Summary: When Jonathan first started traveling the world with his wife and young son, Calvin, as an online entrepreneur and the founder of the Personal Trainer Development Center and The Online Trainer Academy he had his own set of challenges. Jonathan is constantly overcoming the challenges of being in different time zones from his team, producing the world's largest online blog platform for fit pros, and of course, being the family man he is. Jonathan strongly believes that his own success can be attributed to being able to define problems, find the solution, and follow the endless opportunities that this can bring. On this episode of The Coaches Corner Podcast, Jonathan shares his story and insights on what it takes to be truly successful. A few takeaways from this episode are... Decide what your long term strategy is for your online coaching business so you can keep your future at the top of your mind Understand what the price of freedom is for you so you can have a direct goal to work towards with your online coaching business Learn how to discover what your problems are so you can find the solution and see the infinite opportunities you have as an online coach Differentiate between the right and wrong things you should be doing in your business so you can avoid feeling overwhelmed and focus on what really matters There will always be problems to resolve as an online coach... How much money to make? How much you should charge for your coaching program? What software should I use for my online coaching business? Jonathan simplifies it all: Once you can define the problem, you can find the solution. The real issue, therefore, is not the problem but in asking the wrong questions!! Enjoy The Podcast Coach! Freedom is providing you the opportunity to fail - Jonathan Goodman . Episode Breakdown: Define Problems and the Opportunities will be Endless with Jonathan Goodman 0:20 quick intro on what we’ll be covering inside this episode 1:03 Who is Jonathan Goodman 1:57 Building a business on text and words instead of audio and video 2:52 What working remotely (around the world) forces you to do when traveling the world and own an online business 5:50 Scaling vs. amplifying the business 8:13 Long term planning and the big vision 10:57 Meaningless goals as an online trainer 11:01 Money and happiness 13:55 Where it all started 16:12 From personal trainer to an educator 17:13 The Freedom Number 18:03 Identifying problems, finding the solution, and overcoming the problem 20:22 The clarity that comes from knowing your Freedom Number 24:15 Too much information will be a disservice to your clients 25:28 The Ignorance Quotion 26:17 New books to watch out for from Jonathan and his team 29:53 How do you decide what to read now? 31:28 Writing a book should not be easy 33:07 How to know what you should actually be doing as an online coach 36:48 The best resources for scaling an online coaching business 38:06 Advice for a new coach in the industry or as a new entrepreneur 42:28 What you really need to do in order to succeed as an online coach 44:27 The reasons why people buy things (including your coaching) 46:53 If you could pass one concept back to your younger self, what would it be? To learn more from Jonathan and the Personal Trainer Development Center, click HERE! https://www.theptdc.com
