This is an excerpt of Kelli’s Q&A with Million-Dollar Coach and Author, Alan Cohen. Alan Cohen is a respected keynoter and seminar leader for professional meetings in the fields of personal growth, inspiration, holistic health, human relations, and achievement of a work/life balance. He is also the author of 24 popular inspirational books and CD’s, including the best-selling The Dragon Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, the award-winning A Deep Breath of Life.
His work has been featured on Oprah.com and in USA Today and The Washington Post. Alan’s radio program Get Real is broadcast weekly on Hay House Radio, and his monthly column From the Heart is featured in magazines internationally. (To hear this entire interview, please visit the Resources Page on my Website.)
Kelli: Welcome Alan! Talk to us, if you will, about All About U., which has been described as a university without walls, dedicated to higher learning for the higher self.
Alan Cohen: It’s a course that I’ve developed for people who would like to grow from the inside out. It’s an online course with personal coaching and teleseminars that invites people to look within to tell the truth about where their passion is and where their vision is and what would make their life worth living and what would make you want to get up every morning and want to go to work. It’s really very intensive and yet very gentle and loving course that calls people to step into their own shoes and walk in their own magnificence. It’s a lofty goal, but I wouldn’t settle for anything less.
Kelli: Alan, Let’s talk about that work and how you support other coaches to clarify their purpose, their goals, and their direction and niche.
Alan Cohen: I love coaching because it’s a really fast way to make progress. When I work with coaches, I find that each one has a unique passion, talent, interest and vision. Half of the game of becoming a coach is telling the truth and getting in touch with where your unique path lives… for you, you’re an expert and master in connecting people and in the media – nobody else does that like you. We have another guy in one program, who has had difficulty with bipolar, so he focuses on coaching bipolar people. There are people focused on relationships. The process of becoming a coach is the same as being coached, you have to find that sweet spot of where your joy and your passion live, and after that, doors begin to open.
Kelli: For coaches, finding the right clients and marketing effectively is always a priority. Could you give one or two insights on how coaches attract clients who are in alignment with their vision, skill, and interests?
Alan Cohen: Well, the first step is being very clear on the clientele you desire. You can always tell what you believe by what you’re getting. So if people either aren’t getting clients or are getting clients who don’t want to pay or are getting clients they don’t like or who don’t show up, it usually points to a call for clarity on your own vision. That’s why I work with coaches so intensively to be very clear on who do you want to coach.
To learn more about Alan Cohen and his upcoming programs, including his “How Good Can it Get Seminar” and “Life Coach Training – Better Your Life by Helping Others Better Theirs,” offered in September, 2011, visit his website at https://www.alancohen.com/programs/programs.php
