I’m not good enough and don’t know enough to be a successful health coach. This means that I really can’t spend money on my business or make it a priority.

Dr. Moira Hanna

Introduction

I’m Dr. Moira. I’m a college professor, instructor, coach, and passionate mentor to health coaches around the world, but I haven’t always been that confident and committed to my coaching career. I wasn’t sure if I could make it work or even what the best approach was to success and fulfillment. I decided to step up and step into my dream of guiding health coaches on their journey from Hesitant Health Coach to Committed Health Coach. With a unique approach to coach growth, the Health Coach Catalyst program creates a strong hexagonal effect. The Coaching Hive podcast is your glimpse into the concepts, ideas, and approaches that underscore the Hexagonal Effect while giving you the opportunity to implement tools and tips along the way. Are you ready to dive into today’s podcast? Then let’s go and remember that this podcast is family friendly so go ahead and play it through your speakers!

The Topic

I’m not good enough and don’t know enough to be a successful health coach. This means that I really can’t spend money on my business or make it a priority. You will never be good enough to work with clients. If you have said this or some version of this to yourself, your friends, or your family, I get it. You aren’t sure you are capable and don’t want to waste money, the time of clients, or your own time pursuing something that won’t or can’t work. On the flip side of the coin there is that little part of you that wants to show that you are capable and worthy of the risk, time, and money that it takes to start a new business. I used to have those same beliefs. In fact, I had them all rolled into one big bundle of goop.

SHIFT Your Perspective

But if this belief, that you aren’t good enough to help clients was true there wouldn’t be any health coaches. As some of the best business leaders and thought leaders in the world will tell you that they had those same beliefs, but look at them now. They are leading thriving businesses.

Look at Amy Porterfield. She is a leader in digital course creation space and is so down-to-earth. She has over 20 full-time employees, but she admits freely that there were definitely times along the way that she didn’t feel like could succeed. In fact she shares her profits and growth along the way and there are several years that were not profitable, but she didn’t give up.

Look at Brandon Lucero a messaging guru. If you watch his promotional videos, he explains that he felt like right before his latest venture really took off. He felt like he was at a low, that he couldn’t make it work, his family was pressuring him to try and find an option that would work. And he was very passionate about messaging. And so, he said you know what? I’m going to make this work. And he did. That doesn’t mean that he didn’t have doubts.

But let me bring this even closer to home for a moment. You may be thinking Amy Porterfield, Brandon Lucero, ok they have big businesses, but let me bring it closer to home. If you listened to Episodes 14, 15, 16, or 17 you have heard the experiences of 4 health coaches. Coaches Julie, Anne, Lynn, and Nik have created successful coaching businesses and didn’t hesitate to hop on the Coaching Hive podcast to share their words of wisdom. But do you think they always believed that they could be successful and never had any doubts? Probably not.

What if we look at this from an even simpler standpoint? When you are learning to drive do you automatically feel like you are the best driver out there or do you worry about being good enough? Now did that feeling keep you f