Anxiety Road Podcast

I’m working my way through the mental health telemedicine providers and I’m coming across the word “coach.”    I get a little leery about that word because I’ve had some experiences with people using it to wrap themselves in a health wellness cloak of respectability.   I’ve gone to conferences and sat in on sessions that I thought were about how to best provide information to people wanted health information.    A couple of those sessions went into details about how to lead your audience down a sales funnel by appealing to fears, wants and needs.   And how you can position yourself as an expert to sell $47 a bottle worth of healing.   Yeah, I have a lot of preconceived bias about that word. But are my preconceived bias getting in the way of what is happening in the mental health care space?  Maybe.    This is the dipping of the toes into the coach space. Just want to define the term and some of the ways people are using it.    The next episode will be a deeper dive into health coaches and coaching. If you ne