How to Stop Charging Hourly (in your personal training business)

I remember the panic of a client cancelling their session very well. Early 2013, I was still charging hourly. Each client would pay for their session, usually in cash, at the time of each session. That meant my income was at the mercy of my clients’ consistency. It was brutal. Late 2013, I switched to packages & began requiring signed … Read More

Hiring A Business Coach Shouldn’t Put You In Debt

“What planet are these coaches living on?!” my client asked me. We laughed at first. Online business is amazing- it’s also really shady and crooked. People with no prior business success will claim business success once they start charging >$1k per month, use pretty photos and fancy tactics to get clients and sell you on the idea that if you … Read More

Why I’m Not Accepting New Clients

FEBRUARY IS THE NEW BLACK & why I don’t accept new clients in January. Been in business for almost a decade- I’ve never once taken on a new fitness client in January- and I never will. It’s almost too easy. It’s too easy to leverage the shiny, new excitement that January seems to inherently bring with its arrival. Even when … Read More

[Biz] Buy Your Time Back with Batch-Working

I remember the first time I heard someone talk about batch working… I was so annoyed, LOLOL My entire business balanced on the head of a pin. I was working so many hours face-to-face with clients that if I had any bit of free-time, the last thing I wanted to do was spend that time… working more. So I’d veg … Read More

[Biz] 4 tips for content creation when you’re feeling uninspired

A business client was telling me about how she was kind of feeling “blah” about posting to her IG, and while I plan to record a podcast episode ALL about this, I wanted to pop in here and give you some tips for not falling off the face of the social-media-planet even if you’re feeling uninspired, worn out, or burnt … Read More