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I want to become a life coach/motivational speaker but I have absolutely no clue where to start. are there educational degrees offered towards this or should one just get a general bachelor degree? master degree? phd? I'm sure getting a higher degree would be best and I have every intention of going towards my phD but I want to know where to start, what path to follow, what classes to take.
but, to be specific, this answer IS useless to me. I didn't ask for whether they'd hire me if I were a certain age. I asked what area I should study first. Basically this person told me I could be worthless if I were 30 as a life coach. How do you think someone who is 30 is reading this might feel?
so because I didn't sugar coat my answer I'd make a bad life coach?
30 is a very young age. What wisdom can you offer at such a young age. I'm assuming you are much younger since you didn't state your age. You can do whatever you want in life, but to do this it will take time and there is no way to be certain that you will even be good at this. You don't just wake up one day, decide to become a life coach go to school for a few years and bingo. It just doesn't work that way. It takes wisdom which doesn't happen overnight, knowledge and not just from books. It's not like learning how to be a baker or a florist. You can go to college and get various degrees. My advice is to take one day at a time. Ask a college counselor for a direction as far as courses. Head toward that direction. Work, live and perhaps one day you will get to the point where you have what you need to offer. Good luck.
I want to become a life coach/motivational speaker but I have absolutely no clue where to start.
Basically if you don't know where to start with this then you are pretty stuffed.
If you are serious then you'll need to do a shed load of research on this niche market.
Now the real question is why have you decided on this activity when you have no knowledge what is expected ??
I did not say I didn't know what is expected I just didn't know what a good jump off point would be.
I guess I was hoping to hear from some REAL life coaches on what they did. The best way to learn is to ask so that's what I was doing.
It's really no big deal. I'll just start asking away, somwhere else. but you people really don't give much positive thoughts to those at the very beginning of a career. I could be 21 and want to be a life coach. I didn't say I wanted to be one NOW, I just wanted to know where to start. At 21 how the heck am I supposed to know where to start without freakin' asking! What if I wanted to be a lawyer? are you telling me that because I don't know the law in its entirety that I have no right to become a lawyer?
30 is a very young age. What wisdom can you offer at such a young age. I'm assuming you are much younger since you didn't state your age.
well I'm not 21 and I'm not 30. I do have life experience. Not that I have to justify it to any of you.
I just wanted a jump off point. Starting up my own life coaching biz and then saying "well, I've got all this life experience and have been giving friends my opinion for years." just doesn't seem like a legititimate reason to give to clients on why they should pay me. I figured having a formal education to at least supplement said life experience would be a pretty good idea.
wouldn't you think so?
would you hire me simply because I was old enough to have life experience? probably not. Even a 50 year-old could be senile and not have a clue as to what he/she was talking about.
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