{"id":1369,"date":"2012-09-15T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T18:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/?p=1369"},"modified":"2012-02-07T15:28:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T21:28:00","slug":"michael-o-cooper-on-discovering-your-niche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/michael-o-cooper-on-discovering-your-niche\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael O. Cooper on Discovering Your Niche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is taken from David&#8217;s interview with Michael O. Cooper in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.10supercoaches.com\/\">10 Super Coaches<\/a>.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What are your coaching niche(s)? How did you discover this?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Leadership Coaching: I have always held a fascination about leaders and how they ticked, how they inspire and motivate others, and unfortunately, often how their unchecked egos ruin their influence. I discovered the 15 Leadership Proficiencies developed by Thomas Leonard and started using them with a client on a whim. Within a few months I was asked to present at a conference on leadership and have been speaking and coaching ever since. Serendipity really.<\/p>\n<p>Coaching financial advisors to market themselves effectively: I developed this nice out of necessity when I was near bankruptcy and needed to double my income in one month. I had worked with one financial advisor on a pro bono basis and he doubled his business within a few months. I was desperate and began interviewing other financial advisors to understand their market better. Essentially, they developed a \u201cguided coaching program\u201d for me. Within four weeks I quadrupled my business with this program. Note: I didn\u2019t have a passion or experience in this niche, but the need already existed in the market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is taken from David&#8217;s interview with Michael O. Cooper in\u00a010 Super Coaches.\u00a0 What are your coaching niche(s)? How did you discover this? Leadership Coaching: I have always held a fascination about leaders and how they ticked, how they inspire and motivate others, and unfortunately, often how their unchecked egos ruin their influence. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[123],"tags":[122,171,121,137],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1369"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1753,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions\/1753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}