Getting rich while saving the world.

Let’s talk about money and coaching and spirituality again.

I know most of you consider that to be a sensitive and painful triangle, so it’s good to open it up.

There are some misunderstandings I’d like to point out.

Ever since I started to coach, I have been influenced by and suffered from the ‘everybody should be allowed to have good coaching’-syndrome.

I really believed that it was up to me to help the world for free, or almost free.

And I was also convinced that it was more meaningful and worthy to ask for less money.

Like you almost have to be financially poor to be spiritually rich.

I no longer agree.

A couple of days ago I had a discussion via email with a guy who was looking for ‘therapy’, and after I had explained that I didn’t do that, why I believe coaching is much more practical and powerful, and what the minimum amount for his investment in my time would be, I didn’t hear from him anymore.

A bit later, after I had reached out again and asked why he dropped out of the conversation, he told me I was ‘one of those typical coaches that only think about money and are not interested in REALLY helping people’, and that was why he quit…