five signs that you are meant to be a spiritual coach
number one people feel safe with you you might be that go-to person that your friends and co-workers
come to with the dramas and challenges of their life you might also find that sometimes people
you just meet they end up telling you their entire life story and you could tell as they're
doing it it's almost like they're surprised like i can't believe i'm telling you this
you probably heard that one before i can't believe i'm just sharing all this with you
why do you think that is well because you have a quality of presence that is i would say genuine
pure of heart you're probably just a good empathic listener a nice person and that kind of energy
feel that it's just sort of like who and what you are it's like a breath of fresh air to people
it's like wow i don't know why but i just trust this person i just like you and it's like you can
that's what i am a coach i've been a coach for almost 20 years and that's one of the main things
is creating safety and it's not something it's something that's kind of hard to create if you
don't naturally have that safe open non-judgmental genuine presence that i bet if you're watching a
video like this and you are meant to be a coach you have in spades number two is a genuine passion
for personal growth spiritual growth emotional healing self-improvement i know to you these
probably seem like things that everybody's into because it's just so like natural to you but
if you think about it it's really not the case you know i grew up in you know all my high school
buddies none of them really cared about these things and when i was younger when i was like
at night when i was 19 years old i became a drug addict and then got clean luckily a year after and
that was when my thirst for personal development was almost almost became a necessity honestly for
me at that time but i realized just how how much like wiggle room there is how much you
you can one can press the envelope like wow i could read some books that are it's like new
information to me that i wasn't taught in school about my parents even though they did their best
um and i can apply it as best i can and it makes a huge difference in my life so what it made me
really just fascinated with the possibilities and ever since then i've been reading books and going
to retreats and buying courses and just doing all these different things investing in myself because
i realize my personal growth it like correlates with all the other important aspects of my life
so it's like a very high priority of mine and also for like you maybe it's it's a genuinely
interesting thing i like to read books because i'm just intrigued by the idea that i can
make myself happier smarter stronger and things like that it's like a natural thing number
three is having kind of like a rock-solid life experience a lot of a lot of i would say coaches
that have yet to really become a coach that i've talked to they feel ironically that because of
some of the challenges they've gone through or some of the things they've yet to work through
they're just not ready who am i to be who am i to be a coach i was a drug addict who am i to
tell anybody how to like improve their life when i used to use heroin like a freaking junkie well
because that experience forced me to learn things and experience things that are kind of unusual
kind of unique and it gave me a unique ability to really empathize with people's suffering
and pain where people that i've worked with over the years they trust me partially because they can
sense that i know where they're coming from because i've been through it in fact going back to
my i don't know why i keep doing it but going back to my years of addiction i remember it was a big
thing and all i went to rehab like uh six times half a dozen times or so and one of the things
that was a very common theme i would say among all the all the the patients is we didn't like
the counselors that weren't previously an addict they were simply going off of the knowledge they
were taught in school we didn't trust them we knew we knew you don't know what i've been through how
can you possibly tell me what to do when you have no idea what it's like to be in my shoes
so some of the difficult things you've gone through give you a unique ability
to again have that trust with people and also have them take what you have to say to heart
even though a lot of the advice these other counselors were giving me was probably good advice
i didn't apply it i didn't trust it because i because of that what i just said but if
you say hey man i've been through what you've gone through i've been through it
i know what it's like and here's what i did that helped me my ears are open i'm open to
what you have to say so it's like it's almost like after i and sharing this i realized like if you
already relate to this it's like you should be a coach you owe it to these other people because
you might be in this unique position to be able to help people in a way that many simply cannot
so the traumas you've gone through the challenges the the injustices the pain the suffering the dark
nights of the soul are gonna give you something that no book can teach number four you have a
strong desire for more freedom in your life maybe not even so much of like freedom of your time and
and doing the things you want to be doing on any given day which of course is desirable by most but
i would suspect more deeply is the desire for like an off to be able to express yourself
authentically and creatively and i know a lot of normal jobs are fine they pay the bills you might
be good at it but it might not really allow you to express yourself in the way that you want to
it's just no room for it but when you're a coach you have not only time freedom obviously you can
take calls whenever you want in fact when i was a coach at one point i was literally taking calls at
the beach i used to live in san diego and i would go to the beach with this little like five dollar
camping chair i got from dick's sporting goods and i would just set up set up shop and i'd do
like these phone calls and there'd be dolphins jumping in the ocean and i'd have like you know
getting a tan and it was so cool so that was like a lot of freedom and i would be done by
noon and i'd go home and i'd play with my kids um that's cool but what's really cool is to be
able to say what's on your mind when you feel it when you have one of those feelings like oh man
something i could say could help this person to know that there's a place for and you can
say it to be able to coach and work with people in a way you have learned is effective the way
you would prefer to there's a million ways to work with people and you as a coach you're free
to do it in the way you want whereas early in my life because i've always had this desire to like
work with people and help people initially my mind gravitated towards what i thought was the only
option which was to be like a psychologist and luckily i was able to talk to some actual
psychologist and one of them said dude don't do it don't do it i was like why this is like my
i was heading this direction in my you know my college career he said don't do it man he said
you i know where you're coming from i know you want to help people but you got to do it their
way he said there's times when you like know what this person needs but can't give it to
them because it doesn't follow the protocol that has a lot of bureaucratic sort of like
there's a lot of influences into this so-called protocol that might not even have the patience
best interest at heart and you got to follow that if you want to keep your job
so you're like going to create a box even in that circumstance but as a coach
you're just free to do what you want i know one of the cool things i've liked about being a coach
is that i'm always changing the ways i work with people if i find something new if i experiment a
little bit and find a new modality or a new thing i can just start doing it more i can i can just
stop doing something that i get sick of or bored of it's it's complete you're completely free
to have a career and a lifestyle of whatever you want on that day in that moment and number five
you have a strong desire for more purpose and meaning and like a deeper level of satisfaction
in your life there's nothing wrong with going to like your standard nine to five
and and being able to support your family and pay the bills that's like that's a noble thing
to do there's nothing wrong with that and that's that's a lot of people are just content with that
but some people they have like a growing yearning i would say for just something more more depth
and there's a feeling you get a sensation that washes over your body a knowingness a recognition
when you're making a difference in someone's life and that whole experience is very
it's very priceless it resonates with me just as an example this morning my aunt carol
had a stroke about a year or two ago and she's like in a wheelchair she can't really
speak and it's been really hard for her and what i do once in a while is i make her these like vlogs
these like vlogs of the family and just earlier today i uh i cut up like this like 10 minute vlog
of a recent trip to costa rica and i i sent it to her and she loves it but anyway like doing that
i know it makes her have a brighter day and it's it allows me to have this feeling of like doing
something good in the world and that's you can't do that every day obviously i'm not going to send
a vlog every day but as a coach you literally get to have that same type of feeling every single day
you work anyway every day you work and even on the off days because what happens is your old clients
they reach out and tell you how good they're doing and they thank you for for working with you and
the thing something you said sparked a change and their whole direction of life is greatly altered
and enhanced because of something that floated out of your mouth two years ago so it's like you get
to live a life of like a there's a clear purpose there's a clear obvious contribution you're
literally you know you're making a difference in people's lives not everybody needs that but if
you're meant to be a coach you need it you don't just want it you need it you know you're not going
to be happy until that's your reality and by the way my friends before i go what inspired
this video is now i'm i've become a coach that actually teaches other spiritual coaches how to
create a business essentially and coming up here i'll leave a link down below for information i'm
doing a my friend aaron dowdy and i we're partners and we're doing a five-day free challenge which is
meant to help aspiring coaches learn what they need to do to make that dream or that yearning
and actual reality what we do in particular is we teach you the business side which
i know a lot of spiritual folks don't like that part of it but it's essential you can't really
do this in a really impactful optimized way if you don't understand how to set it up in a way
where you have consistent income coming in so you can put all your energy into it where you know how
to get clients coming in every single month you have the tools and then the confidence skills
to actually get people good results and you have the systems in place to where you're not
running credit cards and emailing people all day instead you're on zoom or on the phone working
with people we teach you how to set up a business so this is going to be perfect for the challenge
is perfect if you are already a coach but you just don't have enough clients you're not really a
full-time coach yet or you watch this video and said you know what those five signs resonate vic
sign where do i sign how do i get started this is a very good way to get started it's completely
free there's a link down below i'd love to see you there my friends it takes place on zoom there's
five days of live interactive coaching with me and aaron and we're going to walk you through
step by step how to create clarify launch and expand and grow your spiritual business so you
can take this sort of feeling in your body and make it be a permanent part of your life