Make Money as a Life Coach® · Stacey Boehman

MVP: Hustle Shame

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Stacey Baiman says hustle shame hurts the coach-client relationship more than the business itself.

1. Make Money as a Life Coach® uses 'MVP: Hustle Shame' to examine how hustle shame shows up in coaching and business relationships. 2. Stacey Baiman is the host, a sales expert and master coach, and she says she teaches people how to make their first 2K, 20K, and 200K. 3. The episode asks what hustle shame is and why it matters when coaches try to help clients slow down or work differently. 4. Stacey defines hustle shame as shame created around hustling because it is seen as bad or because it creates negative results. 5. She defines hustle as action driven by urgency, insufficiency, unworthiness, inadequacy, and fear. 6. She says hustle can also appear when someone works fast to create results so they can believe they can hit a goal. 7. Stacey argues that changing hustle is 'exceptional' work because it means overriding how brains and society have taught people to operate. 8. She says her own response is now 'hustle compassion,' and she wants to spread that to clients and the industry. 9. She gives five patterns she has seen in her programs when someone has intense shame around hustle. 10. One pattern is discrediting the money made while hustling, even when the result is still an accomplishment. 11. Another pattern is assuming a coach who points out hustle is wrong, jealous, or trying to get the client to under-earn. 12. She says a third pattern is hearing a push toward bigger goals as encouragement to hustle, which then gets blamed on the coach. 13. She describes a fourth pattern where clients put non-hustling people on a pedestal and decide those people are better human beings. 14. She describes a fifth pattern where clients resent coaches who will not hustle for them the way they hustle for clients. 15. Stacey says the answer is not to stop working, but to clean up the thoughts that create scarcity, insufficiency, and fear. 16. She says clients often want to quit masterminds, cancel goals, or stop working altogether when hustle is uncovered, but she recommends one decision at a time. 17. The tone is direct, personal, and reflective, with repeated examples from Stacey’s own coaching experience and business. 18. The format is a solo teaching episode with long stretches of explanation, self-disclosure, and coaching language. 19. People coaching coaches or tracking work-life boundaries will find this useful. 20. Listeners wanting light business advice without emotional introspection will probably skip it.

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Hustle shame is treated as the force that distorts business boundaries and the coach-client relationship.

Stacey Baiman draws a clean line between hustle and hard work, then shows how shame can warp both business decisions and the coach-client relationship.

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For when hustle shame keeps you stuck in the cycle of hustling, breaking, hustling, and never hitting your goal.

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