Biggest Obstacles to Health Coaching Success

In this solo episode, Erin Power walks through the top obstacles health coaches report facing on their path to success. Drawing from an end-of-year survey conducted with students and graduates of Primal Health Coach Institute, Erin breaks down why these challenges persist, why they are completely solvable, and how coaches can begin addressing them right now.

The three most common obstacles identified were: finding paying clients, confidence in marketing and business development, and navigating technology. Erin reframes each of these as learnable skills rather than fixed limitations.

Episode Overview

0:00 Intro and context for the end-of-year survey

2:45 Scope of practice and industry responsibility

5:10 The survey question: biggest obstacles to coaching success

6:10 Top three obstacles identified

8:00 Obstacle #1: Finding paying clients

11:10 Why there are more than enough clients

14:30 Clients find you when you put yourself out there

17:30 Obstacle #2: Confidence in marketing

20:10 Confidence is built through execution, not perfection