Peggy spent years doing coaching work as a therapist but wouldn't call herself a coach. Taking the title "midlife awakening coach," starting a separate LLC, and owning the identity helped her commit. She hit her first 5k in revenue.
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23 years.
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"Midlife awakening coach."
She "hit her first 5k."
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The momentum breeds momentum. I swear I was just telling somebody this today. The second somebody gets a client, inside, therapist to coach, accelerator, I feel like everybody starts getting clients and it's just like this ripple effect. Right. And you're a leader in the space right now. We were just celebrating you inside the Facebook group. Like, congratulations, Peggy, like you just hit your first 5k. I mean, obviously it's more than that and you keep enrolling clients. But what were some of these mindset shifts, if any, that you had to make to get here? Because you are a sprinter, you do your work, you have your checklist, you're making it seem like it is rainbows and butterflies, which we all know it's not. But to a certain extent, it's. As long as you have your checklist, it's work. Right. But it's so much more feasible. What were some of the challenges that you had or mindset shifts that you had to get over during this process?
A big one for me was seeing myself as a coach and using that title I had resisted for years. I've been doing public speaking and I've written three books, and a lot of what I do is coaching, but within it was under my psychology license, psychotherapy, but more what I view is more coaching. But I was so resistant to calling myself a coach. Now my title, I am a midlife awakening coach. That is the title that I have embraced. And that just that mindset shift of calling myself a coach really helped me take ownership of this new title, put my all into this new business, this separate LLC that gave it life. I couldn't have done it without that mind mindset shift. And I was resistant because anybody can call themselves a coach. But I love that you highlight that as mental health professionals, licensed mental health professionals, we already have the training and the expertise. You know, I've been a licensed psychologist for 23 years, running a very successful private practice. I know what to do. I've written a dissertation. I have speaking engagements from corporate and university. So I've done the work. But it was that one simple thing that was holding me back and that was calling myself a coach.
