I'm Jody Moore at Bold New Mom. This is a podcast bonus episode. Why you shouldn't listen to me.

This is Bold New Mom, a podcast for women and some of my favorite men on the planet,

who understand that the best gift they can give their children or anyone else is a happy,

healthy, thriving mother. If you're ready to be bold and you're ready to be a new version of you,

you're in the right place. Hey everybody, how's it going? Surprise! I'm showing up in the middle of

the week for you with a bonus podcast episode and I want to give you today three reasons why you

shouldn't listen to me. After I give you these three reasons, I'm going to answer some of the

frequently asked questions I've been getting about the Bee Bold coaching program. So if you have

questions about that, make sure you check up the ending. But first, I want to explain to you why

you shouldn't listen to me. Are you ready? Three reasons. The first reason you shouldn't listen to

me is because I'm only a life coach. Now, I happen to think that life coaches are amazing and

life coaches have changed my life, but I hear this a lot. Oh, she's only a life coach. I work with

new coaches too who are building their businesses and they have to get over this feeling that there's

something less than about being a life coach because I'm not a therapist. I'm not a counselor.

I'm not a licensed clinical anything. Many times when we think about somebody helping someone

out of suffering or helping to improve their lives, we think about a licensed clinical person.

And I'm very clear with people that that's not what I do and that there are some people

who I redirect to a licensed clinical person if I think that they're in need of that.

And here's the thing about life coaching. It gets a bad rap because

anyone can call themselves a life coach. It's not a regulated industry. There is no third-party

neutral party, I should say, that regulates life coaching. And so anybody can just say,

I'm a life coach and I can help you and open up a business. And so you never really know what you're

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