My Spicy Thoughts on the Coaching Industry

I Have ADHD Podcast

Kristen Carder

Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education, Mental Health

4.8 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Have you been considering a career change? Thinking about becoming an ADHD coach like me? Well, this episode is for you!

What this is not: a perfect fantasy with puppies, rainbows and unicorns.

What this is: my raw and honest truth about the pros and cons of the business.

It seems like having ADHD and/or becoming a life coach is very “trendy” right now. While it’s exciting to see growth and societal acceptance in these areas, this can also bring in some shady characters who see an opportunity to “get rich quick” with little to no accreditation or accountability.

The reality is that this industry is largely unregulated, held accountable only by consumers who are quickly learning who to trust and who to #unfollow.

Maybe you have been feeling for a while that this is something you're passionate about and want to consider as a profession. If so, then may I encourage you to seek out a credible, certified, ethical program that’s trauma-informed and specifically geared toward people with ADHD? I’m proud to say I’ve worked very hard to develop a training program for prospective ADHD coaches with a strong emotional regulation focus and an emphasis on positive thinking. There are no pre-recorded videos here. This is a high-touch, high-accountability training, exclusively reserved for members of FOCUSED only. That’s how serious I am about investing in the most dedicated people.

Come take a look at ihaveadhd.com/coach and reach out if you’re interested in applying.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the I Have ADHD podcast, where it's all about education, encouragement, and coaching for adults with ADHD.
0:14.0	I'm your host, Kristen Carter, and I have ADHD.
0:18.0	Let's chat about the frustrations, humor, and challenges of adulting relationships, working, and achieving with this neurodevelopmental disorder.
0:27.0	I'll help you understand your unique brain, unlock your potential, and move from point A to point B.
0:34.0	Hey, what's up? This is Kristen Carter, and you are listening to the I Have ADHD podcast.
0:43.0	I am medicated, I am caffeinated, I am regulated, and I'm ready to roll.
0:48.0	I'm here today to talk to you all about coaching.
0:51.0	This is my once a year rant fest, where I dish out all of my spicy thoughts on the industry, and I invite you to come get trained by me as a coach.
1:02.0	If that sounds fun and exciting to you, great, amazing, buckle up, it's going to be a good time.
1:07.0	If you have no interest in coaching the coaching industry or becoming an ADHD coach, no problem at all.
1:13.0	I'm sure that there are episodes of this podcast that you haven't listened to yet, and I would love to invite you to check one of those out.
1:20.0	My new series, maybe I'm not the problem, might be especially interesting to you, so go have a listen.
1:27.0	Okay, let's get started on all things coaching. You ready? It's going to be a lot.
1:32.0	First and foremost, as I say often, I love the profession of coaching. It is what I was born to do.
1:40.0	In the last four plus years, I feel as though I've really come home to myself, and now I truly know why I was put here on the planet.
1:48.0	It's to be a coach. It's to coach people with ADHD. I love that coaching is both a skill, or a science, and an art.
1:57.0	That good coaches combine technical modalities with intuition to lead their clients through to transformation.
2:05.0	I love that coaching can be so transformative. It's changed my life. It's changed the lives of some of the people closest to me.
2:13.0	I've watched coaching change the lives of thousands of adults with ADHD.
2:19.0	Coaching itself as a profession, incredible love it. It's valuable. It's important.
2:25.0	I love coaches. Skilled coaches are some of the bravest people that I know.
2:30.0	Good coaches are willing to study and train and learn and forge the path to do the work, and then learn the skills and modalities to bring their clients along for the journey.
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