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As a caution, anything in this space - life, image, executive, etc coach I've seen looks super scammy and like it only gives you the worst stereotype of advice. I think these are areas that really need a good personal referral. Whatever you find online is not going to be useful

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Yes. The quality of "life coaches" in my circle is... Possibly negative value. I'm sure great ones exist but be aware it's not a regulated or licensed term obviously. I know folks who literally started calling themselves Life Coach one day. Good on them, but have your expectations tempered and / or do significant research :-)

Quite so. I think the problem is that anyone whose accomplishments and personal journey I respect enough to consider them qualified in any way to be giving out advice... probably isn't selling their precious time by the hour working as a "life coach". It's sort of a self-disqualifying description of services.

Good mentors, on the other hand, can be very valuable - but they choose you as much as you choose them, and it's rarely about money, not directly anyway.

This. Life / performance coaching and investment advice are two areas where the economics don't support public offering.

Or to put it another way, if I am the world's best performance coach, how much should I be charging for my services?

To which the answer is: the value I can add to someone with an extremely high, performance-based income.

Which is generally not "the public".

Yes - and I know multiple life coaches IRL. All of them are grifters.

The worst stereotype of advice is "just be yourself" or some such nonsense. I'd hope these professionals are giving a bit better advice than that, unless you mean something different?

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