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How to Build Unshakable Confidence as a Coach

Confidence is key to building a successful coaching business, but it’s not always easy to come by. In this episode of The Abundant Coach, host Lauren Brollier Newton dives into the topic of how to build unshakable confidence as a coach. She explains why it’s not necessary to start with confidence in yourself, but rather, focus on believing in the power of the modality or system you’re teaching. By trusting in proven methods, you can remove the pressure of needing to be perfect and focus on delivering results for your clients.

Lauren also shares personal stories, such as how she overcame self-doubt in her early coaching days and the powerful mindset shifts that allowed her to build her business from the ground up. You’ll discover practical strategies to increase your confidence, how to tap into your subconscious mind using imagery, and the importance of practicing what you teach to solidify your belief in your offerings.

Whether you’re a new coach or an experienced one looking to scale, this episode will provide actionable steps to boost your confidence and take your coaching business to new heights.

Key Insight: Don’t Start with Self-Confidence—Start with Confidence in What You Teach

Lauren challenges the common belief that self-confidence is necessary to succeed as a coach. Instead, she emphasizes the importance of having confidence in your coaching modality or teaching system. By shifting the focus away from yourself and onto the proven methods you’re using to help others, you remove the pressure and fear of being in the spotlight.

This shift in focus helps you overcome fear and doubt so you can start– which means you’ll be able to build confidence in yourself as you put yourself out there and make an impact in the world. If you wait until you have the confidence you think you need to begin, you’ll never begin!

The Buzz Aldrin Example: Belief in Training Over Courage

Lauren shares a powerful story about astronaut Buzz Aldrin, who famously said he didn’t believe in courage, but rather in his training. This concept ties directly to coaching, as Lauren encourages listeners to trust in their own coaching systems and certifications. Just like Aldrin trusted his training to get him to the moon, coaches should trust in their systems to get their clients results.

Practical Strategy to Build Confidence: Practice What You Teach

One of Lauren’s top tips for building confidence is practicing what you teach in your own life. By living out the principles of your coaching program, you’ll experience firsthand the results your clients can achieve. This lived experience creates a deep-rooted belief in your coaching method, making it easier to convey your message with confidence.

Using Imagery to Reprogram Your Subconscious Mind

Lauren introduces the power of visualization and how creating a vivid “dream achieved snapshot” can reprogram your subconscious mind to believe in your future success. She explains how this tool can help coaches overcome feelings of doubt by envisioning themselves confidently coaching, leading workshops, or presenting to clients.

Overcoming Self-Doubt in Real-Time

Lauren shares how to handle self-doubt when it arises, encouraging coaches and aspiring coaches to challenge the belief that self-doubt is negative. Instead, she suggests responding to doubt and fear for what it is– part of the human experience. Even the top, most successful coaches and speakers in the world experience feelings of doubt and fear. The difference is how quickly and effectively they’ve learned to respond to it. 

Whether you’re about to give a presentation or meet a new client, she explains how quickly replacing negative thoughts with positive imagery can help you regain control and maintain confidence in high-pressure situations.

Building Unshakeable Confidence as a Coach Comes with Consistency

Building confidence is about believing in the transformative power of the coaching methods you’re using and practicing them in your own life. She also emphasizes that real confidence grows through consistency and applying tools like visualization to reprogram your mindset.

Key Takeaways:

  • Confidence in your modality over self-confidence: Believe in the system or methods you’re teaching rather than focusing on yourself.
  • Trust in training, not courage: Just as Buzz Aldrin trusted his training, coaches should trust in their coaching systems and certifications.
  • Practice what you teach: By applying your coaching methods to your own life, you’ll build confidence through experience and results.
  • Use visualization to reprogram your subconscious mind: Creating a vivid image of yourself as a successful coach helps shift your mindset and eliminate self-doubt.
  • Stop focusing on self-doubt: Recognize doubt when it arises, but quickly replace it with a positive vision of your success.

Connect with Lauren Brollier Newton: https://www.bravethinkinginstitute.com/coach-certification

 


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