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Feeling Guilty About Building Your Coaching Business During Work Hours?

If you’re a life coach working a 9to5 and building your business on the side, this is the conversation you didn’t know you needed.

Whether you’re sneaking in content creation between meetings or feeling guilt bubble up every time you open Canva at your desk, this blog is here to shift your mindset, expand your capacity, and reconnect you with your power.

Welcome to the Build Your Coaching Business Around the 9–5 podcast. I'm your coach, Pamela Pritchard, and I help you go from employee to business owner. Whether you're creating your first client or learning how to create clients on repeat whilst holding down your day job, I'll help you make your business dreams a reality.

Can You Really Build a Coaching Business During the 9to5?

This episode is for my coaches who are still in a corporate job. And this has come up recently with some of my clients, and honestly, it’s something that almost always comes up at least once when we’re working together.

My clients come to me because they have a 9 to 5 and they want help maintaining momentum, implementing a strategy, and upgrading their mindset so they can build their business around the 9to5 — usually with the goal of going full-time. Even if full-time for you doesn’t mean working all hours. I don’t even work full-time anymore — but I still work hard in my business. That’s a different conversation.

My Experience Building a Coaching Business in Corporate

Let me tell you about what my day looked like when I was in corporate. I started my business in January 2020. COVID hit in March/April. I was very blessed because my role allowed me to work from home occasionally even before the pandemic, but I wasn’t full-time remote.

Back then I worked in a beautiful open-plan office in Blackfriars, London. We were a trendy workplace. Laptops, phones, credit cards — all of it. I never did business stuff at my desk. But I’d book a meeting room… or stay after meetings to work on my business: content, training, coaching calls — you name it.

Then COVID happened. And unlike a lot of coaches I knew who got furloughed and had more time, I got busier. I sold HR services to the C-suite in billion-dollar companies — redundancies, furloughs, work-from-home policies… all of it went through me. I was busy. But I still made time for my business.

Is It Wrong to Work on Your Coaching Business During Corporate Hours?

Before we go any further, let me say this clearly: you are your own responsibility. You don’t have to do anything I did. I’m just sharing what I did and the mindset I had around it.

This episode is especially for you if:

You’re in a job where building your business during work hours isn’t an option (like in healthcare) — and you're curious.
You are doing it… but you feel guilty and shit about it.
You’re doing it, but maybe there’s an integrity piece we need to address so you’re not dropping the ball on your 9–5.

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