I get asked this a lot. And the truth is, 2026 is going to be a big year for career coaches. The industry is changing, and if you’re not ready, you might be left behind. Here’s what’s coming: 1. Personal branding will be more important than ever: With AI becoming a bigger part of the job market, standing out will come down to how well you’ve built your personal brand. People don’t connect with algorithms; they connect with people. 2. Building community and accountability will be essential: Strategy alone won’t cut it. You need to build a community that supports each other, and create accountability systems that push clients to take action and get results. 3. Understanding your clients’ successes and failures is a game changer: Look at your most successful clients and your struggling ones. What are the patterns? What works, and what doesn’t? Use those insights to refine your coaching programs and double down on what gets results. The landscape is shifting fast, and now’s the time to prepare. I want to hear from you. What are you doing right now to prepare for 2026?

Choosing a career is one of the most formative decisions of your life. Too often, this choice is framed around a narrow set of criteria: salary, status, and security. While these factors are important, a truly fulfilling career offers something more—a sense of purpose and the knowledge that your work contributes positively to the world. This guide is designed to help you look beyond the surface of a job description and assess its genuine productivity. We define genuine productivity as the efficient and sustainable generation of wealth in its broadest sense. This includes not just financial wealth, but also the well-being of our communities, the health of our planet, and the richness of our culture. To do this, we will use the lens of the 8 Forms of Capital and the critical perspective of "Bullshit Jobs" Theory . This framework will equip you to analyze a potential career opportunity and determine if it is a path toward a meaningful future or a pointless dead end. The 8 Capitals Assessment For any career opportunity you are considering, ask yourself the following questions. A genuinely productive career will have positive answers in several of these categories, especially those that matter most to you. It should not actively degrade any of them. 1. Living Capital (The Planet) •Regeneration or Depletion?: Does this work directly contribute to healing and regenerating natural systems (e.g., restoring soil, cleaning water, increasing biodiversity), or does it rely on depleting them? •Impact of the End Product: Is the ultimate product or service of this company part of the solution or part of the problem for the planet's health? 2. Material Capital (The Things) •Durability or Disposability?: Does this job involve creating durable, repairable, and high-quality goods and infrastructure, or does it contribute to a culture of disposable, low-quality products? •Circularity: Does the company's process aim to eliminate waste and circulate resources, or is it a linear model of "take, make, waste"?

I created a ChatGPT to help you guide clients choose and get a job in the new green economy. Free to use by you and your clients in exchange for feedback! Choose a Green Career https://chatgpt.com/g/g-68517df79adc8191bc747f9aa7eff4cd-green-champion Get that Green Job https://chatgpt.com/g/g-68512ec9273881919984a78989c3b211-green-job-launcher

I will be traveling this week to Las Vegas to meet with the Acquisition team. And in case you haven't heard from them, it is the company that Alex Hormozi founded, where they help other business owners scale and become even more successful. You know I am a huge fan of paying for knowledge and cutting off the learning curve, so I am really excited to meet with them again. Long story short, I would love to make an event telling you everything I learn from them. Would this be interesting for you guys? Let me know what you think, and who would be down for it!!

Have you tried using your own custom bot as a conversation starter with your career coaching client? Multiple intelligences (MI) is a theory first posited by Harvard developmental psychologist Howard Gardner in 1983 The 8 original suggested intelligences are visual-spatial, verbal-linguistic, musical-rhythmic, logical-mathematical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, naturalistic bodily-kinesthetic 1 Choose your top 2 skills from the list 2 Put your top couple of MI strengths in this chatbot and ask it to suggest a green economy career for you. https://chatgpt.com/g/g-68517df79adc8191bc747f9aa7eff4cd-green-champion Eg: I am good at photography and talking to people, what Green jobs would you suggest? Answer: Environmental Communications Specialist... 3 Put that career idea into the second bot and ask it how to get a job https://chatgpt.com/g/g-68512ec9273881919984a78989c3b211-green-job-launcher Eg: Please tell me the first steps to become an Environmental Communications Specialist Answer: Here's how to get started: 1. Build the Right Micro-Credentials and Skills...