Sachit GuptaFounder, CreatorsMBA.com · Founder at CreatorsMBA.com

What is Matt Mochary's MOTIVATION for Coaching? #shorts

21 Mar 2023 · 1 min

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In this brief monologue, Matt Mochary explains that his primary motivation for becoming a coach is his love of connecting with people and forming deep, personal friendships, which leads him to forgo traditional professional boundaries. He reflects on an emerging ethical tension: while he and his co‑coach Faith aim to help founders build $100 billion companies, they have never built such a company themselves, which makes the coaching role feel somewhat fraudulent to him. The clip highlights his authentic self‑assessment, the importance he places on personal connection, and his awareness of potential credibility gaps in high‑stakes coaching.

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What specifically is the part of coaching where you're like, this is why I do this? So for me, the original motivation for coaching was I love to connect with people. I love to create deep friendships. And so this is where I said I have no professional boundaries. It's true. That's why I got into coaching. And I got into coaching because I could create deep personal friendships with really interesting people. And that's my primary and continues to be my primary motivation. Now, as we went along, I realized, wait a second, so Faith and I are supposed to be coaching people about how to create $100 billion companies. But wait a second, Faith and I have not created a $100 billion company. So on some level, it's fraudulent that we're coaching people to this outcome.