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The Doctor Coach School™ Podcast
Dr. Kimmy is a double Board Certified Pediatric Hospitalist, CEO of The Doctor Coach School™️, and host of The Doctor Coach School™ Podcast. This podcast was created in order to help doctors, particularly women doctors of color, create, market, and confidently sell transformational coaching programs. Dr. Kimmy first built her business as a Procrastination Coach in 2019, helping professional women break the cycle of self-sabotage so that they could level up their lives, after she was able to push through procrastination and develop systems and processes to overcome her own overwhelm. She built a multi 6-figure coaching business from scratch and while working full time. Dr. Kimmy then began helping women doctors master their messaging and learn how to sell. She was able to help several of her clients develop thriving coaching businesses and sell high-ticket, high-impact coaching. This led to the creation of The Doctor Coach School™️. In DCS, Dr. Kimmy recognizes that the very tools that she developed to coach herself and her clients are also effective to market and sell. DCS is the only coaching school created specifically for physicians and dentists: in it, she helps doctors utilize their unique training of diagnosis and treatment in order to help them achieve results for their clients, market their coaching business, and sell their coaching with confidence. On the DCS podcast, you will learn how to pivot your story into your intellectual property, master your messaging through StorySelling, and sell with confidence. You will learn how to overcome your own mental and emotional blocks, and to teach those very skills to your clients.
The Doctor Coach School™ Podcast
Forgiving Your Before-Self: The Hidden Step to Becoming a Successful Coach
In this episode of The Doctor Coach School Podcast, we dive deep into one of the most overlooked pieces of building a powerful coaching identity:
👉🏽 Forgiving the version of you who came before the transformation.
You’ll learn why avoiding, judging, or feeling ashamed of your “old self” is silently sabotaging your marketing, your sales, and your ability to fully step into Coach Energy — and what needs to heal so you can lead boldly, sell confidently, and transform more lives.
This is the internal work most coaches skip… and the reason they stay stuck.
What You’ll Learn Inside This Episode
1. Why forgiving yourself is a money-making step
Your revenue is directly tied to your ability to own and honor your story. If you skip this step, you’ll limit how big your business can grow.
2. What your “Point A Self” actually represents
Your before-self is not a liability — it’s the foundation of your intellectual property, your empathy, your frameworks, and your transformation.
3. The grief underneath shame, embarrassment, and regret
Most coaches feel grief when they look back at who they used to be. That grief is not a problem — it’s a signal. It’s an invitation to process, honor, and integrate your earlier identity.
4. How unprocessed shame shows up in your business
If you haven’t forgiven your prior self, you will:
- feel like a fraud
- hold back in marketing
- judge your ideal clients
- soften your leadership
- avoid storytelling
- undermine your own authority
This is the silent block keeping many coaches from selling confidently.
5. The moment your coach identity was actually born
It wasn’t when you “arrived” at point B — it was the moment you decided you couldn’t stay at point A anymore.
That moment matters. And it deserves honor.
6. Why you can’t coach unless you were “screwed up” first
Your struggles created the very framework you now teach.
Your “messy middle” is where your method was born.
7. How to start forgiving your point A self today
Forgiveness isn’t a feeling — it’s a decision.
You’ll learn how to speak to your earlier identity, how to thank her, and how to integrate her into your current coach identity so you can show up with more conviction and confidence.
If This Episode Stirred Something In You…
If you’re realizing that your point A self wasn’t a liability but the very foundation of your coaching identity — then it’s time to take the next step.
✨ Take The Coaching Identity Quiz
This short quiz reveals:
- where you currently are on the journey of becoming a coach
- your emerging coach identity
- and the next aligned move to step fully into your calling
👉🏽 Take the quiz at: thedoctorcoachschool.com/quiz
(You’ll also find the link in the show notes and in my Instagram bio.)
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