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Quit Promoting Your Life Coaching Service When Your Life’s a Mess
Yes, you. Would you please stop it
I get it. You took an online coaching course you paid $3000 for, and now you think you’re qualified to offer life advice, right? You now know what’s best for someone’s marriage, but you can’t keep your legs closed longer than 10 mins, nor stay in a committed relationship without straying. Or better yet you coach on alcoholism while you’re downing two bottles of wine a night. The problem with the self-help community is that they prey on the vulnerable, and anyone can take a pretty photoshopped picture of themselves, slap it on a website, throw out some psychological jargon, and call themselves a life coach nowadays.
Where there is money, the parasites will flock too. The self-help industry is an 11 Billion dollar business! People are desperate, and that’s where the problem lies. Then the manipulators, wannabe’s, Narcissist and many others are all in pursuit of the almighty dollar, “title” or a very clever way at projecting their faults disguised as helping others. When you and I both know you have no credentials to do so.
The self-help community is akin to the new writers flooding the board on “how to write” or how they got 100 followers in two days. What they forgot to tell you is they can’t write, and the only reason they…
