed to tell somebody else how to move or to give somebody a cue.

I don't know if anybody else went through that.

Some people may have called it an imposter syndrome, but there's sometimes... uh this natural instinct to not feel qualified to do something and by having a coach along with those other things i listed having permission to go do the thing is a huge enabler it's a huge unblock And so getting proximity to people who've already gone through what it is that you're trying to go through is a huge leverage of your time and money.

One of the interesting things kind of as I've already alluded to that I've experienced is that coaches are often, and I put myself in the same bucket I'm often more resistant.

I don't know.

I find myself having to sometimes convince myself that coaching is something that I also can continue to invest in, even though I am a coach.

And I think that's something I've had to go over.

Curiously, if anybody else has also felt this, that early on when I was coaching, I used to feel like I always had to have the answer.

And then it was almost like a bad thing if a client asked me something and I didn't know right there that that was somehow going to reveal that I wasn't the expert that I was.

But over time, I found that In most cases, if I don't know the answer, not only is that a learning opportunity for me, but it's an opportunity to be transparent and have integrity with my clients, go do the homework and be able to come back with the answer.

And then we both learn something from it.

The same is true when you're considering coaching from somebody else, getting over a little bit of that resistance and continuing to invest in learning.

is something that can pay a lot of dividends in the long run.