Working with Karin was integral to getting my business off the ground and thriving.

I met Karin while she was teaching marketing for health coaches at one of the largest health coaching schools in the world.

I was coaching as a private celebrity coach, and when I knew I needed to make a change and start my own business, I hired Karin for her unique, radically simple approach to business building that left room for a healthy personal life.

At a time in my life when everything felt too complicated, her marketing and business teachings were simple and direct.

What spoke to me about Karin’s work was that she seemed to be doing great work with leaders in our field, but oddly enough, she had the opposite vibe of people who teach marketing and making money as a coach. You know, that kind of hustling, pushing energy.

I had the pleasure of working with Karin for a few years, and it was integral to getting my business off the ground and thriving.

What I learned from Karin has kept me focused as I started with a Happy Little Practice, to scaling my growing business, without scaling my stress.

Karlee Fain
Celebrity Coach, Author, and Founder of The Boundary Academy 
KarleeFain.com
Pennsylvania

I’m on track to replacing my corporate salary in just year two of my business.

I left corporate to start my own business and I was done sacrificing my health and wellbeing for my job. I needed a way to start my coaching business, something undergoing a huge shift in my country, that was sane, allowed for family life with two young kids and was absolutely profitable as I needed to replace my salary. I was desperate for a role model and solid business foundation to shine a light on how to do this.

Karin's Happy Little Practice Method and Great Little Talks coaching taught me everything I needed to create my first paid clients and start filling my practice. When COVID hit I heard my coaching colleagues talk about shutting things down and it scared me. 

Karin also showed me how to unravel obstacles, navigate crisis and uncertainty and gave me the tools to keep going.

Our work together helped me turn my big ideas into a compelling message focused on one thing that my ideal clients want to pay for. We also designed my coaching services into programs and flat retainer fees versus hourly work, and created a simple, doable marketing plan that actually works, eliminates overwhelm and fits into my busy schedule in about an hour per day. I actually have a system now!

To my surprise, I also learned a tremendous amount about disciplining myself as an entrepreneur. I come from an organizational consulting background and managed teams and quarterly reports so I didn't think I would need this. But Karin taught me not only the message, marketing and money matters, but the daily operations, routines and rituals of a profitable company of one. This made a huge difference. 

These days, I'm working on my own terms, from the start of my day, to the end of my day and my former corporate colleagues are often stunned that I'm pulling it off. I’m on track to replacing my corporate salary in just year two of my business. Most importantly, I have the freedom in my career I have always longed for and once thought was impossible.

Katrin Hormann
Career & Stress Management Coach
KatrinHormann.de
Germany

I am happy with the flow of clients, type of clients, happy with my rates, referrals, my message and more!

Before hiring Karin, I had hit a point in my business where either I had to get a real job or needed a way to figure how to make real money with my practice.

But with my youngest a few years away from school full-time, I didn’t see a path from where I was to a business that could provide an actual income that worked for my family long-term.

I took a leap of faith in myself, fueled by the thought that at least I should really, truly try and hire someone to teach me the things I didn’t know how to do.

I learned so many things in our work together that have helped me create a solid business!

We clarified my message, transforming my neutral website into one that speaks to my ideal clients. We redesigned my services to be more effective, profitable and simpler to deliver. We created marketing that was doable while being home with children.

Basically, Karin showed me how to create simple systems that made sense for my business.

She also showed me the value and importance of making mindset work a regular part of my business foundation. I didn’t realize how important mindset was! Learning new mindset tools from someone real enough to share some of her own mindset struggles was a really helpful combination for me.

Now, in addition to having my marketing fine tuned, I am able to handle the challenges in business without getting caught up in overthinking or overcomplicating and trying to do what everyone is doing. I am much more aware of being able to do what works for me and leave the rest!

These days, I’m so happy with the business I have created. I am happy with the flow of clients and the type of clients I work with, happy with my rates, referrals, my message and more!

Thank you Karin!

Kim Hawley, MA, MPH, IBCLC
Certified Holistic Sleep Coach
I help tired parents combine developmental knowledge with their intuition to improve family sleep.
IntuitiveParentingDC.com
Washington, DC

As the sole provider of income in my household this has me sleeping much better at night!

I was ready to take off in a new direction with my 12-year-old coaching business; so I hired Karin to help me integrate all of the different pieces of my work into one clear message, audience and marketing strategy in order to make a smooth transition into my new niche.

I chose Karin as my coach because I’m a company of one (and so is she). This means I don’t have a team of employees to do the work for me nor do I have time to waste on a variety of strategies. I needed a work smarter, not harder strategy not only in my message but in my marketing plan too.

In a short time, I was able to refocus my efforts and hit the ground running. I clarified my niche and created a new website with a compelling message that speaks directly to my ideal clients. Karin helped me select a simple marketing plan that feels manageable, easy to implement, and that I can build my entire career around.

My focus in the day-to-day activities of my business has also improved and I’m more confident than ever about my future and the financial viability of my coaching practice. As the sole provider of income in my household this has me sleeping much better at night!

Behind-the-scenes, Karin’s coaching, personalized editing of my marketing materials and simple step-by-step approach to getting things done made the whole process simple and surprisingly painless.

I never had to stare at a blank piece of paper to figure out what to write or how to say the right thing on my website. Her knack for weaving content into a singular narrative helped ease me through the bumpiest parts of the writing process.

I’m feeling very confident and optimistic about my future!

JD Rose
Soulful Money Coaching for Independent Women
TheResourcedWoman.com
Massachusetts

The first four clients booked my highest level program.

When I first met Karin I was working a demanding job and had an idea for a new coaching business that I felt was going nowhere.

I had graduated from a top coaching school, I had a decade+ of professional health care career but between my intense work schedule and watching all my colleagues trying all sorts of things in business and spinning their wheels, I just didn’t have the time or mental bandwidth to fiddle around with random marketing ideas. So I made the leap to hire a pro to help set me up in business.

In our work together, she took my ideas and helped me put all the pieces together into a solid business foundation. From how to communicate my idea into a website that powerfully represents my work, to how to package my services in the simplest way for a new business to get going quickly, to even all the behind-the-scenes things I didn’t know I needed, including professional policies, systems and even retraining my brain to think like a successful small business owner.

I now have a solid message, a unique niche to focus on instead of trying to be all things to people, compelling services to offer and simple marketing to take on the road.

Best of all, she helped me see that my ideas really could work, especially in what I deemed a very challenging and uncommon niche – helping blue collar workers. She took my ideas and turned it into gold!

Within days of sharing my new website and implementing her simple marketing recommendation, I booked 4 new clients who all signed up for my highest service level. I was nervous that my business idea could work and now I feel 100% more confident about my future.

If you want to get set up in business the right away and stop twiddling your thumbs and sitting on your ideas, especially if you want to figure out how to integrate all of your professional experience into one business, I highly recommend working with Karin to get going in business fast. 

Liz Masik
Blue Collar Health Coach
https://bluecollarwellness.net
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Within days of sharing my new website, new sessions were being booked! And in a pandemic!

Before working with Karin I had been doing my work for years without a website, program, or anything formalized for that matter.

I was ready to take my work more seriously after adding a new coaching certificate to my training. I needed structure, coaching and step-by-step guidance from an expert because even as a motivated person, I had a list of “to do” in my business that wasn’t getting done.

After listening to Karin’s Small Practice, Big Results class, I knew I found my business “home.” I never wanted to work full-time nor did I care about being a sage from the stage.

I just needed to know how to package all that I do and manage it in a simple, doable way. The 25-hour workweek was perfect for my family life (I’m a new grandma!), volunteering, and for taking my business on the road for when my husband retires in a few years.

In our work together, we put everything together, and I mean EVERYTHING. The decisions, the pricing, the words for my website and offers and I didn’t have to do it alone. Karin was there each step of the way.

The mindset coaching was a surprising delight! We worked through my doubts, COVID challenges, information overwhelm and the resources and mindshifts she provided were essential to seeing this through.

Within days of sharing my new website, new sessions were being booked! And it was all automated – no busy work to tend to.

I 100% recommend Karin’s Happy Little Practice coaching. It gives you the structure to succeed, the guidance and coaching you need to fill in the gaps in your knowledge and the time you need to turn your ideas into a solid business foundation.

Lisa Hamilton
Guiding Empty Nesters to Greater Fitness, Health and Joy
MovementIsMagical.com
Texas

As a woman, mom, wife and holistic health professional, this was exactly what I needed.

Before working with Karin I knew I had great information to share with clients. I had received exceptional training in my expertise, but hardly any information on the business side of my work.

I had tried different marketing things, and wasn’t really sure what I was doing. I felt at a loss of how to turn my inconsistent income from my practice into something real.

I was also desperate to find a way to make my complicated, scientific work easier to deliver. I just didn’t have a simple way to onboard and guide clients through the work.

Since working together, there have been many, many positive changes.

I now have a website that sends me clients regularly and clearly explains what I do in compelling language.

My site completely automates welcoming new clients and has drastically reduced tons of busy work I used to do.

I am also steadily letting go of the side gigs because now my business is steadily earning more, and I am creating a greater sense of “time abundance” in my work.

I have been able to gently, double my income while being a mom of 6, homeschooling 4 of my children, and navigating a challenging time in my personal life.

Now I am so clear how my work saves lives because the problem I solve for clients is a life disruptor. This knowing is a powerful motivator for implementing gentle marketing strategy that we created.

Most surprising, is the help I received with all the things I didn’t know I needed:  I learned a lot about the mindset of resilience, how to handle life interruptions in business and how to lay the foundation of a sustainable private practice with zero burnout.

It was also so refreshing to have no pressure, no shaming about where I was in my business progress, and no matter what I was going through.

Marquelle Brown
Break Free from Digestive Pain Expert
MarquelleBrown.com
Oklahoma

Our work led to my first high-ticket client!

Like many practitioners and experts, I had received top tier training in my field, but I still did not know exactly how to birth my coaching into the world in a cohesive, and compelling way.

I knew I needed professional coaching and step-by-step guidance. Karin’s Happy Little Practice Method was just what I needed to re-launch my practice in a focused and sustainable way for this single mom.

In our work together, I was able to create a unique message, and a specific niche that I feel uniquely qualified to serve.  Together we created client-centered copy for a website refresh, a simple, signature program the focuses all the things I do in my work, we made decisions on pricing and so much more. All of it was set up to give me a solid foundation in my business. This really made me feel like a pro!

I realize that in talking with colleagues and seeing what others are doing in my field, I am now leaps ahead in the “launching a new business” game.

Best of all, our work led to my first high-ticket client, within a month of designing my new way of working with clients. This is before I even started my marketing!

I am so proud of how much I have grown in my confidence and clarity in the short time we worked together. I have a solid business foundation in place with everything I need to get going, and I feel so savvy!

I valued my coaching time with Karin. She was always available for any and all questions I had throughout the redesign and restructuring process of my practice.

I have learned so much about the entrepreneurial mindset and marketing that will serve me for years to come.

Savannah Kate Coffey
Love & Intimacy Coach
Helping Women Heal Heartbreak, Reclaim Radiance, and Create Big Love
www.savannahkate.com
South Carolina

I raised my rates multiple times.

When I first came to Karin, I was working with many different kinds of clients who were experiencing all kinds of different health issues and I wanted to find my niche.

My mind was running into all kinds of different directions and I felt I needed help figuring this out.

The second problem was that I wasn’t charging enough for what I was doing. I felt that in order to have a rewarding and profitable, long-term business I needed to get more specific and raise my rates.

In our first round of coaching, Karin helped me figure out who and what I enjoyed working with most, and translated this into my signature program, which I am really proud. This helped me break free of charging by the hour or for just a few sessions.

She also helped me with my entrepreneurial mindset around the structure of my practice and my pricing. Together, we created powerful marketing materials for my work that really resonates with my ideal clients, including the best ways to reach them and attract new clients.

Before I even finished our “business redesign” coaching, I signed my first boutique client. I can’t tell you how excited I was to be finally building an ideal, rewarding, profitable dream business. I must admit, I was nervous about Karin’s own structure and methodology for getting this work done, but it was really great.

Her coaching was timely, she always answered my questions and even provided things I didn’t know I needed in my business. I can honestly say I got everything I wanted.

Over the course of our work, we have also systematically raised my rates multiple times in a way that worked for my pace, the marketplace and what felt right to me.

I came back to Karin a few years later after my family moved from Manila to Dubai and I realized my services were no longer unique in the local community.

I had to up my game once again. We swiftly refreshed my messaging to be even more focused, integrated my new Master’s Degree level of education to stand out from other professionals in my region.

Honestly, I came back to Karin for a second round of coaching because there just wasn’t anyone else teaching business building and marketing in a way that Karin does: Small practice, big results, part-time hours, super simple systems, mindset and more. I liked it so much that I came to do this work twice!

Monique Jhingon, MS, Core Nutrition Specialist
Helping executives, entrepreneurs and other high performing people across the globe to feel energized, focused and productive by optimizing their core center of health.
moniquejhingon.com
Dubai

I added a new coaching service to my supplement business!

Before hiring Karin I was already running a successful online supplement business and wrote multiple books. Despite my success, I was beginning to see a shift in what was working online and I knew I needed to rely less on Internet traffic.

The times were changing online and what used to work was becoming less and less effective. I wanted to take the helm of these changes and start by adding a coaching arm to my business that wouldn’t require trying to reach the masses.

In our work together we created a 3-tier signature IBS program that allows me to guide women and help them overcome the debilitating effects of this health challenge.

From what to include in the program, what to leave out, to how to invite my existing network into this service with integrity, to eliminating my concerns about selling and marketing a service instead of a product (something new to me), Karin’s help, input and outstanding expertise helped me put everything I need together.

Since that time, I have enjoyed working with women suffering from IBS and expanded my business to include a physical storefront and in-person consulting with residents in my local region. In this exciting new capacity, I have been asked to counsel people with other conditions, and I still use what I learned from Karin to structure my new offers.

I have no doubt that much of my success in my consulting arm of my business is a direct result of Karin’s expert knowledge and guidance on how to structure and market my program.

As a nutritionist, I certainly know how to provide dietary advice, but Karin helped me create a very organized, multi-level offering of services that not only paved the way for me to make a positive impact in a much-needed area (IBS affects up to 45 million people in the US alone), but also provided flexibility to tailor my services to the level of care my clients needed.

Thank you, Karin!

Sherry Brescia, MSHN
IBS Expert, Nutritionist, Author and National Speaker
HolisticBlends.com

Before hiring Karin, I knew I was ready to earn more for my family.

My husband was making a career shift and it was my turn to lead. I had tried for years to raise my income, but it always seem to involve working more or harder. I needed a new way of doing business that was uncomplicated and doable.

I also had a busy (too busy!) yoga studio and private fitness training business and wasn't sure how I was going to pull off adding coaching into my business.

I had been following Karin's emails and attending her classes, so I had a good idea what was in store for me. But still, if I’m honest, I was thinking that no one is going to buy the kind of coaching I wanted to offer.

None-the-less, we set to work carving out a fresh, compelling message from the many ideas I had. I was in my busy season and had just a few hours a week to work on this at best. I also started to be in regular communication with my students in new ways that quite frankly, shocked me how well it worked.

The long and short of it is, within 6 months of working with Karin, not only did I see a complete return on my investment in my business, but I have been surprised and delighted that new coaching clients have paid me in full for a coaching program of my design.

My favorite part of doing this work is how valuable it was to learn how to market my ideas and breaking free of charging by the hour. Karin’s process makes it very clear how to turn an idea into a compelling service offering that people want to pay you for. Our conversations about mindset also helped me think about myself, my income and my business in new ways too!

Judith Wonacott
Elk Rapids, WI
ERBodyWise.com

Before working with Karin, I had an email list but wasn't creating enough clients. 

I made back my investment of working with Karin within 6 months (which was really important to me). We did this by refocusing my message, website, services and marketing. And then we implemented simple marketing and mindset routines to bring all of this to life. 

She was really great to work with — always dependable and always gave great feedback on every single question I had.

Now, even on days when I feel shaky, I know that I can make this a successful, meaningful and lucrative practice.

Molly Lupo, DNP
Omaha, NE
More Than Weight Loss Method + Lupo Preventative Medicine
www.mollylupo.com

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