Anyone Can Be a Coach: How to Make Money from Coaching

What you’ll need to get started so that the world can benefit from your expertise.

Tim Denning
The Startup
Published in
10 min readNov 19, 2019

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A fellow writer asked me about how to become a coach and I thought the advice might help many more people.

Why? Because anybody can be a coach and so many people don’t necessarily realize this. You don’t need to attend The Coaching Institute of Hogwarts to become a coach.

All of us are experts in something. Perhaps you know how to arrange indoor plants better than anybody else or style a living room like a boss.

There is an audience and a target market for any skill. The key is to understand that there is a skill in every part of life. Even waking up is a skill that can be taught or eating breakfast better.

I became a few years ago when more and more people began asking me for advice and there was only so much I could put in an email.

Another mate of mine had gotten into blogging a few years earlier and was charging up to $1500 per hour. I thought, “Can’t be that hard — we’re similar people.”

So now that you know anybody can become a coach, here’s how to get started and earn an income from it.

1. Identify the skill then go…

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Tim Denning
The Startup

Aussie Blogger with 1B+ views that made me 7-figures — Get my free email course: https://timdenning.com/1k-mb