High-Ticket Coaching Doesn't Make You a Leader—It Makes You a Marketer

May 20, 2025

(And If That Stings, It's Probably True)

You've been told if you just raise your prices, automate your funnel, and niche down hard enough,

you'll finally be seen as a leader.

You've been told that clients will respect you more,

 that you'll finally attract the "right kind of people."

 that your coaching will become effortless, scalable, premium.


I know it doesn't feel good to hear this, especially when you paid a lot of money to learn the party line, but none of that stuff you learned about high-ticket pricing is about coaching. It's about marketing.

When you are raising the prices for status vs. substance, high-ticket coaching doesn't make you a leader.


 It makes you a marketer.

 It turns your work into a performance

 and your clients into prey.

When the model is built on maximizing profit over depth,

you stop asking:

What does this person need?


And start asking:

How can I convert them faster?

That's not coaching.

That's salesmanship in spiritual drag.

You feel it, don't you, the dissonance and exhaustion?

The ache that comes from knowing your work is meant to go deeper,

but you've been taught to keep it surface-level and large audience palatable, so it sells.

The high-ticket coaching industry rewards polish over presence,

formulas over flexibility,

volume over nuance.


You didn't get into this to become a content machine.

You came here because something in you said:

There's more -

More truth, more impact, and more soul.

You don't want to just coach.

You want to liberate.

That requires something high-ticket can't give you:

Range. Resonance. Realness.


You can still make money.

You can still be paid beautifully for your work.

But you don't have to trade your soul to do it.

Leadership isn't about how expensive your offer is.

It's about how honest your work is.


The best coaches aren't the best closers.

They're the ones who can sit in the fire with a client and not flinch.

They're the ones who know how to hold depth, pattern, contradiction, and grief.

They're the ones who don't need a script or a specific set of pre-cut tools— because they've done the inner work to show up unarmored and true.


That's what we teach at The Coaching Guild.

Multi-instructor, multi-disciplinary coaching education.

Rooted in liberation, emotional intelligence, and nuance.

No hype. No bait-and-switch. No funnel cult vibes.

You'll walk away with the skills to coach real humans—messy, magnificent ones.


This isn't just a certification. It's a complete untraining of everything the industry taught you to do to be "successful."

If you're tired of coaching that prioritizes optics over impact—

and you're ready to lead from depth, not just from price point—

you belong here.


The Coaching Guild is now enrolling.

Spaces are limited. Applications are reviewed personally.

Don't miss the next generation of coaching.

Build it.

 www.thecoachingguild.com



The Coaching Guild is a training coach training program specifically designed to nurture dreamers, artists, creatives, outsiders, rebels, and good troublemakers. It is a multi-instructor, multi-disciplinary approach to training that prioritizes learning innovative foundational coaching skills and marketing training.


If you are interested in coach training done very differently, hit me up for a no-pressure, no BS, no trip, and fall into a sales funnel conversation. Let’s talk about what's possible for you as a coach.


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