🧁 Do you trust and expert who doesn't get the results themselves?

Do you trust a coach to get you x revenue, when they only make half themselves? An overweight weight loss coach? A leadership coach without a background in a leadership role?

I DO!

(if I see proof of their results for others)

How many clients do you think I'd gotten through LinkedIn when I started my business?

None!

I mean, my first client was just that, my first client, so I got them results I had not gotten for myself yet.

My super power is explaining, training, teaching…

🏊🏽‍♀️ I was a learn-to-swim instructor for 5 years and successfully taught over 1000 children to swim breaststroke, freestyle, butterfly and backstroke. I can only swim breaststroke myself and just 2-3 meters in any of the other strokes.

🚛 For 2 years I taught guys on a truck driver course the theory of diesel engine mechanics. I have never even seen a diesel engine.

💉 I have taught injecting drug users how to do so safely, yet never been an injecting drug user myself.

🔒 I also taught this in prison, where supposedly there are no drugs, and it is harder to do so hygienically. I've never been imprisoned myself.

⏰ I delivered accredited time management programs through the Chamber of Commerce yet still scramble to do things right before a deadline.

📝 I taught business writing to public servants, never having been in business or the public service back then…

▫️I was a trainer and examiner for ICDL without having used all programs myself. ▫️Same with Lotus Notes. ▫️I was a train the trainer for the ASIST program, I've not been suicidal myself.▫️I've been a public health educator on hepatitis C (which I don't have)...

You do not need lived experience to teach something brilliantly.

These days I am too lazy to learn new stuff just to teach it. 😄 (you know I don't teach Sales Navigator or Paid Ads). THAT is why I only teach what I do and what works for my business.

𝗦𝗼, 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: Do you trust a coach who hasn’t ‘done it’ themselves?

❤️ Love some examples of amazing coaches or trainers you’ve come across who nsy not have 'done it" themselves. (tag them if they're a member here) ⤵️

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