Becoming a Life Coach

Name: Becoming a Life Coach
Brand: Simon & Schuster Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Tom Chiarella
ISBN: 9781508281887

Author: Tom Chiarella

Series: Masters at Work

Narrator: Edward Bauer

Unabridged: 2 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Published: 09/03/2019

Categories: Nonfiction, Self-help, Personal Growth, Education, Counseling, Business & Economics, Careers

Synopsis

A fascinating guide to a career as a life coach written by award-winning journalist Tom Chiarella and based on the real-life experiences of an expert in the field—essential reading for someone considering a path to this rewarding profession.

Being a life coach is a unique career with the ability to change lives. Becoming a Life Coach takes us behind-the-scenes through the experiences of two top-tier life coaches who spend their days working one-on-one with clients to create new paths forward. The result is an entertaining, practical look at how one gets into and grows within this rewarding career.

About Tom Chiarella

Tom Chiarella is a Professor Emeritus of English at DePauw University and longtime writer for Esquire where he profiles celebrities, athletes, and political figures and pens two columns for Golf and Influence. He’s also a contributing editor at Popular Mechanics and Chicago Magazine. He has also written for Golf Digest, Outside, Wired.com, BleacherReport.com, Elle UK, Fashion (Canada), Euroman, and Mr. Porter. He lives with his family in Bainbridge, Indiana. He’s the author of Foley’s Luck, Thursday’s Game, Writing Dialogue, and Becoming a Real Estate Agent.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kayla

I enjoyed that it was straight to the point and gave the perspectives of 5 different coaches. It was insightful. I felt like I had my own take away from each coach. If it was any longer for what I got out of it, I probably wouldn’t recommend, but it is short and interesting.......more

Goodreads review by Celine

Judging by the cover I expected a bit more from this book. It‘s basically an introduction to a handful of life coaches, how they approach their work and some lessons learned. It stays fairly high level but did provide some interesting tid bits......more

Goodreads review by Gregory

Becoming a life coach is better than the deluge of other introductory books on the topic of life coaching in the modern world because it is grounded in a variety real experiences from real coaches. Each one has their own take on this strange and fast evolving profession, and many of them are counter......more

Goodreads review by Scout

I got this from the library because I was interested in learning more about life coaching and what life coaches do, how they get started, and what their work routine consists of. The author chose 5 life coaches and interviewed them to learn more. It was clear from these interviews that life coaching......more

Goodreads review by Gregory