Is Personal Coaching a Scam?

Culture Study Podcast

Arts, Society & Culture

4.5 • 789 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Today, there are coaches for everything. Business, fitness, careers, breastfeeding, parenting, ADHD, MLMs, divorce… even death. Is it bullshit? Or is it offering a valuable service? And how can you tell the difference in a totally unregulated space? Jane Marie, host of The Dream, joins me to delve into the world of personal coaching.Show Notes:Listen to The Dream! Season 1 is about MLMs; Season 2 is about the wellness industry; Season 3 is about coaching.I’ll also recommend this great conversation with Meg Conley re: LulaRoeAn explainer on NXIVM and the criminal investigation around itRe: the settlement against Gwyneth Platrow/GOOP/jade eggsI wrote a bit about the research around the surge in interest in productivity books and apps hereRe: inbox zero — You’re Wrong About EmailJohn Cougar Mellancamp’s LIFE COACH DAUGHTER TeddiPre-order Jane’s book on MLMs: Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans (out March 12th!!!!)Follow Jane Marie on InstagramWe’re currently looking for your questions for future episodes about:Online shopping culture, including but not limited to people’s reliance on reviews and/or compulsion to leave reviewsStudent loans— how we talk about them, think about them, take this wherever you wantAll things ACOTARAnything you need advice on!You can submit them (and ideas for future eps) here (and here’s the subscriber-only priority form)For today’s discussion: What’s your experience with the coaching world? When would you choose therapy instead?If you’re a coach, how do you think about “success,” and what do you grapple with when it comes to others’ understanding of what you do?

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0:30.4	I mean, it is a joke, but that's actually where you can find it.
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0:37.1	Hey, everyone. I wanted to tell you about one of my favorite podcasts,
0:40.9	vibe check. Sam Sanders and his two best friends,
0:44.1	Saeed Jones, and journalist and Tony Award-winning producer, Zach Stafford,
0:48.1	have a podcast where they make sense of what's going on in the news and culture.
0:52.0	From Elon Musk and foreign policy to how to deal with a breakup
0:55.7	and CIS's new album, they check out the vibe of what's going on in the world and how it all feels.
1:01.7	It's your favorite group chat just come to life. You can join every Wednesday and listen and
1:06.9	follow vibe check wherever you get your podcasts.
1:17.9	It's usually pretty clean, a coach's website, very clean. There's one big picture at the top,
1:22.2	like a banner, you know, that goes all the way across the page, like full bleed photo.
1:29.3	Of them. Yes. And it's like a million filters on it.
1:33.4	And they're like just looking so happy with life.
1:37.0	I didn't see anywhere they were like making a serious face.
1:39.9	But they're just like thrilled to be here.
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