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Kelsa coaches a brand new financial coach through crafting their “Why Story”

Many new entrepreneurs have fear about taking the next step in their business and a lot of the time this shows up as imposter syndrome. Wikipedia defines imposter syndrome as: "a psychological pattern in which an individual doubts their skills, talents or accomplishments and has a persistent internalized fear of being exposed as a "fraud"." Financial coaching is a relatively new career path and many financial coaches have no formalized education in finances, feel like their credibility will be questioned. But having a degree in finance does not make a financial coach. Most financial coaches have actually learned good financial [...]

By financialcoachacademy|2020-10-09T18:02:18+00:00October 9th, 2020|

The One Question Every Financial Coach Needs to Ask

You’ve done it. You booked your first financial coaching client! You’re jumping for joy! You’re excited! You texted your bestie right away because EEEEK this was too exciting to keep to yourself. And it is. We’re over here celebrating with you. via GIPHY Once that excitement fades though, you may be left with another, altogether less pleasant feeling: Dread. Getting a client to book with you - whether they are paying or not - is part of the battle. But it’s only part. Now comes the hard part. Now you have to actually provide a service. You have to show [...]

By Kelsa Dickey|2020-09-23T21:59:14+00:00September 23rd, 2020|

The #1 Way for Financial Coaches to Market their Business and Services (Video)

Financial Coach Kelsa Dickey talks about the BEST way to market yourself as a financial coach so you can have a steady stream of clients dying to work with you. This certainly isn’t the ONLY way to market yourself as a financial coach, but me and my team consider it to be a non-negotiable strategy. We know the most tried, tested, and true way to grow a sustainable, long-lasting financial coaching business is by building strong and real relationships with referral partners. Sure, that does not sound sexy at all. Referral partners are certainly not a new idea. You probably [...]

By financialcoachacademy|2020-09-23T21:59:31+00:00August 28th, 2020|

A Financial Coach’s Summer Reading List, Updated for 2020

The Financial Coach Academy's Favorite Financial Coaching Books that You Should Add to Your Summer Reading List It's that time of year! Summer is almost here, and it's time to start getting your summer book line-up ready to go. There is nothing better than sitting poolside in the warm sun and diving into a good book. While a good Nora Roberts or James Patterson novel can get the pages turning, we at Financial Coach Academy like to use the summer reading season to be students of our craft. Considering this your official summer reading list for financial coaching books. Financial [...]

By financialcoachacademy|2020-07-10T19:36:25+00:00May 1st, 2020|

When is a Business Opportunity Worth Your Time?

If you're new to financial coaching, most business opportunities are going to be worth your time. Earlier on in my career, I was approached by a company and asked to submit a bid for a corporate wellness program. Had I run a corporate wellness program before? No. Did I question whether I should submit a bid for this? Yes. Did I submit one anyway? Absolutely. That business opportunity was a big unknown at the time. The things that I would need to ensure the opportunity was successful, I didn’t have in place when I submitted the bid. But I trusted [...]

By financialcoachacademy|2020-04-27T19:30:14+00:00April 27th, 2020|

How to Reach Out to Prospects: Making Cold Calls to Warm Leads

Making cold calls to prospects and leads is challenging for most financial coaches. Here are a few tips and one major mental shift to make before picking up the phone. We’ve been holding our 21-Day Challenge for financial coaches a couple of times a year over the past two years. It’s a friendly competition of sorts to help us and the other participating coaches do some lightning-fast growth and business-building over the course of 21 days. One of the tasks in the challenge is to call five people who have expressed an interest in coaching. And even though this has tremendous [...]

By financialcoachacademy|2020-09-17T20:24:16+00:00March 27th, 2020|

Finding and Growing Referral Partnerships as a Financial Coach

Word-of-mouth is a terrific form of advertising for your financial coaching business. When your friend or even a friend-of-a-friend makes a recommendation about anything from their favorite shampoo to the next great restaurant, you’re more than likely going to remember it and are probably more likely to try it than you would have without that endorsement. That’s why referrals are one of the most effective tools for building your financial coaching business. Having referral partners is like having a built-in sales team that already knows who your potential clients are and what you do. It’s a match made is business-development [...]

By financialcoachacademy|2020-09-17T20:24:54+00:00February 28th, 2020|

Tough Client Conversations: When Your Coaching Style Isn’t Working

Here’s the scenario: You get an email from your client. It’s not a good email. In it, they say they’re not sure if your coaching style is working for them. They still want to have a conversation, so the door is not closed, but it’s not as open as you may have thought. What do you do? Beg them to stay? Call it quits? Close up shop and do something else with your life entirely? (Definitely, no to that last one. You got this.) First, let me say this: This kind of email isn’t uncommon. If you've been in business [...]

By financialcoachacademy|2019-09-24T17:22:08+00:00September 24th, 2019|

How Many Financial Coaching Clients is Too Many? Here Are Three Considerations

It's a hard balance to figure out: How many financial coaching clients can you take on before you feel overworked and spread too thin? There's no magic number that works for everyone. At the height of my coaching, I was doing 40+ hours of just coaching sessions in a week (so 40 1-hour sessions probably), but I do not recommend that. I was pretty burnt out, and my business at that time was not scaled properly. Chalk it up to growing pains. But looking back now, I can say there are ways to help you figure out how many clients [...]

By financialcoachacademy|2019-08-31T20:22:22+00:00August 31st, 2019|

From One Experienced Financial Coach to Another: You Got Skills

It's not often this girl gets surprised during a client meeting, so I have to share something that happened last week. I've worked with this client (I'll call her Jenny) for probably 7 or 8 years. It’s been a long time. Jenny is amazing - she’s driven, coachable, honest, self-aware, giving, caring, you name it. Jenny is the best. We have met every two weeks, if not more, for the better part of the last decade, so as you can imagine, I know Jenny pretty well and she knows me. Our journey together has been gratifying for both of us. [...]

By financialcoachacademy|2019-07-24T15:06:49+00:00July 24th, 2019|

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