Mar 21, 2019
You will be able to gain insight as we talk to experienced
career coaches, exploring how it really is to be a career coach,
the challenges they overcame and many lessons learned along the
way.
Today we are in discussion with Kathy Caprino, who is helping
people make significant career moves as a career coach. Kathy talks
about how she has created a multi-faceted portfolio of guiding
people’s careers which is not only limited to coaching.
In today’s episode you will be able to hear -
- Kathy’s struggle in her corporate career, the downturns that
left her unemployed and the reasons she finally decided to step out
of her marketing career and transitioned towards coaching.
- Her personal experience of seeking guidance from a career
counsellor, and the effect it had on her career choices.
- Her journey of going back to college to pursue therapy, and
eventually realizing her interests lied in coaching instead.
- Why she transitioned again from being a therapist to a life
coach?
- How her initial coaching practice naturally inclined towards
career coaching specifically.
- Explored becoming a speaker because she wanted to impact
people’s lives and she was good at it. She pioneered a workshop
where she could speak to a wider audience.
- The importance of being comfortable with the business of
working with people.
- Starting out her coaching journey through five pro bono cases,
and the lessons she learnt from these choices.
- Realizing the difference between coaching and therapy, a few
years after she had been coaching.
- Her insights into how there should be a difference between
consulting and coaching. Why it is vital to understand the two
terms cannot be mutual.
- The importance of career change, how people transform to pursue
coaching as a career.
- Kathy explains one cannot coach everything. Every coach needs
to find a niche, and work towards becoming a leader within that
niche.
- Being brave, and making bold decisions in your career, even if
you start out small initially. She started out with talking to 100
women professionals and the difficulties they face in the
workplace.
- Serving and being generous to your clients, giving importance
to business development in the initial stages, instead of stressing
on making money.
- How she has learnt that you need to create a balance between
giving enough value to clients and not being overly generous to
them.
- Creating boundaries with clients that you are comfortable with,
not overcompensating or being held responsible for their
actions.
- Today being a coach means building an online entrepreneurial
venture.
- Why building a coaching business locally is detrimental,
rethinking it because you will never fill your pipeline.
- The common misconception that being a multi-faceted coach will
lead to an identity crisis.
- Developing a baseline foundation of what niche of coaching you
want to enter.
- Embracing the entrepreneurial mind set and master all the
aspects of doing a business such as sales and marketing.
- The value of creating quality content for your business, and
how it will help augment your business efficiently.
To find out more about Kathy and connect with her visit her
website where you can also
learn about her programs and submit your own
story.
Do you find yourself ending up in conversation about other
people’s careers over and over again? If you find yourself helping
people with these areas and enjoy yourself while at it. Then you’ll
enjoy coaching full time tremendously!
To binge-listen to all the
Career Coach episodes:
https://www.happentoyourcareer.com/how-to-become-a-career-coach-podcast/
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