Everything Life Coaching: The Positive Psychology and Science Behind Coaching · Lumia Coach Training

How to Tell Family and Friends You're Becoming a Life Coach

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John says therapists were “like surfers” and coaches were “like skimboarders” 12 years ago.

1. Everything Life Coaching: The Positive Psychology and Science Behind Coaching focuses on how to tell family and friends you are becoming a life coach. 2. John Kim and Noelle Cordeaux host the show, identify themselves as Lumia founders, and say they have trained thousands of life coaches. 3. The episode asks what to say when people respond to “I’m becoming a life coach” with eye rolls, silence, or practical objections. 4. John says the response has changed in the last two years because coaching is now more common in the public conversation. 5. Noelle says there are more coaching firms, more individual clients, and more job paths built around coaching now. 6. John suggests that “life coach” can trigger more pushback than a narrower label like “divorce recovery coach” or “mindfulness coach.” 7. Noelle recommends saying “I’m a professional coach” because it sounds simple and covers multiple kinds of coaching work. 8. They say friends and family often ask whether coaching is a viable career path and whether the training will be affordable. 9. They also name concerns about living costs, time required, family impact, and what happens to an existing career. 10. John compares early coaching to skimboarding while therapy was like surfing, and he says therapists once looked down on coaches. 11. John says he embraced coaching because the clinical world had too many “shoulds” and too much red tape. 12. He says coaching let him work honestly and gave him freedom to run his practice, write books, and make social content. 13. Noelle says her own path through social work, PhD study, and therapy training taught her that she is sensitive and optimistic. 14. She says she did not want to spend all day processing trauma and instead wanted to help people build bright futures. 15. John tells a story about his father, a former pro surfer and motorcycle racer, dismissing his wish to become a life coach with “that’s not a real thing.” 16. Noelle says fear is a normal response when someone we love takes a risk, and that people default to “don’t rock the boat.” 17. The conversation is direct and personal, with both hosts trading stories and testing questions back and forth. 18. The tone stays reflective and practical, with metaphor, self-disclosure, and coaching language used throughout. 19. People considering a coaching career and their families may find this useful. 20. Listeners wanting celebrity gossip or fast advice may skip it.

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