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 |2019-08-31T20:22:22-07:00August 31st, 2019|

Tough Client Conversations: Your Client Made a Poor Choice and Can’t Afford to Pay You

We had a situation with a client at Fiscal Fitness recently where they couldn’t afford our services because of some poor decision making. We work with them on a monthly basis and our monthly payment was coming due. But between our previous session with them and the one that was coming up, they decided to sign up for a CrossFit membership. This expense was not in their budget, and by signing up for this membership, it meant they didn’t have the funds to pay us. This was frustrating.   But I wasn’t frustrated about their inability to pay me. It [...]

By |2019-05-22T17:08:35-07:00May 22nd, 2019|

How Your Financial Coaching Business Benefits from Clients Who Don’t “Get It”

Let’s say you have a financial coaching client who has been working with you for only a month or two. It hasn't been a super long relationship, but even after this short period of time, you can tell they're simply not getting it. They're not getting great results or maybe they're not moving as fast as you would like. Perhaps it feels like you take two steps back for every step forward. When you talk to them, you say things like “You did what since we talked last? What do you mean you just bought a new car?” In short, [...]

By |2019-03-27T15:29:46-07:00March 27th, 2019|
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