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10 Tips to Become a Happy, Healthy, and More Successful Coach

Nov 21, 2025

Explore essential tips for coaches aiming to enhance their happiness and success. Discover the importance of lifestyle design and living beneath your means. Learn how to craft a fulfilling career while prioritizing personal life. Uncover the value of fostering a supportive coaching inner circle and the necessity of practicing self-care. Find out why it’s beneficial to outsource certain wellness tasks and how to master recovery techniques. Finally, reflect on the positive impact you have on your clients every day.

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Design Your Life Before Your Career

Design your lifestyle first and build your career around it rather than the reverse.
Use one to two hours offline to define your desired hours, family time, and vacations to guide career choices.

ANECDOTE

Launching IFAST Debt-Free

Mike saved and invested early to open IFAST without debt by creating content and products while working shifts.
He and Bill pooled modest funds and equipment to launch the gym debt-free.

ANECDOTE

Prioritizing Family Over Gigs

Mike took every other Wednesday off when his daughter was young to be present for family routines.
He declined many speaking gigs to protect family time and prioritize moments he couldn't get back.

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I’m not joking when I say this podcast could easily be the most important thing you listen to this year.

Seriously – the advice I’m going to give you in this episode could easily be worth tens of thousands, if not HUNDREDS of thousands of dollars.

Unlike a lot of the influencer fitness pros and online “mentors,” I’m still working with and connecting to real coaches everyday.

And in this episode, I’m going to share the most common issues that real coaches like YOU are dealing with every single day.

So while they might not ALL apply to you, I guarantee a few of these are going to hit home.

Let’s do this!

Quotable Quotes:

Start with lifestyle design first. Your career should follow your lifestyle, not the other way around

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If it’s not a yes right now with enthusiasm, then it’s definitely gonna be a no down the line

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Be reflective of the impact you make on people’s lives every single day

This Week on the Physical Prep Podcast:

Why starting with the question “What kind of career do I want” may be the WRONG QUESTION.
The power of living beneath your means (especially when you’re starting out).
Arguably the most important non-training book you’ll ever read (don’t worry – it’s linked below!)
The power of your coaching inner circle – and how to starting growing it today.
Thought experiment: Are you taking care of yourself like you tell your clients and athletes to?
Why you should seriously consider outsourcing certain elements of your health and wellness.
How to recover like a pro.
Are you a people pleaser? Trying to change your ways? If so, learn how I’ve started saying “No” more.
Why I’ve tried to curate my social media more and more over the years.
How to make every single day you coach a little bit better!

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