Ep #231: When Potential Clients Want References

Make Money as a Life Coach®

Stacey Boehman

Self-improvement, Education, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.5 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

There are going to be potential clients who ask you if you have some past clients they can speak to as a reference. However, what does entertaining this request signal to both your potential and past clients?

What it signals is, "Someone has doubts about paying me." Now, you do not want clients thinking people have doubts about paying you, and you definitely don't want those potential clients expressing those doubts to people currently paying you. Discover how to firmly say no, give your potential client the reassurance they're looking for yourself, and be okay with that potential client walking away if you don't give them a reference.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Make Money as a Life Coach podcast.
0:08.0	We're sales expert and master coach Stacy Bayman teaches you how to make your first 2K,
0:14.0	20K and 200K using her proven formula.
0:19.3	Hey coaches. Welcome to episode 231. I told you I had another rantee episode for you.
0:28.1	I'm riled up and really, I'm just recording this on the same day that I recorded episode 230.
0:33.9	We're doing two episodes in the same day because, listen, I've had the best May ever,
0:40.8	ever of my whole life. Even from when I got married and went on my honeymoon, seriously,
0:48.5	like best May ever. So I worked for like, I don't know, typically what I do is I take a vacation once every like four
0:57.5	to six weeks. I like to like go on a vacation, even if it's just for a couple days and kind of like
1:02.4	rest my brain and simmer. And I really love to take off enough time where I'm literally antsy to
1:10.2	get back. I work so hard when I come
1:12.5	back that it's like insane. So I took this amazing vacation in December. We went to Aspen and then I
1:18.4	came back and I just like worked my butt off all the way through mid-April. Like just 14, 16-something
1:26.2	weeks just extraordinarily hard. I told my team, like, I think I worked
1:31.3	more in the first 14 weeks of this year than I did all of last year, just like creating so much
1:36.6	content. Now, a lot of it's not customer facing, which is even more brutal. It's been like the
1:40.9	back end annoying stuff that none of us ever want to do. We just want to coach and sell, basically. So anything that's not that, it requires lots of thought
1:50.0	and just meetings and all the things. And I've created a ton of content, but just worked really
1:54.5	hard. And so it just happened to be that towards the end of April, I was like, I know I need
1:59.8	a vacation. So we went to Miami.
2:01.8	It was the most extraordinary trip. Like, I just think back, every trip I take my son with water,
2:08.3	we just have the best, most amazing time. It was so relaxing. And then we came back straight to,
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