As the title says. I’m not sure if this is considered an unpopular opinion, but I’m really not falling for these “life coaches” who are 20, 30, even 40 years old. I genuinely think you have to go through life’s journey (50+) to be a life coach. As everyone knows this, people as young as even 30 still have life to experience and hasn’t been through most of what life has to offer. So just know, if you’re a life coach under the age of 50, i call bs and calling it what it is: a scam. Thanks for coming to my ted talk. Sorry if it’s actually a popular opinion I’ve just never heard anyone around me talk about this
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Life coaching in general is a silly profession.
I agree. I feel the same way about “dating coaches” who have never been or are not in a long term marriage.
My former supervisor was about 20 years younger than me, and always tried to give me life advice.
She didn’t take any sort of criticism very well, so I just nodded and thanked her for her input, lol.
Reminds me of this girl I went to HS with who’s in her late 20s and has been single her whole life. She’s a marriage counselor now lol
I would agree, except isn’t a coach like, not a teacher, but just someone who guides you through some questions?
I (27m) have been recommend life coach videos by people who are like 18.
What kind of life advice do these guys have? That’s a serious question by the way, as I always scroll to the next video.
Life coaches is just therapy but for women
I don’t think I have ever known anyone who has hired a life coach. Who is hiring them?
Ageism is kinda weird OP.
Also, life coaches are scams. ALL of them
One’s ability to be a life coach comes down to how much others are willing to pay them to coach them.
100% agree. Also, if youre a life coach, actually be good at life. I know a lady who’s a life coach. She outright sucks at life. I wouldn’t take advise from this person on where to order a pizza from, let alone an important life issue I’m dealing with. Really makes me wonder how many other life coaches are in a similar position. If you need a mentor, find a friend or family member who has their shit together and ask for help.
Life coaching is such a dumb scam. “Wake up at 0500 and grind!!” Bullshit, real life coaching should be how to balance a budget, change a tire, shoot a gun, win a fight. That’s life, not some hustlers university bullshit.
why not? life coach is a useless, made up profession, might as well let them. like realistically “life coach” is just a hype man for pay, and idk when tf i’d ever be in a situation where a bunch of youngbloods would be around and hyping me up, but i wouldn’t say no to a little encouragement.
By the time I was 10 I had gone through a laundry list of horrors that encroached on both my physical and emotional health.
Because of this, by the time college came around I had all sorts of wisdom to share – which would only surface late at night after a flurry of drinking games.
Lost track of how many people tried to convince me to get into life coaching. It always felt ridiculous.
Even in my 30s I feel nowhere near prepared to be responsible for someone else’s life decisions.
Absolutely would be like getting a overweight personal trainer that has never worked out or a financial advisor that stays broke. Life is hard really hard and about moving on after a disaster etc. Unfortunately it takes time and experience. View a ‘life coach’ as a monetized mentor. Doesn’t seem like an ideal situation but I’m sure there‘s value in some circumstances.
Age isn’t a factor in being a scammer.
I actually disagree! Anyone can be a life coach, because life coaches are just con artists.
They don’t actually need to have lived an eventful or even successful life. They just need the people skills to know what to say to help you feel motivated and good about yourself.
Unless your old and gray, I cannot take most of your life advice seriously.
Personal opinion: Lifecoaches are absolute bullshit and shouldn’t be a thing.
Are life coaches just people too embarrassed to admit they’re lazy trust fund babies? Like I honestly cannot understand who’s hiring and paying these people.
I went out on a date with one recently who was 10 years younger than me. She seemed to only have a handful of clients and traveled a ton, so there’s no way she was making enough money to afford her lifestyle. And she didn’t have shit figure out at all, the audacity of her coaching others!
Life coaching is one of those professions that tends to attract a very specific type of person, and those people tend to be attracted to the role for reasons that make them ill suited to it. Anyone can just decide to call themselves a life coach.
I’ve known two people who became life coaches + their life coach friends. Every single one of them had sped run a bunch of career paths that didn’t work out (including lots of failed MLMs), and and their newest ‘thing’ was life coaching. They were all a very particular type of person, idk how to quite to describe it, but they were obviously the type of people who had had no clear path in life yet considered themselves naturally qualified to charge people for their advise on their path in life.
I consider “life coaching” in general to be a scam in the sense of the word you’re using there, especially when there are therapists and social workers who specialize in this type stuff.
Anybody who uses that term unironically needs to be slapped, but generally speaking I agree that you usually need to have lived through experiences to advise younger people on them.
So a young person might be the BEST “coach” for getting a high school graduate through freshman college class registration, but isn’t going to help anyone build an executive level resume/CV.
I still don’t know what these people do
All unqualified life coaches are scam artists. They go into the same bag as psychics and mediums. Some just have more experience in the scam.
20 is ridiculous. I see them on instagram and just want to laugh. Paying these people is burning money
I once humored meeting my friends “life coach”. I had specific goals for myself as I was in my early 20s I wanted to own my own business, own my own home, be financially stable, and be happily married.
I asked her each of these about herself. When the woman in her 40s told me she had never been married, didn’t own a home and wasnt saving for retirement yet I informed her she was qualified to coach me. I don’t think any successful people try to become “coaches”
So you’re gonna let someone, whos crowning achievement is to coach others how to live, coach you on how to live your life?
If they are a multimillionaire, with some actual proper success stories under their belt, then sure I’ll take their advice. But if your biggest success is coaching others, then I’m not so sure I need the advice you are able to give.
If someone has built and is living the lifestyle i want to live, I’m open to hearing their advice
Kinda silly to block out 30/40 yr olds who may have 10-20 years exp
It’s all a scam. Different generations grow up with completely different standards, standards based on how the world worked in theyr time. If a 50+ would try to push theyr norm on a now 20y person it would never work out as the world has already evolved to something else.
Kinda depends on who they’re coaching.
This comes down to a geenrational thing for me and as long as people coach inside there own age group, I think it could be done.
Millennials, for example, could coach other millennials, but there’s no way they could coach a Gen Xer As a Gen Xer, I’m not really sure I could coach a millennial – times have changed – it’s a lot harder to carve out a stable career and own a home for a 30-year-old now than it was when I was that age. They face challenges I didn’t and as such don’t feel qualified* to advise.
* not literally qualified 😉
I know a motivational speaker for entrepreneurs who is like 22 but has a net worth of roughly 50-100 million from drop-shipping and crypto. He regularly claims he grew up “homeless”. I don’t buy it. I’ve tried to verify information on his past and found it surprisingly difficult to get any information past 3 years ago.
Life coach’s aka unlicensed therapists.
When I was about 26 I worked with someone who was 24 and they decided their career had hit a brick wall so decided to become a life coach.
I think I laughed when she said that’s what she was doing.
They can be. They are. This is incorrect. Downvoted
its marketing and nonsense but
age has nothing to do with it, there are some real life coaches and then there are the band wagon jumpers trying to make a buck.
being a good leader has very little to do with age, but age helps you become an even better one.
plenty of old people are terrible leaders and that’s what a life coach is, somebody that leads and gives people who need direction direction.
The only people that think this is an unpopular opinion are those who are pretending to be life coaches.
To be honest, the best advice i get is from people below 50, sometimes 30s sometimes 40s. The advice that old people give as almost always out dated and severely disconnected from how the current world works. They had it the easiest in life. They were statistically the wealthiest generation, and NOT because they “worked hard” but rather things were so much easier for them. Tbey are the people who went to the grocery store, bought a bag of grapes, went to the bank, and used the bags if grapes as a down payment for a 3 bedroom house, then turn around and say that people need to “work harder.” I would trust an 8 year old as a life coach before I trust a person in their 80s to be a life coach…
I literally just rewatched an old episode of “The Suite Life of Zack and Cody,” where Cody tries to become a life coach and Zack calls him out on his BS. Of course, Zack is right, and all of the people Cody gave the advice of “Pilot your own life” to, ended up worse off.
Yeah… I think “life coaches” and “motivational speakers” are con artists who do what they do because they have no talent or skill anywhere else. I am currently working on a book on how I am trying to overcome my depression. But I am making it clear that I am NOT giving advice but rather telling my story so people know that they aren’t alone.
I feel the same way any time I see parenting advice from people without children.
I’d say for the most part, you’re right. I’m sure there are some young people who have done the research and are good problem solvers, so there are always exceptions. It’ll depend on what you need and what kind of person you relate to.
I’m interested in the responses though. Everyone is saying life coaching is a scam- it can be, there are people abusing the title- but there are also people who benefit from someone to bounce stuff off of. That’s it. The vast majority of the public who can benefit from life coaching don’t need someone with high education or experience, they need someone to break down what they need to do (according to the client, not the coach) into bite sized pieces and hold them accountable. It’s not a hard job if you have the mind for it.
Don’t confuse a life coach with a career coach or a business coach or any other specialties that require more area knowledge. Life coaching is mainly listening, being kind, and helping people unstick themselves. It’s a friend with a specific interest in sitting down and helping you that hour.
while I understand what the essence of your idea is, I don’t believe that experience one gains and age has a strictly linear relationship. I’d rather listen to a 30 year old person, who experienced a lot, reflects a lot and is openminded than to a person twice their age, who lived all their life being narrow-minded or in a bubble. Just being old doesn’t yield wisdom.
also, to be a life coach, I assume, you don’t have to be knowledgeable about all aspects. so, I’d gladly listen to a younger person about fields that they are knowledgeable about.
and coaching is a form of teaching, so just being old doesn’t mean that you are a good teacher.
Well I’ve seen older folks provide little substance in advice. Often times it’s very generic advice.
But they have so much life experience from losing money in their MLM.
Same as 30 year old lecturers at uni/college. Zero actual work experience and all based on a PhD type course from other zero experience lectures lol.
Wait till you find out the life coaches over 50 are also a scam. Turns out there isn’t a 1-size-fits-all solution to the problems of life.