How To Become A Life Coach - Every Part of the Process Revealed in Detail

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I am a life coach so I'm qualified to talk about this. I went through the process. It's actually not hard. If you're interested in becoming a life coach, listen up because I'm going to give you some quick tips and techniques and give you a plan for how to do it.

I'll go into much deeper detail on it in some other video where I can talk about it at length. Since this is a quick rapid-fire segment, I'm just going to give you the skinny and the practical things that you can do right now.

If you want to become a life coach, the best thing that I can recommend is to join a life coach training program. There are many programs out there. Make sure that you get one that is credible and has some good reviews and that provides you with certification.

Certification comes from the International Coaching Federation. You can look up their website. There they'll have a list of all sorts of schools that they accredit and that will give you the kind of training that is in line with the International Coaching Federation.

You want to align with a school that's aligned with the ICF because the ICF is the standard governing body across the world for coaches. It just came out as the standard and now everybody is on board with that.

Honestly, you don't even need a coaching certification to be a coach. What I do find valuable in the training programs, though, is that they teach you what it means to be a coach because it's not all that it seems to be at the beginning.

Let me give you some details on these certification programs. I went through a program called iPEC. You can Google them. They're one of the best programs out there. It's a comprehensive program.

It costs around $9,000 to do. It is a little bit pricey, but you have to put that in perspective with everything else that is out here.

Any decent coaching program around is going to cost you somewhere in the range of $8,000 to $10,000. iPEC is competitive there and they don't have any extra hidden fees or anything. That's it. You just pay the $9,000 and then you do the program. It's pretty nice.

You have to ask yourself if that's worth it to you. If this is going to be your career and your profession, then it's actually not a big price to pay. With any other serious profession that you would go into, you would spend way more than $10,000 to get degrees, certifications, and trainings. It would take you a lot longer than it will take you to finish a coaching program -- even a comprehensive one like iPEC.

The iPEC takes about ten months to do the whole curriculum. They do it in modules. You have four modules and you take one module then you get two or three months to do the homework assignments and the practice of coaching throughout that.

Then they have another module where they train you for a weekend and then you do another couple months of training and homework assignments. Then they do more of these modules. Through this module process, you can learn to become a coach.

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[Javierk]

After reading a lot of self help books for the pass 2 years I am now making the decision to become a life coach and dedicating the rest of my life to this bc it’s a beautiful realm

[ShreepadKhedekar]

I hired a life coach and ended up as his life coach

[juliac]

INFP-A here, and shout out to my fellows who wound up here too.

[katerynalariukcvitic]

This video just changed my life! Recently I got a job in digital marketing and just fell in love with it. I thought this is my dream job, I want to know more about it and help people to achieve their advertising goals. But lately, friends and family were constantly telling me I should be a life coach, because of my natural positivity and willingness to help. This is it! This is for me!

[BrenMurphy]

Hi, right now I am in the final phase of my certification for entry to the International Coach Federation (ICF). It's exciting and I am confident I have discovered my passion!
This video is amazing and Leo - your story is powerful simply for the fact your actions reflect your beliefs. I am learning everyday! Thanks!

[KeilynAriana]

My fiancé & I follow your videos! I do personal development daily (one of the vital behaviors to success in my business!!). It's so crazy to me to learn you're a life coach because that it what I'm working towards! Thank you thank you thank you. 💜

[seiftalks]

You should change the title to How to buy my sponsored life coaching course for 9k

[fernlulham]

This was so informative and inspiring. I am starting my life coaching journey as a blind young woman and the courses have been very accessible and helpful. I am so excited to make a difference to people. I would be really interested to hear how you got your business off the ground in terms of marketing. Thanks for the video! 😊

[Jose]

Im 16 and eing a life coach has been my dream since i got into self development and i didnt have a clue how to do it until know, thanks man

[gradysimpson]

It's not necessary to invest 9k into a life coaching program. However this information is very helpful

[lalonde]

I will wait to see who notice the misspelling i l love this when someone takes great pride to validate their findings

[laramuller]

Are there any life coaching training programs you can recommend?
I am so overwhelmed with all the programmes that are there..

[BritishRail]

I would like to try this as a career. I give logical advice to my friends and anyone that is willing to listen and in some ways I have helped them pick themselves up off the floor. Because of these lockdowns. I will have to do the course online but that's fine and its a good career if I get joy from helping people reach their goals and this isn't just about earning money to reach my goals and dreams but its end result that matters most. Its a bit like being a driving instructor. Its quality over quantity and reputation counts. I have a way of starting off although I am keeping this to myself.

[drlepora]

Right coach makes you the right person💗

[timothyappleseed]

I'm glad you came clean on the business side of this. This was my problem when I ran my cabinet insulation business. I spent more time on the business side than on actually installing cabinets. I was good at cabinets but was no good at business.

[TheYouneedtochange]

Hi Leo
If you read this comment, i want to let you know that this is the most helpful video i have come across for those who want to become coach.
I want to be a life coach and love to find out from you whether you did classroom courses or online studies?

[sammyjones]

Amen on "living the example..."

[kristagearhart]

Can you recommend other life coaching classes? or one's that cost a lot less? I'd love to become a coach and would like to join a class now, though I do not have the money for one costing thousands at the time.I do Want to try iPEC afterwards though but for now to take less costly ones that way to get some sort of training and info for benefit

[telara]

Hi There, I'd like to share something with YOU that's really meaningful to me because I just watched your video and I KNEW IT, as soon as I got off...he's GOT THIS!!

I've been watching some of these guys and it's like they're a "Little Flat", it's like eating something SPICY and YOU ask yourself, where's the "SPICE"??  But YOU my friend, YOU GOT THIS!!  I can FEEL IT just by watching your videos, YOU REALLY KNOW HOW TO CONNECT WITH PEOPLE and that's "KEY", BUT also YOU have to be the 'EXAMPLE" and they see it in YOU!!

It reminds me of ALL those long hours while in class doing those (Self Help) classes and all the other training, well the Instructor had us divide into two groups, one group was to play the "therapist" and the other the patient.  I was excited because I selected therapist.

The students pretending to be the patients could make up a problem or use a REAL ONE on the therapist, their choice/  So I had 3 patients, UNKNOWN to me they had all selected REAL PROBLEMS to throw at me!!

Their issues were very challenging and I felt I did my best to offer advice, I put myself in the other guys shoes and how would I FEEL about that issue if I were dealing with it, what would I need to hear?  

What would HELP ME??

After I was done I was SHOCKED WHEN I GOT A STANDING OVATION FROM MY PEERS!?  The teachers jaw looked like it had hit the floor, LOL I had FLOORED ALL of them including the teacher!?  Now I've taken some psychology training in college, BUT I am NO "LICENSED THERAPIST"!!

However the teacher assured me that from what she had just heard from me giving advice and guidance and potential courses of action she said "If I didn't know any better I thought you were ALREADY a practicing "Psychologist"??   

It was then that I realized I didn't want to be a psychologist after ALL, I wanted to HELP people, I KNEW I had a "Gift" and that gift is the ability to CONNECT with people and BE THE "EXAMPLE', BE AN EXAMPLE, show them that what I'm telling or your telling them right now is HOW YOU DID IT AND THIS IS WHAT I DID TO GET THERE!!

Like YOU I have that same energy, drive, motivation, positive attitude, empathy.  I just has to share that with YOU, these videos are great so, back to work...^_^

Thank YOU for SHARING!!^_^