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A million audience surveys say the median speaking fee is $2,500, ratings are meaningless, and the format coaches ignore is the one that rebooks.
Nudge Coach, Practice.do and Profi all went dark between April and December 2025. Here's the 10-minute audit every coach should run this week.
Buried in the ICF's own 76-page futures report is a scenario where verified skills replace association badges — nine days before Converge opens in Washington.
One publisher posted the full receipt this week. The arithmetic of a chargeback is worse than almost anyone selling a membership assumes.
LinkedIn is quietly showing authors a private note when readers flag their posts as machine-written, and most coaches haven't seen it yet.
Eleven states passed chatbot laws this year. None of them regulate the one word the apps are quietly landing on: coach.
Vimeo On Demand dies in 40 days. Your storefront already stopped taking money three weeks ago, and the refund problem lands on you.
A million audience surveys later, the speaking industry's biggest status symbol turns out to be its worst repeat-business engine.
The record MLM settlement isn't really about soap. It's about who gets to charge beginners for the system that's supposed to make them successful.
A new market report values executive coaching certification at $13.07 billion. The entire global coaching profession, by ICF's count, earns $5.34 billion.
A creator with millions of followers uses AI to run her inbox — then hit a campaign brief that banned it from the work entirely. Coaches should read this twice.
Three famous speakers walked away from Life Surge in four days. The reason is a lesson every coach who rents out their credibility should read twice.
Three coaching platforms died in one year. The ones still standing have one thing in common — and it isn't funding.
A Digiday explainer put a name to a quiet arrangement: the ghost creator, paid to execute a brief under a borrowed identity. Followers optional.
The most-repeated figure in the coaching world has no primary source — and AI search summaries are now quoting it back at you as fact.
The company that spent a decade proving coaching could scale has quietly concluded the person paying isn't a person at all.
Meta One went global this week with a four-rung business ladder. Only one line item on it actually changes a coaching funnel.
Twitch turned AI training on by default and its product chief explained why out loud. Coaches record every client call on somebody else's platform.
Air AI's owners agreed to a lifetime ban and a mostly suspended $18 million judgment. The charges hinged on paperwork most coaches have never heard of.
The new wave of AI therapy laws was written to stop chatbots. Several of them are worded broadly enough to reach a coach's sales page.
