Growing your coaching business can feel overwhelming. In this encore episode, coaching business clarity becomes achievable as Dr. Gary Collins walks you through three essential questions and six effective outreach strategies to help you step into your calling today.
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Quick Summary
- Identify your direction with three key clarity questions.
- Discover six practical ways to reach the people God’s called you to serve.
- Learn how to transfer your previous-work strengths into your coaching calling.
- Receive encouragement to begin growing your coaching business now.
What You’ll Discover in This Episode
In this warm and insightful episode, Dr. Gary Collins draws on his decades of experience as a psychologist, author, and professor—bringing both authority and heart to the conversation. First, you’ll reflect on three powerful questions to help you gain clarity and confidence. Moreover, you’ll explore six simple yet strategic ways to reach the audience God has positioned you to serve. And finally, through his compassionate tone and seasoned voice, you’ll receive the encouragement you need to get started today—with renewed purpose and conviction.
Essential Insights for Christian Coaches
Dr. Collins invites you to reframe your previous career skills—whether counseling, teaching, or leadership—as transferable strengths in building your coaching business. For example, one of the six ways might remind you to speak at community groups or use social platforms with authenticity. As you listen, pause to journal on this reflective question: “How can I redirect my current strengths to serve others through coaching?” This question prompts ministry-minded reflection and fuels meaningful engagement.
Key Takeaways
- Three clarity questions unlock your vision for growing your coaching business.
- Six actionable outreach strategies help you connect with those you’re called to influence.
- Leveraging past experience can ease the transition into full-time coaching.
- Encouragement from a trusted authority renews your confidence to begin again.
- Strategic action plus clarity forms a powerful foundation for your next steps.
How Can Christian Coaches Apply These Lessons?
By reflecting on Dr. Collins’s three clarity questions and implementing one or more of his six outreach strategies—like speaking, networking, or writing—you can practically lean into your calling and begin growing your coaching business effectively.
Next Steps
Feeling inspired? Take what you’ve learned here into your next steps. Contact an Academic Advisor to explore how PCCI’s Christian life and leadership coach training can equip you further.
About Gary Collins
Gary Collins is a licensed clinical psychologist with a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Purdue University. He is the author of more than two hundred articles and more than fifty books, including The Biblical Basis for Christian Counseling (NavPress) and Christian Counseling: A Comprehensive Guide (Third edition published in 2007) and Christian Coaching (NavPress).
Gary served for twenty years as professor of psychology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, was president of the 15,000-member American Association of Christian Counselors, and was founding editor of Christian Counseling Today magazine. He is Distinguished Professor of Leadership and Coaching at Psychological Studies Institute in Atlanta and Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Counseling at Regent University in Virginia.
He writes a weekly newsletter on coaching and counseling and frequently travels overseas and within North America to speak on issues relating to Christian counseling and coaching.
You can learn more about Gary Collins here: http://www.garyrcollins.com/.
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