 Hey, what's up? Welcome back to the podcast. I'm just gonna get straight into today's question. This coach asked me he said, hey, Vin I am not a certified coach and I have very little experience. I don't have a good resume for my coaching experience or playing experience. Do you think that clients will still work with me and and believe it or not, I see this question every day like a lot of coaches think that they need to be like Greg Popovich or Jose Mourinho to get clients And here's here's the reality right with your business Your clients will only care if you could help them if you can help them get better. That's all they care about If you can't help them get better, then they're not going to keep working with you So my response if you have very little experience coaching then go get experience coaching Go volunteer be a coach. Go work for a club team. Go work for a high school team. Like go get experience Right because if you feel that you don't have the experience and that's holding you back then go learn All right, that's that's first thing here go learn go go figure out how to be a coach and You know these days on YouTube you can learn how to be a coach Very quickly by watching videos by watching drills By learning how to communicate with your clients like my channel is is very business focused But there are plenty of other resources out there that can show you, you know What sort of drills that you should do and that sort of stuff how to communicate with your clients how to deal with clients? I mean, there's all sorts of free information out there So go get experience. That's number one second thing is like and this is very Very important that you have to understand Your resume doesn't matter Like I have talked to guys and girls that have been professional athletes that are pretty well known and They will ask me like hey, you know, I've played pro like I I've done this I just still don't know how to get clients and You see people who are very well known that still don't know how to get clients So that should let you know that if you never played pro or if you haven't coached professional level You and them are on the same level Right, you and them on the exact same level because they still don't know how to get clients and this is why At the end of the day, your clients are going to care if you can help them a piece of paper a certification And I'm talking about if you're if you're within the sports niche Like if you're a basketball trainer or soccer trainer golf tennis like sure getting a certification can help you, right? That is not going to help you get more clients though Right, so don't don't let that Don't let that fool you like you don't need to go get a bunch of certifications to be successful If you want a bunch of certifications, go do that if you want to learn go do that my thing like my belief is we need to focus on getting clients and we need to focus on helping those clients and I have zero certification Right, I didn't go to Harvard and get a consulting degree I didn't go to Harvard and get a degree in how to start a Soccer training business, right? Never did that, right? I had to learn from scratch and If you have that excuse of why I just don't think people are gonna train with me because my resume is not good Or I'm not certified You're holding yourself back. No one's holding you back parents are not gonna say hey, what certification do you have? like that that doesn't happen and and trust me I've been in this business for Longer than I would say 99% of coaches out there And you're not gonna deal with people like that. So I hope this helps Don't need to get a bunch of qualifications. Don't need to have this incredible coaching background Don't need any of that. You need to start learning start getting experience And with that experience you gain confidence. That's it for today's podcast. I'll see you later