I'm interested to learn more about the challenges Life Coaches face as they build their business, I'm interested in both personal and professional issues.

Please share your thoughts here, so we can see how we can support each others growth.

I look forward to comments..

I think that some of the challenges life coaches face are difficulty landing clients, not getting enough of a return for their efforts and lack of confidence. In order to sell someone on a service you have to become an expert and assert yourself. Illustrating your expertise will not only believe in what you're selling but you as the coach. Many coaches find success by focusing on a specific target market and coaching towards a common outcome, in lieu of being too general.

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Few of the challenges life coaches use to face these days are:
1. Networking isn’t working.
2. Working really hard but getting poor results.
3. Income doesn’t justify the time or investment in their coaching business.
4. Confidence is flagging.
5. Unique Benefit Statement is falling flat.

Recognize any of these?
* Prospects can't seem to justify your fees.
* Your confidence is flagging.
* You're getting too few referrals.
* You're not filling your groups.
* Your Unique Benefit Statement is falling flat.
* Networking isn't working.
* Your blog & ezine articles aren't bringing a return in clients.
* You're working really hard but getting poor results.
* You're overwhelmed by information.
* Your income doesn't justify your time or investment in your coaching business.

For me the biggest challenge that a life coach face is how to connect with their clients and understand their authentic inner hopes and fears. And another one is to justify the fees. I want to share an old article related to your question. Hope this will help you.
http://coachestrainingblog.com/becomeaco...hing/1509/

Life coaches face a lot of things, they need to connect to their clients and listen to everything, but they also have to be ready for this, physically

People use life coaches and personal coaches for various reasons, The most of the reason they use them due to their sounding board then there comes career help and the career direction given by them. So coaches faces these as challenges for their clients.

Everyone needs to interact with others, but most of us guess our way through this interaction with varying degrees of success. Whether you have just met a new person, or you have lived with them for a long time, even in a marriage, without knowing what they are thinking, you may find yourself puzzled and frustrated. Sometimes, it seems like you might be using a different language.