Jun 29, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min · 10 segments
One of the biggest reasons great coaches never build an online coaching business has nothing to do with technology, marketing, or social media. It’s fear. Fear of what other coaches will say. Fear…
Paul ReddickHostBenHostLet's do that more.
You know, I know it's not, we'll get to our topic, but there is probably something you brought up there that is another thing that comes up.
You know, in the lesson, let me back up to when I started doing lessons, right? I told that story, got my first $15 lesson.
I was working as a dishwasher and I'd be a delivery guy if delivery people were out sick at Joey's Italian Kitchen on Stuyvesant Avenue in Union making $4 an hour.
So when I got $15 an hour for doing a one-hour pitching lesson, that was essentially a dollar less than a four-hour shift at Joey's where I'm sitting there in the sink and I would smell literally my mother's I would smell like garlic and Italian food and everything.
So when I would come home, she would make me go into the basement and put my clothes right into the washing machine and start the washer.
Because if I took them off, like, you know, and put them in with the other clothes, it just like infected everything.
You know, it's almost like we start on this path that, well, then you get another one.
And then next thing you know, you kind of built this thing that is you're locked into time and you don't necessarily get to choose so much of what you get to do, right? It's nights and weekends and that's kind of what you're locked into.
And then what always happens too is, you know, you're fully booked And then, you know, you're like, I remember when I extended to 8 a.m. Because I was starting at 9 and I was booked.
Let's do that more.
You know, I know it's not, we'll get to our topic, but there is probably something you brought up there that is another thing that comes up.
You know, in the lesson, let me back up to when I started doing lessons, right? I told that story, got my first $15 lesson.
I was working as a dishwasher and I'd be a delivery guy if delivery people were out sick at Joey's Italian Kitchen on Stuyvesant Avenue in Union making $4 an hour.
So when I got $15 an hour for doing a one-hour pitching lesson, that was essentially a dollar less than a four-hour shift at Joey's where I'm sitting there in the sink and I would smell literally my mother's I would smell like garlic and Italian food and everything.
So when I would come home, she would make me go into the basement and put my clothes right into the washing machine and start the washer.
Because if I took them off, like, you know, and put them in with the other clothes, it just like infected everything.
You know, it's almost like we start on this path that, well, then you get another one.
And then next thing you know, you kind of built this thing that is you're locked into time and you don't necessarily get to choose so much of what you get to do, right? It's nights and weekends and that's kind of what you're locked into.
And then what always happens too is, you know, you're fully booked And then, you know, you're like, I remember when I extended to 8 a.m. Because I was starting at 9 and I was booked.
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