Tag: Coaching

We could write a post about the various ways you can earn a living as a Health Coach, or better yet, create a wildly successful career making oodles of moola as a Health Coach. But knowing all these avenues will make no difference to your income, and we mean zero, unless you get right with money first. What does getting […]

“If one lights a fire for others, it will also brighten one’s own way.” — Teaching from 13th-century Buddhist sages At HCI we often say that to become a Health Coach you need two things: a passion for health and a desire to serve others. We talk a lot about both but today we want to focus […]

“You can do it all, but you can’t do it all alone.” The above sentence is one of our core HCI paradigms. What it means is that every one of us is perfectly capable of pursuing our dreams and achieving our goals but that without the support of a trusted group of people that holds us accountable and […]

Until recently, Health Coaching may well have been the fastest growing unknown career to-date. But, thankfully, this is rapidly changing as Health Coaching becomes more and more mainstream. It is being featured lately in the media as a career that not only changes lives, but also revolutionizes the way we approach health-care. A Wall Street Journal article […]

The AMA recognizes the benefit that health and wellness coaches provide to patients.

A couple of weeks ago we published a blog post titled, “25 Things A Coach Would Never Say”, which was by far our most popular blog post of all time. We asked our readers, like you, to reframe those 25 things into questions that a coach would ask, and statements that a coach would say, instead, and we received […]

This question has been on our minds lately. The answers may not be what you think because there is more to being an “ideal” coaching client than meets the eye. Just because you make a fresh fruit smoothie first thing in the morning or load up your shopping cart with healthy produce or celebrate yourself, on the […]

Sometimes people say things that don’t make us feel too great about ourselves. People aren’t always as patient or supportive or encouraging as we want them, or hope them, to be. Nobody is perfect. Sometimes it’s the voice inside your own head that has the most harmful effect on your self-esteem and well being. It’s […]

If the words “self-employed” conjure up an image of “the Dude” lounging around in his bathrobe in The Big Lebowski and “entrepreneur” sounds more to you like a catchy venereal disease, that’s OK, (no judgement!) because going solo is not for everyone. The great news is that Health Coaching is not just for the types of people […]