17: 10 Years Into Coaching and Going Strong with Tami Stackelhouse

In this episode I interview my first guest on Prosperous Coach Podcast — a coach who is 10 years into her unique and narrow coaching niche. And her business is going strong.Tami and I, 10 years and 20 years into our coaching business respectively, both targeted a unique audience and build our coaching niche around their top problem. It's the main reason for focus, longevity and financial success. Not to mention great joy!Tami is a great example of the Teacher Archetype because she turned her personal and professional challenges into solutions for others with the same challenges.Listen in as Tami effortlessly shares words of support and wisdom to all coaches. We want to see YOU reach 10 years of success and more!Tami Stackelhouse dreams of a day when all fibromyalgia patients have access to the care and support they need to thrive. She is doing all she can to make that dream come true. A fibromyalgia patient herself, Tami has gone from disabled to thriving. Her compassion, gentle support, and fun coaching style have helped fibromyalgia patients all over the world take back control of their lives. She is the Founder of the International Fibromyalgia Coaching Institute, where she teaches thriving patients to coach other fibromyalgia patients. And she is author of The Fibromyalgia Coach and Take Back Your Life. A stressful customer service job brought on Tami's fibromyalgia —a chronic condition — and she had to quit.Three years in and about to apply for disability, she was talking to her doctor about the downhill trajectory of her life.Then her doctor referred her to a health coach who helped her come up with a healing strategy.Six months later Tami decided to become a health coach herself.After being a general health coach, which was okay but not particularly thrilling, a friend encouraged her to niche more narrowly around what she knew best.Smart friend!Tami's "burning bush moment" came around in her first conversation with another fibromyalgia patient.It's a magic moment, when your background, your story, your experience coalesce into clarity about how to pivot your niche and business model for greater satisfaction and success.But here's the thing ... don't wait for your own burning bush moment to happen.It will happen by staying in action and allowing, not pushing for answers to come.I always suggest that you narrow to one viable audience and niche around their top challenges as a way to open yourself to those magical moments. How Does a Coach Make it To Their 10th Year Business Anniversary?Now Tami is 10 years in and very successful.Like a true entrepreneur, Tami has shifted and pivoted her business to align with what's going on with her and her audience.One major pivot came when Tami had a wait list of clients and realized she simply could not help all the fibromyalgia patients that were coming her way.A wonderful, but still troubling, problem to have!Fibromyalgia affects one in twenty women. MDs don't have a clear treatment for the condition, which can be quite debilitating.In the manner of a Teacher Archetype Coach, Tami decided to create her Fibromyalgia Coaching Institute. (The Teacher Archetype responds to a problem by creating a viable solution for others.)She felt she needed to duplicate herself.Let Your Journey Tell You What To DoFind more about letting your journey inform you here