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April 16, 2020

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I’m in Brooke Castillo’s monthly coaching program called Self Coaching Scholars. She’s the Master Coach Instructor and founder of The Life Coach School. When I found her podcast, I binged it for a year and a half before deciding to join the program.

What is Self Coaching Scholars?

Brooke knows her coaching. She knows so much and has taught so many valuable classes and created intense coaching courses that are all inside the world of Self Coaching Scholars. She started off as a weight coach. Then she branched out as an overdrinking coach. For the longest time, the only way to work with her was to pay $12,000 for one of her group coaching programs.

And then the demand exceeded her time.

Overwhelming demand for coaching created Self Coaching Scholars. It’s been half of her business model since 2017 and has impacted and improved the lives of so many people.

The ultimate benefit is learning self coaching. It’s learning how to manage your mind, take control of your emotional life, and create the life of your dreams. Many people who start off with Self Coaching Scholars also sign up for Coaching Certification but you don’t have to want to be a coach to join.

The monthly investment is $297. For some people, it’s like a car payment. But I also find it such a low barrier to entry for the value she provides in the program. If I had to trim my budget for any reason, I would not give up Self Coaching Scholars.

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What’s Included in Self Coaching Scholars?

So, so much. It’s insane value for the price, and Brooke knows it. It’s like selling a Mercedes for $10. It would be ridiculous to say no, and sometimes I wonder why I didn’t jump in sooner.

Monthly Workbooks

Every month in Scholars is an opportunity to work on something new in your life. The school provides a monthly workbook customizable to whatever plan you’re working on, whether it’s the current teaching series in Scholars, or if you’re diving into one of the programs in the Study Vault, or if you’re just working on a specific topic in your life. Some of the earliest transformative work in my coaching journey happened in the first few months of Scholars, following monthly topics and dedicating myself to the accompanying workbooks.

20-Minute Coaching Sessions

Self Coaching Scholars also includes a 20-minute coaching session with one of the school’s certified life coaches.

This is, hands-down, my favorite benefit. Professional life coaches who can show me what I’m thinking and point out where I’m blind to my own beliefs has been so incredibly valuable since I joined Scholars. Sometimes I get repeat coaches. Tons of coaches work for Brooke, so you don’t always end up with the same coach week after week. Every single one of them has helped me in some way.

For most of 2021, all I did in Scholars was daily work from one of the monthly topics, and my coaching session. Those things alone are, to me, worth the price of admission.

Ask a Coach

There’s a section called Ask a Coach where you can ask the questions you have about coaching, and there’s a separate Business Ask a Coach focused on business questions. It’s all super valuable. Just reading the questions from other Scholars lets me apply the lessons to my life.

Study Vault

You also get access to what they call the “Study Vault”. It’s a rabbit hole of all of Brooke’s work, all of the archived lessons from Scholars 1.0—the material from 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020—all of her webinars, booklets, and trainings.

This is THE NETFLIX of coaching. There is so much in here that I will probably never get through all of it, but the fact that it’s there and available is mind blowing.

Live Weekday Coaching

They also host live topic calls or live coaching every weekday. They post the recordings to the portal for students to watch back later. This has been expanded since I first wrote this review to include weekly topics JUST for certified coaches. So if you’re certified with the Life Coach School AND you’re in Scholars (which, come on, you totally should be in SCS if you’re an LCS coach), there’s a special section just for certified coaches. The benefits here go way beyond anything I ever expected.

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Why I Joined Self Coaching Scholars

They say you have to hear an offer between 11 and 17 times before you’ll decide to buy something. I listened to Brooke’s podcast, her free material which provides amazing value, for over a year before signing up. I must’ve heard her post-episode pitch over a hundred times, and it still took me a while to sign up.

But I finally did because I’m a “learn-by-doing” kind of person. I didn’t have the accountability or motivation to take action from just listening to the podcast. It certainly helped me handle a lot of things, but I knew I was scraping the bottom of my action barrel and that Self Coaching Scholars was the right answer for me.

I had, and still have, a lot of things I’m working on to improve about myself.

Time Management

The first thing I focused on when going into Scholars was honoring my commitments with myself. This is something that I’ve historically had difficulty with. If nobody else knows I’m not doing it, why does it matter?

But it mattered to me, deep down, because I felt guilt and shame for breaking my promises to myself.

Scholars provided the programs and framework that have made it immensely easier to not only run my life from my Google Calendar, but also trust in myself to follow through even when I don’t feel like it. (The programs I’m talking about are Monday Hour One and the Urge Jar concept.)

Entrepreneurship & Business Skills

Right now I’m focused on building my entrepreneurial and business skills. From June 2018 until mid-March 2020, I offered virtual assistant services on my website. I enjoyed doing it, loved interacting with my clients, and also knew that it wasn’t my long-term plan. It was an amazing stepping stone that taught me valuable lessons.

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I’m good at looking at someone’s life and breaking down their goals into what they actually need to do to achieve them. For some reason it’s easier to do this with someone else than with myself, but the truth is that I did this for my clients as a virtual assistant and that was often more rewarding than completing the tasks they gave me.

In March 2020, I pivoted my offering to life coaching. That’s been my prime focus in Scholars since then, because building a business brings up a lot of garbage thoughts that I need to examine and question if I want to succeed in my business.

Self Coaching Scholars has several resources for building entrepreneurial and business skills. I’m in the thick of those lessons right now.

Stop Overeating (Weight Loss)

I’ve been overweight since the fourth grade. In 2016, I started eating a low-carb diet to improve my blood sugars, and as a happy byproduct, lost over 60 pounds. I’ve been stable at 160 pounds for about a year as of this update in December 2021.

It took me a long time to realize that I overeat. I didn’t think I did, but the longer I’ve been immersed in Brooke’s teaching, the more I realized that only half of my problem is on the type 1 diabetes side of my life. The other half is on overeating when I’m bored, putting more on my plate than I can eat, and not stopping eating when I’m full. Sometimes I even go looking for reasons to overeat, and then justify it. Crazy.

It’s like there’s an underlying fear of scarcity that I won’t get enough to eat, even when all the evidence points the other direction.

Final Thoughts on Self Coaching Scholars

Scholars is YOU focused, not group focused. There’s no Facebook group or any way to interact with any of the other Scholars other than seeing them get coached or hearing/reading the answers to their coaching questions. It cuts down on distraction, and also means that if you want to connect with another Scholar, you have to do it outside of the program…if you can find them.

Self Coaching Scholars has all the tools I need to change my life, and I’m so grateful to Brooke for making this coaching program available to the world.

I talk about the program all the time on my podcast, This is Type 1, because it’s also helping with how I manage my diabetes. I tell all my online business friends and Facebook groups about Scholars because it’s so worth it. I’ve used the things I’ve learned from Brooke and the coaches who coach me to manage my mind and work through difficult thoughts and difficult times.

Bottom line, I’m excited to pay Brooke $297 every month for access to this amazing resource on mental health and mind management. If you can afford it, go for it. You’ll be amazed at what even just one month can show you about yourself and your thoughts.

About the author 

Colleen

Life coach, author, podcast host, cat mom, wife, Ravenclaw, and semi-compulsive hiker living in the Montana Rockies.

  • Thank you so much for this review! That part where you said, "I must’ve heard her post-episode pitch over a hundred times, and it still took me a while to sign up." could have described me. But after reading your post, I am thrilled to say, I just pulled the trigger! This is majorly stretching my financial comfort zone as I am loathe to spend money, especially on myself. My gut says this will be right for me. Your review finally made me hit, "Enroll Now!" Thanks for helping me finally take action.

  • This was really helpful, Colleen. I've been enjoying Brooke's Life School podcast and was interested to learn more about the Self Coaching Scholars. I was interested to learn from your post that it's more of an individual program and doesn't rely on active FaceBook participation. I appreciate your thoughtful review!

  • Thanks for sharing your experience. I'm looking for a new coaching/mindset/personal development program to get into. I feel like I've gotten what I'm going to get in the one I'm currently in. I found it especially useful to hear Brooke's program doesn't have a FB group or a bunch of group interaction. I find that to be SOOOO distracting in the group I'm currently in. Cheers, and best wishes on achieving your "Impossible Goal" 😁

  • Thanks for all the info! You are very encouraging. Does Self Scholars teach the complete model that she teaches in her certification program? And if so, then are you able to use it for not only yourself but others as well? I'm just wanting to clarify since you are also certified with her? I am a recently certified life coach looking to add to my tools but not able to do the certification.
    Thank you! : )

    • Hey Charise! Yes, Scholars includes the Model and that’s the basis of all the coaching inside Self Coaching Scholars. However, if you want to use the Model with your clients, you do have to be certified through the Life Coach School. The way the Model is taught inside Scholars is not how the Model is taught inside certification. You’ll get a much deeper understanding of the Model through certification than through Scholars, but Scholars is definitely the place to start work on yourself if you decide to save up for certification. I’ll send this to your email as well just to make sure you see it!

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