Podcast Intro

Welcome to a new series here on the coaching hive podcast. Before I share today's really special episode, I'd like to take a moment just to share a little bit about the series, because it is different from anything that you've heard here before through the month of March, you will have a chance to sit in on a series of mentoring calls that I have with one of our Coaching Hive members, Julie.

Julie is right at the beginning of her entrepreneurial journey. And as you'll hear, in fact, she's in the second week of her entrepreneurial journey, this is an exciting time in any health coaching business and Julie's business is no exception. The conversations that you hear will be snippets from larger conversations and topics that we're discussing, but I wanted to give you a sneak peek, a little bit of a window into what it's like to get started as a health coach, entrepreneur, and how to make use of a mentor. As we jumped into this conversation, I'd like you to reflect on what it would bring to your health coaching business, to have someone with whom you can regularly sit down where you explore ideas, ask questions, work through challenges and set intentions.

Now with our theme of simplicity, clarity, and vision for 2022 in mind, let's jump in.

Conversation with Coach Julie

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I wonder if we can kind of start by you telling me just a little bit about your business. I know that you are just getting started. You just moved from being kind of part-time on the side,

thinking about it to being that full-time entrepreneur. So catch me up and tell me a little bit about your business and what it's going to look like, what you want for it. Okay. So, yeah, so it's just a matter of going from having a little bit of time during the day to do my business to now a full time being able to do my business.

So it was from doing a little bit here and there and really took me about a year to figure out what I wanted it to look like and what it could be moving into a full-time role. So it's more of now a reality of, okay, I've set my plan in place. I've done all the things. The website is up. I have my packages in place.

I have my pricing in place. I do have clients. Now the next step is really continuing the awareness of my business and to grow that so that people know I'm here and what I'm doing, and then also to naturally grow clients. And I'm really, I'm not as focused right now on the quantitative goals. As I am the qualitative goals, I feel that's better for me and doesn't cause me as much stress and anxiety of thinking.

I have to hit this number. I have to hit this number. And if I don't hit this number, oh my gosh, what's going to happen. So I'm really taking the approach of qualitative goals and qualitative measures of am I doing X number of posts every week? Am I posting to the social pages in my area? Am I emailing people? Am I talking to my center of influences to let them know what I'm doing?

Am I reaching out to doctors? Am I going to all of my networking events? So even Bible study, I'm in a Bible study. So letting them know what I'm doing. So that's really the focus I'm taking right now. Cause not everybody knows about my business, right? So it's really hard to put a quantity or a quantitative goal on, I need to get 10 customers in the next two months when I don't know that that many people know about me yet.

So that's really the direction I'm taking for this first three months is just doing as much PR work for my business as much branding work for my business because everybody associates me with my old company. And so now I'm letting them know, Hey, you need to change my email address. This is what I'm doing. You know, this is what my structure looks like right now.

So that's really what I'm focused on for the next three months. Okay. So really building