How a Mindset Coach Can Help Entrepreneurs

I’m not going to sugarcoat it —Mindset Coaching sounds kind of… vague.

In fact, I’d argue that most coaching sounds kind of vague. What do you actually do? What does it really help with? And how do I know if it’s really the right next step for me?

Well, here’s what coaching IS NOT: It’s not strictly strategy, it’s not consulting, and it’s definitely not one-size-fits-all. A valuable coaching experience DOESN’T say “here’s my 5 step formula, go implement it.” In fact, that’s a huge disservice to YOU. How I see coaching is like this: how can I help you become the best version of YOU (which is determined BY you - not me.)

And yeah, that’s inherently harder to define with tangible outcomes and clear cut formulas. But that’s okay - because when you decide to work with a coach, you deserve to be seen as YOU, the whole, complex human. Not someone to shove down a pipeline and form into another version of everyone else.

I have a lot of experience of going that route. In my first business as a designer and even in this business as a coach — it’s SO EASY (dangerously easy!) to get caught up in this idea that “so and so” has a “5 step formula” that will get you results like yesterday. 🙋‍♀️Raise your hand if you’ve ever been victimized by a course or coach that guaranteed results and even though you showed up with the best of intentions…

You got nothin’.

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And then — be honest — did you decide that happened because you aren’t good enough? Worthy enough? Smart enough? Pretty enough? Disciplined enough? Was it all your fault that this generic course or coach didn’t get you the results they promised you should want?

This is a like triple edged sword because here’s the thing:

You can decide to live at cause and take responsibility over your results and say “yes, it was my fault — I didn’t do the work the way I was supposed to and therefore no results” and leave it at that. Yes, I’m a terrible person who’s destined for failure and never going to make it. How does that feel? Shitty? Yeah.

You can also decide to pull the victim card and say that the coach or course manipulated me and promised me everything and once I started the program I realized it wasn’t even what I wanted and they sold me a pipe dream and they’re evil and I suck for falling for it. How does that feel? Also shitty? Yeah.

So the truth is… It’s a little of both, and.

You can take responsibility over buying the program and not doing the work. You can even say you ‘fell’ for the marketing and really did believe you WANTED those things. But don’t just leave it at “and I suck” because that doesn’t get you anywhere new. What if instead of you decided to dig into things like…

• Why didn’t I do the work? What made me not want to do the work? What made me find ways to stay busy to avoid doing the work?

• Do I even want the results they are promising? What would make me NOT want the results? What do I think the give and take is to get those results and am I willing to do that?

• Is this something that even feels good or aligned for me? Do I want to be doing XYZ thing that the program entails every day? Is that how I define success? Do I even know how I define success?

Do you see my point here?

THAT’S where mindset coaching comes in.

Because most people don’t have anyone to ask themselves those types of questions and they certainly don’t ask themselves those sorts of questions. And those sorts of questions are what help you truly grow into an empowered, confident, and aligned business owner.

So now that you understand a bit of what mindset coaching isn’t, I want to explain a bit more about how I see mindset coaching and how it has helped my clients. Now this isn’t like the Webster dictionary definition, this is how I help MY clients, okay?

I help my clients develop a strong sense of self-trust.

Which is important and trickles down into things like…

1. Taking aligned action and trusting that what you want is meant for you

2. Creating boundaries, setting expectations, and creating an actually sustainable business

3. Feeling more confident in your offers, your expertise, and what you bring to the table

4. Releasing the need for external validation and instead looking to your own guidance system

5. Tuning out the noise of “shoulds” and doing things the way you were divinely made to do it

Now that sounds a little nebulous, so if I had to try really hard to summarize it:

I help business owners do whatever the fuck they want to do.

And does that mean they make more money, or work the hours they desire, take every Friday off, never send an email newsletter, create schedules that actually work for them, etc.? Totally. I literally mean whatever. The. Fuck. They. Want. To. Do.

And if you find yourself — right now — thinking that’s not possible, then there’s a really strong chance you would benefit from having a mindset coach. Most of us have been raised to think that there’s a set of rules we must follow. That there’s 1 way to do everything and that someone outside of us must know the answer because who are we to know anything? Most of us are conditioned to think that we are unworthy of the things we truly want, and wrong for wanting them. Most of us have been taught to fall into line, not stand out, and be grateful for what we are given.

But all that is actually bullshit.

And not going to help you on your entrepreneurial journey one bit.

So, what a mindset coach can do is help you clear out that bullshit and create the things you actually want in your business (and life!).

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