Lenita Abouchabake is the Managing Director of Teen Coach Academy, which offers training for educators, counselors, coaches, and speakers to empower and transform teens' lives. As a thought leader, coach, speaker, and former teacher, she is one of the leading voices in the teen education market. Lenita focuses on building influential teen coaches to strengthen support in schools, homes, and communities.
With social media negatively influencing teens’ lives, these young individuals experience higher rates of anxiety, depression, and conflicting social isolation. Accordingly, teen coaching has become a profitable niche market as more parents seek help for their children. How can you build a reliable and scalable business to transform young lives?
Historically, experts maintained teen coaching was an underperforming market and struggled to obtain parental buy-in. With a passion for impacting teens long-term, former educator Lenita Abouchabake built and expanded her coaching business from a supplementary income source to a six-figure career. Penetrating this market requires developing and adhering to a scalable business model and committing to the extended journey. When gaining initial traction, Lenita recommends sharing your business venture with your family and friends and conveying your mission to parents and others involved in teens’ lives.
In this episode of Growth to Freedom, Dan Kuschell chats with Lenita Abouchabake, the Managing Director of Teen Coach Academy, about growing a teen coaching business. Lenita discusses learning from common coaching mistakes, how she navigates the highs and lows of business success, and her ideal coaching clients.