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How to Get Over Your Drama About Charging
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During a recent call in my coach certification program, one of my students explained, with complete sincerity, that charging for coaching felt unfair because when clients pay, they're giving both their time AND their money, while she's only giving them coaching. I paused for ten seconds and then burst out laughing. She laughed too, and then said: "I hear how insane that sounds but I still believe it." If you've ever felt fine coaching for free but completely frozen the moment it came time to charge, this episode explains exactly where that comes from. I'm...
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After a decade of coaching thousands of women, I really thought I'd heard it all, but the other day I had a conversation that stopped me in my tracks. I was teaching a call for a Socratic coaching method certification, and a woman raised her hand for help with her pricing drama.
She explained to me that she felt fine coaching her free practice clients, but as soon as it came time to think about charging clients, it felt impossible. You see, she explained to me, if they're giving me their time and I'm giving them coaching, that's a fair trade.
doing me a favor by giving me their time and I'm doing them a favor by giving them coaching. So it's equal. But if I charge, then they're giving me their time and money and I'm only giving them coaching. So then it's unfair. When I tell you I was gobsmacked, almost nothing sends me into silence, but that did. I paused for about 10 seconds and then I just burst out
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