How To Become A Career Coach

“My overall definition of success is helping other people succeed.” Allison Curbow has staked this claim for herself. Her journey to become a career coach started only 18 months ago. Allison went from being a person with a background that was scattered between different industries, and who lived in an environment where entrepreneurship was considered a scary and alien entity. “I was in Oil and Gas industry, and I was in sales industry, and home construction, and wielding, and procurement – all over the board. It drove me crazy.” Having liked some things in every job she had taken up, but not being a fan of everything in any one of those, she set out to find something that satisfied her and suited her. “I didn’t even know what it would require me to decide who I wanna be. I was just blindly walking along, without knowing that I had to decide in myself what kind of life I wanted. I didn’t realize how much I was following other people’s perceptions of what I should do.” 18 months ago, she had no clue that career

I have gotten to know Christie Mims over the over the years and really respect the business that she's built around career coaching around helping people with their careers in a variety of different ways. And we'll get to bring her on and showcase not just her story, and how this has happened for her. But some of the ways that I would say she has even really, really crafted that, that fit within her business I'm going to go so far as to say, shaped the industry in a lot of different ways. Christie was a fancy pants consultant in DC. And she got to the point where she was just miserable. And her career, even though it was really lucrative, and she felt all this guilt. And so Christie started investigating all these other careers: she was looking at becoming a shoe designer; there was a brief period where she thought maybe she just wanted to work for Bravo TV, and produce the real housewives. But one thing that Christie also looked into was coaching, because a lot of the consultants she worked with were getting

On the How to Become a Career Coach podcast, we have two career coaches at the podcasting table.   On one side of that table is Phillip Migyanko. Phillip had a history in HR and the hiring process. As a result, he developed a curiosity about people’s careers, how they work, their relationships, etc. In his pursuit to become an expert in careers, Phillip not only had a dream to do an awesome Ted Talk, but also loved to have conversations about careers. He especially loved helping people get to these “Aha” moments. This lead him to start his own career coaching business.   On the other side of the table, we have Scott Anthony Barlow. Scott is well...me. That’s right. But this time, I’m not the host!   Phillip joined me today, but flipped the table around and took my seat as the host! I was relieved that it was not a Black Ops interrogation.   Over the past couple months, I’ve shared a little about my personal story, but I’ve generally been focusing on the path that other career coaches have taken. Today, I get

Mo Chanmugham had 3 dream jobs before becoming a career coach: Online marketing at Rebok in Boston Assistant at a talent agency in Los Angeles Went to law school and worked for Def Jam in New York City He never intended to get into career coaching, but while in New York, he was introduced to personal development. He fell in love with the coaching process and started training to become a career coach.   To binge-listen to all the Career Coach episodes: https://www.happentoyourcareer.com/how-to-become-a-career-coach-podcast/ Or check our our Professional Career Coach Training program Check out the Ultimate Guide to Becoming a Career Coach!

Andrea Soto has an incredible background, a plethora of experience, and Scott got to know her over the last about six months or so as they began to work with her as she was on the front side of putting together her career coaching business. Andrea worked full time was in the payments technology industry. She had over a 20-year career with a fortune 500 company. Corporate America was pretty much all she knew, and she had a number of different jobs and responsibilities throughout her career there. But as she was progressing and trying to navigate her way, it wasn't until the last chapter that she realized how lacking the system was - it was very much lacking coaches or people who could help guide you or navigate with you through your career.   To binge-listen to all the Career Coach episodes: https://www.happentoyourcareer.com/how-to-become-a-career-coach-podcast/ Or check our our Professional Career Coach Training program Check out the Ultimate Guide to Becoming a Career Coach!

In this episode, career coach Lisa Lewis (and a person that Scott describes as one of the best “career coaches on the planet”) shares the story of how she pivoted into career coaching and the powerful lessons she learned along the way. Lisa, in particular, shares advice on why it’s important to leverage feedback (both good and bad) to help you move forward in pursuing your dreams. Key Insights: How Lisa made the slow transition from a marketing career headed to the C-level suite to a passionate and authentic career coach The unique way that Lisa gained clarity on her choice to become a life coach Why she strongly believes that you don’t need to be a guru in order to start a career coach business Dealing with failure and criticism as a newbie coach and how you can leverage that feedback to make you smarter Lisa’s marketing strategy now…and what it was when she first started Why Lisa says coaching changed every aspect of her life Key Quotes of the Episode: “I did the work and I was really good at the work and

You will be able to gain insight as we talk to experienced career coaches, exploring how it really is to be a career coach, the challenges they overcame and many lessons learned along the way. Today we are in discussion with Kathy Caprino, who is helping people make significant career moves as a career coach. Kathy talks about how she has created a multi-faceted portfolio of guiding people’s careers which is not only limited to coaching. In today’s episode you will be able to hear - Kathy’s struggle in her corporate career, the downturns that left her unemployed and the reasons she finally decided to step out of her marketing career and transitioned towards coaching. Her personal experience of seeking guidance from a career counsellor, and the effect it had on her career choices. Her journey of going back to college to pursue therapy, and eventually realizing her interests lied in coaching instead. Why she transitioned again from being a therapist to a life coach? How her initial coaching practice naturally

Today We have with us Kelly Poulson who has been a coach for a long time. We have worked together in several capacities over the past few months. In today’s discussion, we will talk about: The journey that led to her coaching career, how different professional roles and conversations led to a full-time coaching career and how she discovered coaching. The books that triggered her career transition when she first discovered coaching. (The Dream Manager by Matthew Kelly) What qualifies someone to be a career coach - the important pieces that prepare you for becoming a successful career coach. Listening, creative space, safe space to think out loud. What are the most effective things we can do to develop necessary skills to become an effective career coach? The little experiences that built up to her leaping into a full-time coaching career. The most difficult decisions and biggest hurdles she had to face and how she melded her approach, developing strategies to overcome them. Kelly’s advice to aspiring coaches

You’re in for a treat today because today we are in discussion with Tracy Timm, who is an amazing coach within my coaching universe. Tracy talks about how her own lack of career clarity and inability to find resources that led her to believe if she could find her own perfect career niche, she could also help other people find their career their fit. In today’s episode you will learn - Tracy’s struggle in her corporate career. Her opinion on the current generation being victim to box checking. Excelling at everything we do and the childhood rat race of perform, perform, perform. Attending Yale and discovering through studying psychology that she was passionate about people. Her journey of solving the problem of not fitting into the quintessential career choice boxes that were available at Yale through formulating a proven strategy to help a wider audience. Coming to the realization that she wanted to choose coaching as a full-time career and not only because she has been through the similar problems. Her insi

Welcome to the first episode of How to Become a Career Coach. I’m Scott Anthony Barlow and I started Happen To Your Career in 2012 because I wanted to help people make big career changes, advance their careers, learn how take control of their life and work, but most of all to help people find and do work that makes them more happy more often and uses what we call their signature strengths Since that time, we’ve been able to help many thousands of people make changes that not only impacted their careers and their income, but helped to radically change their lives. I haven’t done this by myself. Along the way, I’ve trained others how to be career coaches as well. We’ve done this by creating a Professional Career coaching Training and certification program to help give people additional training and support as they got started as career coaches. We created this podcast to showcase how you can get started too in Career Coaching or even determine if it’s right for you! Our plan is for this to be a multi-season pod