For a long time now, I have called myself a Mindset Coach rather than a Life Coach. Personally, I believe that what we do with the Unbreakable Mindset Methodology® leans more towards mindset work rather than traditional Life Coaching — so what actually is the difference between the two?
The definition of a traditional Life Coach
Traditional Life Coaching is used in the workplace or for personal development to enable people to break through their performance barriers and achieve specific goals. A Life Coach can help by breaking down goals and creating action plans, providing accountability and motivation, improving time management and productivity, building healthier habits and routines, and helping clients gain clarity on what they want from life. Overall, supporting clients to move from “stuck” to action.
Where traditional coaching has its limits
When I first started as a coach, that’s exactly what I helped my clients do — achieve their goals. And I got results time and time again. But then the same client would come back a few years later. They wanted support with a new goal, a different block.
The truth is, traditional coaching is brilliant at helping people move forward — but if the underlying belief system is still broken, the blocks just come back in a different form. The root cause was never addressed. That’s not a failure of the coach — it’s a gap in the framework.
And that gap is exactly why the Unbreakable Mindset Methodology® was born.
Where the Unbreakable Mindset Methodology® was born
I started creating tools I knew my clients needed but didn’t have — tools for procrastination, overwhelm, worrying what others think, dealing with anxious thoughts. I worked on designing tools that removed the blocks and the self-sabotage, and that was powerful. But it still needed something else.
I was able to get clients out of their negative mental health state and into a great place — but their fear was always the same: what if it comes back?
So the next piece of the framework I needed to work on was actually the piece that comes first. How did they get to this point? What happened in childhood? What responses have they created internally based on conditioning and life experience?
This was gold. It allowed clients to fully understand their internal belief system, their response patterns, their trigger points and their motivators.
The final piece of the framework was instilling self-worth and confidence — and that can only come once you’ve done all of the foundational work first.
That is true mindset work.
What are the benefits of combining Life Coaching and Mindset Coaching?
Once I’ve done all of that foundational work with a client, I can then go on to work on the goals, the dreams, the desires — because at that point, my clients believe in themselves in a way they never did before. And crucially, they understand themselves on a deeper level. So once they see what they can achieve, they can go on to replicate that in any situation.
That is true empowerment.
So what’s the difference?
A life coach helps you achieve your goals. A mindset coach helps you become the person who can. The Unbreakable Mindset Methodology® does both.
If a client needed to return to me time and time again, that wouldn’t be empowering them — it would be enabling them. I want my clients to think for themselves. To see that they are more than capable.
They don’t need me.
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