Geoff Young, Author at Health Coach Weekly

Health Coaching in Troubled Times

“May You Live in Interesting Times”This quote is generally purported to be a Chinese curse. I don’t know how much truth there is to that, but we are sure living in interesting times now.Classic Business advice has always been to avoid the more “controversial” topics for fear of alienating portions of your audience. While I […]

Love Is The Most Important Marketing Metric

I was listening to a talk by Jadah Sellner from Simple Green Smoothies, and she was talking about love and marketing metrics and a conversation she had with Seth Godin, marketing genius extraordinaire. He told her that it isn’t love over metrics, it is that “Love is a Metric”. I know it is easy to […]

Why Health Coaches Need to Understand Addiction

I recently listened to a very good podcast where the subject was the opioid epidemic in this country. I knew it was bad but did not really realize the scope of the numbers. The podcast was the Indivisible Radio show on NPR and if you want to listen to the full show here it is. […]

The best gift you can give to your clients.

We spend a lot of time here at Health Coach Weekly talking about marketing and different things you need to work on to market your business. All the marketing tips and tricks in the world are great, but at the end of the day the best gift you can give to your clients is the […]

The Network Marketing Myth

I have a confession to make, I used to hold some serious misconceptions about network marketing. It was about 10 years ago, I found an organic skin care company that I thought was going to be “the thing” that finally allowed me to quit working in the pharmaceutical industry and work for myself. I fell […]

The New Industrial Food Complex Strategy to make any questions of GMO Food safety anti-science

I typically keep my articles on Health Coach Weekly focused on business building tools and strategies but there has been something happening over the past couple of years that I think really needs to be addressed and isn’t talked about much in the GMO debate. With the publishing in The New England Journal of Medicine […]

The Online Marketing Myth

I think that many online marketers have done a disservice to new entrepreneurs by perpetuating the myth that online marketing is a great way to get rich quick. Look around, there are plenty of so called push button systems out there promising instant riches, tons of traffic to your website and all with no work […]

What is Your Biggest Struggle?

I have spoken with hundreds of health coaches over the past 5 years since I started Health Coach Weekly. I have discovered that everyone is at different points along the journey, but everyone shares a few of the biggest struggles of health coaches. Some of you are just thinking about exploring health coaching, some are […]

3 Easy Steps to Become More Productive, Lower Your Stress and Improve Your Sleep

This is the time of year when you hear everyone talk about goal setting and resolutions. I think those are both great, but what I want to talk about today has more to do with my digital lifestyle. Weren’t all these devices supposed to make our lives simpler and more efficient? That has not been […]

Where Should You Start With Your Marketing Plan

Over the last couple of weeks, I have talked about how you need a marketing plan for your business, but a question I get over and over again is “I don’t even know where to begin!” If that is you, stick around. Before we start talking about sales funnels and marketing strategies there are some […]

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