Your Mission as a Coach: Soul Stories with Kim Job
Nov 09, 2022
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When we coach from a business perspective, it can seem logical and right to focus on business strategy, systems, marketing… the nuts and bolts of business… But what if your true mission is to help heal others? To touch the intangible things in order to move forward the tangible things?
This is the genius zone in which Certified Business Strategy coach Kim Job found herself in when she began the vulnerable and painful process of healing from her broken past. Her brain is naturally wired to business solutions but her heart needed healing. In this episode, Kim opens up about herself and her cherished work, Soul Stories. She wants people to realize and deeply grasp this truth: You may have been broken but you don’t have to remain so. She believes you can be healed and that nothing needs to hold you back.
“It’s true that trauma changes your brain but healing does too.’... I think I thought that I had to manage life with my broken brain… [But] maybe I don’t. Maybe I can heal this.” – Kim Job
What You’ll Learn
- Plan to what quiets your brain
- Determination and grit
- Healing your brain
- Opening yourself to Soul Stories
- You don’t have to go digging
- Pushing yourself to be vulnerable
- Pick 3
- Staying true to your mission
Connect with Kim Job
Kim Job is a Certified Business Strategy coach who specializes in business and marketing strategy. She began her coaching career working as an Executive at The Life Coach School, and played a major part in their multi-million dollar growth. As the founder of several online businesses herself, plus seeing behind the scenes of hundreds of coaching businesses, she knows what works and loves giving her clients a shortcut to success.
Kim believes that business strategy is not one size fits all. She helps her clients create a strategy that matches their personal strengths, goals, and the lifestyle they want to live — without the hustle.
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Full Episode Transcript:
Intro: Welcome to The Masterful Coach podcast, with Molly Claire, where coaches learn skill mastery, business mastery, and life mastery at a whole new level. If you’re serious about creating a meaningful coaching business that makes a difference, you’re in the right place. And now your host, master life and business coach, Molly Claire.
Molly Claire: Hey, coach. This episode is pretty magical and it took a completely different turn than what I expected. I'm bringing here to the podcast Kim Job. I invited her for an interview because she is an incredible business woman, incredible at doing all the things, many things that most entrepreneurs and coaches don't really know how to do, she does them; list building, backend systems, processes. She's really quite phenomenal and gifted, and as you'll hear from this interview, she has plenty of focus and determination.
And I first met Kim through work at the Life Coach School. She was fundamental in building foundational pieces of that business. And on this podcast, I assumed we would be talking all things business. And while we did dive into that, this shifted into what is really her life's most important work. Soul Stories is a program that requires entrepreneurs, coaches, human beings of all kinds to really dig deeper and bring out those most important parts of them so you can truly do your life's work. I hope you enjoy this magical episode with the amazing Kim Job.
And before we dive into that, we do have a mastery class happening tomorrow. Last week's class for those of you coaching mothers and families and all the things was amazing and we decided to do another one. So tomorrow there will be a Conscious Parenting Coach Mastery class. I am doing this with Mickey Gardner, who is a conscious parenting coach specializing in confident co-parenting, and she is a wealth of knowledge. And so we are having a mastery class tomorrow. If you haven't signed up yet, the link is in the show notes and we are going to come together and get some good work done. So if you are a parenting coach, a coach that works with moms, families, teens, all the things. Come and soak in all the goodness.
All right. Without further ado, here is the amazing and brilliant Kim job.
All right, coaches, here we go. We have the amazing Kim job with us. How are you?
Kim Job: Hi Molly. Thanks for having me. I'm so excited to be here.
Molly Claire: This is so fun. So Kim and I have known each other for a while, and I'm assuming we first met with your role at the Life Coach School, cuz you're kind of like the life Coach, school foundation, , whatever, the foundation of what is to be systems and all of that stuff.
Kim Job: Yeah. We did, we met, It was during the time when you and Molly were doing ccp, so it was during that time that we, that we met.
Molly Claire: Yeah. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. I just feel like I've always known you, so I'm like, I can remember when the first time. So yeah. So Kim, you played a big role in a lot of foundational stuff for the Life Coach school and even now when I log into the Life Coach School Zoom, it's like Kim at, I'm like, There's Kim, She's in the middle of all.
So, but we met there of course, and then we just worked together in different capacities in the coaching collective that I did with Amy. And it's just been fun to watch your business and I'm excited to bring you here for my coaches and have you share your wisdom. So,
Kim Job: Yeah, thank you. It's actually your program, the Coaching Collective, that kind of gave me permission to finally be like, I can do business however I want.
Molly Claire: Mm, yes. Yes. Well I kind of agree with that because I think Kim is such a great example, you guys. Kim, I feel like you have so much knowledge. You're so good at what you do. I mean, you built, I think when you came into our program, didn't you have like an email list of like over a hundred thousand? It's like no big deal or something. She is just nodding her head, like, 'So?'
Kim Job: Not 100, but it was like 80,000 at that point.
Yeah. Yeah.
Molly Claire: Right. And so Kim is a coach who right away is like so skilled, so knowledgeable, knows how to do all the things, and, and it was really the coaching, the permission, like an opening up that then just like all of your skills and abilities just exploded. So I bring that up because it's such a good example of how important it is for us to have a coach, right? And to have that help with those intangible things. Because you definitely had a skillset.
Kim Job: Mm-hmm. And right, and to use like our natural strengths, because that's what I had used, my natural strengths to build businesses in the past. So I had all that already built in. And then when I became a coach, It's made it easy, so
Molly Claire: Yes, yes, yes. Totally, right? The more, because every coach listening here, all of you probably have a list of things that you know you need to figure out, or you need to do better, and you need to be more like this person or that person. And there's this formula that you're supposed to follow, and that's all good and well. And there's a lot you can learn for sure. But yes, what Kim's saying is like, pay attention to your strengths. Lean into your strengths. Use them to your advantage. And that's when everything just unfolds and expands for sure.
Kim Job: And it's way more fun.
Molly Claire: Right? It's a lot more fun. So yeah, tell me, of course your, you know, beginning in the life coach school is really when you started your business, but tell everyone now what you do in your business and why you left. Yeah.
Kim Job: Okay, so I actually coach with my husband, which is super fun, and we help coaches understand business and marketing strategy. By the time they're done with us, we want them to truly, truly understand them both. So we focus on planning strategy and a lot of accountability. We love quarterly planning and we, because we believe that you need to know where you're going to be able to get there. It doesn't mean that you can't flex, be creative, you know, all within that quarterly plan, but you need that plan so you can put it in your gps so you know where you're headed.
So we focus a lot on, I focus a lot on strategy. My husband comes from a little bit different coaching background and he focuses on belief work and focus. So it's kind of an interesting combination. Often on coaching calls, I will be working with clients on the A-line and he's just sitting and watching them and observing their energy. He also reads energy and so then he speaks and they just start crying because he's like, observe what's really going on with it. So it's a, it's a magical combination because I can just like be in my strategic brain and focusing on that, and he's like watching their emotions. So it's, it's kinda magic.
Molly Claire: That's amazing. Love it. And so fun to listen to that because Yeah, as you started talking, even before you said it, I'm like, Oh yeah, Kim is like, 'Hey, I'm the A-line coach, like right here. You want Aline? I got you'. So, yeah, that's amazing. And the other thing is, cause you know, I do quarterly planning in my groups and stuff, and much of that is influenced by you, Kim, because you created some of the internal stuff that we were using in our you know, mastermind when Amy and I worked together. And I just, that's such a strength for you and I know I've been grateful for that being brought in too. Yeah. So, yeah,
Kim Job: It's just a skill that coaches need to learn and once they learn it, like it benefits their business forever.
Molly Claire: Yes, totally. And that's what I found. Like when I work with my clients to like, okay, we plan and we do, and we do it again and again and it gets easier and easier. And so it's like the first time everyone does it, it's everyone's brain's freaking out and I don't know if I can do this. And then it's just like, we can do this in like a fourth of the time, so yeah, it's awesome.
Kim Job: Yeah. I really teach my clients to plan to the level that it quiets their brain. And like for some people that's not the quarterly level. So I work with people to kind of figure out is it quarterly? Is it annual? Is it monthly? Is it weekly? Is it daily? Like, and it, it's different for everyone. And that was a really powerful lesson for me to learn as a coach, because at first I thought my way is the way, but I really found out that not everybody's brain thinks the way my brain thinks, and so it made me like, split my tools upside down and find better ways so that we can quiet everyone's brain, not just my brain.
Molly Claire: Yes. I love that. And we all have to do that with our clients, right? Right. Yeah, you are very organized. You're very much a planner. I'll just tell you right now, Kim, my brain does not work like your brain. You're like, 'Yeah, I know.' And so for better or for worse, right, I am planning an organization. I think I probably have a lot of more negative thoughts in my brain about myself in that regard than really should be there, right? Like I think I probably am a little too critical of myself in that arena, but definitely it's something that has been a challenge for me, and I think for me, I'll just say, I'll say this, for those of you listening who maybe relate to how I feel about it, I love setting my goals. I love setting my plans, and I build in so much flexibility for me as to how I move forward. How I shift, how I change, how I manage all of it, and that is for me, is what keeps me like alive in my life and my business.
Because if I am like straight jacketed to this exact plan, oh it's gonna kill the joy. It's gonna kill my creativity and my progress. So I've love taking in all of the gifts that you have with your planning and organization and bringing my flexibility and it's like, this works. Yeah. Love it. Okay, so tell my listeners, how did you find coaching or like decide that you wanted to be in this work?
Kim Job: Yeah, so I didn't say this at the beginning, but I'm a mom. That's like my greatest joy in life. I have 10 kids, and so I've always, I didn't wanna leave them, I didn't want to put them in daycare. And I know that's, you know, everyone has their own path, but, so I've always been like really scrappy about finding ways to make money online. And so I just started my very first six figure business. I sold stickers and just done business after business after business.
And then I signed up for scholars when Brooke first started Self-Coaching Scholars. And it was during the month, it was the self-confidence month where she was having us do a dare of the day and she announced that she had a position open. I didn't need a job. Like I, I was blogging at the time doing just fine, but I was like, I'll just apply for my dare of the day cuz it's terrifying. It terrified me to apply because I had to do like a 90 second video or something. And to even think of doing that was like beyond me, but I got the job and like the rest is history.
I worked there, you know, for a long time and it literally changed my life in so many ways. Yeah, so many ways. So, and so that's kind of how I came to coaching. Cause I got that job. I wasn't a coach at the time, but then while I was working there. I certified and became a coach.
Molly Claire: And you did for a while wonder if you were really allowed to be an A-line coach? Right? I think all coaches come up against like, 'Wait, can I break this rule? Or is this okay?' Yeah
Kim Job: Yeah, totally. I'm like, 'You know what? We don't do models in my coaching and we don't talk about your thoughts. We talk about the A-line. I mean, Scott will talk, Scott talks about their thoughts and feelings with them, but like, I'm pretty much the A-line cause that's like my, what my brain is with that. And like stay in your lane, you know?
Molly Claire: I love it. So yeah, as you were talking about that, I think, I actually remember hearing the story about you saying to Brooke that if you don't know how to do something, you will figure it out.
Kim Job: Yeah. And I said I don't know how to do everything, but I have 100% confidence that I can figure everything out. And I can just by reading, like I've always read my whole life. It's another one of my gifts and I can figure things out that way.
Molly Claire: And I just, I love you sharing this because you know, such an inspiration to people listening that your determination to be with your kids as much as possible. I relate to this same thing we were just, before we started recording, we were chatting about one of her kids being away and me saying, 'Yeah, that's why I became a coach. Cause I wanna be with them'. So I definitely share in that with you, but just hearing you say, 'Yeah, I built a six figure business around stickers', right? That is some like determination, some grit. I'm gonna make this work. And I mean, that is the skill and the ability of someone who's gonna build a successful business no matter what, I think. Right? No matter the economy.
Kim Job: And that's what it comes down to, is just knowing I'm in it no matter what.
Molly Claire: Yeah, yeah. You don't have to know all the things or the how or the skills or be the best at anything, but it's that like, yeah, I'm committed to this, this is gonna happen. Yeah. Amazing. Okay, so one thing I wanted to ask you about because, so you have your business with your husband and then you have Soul Stories, which is this cool, like, I call it like a passion project. I don't know how what you would call it, but like that's really taken on a life of its own. Tell us about it.
Kim Job: Yeah, so it's been on my heart forever. Like the very first tiny version of it came outta my blog, on my blog, like in 2012. So it's been on my heart since then. But I just didn't know. I didn't have the skills, I didn't have the tools, I didn't have the confidence was the biggest thing. Well, and I didn't know that I had emotions. Like I literally have lived my life from the neck up. My, all of my strengths are thinking strengths. And what led me to realize I had emotions was I did the strengths finder test and like when I saw on black and white all my strengths and like they're all strategic thinking strengths. For some reason, seeing them like made me own them and they have to stop proving them. Like, I didn't have to keep proving I was smart, keep proving I was organized. Like I could stop that. And somehow that opened me up to my emotions that I didn't know I had before.
So then tapping into my emotions, I'm like, 'Okay, you know, what do I do with all of this?' Like, I tapped into them so much I didn't know how to turn them off. And I kind of have a difficult childhood. I was sexually abused by a babysitter when I was five and then that led down a path of foster care, homelessness, addiction, all sorts of things. So I have lived my life with the story that I'm broken because of all the things that happened to me.
And then one day I just heard someone talking, and I don't even know who it was. I wish I knew so I could give them credit, but they said something like, 'It's true that trauma changes your brain, but healing does too.' And like that sentence like flooded over me and because I think I thought that I had to manage life with my broken brain due to things that other people did to me. And that sentence, I was like, 'Maybe I don't, maybe I can heal this'.
And so I just went to work like learning lots of different modalities, experimenting with a lot of things. And so Soul Stories is a combination of all of that. It's a place where I'm still learning, still unfolding who I am and what it is. But it's super exciting and like where I love to be. So, that's where I see the future of my business, more even in business coaching. Although I, I love being a business coach. I feel like that's like my excellent zone. I'm excellent at it. I feel like Soul Stories is my Genius Zone.
And I just haven't allowed myself to do it because it literally feels like it's like, cracking my chest open for the world to see. Cause it's like heart stuff that we talk about in there. So essentially what we do, it's a three month program and we spend one month on the past and then one month on the present and one month on the future. Just like powerfully claiming who you are and who you wanna be.
Molly Claire: Wow. That's amazing. I feel like I should just stop the podcast now and tell everyone to just go sign up for soul stories. I mean, really, it's like, I appreciate you sharing that idea, that thought that you heard, because I think so many of us feel like there's just something wrong with us and we just have to adapt and deal with these parts that are so wrong and broken.
And so this idea that healing can change our brain, like as you were continued to talk, I was letting that settle in and I'm like, I mean, I see how that's true. I think it, I feel like it changes us and it changes our ability to help people, which is what you're doing.
Kim Job: It totally does because when I first thought of soul stories a long, long time ago, I think I wanted to do it as a way to like make my story matter, like, what had happened to me matter because I needed it to matter. And the more that I've gone, it's like it's not about me at all. It's like, I don't want anyone to think they're broken. Cause nobody was ever broken ever. Nothing that anyone has ever done to could break you, ever. And we always get to choose like our story because we're the ones who are writing it. Right. We're the ones who are making it mean whatever we wanna make it mean.
Molly Claire: Yeah. Yeah. It doesn't always seem that way, and yet it's, it's really true. Yeah. And I think that, I know so many of you listening, you know, probably have a niche in coaching or something you feel called to do that does feel so vulnerable and open, and I know for me, parts of my business feel more that way than others, and you feel it, right? When you step into that space. Like, as we're talking right now, I'm just like, when I think about being an advocate for women, being able to believe more is possible for themselves, like, that's when it gets me. And I do that within my business coaching and it's like kind of under the, it's like, 'Yeah, let's make money, let's do this'. And we do all that, right? Like, helping with like the marketing and all the things. But like, that piece, that's the meaningful part.
Kim Job: Yeah. And that's the piece. That's the magic.
Molly Claire: It is the magic. And I think, yeah. So, you know, going back to what I was saying, those of you that you know, have those spaces, first of all, you don't have to totally, like open up all of it at once, right? Like we get, have permission to ease into it, but just speaking to how powerful it is, because I had seen Kim's Soul Stories stuff, and I knew about your story and your willingness to be vulnerable at a time when I was really struggling, who did I reach out to? Kim. I'm like, 'Hey', I'm popping in her dms because Kim's vulnerable. Kim's real. Kim's sharing this. So Kim probably gets it and maybe she can hold a little bit of space. So just thank you for doing that. And, and it's, it's just really powerful and I hope people listening remember that it is worthwhile to open up and be vulnerable. Yeah. It helps people. Yeah. So good.
Okay. So, yeah. I wanted to ask a little bit about your business work, but I, I wanna stay here for just a minute because I would love to know when you work with and in Soul Stories, who are you working with? Are you working with coaches? Are you working with really everyone? Like who is a goodcandidate?
Kim Job: Yeah, I'm working with everyone. I mean, my market right now is essentially coaches, so that's who has signed up so far. But in my heart, I want it to be for everyone, just anyone, like similar to my story who has had hard things happen that maybe they didn't choose that it has greatly affected their life and they feel like it still holds them back cause it doesn't need to. Nothing needs to hold you back.
Molly Claire: And so what do you see? And in the clients that you work with to go through that, I mean, what kind of transformations do you see for them, you know, either externally or internally, which is the part that really matters anyway.
Kim Job: Yeah. I mean, I think the biggest skill that they learn is to check in, not check out. They're checking in on themselves and they're learning about intuition and they're learning what their soul is and what it feels like and how it speaks to them, and how it guides them in their life and in their business, if they're a coach.
It's just like really all about them, and that's what I love about it. Like I say, leave your coach hat at the door. This is 12 weeks for you to focus on you. It's not for you to come in and help someone else. It's, it's none of that, like it's 12 weeks for you to focus on you and your growth. It's just, it's really all about citing and powerfully claiming who you want to be.
Molly Claire: Wow, that's amazing. And yeah, I can see, I, I hear you saying it's for everyone, but as coaches, we love this stuff, right? Because
Kim Job: I know
Molly Claire: We crave it, we want it, we love it, and yeah, it's, it's a really powerful process. I love that checking in instead of checking out. And I know at the end I'm gonna tell people where they can follow you, but your Instagram stuff is so awesome. For sure. Like just those nuggets of wisdom are always so good. So we'll have more of that, of course. Okay.
I wanted to ask you a little bit more about your business stuff, but anything else about Soul Stories in particular that you wanna share with my audience? Cause I think this is a really, like, as you're talking, I can feel it. I'm like, 'Oh, this is like, this is the thing'. And I think it's
Kim Job: I mean the thing is our lives are happening and they are literally a story in motion. And we're making up stories about whatever's happening. So our human brain, our human brains do that. We know that as coaches, that our human brains are constantly on the lookout trying to keep us safe.
So we take the facts of our lives and we make stories about the facts, and we call that our reality. But that reality can be anything we want it to be about our past, about our present, and about our future. So when you really understand that, you know, you get to choose. And what's really powerful is this moment, like the present moment is the only moment that really matters cause it's the only moment you can do anything about. If you're just present, it's really, really powerful.
Molly Claire: And I really, what? I know I said this before, but I wanna like say it again. It really doesn't seem like we're writing our story. In some ways it does. And as coaches we're like, 'Yes, I get that'. But as you're talking, it's like as we're walking around, are we really that conscious of it, that we really are right now writing a story in this moment? I don't think we are nearly as aware of that as we could be.
Kim Job: Yeah. I don't think so either. But it's super powerful when you become aware of it and it's a process. You know how the process of awareness is? It's like in stages.
Molly Claire: Yes, yes. Because I remember like when I first became a coach, like I did my certification and I was like, 'Oh, I got the coaching stuff down. Now I just need to work on business'. And then I did master coach training and I was like, 'Oh, I thought I knew then, but now I know it'. And then I realized at one point I'm like, Oh yeah, I always think I've, I've like arrived and like gotten all the awareness and then I realize, no, not even close. So, yeah. Yeah.
Kim Job: Actually, one powerful lesson I teach in Soul Stories is that you don't have to go digging in your past. That's what I was afraid of I was afraid I would open up stories I wouldn't be able to handle. But you don't have to go digging. When you are ready to process stories, process emotion, they'll arise naturally. And then you process them and you, and you handle them. So I think that's one thing that, that a lot of people are afraid of. They're like,' I dunno about digging in the past', and we're not digging in the past.
Molly Claire: Cause we do look at it. Yeah. We do kind of have this idea like, we have to like do this work, right? We're like, do the work on ourselves as if we have to go and we have to look and work so hard. And I do think I've learned more and more especially through like tapping work that I've done this idea of like, sometimes it unfolds.
I think there's more of an ease and flow, not that it's easy, right? Like, healing isn't necessarily always easy or doesn't feel good. But I don't think it needs to be seen as so much like work or something to fix or overcome, as we've often thought. Does that make sense?
Kim Job: Yeah, totally. I like to think of it that we're just bumping up against the next layer, and it's really a layer of resistance. We only have to get through that layer, but we're worried about the next 20 layers, and we don't have to worry about that. We just have to worry about, I, I always tell my clients, worry about your next step and the next one. I want you to be two steps ahead, but like you don't have to worry about 20 steps. And that's what we try to do.
Molly Claire: Yeah. We don't have to dig up the past and be like really focused there and we don't have to be panicked about the future. We're just here and we just see a little bit ahead and we just, Yeah. I love that. Love that.
Kim Job: Because we know and trust ourselves and know that we've got ourselves regardless. We believe in ourselves regardless. We've got our own back no matter what happens. And we're gonna keep going. Cause you never fail if you never quit. Right?
Molly Claire: Yes. I know. I always say that. I'm like, And it's really true. I'm like, You're only gonna fail. If you quit. That's it.
And tell me a little bit about, so with with coaches specifically that are in your Soul Stories program, does business come into it at all or not really because we, we know right? Those things are impacted.
Kim Job: We don't specifically address business. Business does come up because coaches are in there, but it's not specifically about business. Yeah. It's way more about your personal life.
Molly Claire: Yeah. And what do you see with people in this program as I, I don't know. I'll, I'll ask this and I don't even know if this is a good question, and so you can change the question to make sense for this situation, but like, what are the biggest challenges you see with clients in the program? Meaning, are they places they get stuck? Are there, like, are there challenges? If so, what? Or is there kind of a different way to phrase that to sort of describe the experience they have?
Kim Job: Yeah, it's been actually really fun to watch because I decided to make it a lifetime program because I realized that like, because of this layered effect that we're talking about, they come in and they work on on some layers and it's not, the work is never done per se.
So the first time that I did it, I had everyone come through and just kind of generally look at their past. The people who came through the second time on their own naturally picked one story to take through the whole process. And that was super powerful to watch people do that. So it's just kinda naturally evolving into something really powerful.
But the very hardest part has just been me being vulnerable and showing up because I'm doing things that are different than regular coaching. We do drumming, we do oracle cards, we do meditation. We do like things that are a little bit different. So that makes me feel vulnerable on top of the fact that I'm talking about my past that's kinda scary.
Molly Claire: Yeah. Yeah. So true. Yeah. It's so fun though, like in our community we bring in such a variety of things there as well. And, and I know you're gonna be coming to our, the community and talking about organic marketing, which they're so excited about. I am too. So, yeah. But it's, it's really, it's fun to do that, I think. For sure. Okay.
Well the last thing I wanna just ask you, as far as the coaches in my audience, I would love for you to share any advice, any guidance, knowing having worked yourself with many coaches, building businesses, having built your business yourself. What words of wisdom do you have for them?
Kim Job: I have two things. One is the problem that I see most coaches come into me with is they're trying to do way too many things. And it's because they're looking around seeing what everybody's doing and they think they need to try all of it.
So when coaches come in, I say pick three. Any three, it doesn't even matter what three. Any three will work. And I limit them and their business takes off because they're focused on actually completing a project rather than taking two steps on 20 projects every day. So that's the one thing.
And then the second thing is, stop worrying so much about your niche. Like I always tell coaches, do you have a business or do you have a mission? Because if you have a mission, what are you here to say? Because what you are here to say is not what Molly's here to say. It's not what anyone else is here to say. So you need to tap into what you are here to say. What you mission is what you are here to do. And it's different than everyone else. And that makes you stand out. So if your business feels tricky, take some time to figure out what am I here to say?
And like, one of my favorite questions, cuz I have so many ideas. Is this my offer to birth into the world? And more than often than not, the answer is no, it's not. Like, be really, really committed to the projects that you pick and don't pick so many.
Molly Claire: Yeah. I love it. Well, and I think oftentimes too, as entrepreneurs and creative people, and so many people having ADHD who are entrepreneurs like myself, it's like it's so natural to want to do a lot of things right. I think it's sometimes a combination of like, 'Oh, I should be doing all of these things, and all of these things are exciting and fun', and so I think there is a lot of power in using that constraint and for you as the coach to guide them and help them to use that constraint.
And I love what you said about the niche. Obviously I'm working with a group right now and really what I like to do with my clients is help them like just for the sake of a very short period of time, just for leaning in and testing some marketing, what is the problem you solve? It doesn't have to be their entire niche. It's just something to experiment with.
And, and I'll just share with you one of the coaches, you know, we kind of have this formula, which is great as a foundation. You know, she, she brought up, she said, 'I could tell it was kind of like, maybe this is outta left field. Is this okay?' Right. Cause we all have these rules of how it should fit in. And she's like, 'I really like this idea of like, what if being a stay at home mom is the perfect career?' And for her, this is something she's really passionate about because she found that she wanted to be a stay at home mom. And when she started viewing it as a career, rather than, 'Oh, I'm doing this for now', or this is just kind of this, you know, minimalist thing or minimal thing, she really kind of embraced learning and growth and expansion and she really treated it like something meaningful that really was a career that she wanted to build her skills.
And the reason I bring that up is it's exactly that. You could say, 'Well, that's not like a, you know, a good, I help X, you know, do this', right? But when you have that thing, right, this is like you said, like this is who I wanna be. This is the message I want into the world. You can always take that and you, you morph it and tweak it into marketing, whatever. All of that doesn't matter, right? Yeah. But yeah, so anyway, I just thought of that and I think it's powerful to remember. It's important to know what is the mission.
Kim Job: We always say your potential clients, belief, energy, excitement, all of that, none of it will be higher than your own. So if you're not excited about your offer, they're not gonna be excited. So that's why whatever you are excited about is what you need to teach. And anything can work. Anything can work.
Molly Claire: Yes. Yes. This is awesome, Kim. Thank you so much for being here. This has been such a great interview. I feel like I wanna go listen to it back right now. Okay. So tell everyone where they can find you you know, your Instagram, Soul Stories, tell us all the things.
Kim Job: Okay. You can find our website at CoachingKim.com. And then the best place to keep updated on everything is my Instagram, which is Kimberly J Coaching.
Molly Claire: Perfect. And we'll have it in the show notes as well, of course, for everyone. All right.
Kim Job: Thanks Molly.
Molly Claire: Thanks, Kim, We'll talk again soon. Okay. Thank you. Bye.
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