420. Is Coaching the Career for You?
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Kara Loewentheil
4.6 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
The coaching industry is booming—yet it’s one of the most misunderstood professions out there. From concerns about pyramid schemes to questions of legitimacy, there’s a lot of confusion surrounding this coaching, especially in a field that’s predominantly female and largely online.
So this week, I’m breaking down the most common myths and concerns about becoming a coach. I cover everything from startup costs and market saturation to whether coaching actually aligns with your strengths and desired lifestyle. You’ll learn the real numbers behind the industry, the different pathways into coaching (hint: entrepreneurship isn’t the only option), and how to know if coaching might be your calling.
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| 0:00.0 | If you've been listening to this podcast and you've been implementing what it teaches, or you felt |
| 0:05.0 | drawn to my stories about life as a coach, or you've worked with a coach, you may have |
| 0:09.5 | secretly been wondering, what would it be like to become a coach yourself? Now, lots of you have |
| 0:13.8 | probably never thought about this, but you still should listen to this episode because I'm also |
| 0:17.5 | going to be talking about what it means to listen to your intuition and go after your dreams in any area. |
| 0:23.5 | But if you've ever thought about becoming a coach, this is a do not miss episode you must listen to. |
| 0:28.4 | Because I'm going to discuss how to know whether your wanderings are idle curiosity or something more and how to learn about whether coaching is a good career fit for you. |
| 0:37.9 | So let's get into it. |
| 0:40.6 | Welcome to unfuck your brain. |
| 0:42.9 | I'm your host Kara Lowentile, Master Certified Coach, and founder of the School of New Feminist Thub. |
| 0:49.4 | I'm here to help you turn down your anxiety, turn up your confidence, and create a life on your own terms, |
| 0:56.0 | one that you're truly excited to live. Let's go. All right, my friends, my stepson has been |
| 1:05.3 | begging me to start a podcast with What's Kickin' Chickens. So to make him happy, let's do that. |
| 1:12.0 | What's kicking chickens? |
| 1:17.8 | I just spent some time with my family and some of their friends upstate, which is where we discussed what's kicking chickens. And as so often happens, when someone asks what I do, and I said, |
| 1:22.8 | I'm a life coach, they had some questions. And most of the questions boiled down to, is that like a real job, |
| 1:29.4 | though, with a kind of implied or sometimes explicit addition of, is that a pyramid scheme? |
| 1:35.1 | I used to feel so defensive about these questions when I was just starting out as a coach. |
| 1:41.1 | But now I love them because they're an opportunity to educate someone who just doesn't |
| 1:46.6 | know much about the field. And I knows that some of you listen to this podcast and have applied what it |
| 1:51.3 | teaches and it's changed your lives because I get emails and DMs and podcast reviews about this all |
| 1:56.3 | the time. And most of you are just excited about changing your existing life and making it better, which is the point. |
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