🌿 Finding My Place as a Coach

One question stayed with me throughout my coaching training.

Do I need to specialise? Or should I be a coach for anyone who comes through the door?

It wasn't simply a question about coaching. It was a question about identity.

Like many new coaches, I wondered whether I needed a clearly defined niche. Should I focus on leadership, career transitions, executive coaching or life coaching? Would specialising make me a better coach? Or was I trying too hard to fit into a category?

The more I reflected on it, the more I realised I was asking the wrong question.

The real question wasn't "What should I coach?"

It was "Who do I want to become as a coach?"

Over time, I came to realise that while I don't need to have lived every experience to coach someone well, I do need the humility to recognise when another coach may be better placed to support them. Sometimes, being a good coach also means being honest enough to acknowledge that.

Today, I no longer worry about finding the perfect niche.

Instead, I focus on becoming the kind of coach who is authentic, curious, trustworthy and supportive, someone who seeks to serve each person with honesty and care.

Perhaps finding my place as a coach wasn't about choosing a niche.

It was about understanding the kind of coach I wanted to become.

I'm curious...

If you've ever found yourself trying to fit into a particular box - whether in your career, business or life - what helped you discover where you truly belonged?

Pause

Have you ever felt the pressure to become who others expected you to be?

Reflect

We can spend so much time trying to find where we fit that we forget to ask whether we're becoming the person we truly want to be.

Act

This week, notce one decision you make because it felt authentic to you rather than because it's expected of you.

— Clement 🌿