{"product_id":"stop-playing-small","title":"Stop Playing Small","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere is a post you wrote and deleted. There is a friend you coached standing up in a driveway instead of putting on your calendar. There is a person you meant to write to in March and you still have not written to them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you charge, there is a number you say out loud and a bigger number that was in your mouth first.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you have not charged anybody yet, there is a first time that keeps getting pushed. Next month. After the certification. Once you feel ready.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome of that is skill you have not built yet. A lot of it is playing small, and playing small does not announce itself. You can do it for years and call it being careful.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWorth knowing which is which, because they take different work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThree months, ten Mondays, and we go find yours.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eHow we find it\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBars keep a sheet for what got wasted. Wrong order, dropped bottle, a pour that came out cloudy, a drink somebody sent back. You write the line, and at the end of the month somebody works out where it all went.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNobody keeps one of these for coaching.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThree months, ten Mondays, and we build yours. Most practices leak somewhere and the leak is rarely where you think it is. You patch it and watch what your income does after.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat we go after\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlaying small is not one habit. It comes apart into three, and they show up in this order because each one needs the one before it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCan you say it out loud.\u003c\/strong\u003e You have been calling it \u003cem\u003esort of coaching\u003c\/em\u003e. You change the subject at parties. Somebody asks what you do and you answer with a job you left. A plumber says plumber. Nobody apologizes for the word plumber.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCan you stop coaching people who didn't ask.\u003c\/strong\u003e You give the real thing away in a driveway, and it works, and nothing comes of it. Then they call you a wonderful friend and mean it as a compliment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCan you ask.\u003c\/strong\u003e A bartender describes the wine and pours you a taste and then stops talking. A coach apologizes for the list. One of those sells.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnderneath all three is the part nobody says out loud. You think you are scared of the price. You are scared that if you ask and they say no, the friendship changes and you lose them. The money is the fear you can stand to look at.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eThe books\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe library comes with it. We work out of these across the three months, and we tell you which one and when as we go.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBartender.\u003c\/strong\u003e Why life coaches don't get hired.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNaturalist.\u003c\/strong\u003e Why life coaches freeze at their own marketing.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePlumber.\u003c\/strong\u003e For coaches who hate the word coach.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMapmaker.\u003c\/strong\u003e For coaches who don't know where clients come from.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDirector.\u003c\/strong\u003e For coaches who audition for their own clients.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe craft shows up too. Some of it is in the books, some of it we teach live when the group needs it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWho it is for\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCoaches at any point in it, including nobody yet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA coach with zero clients and a coach with twenty have different holes. Both have holes, and a lot of them are the same hole at different sizes. There is no prerequisite, no certification question, no test at the door, and nobody is going to make you say your numbers out loud in front of the group.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat happens\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTen live calls, Mondays. 12:00 to 1:30pm Eastern.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat is 9:00 to 10:30am Pacific, 11:00am to 12:30pm Central, and 5:00 to 6:30pm in the UK.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSeptember 28\u003cbr\u003e\nOctober 5, 12, 19\u003cbr\u003e\nNovember 2, 9, 16\u003cbr\u003e\nDecember 7, 14, 21\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNinety minutes each. Both of us on all ten. Two different brains, two different styles, and neither of us runs a script.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery call is recorded and sent out, so a Monday you cannot make is not a Monday you lose.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTwo private hours, one with each of us.\u003c\/strong\u003e A full hour with Nathaniel and a full hour with Irina, booked whenever you want them across the three months. Not a check-in. A real session.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA private group, just the people in this.\u003c\/strong\u003e On Facebook, closed, nobody in it who is not doing the program. Post the thing you are about to send and get eyes on it before you send it. Say the number you are thinking of charging and find out how it sounds out loud. Both of us are in there between the Mondays.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMost of what happens in a program like this happens on a Tuesday, when the call is over and you have to actually do it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe group closes at the end of December with the rest of it. Three months, and then you are on your own with a practice that works, which is the point.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat it costs\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e$1,500.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf the money is the thing, write to us at lightheartedcoach@gmail.com. We will work it out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eQuestions\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSame place. lightheartedcoach@gmail.com. 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